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Departments The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra 11 ISO Profile 9 Musicians of the ISO 79 Hilbert Circle Theatre Information 10 Board of Directors 77 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Support Association 65 Endowment 78 Administration 68 Lynn Society 70 Annual Fund 74 Tribute Gifts 75 Why We Give 76 Corporate Sponsors

4 WELCOME

Dear friends –

For our Lilly Classical Series concerts this month, the ISO is going on a musical tour through three very different regions. We begin the journey in Russia (with concerts on March 4-5), then we pass through Spain (with concerts March 10-12) and end the tour in Scandinavia (on March 18). There is nothing like the experience of a full symphony orchestra performing live, especially when we can explore the greatest music from all corners of the globe.

Concerts in March also include special recognition of the young talent in our community. On March 11-12, the prestigious Honor Orchestra of America, led by Larry Livingston, performs on our stage (see page 29 for information), and the ISO’s annual Side-by-Side concert features 50 talented high school musicians on stage with their professional counterparts for a spectacular evening of music on March 16. Tickets to Side by Side are only $10 – come out and show your support of the ISO and our young musicians.

For those of you who subscribe to ISO concerts, I hope you’ve renewed your subscription to our recently-announced 2016-2017 season! If you are not a subscriber yet, please consider joining us on a regular basis and take advantage of the great benefits, including pre-sale opportunities to IPL Yuletide Celebration and special events. For our Lilly Classical Series next year, Maestro Urbański has programmed another exciting mid-winter festival, “Music of the Earth”, masterworks by Stravinsky, Beethoven and Mahler, and a celebratory conclusion to the season with Carmina Burana.

Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly and his team have filled the 2016-2017 Printing Partners Pops Series with the world premiere of “Classical Harmonies: The ISO and the Doo Wop Project,” and a special presentation of Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark: Film + Orchestra. For more information, please go to our mobile-friendly website at www.IndianapolisSymphony.org.

Thank you for supporting the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

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Krzysztof Urbański, Music Director Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Raymond Leppard, Conductor Laureate Vince Lee, Associate Conductor First Violin Sé-Doo Park Jerry Montgomery Zachary De Pue, Concertmaster Jian-Wen Tong The Bakken Family Chair The Ford-West Chair Jill Boaz Alexander Kerr, Principal Guest Contrabass Concertmaster Ju-Fang Liu, Principal Trumpet Philip Palermo, Associate Robert Goodlett II, Assistant The W. Brooks and Wanda Y. Concertmaster Principal Fortune Chair Peter Vickery, Assistant Nami Akamatsu Robert Wood Concertmaster L. Bennett Crantford Marvin C. Perry II, Acting Principal/ The Meditch Chair Gregory Dugan Assistant Principal Dean Franke, Assistant Peter Hansen Concertmaster Brian Smith Trombone The Wilcox Chair James Beckel, Principal Barbara Fisher Agresti Flute K. Blake Schlabach, Assistant Jennifer Greenlee Karen Evans Moratz, Principal Principal Sherry Hong The Sidney and Kathy Taurel Chair Michelle Kang Robin Peller Bass Trombone Vladimir Krakovich Rebecca Price Arrensen, Assistant Jared Rodin, Acting Bass Trombone Charles Morey Principal The Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Test Chair Second Violin Piccolo Konstantin Umansky, Principal Rebecca Price Arrensen Tuba David Bartolowits, The Janet F. and Dr. Richard E. Barb Anthony Kniffen, Principal Associate Principal Chair Mary Anne Dell’Aquila, Timpani Assistant Principal Oboe Jack Brennan, Principal The Taurel Chair Jennifer Christen, Principal The Thomas N. Akins Chair The Dick Dennis Fifth Chair* The Frank C. Springer Jr. Chair Craig A. Hetrick, Assistant Principal Louise Alexander Sharon Possick-Lange Patrick Dalton-Holmes Roger Roe, Assistant Principal Percussion Victoria Griswold Braham Dembar, Principal Hua Jin English Horn Craig A. Hetrick Jayna Park Roger Roe Pedro Fernandez Barbara Radomski The Ann Hampton Hunt Chair Lisa Scott Harp Oleg Zukin Clarinet Diane Evans, Principal David A. Bellman, Principal The Walter Myers Jr. Chair THE CURRENT THAT DOES MORE Viola The Robert H. Mohlman Chair The Schlegel Chair Cathryn Gross Keyboard THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. Mike Chen, Acting Principal/ The Huffington Chair The Women’s Committee Chair Associate Principal Samuel Rothstein, Assistant Endowed in honor of Dorothy Beverly Scott, Assistant Principal Principal Munger FOR LESS THAN YOU MIGHT THINK. Nancy Agres Amy Kniffen Bass Clarinet Personnel Terry E. Langdon Samuel Rothstein K. Blake Schlabach, Manager At IPL, we think of ourselves as providers of everything from Eva Lieberman L. Bennett Crantford, Assistant your morning coffee and eggs to your kids’ online homework Stephanie Tong Bassoon Manager John Wetherill, Principal and video games. All for just a few dollars a day. Math that Cello Michael Muszynski Library Austin Huntington, Principal Mark Ortwein, Assistant Principal James Norman, Principal Librarian simple means we even provide the most unexpected thing Perry Scott, Associate Principal Laura Cones, Assistant Principal of all. A great value. IPLpower.com/value Chair Anonymously Endowed Contrabassoon Librarian Sarah Boyer Mark Ortwein Susan Grymonpré, Assistant Ingrid Fischer-Bellman Librarian The Randall L. Tobias Chair Horn Mark Maryanovsky Robert Danforth, Principal Stage Anne Duthie McCafferty The Robert L. Mann and Family Quentin L. Quinn, Manager LOWEST The Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Chair Kenneth Bandy, Technician RESIDENTIAL RATES of the Rudesill Chair Richard Graef, Assistant Principal P. Alan Alford, Technician 20 Largest U.S. Cities Julie Beckel Yager Steven A. Martin, Technician *The Fifth Chair in the Second Violin Section is seated using revolving seating. String sections use revolving seating. 9 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Founded by Ferdinand Schaefer in 1930 Maintained and Operated by the Indiana Symphony Society, Inc.

Officers Vincent Caponi, Chair Yvonne H. Shaheen, Vice-Chair Gary Ginstling, Chief Executive Officer Charlene Barnette, Secretary Michael Becher, Treasurer

Vincent Caponi, Chair Board of Directors Don Altemeyer Phil Kenney Alice K. Schloss Sherry Amlung Joseph M. Kessler Natalie Schneider Hon. Alex M. Azar II David Kleiman Carson Shadowen Deborah Ware Balogh Martha D. Lamkin* Yvonne H. Shaheen* Charlene Barnette* Sarah Lechleiter Christopher Slapak Michael Becher* Greg Loewen J. Albert Smith Jr. Barry J. Bentley* Morrie Maurer Marianne Williams Tobias Christina Bodurow, Ph.D.* Bruce McCaw Pete Ward John A. Bratt Karen H. Mersereau David Wilcox Bryan Brenner* David Morgan Ralph V. Wilhelm* Vincent Caponi* Peter A. Morse Jr. James C. Zink Sr. Trent Cowles Gerald L. Moss Jennifer Zinn Andrea Cranfill* Marc Nichols *Executive Committee Gary Ginstling* Jackie Nytes Peter Howard, Ph.D. Michael P. O’Neil Ann Hampton Hunt Kay Pashos

Board of Trustees John M. Mutz, Chair Kay Koch Fred E. Schlegel Bob Anker Gordon E. Mallett, Ph.D. Martha Anne Varnes Sen. Dan Coats Robert B. McNamara Dr. Charles H. Webb Jr. Stephen E. DeVoe Charles O’Drobinak Richard D. Wood Carolyn S. Hardman Henry C. Ryder

Mission of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: To inspire, entertain, educate and challenge through innovative programs and symphonic music performed at the highest artistic level.

10 ISO PROFILE

Under the leadership of Krzysztof Urbański, one of the most acclaimed young conductors in the world, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra is dedicated to performing concerts of the highest artistic quality, offering accessible musical experiences for all ages, working collaboratively to create powerful, enriching arts events, and serving its community like never before—inside and outside the concert hall.

A Brief History Under the baton of Ferdinand Schaefer, 60 men and women made their official debut as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra on Sunday, November 2, 1930, in Caleb Mills Hall in the newly built Shortridge High School. In the decades since this debut concert, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has emerged as one of America’s top orchestras that attracts the finest musicians, guest conductors and artists from all over the world and presents quality classical, pops, family and holiday programming to hundreds of thousands of people each year. The ISO has received national and international acclaim with its radio broadcasts, tours and recordings and became the first major orchestra with a resident ensemble (Time for Three).

The ISO’s home—the Hilbert Circle Theatre Built in 1916, the Circle Theatre in downtown Indianapolis was the first motion picture palace west of New York built especially for the purpose of showing feature-length photoplays. From 1916-1981, the Circle Theatre’s repertoire ranged from world premiere movie features, classical concerts and live stage shows to low-budget motion pictures and short films. The facility was transformed into an orchestra hall on October 12, 1984, when the ISO made its move from Clowes Memorial Hall to downtown Indianapolis. With a significant gift from Steve and Tomisue Hilbert in 1996, the hall was renamed the Hilbert Circle Theatre. In 2013, new seats were installed to create more accessibility and comfort for patrons, courtesy of Lilly Endowment Inc.

Leadership within the ISO Maestro Krzysztof Urbański was appointed as the ISO’s seventh Music Director on October 19, 2010, and has now become a preferred and highly respected conductor among top orchestras in Europe, Asia and the United States. Principal Pops Conductor Jack Everly’s approach to innovative pops programming has garnered acclaim throughout North America, where he continues to serve as the Principal Pops Conductor for four major orchestras, including Indianapolis. Concertmaster Zach De Pue is in his ninth season with the ISO and alongside his trio, Time for Three, leads the orchestra in performances and new audience development initiatives. Conductor Laureate Raymond Leppard, who successfully led the ISO for 14 years as Music Director, continues his involvement through appearances on the podium each season.

The ISO in 2015-2016 In his fifth season with the ISO, Krzysztof Urbański focuses on major works by Beethoven, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich and is collaborating with renowned soloists Joshua Bell, Emanuel Ax, Dejan Lazić and Garrick Ohlsson. Maestro Urbański also presents the Cosmos Music Festival, with musical themes inspired by space, and a semi-staged version of Georges Bizet’s Carmen at the close of the Hilbert Circle Theatre season. In the Printing Partners Pops Series, Maestro Jack Everly is proud to share the stage with music legend and American icon, Kenny Rogers, and the eclectic 12-piece ensemble, Pink Martini. Returning this season is the ISO’s Duke Energy 317 Series, a collection of classical concerts and programs presented in the communities of Hendricks County and Greater Greenwood. The ISO is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its youth and family development program, the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra.

11 THANK YOU, SUBSCRIBERS!

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13 MUSIC IN MY LIFE

Patrick Dalton-Holmes is a native of Syracuse, New York. He began his study of the violin at age three. Dalton-Holmes earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with William Preucil, and a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, where he was a student of Paul Kantor.

He previously played in Florida with the New World Symphony Orchestra and as a substitute musician with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Away from music, Patrick enjoys golf, rooting for the Boston Red Sox and “if I feel like using my brain, anything including math, science and philosophy.” Patrick joined the ISO in 2006. Patrick Dalton-Holmes, ISO Violinist

Who inspired you to play violin? I attended many classical music concerts growing up, which I quickly showed interest in. My mother’s family, especially my grandfather, was very passionate about classical music and insisted I begin lessons at a very young age.

What is your favorite memory from practicing at a young age? I remember going to Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony. My mother made me practice every day, so I had to bring my violin. I was the youngest person ever to practice at Tanglewood, and I remember it being so monumental. I even had some musicians wave to me, which was exciting at such a young age.

Who is your favorite composer? This always seems to change. Ultimately, I always come back to Mozart and Beethoven. Lately, I’ve also been getting into Schumann and Ravel. There are so many good pieces and they are all so different, so it truly depends on my mood and what else is happening in my life.

You’ve traveled a lot in your career. Which places stand out to you? Internationally, I was able to travel to Spain, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Spain was by far my favorite because of the food and culture. The Spanish really know how to live, enjoy life, and relax.

What do you enjoy most about living in Indianapolis? I’ve lived downtown for most of my time here, which has given me the opportunity to watch the city transform. There certainly has been a lot of development, some of it is unrecognizable. Indianapolis is making a strong effort to present itself on a bigger stage. That, and the delicious food, are what I enjoy most. As long as there is delicious food, I’m happy!

How is your life better with live music? Live music provides a new element of excitement and connection that is incomparable. It is a huge collaboration with many people involved, all working towards a similar goal. As musicians, we feed off of the audience; their excitment, reactions and energy. Each performance is different every single time—that’s truly how it’s meant to be experienced.

14 ISO MUSICIANS AROUND TOWN

ISO violinist Jennifer Greenlee will be joined by Kurt Fowler, cello, Suzannah Chalick, viola, and Martha Gardner to play Piano for Quartets by Brahms and Turina in a concert to benefit the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. Jennifer’s daughter and husband are affected by a mitochondrial disorder. Entry is free, donations are accepted for UMDF at the concert and at umdf.org. The concert will be held at 7 p.m. on March 25, in the Wood Room at the Hilbert Circle Theatre.

Jennifer Greenlee, Violin

Principal Trombone, James Beckel, has composed several works, which will be played throughout the month of March.

On March 5, The Lafayette Symphony will play Beckel’s The Glass Bead Game, conducted by Nick Palmer and featuring soloist Steven Weiner. On March 9, the University of Denver Wind Ensemble, conducted by Joseph Martin and featuring Susan McCullough, will also perform Beckel’s The Glass Bead Game. The Glass Bead Game will also be performed by The Springfield Massachusetts Symphony and the Capital Region Wind Ensemble featuring Lauren Winter at the James Beckel, Schenectady County Community College in Schenectady, New York on Principal Trombone March 13 at 3 p.m.

On March 19, Toshiyuki Shimada will lead the Eastern Connecticut Symphony in Beckel’s Concerto for Brass and Orchestra at the Garde Arts Center at 8 p.m, which the ISO premiered in March 2015.

On March 20, the Midland Concert Band will perform Beckel’s Liberty for All, conducted by Joel Wiseman.

On March 7, Patrick Dalton-Holmes, violin, Mike Chen, viola, and Roger Roe, English horn, are playing together with cellist Eric Edberg from DePauw University on a Faculty Recital at Indiana University, Bloomington. The concert will take place in Ford Hall featuring works by Jean Françaix, Augusta Read Thomas and Isang Yun. They will be joined by ISO Principal Guest Concertmaster, Alex Kerr. Mike Chen, Viola Roger Roe, Oboe

15 MARCH 4, 5 RACHMANINOFF’S SECOND PIANO CONCERTO

Krzysztof Urbański, Music Director Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Raymond Leppard, Conductor Laureate Vince Lee, Associate Conductor

Lilly Classical Series/Program Eleven Friday, March 4, 2016, at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 5, 2016, at 7 p.m. Hilbert Circle Theatre KRZYSZTOF URBAŃSKI, Conductor PHILIPPE BIANCONI, Piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra , Op. 18 (1873-1943) Moderato Adagio sostenuto Allegro scherzando Philippe Bianconi, Piano

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KRZYSZTOF URBAŃSKI, Conductor PHILIPPE BIANCONI, Piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra , Op. 18 (1873-1943) Moderato Adagio sostenuto Allegro scherzando Philippe Bianconi, Piano

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Provence with Thomas Hampson. He also continues as Principal Guest Conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Following a hugely successful debut with the Münchner Philharmoniker in July 2015, when he conducted Carmina Burana before a capacity crowd of 8,000, Urbański returns to the orchestra in 2015/16 for Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra. His 2014 -15 season culminated with him receiving the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Award when he returned to “That he is no mere flashy wunderkind of the conduct the Schleswig-Holstein Akademie at baton was shown by the freshly invigorated the Schleswig-Holstein Festival. Notably, he is playing he drew from the CSO …his keen the first conductor to have ever received the musical instincts and vigorous way of award. translating his ideas into orchestral sound that has both shape and meaning” (Chicago In 2015-16 Urbański will conduct the Danish Tribune), Krzysztof Urbański enters the fifth National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre season of his highly acclaimed tenure as Philharmonique de Radio France and the Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Other recent Orchestra. debuts include Berliner Philharmoniker and Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Engagements As Chief Conductor and Artistic Leader of further ahead include Netherlands Radio Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, highlights of Orchestra, returning to the London Symphony his five years with the orchestra include two Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra and Wiener tours (first with concerts in Germany, Austria Symphoniker for the annual Beethoven and Poland and second at the International Symphony No. 9 New Year’s concerts. Chopin Music Festival), and a fully staged production of Carmen as his first foray into In North America, Urbański debuts with the opera, which this season he conducts with the San Francisco Symphony and The Cleveland Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra as well as returning to the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles In September 2015, Urbański formally Philharmonic and Washington’s National became Principal Guest Conductor of NDR Symphony Orchestra. Other recent U.S. debuts Sinfonieorchester Hamburg and this season he have included the New York Philharmonic, takes them to the Beethoven Easter Festival in Chicago Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony Warsaw, Wroclaw, Katowice and Aix-en- orchestras.

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French pianist Bonn, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, and Philippe Strasbourg Philharmonic. He has performed a Bianconi number of times in Australia, performing with has been the Melbourne Symphony, West Australian described Symphony in Perth. as an artist whose playing Philippe Bianconi has recorded the complete is “always solo works of Ravel, and solo albums of close to the Schumann and Schubert on the Lyrinx label. soul of the His new album of Debussy piano music music, filling was recently released on Lyrinx. His other the space with recordings include the Brahms Violin Sonatas poetry and life” with Tedi Papavrami on Aeon label, works (Washington of Shostakovitch and Prokofiev with cellist Post), “an extraordinary exhibition of Gary Hoffman on Le Chant du Monde label, musicianship, technical control and good and the three Schubert lieder cycles with taste which lent the music a freshness, Hermann Prey on Denon. immediacy and conviction one all too seldom encounters” (The London Times). After Philippe Bianconi attended the Conservatory winning the Silver Medal in the Seventh Van in Nice where he studied with Simone Cliburn International Competition, Bianconi Delbert-Fevrier. In Paris, he studied with made an acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Gaby Casadesus and in Freiburg-in-Breisgau Hall in 1987 and, since then, has enthralled with Vitalij Margulis. He was the first prize audiences and critics throughout the world. winner of both the Casadesus International Competition in Cleveland and the “Jeunesse Philippe Bianconi has appeared with North Musicales” International Competition in America’s finest orchestras, including those Belgrade, as well as the Silver Medal of the of Cleveland, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Seventh Van Cliburn International Piano Baltimore, Saint-Louis, Atlanta, Dallas, Competition in Fort Worth. Minnesota, Buffalo, Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec City, and at the Ravinia Festival with Philippe Bianconi is the new director of the Chicago Symphony under James Conlon. the American Conservatory, located in the He has collaborated with such distinguished Palais de Fontainebleau. Founded in 1921 to conductors as Lorin Maazel, Christoph introduce the best American music students von Dohnanyi, Kurt Masur, David Zinman, to the French musical tradition of teaching, JoAnn Falletta, Marek Janowski, Gennady composing and performing, it has included Rozhdestvensky, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, on its faculty the most prestigious names: Edo de Waart, and Yoav Talmi. Maurice Ravel, Marcel Dupré, Robert, Gaby and Jean Casadesus, Jean Francaix, Henri In Europe, Bianconi has appeared with many Dutilleux, Betsy Jolas, Leonard Bernstein... orchestras, including his special performance From the first, Nadia Boulanger devoted her of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto talent, energy, knowledge, and influence to with James Conlon and the Orchestre de the American Conservatory of which she was l’Opéra de Paris, and with the Orchestre Director from 1949 to 1979. National de France, Orchestre de Paris, Berlin Radio Symphony, Netherlands Philharmonic, Warsaw Philharmonic, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Orchester der Beethovenhalle in

19 MARCH 4-6 NOTES

By Marianne Williams Tobias The Marianne Williams Tobias Program Note Annotator Chair

Concerto No. 2 in C Minor for Piano and the same hypnotic Orchestra, Op. 18 formula repeated Sergei Rachmaninoff day after day while I Born April 1, 1873 in Oneg, Russia lay half asleep in an Died March 28, 1943 in Beverly Hills, armchair in Dahl’s California study. ‘You will begin to write your concerto… “Melody is music and the foundation of all You will work with music. I do not appreciate composers who great facility… The abandon melody and harmony for an orgy concerto will be of noises and dissonances,” Rachmaninoff of an excellent quality.’ It was always the asserted. Fulfilling this credo, the composer same without interruption. Although it may stuffed his Second Piano Concerto with an sound incredible, this cure really helped abundance of emotional, unforgettable tunes. me.” Appropriately, Rachmaninoff dedicated Audiences around the world were delighted. the work to his physician. On October 14, During one of his tours in the United States, 1901, he premiered his complete Second Rachmaninoff said, “These Americans cannot Piano Concerto in C minor with the Moscow get enough of it.” Philharmonic conducted by Alexander Siloti. The outcome was wild, unfettered acclaim. (A Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra was a partial Moscow premiere had taken place in personal as well as a musical triumph for the December of 1900, with the second and third composer. During his lifetime Rachmaninoff movements.). was prone to depression, and Stravinsky used to speak of his “everlasting six and a The first movement, Moderato, opens with half foot scowl.” Once again, for three years, nine chords, stated with growing intensity between 1897 and 1900, Rachmaninoff had from piano solo. Violins bounce from this been in one of his deep depressions, unstable springboard to immediately produce and unable to compose. It was said that the first theme with collaborating piano Rachmaninoff could not even look at a blank embellishment. The soloist is brought to the piece of manuscript paper for two years. The forefront to introduce a yearning second trigger for all of this was he combined failure theme (marked moderato, piano). Both of a love affair and the critical disaster of his ideas are developed in lyrical fashion, with a First Symphony, which ha