NOVEMBER 2016

JESSICA LANG DANCE GROUP

NOVEMBER 10-12, 2016

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Founder Ray Carlsen with recipients and Director Miriam Shames. Photo courtesy of the Carlsen Cello Foundation

Playing and studying the cello can be The Carlsen Cello Foundation is a expensive. Base model cellos can cost non-profit organization that has $2,000 or more, and terrific “student” cellos can cost another $10,000 to $15,000. The loaned instruments to young cellists Carlsen Cello Foundation provides a fine for nearly twenty years. instrument while a recipient is actively studying, giving serious and deserving students the opportunity to practice and perform on a cello that matches the quality of their study and growing talent.

We recently sat down with Miriam Shames, the Miriam Shames is the Foundation’s Foundation’s director, to discuss cello acquisitions, director. With a Master’s Degree from Juilliard in Cello Performance, Shames is the best pieces for cello and how you can help put no stranger to the expenses involved with a cello in a child’s hand. the cello, nor the beauty the instrument can bring. While being involved in the Foundation, she also works with cello students in her Seattle studio and has performed with such groups as the Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Northwest Sinfonietta.

Who is Carlsen? Ray Carlsen is a Seattle dermatologist who started taking cello lessons as an adult beginner in the early 1990s. He immediately

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Why the Foundation? Besides being a player himself, Dr. Carlsen, like so many, was drawn to the particularly beautiful and human sound of the cello. He also soon realized that an advancing student needed a cello beyond what was available through rentals, the price of which is prohibitive. The cello is enjoying a beloved place in the music by MIKE world today, evidenced by its huge bARLETT popularity among younger students, directed by DAVID MUSE adult beginners, its use in so many genres and its draw with audiences.

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Step Afrika! / Feb 16-18

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A-2 UW WORLD SERIES World Dance Series generously supported by Glenn Kawasaki

JESSICA LANG DANCE NOVEMBER 10–12, 2016

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GRETCHEN K. WILLIAMS Meany Center thanks the following Signature Sponsors for underwriting this evening's program DANCERS CLIFTON BROWN, PATRICK COKER, Linda and Tom Allen JULIE FIORENZA, JOHN HARNAGE, EVE JACOBS, Nancy D. Alvord Katharyn Alvord Gerlich KANA KIMURA, LAURA MEAD, MILAN MISKO, Sharon Gantz Bloome JAMMIE WALKER Stephen and Sylvia Burges Hellmut and Marcy Golde PRODUCTION MANAGER & LIGHTING SUPERVISOR Lynn and Brian Grant Family Hugues Hoppe and Sashi Raghupathy GARY ECHELMEYER Catherine and David Hughes Yumi Iwasaki and Anoop Gupta STAGE MANAGER Matthew and Christina Krashan DATHAN MANNING Chelsey Owen and Robert Harris Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert Lois H. Rathvon Joseph Saitta Richard Szeliski and Lyn McCoy Ellen Wallach and Tom Darden George Wilson and Claire McClenny

Photos by: Todd Rosenberg

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SOLO BACH (2008)

Choreography: Jessica Lang Music: Johann Sebastian Bach Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costumes Design: Bradon McDonald

Patrick Coker (November 10 & 11) Jammie Walker (November 12)

Works from Bach The Six Sonatas & Partitas for Violin Solo; Lara St. John, violin performed courtesy Ancalagon Records and Lara St. John. Partita No. 3 in E Major, BMV 1006: Gavotte en Rondeau.

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SWEET SILENT THOUGHT (2016)

Choreography: Jessica Lang Original Score: Jakub Ciupinski Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Bradon McDonald

John Harnage, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko (November 10 & 12) Clifton Brown, Julie Fiorenza, Eve Jacobs, Jammie Walker (November 11)

This work has been made possible by a commissioning grant from the O’Donnell-Green Music and Dance Foundation

This work, inspired by Shakespeare's sonnets, features readings from sonnets 30, 64, 40, 105 and 71. Vocals by Nilanjana Bose-Ciupinska, Chukwudi Iwujiand Chris Myers.

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Photos by: Todd Rosenberg

A-4 UW WORLD SERIES THOUSAND YARD STARE (2015)

Choreography: Jessica Lang Music: Ludwig van Beethoven Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costume Design: Bradon McDonald

Clifton Brown, Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, John Harnage, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Jammie Walker

This work was generously underwritten by Geoff Fallon and was co-commissioned by Des Moines Performing Arts.

Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15, Op 132. Third movement: Adagio “Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart" (Holy song of thanksgiving of a convalescent to the Deity, in the Lydian Mode). Performed by Takács Quartet.

INTERMISSION

THE CALLING (excerpt from Splendid Isolation II) (2006)

Choreography: Jessica Lang Music: Trio Mediaeval Costume Concept: Jessica Lang Costumes: Elena Comendador Original Lighting: Al Crawford, Recreated by Nicole Pearce

Kana Kimura

Commissioned by Ailey II.

“O Maria, stella maris” performed by Trio Mediaeval © ECM Records 2005. Used by arrangement with ECM Records, Munich.

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Photo by: Satoshi Motoda

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TESSERACTS OF TIME (2015)

I. Under II. In III. On IV. Over

Concept: Steven Holl in collaboration with Jessica Lang Directed and Choreographed by: Jessica Lang Architectural Director: Dimitra Tsachrelia Music: David Lang, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis and Arvo Pӓrt Lighting Design: Nicole Pearce Costumes Design: Bradon McDonald Artistic Associate for Film: Kanji Segawa Technical Associate for Filming of Dancers: Milan Misko Filming of Architectural Spaces and Technical Editor of Film: Ruoyu Wei, Steven Holl Architects Explorations of IN’ SHA Project Team: Ruoyu Wei, Yuliya Savelyeva Stage Set Construction: Paper Mâché Monkey

Clifton Brown, Patrick Coker, Julie Fiorenza, John Harnage, Eve Jacobs, Kana Kimura, Laura Mead, Milan Misko, Jammie Walker

Tesseracts of Time, created in collaboration with architect Steven Holl and explores Holl’s basic belief of the relationship of architecture to the ground: Under the ground, In the ground, On the ground and Over the ground.

Tesseracts of Time is co-commissioned by the Chicago Architectural Biennial, Lead Commissioner.

John and Caroline Balantine, Sandra and Jack Guthman, and Michael and Sharon Tiknis through the Imagine campaign; Harris Theater for Music and Dance, and Society for the Performing Arts: Commissioning Partners.

This project was made possible with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Charles & Deborah Adelman, the Dau Family Foundation and the Fishman Family Fund, an advised fund of the Brooklyn Community Foundation.

This work was created during the 2015 New York City Center Choreography Fellowship, a Pocantico Center residency and at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center.

Special thank you to Sarah Herda, Michael Tiknis, Jay Franke, and Margaret Selby

The Anvil Chorus by David Lang from album Bang on a Can Live, Vol. 2. New World Records NWRC646. P&C 1993 Composers Recordings, Inc. © 2007 Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc. Patterns in a Chromatic Field for Cello and Piano by Morton Feldman. The Perilous Night: No. 6 by John Cage, performed by Boris Berman, courtesy of Naxos of America. Metastaseis by Iannis Xenakis, performed by Arturo Tamayo & the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg. Solfeggio by Arvo Pӓrt used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for Universal Edition Vienna, publisher and copyright owner. Photos by: Todd Rosenberg

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Founded in 2011, Jessica Lang Dance is Pillow Dance Festival and BAM Fisher and will PATRICK COKER dedicated to creating and performing tour to more than 20 cities in the upcoming (Dancer) grew up in the work of Jessica Lang. JLD has been 2016-17 season. Chester, Virginia. presented in world renowned venues He was awarded including the John F. Kennedy Center for Lang’s work has also been performed by the American Ballet the Performing Arts, the Harris Theater for numerous educational institutions including Theatre's National Music and Dance, Palacio de Bellas Artes, The Juilliard School, SUNY Purchase, NYU Trainee Scholarship Winspear Opera House and Northrop Tisch School of the Arts and Southern from 2008 to 2010. Auditorium, among many others. The Methodist University, among many others. In May 2014, Coker company’s performances have been She was a part of the founding faculty graduated magna cum laude from the named among the best dance events of of American Ballet Theatre’s Jacqueline Ailey/Fordham B.F.A. program, where the year by major publications in Dallas, Kennedy Onassis School and a teaching artist he apprenticed with Ailey II in his final Chicago and Boston. JLD’s funding includes for the Make-a-Ballet program. year. He has performed with Cedar Lake support from Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Contemporary Ballet, Joshua Beamish’s NEA, Jerome Robbins Foundation, Shubert Lang, a graduate of The Juilliard School under MOVE:the company, and the Mark Morris Foundation, New York City Department of the direction of Benjamin Harkarvy, is a Dance Group in The Hard Nut and L’Allegro, Cultural Affairs, Harkness Foundation for former member of Twyla Tharp's company, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. Coker began Dance, and more. Jessicalangdance.com. THARP! She is currently a Fellow at NYU working with JLD in 2015 and joined the Center for Ballet and the Arts. company in 2016. JESSICA LANG (Choreographer/ CLIFTON BROWN JULIE FIORENZA Artistic Director) (Choreographer's (Dancer) was born Jessica Lang is a Assistant, Dancer in South Korea choreographer and and Rehearsal and grew up in the artistic director of Director) began his Massachusetts where Jessica Lang Dance. professional career she trained at the Lang, a recipient of when he joined the Academy of Dance a prestigious 2014 Alvin Ailey American Arts and the Boston Bessie Award has created more than 90 Dance Theater in Ballet School. She works on companies worldwide since 1999 1999. There he was featured in many works, earned a B.F.A. in Dance from The Ailey including San Francisco Opera, American named Assistant Rehearsal Director and School/Fordham University, graduating Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, served as Judith Jamison's choreographic with honors, and has performed Birmingham Royal Ballet (2013 Manchester assistant. While dancing with the Ailey throughout the country as a member of Theatre Award nominee), the National company he was nominated in the U.K. Ailey II, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company and Ballet of Japan and Joffrey Ballet, among for a Critics Circle National Dance Award Adams Company Dance. Fiorenza has many others. Additional commissions for best male dancer. Brown has received danced at the Metropolitan Opera in its include new works for the Kennedy Center a Bessie Award in recognition of his work productions of Turandot and Mark Morris' with the National Symphony Orchestra, with the Ailey company, as well as a Black Orfeo ed Euridice. She has performed with The Harris Theater and the Chicago Theater Arts Award. He has had the privilege the Mark Morris Dance Group in Romeo Architecture Biennial in collaboration with of performing at the White House, and & Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare, The Hard architect Steven Holl, the Dallas Museum for President Obama. He has also danced Nut, and L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, of Art and the Guggenheim Museum for with Earl Mosley's Diversity of Dance, Lar and appeared with MMDG in the television its Works and Process series. For opera, Lubovitch Dance Company, and as a guest debut of L'Allegro which aired in March Lang made her directorial debut creating artist with Miami City Ballet, Rome Opera 2015 on Great Performances. Fiorenza is a Pergolesi's Stabat Mater at the 2013 Ballet, Nevada Ballet and Parsons Dance founding member of JLD. Glimmerglass Opera Festival. She was a Company. He has made several television 2015 New York City Center Fellow. appearances including performing as JOHN HARNAGE a guest artist on So You Think You Can (Dancer) is a native of Her receipt of a Joyce Theater Artist Dance and Dancing With The Stars. As a Miami, Florida who Residency supported by the Andrew W. répétiteur, he has set the work of Alvin Ailey, studied dance with Mellon Foundation helped launch her own Earl Mosley and Jessica Lang on various the Miami City Ballet company, Jessica Lang Dance (JLD) in 2011. companies. He continues to assist Lang School and New JLD has been presented by major venues on her creations across the globe, most World School of the including The Kennedy Center, The Harris recently for Birmingham Royal Ballet and Arts. In May of 2014 Theater, New York City Center, Northrop the Glimmerglass Opera Festival. Brown is a he graduated from Auditorium, Winspear Opera House, Jacob’s founding member of JLD. The Juilliard School under the direction of

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Lawrence Rhodes, where he performed Shanghai Expo, and has also performed JAMMIE WALKER works by choreographers such as Jose with Japanese Arts Organization J-Collabo (Dancer) began his Limón, Alexander Ekman, Pina Bausch, in NYC. She was in an Off-Broadway show dance training at and Lar Lubovitch, among others. John The Nutcracker Rouge with Company XIV. Western Arkansas is also a modern dance finalist from Kimura is a founding member of JLD. Ballet under the the 2010 NFAA YoungArts competition, direction of Melissa has worked professionally with Brice LAURA MEAD Schoenfeld. He Mousset's Oui Danse and performed (Dancer) grew earned his B.F.A. internationally at the 2012 Edinburgh up in Austin, TX from the University International Festival with the Juilliard and Berkeley, CA. of Oklahoma School of Dance under the Dance Ensemble. Harnage began working She received a direction of Mary Margaret Holt. Walker with JLD in 2014 and joined the company B.F.A. in Dance has had the honor of touring in China and in 2015. from The Juilliard Austria with Oklahoma Festival Ballet. School, where she He danced with the Dayton Ballet for EVE JACOBS (Dancer) performed works by three seasons, performing works by such grew up in Wilmette, Jessica Lang, Ronald K. Brown, Eliot Feld choreographers as Septime Webre, Amy IL, and received and Paul Taylor, among others. Mead Seiwart, Jessica Lang and Stuart Sebastian. her dance training originated the principal role of Betsy in He has performed with Dance Grand at Dance Center Twyla Tharp's Broadway musical Come Fly Moultrie as well as with Clawson Dances. Evanston and North Away, for which she received an Astaire Walker joined JLD in 2015. Carolina School Award nomination. Mead served as Dance of the Arts. Upon Captain on a national tour of Tharp's JAKUB CIUPINSKI earning a B.F.A. Movin' Out. She has also performed (Composer), a Polish from The Juilliard School in 2014, Jacobs with American Repertory Ballet, the composer living in was recognized with the Hector Zaraspe Metropolitan Opera, Morphoses, New York City and Prize for Choreography. Throughout her Post:Ballet and Los Angeles Dance Project. L.A. has collaborated training, Jacobs performed in works by She has helped to stage Lang's work on with Lang on her Jerome Robbins, Lar Lubovitch, Ohad various schools and companies. Mead works i.n.k. and Naharin and Andrea Miller, and was has been a member of JLD since the full Within the Space I featured in the revival of Pina Bausch’s company's debut in 2012. Hold for JLD, Eighty Wind Von West. She has performed in One for Ballet San Jose, Droplet for The schools and care centers throughout New MILAN MISKO NY Choreographic Institute, and most York City, and worked professionally with (Dancer) was raised recently WINK for Birmingham Royal Buglisi Dance Theater. In 2014, Jacobs was in Missouri, where Ballet, which premiered in May 2016. His granted a residency at Brooklyn’s White he began his dance concert music has been commissioned Wave Dance, culminating in a dance- training with Jo by the Metropolis Ensemble, The New theater presentation. Her writing can Noth’s White Oak Juilliard Ensemble, and violinists Anne be found in The Juilliard Journal, Musical Dance Academy Akiko-Meyers and Philippe Quint, among America Worldwide and on StageBuddy. and the Kansas City others. His works have been performed com. Jacobs joined JLD in 2015. Ballet School. He at prestigious venues such as Tonhalle in holds a B.F.A. from the Purchase College Zurich and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie KANA KIMURA Conservatory of Dance. Misko has worked Hall. Ciupinski studied composition at The (Dancer) was born with Kansas City Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Juilliard School, the Cracow Academy of in Hiroshima, Dance Company, Merce Cunningham Music and the Birmingham Conservatoire. Japan, where she Dance Company RUG, Kazuko Hirabayashi Ciupinski.pl began her ballet Dance Theater, Adams Company Dance, training at the age and Setsuko Kawaguchi Ballet, Japan. BRADON of four and studied He has created dances for Take Dance MCDONALD contemporary Bucknell University, and directed his first (Costume Designer) dance with Takako short dance film, Transportation, which has had a diverse Asakawa. After graduating from The was selected for Lincoln Center's Dance career in both the Juilliard School, Kimura worked with Wally on Camera Festival 2013. Misko has been performing arts and Cardona Quartet. She also appeared a member of JLD since the full company’s design fields. Upon in Nixon in China at The Metropolitan debut in 2012. graduating Juilliard in Opera, choreographed by Mark Morris, 1997, Bradon danced worked on a dance video performance for with the Limón Dance Company for three

A-8 UW WORLD SERIES NOV years, and with Mark Morris Dance (Dance Heginbotham and Atlanta Ballet); 17 Group for 10 years. He has served as No Longer Silent with Robert Battle (Alvin Choreographer for opera productions at Ailey American Dance Theater). Episode Gotham Chamber Opera, Wolftrap Opera 31 with Alexander Ekman (Joffrey Ballet). Company, Aspen Music Festival, Berkshire New Dances with choreographers Kyle Opera and the Juilliard Opera Center, as Abraham, Monica Bill Barnes, Brian well as teaching dance to musicians at LA Brooks, Matthew Neenan and Pam Opera, the Bolshoi Opera, Houston Grand Tanowitz (all at The Juilliard School). Opera, the Royal Academy of Music and Selected New York theater credits Music of Today: DXARTS Tanglewood Music Festival. 12 hours after includes work with directors: Edward Indigo Mist Phase II retiring from the stage, Bradon began Albee, Leigh Silverman, Trip Cullman, A new improvisational work by UW faculty studying fashion design at L.A.'s Fashion Pam MacKinnon, Jade King Carroll and Richard Karpen, Cuong Vu, Juan Pampin, Ted Poor, and special guests Institute of Design and Merchandising Ed Sylvanus Iskandar. With companies 7:30 pm, Jones Playhouse where he earned two degrees and the including The Cherry Lane, The Play Fashion Design Award upon graduation. Company & Labryinth Theater Company. Bradon is currently working as a freelance nicolepearcedesign.com designer in high-end (custom Special Occasion/Bridal garments) and mass STEVEN HOLL ARCHITECTS DEC markets, as well as designing costumes Steven Holl Architects was established 2 for the performing arts. Bradon showed in 1976 and has offices in New York and a collection at Mercedes Benz New York Beijing. The 44 person firm anchors each Fashion Week as a finalist on the Emmy work in its specific site and circumstance Award-winning Project Runway Season 12. and endeavors to obtain a deeper Bradon has combined his performing arts beginning in the experience of time, roots with fashion design in many exciting space, light and materials. They have projects. Costume design credits include realized cultural, civic, university and L.A. Opera - Figaro 90210, Venture Opera residential projects in the U.S. and around - Don giovanni, Fire Island Opera Festival the world, most recently the Reid Building Luke Fitzpatrick: Cage and Partch - Kurt Weill’s Der Protagonist, BAM Next at The Glasgow School of Art in Glasgow, Faculty artist performs John Cage’s Freeman Wave Festival - Jessica Lang Dance The United Kingdom (2014), and currently Etudes and Hary Partch’s 17 Lyrics Wanderer, Chicago Architectural Biennial - the Expansion Project for the John F. of Li Po for adapted viola and voice Jessica Lang Dance/Steven Holl Tesseracts Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 pm Meany Theater of Time, Miami Art Basel - Shen Wei Dance The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Arts In Black, White, and Gray, Cabaret/ new wing for the Mumbai City Museum. Burlesque sensation Lady Rizo. The dancewear collection Brandon X Capezio STEVEN HOLL was born in 1947 in DEC is available globally. Bremerton, Washington. He graduated 7 from the University of Washington NICOLE PEARCE and pursued architecture studies in (Lighting Designer) Rome in 1970. In 1976 he attended the Previously with Architectural Association in London and Jessica Lang: ten established Steven Holl Architects in New works including York City. Considered one of America's Escaping the Weight most important architects, Steven Holl is of Darkness (National recognized for his ability to blend space Ballet of Japan), and light with great contextual sensitivity CarolFest Crossed (Joffrey and to utilize the unique qualities of each Seven conductors, six choirs, 500 singers, four graduate conductors, three choral Ballet) and Lyric Pieces (Birmingham project to create a concept-driven design. faculty, two hours of music from around Royal Ballet). Selected dance credits: 10 He specializes in seamlessly integrating the world, and one impressive grand finale works with Mark Morris (Mark Morris new projects into contexts with particular 7:30 pm Meany Theater Dance Group, Boston Ballet and Houston cultural and historic importance. Holl has Ballet); seven works with Aszure Barton been honored with Japan’s Praemium (Nederlands Dans Theater and Hubbard Imperiale (2014), the AIA Gold Medal Street Dance Company); three works (2012), Royal Institute of British Architects MORE AT: WWW.MUSIC.WASHINGTON.EDU with Andrea Miller (Gallim & Jacoby & Fellowship (2002) and the Grand ArtsUW TICKET OFFICE: 206.543.4880 Pronk); 10 works with John Heginbotham Medaille d’Or (2001) among many other

encoreartsseattle.com A-9 awards. He is a tenured Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and Planning.

DIMITRA TSACHRELIA and Steven Holl began their collaboration on “The Architectonics of Music” in 2008 at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture where they continue to teach. Dimitra Tsachrelia received her Diploma DEC 9-18 in Architecture from the Patras University, School of Architecture, Greece in 2007. She obtained her M.Arch from Columbia University, GSAPP in 2008 and was awarded the Honor Award for Excellence in Design. She is an associate at Steven EVERETT EDMONDS Holl Architects and, among other projects PERFORMING CENTER FOR and competitions, she is currently leading the construction of the VCU Institute for ARTS CENTER THE ARTS Contemporary Art in Richmond Virginia.

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Jessica Lang, Thomas Phealan Photo by Alante Photography Artistic Director and Choreographer Gretchen K. Williams, Executive Director Tickets at OlympicBallet.com Kanji Segawa, Artistic Associate Callen Gosselin, Administrator Tivoli Evans, Associate Administrator Julie Fiorenza, Administrative Assistant Clifton Brown, Rehearsal Director Claudia MacPherson, Assistant Rehearsal Director Deborah Wingert, David Leventhal, Clinton Luckett, Company Teachers Milan Misko, Video Content Manager Milan Misko, Todd Burnsed, Takao Komaru, Photographers John Harnage, Social Media Coordinator Jim Lang, Graphic Designer Allan Hatta, Website Developer

Dancewear and dance shoes courtesy of Gayle Miller & Capezio NYC.

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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Selections from Scheherazade “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship” “The Kalendar Prince" “The Young Prince and the Young Princess” “Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman.”

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MOZART Quintet in E-flat Major for Winds and Piano, K. 452 Meany Center thanks the Largo — Allegro following Signature Sponsors for Larghetto underwriting this evening's program Rondo: Allegretto

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Extolled by the Washington Post as projects have included works by Jason Jubilee Singers, clarinetist David Shifrin and Red Clay and Mississippi Delta "exuding a sultry sophistication during Moran, Stefon Harris, Danilo Perez, Simon pianists Gilbert Kalish and Shai Wosner. Valerie Coleman performances," Imani Winds has Shaheen and Mohammed Fairouz. The Their ambitious project, "Josephine Baker: established itself as one of the most group’s fifth album on E1 Music — entitled A Life of Le Jazz Hot!" brought chanteuse Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Valerie successful chamber music ensembles Terra Incognita after Wayne Shorter’s piece René Marie with them to New York, San Coleman, founder of Imani Winds in the United States. Since 1997, the written for the group — is a celebration of Francisco, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. (Swahili word for “faith”) is a graduate Grammy nominated quintet has taken the Legacy project with new works written of the Mannes College of Music. She a unique path, carving out a distinct for Imani Winds by Mr. Shorter, Jason Imani Winds enjoy frequent national also has a double B.A. from Boston presence in the classical music world with Moran and Paquito D’Rivera. In 2015, they exposure in all forms of media, including University in theory/composition and flute its dynamic playing, culturally poignant premiered a new work by Frederic Rzewski features on NPR’s All Things Considered, performance. She studied her instrument programming, adventurous collaborations at Duke University’s Duke Performances. appearances on APM's Saint Paul Sunday with the renowned flutist and pedagogue and inspirational outreach programs. and Performance Today, BBC/PRI’s The Julius Baker, among others. In 2005, Imani With two member composers and a deep The wide range of programs offered by World, as well as frequent coverage in Winds was nominated for a Grammy commitment to commissioning new work, Imani Winds demonstrates their mission major music magazines and newspapers Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. the group is enriching the traditional wind to expand the repertoire and diversify new including the New York Times and Wall Street Ms. Coleman’s musical interests embrace quintet repertoire while meaningfully music sources. From Mendelssohn, Jean Journal. The group maintains an ongoing the classical repertoire, her wide-ranging bridging European, American, African and Françaix, György Ligeti and Luciano Berio, relationship with Sirius-XM and has been advocacy of jazz and Afro-Cuban music, Latin American traditions. to Astor Piazzolla, Elliott Carter and John featured multiple times and on various all reflecting her deep-felt political and Harbison; and to the unexpected ranks channels. social inclinations. She has served on Imani Winds’ touring schedule has taken of Paquito D’Rivera and Simone Shaheen, the faculty of The Juilliard School’s Music them across the globe. At home, the Imani Winds actively seek to engage new Their excellence and influences have Advancement Program, Interschool group has performed in the nation’s music and new voices into the modern been recognized with numerous awards Orchestras of New York, Chamber Music major concert venues including Carnegie classical idiom. Imani members Valerie including the 2007 ASCAP Award, 2002 Society of Lincoln Center Teaching Artist Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Coleman and Jeff Scott both regularly CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Program. Her 2002 composition Umoja Disney Hall and Kimmel Center. The group contribute compositions and arrangements Programming, as well as the CMA/WQXR was listed as one of the “Top 101 Great is frequently engaged by the premier to the ensemble’s expanding repertoire, Award for their debut and self-released American Works” by Chamber Music chamber music series in Boston, San bringing new sounds and textures to the recording Umoja. At the 2001 Concert America. Francisco, Portland, Philadelphia and traditional instrumentation. This past year Artists Guild International Competition, New York, and have also played virtually they premiered a concert-length new work Imani Winds was selected as the first- The composer has provided this every major university performing arts by Mr. Scott written for Imani Winds, jazz ever Educational Residency Ensemble, in commentary on Red Clay and Mississippi series including those in Amherst, Ann trio and string quartet entitled The Passion, recognition of their tremendous musical Delta, which she composed in 2009: Arbor, Austin, Seattle, Stanford, Urbana which musically explores the idea of a abilities and innovative programming. and countless others. Festivals include fictitious meeting between J.S. Bach and “Red Clay and Mississippi Delta is a light Chamber Music Northwest, Santa Fe John Coltrane. Imani Winds’ commitment to education scherzo work for wind quintet that Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Music runs deep. The group participates in references my family’s background of Society, Virginia Arts Festival, Bravo! Through commissions and performance residencies throughout the U.S., giving living in Mississippi. From the juke joints Colorado, and Ravinia Festival. In recent the quintet regularly collaborates with master classes to thousands of students a and casino boats that line the Mississippi seasons, the group has traveled extensively artists ranging from Yo-Yo Ma to Wayne year. In the summer of 2010, the ensemble river, to the skin tone of my relatives from internationally, with tours in China, Shorter. Shorter’s Terra Incognita — his launched its annual Chamber Music the area: a dark skin that looks like it came Singapore, Brazil and throughout Europe. first-ever composition for another Festival. The program, now in it’s 6th year, directly from the red clay. The solo lines Recent season highlights include debuts ensemble — was premiered by Imani brings together young instrumentalists are instilled with personality, meant to at La Folle Journee in Nantes, France and Winds. The group went on to perform from across North America and beyond capture the listener’s attention as they wail in London’s Wigmore Hall. In 2015, they extensively with Shorter at major European for an intense week of music exploration. with “bluesy” riffs that are accompanied also debuted at Paris Jazz Festival and were festivals like the North Sea Jazz Festival, The participants have gone on to sundry (‘comped’) by the rest of the ensemble. featured at the Huntington Estate Festival and in North America at venues such as successes across the world, ranging from The result is a virtuosic chamber work in Australia. Carnegie and Disney halls. On Shorter’s winning positions in orchestras around that merges classical technique and acclaimed 2013 release on Blue Note, the country to founding their own music orchestration with the blues dialect and The group continues its Legacy Without a Net, Imani Winds are featured educational programs. charm of the south.” Commissioning Project, in which the prominently. The group’s Chamber ensemble is commissioning, premiering Music Society of Lincoln Center residency Imani Winds have five releases on E1 Selections from Scheherazade and touring new works for woodwind culminated in a recital in New York’s Music, including their 2006 Grammy Award Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) quintet written by established and Alice Tully Hall with renowned clarinetist/ nominated recording entitled The Classical emerging composers of diverse musical saxophonist/composer Paquito D’Rivera. Underground. They have also recorded for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s colorful scores, backgrounds. The Legacy Project kicked The ensemble has also worked with Naxos and Blue Note and the most recent often evoking in musical terms the action off in 2008 with world premieres by Alvin luminaries such as bandoneonist Daniel release "The Rite of Spring" on Warner and characters from the rich heritage Singleton and Roberto Sierra. Since then, Binelli, the Brubeck brothers, the Fisk Classics was on iTunes Best of 2013 list. of Russian fairy tales, helped ensure

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Red Clay and Mississippi Delta Valerie Coleman

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Valerie Coleman, founder of Imani Winds (Swahili word for “faith”) is a graduate of the Mannes College of Music. She also has a double B.A. from Boston University in theory/composition and flute performance. She studied her instrument with the renowned flutist and pedagogue Julius Baker, among others. In 2005, Imani Winds was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album. Ms. Coleman’s musical interests embrace the classical repertoire, her wide-ranging advocacy of jazz and Afro-Cuban music, all reflecting her deep-felt political and social inclinations. She has served on the faculty of The Juilliard School’s Music Advancement Program, Interschool Orchestras of New York, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Teaching Artist Program. Her 2002 composition Umoja was listed as one of the “Top 101 Great American Works” by Chamber Music America.

The composer has provided this commentary on Red Clay and Mississippi Delta, which she composed in 2009:

“Red Clay and Mississippi Delta is a light scherzo work for wind quintet that references my family’s background of UW SYMPHONY living in Mississippi. From the juke joints and casino boats that line the Mississippi & JONATHAN BISS river, to the skin tone of my relatives from David Alexander Rahbee, conductor the area: a dark skin that looks like it came directly from the red clay. The solo lines are instilled with personality, meant to capture the listener’s attention as they wail Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major, Op. 15 with “bluesy” riffs that are accompanied Jonathan BIss, piano (‘comped’) by the rest of the ensemble. The result is a virtuosic chamber work Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, Op. 64 that merges classical technique and orchestration with the blues dialect and charm of the south.” Fri. Dec. 9, 2016 Selections from Scheherazade 7:30 pm Meany Theater Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908)

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his reputation as one of the great Contrabajissimo and clarinetist, the Cuban-born/New painterly orchestrators of all time. Even Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992) York-based musician has rapidly gained when not directly inspired by pictorial Astor Piazzolla was not the creator of the a dynamic reputation as a composer. ideas, his flair for the right tone, color tango. Like Haydn, who did not sire the A multiple Grammy Award winner, his or accent served him exceedingly symphony but elevated it to unheard of Ladies in White was presented in a ballet well. It is no wonder that his writings heights before passing it on to Mozart, titled Come with Me by the José Limón on orchestration continue to serve Beethoven and history, the Argentinian Dance Company in June 2012 in New music students the world over. Two composer nurtured the nascent Latin York’s Central Park. His compositions have remarkably inventive scores emerged dance and established it in both the dance earned him such honors as a Guggenheim from the composer in 1888, the Russian halls and (finally) the concert halls of Fellowship in Music Composition, a Easter Overture, with its evocation the world. Though steeped in his native 2007–2008 appointment as Composer- of Russian bells, and the evergreen Argentine culture, he also studied with the In-Residence at the Caramoor Center for Scheherazade, inspired by the ageless 20th century’s most justly famed teacher, Music and the Arts with the Orchestra of Tales of 1,000 Nights or simply, Arabian Nadia Boulanger, whose predilection St. Luke’s, and a Latin Grammy Award for Nights. The eponymous Scheherazade is for Stravinskyan harmony and textures Best Classical Contemporary Composition the teller of tales, required to provide can be heard in the bracing harmonies in 2011 for his Panamericana Suite. the sultan with new tales each night lest and occasional acerbity of Piazzolla’s she be beheaded for failing to deliver compositions, tango and otherwise. His works often reveal his widespread the goods — or “good stories.” Of and eclectic musical interests, ranging course, after 1,000 nights her master The tango shares in common with other from Afro-Cuban rhythms and melodies, had fallen hopelessly in love and dances in history an early reputation for including influences encountered in his married the much-relieved kept woman. sexuality that aroused passion in some, many travels, and back to his classical suspicion in others, in much the same way origins. Even as a composer dedicated to literary- as the Viennese waltz scandalized “proper” based music, Rimsky-Korsakov obsessed Austrians in the early 19th century. Such Quirky and slyly romantic, A Farewell between the dictates of “absolute” music is the nature of dance, with its dual Mambo (2013), is a delectable amalgam of in contrast to programmatic inspiration citizenship in the worlds of music and Latin-American musical elements and jazz — Mahler, of course, changed his mind physical movement. If the tango revels in — both reflecting his Cuban birthright. The about this issue as well, often providing libidinous implication, it finds balance in energetic and highly rhythmic composition detailed exegeses of specific movements a countervailing melancholy tinged with skips in and out of tonality and animated before discarding and discrediting them. despair. It is this dynamic that invites syncopation that recalls jazz-influenced serious consideration, and deepens its “classical” compositions such as Darius Tonight’s arrangement of the score was character and appeal. Milhaud’s Creation of the World (composed created for the Imani Winds in 2013 by way back in 1923). D’Rivera dedicated A Jonathan Russell, clarinetist, composer Contrabajissimo (ca. 1983) — originally Farewell Mambo to Cuban comedian and and conductor. scored for double bass, bandoneon, violin, actor Guillermo Alvarez Guedes. piano and guitar — opens quietly with Scheherazade opens with the richly an extended solo populated by energetic Quintet in E-flat Major for Piano and scored “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship,” slides before the other instruments enter, Winds, K. 452 which features the stick-to-the-ribs main adding further impetus to the flow of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) theme that courses through the work as a music. Suddenly the tempo and temper connective device. The second movement, change as Piazzolla delivers a thoroughly By 1784, Mozart was enjoying a “The Kalendar Prince" continues the romantic episode filled with tenderness steady ascent to financial security engaging musical travelogue. and rapture in equal measure, which and widespread acclaim among his is what the piece is all about. Soon the Viennese constituency that included “The Young Prince and the Young ardor reappears and strongly articulated aristocratic patrons, music lovers and Princess” limns a musical portrait of rhythms propel the music forward only both professional and amateur musicians young love. The work concludes with to return to the sweet ambience of the looking for new music to perform. Well the dramatic “Festival at Baghdad. The previous episode before concluding with a aware of his increasing mastery as a Sea. The Ship Breaks against a Cliff burst of unfettered exuberance. composer he wrote to his father that his Surmounted by a Bronze Quintet for Piano, Oboe, Bassoon, and Horseman.” Herein musical ideas A Farewell Mambo Horn, K. 452, was his finest work so far freshly emerge from the previous Paquito D’Rivera (b. 1948) — quite a statement from someone who movements, tying the disparate had already produced 450-plus scores in elements into a summary panorama. In addition to Paquito D’Rivera’s virtually every genre. The three-movement performing career as a saxophonist work drew similar praise from no less

A-14 UW WORLD SERIES than Beethoven, who modeled his Op. Near Eastern Music Ensemble, organizes to a musical feast of Middle Eastern 16 Quintet, including instrumentation, on arts festivals, and heads the Arabic Music persuasion that seems to embrace the Mozart’s glowing masterpiece. Retreat which is held annually at Mt. various cultures of the region. The clarinet Holyoke College in Massachusetts. In New solos, in particular, blend Arabic accents After a throat-clearing wind chord, a York City he formed and leads an Arabic with klezmerish elements, creating a stately Largo opens as the pianist presents ensemble called Qantara. wonderfully ecumenical worldview that a graceful and touching theme that transcends mere geographical borders. prompts sequential comments from the Dance Mediterranea opens with a individual winds, each folded into the serpentine flute solo that is soon joined © 2016 Steven Lowe fabric of the overall ensemble. The piano by the remaining winds. Increasingly launches the ensuing Allegro’s main theme energetic, the piece transports the listener as well, which is answered immediately by the winds. A short development leads to a recapitulation where materials THE PEKING ACROBATS from the exposition of the Allegro are Wednesday, January 25, 2017 mixed and matched. In the coda, Mozart 7:30 pm | Tickets $24–$49 accommodates the horn player with a The Peking Acrobats perform daring display of virtuosic runs, which are much maneuvers atop a precarious pagoda more challenging on that instrument than of chairs; are experts at trick-cycling, when first heard on piano. precision tumbling, somersaulting, and gymnastics; and defy gravity with amazing The Larghetto second movement in A–B–A displays of contortion, flexibility, and song form contrasts with the opening control. Masters of agility and grace, they push the envelope of human possibility. movement; the winds initiate the first theme, soon accompanied by arpeggios THE PIRATES from the piano. In the middle section a new and beguiling tune emerges from the OF PENZANCE horn before a sequence of wind chords Saturday, March 11, 2017 reprises the movement’s opening material. 7:30 pm | Tickets $44–$69 Join the New York Gilbert & Sullivan A Rondo marked Allegretto serves as the Players’ band of swashbuckling finale. The piano serves up the primary buccaneers, bumbling British bobbies, melody before being seconded by the frolicsome Victorian maidens, and the delightfully dotty “model of a modern winds. The oboe has its day in court Major-General” for a rollicking romp over with a second theme. Unusually for a the rocky coast of Cornwall. rondo, Mozart adds a cadenza for all five instruments. An obligatory trill from the NIYAZ featuring AZAM ALI oboe signals the end of the cadenza and Friday, March 17, 2017 marks the return of the principal theme 7:30 pm | Tickets $14–$44 to bring closure to this sublime chamber Described by The Huffington Post as “an work. evolutionary force in contemporary Middle Eastern music,” Niyaz has created a 21st Dance Mediterranea century global trance tradition, seamlessly Simon Shaheen (b. 1955) blending poetry and folk songs from their native Iran and surrounding countries, with Simon Shaheen is a Palestinian-American rich, acoustic instrumentation and state- virtuoso on both the Arabic oud (best- of-the-art, modern electronics. known in the popular imagination for Niyaz will perform with an electric/ its use in belly-dancing) and the violin. acoustic quintet and feature a classically-trained whirling dervish. When he was a toddler his family moved to the Israeli city of Haifa. He became an See ECA’s full 2016–2017 season online! Israeli citizen but has a deep connection with Arabic musical culture. In 1980, he ec4arts.org | 425.275.9595 immigrated to the United States to study at the Manhattan School of Music and 410FOURTHAVENUENORTH EDMONDSWA98020 Columbia University. He founded the

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JONATHAN BISS DECEMBER 10, 2016

BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, Op. 7 SUPPORT COMES FROM Allegro molto e con brio Largo, con gran espressione ROLAND M. TRAFTON Allegro ENDOWMENT FUND Rondo: Poco allegretto e grazioso

BRAHMS Klavierstücke, Op. 118 MEDIA SPONSOR Intermezzo in A minor Intermezzo in A major Ballade in G minor Intermezzo in F minor Romanze in F major Intermezzo in E-flat minor

Meany Center thanks the INTERMISSION following Signature Sponsors for underwriting this evening's program GYÖRGY KURTÁG Selections from Játékok Un brin de bruyère à Witold (in memorium Witold

Nancy D. Alvord Lutoslawski) ...and once again: Shadow-play Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Hommage à Farkas Ferenc 90 Randy Apsel Fugitive thoughts about the Alberti bass Linda Armstrong All'ongherese

Tom Bayley Geburtstagsgruss für Nuria [...etwas verspätet...]

Heidi Charleson BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 Gail Erickson and Phil Lanum Maestoso: Allegro con brio ed appassionato Lynn and Brian Grant Family Arietta. Adagio molto semplice ed cantabile The Hokanson Family

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Don and Toni Rupchock

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A-16 UW WORLD SERIES About JONATHAN BISS CHOP SHOPBODIES OF WORK Pianist Jonathan Biss shares his Barbican Centre and Amsterdam's talent, passion, and intellectual Concertgebouw. He will also give "...one of Seattle's most talked about and important outlets for dance." - Critical Dance curiosity with classical music lovers master classes at Carnegie Hall in in the concert hall and beyond. Over connection with the idea of late style nearly two decades on the concert and will publish a Kindle Single on the stage, he has forged relationships topic in January. with the New York Philharmonic; the Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Biss performs a diverse repertoire Philharmonia orchestras; the ranging from Mozart and Beethoven, Boston, Chicago, and Swedish Radio through the Romantics, to Janáček symphony orchestras; and the Leipzig and Schoenberg, as well as works Gewandhaus, Budapest Festival, and by contemporary composer Gyorgy Royal Concertgebouw orchestras, Kurtág and commissions from David among many others. Ludwig, Leon Kirchner, Lewis Spratlan and Bernard Rands. Biss has a noted This season, Biss continues his latest recording career, including an album Beethoven project, Beethoven/5, of Schubert sonatas and two short for which the Saint Paul Chamber Kurtág pieces that NPR Music named

Orchestra has co-commissioned as one of the best albums of the 11100 NE 6th St., Bellevue, WA 98004 five composers to write new piano year. His recent albums for EMI won February 18th, 2017 7:30pm concertos, each inspired by one of Diapason d’Or de l’année and Edison February 19th, 2017 3:00pm Beethoven's. The five-year plan began awards, and in 2017 he releases the Visit us at www.ChopShopDance.org last season, with Biss premiering Timo sixth volume of his nine-year, nine- Andres's “The Blind Banister,” which disc recording cycle of Beethoven’s was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in complete piano sonatas. Music, and which Biss plays with the New York Philharmonic in the spring Biss studied at Indiana University and SEATTLE of 2017. This season he premieres at the Curtis Institute of Music, where CHAMBER Sally Beamish's concerto, paired he joined the piano faculty in 2010. He MUSIC with Beethoven's Piano Concerto led the first massive open online course SOCIETY No. 1, with the Saint Paul Chamber (MOOC) offered by a classical music JAMES EHNES Artistic Director Orchestra, before performing it with conservatory, Exploring Beethoven's the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Piano Sonatas, which has reached more in Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow. In than 150,000 people in 185 countries, WINTER FESTIVAL the next three years, Biss will premiere and he will continue to add lectures concertos by Salvatore Sciarrino, until he covers all the sonatas. His JANUARY 20-29, 2017 ILLSLEY BALL NORDSTROM RECITAL HALL Caroline Shaw and Brett Dean. bestselling eBook, Beethoven’s Shadow, at Benaroya Hall published by RosettaBooks in 2011, BOX OFFICE In 2016-2017, Biss begins was the first Kindle Single written by a 206.283.8808 // seattlechambermusic.org examining, both in performance classical musician. and academically, the concept of Tickets a composer's “late style,” and has on sale put together programs of Bach, now! Beethoven, Brahms, Britten, Elgar, Gesualdo, Kurtag, Mozart, Schubert and Schumann's later works, both for solo piano and in collaboration with the Brentano Quartet and Mark Padmore, which he will play at Carnegie Hall, San Francisco Performances, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, London's

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM A roiling Trio-like central section might six pieces provide both contrast and have added to Haydn’s discomfort. continuity. An urgent Intermezzo in A Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat Major, Op. 7 minor is followed by another one in A Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) The concluding Rondo: Poco Allegretto e major that radiates gentle lyricism. The grazioso opens gracefully before evolving central Ballade in tempestuous G minor Master pianist that he was it is no into a more turbulent state of mind, is the most technically challenging of the surprise that Beethoven’s 32 keyboard especially during a mid-movement lot. The fourth piece is an Intermezzo, sonatas occupied him for most of his life. episode of stereotypically Beethovenian restlessly moving through F minor before Indeed, no other format resulted in so storminess. Other episodes further the yielding to an idyllic Romance in F major. large a number of works flowing from his dual nature of the music, dancing between The concluding Intermezzo in E-flat minor restless pen. The Sonata in E-flat, Op. 7 unforced lyricism and forcefulness. If the is a miniature three-section emotional (1796–97) marked a step forward from the listener might understandably expect a journey from despair to hope and back (wonderful, I must add) three Op. 2 set. final burst of virtuosity Beethoven does again. Written around the time of his 60th The opening Allegro molto e con brio begins not oblige but returns to the grace of the birthday, Brahms’ ruminations about with a quietly urgent and improvisatory opening pages. mortality may have found voice in this sequence of thematic fragments. Rapid Intermezzo in particular. scales and obsessive repeated notes in the Klavierstücke, Op. 118 left hand impart an assertive attitude that Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) Selections from Játékok already leaves behind the far less rowdy György Kurtág (b. 1926) demeanor of his erstwhile mentor Haydn Brahms was a fine pianist, one lacking the and the deep-felt but civilized outpourings ultimate degree of virtuosity (and certainly The eminent Hungarian composer of Mozart. The abovementioned scales the virtuoso’s mindset) but richly endowed György Kurtág has garnered a strong may suggest the Czerny exercises pianists with expressive and persuasive musicality. reputation for his activities as pianist, find useful but ultimately emotionally Clara Schumann, one of the 19th century’s teacher, administrator and as a creator of unsatisfying. In Beethoven’s hands, most noted pianists, commented that she music. He taught piano at the Franz Liszt however, they are truly galvanic and are had never heard anyone play the piano Academy of Music from 1967 onward, punctuated continuously by explosive with such musical insight and power as later adding chamber music, and taught sforzandos and tantalizing detours into Brahms. Naturally, piano music played to 1993. Among many awards he has kaleidoscopically varied emotional states. a prominent role in his development as received during a distinguished career a composer. Generally his earliest piano are the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize The ensuing Largo, con gran espressione works — aside from the four Op. 10 for his lifetime achievement (1998), the takes the listener in a private world Ballades — are large, sprawling canvasses; Grawemeyer Award (2006), the Golden of internal rumination and, again, an the three big piano sonatas and many Lion at the Biennale in Venice (2009) improvisatory essay filled with sudden sets of variations come to mind. Late in and the largest prize for contemporary silences that intensify the nascent his life he returned to the solo piano and music, the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Romanticism of this early work. As the left produced a number of refined, economical Knowledge Award (2015). hand punches out roaming single tones and pithy piano works. while the right hand fills in the blanks with As so many composers before him increasingly expressive chords. The whole The word “autumnal” is frequently used — Schumann’s Kinderscenen, Bizet’s movement has an exploratory feel to it. to characterize Brahms’ late works, and Children’s Games, Debussy’s Children’s though it is a simplification — there’s Corner come to mind — Kurtág has Simply marked Allegro, the third passion aplenty in such works as the been composing Játékok since 1973. As movement retrospectively serves as a “Double” Concerto — it is a fair description of 2010, eight volumes have come into transition between a courtly minuet and of many of solo piano pieces from his being, most of which are for solo piano. a less confined scherzo (often considered final years. The set of six works in the He has written, “The idea of composing Beethoven’s invention). The music begins Op. 118 (1893) set share with their Játékok was suggested by children playing with a gently rolling theme emphatically immediate predecessors, Opp. 116 and spontaneously, children for whom the posited against a roiling counter-theme 117, and with the following Op. 119 piano still means a toy. They experiment that reflects the difference between collection, an intimacy and gemlike clarity with it, caress it, attack it and run their minuet and scherzo. Frequent sudden at great remove from the drama and fingers over it. They pile up seemingly shifts into the minor and boundless expansiveness of his earliest endeavors. disconnected sounds, and if this happens impatience anticipate the composer’s Wrote the insightful Clara, “It is wonderful to arouse their musical instinct they look evolution from Classical poise to seemingly how he combines passion and tenderness consciously for some of the harmonies limitless Romantic impulse — the very in the smallest of spaces…these new found by chance and keep repeating tendency that alarmed Haydn in his things absorb me completely.” them…It requires a great deal of freedom student’s Op. 1, No. 3 piano trio in C minor. Whether taken singly or as a whole, the and initiative from the performer…We

A-18 UW WORLD SERIES should make use of all that we know and Ninth Symphony, last piano sonatas and concluding movement, marked Arietta. remember of free declamation, folk-music, quartets, among others. Each of these Adagio molto semplice ed cantabile. The parlando-rubato, of Gregorian chant, transcendent masterworks has its keen menace of the first movement recedes and of all that improvisational musical advocates, none more so than the two- into the background with the gentle practice has ever brought forth. Let us movement Op. 111 Piano Sonata. announcement of the Arietta (“theme”). tackle bravely even the most difficult task To be sure, this seemingly benign without being afraid of making mistakes: The opening Maestoso: Allegro con brio ed triplet-laden theme undergoes radical we should try to create valid proportions, appassionato starts — or startles — with transformation during the following six unity and continuity out of the long and an aggressive dissonant gesture. The two variations, where Beethoven invests the short values — just for our own pleasure!” descending notes that launch the piece music with wild syncopated passages in an atmosphere of stormy pessimistic that all but predict the rhythmic world of The harmonic language is largely tonal, defiance, rendered increasingly so by the 20th century — jazz and/or boogie- though it is spiced up with spicy but easily the subterranean rumbling trills in the woogie are not infrequently mentioned digestible dissonances. From florid scales keyboards deep, dark regions as well as by later commentators. Yet from the to minimalist sequences filled with silences, by the hard-edged dotted rhythm. The fourth variation onwards, the music grows from Henry Cowell-like tone clusters to electric charge is accentuated by the increasingly peaceful, as if Beethoven huge vertical distances between notes, the preparation and final eruption of the has finally transcended his earthly cares. music at times suggests the joy of a child upward and downward lurching primary The much-used but entirely appropriate hammering on his or her toy piano. The theme. It is as if Beethoven were distilling term “sublime” comes to mind. A long whole is greater than any one selection — decades of strife and pain into this series of multiple trills — “the quaking of most of which are short and to the point assaultive statement. Still more, the use of Beethoven’s soul” according to the great — and capture, even suggest, the short octave doubling adds even more power to Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau — adds attention span we associate with children. the music, only slightly mollified by fugal considerably to the otherworldly serenity writing later in the movement. of the Sonata’s closing pages. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111 A brief coda leads to an entirely different Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) emotional world in the far longer © 2016 Steven Lowe

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CS 030816 outpatient 1_3s.pdf encoreartsseattle.com A-19 MARK O'CONNER'S AN APPALACHIAN CHRISTMAS featuring THE O'CONNER FAMILY BAND DECEMBER 15, 2016

Mark O'Connor — fiddle

Kate Lee — fiddle and vocals

Forrest O'Connor — mandolin and vocals

Maggie O'Connor — fiddle

Joe Smart — guitar

Michael Rinne — bass

Photos by: John David Pittman

A-20 UW WORLD SERIES About THE O'CONNER FAMILY BAND

The O’Connor Family Band isn’t a versatile vocalist and frequent your typical family band. Three of backup performer on the Country the four members — including Music Awards shows, in late 2013, American music legend Mark and the two have been writing O’Connor — play fiddle, and the songs together ever since. Maggie, fourth plays mandolin. That’s a lot a master’s graduate of the Peabody of high notes. But with the help Institute, is herself an accomplished of guitar and bass, The O’Connor violinist and fiddler and has Family Band delivers beautiful and performed duos with Mark around thoughtful original vocal songs, the world, including with the classic covers, and sophisticated Mendelssohn Orchestra (Hungary), instrumentals with a fresh, the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, powerful, unprecedented sound and the Santa Rosa Symphony. that has begun winning over fans of every style from bluegrass to indie Along with national flatpick guitar folk to Americana. champion Joe Smart and Eastman School of Music graduate and The Band features one of the most current University of Miami Ph.D. iconic fiddlers in American history, candidate Geoff Saunders, the Mark O’Connor. His collaborations O'Connor Family Band recorded with James Taylor, Vince Gill, Ricky their debut album in early 2016. Skaggs, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, After headlining at the Walnut Sam Bush, Alison Krauss, Yo-Yo Valley Festival and at IBMA in late Ma, Wynton Marsalis and many 2015, Mark is eager to introduce his others have led to performances family to fans around the world. on the most visible concert stages worldwide. In addition to having headlined numerous times at the major summer bluegrass festivals, including Telluride and Merlefest, Town Music Mark has performed his own violin 2016 -17 Season concertos hundreds of times over curated by Joshua Roman the last 20 years, including with the Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and London Symphony Orchestras.

In the O’Connor Family Band, Mark is joined by his wife Maggie (fiddle, vocals), son Forrest (mandolin, vocals), and Forrest’s partner Kate Lee (fiddle, vocals). Their repertoire is centered around some of Mark’s greatest instrumentals as well as songs written by Forrest and Daniel Bernard Roumain Kate, the band’s lead singers, and Marc Bamuthi Joseph whose tight harmonies and lyrical honesty have earned praise from “Blackbird, Fly” a work of movement, the likes of Krauss, Rosanne Cash music and Haitian folklore and Mary Gauthier. Forrest, a December 6 graduate of Harvard University 7:30 PM / $10-$20 and the former Tennessee State TOWNHALLSEATTLE.ORG Mandolin Champion, met Kate,

encoreartsseattle.com A-21 YOUR GUIDE TO OUR EVENTS AT MEANY HALL FRIENDS OF MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Many thanks to the following donors whose generous support make our programs possible:

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE EVENT SPONSOR Michael Heltsley ($25,000+) (between $2,500 and $4,999) Ernest and Elaine Henley Susan Herring and Norman Wolf Nancy D. Alvord Randy Apsel Erica Hilario Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Tom Bayley Paul and Alice Hill Glenn Kawasaki, Ph.D. Sven and Melinda Bitners Peter Hoffmeister and Meghan Barry Hans and Kristin Mandt Cathryn Booth-LaForce and W. Kenneth LaForce Mary and Emily Hudspeth Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert Britt East and Scott Van Gerpen FOOD AND BEVERAGE IN MEANY HALL FRAGRANCES John and Annick Impert Mina B. Person Davis Fox and Rosemary Coleman Food and beverage stations are located in the main lobby and downstairs Ilga Jansons and Michael Dryfoos In consideration of patrons with scent allergies, please refrain from Arthur and Leah Grossman at the Gallery Café on the east side of the lower lobby. The stations are Otis and Beverly Kelly wearing perfume, cologne or scented lotions to a performance. DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Elizabeth Hebert open one hour prior to the performances and at intermission. Susan Knox and Weldon Ihrig (between $10,000 and $24,999) In memory of Gene Hokanson CANCELLATIONS Leander Lauffer and Patricia Oquendo RESTROOMS Bernita Jackson Linda and Tom Allen Corrinne Martin and Gary Horsfall Due to unforeseen circumstances, we sometimes have to cancel or postpone Kurt Kolb Restrooms are located on the lower and upper lobby levels. Linda Armstrong Barbara Martyn performances. All programs, dates and artists are subject to change. Karen Koon and Brad Edwards Gail Erickson and Phil Lanum Tomilynn and Dean McManus LATE ARRIVAL Ladies Musical Club, Inc. Lynn and Brian Grant Family Tom McQuaid, in memory of Bill Gerberding PARKING OPTIONS Judy Pigott Unless noted otherwise, all World Dance and World Music evening Hugues Hoppe and Sashi Raghupathy Christopher and Mary Meek Evelyn Simpson performances begin at 8pm. Special Event, Piano, and Chamber Limited, underground paid parking is available in the Central Plaza Catherine and David Hughes Craig Miller and Rebecca Norton Donna and Joshua Taylor Music Series events begin at 7:30pm. Out of respect for the artists Parking Garage, located underneath Meany Hall. There are also several Sally Schaake Kincaid Margaret Dora Morrison Michelle Witt and Hans Hoffmeister and seated patrons, late seating may be limited. Late arrivals will be surface lots and on-street parking within walking distance of Meany. Marcella D. McCaffray John O’Connell and Joyce Latino Eric and Margaret Rothchild escorted into the theater at appropriate intervals, to be determined Jerry Parks and Bonny O’Connor TAXI SERVICE Maryanne Tagney and David Jones by the artists and theater personnel. John O’Leary Ellen Wallach and Thomas Darden DISTINGUISHED PATRON For Yellow Cab use only. To arrange door-to-door service, provide this Richard and Sally Parks (between $1,000 and $2,499) CELL PHONES, CAMERAS & OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES Meany Hall address: 4140 George Washington Lane. Alice Portz and Brad Smith Tina and Chip Ragen Please turn off these devices before performances. Because of Joan Affleck-Smith and Nepier Smith SERIES BENEFACTOR MEANY CENTER ART EXHIBIT Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Eric Schlegel and Mary Stout contractual obligations with our artists, the use of photographic (between $5,000 and $9,999) Stephen Alley and Amy Scott Jeff and Kimberly Seely recording equipment is prohibited. Flash cameras can be disruptive Visit the Meany Center Art Exhibit in the Lower Lobby for an Warren and Anne Anderson Jillian Barron and Jonas Simonis David Skar and Kathleen Lindberg and dangerous to some artists. installation of work by students in the UW School of Art + Art History + Sigmund and Ann Snelson Design, including Ballo Conservatio: Dance Conservation. Sharon Gantz Bloome Cynthia and Christopher Bayley Carrie Ann Sparlin LOST AND FOUND Stephen and Sylvia Burges Mel Belding and Kathy Brostoff Ethel and Bob Story TAPESTRIES DISPLAYED ON STAGE Manisha and Devindra Chainani Luther Black and Christina Wright Contact the House Manager immediately following the performance or Heidi Charleson William D. Bollig Summit Law Group, PLLC The artwork on display on stage during Piano and Chamber Music contact the Meany Hall House Manager's office at [email protected] Michelle and Matthew Galvin Kalman Brauner and Amy Carlson Dale Sylvain and Thomas Conlon events are tapestries woven by Danish artist Charlotte Schrøder. or 206-543-2010. 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Rathvon Consuelo and Gary Corbett Seattle, WA 98195-1150 Blue and Jeff Resnick Leonard Costello and Patricia McKenzie ADMISSION OF CHILDREN Phone: 206-543-4882 / Fax: 206-685-2759 Don and Toni Rupchock Richard Cuthbert and Cheryl Redd-Cuthbert PATRON Joseph Saitta Anita and Jack Dingrani (between $500 and $999) Children five years of age or older are welcome at all Meany Center meanycenter.org Dave and Marcie Stone Susan and Lewis Edelheit performances. A ticket is required for admission. Anonymous ARTSUW TICKET OFFICE Donald and Gloria Swisher Dr. Melvin and Nanette Freeman Gretchen and Basil Anex st WHEELCHAIR SEATING 1313 NE 41 Street Richard Szeliski and Lyn McCoy Bill and Ruth Gerberding Jean-Loup and Diane Baer Seattle, WA 98105 Gregory Wallace and Craig Sheppard William Gleason Cristi Benefield Wheelchair locations and seating for patrons with disabilities are Ph: 206-543-4880 | Toll-free: 800-859-5342 / Fax: 206-685-4141 George Wilson and Claire McClenny Torsten and Daniela Grabs Heida Brenneke and George Gilman available. Requests for accommodation should be made when Email: [email protected] Jeannette M. Wing Kyra Hokanson Gray Paul Brown and Amy Harris purchasing tickets. Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 11 AM – 6 PM Mark and Amy Worthington Carolyn and Gerald Grinstein Dave and Debbie Buck Dr. Martin Greene and Kathleen Wright Betz Halloran Kevin Burnside and Rachel Schopen SMOKING POLICY MEANY HALL BOX OFFICE Wolfram and Linda Hansis Leo Butzel and Roberta Reaber Smoking is not permitted on the University of Washington campus. The Meany Hall Box Office opens one hour before the performance Hylton and Lawrence Hard Rita Calabro and is located in Meany Hall's main entrance. Wimsey J. N. Cherrington INFRARED HEARING DEVICES Italics denotes membership in Meany Society Meany Hall (main stage) is equipped with an infrared hearing system. This listing includes donors ($50 and above) to Meany Center for the Performing Arts from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. To change your program Headsets are available at no charge. Please speak with an usher. A listing or correct an error, please call us at 206-685-2819. Contributions to Meany Center are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. driver's license or credit card is required as collateral. To make a gift or for more information on donor benefits, please call 206-685-2819 or visit meanycenter.org/donate

A-22 UW WORLD SERIES YOUR GUIDE TO OUR EVENTS AT MEANY HALL FRIENDS OF MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Many thanks to the following donors whose generous support make our programs possible:

PRODUCER’S CIRCLE EVENT SPONSOR Michael Heltsley ($25,000+) (between $2,500 and $4,999) Ernest and Elaine Henley Susan Herring and Norman Wolf Nancy D. Alvord Randy Apsel Erica Hilario Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Tom Bayley Paul and Alice Hill Glenn Kawasaki, Ph.D. Sven and Melinda Bitners Peter Hoffmeister and Meghan Barry Hans and Kristin Mandt Cathryn Booth-LaForce and W. Kenneth LaForce Mary and Emily Hudspeth Cecilia Paul and Harry Reinert Britt East and Scott Van Gerpen FOOD AND BEVERAGE IN MEANY HALL FRAGRANCES John and Annick Impert Mina B. Person Davis Fox and Rosemary Coleman Food and beverage stations are located in the main lobby and downstairs Ilga Jansons and Michael Dryfoos In consideration of patrons with scent allergies, please refrain from Arthur and Leah Grossman at the Gallery Café on the east side of the lower lobby. The stations are Otis and Beverly Kelly wearing perfume, cologne or scented lotions to a performance. DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE Elizabeth Hebert open one hour prior to the performances and at intermission. Susan Knox and Weldon Ihrig (between $10,000 and $24,999) In memory of Gene Hokanson CANCELLATIONS Leander Lauffer and Patricia Oquendo RESTROOMS Bernita Jackson Linda and Tom Allen Corrinne Martin and Gary Horsfall Due to unforeseen circumstances, we sometimes have to cancel or postpone Kurt Kolb Restrooms are located on the lower and upper lobby levels. Linda Armstrong Barbara Martyn performances. All programs, dates and artists are subject to change. Karen Koon and Brad Edwards Gail Erickson and Phil Lanum Tomilynn and Dean McManus LATE ARRIVAL Ladies Musical Club, Inc. Lynn and Brian Grant Family Tom McQuaid, in memory of Bill Gerberding PARKING OPTIONS Judy Pigott Unless noted otherwise, all World Dance and World Music evening Hugues Hoppe and Sashi Raghupathy Christopher and Mary Meek Evelyn Simpson performances begin at 8pm. Special Event, Piano, and Chamber Limited, underground paid parking is available in the Central Plaza Catherine and David Hughes Craig Miller and Rebecca Norton Donna and Joshua Taylor Music Series events begin at 7:30pm. Out of respect for the artists Parking Garage, located underneath Meany Hall. There are also several Sally Schaake Kincaid Margaret Dora Morrison Michelle Witt and Hans Hoffmeister and seated patrons, late seating may be limited. Late arrivals will be surface lots and on-street parking within walking distance of Meany. Marcella D. McCaffray John O’Connell and Joyce Latino Eric and Margaret Rothchild escorted into the theater at appropriate intervals, to be determined Jerry Parks and Bonny O’Connor TAXI SERVICE Maryanne Tagney and David Jones by the artists and theater personnel. John O’Leary Ellen Wallach and Thomas Darden DISTINGUISHED PATRON For Yellow Cab use only. To arrange door-to-door service, provide this Richard and Sally Parks (between $1,000 and $2,499) CELL PHONES, CAMERAS & OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES Meany Hall address: 4140 George Washington Lane. Alice Portz and Brad Smith Tina and Chip Ragen Please turn off these devices before performances. Because of Joan Affleck-Smith and Nepier Smith SERIES BENEFACTOR MEANY CENTER ART EXHIBIT Kenneth and Marleen Alhadeff Eric Schlegel and Mary Stout contractual obligations with our artists, the use of photographic (between $5,000 and $9,999) Stephen Alley and Amy Scott Jeff and Kimberly Seely recording equipment is prohibited. Flash cameras can be disruptive Visit the Meany Center Art Exhibit in the Lower Lobby for an Warren and Anne Anderson Jillian Barron and Jonas Simonis David Skar and Kathleen Lindberg and dangerous to some artists. installation of work by students in the UW School of Art + Art History + Sigmund and Ann Snelson Design, including Ballo Conservatio: Dance Conservation. Sharon Gantz Bloome Cynthia and Christopher Bayley Carrie Ann Sparlin LOST AND FOUND Stephen and Sylvia Burges Mel Belding and Kathy Brostoff Ethel and Bob Story TAPESTRIES DISPLAYED ON STAGE Manisha and Devindra Chainani Luther Black and Christina Wright Contact the House Manager immediately following the performance or Heidi Charleson William D. Bollig Summit Law Group, PLLC The artwork on display on stage during Piano and Chamber Music contact the Meany Hall House Manager's office at [email protected] Michelle and Matthew Galvin Kalman Brauner and Amy Carlson Dale Sylvain and Thomas Conlon events are tapestries woven by Danish artist Charlotte Schrøder. or 206-543-2010. Hellmut and Marcy Golde Virginia Burdette Thomas and Doris Taylor Yumi Iwasaki and Anoop Gupta William Calvin and Katherine Graubard Lorraine Toly EVACUATION MEANY CENTER ADDRESS & CONTACT INFORMATION Matthew and Christina Krashan Robert and Janitta Carithers Case van Rij In case of fire or other emergency, please follow the instructions of our MEANY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Bill and Meg Morgan Eric and Susan Carlson Ernest Vogel and Barbara Billings ushers, who are trained to assist you. To ensure your safety, please University of Washington, Chelsey Owen and Robert Harris Thomas Clement Edward and Patricia Wagner familiarize yourself with the exit routes nearest your seat. Box 351150 Lois H. Rathvon Consuelo and Gary Corbett Seattle, WA 98195-1150 Blue and Jeff Resnick Leonard Costello and Patricia McKenzie ADMISSION OF CHILDREN Phone: 206-543-4882 / Fax: 206-685-2759 Don and Toni Rupchock Richard Cuthbert and Cheryl Redd-Cuthbert PATRON Joseph Saitta Anita and Jack Dingrani (between $500 and $999) Children five years of age or older are welcome at all Meany Center meanycenter.org Dave and Marcie Stone Susan and Lewis Edelheit performances. A ticket is required for admission. Anonymous ARTSUW TICKET OFFICE Donald and Gloria Swisher Dr. Melvin and Nanette Freeman Gretchen and Basil Anex st WHEELCHAIR SEATING 1313 NE 41 Street Richard Szeliski and Lyn McCoy Bill and Ruth Gerberding Jean-Loup and Diane Baer Seattle, WA 98105 Gregory Wallace and Craig Sheppard William Gleason Cristi Benefield Wheelchair locations and seating for patrons with disabilities are Ph: 206-543-4880 | Toll-free: 800-859-5342 / Fax: 206-685-4141 George Wilson and Claire McClenny Torsten and Daniela Grabs Heida Brenneke and George Gilman available. Requests for accommodation should be made when Email: [email protected] Jeannette M. Wing Kyra Hokanson Gray Paul Brown and Amy Harris purchasing tickets. Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 11 AM – 6 PM Mark and Amy Worthington Carolyn and Gerald Grinstein Dave and Debbie Buck Dr. Martin Greene and Kathleen Wright Betz Halloran Kevin Burnside and Rachel Schopen SMOKING POLICY MEANY HALL BOX OFFICE Wolfram and Linda Hansis Leo Butzel and Roberta Reaber Smoking is not permitted on the University of Washington campus. The Meany Hall Box Office opens one hour before the performance Hylton and Lawrence Hard Rita Calabro and is located in Meany Hall's main entrance. Wimsey J. N. Cherrington INFRARED HEARING DEVICES Italics denotes membership in Meany Society Meany Hall (main stage) is equipped with an infrared hearing system. This listing includes donors ($50 and above) to Meany Center for the Performing Arts from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. To change your program Headsets are available at no charge. Please speak with an usher. A listing or correct an error, please call us at 206-685-2819. Contributions to Meany Center are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. driver's license or credit card is required as collateral. To make a gift or for more information on donor benefits, please call 206-685-2819 or visit meanycenter.org/donate

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Bert Dudley / Elizabeth Duffell / Cliff Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky / Thomas Taylor / Mark Eugene and Martha Nester Michael and Nancy Kappelman Italics denote membership in The Meany Society. Eastman / Sheila Edwards-Lange and Kip Lange / Ian Einman Teitelbaum / Sue Thomas / Mary Anne Thorbeck / Barbara to the Anne and Bill Nolan Consider a gift Aaron Katz and Kate Dougherty / Lynne and Hollie Ellis / Penelope and Stephen Ellis / Jean Trenary / Dorene and Dennis Tully / Phyllis Van Orden / Amanda Overly This listing includes donors ($50 and above) to Meany Center Meany Center through your will, Philip and Marcia Killien Burch Falls / Alan and Jane Fantel / Polly and Eric Feigl / Yvonne and Bruno Vogele / Patricia Wahl and Dean Wingfield Ron Pederson and Jeff Sakuma for the Performing Arts from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. Connie and Gus Kravas Jacqueline Forbes and Douglas Bleckner / Julie and Steven / Lenore Waldron / Michael Wall / Martha Walton / Margaret trust or retirement plan, and help John Rochford and Nick Utzinger To change your program listing or correct an error, please Eli Livne and Esther Karson Friedman / Lucille Friedman / William Friedman / Susan and Watson / Taylene Watson / Larry and Lucy Weinberg / Dick Roth and Charlene Curtiss call us at 206-685-2819. Contributions to Meany Center are future generations of artists and Dennis Lund and Martha Taylor Albert Fuchs / Kai Fujita / Melissa Fulton / Sarah Skye Gilbert Richard and Ann Weiner / Barbara Weinstein / Leah Wener- tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. To make a gift or Werner and Joan Samson arts lovers see a little further by Jeffrey and Barbara Mandula / George Gilman / J. David Godwin and Virginia Reeves / Fligner / Bruce and Christine White / John and Margaret for more information on donor benefits, please call 206-685- Cathy Sarkowsky William and Holly Marklyn Joan and Steven Goldblatt / Jennifer and Henry Gordon / Williams / Judy and Raymond Williams / Karin Williams / April 2819 or visit meanycenter.org/donate. standing on your shoulders. Dolores Gill Schoenmakers Robin L. McCabe Catherine Gorman / Gene Graham / Virginie Grange / Alieu and Brian Williamson / Barbara and Grant Winther / Carolyn Michael Scupine and Kim Gittere-Abson Mary Mikkelsen Ann and Natasha Greaves / Nancy and Earl Grout / David Wood / Evgueni and Tatiana Zabokritski / Shirley Zaic and Edward Sheets and Ronda Skubi M. Lynn Morgan Grossman and Cezanne Garcia / Evette and Robert Hackman Eric Johnson / Robert Zauper / Lawrence Zeidman and Linda MATCHING GIFTS Contact: Marcia Sohns and Mark Levy Trisha and Eric Muller / Emile Haddad / Katherine Hanson and Michael Schick / Tatta / Maxine Zemko Cristi Benefield, Director of Clark Sorensen and Susan Way Rik Muroya Mary Beth Hasselquist / John and Geraldine Hay / Dandan Adobe Systems, Inc. / ArtsFund / AT&T Foundation / Peter Tarczy-Hornoch and Candice McCoy Philanthropy, Meany Center William and Rosemary Newell He / Kathryn Heafield and Guy Sattler / Peter Herford / Lori FRIEND The Boeing Company / City of Seattle / East West Bank Mark Taylor Margarete Noe Hess and Benjamin Miller / Janet Hesslein and Murl Sanders (between $50 and $99) / Google, Inc. / IBM Corporation / Intel Corporation / 206-616-6296 Manijeh Vail Merck Company Foundation / Microsoft Corporation / Mark Novak and Katrin Pustilnik / David Hewitt and Marcia Wagoner / Alan and Judy Hodson Josephus Van Schagen and Marjon Floris Anonymous / Michelle Acosta / Cynthia Adams / Claudia and [email protected] / Ellen Hofmann / Norm Hollingshead / Roy Linwood Hughes Nintendo of America, Inc. / Puget Sound Energy / Shell Wendy and Murray Raskind Thomas Allan / Michael and Elizabeth Anderson / Daemond Bob and Andrea Watson / Ron Hull / Margaret Hunt / Patricia Hynes / Thomas Jacka Oil Company / State of Washington / T-Mobile USA, Inc. / Jason Reuer Arrindell / Kam Au and Yuen Chan / Ruth and Mark Balter / Eugene Webb and Marilyn Domoto Webb / Grace Jao / Robert C. Jenkins / Linda and Christopher U.S. Bank / Wells Fargo, LLC Tom Robinson and Joan Wellman Elisabeth Beaber / Elaine Brighton / Zbigniew Butor / Linda meanycenter.org/donate Joella Werlin Johnson / Robert Johnson and Heather Erdmann / Larry and Bette Round and Peter Capell / Gwyneth and Chris Casazza / Paul and Stephen and Debra Wescott Roberta Jordan / Julie Kageler / H. David Kaplan / George and Christine Carr / Phyllis and Alan Caswell / Michael and Mary John V. Worthington Janet and John Rusin Mary Kenny / Christian and Patricia Killien / Jean Kincaid and Gayle Charlesworth / John Clarkson and Elizabeth Gilchrist Wright Piano Studio Students Robert and Doris Schaefer David Koewler / Leslie Kincaid / Divya Krishnana / James and / Jayne Coe / Brian Cole / Carol Cole and Andrew Groom / Bob and Robin Stacey Ying Gi Yong Elaine Klansnic / Adam Kline and Genie Middaugh / Nancy Monica C. Connors / Merrilee G. Conway and Jay Young / Thomas Standaert Anne and George Counts / Barbara Courtney/ Igor Zverev and Yana Solovyeva and John Kloster / Mark and Joan Klyn / Glen Kriekenbeck /

A-24 UW WORLD SERIES Jill Conner GREAT PERFORMER Edgar and Gail Steinitz Laurence and / Rosalie Lang / Inge and Leslie Larsen / Eric Peter and Beatrice Crane / Gary Crispin / Christopher Curry / Margaret Crastnopol and Charles Purcell (between $250 and $499) David and Barbara Thomas Larson and Teresa Bigelow / Tammara and Brian Leighton Rachel Demotts / Melisa Doss / Laura and William Downing Suzanne Dewitt and Ari Steinberg Diana and Richard Thompson / Benjamin Lerner / Peter LeVeque / Max Lieblich / Marilyn / Donna and Robert Dughi / Richard Eide / Patricia Emmons Kay and John Allen and Shmuel El-Ad / Ivone and Oren Etzioni / Susan Ewens / Toby Diamond Gayle and Jack Thompson Stone Lytle / Douglas MacDonald and Lynda Mapes / Ross Stuart Allen and Sunny Liu Giselle Falkenberg and Rockwell Moulton / James Fesalbon Jeanne Dryfoos Jerry and Ernalee Thonn and Lisa Macfarlane / Daniel Mageau / Sara Magee / Heinz Charles Alpers and Ingrid Peterson and Edward Francis Darr II / Judith Gillum Fihn and Stephan Luis Fernando and Isabel Maria Esteban Mary Toy and Ingeborg Maine / John and Katharina Maloof / Anonymous / D. Fihn / Susan Carol Fisher / Susan Fitch / Naoko Forderer Thomas Faber and Laura Townsend Faber Stephen Toy and Jennifer Anttila Dubravka and Danko Martincic / Michael and Nancy Matesky Joseph Ashley / Judith Frey and Flick Broughton / Anne Futterman / Daniel / Tessa Matthey and Peter Durkee / Lila May / Roland Gary Fuller and Randy Everett Michelle and Stephen Turnovsky Gamelin / Anne and David Gilbert / Nathaniel Gilbert / Katya Lisa Baldwin and John Cragoe Mayer / Donna McCampbell / Mary V. McGuire / Robert and Janet Geier and Peter Seitel Pieter and Tjitske Van der Meulen Giritsky / Sara Glerum / Sarah Goldenkranz / Nancy Green Joanna and David Beitel Catherine McKee / Douglas McLaren and Irene Yamamoto Sergey Genkin Vanessa Villalobos / Andrew Gross and Shira Wilson / Shuko Hashimoto / Ian Robert Bergman / Susan L. McNabb / Renate McVittie / Barbara and James Susan and Richard Hall Valerie and Eugenia Vinyar Hellen and Paula Cerni / Robin Hendricks / Judith Herrigel / Laura Bertin and Mark Williams Miller / Reza and Carol Moinpour / Raymond Monnat and Carol R. Hershman / Jim Hessler / Nancy Hevly / Alistair Hirst Steven Haney James and Judith Wagonfeld Dennis Birch and Evette Ludman Christine Disteche / David Morris / Anne Morrison / Christine Sibyl James / Natarajan Janarthanan and Ponni Rajagopal / Larry Harris and Betty Azar Osamu Yamamoto James and Edith Bloomfield Moss / Pamela A. Mullens / Susan Mulvihill and James Janice Javier / Linda Kent and James Corson / Kyle Kinoshita Phyllis Hatfield Lee and Barbara Yates / Lee Klastorin / Jurgen and Lynn Klausenburger / William Steve and Sarah Hauschka Holly Boone and Pat Braus Liverman / Teri Mumme / John Nemanich and Ellendee Koenig / Calvin and Margaret Konzak / Daniel and Sandra Kara D. Hefley Katherine Bourbonais and Donald Ramsey Pepper / Betty Ngan and Tom Mailhot / Marianne and Kraus / Pamela Lampkin and Robert Zipkin / Bruce Landon Peter Hiatt and Ronald Hunden Lorraine and Harry Bruce Albert Nijenhuis / Dawna Nipp / David Norman / Beatrice KEY PLAYER and Atsuko Osawa-Landon / Kathryn Lew and Dennis Apland Tuck Hoo Elizabeth Cantrell Nowogroski / Nenita Odesa / Martin Oiye and Susan (between $100 and $249) / Barbara Lewis / James and June Lindsey / Wendy Marlowe Harry and Sue Chan Nakagawa / William and Sherry Owen / Cathy Palmer / Bronwen Houck / William and Judith Matchett / Brian McHenry / Teresa Anonymous / Ann Adam / Laila Adams Elizabeth Park / Nichole Parr / Gerald Paulukonis / Florence Randy and Gwen Houser Daniel and Sandra Ciske McIntyre / Michael and Noor McMann / Sharon Metcalf and Michael Hunter Cherie Claire James Adcock and Anne Otten / Kathryn Alexandra / Frank Peterschmidt / Karen Peterson / James Phelps / Sandra Randall Smith / Eric Michelman and Patricia Shanley “If I have seen a little Melanie Ito and Charles Wilkinson Leonard and Else Cobb and Nola Allen / Dick Ammerman / Lauralyn Andrews / Piscitello / Mary-Alice Pomputius and Walter Smith / Susan Marilyn Milberger / Jocelyn and Mike Miller / Sheree Miller Paul Kassen Leroy and Marybeth Dart Timothy D. and G. Anthony Barrick / Marianne Beirne Porterfield / Lincoln and Mayumi Potter / Jocelyn Raish and and Benjamin Greer / Michael Morris / John Mosher / further, it is only Deborah Katz Kenneth Dayton Mike and Marie Bender / G. Carter Bentley and Lynda Emel / Robert Toren / Dennis Reichenbach / Matt Reichert / Carrie Harold and Susan Mozer / George and Ellen Naden / Isaac by standing on the Richard / Carla Rickerson / Suzuko and Edward Riewe / Paula and Lensey Namioka / Kara Niedner / Barbara O’Steen and David Kimelman and Karen Butner Arlene B. Ehrlich Andrew Bertino-Reibstein / David Bird / Beverly Bodansky / Helen Bodkin / Michael Bolasina / Gene Brenowitz and Karen Riggert / Chet Robachinski / Norita Robbins / Neil Roberts R. Howard Mitchell / Sharon Overman / Colette Posse / Kelly Kleemeier and Dave Dickson Pamela Fink and Michael Bevan shoulders of Giants." Domino / Joyce and David Brewster / Carl Brodkin / Dianne and Bonnie Worthington-Roberts / Pacita Roberts / Cassy Nicole Quinones / James and Ruth Raisis / Michael Ramey Frank and JoAnna Lau Mark Firmani / Mechthild Rast / William Reed and Nancy Worden / — Bernard of Chartres Calkins / Carol and Henry Cannon III / Frances Carr / Robert Robinson-Cohen / Randy Rohwer / Robert Romeo / Gail Michael Linenberger and Sallie Dacey Susan Fischer Meryl Retallack / Cody Ring-Rissler / Sam and Josie Roskin Catton / Pamela and Robert Center / Robert and Molly Sailer / Jennifer Salk and David Ehrich / Laura Sargent May and Wah Lui Albert Fisk and Judith Harris / Ellen Roth and Dan Roach / David and JoAnne Rudo / Cleland / Libby Cohen / R. Bruce and Mary Louise Colwell / Joachim Schneider and Jolene Vrchota / Charles Schooler / Tomilynn and Dean McManus Emily Fitch Craig Schieber / Stephen and Loretta Schuler / Juanita and From Haydn to Mozart to Karen Conoley and Arthur Verharen / Jan and Bill Corriston / Janet Schweiger / Jean Schweitzer / Charyl and Earl Sedlik / Ramona Memmer and Lester Goldstein Gerald Folland Warren Segura / Herbert and Elaine Selipsky / Giles and Sue Kathy Cowles and Bradford Chamberlain / Karen and Philip Norman Hollingshead / Mark and Patti Seklemian / Robbie Beethoven to the Beatles, each John and Gail Mensher Stuart Fountain and Tom Highsmith Shepherd / Danny Shih / Ann and Christopher Smith / Carol Craven / Jean Crill / Gavin Cullen and David Jamieson / Judy Sherman, M.D. and Charles Meconis / Beverly Simpson / Smith / Hank and Dorothy Stephens / Evelyn Sterne / Kristin generation owes its progress to Stephen Metzler and Almudena de Llaguno William and Lindy Gaylord Cushman and Robert Quick / John Darrah and Elizabeth / Roger Simpson and Jeffrey Cantrell / John Sindorf and Mary Strout / Mark Sullivan / Mark Thomas / W. Michael Thompson Linda and Peter Milgrom Susan and Russell Goedde the ones that came before. Dickerman Darrah / The de Soto Family / Janice DeCosmo Ann Bolte / Virginia Sly / Mani and Karen Soma / Sarah / Gertrud Tobiason / Emily Transue / Frits van Oppen / John Susan P. Mitchell Laurie Griffith and David Butterfield / Dr. Barbara DeCoster / Theodore Stanley and Dale Rogerson / Allyn and Douglas Stevens / Vistica / Gail and John Wasberg / Christine Westergaard / Kevin Murphy and Karen Freeman Tim Groggel and Annette Strand Dietz / Susan Dittmann / Ann Dittmar / Susan and David Christopher and Heidi Stolte / Derek Storm and Cynthia David Wine / Becky Woodworth You, too, can be a giant. James and Pamela Murray Susan Hert and William Levering III Dolacky / David Doody and Michael Erickson / Nancy Dorn Gossett / Carol Swayne and Guy Hollingbury / Renata Erika J. Nesholm David B. Johnson / Laurie Ann and C. Bert Dudley / Elizabeth Duffell / Cliff Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky / Thomas Taylor / Mark Eugene and Martha Nester Michael and Nancy Kappelman Italics denote membership in The Meany Society. Eastman / Sheila Edwards-Lange and Kip Lange / Ian Einman Teitelbaum / Sue Thomas / Mary Anne Thorbeck / Barbara to the Anne and Bill Nolan Consider a gift Aaron Katz and Kate Dougherty / Lynne and Hollie Ellis / Penelope and Stephen Ellis / Jean Trenary / Dorene and Dennis Tully / Phyllis Van Orden / Amanda Overly This listing includes donors ($50 and above) to Meany Center Meany Center through your will, Philip and Marcia Killien Burch Falls / Alan and Jane Fantel / Polly and Eric Feigl / Yvonne and Bruno Vogele / Patricia Wahl and Dean Wingfield Ron Pederson and Jeff Sakuma for the Performing Arts from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. Connie and Gus Kravas Jacqueline Forbes and Douglas Bleckner / Julie and Steven / Lenore Waldron / Michael Wall / Martha Walton / Margaret trust or retirement plan, and help John Rochford and Nick Utzinger To change your program listing or correct an error, please Eli Livne and Esther Karson Friedman / Lucille Friedman / William Friedman / Susan and Watson / Taylene Watson / Larry and Lucy Weinberg / Dick Roth and Charlene Curtiss call us at 206-685-2819. Contributions to Meany Center are future generations of artists and Dennis Lund and Martha Taylor Albert Fuchs / Kai Fujita / Melissa Fulton / Sarah Skye Gilbert Richard and Ann Weiner / Barbara Weinstein / Leah Wener- tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. To make a gift or Werner and Joan Samson arts lovers see a little further by Jeffrey and Barbara Mandula / George Gilman / J. David Godwin and Virginia Reeves / Fligner / Bruce and Christine White / John and Margaret for more information on donor benefits, please call 206-685- Cathy Sarkowsky William and Holly Marklyn Joan and Steven Goldblatt / Jennifer and Henry Gordon / Williams / Judy and Raymond Williams / Karin Williams / April 2819 or visit meanycenter.org/donate. standing on your shoulders. Dolores Gill Schoenmakers Robin L. McCabe Catherine Gorman / Gene Graham / Virginie Grange / Alieu and Brian Williamson / Barbara and Grant Winther / Carolyn Michael Scupine and Kim Gittere-Abson Mary Mikkelsen Ann and Natasha Greaves / Nancy and Earl Grout / David Wood / Evgueni and Tatiana Zabokritski / Shirley Zaic and Edward Sheets and Ronda Skubi M. Lynn Morgan Grossman and Cezanne Garcia / Evette and Robert Hackman Eric Johnson / Robert Zauper / Lawrence Zeidman and Linda MATCHING GIFTS Contact: Marcia Sohns and Mark Levy Trisha and Eric Muller / Emile Haddad / Katherine Hanson and Michael Schick / Tatta / Maxine Zemko Cristi Benefield, Director of Clark Sorensen and Susan Way Rik Muroya Mary Beth Hasselquist / John and Geraldine Hay / Dandan Adobe Systems, Inc. / ArtsFund / AT&T Foundation / Peter Tarczy-Hornoch and Candice McCoy Philanthropy, Meany Center William and Rosemary Newell He / Kathryn Heafield and Guy Sattler / Peter Herford / Lori FRIEND The Boeing Company / City of Seattle / East West Bank Mark Taylor Margarete Noe Hess and Benjamin Miller / Janet Hesslein and Murl Sanders (between $50 and $99) / Google, Inc. / IBM Corporation / Intel Corporation / 206-616-6296 Manijeh Vail Merck Company Foundation / Microsoft Corporation / Mark Novak and Katrin Pustilnik / David Hewitt and Marcia Wagoner / Alan and Judy Hodson Josephus Van Schagen and Marjon Floris Anonymous / Michelle Acosta / Cynthia Adams / Claudia and [email protected] / Ellen Hofmann / Norm Hollingshead / Roy Linwood Hughes Nintendo of America, Inc. / Puget Sound Energy / Shell Wendy and Murray Raskind Thomas Allan / Michael and Elizabeth Anderson / Daemond Bob and Andrea Watson / Ron Hull / Margaret Hunt / Patricia Hynes / Thomas Jacka Oil Company / State of Washington / T-Mobile USA, Inc. / Jason Reuer Arrindell / Kam Au and Yuen Chan / Ruth and Mark Balter / Eugene Webb and Marilyn Domoto Webb / Grace Jao / Robert C. Jenkins / Linda and Christopher U.S. Bank / Wells Fargo, LLC Tom Robinson and Joan Wellman Elisabeth Beaber / Elaine Brighton / Zbigniew Butor / Linda meanycenter.org/donate Joella Werlin Johnson / Robert Johnson and Heather Erdmann / Larry and Bette Round and Peter Capell / Gwyneth and Chris Casazza / Paul and Stephen and Debra Wescott Roberta Jordan / Julie Kageler / H. David Kaplan / George and Christine Carr / Phyllis and Alan Caswell / Michael and Mary John V. Worthington Janet and John Rusin Mary Kenny / Christian and Patricia Killien / Jean Kincaid and Gayle Charlesworth / John Clarkson and Elizabeth Gilchrist Wright Piano Studio Students Robert and Doris Schaefer David Koewler / Leslie Kincaid / Divya Krishnana / James and / Jayne Coe / Brian Cole / Carol Cole and Andrew Groom / Bob and Robin Stacey Ying Gi Yong Elaine Klansnic / Adam Kline and Genie Middaugh / Nancy Monica C. Connors / Merrilee G. Conway and Jay Young / Thomas Standaert Anne and George Counts / Barbara Courtney/ Igor Zverev and Yana Solovyeva and John Kloster / Mark and Joan Klyn / Glen Kriekenbeck /

encoreartsseattle.com A-25 ENDOWMENT AND PLANNED GIFTS MEANY CENTER SEASON SPONSORS We would like to thank the following individuals for supporting the future of Meany Center We are deeply grateful to the following corporations, foundations and government agencies through planned gifts and contributions to our endowment: whose generous support make our programs possible:

Planned Gifts Live Music for World Dance Vivika Stamolis $100,000 and above

Anonymous Series Endowment Jacoline Stewart The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Linda and Tom Allen Andrew Bertino-Reibstein Douglas and Joan Stewart

Ellsworth and Nancy Alvord Ioana Butoi Robby Thoms $25,000 and above Wimsey J.N. Cherrington Linda and Peter Capell Wayne Thurman The Boeing Company / Classical KING FM 98.1* / Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Consuelo and Gary Corbett Chris Casazza Larry Todd National Endowment for the Arts / Nesholm Family Foundation Bill and Ruth Gerberding Gwyneth Casazza Marina Toropov

Matthew and Christina Krashan Wimsey J.N. Cherrington Anh Tran $10,000 - $24,999 Margaret Dora Morrison Brian Cole Raymond and Judy Williams 4Culture / ArtsFund / Microsoft / New England Foundation for the Arts / Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Mina B. Person Peter and Beatrice Crane Grant and Barbara Winther

Lois Rathvon Gary Crispin Katherine M. Wurfel Up to $9,999 Dave and Marcie Stone Rachel Demotts Robert Zauper Banner Bank / East West Bank / KEXP 90.3 FM* / KUOW 94.9 FM* / Ladies Musical Club / Peg and Rick Young Foundation Donald and Gloria Swisher Susan Dittmann U.S. Bank / Washington State Arts Commission / Western States Arts Federation Lee and Judy Talner Paulette Elster Meany Center Education Endowment

Ellen J. Wallach Kai Fujita Kalman Brauner and Amy Carlson

Virginie Grange Ernest and Elaine Henley*

Arts AL!VE Student Fund for Dandan He Julie Kageler

Exploring the Performing Arts Jim Hessler Matthew and Christina Krashan*

Susan Knox and Weldon Ihrig* Alistair Hirst J. Pierre and Felice Loebel*

Renata Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky Dobrila Istocki Lee and Judy Talner*

Bernita Jackson

Meany Center Programming Endowment Janice Javier Matt Krashan Endowed Fund for

Windsor R. Utley* † Lorie Jones Artistic and Educational Excellence

Ralph Lusher in the Performing Arts

Nancy and Eddie Cooper Endowed Fund Kara Niedner Jill Hanley Conner

for Music in Schools Sergio Ortega-Trujano (multiple founders)

Lucille Friedman Nichole Parr

Dave and Marcie Stone*, in memory of Pascal Picat * Endowment Founder † Deceased Mina Fleisher Cecilia M. Paul and Harry F. Reinert* Business Circle Sponsors Matt Reichert Agua Verde Cafe and Paddle Club / Classical Wines from Spain / College Inn Pub / Hotel Deca* / Finnriver Farm & Cidery* / Fran's Chocolates* Cody Ring-Rissler Macrina Bakery* / Madres Kitchen* / Pagliacci* / North City Bistro* / Theo Chocolate* / Tom Douglas Restaurants* / University Inn* / Watertown Hotel* Elaine and Ernest Henley Endowment Nubia Rojas-Blas

for Classical Music Judy See Community Partners Ernest and Elaine Henley* Danny Shih

Daniel Skaggs Arts Impact / ArtsUW / Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization / Henry Art Gallery / Ladies Musical Club /

Catherine and David Hughes Asian Jonathan Srsen Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute / Seattle Art Museum / Seattle Asian Art Museum / Seattle Collaborative Orchestra / Seattle Music Partners

Programming Endowment Christopher and Heidi Stolte Seattle Public Schools / UW Alumni Association / UW Dance Program / UW Intellectual House / UW Libraries / UW Residential Life Program

Catherine and David Hughes* Richard and Ann Weiner UW School of Drama / UW School of Music / Velocity Dance Center

Yumi Iwasaki Raymond and Judy Williams

Anoop Gupta George Wilson and Claire McClenny * Denotes full or partial gift in kind.

This listing includes endowment founders and endowment donors from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. For more information on how to make a gift through Join an impressive roster of companies of all sizes that support Meany Center, its mission, and its performances. Sponsors receive significant your will or trust, or to name Meany Center for the Performing Arts as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or insurance policy, please call 206-685-1001 or recognition throughout the season and an array of benefits catered to your organization's goals. For more information, please contact the Meany 800-284-3679 or visit www.uwfoundation.org/giftplanning. Center Philanthropy Department at (206) 221-1287.

A-26 UW WORLD SERIES ENDOWMENT AND PLANNED GIFTS MEANY CENTER SEASON SPONSORS We would like to thank the following individuals for supporting the future of Meany Center We are deeply grateful to the following corporations, foundations and government agencies through planned gifts and contributions to our endowment: whose generous support make our programs possible:

Planned Gifts Live Music for World Dance Vivika Stamolis $100,000 and above

Anonymous Series Endowment Jacoline Stewart The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Linda and Tom Allen Andrew Bertino-Reibstein Douglas and Joan Stewart

Ellsworth and Nancy Alvord Ioana Butoi Robby Thoms $25,000 and above Wimsey J.N. Cherrington Linda and Peter Capell Wayne Thurman The Boeing Company / Classical KING FM 98.1* / Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Consuelo and Gary Corbett Chris Casazza Larry Todd National Endowment for the Arts / Nesholm Family Foundation Bill and Ruth Gerberding Gwyneth Casazza Marina Toropov

Matthew and Christina Krashan Wimsey J.N. Cherrington Anh Tran $10,000 - $24,999 Margaret Dora Morrison Brian Cole Raymond and Judy Williams 4Culture / ArtsFund / Microsoft / New England Foundation for the Arts / Seattle Office of Arts & Culture Mina B. Person Peter and Beatrice Crane Grant and Barbara Winther

Lois Rathvon Gary Crispin Katherine M. Wurfel Up to $9,999 Dave and Marcie Stone Rachel Demotts Robert Zauper Banner Bank / East West Bank / KEXP 90.3 FM* / KUOW 94.9 FM* / Ladies Musical Club / Peg and Rick Young Foundation Donald and Gloria Swisher Susan Dittmann U.S. Bank / Washington State Arts Commission / Western States Arts Federation Lee and Judy Talner Paulette Elster Meany Center Education Endowment

Ellen J. Wallach Kai Fujita Kalman Brauner and Amy Carlson

Virginie Grange Ernest and Elaine Henley*

Arts AL!VE Student Fund for Dandan He Julie Kageler

Exploring the Performing Arts Jim Hessler Matthew and Christina Krashan*

Susan Knox and Weldon Ihrig* Alistair Hirst J. Pierre and Felice Loebel*

Renata Tatman and Pablo Schugurensky Dobrila Istocki Lee and Judy Talner*

Bernita Jackson

Meany Center Programming Endowment Janice Javier Matt Krashan Endowed Fund for

Windsor R. Utley* † Lorie Jones Artistic and Educational Excellence

Ralph Lusher in the Performing Arts

Nancy and Eddie Cooper Endowed Fund Kara Niedner Jill Hanley Conner for Music in Schools Sergio Ortega-Trujano (multiple founders)

Lucille Friedman Nichole Parr

Dave and Marcie Stone*, in memory of Pascal Picat * Endowment Founder † Deceased Mina Fleisher Cecilia M. Paul and Harry F. Reinert* Business Circle Sponsors Matt Reichert Agua Verde Cafe and Paddle Club / Classical Wines from Spain / College Inn Pub / Hotel Deca* / Finnriver Farm & Cidery* / Fran's Chocolates* Cody Ring-Rissler Macrina Bakery* / Madres Kitchen* / Pagliacci* / North City Bistro* / Theo Chocolate* / Tom Douglas Restaurants* / University Inn* / Watertown Hotel* Elaine and Ernest Henley Endowment Nubia Rojas-Blas for Classical Music Judy See Community Partners Ernest and Elaine Henley* Danny Shih

Daniel Skaggs Arts Impact / ArtsUW / Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization / Henry Art Gallery / Ladies Musical Club /

Catherine and David Hughes Asian Jonathan Srsen Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute / Seattle Art Museum / Seattle Asian Art Museum / Seattle Collaborative Orchestra / Seattle Music Partners

Programming Endowment Christopher and Heidi Stolte Seattle Public Schools / UW Alumni Association / UW Dance Program / UW Intellectual House / UW Libraries / UW Residential Life Program

Catherine and David Hughes* Richard and Ann Weiner UW School of Drama / UW School of Music / Velocity Dance Center

Yumi Iwasaki Raymond and Judy Williams

Anoop Gupta George Wilson and Claire McClenny * Denotes full or partial gift in kind.

This listing includes endowment founders and endowment donors from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. For more information on how to make a gift through Join an impressive roster of companies of all sizes that support Meany Center, its mission, and its performances. Sponsors receive significant your will or trust, or to name Meany Center for the Performing Arts as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or insurance policy, please call 206-685-1001 or recognition throughout the season and an array of benefits catered to your organization's goals. For more information, please contact the Meany 800-284-3679 or visit www.uwfoundation.org/giftplanning. Center Philanthropy Department at (206) 221-1287.

encoreartsseattle.com A-27 MEANY CENTER AND ARTSUW TICKET OFFICE STAFF

Michelle Witt, Executive and Artistic Director, Annie Morro, Assistant House Manager Rita Calabro, Managing Director Chris Lindsey, Concessions Lead Scott Coil, Director of Finance and Administration Kaitlyn Havenner, Barista James Fesalbon, Fiscal Specialist Zico Deng, Concessions Assistant Yevgeniy Gofman, Accountant Rosa Alvarez, Director of Patron Services Liz Wong, Assistant Director of Patron Services Laura McKee, Tessitura Administrator Katrina Deininger, Patron Services Associate Gretchen Shantz, IT Administrator Keeli Erb, Patron Services Associate Patrick Walrath, Patron Services Associate Cristi Benefield, Director of Philanthropy Cathy Wright, Patron Services Associate Marie Lazzaro, Annual Giving and Events Manager Patron Services Assistants Alix Wilber, Grants and Communications Manager Jasmine An Lauren Zawacki, Philanthropy Assistant Jason Cutler Leanna Keith Elizabeth C. Duffell, Director of Artistic Engagement Kendra Stricklin Robert Babs, Education Assistant Abbey Willman Giuliana Conti, Education Assistant Angela Yun Katherine Kruger, Dance Engagement Intern Kaeline Kine, Artist Engagement Coordinator Lead Ushers Jyana Browne, Creative Fellowships Coordinator Jamee Adams Hayden Campbell Teri Mumme, Director of Marketing and Communications Robert Noland, Graphics Production and Content Coordinator Ushers Kate Dugdale, Audience Development Assistant Andy Abel Son Bui, Marketing Assistant Reiane Abuda Arthur Grossman, Phil Lanum, Photographers Altaire Anderson Sophie Baker Tom Burke, Technical Director Danielle Blevens Brian Engel, Lighting Supervisor Laura Freeman Juniper Shuey, Stage Manager Eli Gallagher Matt Stearns, Sound Engineer Duncan Greeley Doug Meier, Studio Theatre Stage Technician Natalie Harrington Lindsey Mizell Nancy Hautala, Audience Services Manager Shanay Mohamed Tom Highsmith, Lead House Manager Payal Muni Sean Luscombe, House Manager Daniel Salka Becky Plant, House Manager Evelyn Seo Daniel Kaseberg, Assistant House Manager Leah Stoller Ellie Strigen Ashley Techavimol Catering by Evan Ulman

A-28 UW WORLD SERIES GIVING KIDS A LIFE IN

THEATER A NIGHT OF ARTFUL PAIRINGS

Seattle Public Theater’s Youth Programs Thrive

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Students in a Youth Stage production of Room Service. Photo courtesy of Seattle cinema Public Theater.

There are Hobbits gathering. A dragon is in the wings. Children are on stage eager to speak their lines in English, and Spanish, and Vietnamese. Seattle Public Theater is putting on a multi- lingual The Hobbitas part of their youth programming. Another time, in a production of Shakespeare’s King Lear, a teenage girl was playing the title role. Still another time there was a co-production of The Mikado with the Seattle Opera and the production became part of a national conversation about race and representation.

Why is theater important to kids? “Why is life important to kids,” asks Shana Bestock, who is the founder of the youth program at Seattle Public NT LIVE: NO MAN’S LAND Theater that began in 2001 and who STARRING SIR IAN MCKELLEN AND PATRICK STEWART is the currently the theater’s artistic TUE, DEC. 15 · 11AM & 6:30PM · SIFF CINEMA UPTOWN and education director. “Theater is a FOR TICKETS VISIT SIFF.NET/NOMANSLAND language, a discipline, a group activity, an art form, a recreation, an entertainment,

encoreartsseattle.com 5 an escape, and a social connector all It gave voice to Simon Irving, for one. opportunities for students to learn rolled into one glorious package.” She As an 8th grader, he had fun playing lighting, stage fighting, directing, all the continues, “Theater is vital for kids a pompous man of the manor in a skills needed to create a play. That’s just because they need structures in which production of The Passion of Dracula. what the kids do, once they’re enrolled, they can try on different hats, take on A great experience for him, he got the create. different personalities, be inside foreign theater bug fast and was in the Seattle In 2007, for his final senior production, stories, wear funny clothes and put on Public Youth Program for the next Irving had learned a lot by then, not makeup and give voice to emotion.” five years. Serving approximately 500 only about theater but about himself. The things learned in in a child’s life in students a year, the organization don’t “Loyalty, creativity, teamwork,” he listed. theater – empathy, human connection, offer classes, per se, they simply immerse “Ingenuity.” During summer stints from imagination – are applied to their life children, like Irving was at the time, in college, Seattle Public Theater’s stage still outside the theater. a show. And, not just acting. They offer pulled at him. The Bathhouse Ensemble was soon formed, a way for graduates of the SPT youth program to still perform and participate in theater. “It wasn’t about teaching theater,” Irving said. “It was about making theater and making it for ourselves.”

Irving is now SPT’s education coordinator. “It’s amazing that I get to work here with Shana. She was the director of one of my proudest moments on stage when I was a kid.” The show was a one-man monologue of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart. As the education coordinator, he manages all of SPT’s youth programs, executing it at ground level. “They have the same experience with a production as a professional actor,” Irving says. “Now I see myself mirrored in every success with every successive generation.”

Bestock wrote out her vision of the program for those future generations 5-Play Season Ticket Packages start at $100. when she was all of 17. A vision inspired Subscribe Today and Save! by her mentors like Seattle Children’s Theatre’s Linda Hartzell, and by theaters seattleshakespeare.org | 206-733-8222 she grew up with as a kid herself – ACT Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, and others. “I wanted to create a space for young people that could be a home, a doorway, a place for adventures and for self-discovery.” She is amazed at how 8000 25th Avenue NE • Seattle www.universityprep.org far it’s come and how far it’s taken her. Have you discovered your potential? “It’s a safe place, an authentic place University Prep is an independent school where young people have autonomy and serving grades six through twelve. Our program takes students on a collaborative ownership and agency.” journey of learning in a diverse and inclusive community. Our alumni span the globe, fulfilling their dreams in professions that range Irving agrees with his boss and his former from chef, to professor, engineer, physicist, and musician... director. “It’s a third place between home Come visit University Prep and and school where children can feel safe.” Discover the Puma in You! Even if those children are Hobbits with a For information, call 206.523.6407 dragon lurking nearby. <

6 ENCORE STAGES Intermission Brain Transmission Are you waiting for the curtain to rise? Or, perhaps, you’ve just returned your seat before the second act and have a few minutes to spare? Treat your brain to this scintillating TRIVIA QUIZ!

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a) 1905 b) 1885 c) 1836 d) 1782

3) Mark Morris Dance Group is performing as part of Seattle Theatre Group’s season. Where did the famed choreographer grow up?

a) Portland Media / Naples National Archeological Museum b) Spokane c) Seattle d) Tacoma 5) Seattle Repertory Theatre is presenting the world premiere of Bonus Question 4) Jonathan Biss will be performing at Roz and Ray. Who wrote it? What was the last performance Meany Hall. What instrument does you attended that you liked best he play? a) Karen Hartman and why? b) Justin Huertas a) Piano Email production@encoremediagroup. c) Brandon Ivie com or tweet to @EncoreArts with b) Violin d) Alice Childress #EncoreStages and be entered to win c) Cello two tickets to an upcoming Encore Arts performance.

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