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2 From the President 4 In Tempo: News of Note 6 BSO Live: Calendar of Events 7 Orchestra Roster 8 Music for the Ages Cultivating the next generation of concert-goers 10 Movie with Orchestra: An American in Paris MAY 2–5 11 Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto MAY 9–11 14 Brahms Violin Concerto MAY 18 & 19 20 André Watts Performs Beethoven’s Emperor MAY 30 & JUN 2 Off The Cuff: André Watts Performs Beethoven’s Emperor MAY 31 & JUN 1 25 Mahler Symphony No. 9 JUN 7–9 8 27 Movie with Orchestra: West Side Story JUN 13–16 4 30 Campaign Donor Roll 36 Symphony Fund Honor Roll 43 Board, Endowment Trust & Staff 44 Impromptu: René Shapiro, trumpet 6

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hank you for joining us for this concert by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. As we near the completion of our 2018–19 season Tand look ahead to summer and beyond, we want to take this opportunity to express our gratitude for your continued attendance and support.

As the largest arts organization in the State of Maryland, one of our fundamental values at the BSO is a commitment to serving audiences of all backgrounds and making live music performances as accessible as possible for as many people as possible. In this issue of Overture, you will read about a few of our programs that make it easier for concert- QUIRIN JOHNNY goers, and especially children, students and families, to attend BSO events at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and The Music Center at Strathmore.

We are encouraged by the growth of these initiatives and the warm reception that they have received. This season, with the generous support of BSO Board Member Marshall Levine and his wife Sarellen, we launched the Young and Free program, which makes free tickets available to young people ages 7–17 with the purchase of an adult ticket. Since it began in October, we’ve welcomed hundreds of children to our concerts at no cost, and many of these young people have been first-time symphony attendees.

At the BSO, we feel strongly that it is incumbent upon us to do our part when it comes to preparing the next generation of music enthusiasts. With your support, we reach over 350,000 individuals across the state annually through our performances and educational programs. It is our hope that we can continue to build upon this work so that engaging with music is made a reality for anyone who wishes to have that experience and that they too are able to come to know the joy that music brings so many of us.

THU, JUNE 13, 8 PM MEYERHOFF In everything that we do at the BSO, it is all because of the incredible support that we FRI, JUNE 14, 8 PM MEYERHOFF receive from our community. We greatly value our patrons, donors and subscribers for SAT, JUNE 15, 8 PM STRATHMORE SUN, JUNE 16, 3 PM MEYERHOFF the role that they play in allowing us to present exceptional performances and educational programs. We are also deeply grateful for the State of Maryland and our elected leaders MARIN ALSOP, CONDUCTOR for their ongoing generosity. The BSO performs Leonard Bernstein's Oscar®-winning score live with the re-mastered ﬁlm, shown in hi-def. On behalf of our Board of Directors, musicians and staff, thank you, and we hope you

Young and Free: This date free for children ages 7-17 with purchase of adult ticket. Info at BSOmusic.org/youngandfree

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ORCHKIDS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. OrchKids partners with Library of Congress to study early jazz pianists

or the second year in a row, OrchKids has had Marin Alsop and a tribute to Jelly Roll OrchKids students the opportunity to meet with musicologists and Morton by the OrchKids Jazz Band. perform an original explore the resources of the Library of Congress’ Select members from both ensembles composition at Music Division Reading Room — home to then came together to perform an original the Library of Congress in April. musical scores, photos, letters and insightful composition inspired by Scott Joplin’s Fmaterials — for a unique creative and academic project. Last Treemonisha, an opera that celebrates African-American year, as part of their 10th-anniversary celebration, OrchKids culture. Carmen Balthrop, who happens to be OrchKids studied the collection of Leonard Bernstein during what Senior Site Manager Camille Delaney-McNeil’s mother, was the 100th anniversary of his birth. This year, students performed the title role in Treemonisha on Broadway and celebrated the lives of legendary early jazz pianists Scott joined OrchKids at the Library of Congress for a performance Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton. of Treemonisha’s “Slow Drag.” The OrchKids Bucket Band and “Working with the BSO’s OrchKids has been extremely OrchKids Brass Band also performed pop-up concerts on the rewarding. We are excited about their enthusiastic response to steps of the Thomas Jefferson Building. engaging with the Library’s extraordinary jazz collections,” said “We were thrilled to work with the Library of Congress Susan H. Vita, Chief of the Library’s Music Division. again this year on a creative composition project,” said On April 13, the students returned to the Library’s OrchKids Executive Director Raquel Whiting Gilmer. “The Coolidge Auditorium with BSO Music Director Marin Library is such an amazing resource for the students, and it’s Alsop for performances inspired by their findings. The very exciting that they had this opportunity to perform with concert included the OrchKids String Ensemble led by Music Director Marin Alsop in the Coolidge Auditorium.”

4 SECOND FIDDLE SHOPPES BSA launches one-day fundraiser to support BSO education programs

n Saturday, May 18, the Baltimore Symphony Associates TEMPO hold a one-day fundraiser called the “Second Fiddle Shoppes.” OLocated at Grace United Methodist Church, the event features decorative furnishings and décor from previous BSA Symphony Designer Show House exhibits. For a small donation, attendees can shop from a selection of FUNDRAISER DETAILS handmade candles, chocolates and accessories from local crafters. Guests can also visit the “Encore shop,” which is full of bargains with “nearly new” household items, toys and jewelry. Baked goods, pizza, Saturday, May 18 snacks and beverages are available for purchase, and members of the 10 am– 4 pm BSO present a pop-up concert. “The Associates are very excited to put on this fundraising event GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, for the first time ever,” said the BSA’s Marge Penhallegon. “We have FELLOWSHIP HALL a number of wonderful local vendors selling amazing homemade 5407 N Charles Street items, and we’ll be awarding door prizes every hour. Knowing that Parking in rear of church, $2 donation at the door. the donations support the Baltimore Symphony’s outstanding education programs makes it that much more special.”

NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL A Celebration of Women Composers

ow in its third year, the New of music that we’ve programmed tells Next up is a concert of chamber Music Festival has quickly a unique and compelling story, and we music at Peabody Conservatory’s Nbecome a staple of the BSO’s are proud to present a range of voices Griswold Hall on June 21 with Alsop summer concert season. Ahead of the and perspectives that showcases some and cellist Inbal Segev, co-curators of orchestra’s 2019–20 season, which of the most inspired work happening the New Music Festival. celebrates music in conjunction with the in classical composition today.” On June 22, the New Music 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in The festival kicks off on June 20 Festival concludes with a free orchestral the U.S., all of the music on this year’s with a free concert at the Ottobar. BSO performance at the Meyerhoff Symphony festival is by women composers. Associate Conductor Nicholas Hersh Hall with Alsop leading the BSO in “I’m thrilled that this year’s New Music leads Shara Nova, also known as My works by Missy Mazzoli, Joan Tower and Festival features such an outstanding Brightest Diamond, in a performance Jessie Montgomery. Jennifer Higdon’s group of contemporary composers, of Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Penelope, Low Brass Concerto, co-commissioned who happen to be women!” said Music a song cycle inspired by Homer’s epic by the BSO, and the world premiere of Director Marin Alsop. “Each piece The Odyssey. Anna Clyne’s Dance, a new concerto for cello and orchestra written for Segev, Inbal Segev Anna Clyne anchor the program. The concert is preceded by a block party outside the hall with live entertainment and local food trucks. Alsop and several of the festival’s featured composers participate in a roundtable discussion inside the lobby before the performance.

For more information and ticket reservations go to BSOmusic.org/ NewMusicFestival.

5 BSO KEY UPCOMING EVENTS JUNE/JULY/AUGUST 2019 events at thelive Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall [M] and around Baltimore. NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL JUNE 20–22 A Celebration of Women Composers

For more information and ticket reservations go to BSOmusic.org/NewMusicFestival. Late Set Orchestra Concert at the Ottobar and Block Party THU, JUN 20, 9 PM at the Meyerhoff

NICHOLAS HERSH, conductor SAT, JUN 22, 8 PM Star-Spangled Spectacular SHARA NOVA, vocalist MARIN ALSOP, conductor Associate Conductor Nicholas INBAL SEGEV, cello AARON LAVERE, trombone Star-Spangled Hersh leads members of DANIEL CLOUTIER, trombone Cirque Dances the BSO and genre-fusing RANDALL S. CAMPORA, bass Spectacular FRI, JUL 26, 8 PM M Shara Nova in Penelope, an trombone AUBREY FOARD, tuba WED, JUL 3, 8 PM SAT, JUL 27, 3 PM M art-pop song cycle inspired (Rain Date: THU, JUL 4, 8 PM) by Homer’s The Odyssey. NICHOLAS HERSH, conductor Music Director Marin Oregon Ridge Park, TROUPE VERTIGO Alsop conducts the world Cockeysville premiere of Anna Clyne’s Troupe Vertigo’s contortionists, Chamber Music NICHOLAS HERSH, conductor at Peabody cello concerto Dance, acrobats and aerialists return written for and performed The Orchestra performs to the concert hall with their FRI, JUN 21, 8 PM by Inbal Segev. Pre-concert patriotic scores and family extraordinary athletic artistry set MARIN ALSOP, conductor activities include a block favorites, culminating in an to music including Mussorgsky's INBAL SEGEV, cello party and a 7 pm composer 1812 Overture fireworks finale. Night on Bald Mountain and roundtable discussion led Food trucks on-site serving up Stravinsky's The Firebird. Marin Alsop, Inbal Segev by Maestra Alsop. great local eats. and members of the BSO perform chamber pieces Hiplet MOVIE WITH ORCHESTRA by leading women voices SUN, JUL 28, 3 PM M in contemporary music at Harry Potter and the Peabody's Griswold Hall. The Hiplet Ballerinas bring Half-Blood Prince™ their fusion of classical pointe THU, JUL 11, 7:30 PM M technique, hip-hop and other FRI, JUL 12, 7:30 PM M dance styles to the Meyerhoff. SAT, JUL 13, 3 PM M The BSO is not performing on this program.

NICHOLAS HERSH, conductor BSO at Artscape FRI, JUL 19, 7 PM M BSO Academy Orchestra Concert

NICHOLAS HERSH, conductor

SAT, JUL 20, 12 PM M BSO Academy Hiplet Chamber Music Concert

Shara Nova Stay tuned for details on BSO in the Parks concerts this August.

6 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org ORCHESTRA ROSTER 2018–19 SEASON MARIN ALSOP, MUSIC DIRECTOR, HARVEY M. AND LYN P. MEYERHOFF CHAIR

Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor Markus Stenz, Principal Guest Conductor Nicholas Hersh, Associate Conductor and Artistic Director of BSYO

FIRST VIOLINS CELLOS BASS CLARINET PERCUSSION Jonathan Carney ∫ Dariusz Skoraczewski † ∫ William Jenken Christopher Williams Concertmaster, Principal, Joseph Principal, Lucille Ruth Blaustein and Rebecca E-FLAT CLARINET Schwilck Chair MUSIC DIRECTOR Rosenberg Chair Meyerhoff Chair Lin Ma* John Locke Audrey Wright † Lachezar Kostov Brian Prechtl Associate Associate Principal BASSOONS Ford Musician Awardee Marin Alsop Concertmaster, Bo Li ∫ Harrison Miller** Marin Alsop is an inspiring voice who Wilhelmina Hahn Seth Low Acting Principal HARP Waidner Chair Esther Mellon Bassoon Sarah Fuller** believes that “music has the power to Boram Kang Kristin Ostling Julie Green Gregorian Acting Principal change lives.” She is recognized for her Acting Assistant Se-Doo Park Assistant Principal innovative programming and for her Concertmaster Lukasz Szyrner Schuyler Jackson KEYBOARD Kenneth Goldstein Lura Johnson** commitment to education and to the Holly Jenkins BASSES CONTRABASSOON Sidney M. and Miriam development of audiences of all ages. Wonju Kim Robert Barney David P. Coombs Friedberg Chair Her success as Music Director of the Gregory Kuperstein Principal, Willard and Gregory Mulligan Lillian Hackerman HORNS ORCHESTRA Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) E. Craig Richmond Chair Philip Munds PERSONNEL has been recognized by the extension Kevin Smith David Sheets Principal, USF&G Jinny Kim of her tenure until 2021. In Baltimore, Ellen Pendleton Troyer Associate Principal Foundation Chair Director of Andrew Wasyluszko Timothy Dilenschneider* Gabrielle Finck Orchestra Personnel Alsop launched OrchKids, for the Jina Lee** Mark Huang Associate Principal Matthew Urquhart city’s underserved youth, and the BSO Jonathan Jensen Lisa Bergman Assistant Personnel Academy program for adult amateur SECOND VIOLINS Eric Stahl Austin Larson Manager Qing Li Drew Banzhaf ** Joy Branagan** musicians. She became Music Director Principal, E. Kirkbride LIBRARIANS of the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Ann H. Miller Chair FLUTES TRUMPETS Michael Ferraguto in 2012 and becomes Chief Conductor Ivan Stefanovic † Emily Skala Andrew Balio Principal, Associate Principal Principal, Dr. Clyde Principal, Harvey Constance A. and of the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Angela Lee ∫ Alvin Clapp Chair M. and Lyn P. Ramon F. Getzov Chair Orchestra in September 2019. Assistant Principal Christine Murphy Meyerhoff Chair Raymond Kreuger Alsop conducts the world’s major Leonid Berkovich Assistant Principal Flute René Shapiro Associate Leonid Briskin Marcia McHugh Assistant Principal orchestras, including the Leipzig Chelsea Kim Nathaniel Hepler STAGE PERSONNEL Gewandhaus, Royal Concertgebouw Julie Parcells PICCOLO Matthew Barker Ennis Seibert and the London Philharmonic orchestras. Sunjoo Park Amal Gochenour Stage Manager In 2013, she became the first female Christina Scroggins* TROMBONES Todd Price James Umber OBOES Aaron LaVere Assistant Stage conductor of the BBC’s Last Night Charles Underwood Katherine Needleman Principal, Alex Brown Manager of the Proms. Principal, Robert H. and & Sons Chair Charles Lamar As a protégé of Leonard Bernstein, VIOLAS Ryda H. Levi Chair John Vance Audio Engineer th Lisa Steltenpohl ∫ Melissa Hooper Assistant Principal Mario Serruto Alsop was central to his 100 -anniversary Principal, Peggy Assistant Principal Daniel Cloutier** Electrician celebrations, and conducted Bernstein’s Meyerhoff Michael Lisicky MASS at the Ravinia Festival, where she Pearlstone Chair BASS TROMBONE * On leave Karin Brown ENGLISH HORN Randall S. Campora ** Guest musician served as Musical Curator for 2018. Her Assistant Principal Jane Marvine Performing with an extensive discography includes a highly Jacob Shack Kenneth S. Battye and TUBA instrument (†) or a bow (∫) praised Dvořák cycle with the BSO. Her Noah Chaves Legg Mason Chair Aubrey Foard on loan to the BSO from the Helen Hess Principal private collection of the dedication to new music is demonstrated family of Marin Alsop. Peter Minkler CLARINETS by her 25-year tenure as Music Director Colin Sorgi YaoGuang Zhai TIMPANI The musicians who perform of the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Delmar Stewart Principal James Wyman for the Baltimore Symphony Jeffrey Stewart Lin Ma* Principal, Orchestra do so under the Music and her launching the BSO’s Mary Woehr Assistant Principal Levi Family Chair terms of an agreement New Music Festival in 2017. Edgar Lopez** Christopher Williams between the BSO and the Local 40-543, AFM. Alsop is the only conductor to receive Acting Assistant Assistant Principal Principal the MacArthur Fellowship, and she is Director of Graduate Conducting at the Peabody Institute. She attended the Juilliard School and Yale University, Yuri Temirkanov, Music Director Emeritus Hilo Carriel, BSO-Peabody Conducting Fellow which awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in 2017.

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AGESby DEVON MALONEY

With the launch of the Young and Free program and its Music Box series at AMP by Strathmore, the BSO continues to affirm its commitment to making symphonic music performances accessible for all concert-goers.

t’s no secret that the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra offers a broad range of programing to appeal to a variety of interests. Unique collaborations with crossover artists in the BSO Pulse series and presentations of beloved films like Harry Potter and Star Wars as Movie with Orchestra concerts, in which the Orchestra performs the score live along with the complete movie, have become cornerstones of every season. Both are consistently popular with Iaudiences and frequently attract first-time symphony attendees. This season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has introduced two new programs that aim to make symphonic performances more available for children in Baltimore and in Bethesda, at the BSO’s second home at Strathmore. The Music Box series, designed for children ages 6 months to 3 years, has long been a part of the BSO’s season lineup at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. After a brief hiatus, the series has returned to Montgomery County with new programming taking place at AMP by Strathmore. The concerts give children the opportunity to explore music through highly engaging, 30-minute performances that feature small ensembles of BSO musicians in piano trios, wind quintets and other similar configurations. Programs are designed to develop children’s musicality and creativity and are preceded by fun activities like craft-making. “Here at the BSO, we want to be sure that we are creating multiple opportunities for children to engage with classical music,” says BSO Director of Education and Community Engagement Carole Wysocki. “Exposure to live music performance is something that plays a critical role in the development of young children, and we create each Music Box program to be highly interactive and entertaining. I’m thrilled that we were able to expand this season to bringing the series to audiences in Montgomery County.” Also new to the 2018–19 season is the Young and Free program. Made possible by the generosity of BSO Board member Marshall 8 8 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org Levine and his wife Sarellen, Young and Free discounted drink specials and the chance to started last fall as a way to make music even meet BSO musicians and visiting guest artists. more accessible to children and families in In the 2017–18 season alone, 798 Student Maryland. With the goal in mind of cultivating Select memberships were issued. the next generation of concert-goers as well as Passport represents the next step in the lowering cost barriers for parents, the initiative BSO’s programs for younger audiences — for makes two free tickets available to children ages $99, patrons 40 and under can attend nearly 7–17 to select classical and pops concerts with all BSO concerts at The Music Center at the purchase of an adult ticket. Strathmore and the Meyerhoff Symphony The Levines’ commitment to education, and Hall. Last season, 694 individuals signed up for specifically to music education, runs deep. A Passport, and, to date, 7,500 tickets have been BSO Board member, physician and amateur used by Passport members and student ticket- cellist (he currently takes lessons with BSO holders in the current season. Associate Principal Cellist Lachezar Kostov), “I think what makes the BSO’s Student Marshall has witnessed first-hand the cognitive Select and Passport programs so valuable is that and therapeutic benefits that music can have Associate Principal Horn Gabrielle they are season-long programs rather than one- on individuals of all ages and socioeconomic Finck shows off her instrument at time discounts,” says BSO Director of Audience one of the BSO's Music Box concert backgrounds. “I’ve seen that music can play at AMP by Strathmore. (Above); A Development Rafaela Dreisin, who manages a fundamental role not only in helping to young BSO patron explores music- both Student Select and Passport. “This not making during the pre-concert develop creativity, problem-solving and critical Music Box activities. (Below) only provides affordable tickets for those with reasoning skills but also in its ability to connect less expendable income, but it helps the BSO and promote healing,” he says. “Among the things I personally to build future audiences, getting students and young professionals learned from music were fractions, counting and teamwork.” into the habit of regularly attending performances who may have Additionally, Sarellen is Vice President of Recruitment otherwise only been able to attend once or twice a year.” and Membership for the Baltimore Symphony Associates, the According to Dreisin, communication and generating a sense of volunteer arm of the BSO. All the Associates’ fundraising efforts shared experience are key to welcoming new and younger audiences go towards supporting the BSO’s education programs. to the concert hall: “Student Select and Passport members receive “We launched Young and Free with the goal of making the live monthly e-newsletters and have really become an integral part of symphonic music experience one that the entire family could enjoy the BSO community.” together,” Marshall says. “With increasing cuts to arts programs With the expansion of Music Box, the launch of Young and in the public education system, we wanted to ensure that families, Free and the continued growth of Student Select and Passport, especially those for whom the BSO may have been out of reach audiences have demonstrated a clear desire for programs that bring in the past, were able to expose their children to these enriching more young people into the concert experiences. Our hope is that this will encourage more families to hall. As the largest cultural organization BSO Passport become fans of the BSO.” in the State of Maryland, the BSO is holders attend a performance at Since the inception of Young and Free, nearly 400 individuals dedicated to playing a role in fostering The Music Center have redeemed free tickets, and nearly half of those tickets have music appreciation among the next at Strathmore (Left); been claimed by first-time BSO patrons. generation of listeners and ensuring that Patrons attend a BSO performance using These two initiatives fit into a larger scope of offerings that it continues to bring exceptional music the Student Select the BSO makes available to children and young adults. Those performances to its community. pass. (Right) who outgrow Young and Free can take advantage of the Student Select program. For $35, students with a valid university ID receive nearly unlimited access to concerts throughout the season at no additional cost. Members also receive free admission to College Night, an event held three times per season that includes entry to an exclusive post-concert party with free pizza, 9 MOVIE WITH ORCHESTRA: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE Thursday, May 2, 2019, 8 pm

JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Friday, May 3, 2019, 8 pm Saturday, May 4, 2019, 8 pm Sunday, May 5, 2019, 3 pm

Jack Everly, conductor

An American in Paris Film courtesy of Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Producer: John Goberman Live orchestra adaptation: John Wilson Technical Supervisor: Pat McGillen Music Preparation: Larry Spivack and Constantine Kitsopoulos Yuletide Celebration, Volume One, which included three of his own THE WORLDWIDE COPYRIGHTS IN THE MUSIC OF GEORGE GERSHWIN AND IRA GERSHWIN FOR THIS PRESENTATION ARE LICENSED orchestrations. Other recordings BY THE GERSHWIN® FAMILY include In The Presence, featuring the Czech Philharmonic and Daniel A Symphonic Night at the Movies is a production of PGM Productions, Inc. (New York) Rodriguez; Sandi Patty’s Broadway andappears by arrangement with IMG Artists. Stories; the soundtrack to Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame; and Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Complete Overtures Of Jule Styne. The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately Originally appointed by Mikhail 10:40 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 5:40 pm on Sunday. Baryshnikov, Everly was conductor of the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years, where he served as music PRESENTING SPONSORS: director. In addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed with Marvin Hamlisch on Broadway shows that Hamlisch scored. He conducted Carol Channing About the Artists 90 performances in more than 22 North many times in Hello, Dolly! in two American cities this season. separate Broadway productions. Jack Everly As Music Director of the National Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs Jack Everly is the Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol School of Music at Indiana Principal Pops Fourth on PBS, Everly proudly leads University, is a recipient of the Conductor of the the National Symphony Orchestra 2015 Indiana Historical Society MICHAEL TAMMARO MICHAEL Indianapolis and in these patriotic celebrations on Living Legends Award and holds an Baltimore symphony the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol. Honorary Doctorate of Arts from orchestras, Naples Philharmonic These concerts attract hundreds Franklin College in his home state of Orchestra and the National Arts Centre of thousands of attendees, and the Indiana. He has been a proud resident Orchestra (Ottawa). He has conducted broadcasts reach millions of viewers of the Indianapolis community for the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the and represent some of the highest- over 15 years and, when not on the Hollywood Bowl, the New York Pops rated programming on PBS. podium, you can find Everly at home at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Everly is also the Music Director of with his family. Symphony and appears regularly with the Duke Energy Yuletide Celebration, the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom an over 30-year tradition. He led Jack Everly last appeared with the BSO Music Center. Everly conducts over the ISO in its first pops recording, in April 2019.

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Seattle and Dallas symphony orchestras,

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE and his live recording of the work for Thursday, May 9, 2019, 8 pm Onyx Classics with Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot won two 2019 Grammy JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Awards. Ehnes was awarded the 2017 Friday, May 10, 2019, 8 pm Royal Philharmonic Society Award in Saturday, May 11, 2019, 8 pm the Instrumentalist category. Ehnes performs recitals regularly at Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Marin Alsop, conductor Center Chicago, Amsterdam’s Royal James Ehnes, violin Concertgebouw, Ravinia, Montreux, Richard Strauss Ein Heldenleben, op. 40 Chaise-Dieu, the White Nights Festival in The Hero St. Petersburg, Festival de Pâques in Aix The Hero’s Adversaries and the Salzburg Festival. As a chamber The Hero’s Companion musician, he has collaborated with leading The Hero’s Deeds of War artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Louis The Hero’s Works of Peace Lortie, Yo-Yo Ma, Renaud Capuçon and The Hero’s Retirement Yuja Wang, and in 2010, he formally INTERMISSION established the Ehnes Quartet. Ehnes is also the Artistic Director of the Seattle Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35 Chamber Music Society. Allegro moderato Ehnes began violin studies at the age Canzonetta: Andante of four, became a protégé of the noted Finale: Allegro vivacissimo Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin at James Ehnes age nine, made his orchestral debut with Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at at age 13 and graduated from The approximately 10 pm. Juilliard School in 1997, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding PRESENTING SPONSOR: Achievement and Leadership in Music. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of SUPPORTING SPONSOR: Canada and, in 2010, was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.

James Ehnes last appeared with the BSO About the Artists Recent highlights include performances in September 2014, performing Korngold’s with the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Violin Concerto, Marin Alsop, conductor. Marin Alsop Hall with Gianandrea Noseda; London For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. Symphony with Marin Alsop; Leipzig About the Concert Gewandhaus Orchestra with Alexander James Ehnes Shelley; Vienna Symphony with Mark EIN HELDENLEBEN James Ehnes has Elder; New York Philharmonic with Richard Strauss

B EALOVEGA established himself as Juanjo Mena; Deutsches Symphonie- Born in Munich, Germany, June 11, 1864; one of the most sought- Orchester Berlin with Leonard Slatkin; died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, after violinists on the Chicago Symphony with James Gaffigan; September 8, 1949 international stage. He Orchestre National de France with regularly performs with leading orchestras Edward Gardner; Cleveland, Philadelphia Did Richard Strauss really intend such as the Chicago, Pittsburgh, London, and Boston symphony orchestras with to portray himself as the hero in his Vienna and NHK symphony orchestras; Stéphane Denève; Frankfurt Radio eighth tone poem, Ein Heldenleben (“A the Los Angeles, New York, Munich, Symphony with Andrés Orozco- Hero’s Life”), written in 1897–98? If so, London and Czech philharmonics; the Estrada; and Pittsburgh Symphony critics of his day were right to call this Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras; with Manfred Honeck. work an outrageous display of musical Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; In 2017, Ehnes premiered the Aaron-Jay megalomania. That it is one of the most and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. Kernis Violin Concerto with the Toronto, stunning, viscerally exciting display pieces

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for very large orchestra in the repertoire only 34), optimistic hero; companion his critics and withdraws to a peaceful, is beyond dispute. (“Very large” is an themes suggest his playful nature while a pastoral retirement. The English horn, understatement here: with eight horns, five pulsing ostinato rhythm demonstrates his yodeling a variant of his theme, prophecies trumpets, two harps, expanded percussion unstoppable resolve. the rural retreat Strauss would build years and swollen sections of strings and “The Hero’s Adversaries” respond in later at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the woodwinds; this is a huge orchestra the acid tones of woodwinds and the Bavarian Alps. The music now enters a even by Strauss’ generous standards.) fat, complacent drone of tuba. Strauss state of serenity and tonal stability, led by Strauss himself was evasive on the didn’t deny that they represented the the hero’s solo horn and his companion’s subject. At one point he did write to his carping music critics of the day, and he violin. The last measures, with the violin friend, the writer Romain Rolland: “I doesn’t paint a pretty picture of them. rising to its highest E-flat while the horn do not see why I should not compose a Strangely, as Strauss biographer Michael descends to a deeper one, is one of Strauss’ work about myself. I find myself quite as Kennedy points out, Strauss didn’t most beautiful conclusions. interesting as Napoleon or Alexander.” receive nearly as much negative press as But he also told his father that he wanted most of his contemporaries. But most Instrumentation: Three flutes, piccolo, to express “a more general and free artists are thin-skinned, and the hero’s four oboes including English horn, two clarinets, ideal of great and manly heroism”—a theme grows dark and depressed, sliding bass clarinet, E-flat clarinet, three bassoons, late-Romantic response to Beethoven’s into the minor mode. contrabassoon, eight horns, five trumpets, “Eroica” Symphony, with which this tone Now we meet “The Hero’s Companion,” three trombones, two tubas, timpani, poem shares the key of E-flat major. As in an extended concerto-like violin solo. percussion, two harps and strings. to its spectacular central battle scene, he In dark brass tones, we hear the hero’s admitted, “I haven’t taken part in any somewhat grudging response to her battles.” Nor did he strike his friends as a blandishments, but this soon turns to VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR heroic personality, no matter how bold and ardor in one of Strauss’ most sensuous and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky extravagant his musical creations. Bland lushly scored love scenes. A tender upward- Born in Votkinsk, Russia, May 7, 1840; died in and mild-tempered, Strauss was easily climbing melody in the violin expresses St. Petersburg, Russia, November 6, 1893 manipulated by his strong-willed wife the couple’s devotion. Pauline throughout their 55-year marriage. “The Hero’s Deeds of War”: The Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto belongs to In fact, it is the capricious Pauline who is nattering critics and then a chorus of that illustrious group of masterpieces that faithfully portrayed in Ein Heldenleben in offstage trumpets summon the hero from were savaged by uncomprehending critics the guise of a highly virtuosic solo violin. his marital bed. With his signature rising at their premieres. Nearly all the critics “She is very complex, very feminine, a theme, supported by his wife’s downward- at its first performance —in Vienna on little perverse, a little coquettish,… at sliding melody, he strides off to do battle December 4, 1881 with Russian violinist every minute different from how she was with his enemies. So violent are its sounds, Adolf Brodsky as soloist backed by the before,” Strauss explained to Rolland. Frau so tonally unhinged its harmonies that for Vienna Philharmonic— gave the work Strauss’ somewhat maddening—but to a time this was considered the most daring negative reviews, but the one penned by the her husband always alluring—personality passage of orchestral modernism. But notoriously conservative Eduard Hanslick can be deduced from the instructions the Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring soon trumped was so vicious it stung Tchaikovsky for composer gives to the soloist: “angry,” it. The adversaries vanquished, and years after. “Tchaikovsky is surely no “loving,” “flippant,” “a little sentimental,” we hear a reprise of the hero’s opening ordinary talent, but rather, an inflated “nagging,” “exuberantly playful.” However, music, solidly back in E-flat, as he leaves one…lacking discrimination and taste.… Ein Heldenleben is a more abstract drama the field in triumph. The same can be said for his new, long and and less explicitly descriptive than several “The Hero’s Works of Peace”: At the ambitious Violin Concerto.…The violin is of his earlier tone poems. “There is no need climax of this music, horns hurl out a no longer played; it is tugged about, torn, for a program,” said Strauss to Rolland. famous heroic theme from Strauss’ first beaten black and blue.” “It is enough to know that a hero is battling great success, Don Juan. “The only way I Because of its flamboyant language and his enemies.” could express works of peace was through mind-boggling wrong-headedness, this is This tone poem is in six sections that quoting works of my own,” Strauss wrote the review that has come down to us from flow together continuously. The eight years later. Here he contrapuntally weaves a city that was generally unsympathetic to horns—they are the hero’s signature together a series of themes from earlier Tchaikovsky’s Russian intensity. A much instruments—proclaim “The Hero’s” works: Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegel, Don fairer judgment came from the Wiener principal theme: a great striding melody Quixote, Death and Transfiguration and Abendpost: “The first movement with its surging upward through a three-octave even his first, failed opera, Guntram. splendid, healthy themes, the mysterious, range. This theme paints an exuberant “The Hero’s Retirement”: In this sublime quiet middle movement…and the wild picture of a young (Strauss himself was closing coda, the hero roughly dismisses peasant dance make up a whole for which

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we would claim an outstanding place a full reading at the piano. After the run- The exquisite second-movement among contemporary compositions.” through, both agreed the slow movement “Canzonetta” (“little song”) —Tchaikovsky’s Today, this piece holds an outstanding was too slight for such a large work, and one-day miracle—blends the melancholy place among all violin concertos. One in just a day, the composer replaced it with colors of woodwinds with the violin. of the more demanding works for the the tenderly melancholic second movement Tchaikovsky scholar David Brown suggests violinist, it is yet more remarkable for we hear today. it reflects the composer’s homesickness its unwavering melodic inspiration and So prodigal is Tchaikovsky’s melodic during his self-imposed exile from Russia. passionate expression of human feeling. inspiration that he can afford to begin Rather than ending, it rises on a two-note The concerto came in the aftermath the sonata-form opening movement with sighing motive and explodes into the finale. of the composer’s ill-conceived marriage a lovely little theme for orchestral violins In this hearty rondo inspired by to Antonina Milyukova in 1877. and then never play it again. The orchestra Russian folk dance, Tchaikovsky finally Eight months later in March 1878, his next hints at the big theme to come. lets the soloist fly. He alternates two wanderings to escape his wife brought And after a brief warm-up stretch, the contrasting themes: the first a high- him to Clarens, Switzerland on the shores soloist launches into one of Tchaikovsky's spirited scamper; the second a slower, of Lake Geneva. Here, he and his brother most inspired themes, one with multiple downward-drooping melody that shows Modest were visited by the gifted 22-year- personalities. At first, it is gentle, even off the violin’s earthy low register and old violinist Yosif Kotek, a composition wistful, but when the orchestra takes it also features a nostalgic dialogue with pupil of Tchaikovsky’s in Moscow. Kotek up a few minutes later, it becomes very woodwinds. At the close, the dance had been a witness at the composer’s grand—music for an Imperial Russian keeps accelerating to a breathless finish. wedding and a confidante of his post- ball. Later still in the development nuptial anguish; now he provided both section, the soloist transforms it again Instrumentation: Two flutes, two oboes, artistic inspiration and practical technical with an intricately ornamented, double- two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, advice for the Violin Concerto. In less than stopped variation. The violin’s second two trumpets, timpani and strings. a month, the work was nearly finished, and theme, begun in its warm lower register, on April 3, Kotek and Tchaikovsky gave it retains its wistful nature. Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2019

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Peter Oundjian, conductor “ONE OF THE BEST Jonathan Carney, violin PERFORMANCES I HEARD THIS YEAR.” Johannes Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 77 — THE BALTIMORE SUN Allegro non troppo Adagio SUNDAYS @ 5:30PM Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace SUBSCRIBE TODAY! Jonathan Carney

RICHARD GOODE PIANO Works by Bach, Bartók, Chopin, INTERMISSION Debussy OCT 6 Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, op. 103,

JERUSALEM QUARTET “The Year 1905” Works by Haydn, Shostakovich, The Palace Square: Adagio Brahms The 9th of January: Allegro OCT 20 In Memoriam: Adagio The Tocsin: Allegro non troppo – Allegro ALBAN GERHARDT CELLO CECILE LICAD PIANO Works by Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Franck NOV 10 The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately 10:15 pm on Saturday and 5:15 pm on Sunday. AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET Works by Josquin, Monteverdi, Holborne, Nina C. Young DEC 8 PRESENTING SPONSOR:

MIDORI VIOLIN JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET PIANO All-Beethoven JAN 26 About the Artists performance at Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw and the first performance LAWRENCE BROWNLEE TENOR Peter Oundjian of a North American orchestra at MYRA HUANG PIANO Works by Schumann, Tyshawn Sorey A dynamic presence Reykjavik’s Harpa Hall. Previously, FEB 23 in the conducting Oundjian led the TSO on a major tour SIAN RICHARDSSIAN world, Peter Oundjian of Israel and Europe. Oundjian was TABEA ZIMMERMANN VIOLA is renowned for his appointed Music Director of the Royal JAVIER PERIANES PIANO Works by Schubert, Brahms, Falla, probing musicality, Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) Albéniz, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla collaborative spirit and engaging in 2012. Under his baton, the orchestra SEASON MAR 15

2019–20 2019–20 personality. 2017–18 marked Oundjian’s has enjoyed several successful tours, th INON BARNATAN PIANO 14 and final season as music director of including one to China, and has Works by Bach/Busoni, Mendelssohn, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO). continued its relationship with Chandos Thomas Adès, Schubert/Liszt, Schubert MAY 3 His appointment in 2004 reinvigorated Records. Oundjian concluded his six-year the orchestra with recordings, tours and tenure with the RSNO at the end of the acclaimed innovative programming, 2017–18 season. as well as extensive audience growth, Oundjian was recently named Artistic SUBSCRIBE TODAY! significantly strengthening the ensemble’s Advisor for the Colorado Music Festival, BEST SEATS. BEST PRICE. EXCLUSIVE BENEFITS. global presence. and this season he returns to the Los SHRIVERCONCERTS.ORG In 2014, he led the TSO on a tour Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the 410.516.7164 of Europe, which included a sold-out Baltimore, Atlanta and NHK symphony

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orchestras. Few conductors bring such Jonathan Carney the Basque National Orchestra in musicianship and engagement to the BSO Concertmaster 1996. Recent solo performances have world’s great podiums —from Berlin, LEE CHRIS Jonathan Carney is in included concertos by Bruch, Korngold, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv, to New his 18th season with the Khatchaturian, Sibelius and Nielsen, as York, Chicago and Sydney. He has also Baltimore Symphony well as the Brahms Double Concerto and appeared at some of the great annual Orchestra after 12 Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, gatherings of music and music-lovers: seasons in the same position with which was featured as a live BBC from the BBC Proms and the Prague London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. broadcast from London’s Barbican Hall. Spring Festival, to the Edinburgh Festival Born in New Jersey, Carney hails from He has made a number of recordings, and the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Mozart a musical family with all six members including concertos by Mozart, Vivaldi Festival, where he was Artistic Director having graduated from The Juilliard and Nielsen; sonatas by Brahms, from 2003 to 2005. Oundjian was School. After completing his studies with Beethoven and Franck; and a disc of Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Ivan Galamian and Christine Dethier, virtuoso works by Sarasate and Kreisler Symphony Orchestra from 2006 to 2010 he was awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship with his mother Gloria Carney as and Artistic Director of the Caramoor to continue his studies in London at the pianist. New releases include Beethoven’s International Music Festival in New York Royal College of Music. “Archduke” and “Ghost” trios, the cello between 1997 and 2007. Since 1981, After enjoying critically acclaimed quintet of Schubert and a Dvořák disc he has been a Visiting Professor at the international tours as both concertmaster with the Terzetto and four Romantic Yale School of Music and was awarded and soloist with numerous ensembles, pieces for violin. the university’s Sanford Medal for Carney was invited by Vladimir Carney is passionate about music distinguished service to music in 2013. Ashkenazy to become concertmaster education and currently serves of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as Artistic Director for the Maryland Peter Oundjian last appeared with the in 1991. He was also appointed Classic Youth Orchestras. He is also BSO in January 2019, conducting works concertmaster of the Bournemouth an artist-in-residence at the Baltimore of Mozart and Brahms. Symphony Orchestra in 1994 and School for the Arts, one of the country’s

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premier high schools, and served on its in Vienna, attending to the editing, Board of Directors. publishing and performing of his Jonathan is presently on the works. Summers were devoted to faculty of the Brevard Music Center, composing in mountain or lakeside an intensive seven-week summer retreats in rural Austria or Switzerland; music festival in the mountains like many composers, Brahms needed Magni que of western North Carolina. As a beautiful scenery to stimulate his sought-after clinician he also gives creative juices. In 1877 and 1878, he 10% off master classes throughout the U.S. had found a particularly inspiring dinner check and abroad. Carney is currently a location at Pörtschach on Lake Worth with theater frequent guest concertmaster with the in southern Austria, where he claimed, ticket. Seoul Philharmonic and the Singapore “melodies are so abundant one must Symphony Orchestra. be careful not to step on them.” Here Carney performs on a 1687 Stradivarius, in the shadow of the beautiful snow- the Mercur-Avery, on which he capped peaks of the Carinthian Alps, uses Vision strings by Thomastik- he wrote both the Second Symphony Infeld. Carney’s string sponsor is and the Violin Concerto. Connolly & Co., exclusive U.S. importer A confirmed bachelor, Brahms of Thomastik-Infeld strings. depended on a network of friends to 904 N Charles St, maintain his “Frei aber froh” motto: Baltimore, MD 21201 Jonathan Carney last appeared as a “free but happy.” Chief among them Bistro: 410-385-9946 soloist with the BSO in April 2018, was Joachim: violin virtuoso, composer Catering: 410-385-9956 Fax: 410-385-9958 performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, of stature (though his works are seldom marielouisebistrocatering.com Markus Stenz, conductor. heard today), conductor, chamber musician and an artist who shared About the Concert Brahms’ own commitment to music of substance and profundity. Brahms and REGISTER NOW FOR THE SUMMER SESSION VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR Joachim had known each other since Johannes Brahms they were very young men. Born in Hamburg, Germany, May 7, 1833; Inevitably, Brahms would create a died in Vienna, Austria, April 3, 1897 concerto for his friend, and, equally inevitably, this concerto would be the The late 1870s, when Johannes Brahms product of close collaboration. Not only wrote his only violin concerto, were the did Brahms confer with Joachim about high summer of the composer’s artistic what figurations would work most

PAUL WEGNER PAUL life. In 1876, he had finally won his effectively on the violin, but Joachim two-decade struggle to write a symphony also influenced the orchestral part, and had completed and premiered his First suggesting where Brahms could thin Come learn with us this summer Symphony. The next year, 1877, brought his often-thick textures to allow a better at the PEABODY PREPARATORY. its successor, the relatively conflict-free balance with the violin. But, stubborn Summer programs and workshops Symphony No. 2 in D Major. The Violin in his artistic principles, Brahms always are offered for students of all Concerto, also in D major, followed had the last say. ages in chamber music, creative immediately on its heels; composed The sonata-form first movement leadership, dance, early childhood, during the summer and fall of 1878, paints an epic canvas with vast guitar, music theory, piano, it was premiered in Leipzig on New exposition and development sections. strings, and voice. Year’s Day 1879 with its dedicatee, Brahms introduces his first theme the great violinist and one of Brahms’ immediately in the most austere fashion: closest friends, Joseph Joachim, as soloist just the dark tones of bassoons, horns, peabody.jhu.edu/prepsummer and Brahms himself conducting the violas and cellos playing in octaves. Yet 667-208-6640 Gewandhaus Orchestra. some 15 minutes later, at the beginning Now in his mid-40s, Brahms had of the recapitulation section, we will settled into an established routine that experience a tremendous sense of met both his creative and personal homecoming and fulfillment as this needs. Most of the year, he was based theme returns in the full orchestra,

16 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org Making Beautiful now richly harmonized and melodically embellished. The buildup to the soloist’s first entrance is one of the most exciting in the repertoire: a whirling string ostinato topped by a rising, syncopated line in the woodwinds. The soloist lives up to the excitement in an extended rhapsody that shows off his command at Howard County’s of the violin’s range, agility and multiple- Premier Retirement stopped chords. Brahms saves his best MusicCommunity tune for later: a mellow, arching waltz Residences are 99% reserved. melody launched by the soloist. Finally, Be the ﬁrst to join the Priority List notice the dreamlike coda that follows for the ﬁrst that become available! the final solo cadenza (composed by Joachim). Here, the violin meditates gently on the first theme over slow- moving harmonies before accelerating to a heroic cadence. Lyrical melody rules the F-major 9000 Fathers Legacy slow movement. The woodwinds, led Ellicott City, MD 21042 by a solo oboe singing one of Brahms’ 410-465-2005 | www.MillersGrant.org most beautiful melodies, are answered by the strings and led by the soloist. Ironically, the violinist never gets to play that wonderful oboe tune but instead rhapsodizes on it in a series of high-flying variations. After a ruefully passionate episode in the distant key of F-sharp minor, the violin and oboe are united for the movement’s close. Machismo dominates the finale in an exhilarating gypsy-rondo dance. Brahms spent his late teens as an accompanist to the flamboyant Hungarian violinist Eduard Rémenyi and developed a lifelong fondness for the fire of gypsy music. Here he combines those early memories and his love of intricate rhythmic cross- play to create a blazing finish for OLD COURT CROSSING violinist and orchestra. PIKESVILLE’S LUXURY SFH COMMUNITY BY BEAZER HOMES 410.558.6701 beazer.com Instrumentation: Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.

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SING by a Russian orthodox priest and carrying and timeless message beyond the icons and a respectful petition to the Tsar, commemoration of this particular TO YOUR converged on the Winter Palace in St. historical moment. Many Russian AUDIENCE. Petersburg to beg for improvements in their listeners—even the composer’s son, hard lives. Despite their intimidating Maxim—believed the Eleventh WITH numbers, they were a peaceful assembly also referred to the bloody Soviet singing hymns and Russian patriotic suppression of the Hungarian OVERTURE . songs. Tsar Nicholas II was not at the Revolution one year earlier in 1956. palace to receive their petition. The In any case, this symphony can be Tsar’s soldiers, perhaps reacting in heard as a musical response to mindless panic, fired repeatedly on the crowd, violence and the oppression of the killing 130 people, by conservative innocent in any time and place. estimates, but some said upwards of Shostakovich called the first one thousand. “Bloody Sunday,” as movement, “The Palace Square.” It it became known, sparked a series of opens with very soft music of widely protests and strikes across Russia against spaced chords for strings and two harps the corrupt and oppressive regime and evoking the cold and bleakness of that went down in history as the prelude to long-ago winter morning; this music the Russian Revolution of 1917. will return throughout the work. We As the U.S.S.R. celebrated the also hear two other important elements: Revolution’s 40th anniversary in 1957, a rumbling motive in the timpani Dmitri Shostakovich turned to that and a distant military call on muted fateful day as the basis of his Eleventh trumpets — both of which oscillate Symphony. Premiered on October 30, uneasily between the major and minor 1957 in Moscow, it pleased the Soviet modes. Eventually, a pair of flutes sing authorities and won Shostakovich the first of the revolutionary songs: the Lenin Prize the following year. “Listen” (“Like a treasonous deed, like But it also kicked off a controversy in a tyrant’s conscience, the autumn night musical circles both inside the Soviet is black …”); snare drum and muted Reach over 150,000 patrons Union and internationally. Many trumpets build it aggressively. After this of the BSO five times a year accused Shostakovich of playing politics dies down, low strings intone a grim rather than being true to his artistic ascending melody: “The Prisoner.” The in Overture, a program that’s conscience, of writing a swollen example movement’s closing moments mix all about more than just of “Socialist Realism” to improve these thematic elements as the music beautiful music. his standing with the regime. They hovers expectantly. suggested the Eleventh was program Movement two, “The 9th of January,” RESERVE YOUR music depicting historical events and describes the events of that day AD SPACE TODAY! not a real symphony at all. with shocking power. Rushing low However, the Eleventh is a much strings depict the crowd converging greater work than its detractors claimed on the square before the Winter and, though programmatic in its first Palace. Clarinets and bassoons sing two movements, is indeed a symphony another revolutionary song: “Oh TO ADVERTISE, CONTACT: in its construction. Its most unusual Tsar, our little father” (“look around Ken Iglehart feature is that its thematic material is you; life is impossible because of the [email protected] primarily composed of quotations from Tsar’s servants, against whom we are prison and revolutionary songs of the helpless”). This theme grows louder and Lynn Talbert 1905 era, woven together and developed more urgent until the whole orchestra [email protected] according to symphonic principles. shouts it out. Then we hear the stark Call 443.873.3916 Played without pause, the symphony’s melody of “Bare your heads” with its Now also distributed at Strathmore four massive movements are linked by many repeated notes rising upward Music Center in Bethesda recurring motives and reprises of the in the brass. A quiet development of song melodies. “Oh Tsar” follows as the crowd waits Perhaps Shostakovich also intended patiently. After another forceful climax, this work to have a more universal the timpani motive and the bleak string

18 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org music of the first movement return —now in the woodwinds. A snarling drum announces the arrival of the Tsar’s troops. A fierce fugato breaks out in the strings and builds to a frenzied climax. Then with a brutal expansion of the timpani motive, Shostakovich describes the soldiers’ attack on the crowd. The tumult ceases suddenly, and in a beautiful arrangement for harps, celeste and trilling strings, the opening string music returns again in shocked response to the tragedy. The third movement, “In Memoriam,” is a threnody for the Home sweet Homestead victims of Bloody Sunday—and Enjoy a worry-free lifestyle at Baltimore’s newest implicitly for all victims of oppression. Independent Living community. Over plucked cellos and basses, the warm voices of violas sing the funeral march “You fell as a sacrifice.” Horns SCHEDULE A TOUR TODAY! then lead rich-toned music of mourning SpringwellSL.com reminiscent of Gustav Mahler, one of 410.664.4006 Shostakovich’s favorite composers. This 2211 W. Rogers Avenue, Baltimore, MD grows to a gigantic, passionate climax with “Bare your heads” hurled out by the brass over thundering timpani. The finale, “The Tocsin,” bursts over us with the brass shouting in unison the melody “Rage, Tyrants.” From its Looking for Creative? jagged rhythms, the strings build an abrasive accompaniment that powers this aggressive march. At its climax, LET’S GET STARTED. the violins shrilly implore “Oh Tsar.” The crash of the tam-tam clears the way for a return of the opening string music. Over it, the English horn sorrowfully sings an extended statement of “Bare your heads.” The movement gradually regains its fury as various brass instruments and even a xylophone sing this song. With bells clanging the tocsin, the music proclaims a militant From concept to execution, resolve to overthrow the oppressors, we are here to serve all of your print and digital but its clinging to the key of G minor design, marketing, and production needs. suggests this will not be an easy task. See our work at Instrumentation: Three flutes including www.baltimoremagazine.com/custom piccolo, three oboes including English horn, three clarinets including bass clarinet, three bassoons including contrabassoon, four horns, CREATIVE STUDIO three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, two harps, celesta and strings. What we do. PUBLICATIONS MARKETING COLLATERAL WEBSITE + E-MARKETING CORPORATE IDENTITY Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2019 PRINT ADVERTISING PRINTING + MAILING

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Watts remains one of today’s most celebrated and beloved superstars. JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Thursday, May 30, 2019, 8 pm A perennial favorite with orchestras throughout the U.S., Watts is also Saturday, June 1, 2019, 7 pm Off The Cuff a regular guest at major summer MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE music festivals including Ravinia, Friday, May 31, 2019, 8:15 pm Off The Cuff the Hollywood Bowl, Saratoga and Sunday, June 2, 2019, 3 pm Tanglewood. Recent and upcoming engagements include appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Marin Alsop, conductor Philadelphia and on tour; the New André Watts, piano York and Los Angeles philharmonics; the Minnesota Orchestra; and the Johannes Brahms Quartet No. 1 in G Minor for Piano arr. Schoenberg (1937) and Strings, op. 25 St. Louis, Atlanta, Detroit, Cincinnati, Allegro Dallas, Houston, Baltimore, Intermezzo: Allegro ma non troppo — Indianapolis, Nashville and National Trio: Animato symphony orchestras. Andante con moto Watts has had a long and frequent Rondo alla Zingarese association with television, having INTERMISSION appeared on numerous programs produced by PBS, the BBC and the Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, op. 73, Arts and Entertainment Network, “Emperor” performing with the New York Allegro Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Adagio un poco mosso Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rondo: Allegro Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and André Watts the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. His 1976 New York recital, Saturday, June 1: Join us in the Meyerhoff lobby for an after-party aired on the program Live From Lincoln featuring live entertainment, food and drink specials. Made possible Center, was the first full-length recital by The Wallace Foundation. broadcast in the history of television. The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately Watts’ extensive discography includes 10 pm on Thursday, 9:30 pm on Friday, 8:15 pm on Saturday and 5 pm on Sunday. recordings of works by Gershwin, Chopin, Liszt and Tchaikovsky for CBS Masterworks; recital CDs of works by PRESENTING SPONSOR: Beethoven, Schubert, Liszt and Chopin for Angel/EMI; and recordings featuring SUPPORTING SPONSOR: the concertos of Liszt, MacDowell, Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns on the The appearance of pianist André Watts is made possible through the major support Telarc label. He is also included in of the Sidney M. Friedberg Guest Artist Fund. the Great Pianists of the 20th Century series for Philips. Watts received a 2011 National About the Artists debut with the New York Philharmonic Medal of Arts, which is given by on one of the orchestra’s Young People’s the President of the United States Marin Alsop Concerts, a performance which to individuals who are deserving For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. was broadcast nationwide on CBS- of special recognition for their TV. Only two weeks later, Bernstein outstanding contributions to the André Watts asked him to substitute at the last excellence, growth, support and André Watts burst minute for the ailing Glenn Gould in availability of the arts in the U.S. In upon the music world performances of Liszt’s E-flat Concerto June 2006, he was inducted into the at the age of 16 when with the New York Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl of Fame to celebrate STEVE J. SHERMAN Leonard Bernstein launching his career in storybook the 50th anniversary of his debut (with chose him to make his fashion. More than 50 years later, the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age

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of 10) and he is also the recipient of the to be a conservative —“Brahms the piano, the dominant partner in the 1988 Avery Fisher Prize. Progressive” he named him in a famous original chamber score. Generally, he Watts was appointed to the Jack I. article written in the 1940s. And he selected orchestral sounds Brahms would and Dora B. Hamlin Endowed Chair in believed himself to be Brahms’ heir in a have very likely used, but as the work Music at the Jacobs School of Music at continuous, unbroken musical tradition. progresses he gave himself more creative Indiana University in 2004. Thus, it is really not so strange latitude, culminating in a suitably bold, that in 1937 Schoenberg —having brash treatment of the finale. André Watts last appeared with the recently fled Nazi Germany for The original piano quartet was the BSO in November 2017 performing Southern California—should pause work that brought Brahms his first Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, from composing twelve-tone works fame in Vienna. Possibly begun as Robert Spano, conductor. to orchestrate one of Brahms’ greatest early as 1855 and definitely completed chamber works: the superb, irresistibly in the fall of 1861, it represents the About the Concert melodious Piano Quartet in G Minor. twenty-something Brahms in the first It was premiered by the Los Angeles bloom of his genius. When he brought PIANO QUARTET IN G MINOR Philharmonic on May 7, 1938 (Brahms’ it to the Viennese home of pianist and Johannes Brahms 105th birthday) and has almost been impresario Julius Epstein the next year, (arr. Arnold Schoenberg) absorbed into the orchestral repertoire Epstein and his violinist friend Joseph Born May 7, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany; as Brahms’ “Fifth Symphony,” as Hellmesberger (leader of a famous died April 3, 1897 in Vienna, Austria Schoenberg jokingly called it. Viennese string quartet) were ecstatic Though he did indeed stick faithfully in their praise. “This is Beethoven’s If you were to choose the most unlikely to Brahms’ own notes, Schoenberg was heir!” cried the violinist. A Brahms composer pairings in musical history, much more creative in his work than he concert was swiftly arranged, featuring you’d probably nominate Johannes admitted. Over the years, many have the composer playing the Quartet’s Brahms and Arnold Schoenberg. observed that the original chamber formidable piano part along with Brahms is usually considered to be work—like so many Brahms wrote— members of the Hellmesberger Quartet. the most conservative of the late- is so full-bodied in sound and so large- Christopher H. Gibbs describes the Romantic composers, while Schoenberg, scaled in conception that it virtually quartet’s first movement as combining the icon-smashing inventor of the demands an orchestra. Schoenberg “austerity—such as the spare beginning twelve-tone system that radicalized chose to score it for a very large orchestra and evaporating conclusion—with 20th-century music, would seem to be with plenty of woodwinds and brass Brahmsian lushness.” Brahms lavishly his nemesis. But Schoenberg certainly and a very well-stocked percussion rewards us with marvelous melodies did not see himself that way, and battery, including a very un-Brahmsian here (as he will throughout this work), he revered—even adored—Brahms. instrument, the xylophone. His most but his opening theme is strangely He did not even consider Brahms radical choice was to do away with the remote and enigmatic. Stark and angular, it opens with a four-note pattern that Brahms immediately flips upside down. The strings contribute an energetic whirling motive that will also be important in driving the music forward. The rising second theme, introduced by the cellos, is a real warm- hearted, caressing melody. There is even a lush third theme, rolling and rippling upward from low strings to violins. But with all these marvelous melodies to choose from, Brahms sticks with the angular first theme and the whirling motive for his development section. The recapitulation section sneaks back in without our noticing. Here Schoenberg provides an enchanting scoring for the third rippling theme—all airy woodwinds and pizzicato strings.

22 OVERTURE / BSOmusic.org Instead of a rugged scherzo dance, Brahms preferred a slower, gentler triple-meter movement he called DOWNTOWN BALTIMORE an “intermezzo.” In the key of C minor, movement two is a gracious early example. Its surface delicacy is strengthened by wonderful cross rhythms, especially two beats against the predominant three. The middle trio section moves to the major and is livelier and quicker. Schoenberg emphasizes its outdoor freshness with his bright orchestration, including some percussion touches Brahms never would have dreamed of. Movement three begins as a broad, soulful song in rich, warm E-flat major. But eventually a rather martial rhythmic pattern springs up and propels the music into a very dashing military episode. Schoenberg has a wonderful time providing the trumpet fanfares, drums and even cymbals that the original strings and piano could only suggest. The adolescent Brahms had toured as a pianist with Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi, and that experience ignited a lifelong passion for Hungarian gypsy music. Though we hear evocations of this type of music in many of his works, none can match the infectious bravura of the Piano Quartet’s Rondo alla Zingarese finale. Besides the very fiery Hungarian-dance melody serving as THE CITY IS the rondo refrain, Brahms concocts a bevy of irresistible tunes for all his IN YOUR POCKET. episodes. Of course, the Viennese- born Schoenberg also knew the café GoDowntownBaltimore.com gypsy style well and contrives his most dazzling scoring here—listen for those can help you find a place to eat, a place snarling trombones when the rondo to grab a drink, a place to see a show, refrain returns and all the xylophone and a place to call your own. glitter—transforming Brahms’ most exhilarating chamber movement into a spectacular orchestral showpiece.

Instrumentation: Three flutes including piccolo, three oboes including English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, E-flat clarinet, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings.

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particularly in its huge first movement an ascending chromatic scale ending PIANO CONCERTO NO. 5 —and it reflects its war-riven era with a long, high trill. Throughout, IN E-FLAT MAJOR in its virile, martial tone. Its key— Beethoven uses this scale as an elegant Ludwig van Beethoven E-flat major—was one of Beethoven’s call-to-attention: whenever we hear Born in Bonn, Germany, December 16, 1770; favorites and one he associated with it, we are being given notice that died in Vienna, Austria, March 26, 1827 heroic thoughts; it is also the key of a new section of the movement is the “Eroica.” Sadly, Beethoven was beginning. It will mark the opening of There is a certain irony in the name never able to display his own powers as the development section and later the “Emperor” that was later given to a pianist with this work. Although he closing coda after the recapitulation. Beethoven’s Fifth and final Piano had introduced all his other keyboard Just before that coda comes the usual Concerto but never used by the concertos to the public, his deafness was moment for the soloist’s big cadenza. composer himself. By the spring of too far advanced for him to risk playing But here Beethoven has quashed the 1809 when Beethoven was creating his the 1810 premiere in Leipzig. soloist’s customary right to improvise “Emperor” Concerto, the last person The length and complexity of the his own exhibition of virtuosity. he would have wanted to honor was sonata-form first movement demonstrate Fearing the jarring improvisations the emperor of the day, Napoleon Beethoven’s new symphonic conception other soloists might make, the Bonaparte. Years earlier, he had angrily of the concerto. The opening is boldly composer wrote in Italian in the score: obliterated a dedication to the French innovative. First, we hear the pianist “Don’t play a cadenza, but attack leader he’d once admired from the sweeping over the keyboard in grand the following immediately.” He then title page of his Third Symphony, the arpeggios and scales, punctuated by loud carefully wrote out a brief series “Eroica,” after he learned that Napoleon chords from the orchestra. Then the of variants on both his themes. had crowned himself Emperor. soloist allows the orchestra to present A complete contrast to the Now in May 1809, Napoleon’s armies its long exposition of themes. The extroverted first movement, the second were actually besieging the city of first theme, with its distinctive turn movement is a sublime, inward elegy in Vienna. Beethoven’s home was in the ornament, is introduced immediately. B major, a remote key from the home line of fire of the French cannons, and The second, a quirky little march, tonality of E-flat. Two themes receive he was forced to flee to his brother’s appears first in halting minor-mode form a quasi-variations treatment. The first house, where he holed up in the cellar in the strings and then is immediately and most important is the strings’ with a pillow pressed to his still sensitive smoothed out and shifted to the major grave, almost-religious theme heard at ears. But his work on his new concerto by the horns. Over the course of the the opening. The second theme is the did not cease. movement, Beethoven will transform downward cascading music with which And yet in many ways “Emperor,” both these themes in a wondrous range the piano enters. taken in a more generic sense, is an of keys, moods and figurations. At the close of the movement, the appropriate title for this concerto. It is After its long absence, the piano pianist experiments hesitantly with a work of imperial size and scope— begins its version of the exposition with a new melodic and rhythmic idea. Suddenly, the spark is struck, and the theme explodes into the exuberant rondo finale. Beethoven stresses the weak beats of his dancing meter, giving the theme an eccentric, hobbling gait. An important element is the crisp rhythm first heard in the horns; this martial, drum-like motive returns us to the wartime world of the concerto’s birth. Near the end, Beethoven gives this to the timpani, in eerie duet with the soloist, before the concerto’s triumphant finish.

Instrumentation: Two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings.

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walk to feel his pulse, and he often asked

JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL me to listen to his heart and see whether Friday, June 7, 2019, 8 pm the beat was clear or rapid or calm.” Sunday, June 9, 2019, 3 pm Nevertheless, Mahler managed to submerge his anxiety in a new project: a set MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE of six orchestral songs he called Das Lied Saturday, June 8, 2019, 8 pm von der Erde (“The Song of the Earth”). In effect, it was his Ninth Symphony, though set in an unorthodox form. For Mahler Marin Alsop, conductor was wrestling psychologically with yet another burden: the Curse of the Ninth Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 9 in D Major Andante comodo Symphony. After the prolific Haydn and Im Tempo eines gemächlichen Ländlers Mozart with their dozens of symphonies, Rondo - Burleske composers like Beethoven, Schubert Adagio and Bruckner had found their Ninth Symphonies to be the last station before death. So, Mahler tried to cheat the curse by not numbering Das Lied and then upon completing his titular Ninth Symphony (begun that same summer) telling friends it was actually his Tenth The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately because Das Lied was the Ninth. But the 9:40 pm on Friday and Saturday and 4:40 pm on Sunday. curse could not be defeated that easily. For partway into his Tenth Symphony in 1911, death indeed claimed Mahler, PRESENTING SPONSOR: leaving that work incomplete. Meanwhile, Mahler the conductor had quickly filled the gap left by the loss of Vienna by accepting the directorship About the Artists Maria, died suddenly of diphtheria. And of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. in the immediate aftermath, a medical His years were now divided between Marin Alsop examination revealed he had a serious conducting and administrative duties in For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. heart condition that would probably kill America and composing in Europe— him within the next few years. an arduous existence in the days before About the Concert The next summer, Mahler wrote to his the jet plane. In 1909, he added the close friend, the conductor Bruno Walter, music directorship of the New York SYMPHONY NO. 9 about the restrictions this diagnosis, Philharmonic. Both institutions paid him Gustav Mahler along with increasingly severe physical handsomely, but their wealthy patrons Born in Kaliště, Bohemia (now Czech symptoms, had forced on him. “For many bedeviled his existence with their demands, Republic), July 7, 1860; died in Vienna, years, I have been used to constant and and he found the Big Apple’s high-pressure Austria, May 18, 1911 vigorous exercise —roaming about in the style—even a century ago—hard to bear. mountains and woods, and then, like Certainly, it was not the right place for a In the finale of his Sixth Symphony, a kind of jaunty bandit, bearing home man with a weak heart. written in 1904, Gustav Mahler my drafts.…Even spiritual indisposition Nevertheless, when Mahler returned interjected three tremendous percussion used to disappear after a good trudge.… to Toblach in the summer of 1909 for his blows: a musical expression of a vision Now I am told to avoid any exertion, keep most intensive work on the Ninth, his that he himself would be struck by a constant eye on myself and not walk spirits were higher than they had been a three calamities. And in 1907, this much.” Though Mahler had moved to year earlier. He was more philosophical eerie presentiment came true. First, an inspiring new composing retreat in about the imminence of death and yet Mahler was pushed out of his position Toblach in the splendidly jagged Italian his passion for life was more intense than as Director of the Vienna Court Opera, Dolomites, his wife, Alma, remembered ever. He wrote Alma: “I feel marvelous where he had built a reputation as 1908 as “the saddest summer” they had here! To be able to sit working by the open Europe’s greatest opera conductor. That ever experienced. “We were afraid of window and breathing the air, the trees summer, his beloved elder daughter, everything. He was always stopping on a and flowers all the time—this is a delight

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I have never known till now.” To Walter: in a rich counterpoint of independent crash, and we hear a radiantly uplifting “I see everything in such a new light.… instrumental lines; elaborate passage as solo trumpet and strings How foolish it is to allow oneself to be counterpoint will fill the Ninth. sing a marvelous transformation of the submerged by the brutal vortex of life; to We will hear four alternating cycles previously wild ideas. Significantly, the be untrue even for a short hour to one’s of these opposing musical worlds. Each key is again the “life” key of D major. But self and to the highest things above us.… assault becomes progressively longer, faster, the frantic march returns, whirling faster Strange! when I hear music—even when louder and more brutal in its climax. From and faster. I am conducting—I hear quite specific the final climax, the life theme emerges Mahler frequently closed a symphony answers to all my questions—and am staggering and badly wounded. Then, in a different key from the one in which completely clear and certain. Or rather, the music fragments and fades away with it began: a strategy known as “progressive I feel quite distinctly that they are not the two-note farewell in the winds and a tonality.” After all the pain and struggle questions at all.” solitary violin whispering the life theme. that has taken place, the original key of These words strongly contradict the After such sublime music, the second D major seems no longer attainable, and so Ninth’s reputation as Mahler’s sorrowful movement comes as a rude shock. Mahler Mahler slips downward to D-flat major for farewell to life. This idea comes mostly scholar Donald Mitchell stresses that both his great Adagio finale. The violins cry out from its last movement: a long, elegiac of the Ninth’s middle movements are a unison plea for mercy, and then the full Adagio that seems to leave Earth meant to be satirical — the second in a string section pours out a noble, consoling regretfully behind. But most of this naive, rustic way and the third movement chorale, richly harmonized. Twice, a 80-minute work is a vigorous struggle using the utmost musical sophistication. ghostly bassoon interrupts, eventually between the composer’s passion for life It begins rather innocently as a rustic transforming the chorale into plaintive, and the specter of death. A secondary Austrian ländler dance for woodwind weeping music featuring solo viola and theme is the battle between pursuing band and strings, which Mahler asks to violin. The chorale resumes, becoming false values (symbolized by movements be played “rather clumsily and coarsely.” heavier and riddled with dissonance. two and three) and embracing what The first movement’s descending farewell Suddenly, the key shifts, and we hear makes life truly worth living. motive is very prominent here —now ethereal, bucolic music for English horn, sounding rather mindless. In a faster flute and other woodwinds over the tolling Listening to Mahler’s Ninth tempo, an aggressive, stomping waltz with harp from the first movement; it is the Many commentators have hailed the vulgar brass outbursts barges in. Yet a third loveliest of Mahler’s dreams of a rural idyll. epic first movement as the composer’s dance follows: an extremely sentimental Again, the chorale returns and reaches a greatest achievement. It is a nearly ländler featuring warm horns and afflicted great climax, topped by tragic brass. 30-minute battle between the joy of living with a bad case of the trills. The eventual With this, the Ninth’s last struggle (represented by the key of D major) and return of the opening dance leads to a is over, and the music begins to fade the fear of death (the key of D minor). hectic combination of all three. Ultimately, peacefully, becoming slower, almost The music begins with odd, hesitant the first dance, despite many attempts, is pulseless, and several times actually rhythms and a tolling harp—motives that unable to re-start itself, and the music again stopping altogether. Near the close, violins will permeate the movement. Leonard fades into little fragments. sing a beautiful, yearning melody arcing Bernstein suggested these rhythms The remarkable third movement is upward. This is a quotation from Mahler’s reflected the irregular heartbeat Mahler intense, concentrated music with elaborate earlier Kindertotenlieder (“Songs of the was so painfully conscious of whenever counterpoint that shows Mahler’s Death of Children”); its words speak of he exerted himself. Violins then begin devotion to Bach, while its unhinged the sunshine on the heights where the singing a tender, yearning lullaby in tonality and dissonance point ahead into dead children dwell. Mahler biographer D major, which seems to embody the 20th century. Marked “very defiantly,” Michael Kennedy suggests this is a fleeting Mahler’s love for life. Notice also a it sounds like a wild march built out of memorial to Mahler’s little daughter Maria. downward-sighing two-note motive: the little melodic fragments we hear in On this tender, consoling thought, the Mahler called this “Farewell,” and it was its belligerent opening measures. The Ninth closes in peaceful acceptance. inspired by a similar motive in Beethoven’s composer emphasizes the shrill cries of “Les Adieux” Piano Sonata. high woodwinds. A contrasting section is Instrumentation: Four flutes, piccolo, four But soon the sweetness of life is a littler milder, as the violins in their lower oboes including English horn, three clarinets, assaulted by louder, tormented music in range present a jaunty, football half-time bass clarinet, E-flat clarinet, four bassoons D minor: the threat of death. The music theme. As the first march returns and the including contrabassoon, four horns, three rises to the first of the movement’s counterpoint grows more hectic, all this trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, big climaxes before the now troubled resembles a sound portrait of Mahler’s percussion, two harps and strings. life theme can reassert itself. All this frenetic existence in New York. Suddenly, material is presented and developed the hurly-burly is arrested by a cymbal Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2019

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About the Artists JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Thursday, June 13, 2019, 8 pm Marin Alsop Friday, June 14, 2019, 8 pm For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7. Sunday, June 16, 2019, 3 pm

MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE About the Concert Saturday, June 15, 2019, 8 pm WEST SIDE STORY (FILM VERSION: 1961) Composed by Marin Alsop, conductor Leonard Bernstein Born in Lawrence, MA, August 25, 1918; died in New York City, NY, October 14, 1990 WEST SIDE STORY® ASSOCIATESSM PRESENTS In 1989, the year before he died, Leonard Bernstein complained to a musician in the WEST SIDE STORY Israel Philharmonic: “I don’t feel happy that people will remember me because MIRISCH PICTURES Presents of West Side Story, even though I love the “WEST SIDE STORY” piece. I would rather people remembered A ROBERT WISE Production me for my serious compositions.” These are strange words from a Starring NATALIE WOOD composer who earlier in his career had RICHARD BEYMER RUSS TAMBLYN proselytized for the breaking down RITA MORENO GEORGE CHAKIRIS of artificial barriers between popular Directed by ROBERT WISE & JEROME ROBBINS music and “serious” art music. In West Screenplay by ERNEST LEHMAN Side Story, he had triumphantly proven Associate Producer SAUL CHAPLIN that the two can be fused together Choreography by JEROME ROBBINS successfully. Many a composer of Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN symphonies and concertos would give his Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM eyeteeth to be remembered as the creator Based upon the Stage Play Produced by ROBERT E. GRIFFITH of West Side Story! and HAROLD S. PRINCE And with his extraordinary creative Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS team of Jerome Robbins (director and Play Conceived, Directed and Choreographed by JEROME ROBBINS choreographer), Arthur Laurents (book) Film Production Designed by BORIS LEVEN and the young Stephen Sondheim (lyrics), Music Conducted by JOHNNY GREEN Bernstein had defied the rules for a Presented by MIRISCH PICTURES, INC. Broadway musical by tackling a grim In Association with SEVEN ARTS PRODUCTIONS INC. story with a tragic ending set in the mean Filmed in PANAVISION® TECHNICOLOR® streets of 20th-century New York City. Years later, Robbins defined what they had set out to achieve: “The aim in the mid-50s was to see if all of us—Lenny Film screening of West Side Story courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. who wrote ‘long-hair’ music, Arthur who WEST SIDE STORY © 1961 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved. wrote serious plays, myself who did serious Tonight's program is a presentation of the complete film West Side Story with live performance of the film’s entire ballets, Oliver Smith [the set designer] score. The program runs 2 hours and 34 minutes, plus an intermission. It also includes the underscoring played by the orchestra during the Saul Bass-designed End Credits. We ask that, out of respect for the music, for the musicians who was a serious painter—could bring playing it and for your fellow audience members, you remain in your seats until the End Credits are completed. our acts together and do a work on the popular stage.” Their joint creation forever The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at approximately transformed what a Broadway musical 11 pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 6 pm on Sunday. could aspire to be, while still being an immense popular success.

PRESENTING SPONSOR: West Side Story opened at the Winter Garden Theater on September 26, 1957, but its genesis went back more

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too operatic and pushing it beyond the technical abilities of the young dancers. This problem came to a head at the show’s climax: Maria’s final words after the death of Tony. “It cries out for music,” Bernstein said. “I tried to set it very bitterly, understated, swift. I tried giving all the material to the orchestra and having her sing an obbligato [higher countermelody] throughout. I tried a version that sounded just like a Puccini aria, which we really did not need.…Everything sounded wrong.” Finally, the decision was made to have Maria simply speak her words without music, an approach that made the moment all the more powerful for its starkness. West Side Story ran for nearly two years on Broadway, was presented for another year on a national tour, then WEST SIDE STORY1961© METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. returned to Broadway for most of the than eight years to 1949. It began with dance, created by Robbins, would be the following year. Then it reached out to Jerome Robbins, who had the idea of show’s primary means of expression. In its widest audience of all. creating a contemporary treatment of fact, the prominence of dance dictated the Shakespeare’s immortal tragedy Romeo casting of dancers who could also sing and The Film and Juliet and approached Bernstein and act rather than singing actors in most of Inevitably, Hollywood became interested Laurents to see if they were interested in the roles. Bernstein wanted to create the in putting this musical everyone was collaborating. The original concept was lyrics as well as the music, but the team talking about on the screen. Robert Wise, called “East Side Story” and revolved decided his words were too pretentious experienced in shooting urban dramas on around the forbidden love between the and wisely brought in the young Stephen the New York streets, was signed on as co- daughter of a Jewish immigrant family Sondheim to tackle that job. director with Robbins and choreographer. who had survived the Holocaust and the With his uncompromising The movie was filmed on location in the son of an Irish-American Catholic family perfectionism—this would be a factor Upper West Side of New York, an area of set during the period of Easter/Passover. in the film treatment as well—Robbins decaying tenements soon to be demolished, This story with an anti-Semitic theme created a state of extreme nervous tension ironically, for the construction of Lincoln would involve the Catholic Jets gang among his young performers. He also Center for the Performing Arts. In the battling the Jewish Emeralds gang. Both kept the members of his two gangs, the opening sequence and throughout the Bernstein and Laurents were interested, American Jets and the Puerto Rican film, Wise used stunning aerial and crane but problems developing the story and Sharks, apart so that no friendships could shots to show both the city’s imposing their respective other involvements develop between them and conspired to skyscrapers and the crowded streets and finally put a halt to the collaboration. stoke their antagonism. bleak playgrounds of the depressed world of 6 years later in 1955, the project was Concurrently with West Side Story, the Jets and Sharks. revived. The idea now seemed especially Bernstein was also composing the music The original show had cast performers relevant because the newspapers were full for his satirical operetta Candide, which mostly in their early 20s to play the parts of stories about teenage gang violence on opened on Broadway in December of teenagers, but by the time of the film, New York’s West Side as well as in other 1956. Some music originally intended Larry Kert (Tony) and Carol Lawrence American cities. Laurents and Bernstein for Candide was transferred to West Side (Maria) were pushing 30 and deemed were interested in developing a musical Story, notably the songs “One Hand, One too old for screen close ups. The directors with a Latino beat, and the Catholic vs. Heart” and the comic “Officer Krupke.” actually asked Elvis Presley to play Tony, Jewish theme was dropped in favor of Because he was so busy, Bernstein but on the advice of his manager, he conflict between newly arrived Puerto delegated the score’s orchestration, under turned it down, to his lasting regret. Rican immigrants and American-born his strict supervision, to Sid Ramin and Audrey Hepburn was among the many gangs. Robbins signed on as director, and Irwin Kostal. actresses considered for Maria. Wise next since he was one of America’s leading The creative team constantly urged suggested Warren Beatty for Tony. For choreographers, the group decided that Bernstein to avoid making his music his audition, Beatty brought along his

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then-girlfriend Natalie Wood to read it 10 Oscars, the most ever to a film Production Credits with him; the upshot was that Wise chose musical. Among them were Best Film, Producer: Paul H. Epstein for The Leonard Bernstein Wood to be Maria and bypassed Beatty Best Director to Wise and Robbins, a Office, Inc. for the 21-year-old Richard Beymer, a special Choreography Oscar to Robbins, Associate Producer: Eleonor M. Sandresky for The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc. former child actor. Rita Moreno, a native Best Supporting Actress to Moreno Production Supervisor: Steven A. Linder Puerto Rican, replaced Chita Rivera as and Best Supporting Actor to George Technical Director: Mike Runice Anita, the girlfriend of Bernardo, the Chakiris as Bernardo. Unfortunately, Sound Engineer: Matt Yelton leader of the Sharks. Though Wood and Bernstein was ineligible for the Oscar Music Supervision: Garth Edwin Sunderland Beymer wanted to do their own singing, for Best Score because his music was not Original Orchestrations: Leonard Bernstein, their voices were ultimately dubbed by original music written for the screen. Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal Additional orchestrations: Garth Edwin Sunderland Marni Nixon and Jimmy Bryant. Ramin and Kostal had made a new & Peter West Ernest Lehman adapted Laurents’ arrangement of the music for the film, Music Preparation: Peter West original book for the screen. Though scored for a large studio orchestra rather Original manuscript reconstruction: there were some adjustments to the order than the reduced pit band used on Eleonor M. Sandresky Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson of events and the sequence of songs, Broadway; Bernstein disliked it, calling Soundtrack Adaptation—Chace Audio by Deluxe: the film screenplay stayed very close it “overbearing and lacking in texture Robert Heiber, Chris Reynolds, Andrew Starbin, to the original. Bernstein himself had and subtlety.” When the movie was re- Alice Taylor th Sound Separation Technology provided by little to do with the making of the film. released for its 50 anniversary in 2011, Audionamix West Side Story opened in New York on Garth Edwin Sunderland of Bernstein’s Click Tracks and Streamers created by: October 18, 1961 and became that year’s offices created a new arrangement closer Kristopher Carter and Mako Sujishi second-highest-grossing film. to the stage original and intended for With special thanks to: Arthur Laurents and his Estate, Stephen Sondheim, The Robbins Rights Trust, The Strangely, the stage version of West live performance at showings of the Johnny Green Collection at Harvard University, The Sid Ramin Collection at Columbia University, The Robert Side Story had been largely bypassed— film. It is this version we’ll hear at these Wise Collection at the University of Southern California, in favor of the more conventional The performances of one of the great classics Lawrence A. Mirisch, David Newman, Metro-Goldwyn- Music Man Mayer Studios Inc., MGM HD, Twentieth Century Fox —by the 1958 Tony Awards. of American film and American music. Home Entertainment LLC, Ken Hahn and Sync Sound However, the Academy Awards were West Side Story is a registered trademark of The Leonard Bernstein much more generous to the film, giving Notes by Janet E. Bedell, © 2019 Office, Inc. in the US and other countries. WEST SIDE STORY1961© METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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Resounding: The Campaign for the BSO’s Second Century is a $65 million campaign to build the BSO’s endowment—sustaining the organization’s growth and vitality and expanding the reach of our innovative and ground-breaking artistic and educational programs. Funds secured through the Campaign will enable the BSO to attract and retain our world-class musicians and guest artists, engage new and diverse audiences and expand the reach of our OrchKids and Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras (BSYO) education programs. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is enormously grateful to those who are investing in the future of the organization through their support of the Resounding Campaign. We thank the following individuals, corporations and foundations who have made endowment, OrchKids, BSYO and increased annual fund gifts totaling $47.4 million between September 1, 2012 and March 31, 2019 in support of this historic fundraising effort.

For more information on Resounding: The Campaign for the BSO’s Second Century or to make a gift, contact: Angel Terol, BSO Second Century Campaign Director at 410.783.8055 or [email protected].

$5,000,000 AND UP The Estate of Albert and Martha Walker Kenneth W. DeFontes and Donna C. DeFontes Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Ellen W.P. Wasserman Freda Dunn The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Alan and Carol Edelman $250,000–$499,999 Mr.* and Mrs. Thomas Fallon $1,000,000–$4,999,999 Michael J. Batza, Jr. and Patricia K. Batza Haswell M. and Madeline S. Franklin Charles T. Bauer Foundation John and Marjorie Blodgett John Gidwitz Ellen and Ed Bernard Mr.* and Mrs.* Kingdon Gould, Jr. The Goldsmith Family Foundation Mary Catherine Bunting Hecht-Levi Foundation The Estate of Sergui and Robinne Comissiona Beth Goldsmith Sandra Levi Gerstung Nelson* and Sara Fishman The Estate of Hilda Perl Goodwin Sarellen and Marshall A. Levine, MD Ms. Lois S. Hug Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Hamilton, Jr. Joseph and Harvey Meyerhoff The Estate of John Larsen William Randolph Hearst Foundation Family Charitable Funds Catherine and George McClelland Hoffberger Family Philanthropies Shelter Foundation, Inc. National Endowment for the Arts Dr. James and Lynne LaCalle Patricia and Mark K. Joseph Arnold and Alison Richman Jeffrey and Harriet Legum Dr. Solomon H. Snyder, MD Bruce Rosenblum and Lori Laitman The Estate of Bernice Levinson Doris W. Sanders Middendorf Foundation $500,000–$999,999 Alena and David M. Schwaber Bill and Dottie Nerenberg Paul M. Angell Family Foundation The Lord Baltimore Capital Corporation Linda Hambleton Panitz Helmut D.W. Bauer Louis B. Thalheimer and Juliet Eurich Scott Phares and Judy Witt Phares Thomas S. and Barbara M. Bozzuto Michael* and Priya Pinto Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Family Foundation $100,000–$249,999 Bunting Family Foundation Anonymous (2) Mr. George A. Roche Constance R. Caplan Paul and Donna Amico The Estate of Lawrence Roberts France-Merrick Foundation Clayton Baker Trust The Salmon Foundation Nancy H. Berger Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold, IV The Estate of Henry Sanborn Mr. David H. Bernstein Gwynne and Leonard Horwits Lois Schenck and Tod Myers Richard and Carol Bernstein Dr. Phyllis R. Kaplan Steven R. Schuh and the Schuh Family The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Stephen and Gail Shawe Nicholas Klise The Estate of Phyllis Brill Sherman Family Foundation Earl and Darielle Linehan The Estate of Margaret Cooke The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Ingrid and Robert Coutts George and Betsy Sherman Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cowie, Jr. Speedwell Foundation Susan and Charles Shubin Richard and Rosalee Davison Karen and Richard Soisson Nancy E. Smith Ben and Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Joanne Gold and Andrew Stern David and June Trone Richard and Rosalee C. Davison Foundation, Inc. The Estate of Ingeborg Weinberger

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$50,000–$99,999 Frank E. and Miriam Loveman Ms. Barbara L. Ballard Ms. Winsome Boyd Anonymous Foundation Ms. Betty Ballard Woody and Sandra Boyd In memory of James Gavin Manson Maller Wealth Advisors Baltimore County Commission Thomas Bozzuto and Robin Madigan The Abell Foundation Maryland State Arts Council on the Arts & Sciences Mr. Charles Bragg The Herbert Bearman Foundation The Estate of Carol McCord Baltimore Estate Planning Council David and Helen Braitman Mrs. Sonia D. Blumenthal* The Joseph Mullan Company Baltimore Office Of Boudewien and Paul Brand Sander and Norma K. Buchman Fund Marguerite Greenman Promotion And The Arts Mr. Thomas Brantigan The Annie E. Casey Foundation Nancy S. Offit Foundation Penny Bank Ms. Rosemarie Brazeau Deering Family Foundation Morris and Nancy Offit Dr. Mitchell Bard Carolyn and David Braverman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ernst President’s Committee on The Arts and Lee Barker Ms. Shirley Braverman The Estate of Hazel Ann Fox Humanities Ms. Danielle Barner Ms. Amy Brennan H&S Bakery, Inc. The RCM&D Foundation John and Ruella Barnes Rebecca and Josh Brenner Mr. Bill Paterakis Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, Inc. Mr. John I. Barnes, II Mr. Robert Breyer Mrs. Betty Himeles and The Martin S. The Jim and Patty Rouse Charitable Ms. Mabel Barron Paul and Jane Brickman Himeles, Sr. Foundation Foundation James and Sheila Barry Jeremy Bridges The Letaw Family Foundation, Inc. Suzan Rouse Anjula Batra Dr. Nancy Bridges The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation Ronald and Kathryn Shapiro Ms. Kimberly M Battista Susan Bridges and Bill Van Dyke Dr. Thomas Pozefsky Southwest Airlines The Kenneth S. Battye Charitable Trust Ms. Jeanne Brinkley The Rales Foundation Ms. Patricia Stephens Mr. Brian Bayerle Ms. Janet Briscoe Barry and Susan Rosen Travelers Foundation John Beach Thomas and Michele Broemmelsiek Jacob S. Shapiro Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Ms. Jane Beard Ms. Martha Bromberger-Barnea at the suggestion of Thomas Wilson Foundation Ms. Stephanie Bechtel Ms. Jenny Bromley Jane Baum Rodbell Wright Family Foundation John and Mary Ann Beckley Steven Brooks and Ann Loar Brooks Stanley Rodbell Mrs. Sarah Beckwith Ms. Sarah Brooner Lockhart Vaughan Foundation UNDER $10,000 Claire Beissinger Brown Capital Management Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Zenilman Anonymous (3) Ms. Heidi Bell Brown Memorial Woodbrook Herbert and Betty Aaron Harry and Janice Benham Presbyterian Church $10,000–$49,999 Dr. Eileen Abel Ms. Eileen Bennett Karen and Robert Brown ALH Foundation, Inc. Emile Bendit and Diane Abeloff David Bercuson Kristen Handy-Brown Ms. Marin Alsop Mr. Harland Abraham Ms. Lane K. Berk Ms. Lynette Brown William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund Eric and Robin Ace Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Ms. Amy Bruce Baltimore City Foundation William and Dorothy Achor Ms. Cynthia Berman Ms. Jeanne Brush Dr.* and Mrs. Linwood Ivey William L. and Victorine Q. Adams Gerardine Berman Ms. Sandra Brushart Baltimore Ravens Foundation Howard* and Deborah Berman Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Baltimore Women’s Giving Circle Mrs. Marjorie Rodgers Cheshire Bunny Bernstein Player’s Committee Bank of America Ms. Kathryn Adams Mr. Toby Bernstein Mr. Stephen C. Buckingham Tiger Baron Foundation AHS Charm City Chapter Ms. Danielle Beyers Dr. David G Bundy Dr. Lillian Bauder Mr. Zachary Alberts Robert Biagiotti Mr. Peter Van Buren Sheldon and Arlene Bearman George and Frances Alderson Marjorie Bigham Ms. Susan L. Burgert BGE Mr. and Mrs. Tedd Alexander, III Elizabeth Binford Ms. Lori Burghauser Mr. and Mrs. A.G.W. Biddle III Karl and Kathy Alexander Judy and Dave Binkley Kathleen and Brian Burr The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein ALH Foundation, Inc. William and Martha Bishai Mark and Dana Burrough Foundation David and Bonnie Allan John and Carol Bishop Jeffrey and Ann Burt The Estate of Jean Louise Bloom David Allen Scott and Katherine Bissett Dr. Nancy Burton-Prateley Mr. Frank A. Bonsal, Jr. Mrs. Elise Allen Bithgroup Technologies, Inc. Mrs. Amy Burwen Stanley and Dorah Brager Ms. Shirley Allen Mr. Black Ms. Kristin L. Bussell Shirley Brandman and Stephen and Kristen Allen Mrs. Irene E. Black Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Butler Howard Shapiro Thomas and Carol Allen Ms. Katherine Blakeslee Aaron Bycoffe The Peter David Brendsel Fund for Willow and Hollys Allen Mr. Louis Blank Ms. Sharon Byrd Children Literacy AmazonSmile Mary and Morton Blaustein Charles and Judy Cahn Ellen and Dorsey Burger Christoph and Joanna Amberger Nancy Blaustein and J. Patrick Cal Ripkin Sr. Foundation, Inc. The Clinton Family Fund American Trading & Production Harrington James Calderwood and Joyce Johnson Ellen and Linwood Dame Corporation The Blavatt Family Ms. June Caldwell The Rothschild Foundation Ms. Barbara Ames Mrs. Marilyn Bliden Dr. Nathan H. Carliner Mr. James DeGraffenreidt and Dr. Mr. Will P. Amland Miriam Blitzer Ms. Janice Campbell Mychelle Farmer Diana Andrews Rachel Bloch Candlelight Concert Society, Inc. Betty Lee and Dudley P. Digges Ms. Susan Angell Bloomberg Philanthropies The Canticle Singers Of Baltimore Memorial Fund The Estate of Ms. Barbara Appell In Honor of Terry M. Rubenstein Daryl Caplan and Bob Bryant Ms. Alice Dorshow Steven and Kristen Appel Joyce and Robert Bloor Jamie Caplis The Estate of William B. Eddison Arnold and Suzanne Applefeld Mia Bock Benjamin and Myrna Cardin Family League of Baltimore City, Inc. Mrs. Ruth Aranow Ms. Brenda J. Bodian Theodore and Gregory Carski Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust Mr. Paul Araujo Ms. Carol Bogash Ms. Margaret Carlton The Samuel G. and Margaret A. Gorn Louise Armstrong Elizabeth Boison Carrolltowne Elementary Foundation Tina and Todd Armstrong John and Carolyn Boitnott John H. Carter Dr. Michael Hansen and Belinda Arrington Mrs. Barbara Bond Tyonne Carter Ms. Nancy Randa Ms. Mary Ann Ashcraft John and Elizabeth Bond Ms. Meghan K. Casey Walter and Stephen Howard Jill Asman Boomerang Fund For Artists Ms. Mary V. Cashdollar Betty Huse MD Charitable Foundation Mr. William Backstrom and Ms. Tracy Dr. Jean Boone and Mr. Randy Boone Mr. Allen Cassity Kaplan Seidel Fund Lambros Charles Booth William and Kristina Catto Mr. James T. Kelley, III Calvin H. Baker and Lidia Paz-Baker Adam and Meredith Borden Robert and Penny Catzen Peter T. Kjome Mrs. Carol Lynn Baker Neal and Winnie Borden Jennifer Cawthra Stephen M. and Maria T. Lans Mr. Gary Baldwin Dr. Andrea Bowden Matthew Cellini League of American Orchestras David and Susan Ball Ledley Boyce Ms. Jeanne Celtnieks Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation F.G. Ball Mr. Gerald Boyd, Sr Juno Chang and Kyungeun Park

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Ronald McDonald House Charities James and Anne Dale Mr. & Mrs. John H. Engel Pinkney and Yvonne Garner Ms. Susan Gerrity Chase Ms. Laurel Damashek Mr. Michael Enright Mr. Robert Garnet Ms. Karen Chasen Linwood Dame Epworth United Methodist Chapel Leete and Jamie Garten Mr. James Chen Dr. Dallas Dance Mr. Raphael D. Erfe John and Christine Gazurian Ms. Lenis Chen Irwin Danels Ms. Carol Erhardt Ms. Gail Geller Hosea T. Chew Marcia Daniel Yener and Brenda Erozan Judith Geller and Michael Raitzyk Ms. Rebecca Howell Chew Patricia Daniel Ms. Karen McNamara Esposito Ms. Gretchen Genello Mr. Wayne G. Ching Jane and Worth* Daniels Patrick and Janice Eteme John Gerwig Chipotle Ron Daniels and Joanne Rosen Mr. Alan W. Evans Phyllis Joy Gestrin Mrs. Kristine Cho Mrs. Sarah David Charles and Beth Evans Ms. Vera Gibbs Mrs. Constance Chriss Tema S. David Exchange Club of Highlandtown Inc. Wilson and Jeanne Gildee Jean Christianson Mr. Thomas E. Davies Exelon Corporation Raquel Whiting Gilmer Mrs. Karen Cicmanec Hal Davis and Susan Levine John Eyring Susan Gilson Mr. George Ciscle Miss Cynthia Dawson Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Farinacci Mr. & Mrs. James L. Ginsburg The Classic Catering People Douglass and Susan Day Seth Goldman and Julie Farkas Ms. Arlene Gioia Classical Conversations of Ellicott City Ms. Kathryn L. Day Mrs. Kathleen D. Farno Mr. John M. Gipson Sally Clayton and Leslie Graef Ms. Jovonne C. Day-Miles Ms. Carmen L. Farrior Mrs. Suzanne L. Given CLD Partners Mr. Eugene M. de Lara Arthur and Eena Feld Corliss and Thomas Glennon Clean Currents Lisa DeCamp Mark and Beth Felder Michael and Jane Glick Aris and Jennifer Cleanthous Dorothy and Stephen Degaray Mrs. Katherine Feldmann Ms. Jeanette Glose Emery and Edith Cleaves Mrs. Marion DeGroff Sandra Feldman Ms. Kayla Gluck Ms. Tara Clifford Ms. Camille Delaney-McNeil and Melissa and Ilya Feliciano Mr. Christopher Gocke Mrs. Mary Close Aaron McNeil Mr. H. Stephen Fender Mr. Adam Goers Mary Jo and Brad Closs Judy Delbera Jianhua Feng and Zhibing Chen Mr. Justin Golart Samuel Parker Clothier Lisa Delima Mrs. Allison Ferguson Mrs. Louise Goldberg Ms. Sybil R Coblenzer Mrs. Barbara DeLouise Marlene and Walter Ferguson Lewis and Louise Goldfine Mrs. Anne Codd Mr. and Mrs. J. Scott Denlinger Ms. Gladys Fernandez Barry and Florence Goldgeier Alan and Deborah Cohen Mr. Miguel Dennis Kathleen and Jorge Fernandez David and Eleanor Goldstein Allen and Ellen Cohen Mrs. Barbara K. Dent Mark Fetting and Georgia Smith Thomas and Andrea Goldstein Howard and Barbara Cohen Marie des Jardins and John Park Mr. Stephen Filer Ms. Jenny Good Howard and Nancy Cohen Mrs. Tanya Deshields-Yates Bonnie Finch Katherine Goodrich Ms. Nancy L. Cohen Kevin and Loretta D’Eustachio Matthew Firor Marion and James Goodrich Samuel Cohen and Joan Piven-Cohen Mrs. Mariam D’Eustachio Alvin and Hilda Fisher Carol and Russell Gordon Dr. Steven Cohen Ms. Geraldine Diamond Frances Fisher Ms. Lynne T. Gorman Ms. Suzanne Cohen Susan Dibs and M. Douglas Baker Morton and Ann Fisher The Estate of Dailinia Gorn Ms. Jill Cohen Lenox Dingle Sara Fishman Julie and Stephen Gottlieb Ms. Corinne Coleman Sheila Ann Dixon Frederick Flaccavento Ms. April Gottsagen Paula Coleman William Dixon Ms. Joanne Flax Dr. Meredith Gould Mr. and Mrs. Reco Collins Miss Sylvia Betts Dodd Jerome and Rosemarie Fleg Mr. James Gouldmann Philip and Mary Combs Ms. April Dodge Kelly Fleming Mr. & Mrs. Leslie H. Graef The Joseph Mullan Company Carol Dodson Ms. Lois Flowers Grafton Consulting LLC Conductors Guild Leslie Donnelly Veronica Foley Mr. Andrew Graham Constantine Commercial Construction Ms. Barbara A. 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Denise Galambos Joann Gusdanovic and Lisa Evans The Honorable Elijah Cummings Edwards & Hill Communications, Mr. Matthew Gallagher Ms. Julia Guth Mr. Max Curran LLC Ms. Nancy Gallagher Ms. Adelaide A. Habel Mr. Jackson Curreri Gretchen Edwards Ms. Christina Gallo Miles and Ronnie Haber Meosotis Curtis Willem Van Eeghen Ms. Ethel W. Galvin Ms. Stephanie R. Hack Ms. Raymarlyn Curtis Dr. Georgia Franyo-Ehlers Gamma Boule Foundation Eric Hadaway Ms. Ellen B Cutler Ms. Paula Ferris Einaudi Ms. Barbara Gamse Kenneth and Arlene Haddock Carol and John Cyphers Mary and James Elliott Nona Gandelman Ms. Marian Hahn Ms. Maris St. Cyr Todd Elliott Jeffrey Gangwisch and Kathryn Haller and Jeffrey Johnson D’Addario Foundaion Stuart and Margery Elsberg Robbye Apperson Fern and J. Edward Hamel Sophie Dagenais Mrs. Gabriella Emmett Lyle Garitty Carole Hamlin and C. Fraser Smith

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Riggio Ms. Barbara Matthews Mr. Joseph Francis Mrozek Ms. Nancy Parker The Estate of Robert Riley Lance Matthiesen Mr. Kirk Mullen Edward and Kathleen Patey Mrs. Lynda Aalpoel Riley Daniel and Agnes Mazur Mrs. Joy Munster Maureen Patton Stephen Robb and Judy Honig Michael McCaffery and Beverly Mr. William Murphy Ms. Pamela Paulk Maria Robertson Wendland Mrs. Carrie Murrie Ms. Ana Pavich Cecil and Donna Robinson Mr. Ronald McCallum Claire Myer and Robert Schuck The Pearl Foundation Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Ms. Mary Stuart McCamy Mr. Andrew Myer Ms. Amy Peck Dr. Ann Rogers David and Susan McCardell Roy and Gillian Myers Ms. LaTasha Peele Mr. Jonathan Rogers Ms. Valencia McClure Margot B. Nadien Catherine and Luis Penafiel Mrs. Ashleigh Rohm Mr. Leo C. McDonagh Dr. Sheila Namir William and Kathleen Pence Roland Park Women’s Club Ms. Jamie McDonald Mr. Marc Narkus-Kramer Ms. Margaret Penhallegon Sara Rollfinke Sen. Nathaniel J. 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Ms. Mariette Hiu Newcomb Ms. Ruth Pettus Mary Ross and Donna Martin Lauren Mendelsohn Jennifer and Thomas Newlin Ms. Thien-Kim Pham Paul Rothman and Frances Meyer Ms. Michelle N Mendez Miss Alexandra Ng Jonathan Philipson Ms. Amalie R. Rothschild Ms. Carol Merrell David Nickels and Gerri Hall Ms. Lesley Pierce Lissa Rotundo Abel Merrill Mr. Ron Nicodemus Mr. Wendell Pierce Roundwood Fund Dr. Maria W. Merritt Ms. Arline Nitzberg Ms. Jo-Ann Pilardi Ted and Lucinda Rouse Mr. Randolph Metcalfe Ms. Anna Noon Thomas and Natalie Pilon Clark and Constance Row Ms. Jill Meyer Norfolk Southern Foundation Audrey and Thomas Pinkney Ms. Maryann Rozzell Harvey and Phyllis Meyerhoff Antonella Nota and Mark Clampin Michael* and Lisa Pintzuk Mr. Michael S. Rubenstein Neil and Sayra Meyerhoff Mark and Alice Notis Arthur and Judith Pittenger Mr. Peter Ruchkin Joseph Meyerhoff and Dawna Cobb Ruth and Michael Notis PLDA Interiors Dr. Janice Marie Rusnak Mr. Lou Mezzanotte Ms. Anne-Marie Ntagahoraho Ms. Judith Plott Mr. Ira Russcol Daniel and Kay Michaelis Susan K. Numrich Teresa Pollet Neil and JoAnn Ruther Ms. Susan Middaugh Andrew and Sharon Nussbaum Elizabeth Porter The Honorable and Gary and Jill Miller Mr. Charles Ober Ms. Deborah Lou Potee Mrs. Boyd Rutherford Herbert and Carrie Miller Ms. Heather O’Brien The Isaac & Leah M. Potts Christine Rutkowski Stephen and Susan Miller David and Laura O’Callaghan Foundation, Inc. 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Elise and David Saltzberg Rachel Silber Dr. Michael Szedlmayer Francie Weeks and Scott Shane Jeffrey and Diana Samet Ms. Gillian Silver Ms. Margaret Taliaferro Wen Wei Jon and Barbara Samuels Morton and Harriet Silverstein Ms. Sharron D. Tan Cara Weiman Mrs. Jeanne Samuels Mrs. Alyssa Silverstein James and Carolyn Tancock Mr. Howard Weinberg Wendy Sanborn Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Simms Ms. Milagritos Tapia D’Arcy and Bruce Weinberger Ms. Kirsten E. Sandberg Ms. Marjorie B. Simon Mr. Benjamin D. Tauber Brian and Karen Weinstein Ms. Maureen Sandberg Mrs. Elizabeth Simon-Higgs Ms. Holly Ann Taylor Sheldon and Harriet Weinstock Dina and John Sarbanes Mrs. Muriel Simon Ms. Angel Terol Ilene and Stephen Weiss Mrs. Jennifer Sarlin Wendy and Mike Singer Mr. Andrew J. Tesoro Mr. Fred Weiss Ms. Molla Sarros Ellwood and Thelma Sinsky Ms. Claudia Tesoro Mr. Joseph Weiss David and Ann Saunders Barbara and Joseph Skillman David and Carolyn Thayer Marie Wells Ms. Brenda Saunders Dr. and Mrs. James W. 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Torres Gerard Whitmore Mr. Benjamin Scherer Norman and Rona Smith Towson University Scott and Mary Wieler Joanne Schmader and Michael Casassa Ms. Patricia M Smith Alice Tracy Mr. Thomas Wilcox John and Deborah Schmidt Mr. Graylin Smith Carol Traub Mr. Eugene Wilkins Linda Schmidt Mr. James Smith Jim and Karen Trennepohl Jeri S. Wilkins The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke and Dr. and Mrs. William Smulyan True Q, LLC Mr. R. Adam Williams Dr. Patricia L. Schmoke, MD Lee and Gloryann Snyder Ms. Carole Trump Margaret D. Williams Greg and Pauline Schneider Ms. Shirley Snyder Ms. Kristen Tubman Mr. and Mrs. Ray Williams Ms. Jean Schoenleber Ms. Stephanie Snyder Robin and Harold Tucker Ms. Judith D. Willner Dr. Hendrik P. Scholl Ms. Joan Sobkov Stanley and Cynthia Tucker Ms. Caroline Wilner Dee and Robert Schuette Richard and Lorna Solomon Ms. Kelley Tucker Judy and Fred Wilpon Rick and Tracey Schultz Alfred and Jill Sommer Rebecca Tucker Ms. Felecia Wilson Fred and Janet Schutzman Joyce and Yeong Song Kathy Tugendhat William and Mary Beth Wilson Jim and Charlene Schwark Ms. Geetika Sood Ms. Kathryn Turner Susan Savits Winson Eleanor Schwark Courtney Spangler Kristin and Rex Turner Ricco Winters Mr. Neil Herbert Schwartz Dr. Frank Sparandero Mr. Donald Tynes, Sr Mr. Daniel Wise Frederick and Kathleen Schwarz Ms. Betty Spear Evans and Rose Tyson Frank Witter and Mary Forbes Witter Barbara Schweizer Scott and Heather Speert Uber Allen Wolf Mr. James Scott Ms. Suzanne Spencer James and Therese Ulmer Mrs. Melissa Wolf Lyndi Scott-Strite Don Spero and Nancy Chasen Ms. Marlene Underwood Woman’s Club of Roland Park Mr. Wayne Scott Kimberly Spiro United Way Central MD Mr. Ken Wong Paula Seabright and Gabriel Hightower Mrs. Mary T. Sprow United Way Of Greater Kansas City Mr. Ken Woodbury Second Presbyterian Ms. Teerada Sripaipan Dana Valery Ms. Sarah Woodson Church of Baltimore Eric and Karen Stahl Ms. Kathryn Vaselkiv Mrs. Sandra Wool Mrs. Sarah Sedlak Barbara and Frederick Stam Mr. Eric Veiel Ms. Barbara Worsham Clair Segal Terry and Deborah Stambaugh Venable LLP John and Ann Wotell Dr. Priya Sekar Michael and Katherine Stanka Eric and Noreen Victor Ms. Frances Ann Wright Valerie Serrall Jerrica Stanley Marguerite and Umberto VillaSanta Dr. Andrea Wurster Ms. Alexis Seth Wilma and Lee Starkey Jan and Robert Wagner Mattie Wynne Maxine Seyboth Mr. Charles Starkey Frank and Jane Walker Nicholas and Ellen Yancich Judith Shamir Joan Stearman Kent and Suzanne Walker Ellen Yankellow and Bill Chapman M. Sigmund and Barbara Shapiro Ronald and Susie Stern Ms. Doris Walker Rong Ye and Max Hu Stephen and Anita Shaw Ms. Andrea Stern Mr. Harley Walker Charles and Carol Yoder Ms. Joanne Shea Stephen and Sue Sternheimer Ms. Christine L. Wallace Ms. Eileen Yoffe Mark and Lauren Sheehan Deborah Stetson David and Chris Wallace Kyle and Melissa Yoon Dr. Louise Sheiner Alexandra Stevens Ms. Catherine A. Walsh Ellen Yorke Ms. Martha E. Shelhoss Susan Stewart Ms. Jacqueline Walsh Michael and Barbara Young Ms. Barbara Shelhoss Shale Stiller and Ellen Heller Eleanor and Michael Walton Mr. Neil Young Stephen Shepard and Peggy Hetrick Ms. Carrie Wilson Stockwell Ms. Frances Warner Pamela Young Ms. Patricia Shiflett Ms. Shirley H. Stokes John and Susan Warshawsky Paul and Deborah Young-Hyman Ms. Gloria Shin Corey Stone Mr. and Mrs. David Warshawsky Norman and Mary Youskauskas Ms. Mary Shine Ms. Jacquelyn Stone Mrs. Manuele D. Wasserman Robert and Miriam Zadek Lucia Shoemaker and John Schwab Geary L. Stonesifer Leland and Marjory Watermeier Ms. Ellen Kahan Zager Samuel and Josephine Shore Mr. Thomas Stosur Ms. Tracy Watkins Joanne Zarling Mr. Craig Shore David and Susan Straus Ms. Barbara J. Watson Ms. Marya Zeigler Burdette and Judith Short Ms. Angela M. Strope Michelle and Trevin Wear Mr. Shawn Zeigler Alexander and Patricia Short Jeffrey and Erin Strovel Elizabeth and John Weaver Lydia Zieglar Mr. Sheldon Shugarman Ms. Harriet Stulman Meg and Paul Weber Steve Ziger Mrs. Virginia G. Shuger Mrs. Bonnie Stump Lisa and Paul Webster The Estate of Dr. Mildred Zindler Richard and Francine Shure Ms. Barbara Styrt Lazar Wechsler and Kaethe Jeff Zoller Leonard and Virginia Siems Dr. Robert Summe Wechsler-Jentzsch Jean Silber Dr. Edward Syron The Wednesday Club *Deceased

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JANUARY 1, 2018 – MARCH 31, 2019 The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is deeply grateful to the individual, corporate, foundation and government donors whose generosity to the Annual Fund supports our artistic, education and community engagement initiatives. Gifts were received from the following donors between January 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019.

Please note that this Annual Fund listing does not include the generous gifts made in support of the Endowment and/or OrchKids. To donate, please contact the BSO Members Office at 410.783.8124 or visit BSOmusic.org/donate.

THE CENTURY CLUB The Huether-McClelland Foundation Steven Brooks and Ann Loar Brooks $100,000 or more George and Catherine^ McClelland Mr. and Mrs. George L. Bunting, Jr. Marin Alsop Scott Phares and Judy Witt Phares Ms. Mary Catherine Bunting Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Steven R. Schuh and the Schuh Family Ms. Kathleen A. Chagnon Foundation and the Estate of Ruth Marder Dr. and Mrs. Charles I. Shubin August and Melissa Chiasera The Bozzuto Family Charitable Fund Joan Piven-Cohen and Samuel T. Cohen Thomas Brener MAESTRA’S CIRCLE DIAMOND Mr. and Mrs. Robert Coutts Sarellen and Marshall A. Levine, M.D. $15,000–$24,999 Chapin Davis Investments Hecht-Levi Foundation Anonymous Mr. and Mrs. H. Chace Davis, Jr. Mrs. Robert H. Levi * and Sandra Gerstung Mr.* and Mrs.* Alexander Armstrong Marie des Jardins and John Park Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Mr. and Mrs. Jack Biddle III Ms. Margaret Ann Fallon Alena and David M. Schwaber The Bunting Family Foundation Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts Dr. and Mrs.* Solomon H. Snyder Caswell J. Caplan Charitable Joanne Gold and Andrew A. Stern Income Trusts/Constance R. Caplan LaVerna Hahn Charitable Trust FOUNDER’S CIRCLE Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cowie, Jr. Wendy M. Jachman $50,000–$99,999 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davison Riva and Marc Kahn Ruth Carol Fund Mrs. Lynn Deering Loren Kayfetz and Pat Pannell Dr. and Mrs. Allan Jensen Alan and Carol Edelman William La Cholter and Jenny R. Mann Patricia and Mark Joseph Mr. Ira B. (Bill) Fader Jr. Richard W. Therese Weil Lansburgh Mr. * and Mrs. William Mulligan Sandra Levi Gerstung Endowment Fund Ben and Esther Rosenbloom Foundation Dr. Michael Hansen and Nancy Randa Drs. Yuan and Reiko Lee Michelle and Howard Rosenbloom Linda Hambleton Panitz Richard Wayne Ley Mr. and Mrs. Stephen D. Shawe Morris Shapiro Family Foundation Macht Philanthropic Fund of the Associated Ellen W.P. Wasserman Barbara Katz Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff The John J. Leidy Foundation, Inc. Elizabeth K. Moser $25,000–$49,999 Howard Majev and Janet Brandt Majev Dr. Selvin Passen Anonymous (2) Virginia West Martin Mr. Joel J. Rabin and Dr. Nancy Kohn Rabin Donna and Paul Amico RCM&D / Albert R. Counselman William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund Hilary B. Miller and Dr. Katherine N. Bent Creator of the Baker Artist Awards William and Kathleen Pence Arnold and Alison Richman www.bakerartistawards.org The Rothschild Charitable Foundation Barry and Susan Rosen Richard and Carol Bernstein Ellen and Linwood Dame Neil J. and JoAnn N. Ruther The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Shykind Dr. and Mrs. John H. Sadler Robert H. Boublitz Richard C. and Julie I. Vogt Dr.* and Mrs.^ Marvin M. Sager “In Memory of Harry A. Boublitz” David and Chris Wallace The Honorable and Mrs. James T. Smith, Jr. Diane and Leland Brendsel Ellen Yankellow and William Chapman Melissa and Philip Spevak The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Mr. Andrew A. Stern and Mrs. Joanne Gold Foundation MAESTRA’S CIRCLE PLATINUM Mr.* and Mrs. Gideon N. Stieff, Jr. The Deering Family Foundation $10,000–$14,999 Dr. and Mrs.* Carvel Tiekert Sara and Nelson* Fishman Anonymous Thalheimer-Eurich Charitable Fund, Inc. The Goldsmith Family Foundation, Inc. “In Memory of Gavin and Mary Manson” Louis Thalheimer & Juliet Eurich The Peggy and Yale Gordon Trust Dr. James Albrecht Mr. and Mrs. Loren Western Young Artist Sponsor Stanley Asrael Mr. Edward Wiese Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold IV The Charles T. Bauer Foundation Barbara and Mike Young Mrs. Barbara Gruver Andrew and Janet Hartman SC&H Group Nancy Hackerman Erin Becker Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Hamilton Jr. Dr. Emile A. Bendit and Diane Abeloff Ensign C. Markland Kelly, Jr. Ellen and Ed Bernard * Deceased Memorial Foundation Richard O. Berndt ^ Governing Members Executive Committee

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BSO AT THE MEYERHOFF Jolie and John Mitchell Betsy and John Bond Ms. Patricia Krenzke and HONOR ROLL Dr. and Mrs. C.L. Moravec Dr. Helene Breazeale Mr. Michael Hall The following donors contribute Mrs. Joy Munster^ Dr. and Mrs. Donald D. Brown Allan Krumholz to support music and music Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nerenberg^ Mr. Donald and Ms. Kristen Krzyzewski and education throughout the Kevin and Diane O’Connor Mrs. Catherine L. Burke Dr. David Yalowitz Baltimore community. Drs. Erol and Julianne Oktay Mr. and Mrs. Robert Butler Dr. James and Mrs. Lynne LaCalle Dr. and Mrs. David Paige Mr. and Mrs. S. Winfield Cain Anna and George Lazar MEYERHOFF GOVERNING Dr. and Mrs.* Lawrence C. Pakula Ms. Kelly Cantley and Ruth and Jay Lenrow MEMBERS GOLD Beverly and Sam* Penn Mr. Ken Weisenborn Dr. Frances and Mr. Edward $5,000–$9,999 Mr. and Mrs. Randall S. Robinson Michael and Kathy Carducci Lieberman Anonymous Ms. Jane S. Rodbell Marilyn and David Carp Ms. Louise E. Lynch Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Allen Terry M. and James Rubenstein Ms. Susan Chouinard Donald and Lenore Martin Rick and Meredith Apfel Dr. and Mrs. John H. Sadler Wandaleen and Emried Cole Virginia West Martin L.A. Benson Company M. Sigmund and Barbara K. Shapiro Dr. Elizabeth H. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Mathews Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Philanthropic Fund Steven P. Collier Drs. Edward and Lucille McCarthy Deborah and Howard* M. Berman Mr. and Mrs. J. Mark Schapiro David and Ellen Cooper Tim Meredith Bunny Bernstein Ronald and Carol Sher Robert A. and Jeanne Cordes John Meyerhoff, MD and Lenel John and Marjorie Blodgett Francesca Siciliano and Mark Green Charles A. Corson Srochi-Meyerhoff John and Bonnie Boland Jean Silber John Hirsch and Rebecca M. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Miller August and Melissa Chiasera Dr. and Mrs. Harris J. Silverstone Cowen-Hirsch Margot and Cleaveland Miller Mrs. Suzanne F. Cohen* The Honorable and Ernie and Linda Czyryca Patricia J. Mitchell E. Lee Cole Mrs. James T. Smith, Jr. Robert Daffer Drs. Dalia^ and Alan^ Mitnick Mr. William Copper^ Ms. Leslie J. Smith Dr. and Mrs. Cornelius Darcy Rex E. Myers Faith and Marvin Dean Nancy E. Smith Mr. and Mrs. William F. Dausch Ted A. Niederman and Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr. Cape Foundation—Turner B. and Arthur F. and Isadora Dellheim Ricka Neuman Dr. and Mrs. Thomas DeKornfeld Judith R. Smith Foundation, Inc. Roger F. Nordquist Ronald E. Dencker Karen and Richard Soisson Mr. Daniel and Mrs. Mary Dent “In memory of Joyce C. Ward” Kathy and Frank Dilenschneider Janice Collins and James Storey Nicholas F. Diliello “In memory of the Rev Howard G. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis H. Diuguid Carolyn and David S. Thaler Walter B. Doggett III and Norton and Charles O. Norton” Dr. Sylwester J. Dziuba “In Honor of Barbara Bozzuto” Joanne Frantz Doggett Drs. Antonella Nota and Dr. Sonia and Dr. Myrna Estruch Mr. Oliver and Mrs. Mary Jean Travers Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Drachman Mark Clampin Dr. R. Samuel^ and Ms. Andrea Fine John and Susan Warshawsky Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Droppa Anne M. O’Hare John A. Galleazzi and Susan G. Waxter Bill and Louise Duncan Jay and Lisa Orlandi Elizabeth A. Hennessey Ms. Debora Sue Weisbacher Mr. and Mrs.* Laurence Dusold Dr. Bodil B. Ottesen Betty E. and Leonard H. Golombek Delegate Christopher and Donna Z. Eden and Henry* Goldberg James D. Parker Kenneth L. Greif Anne West Michaeline Fedder Mac and Helen* Passano Dr. Diana Griffiths Mr. and Mrs. T. Winstead, Jr. John and Pam Ferrari Fred and Grazina Pearson Mrs. Barbara Gruver Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Zurwelle Marguerite Walsh and Bernie Finn Marge Penhallegon Dr. Todd Phillips and Ms. Denise David and Merle Fishman Mr. and Mrs. James Piper Hargrove^ MEYERHOFF GOVERNING Dr. and Mrs. Jerome L. Fleg Helene and Bill Pittler Melanie and Donald Heacock MEMBERS SILVER Lois Flowers David and Lesley Punshon-Smith Sandra and Thomas Hess $3,000–$4,999 Dr. Georgia Franyo-Ehlers Peter E. Quint Zuckerman Spaeder LLP Anonymous (4) JoAnn and Jack Fruchtman Robert Bowie, Jr. and Susan Chase David and Susan Hutton Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Adams Mr. Robert Gillison and Paul Rivkin M.D. and Karen Jackson Susan and Stephen Immelt Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Adkins Ms. Laura L. Gamble Nathan and Michelle Robertson Mr. Joseph Jennings, Jr. and George and Frances Alderson Gale Gillespie Richard and Diane Roca Ms. Sally M. Jennings Dr. James M. Anthony Helaine and Louis Gitomer Rona and Arthur Rosenbaum Louise and Richard F. Kemper Paul E. Araujo Sandra and Barry Glass Jeffrey Rothstein MD, PhD and Peter T. Kjome Jackie and Eugene Azzam Brian and Gina Gracie Lynn A. Bristol PhD Mrs. Ronnie Kleiman Mrs. Thomas H.G. Bailliere, Jr. Toni Greenberg Robert W. Russell Paul Konka^ and Susan Mr. David A. and Shaun F. Carrick and Dr. John Rybock and Ms. Lee Dugan-Konka^ Mrs. Susan M. Balderson Ronald W. Griffin Kappelman David* and Barbara Kornblatt Amy and Bruce Barnett Anne and Stephen Hahn Beryl and Philip Sachs Miss Dorothy B. Krug Chris H. Bartlett Carole Hamlin^ and C. Fraser Smith Dr. and Mrs. Michael Salcman William La Cholter and Donald L. Bartling Gary C. Harn Ms. Doris Sanders Jenny R. Mann Ms. Franca B. Barton and Drs. Ruby and Robert Hearn Lois Schenck and Tod Myers Sandy^ and Mark^ Laken Mr. George G. Clarke Mr. David L. Heckman Mrs. Barbara K. Scherlis Therese* and Richard* Lansburgh Hellmut D.W. Bauer Mrs. Hya Heine* Jeff M. Schumer Mr. Fred and Mrs. Jonna Lazarus Dr. and Mrs. Mandell Bellmore Bruce and Caren Beth Hoffberger James and Carol Scott Richard Wayne Ley Donna and Stanley Ber Robert and Marilyn J. Hoffman Mr. Sanford Shapiro Earl and Darielle Linehan Mr. and Mrs. Charles Berry Jr. Bill and Ann Hughes Stephen Shepard and Peggy Hetrick Dan and Agnes Mazur / Norfolk Ms. Hugh Bethell Mollie W. Jenckes Thom Shipley and Chris Taylor Southern Foundation Ellen Baron Blaustein and In memory of John T. Ricketts III Ronnie and Rachelle Silverstein Mr. Randolph Metcalfe Mordecai P. Blaustein, M.D. Richard and Brenda Johnson John Singer Sheila J. Meyers The Blavatt Family Susan B. Katzenberg Ellwood and Thelma Sinsky Mr. Charles Miller Schenerman Family Fund Marcel and Barbara Klik Mr. and Mrs. Scott Smith

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Carolyn B. Mills and Judith L. Kahl Mr. Michael B. and Ms. Jane Glick BSO AT STRATHMORE Dr. John A. Snyder Peter Leffman Judith A. Gottlieb HONOR ROLL Gloryann and Lee Snyder Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Family John D. Gottsch, MD and The following donors contribute to Dr. and Mrs. John Sorkin Foundation, Inc. Julia A. Haller, MD the BSO at Strathmore Artistic Fund to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sponseller Dr. Frank C. Marino Foundation Mr. Charles H. Griesacker support music and music education Anita and Mickey Steinberg Diane and Jerome* Markman Joel and Mary Grossman throughout Montgomery County Mr. Edward Steinhouse Mr. Jordon and Mrs. Beverly Max Mr. and Mrs. Donald Gundlach and the DC Metro community. Mr. Shale D. Stiller and Mrs. Kenneth A. McCord Dr. Mary T. Gyi Judge Ellen Heller Sally J. Miles Mary Hambleton STRATHMORE GOVERNING Harriet Stulman “In memory of Richard Kastendieck” Paulette G. Hammond MEMBERS GOLD Susan and Brian Sullam Dr. Eddie Molesworth Mr. Loring Hawes $5,000–$9,999 Ruth & Robert Taubman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Petrucci Mimie and Robert Helm Anonymous (2) Raymond G. Truitt and Mr. and Mrs. John Brentnall Powell Mr. Matthias Holdhoff Community Foundation for the Mary K. Tilghman Mr. & Mrs. Marvin S. Schapiro Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Hunter National Capital Region Ms. Joan Wah Ronald Stiff and Roberta Van Meter Mr. and Mrs. Scott Jacobs The Charles Delmar Foundation William and Salli Ward Marinos and Sebbie Svolos Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jehl Marcia Diehl and Julie Kurland Dr. and Mrs. Matthew R. Weir Thrivent Choice Dollars Grant Funds Honor and John Johnson Ms. Marietta Ethier Mr.* and Mrs. David Weisenfreund Richard Wachter Ann H. Kahan Mary Martin Gant Drs. Susan and James Weiss Charles Emerson Walker, Ph.D. Elizabeth M. Kameen Gerri Hall^ and David Nickels^ John Hunter Wells Ms. Beverly Wendland and Mr. Dr. Richard M. Katz and John Hanson Sean and Jody Wharry Michael McCaffery Martha Lessman Katz Dr. Phyllis R. Kaplan Ms. Camille B. Wheeler and Mr. Dr. Richard Worsham and Ms. Mrs. Shirley Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Keller William B. Marshall Deborah Geisenkotter George and Catherine Klein David Leckrone and Marlene Berlin Mrs. Louise S. Widdup Drs. Paul and Deborah Young-Hyman Mrs. and Mr. Joan G. Klein Marie Lerch and Jeff Kolb Mark and Lisa Wiegmann Laurie S. Zabin Dr. Roland and Ms. Barbara Kreis Dr. James ^ and Jill Lipton^ Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy A. Wilbur, Jr. Fran and Geoffrey Kroll Susan Liss and Rabbi Fred Reiner Jennifer and Leonard Wilcox MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY Andrew Lapayowker and James Lynch and Anne Woodard Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Barry F. Williams SOCIETY SILVER Sarah McCafferty Frank Maddox and Glenda Finley Ms. Beverly Winter $1,200–$1,999 Esther S. Layton Mr. and Mrs. Humayun Mirza Susan Wolman Anonymous Cynthia Levering Dr. William W. Mullins Chris and Carol Yoder Phyllis and Leonard J. Attman Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Levy Mr. Dave Pauza and Ms. Maria Salvato Mr. Edward L Bednarz Ms. Elizabeth Masterson Jan S. Peterson and Alison E. Cole MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY Arthur and Carole Bell Mary and Barry Menne William B. and Sandra B. Rogers SOCIETY GOLD Mr. Robert Bingham Mr. Alan S. Merenbloom Mike and Janet Rowan^ $2,000–$2,999 “In loving memory of Jim Kehoe Lester* and Sue Morss Daniel and Sybil Silver Anonymous (2) and Polly Schweibinz” Ms. Marita K. Murray John and Susan Warshawsky Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Abrams Dr. John Boronow and Susan and Stuart Nathan Elizabeth and Bill Weber Mr. and Mrs. W. Michael Andrew Ms. Adrienne Kols Michael and Rosemary Noble Allan and Wendy Williams Msgnr. Arthur W. Bastress “In Memory of John R. H. and Mr. and Mrs. William Osborne Dr. Edward Whitman^ Roy Birk Charlotte Boronow” Dr.* and Mrs. Arnall Patz Clark-Winchcole Foundation Carolyn and John Boitnott Jean B. Brown Mr.* and Mrs. Morton B. Plant Ms. Deborah Wise / Ms. Jean K. Brenner “In memory of Robert W. Brown” Mr. and Mrs. Elias Poe Edith and Herbert F. D. Brown, Jr. Charitable Trust Chuck and Beth Bullamore Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Prince Lehman Foundation, Inc. Loretta Cain Dr. Robert P. Burchard Carl and Bonnie Richards Marti and Clarence Carvell Paula and Peter Burger Mr. and Mrs. William R. STRATHMORE GOVERNING Mr. Matthew S. Cole and Dr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Burnett Richardson, Jr. MEMBERS SILVER Dr. Jean Lee Cole Mr. and Mrs. David Callahan Jo Ellen and Mark Roseman $3,000–$4,999 Mr. and Mrs. John W. Conrad, Jr. Mrs. Mary Ellen Cohn Mr. Seymour S. Rubak Alan V. Asay and Mary K. Sturtevant Mr. Mark and Ms. Deborah C. John and Donna Cookson John B. Sacci and Leonard and Gabriela Bebchick Deering Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Crooks Nancy Dodson Sacci Dr. Nancy Bridges Mrs. Nancy S. Elson James Daily Peter and Susan Scheidt Mr. Vincent Castellano Mr. and Mrs. John C. Frederick Rev. and Ms. DeGarmo Marilyn and Herb* Scher Dr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Feldman Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gallagher Dr. Alfred J. DeRenzis Ronald and Cynthia Schnaar Anthony and Wyn Fitzpatrick Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Gehris Dr. Jeanne A. Dussault and Burdette Short Neil R. Greene and Ellen G. Miles Ellen Bruce Gibbs Mr. Mark A. Woodworth Joan and Edward Sills Marc E. Lackritz and Mary DeOreo Robert Greenfield Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Elsberg & the Ms. Patricia E. Smeton Burt and Karen Leete^ Stephanie R. Hack Elsberg Family Foundation Renate and Richard Soulen Darrell Lemke and Maryellen Trautman Fritzi K. and Robert J. Hallock Dr. and Mrs. Robert Fleishman Thomas and Joan Spence Dr. Diana Locke and Mr.* and Mrs. E. Phillips Hathaway Mr. Joseph C. Flynn and Bruce and Lynne Stuart Mr. Robert E. Toense Betsy and George Hess Mrs. Donna Flynn Bill and Lisa Tate R. Noel Longuemare Barbara and Sam Himmelrich Dr. and Mrs. William Fox Robert and Sharonlee Vogel Ong Family Grace Fund Thelma M. Horpel Mr. Robert S. Gaines Charles and Mary Jo Wagandt Howard and Linda Martin^ Ms. Susan Hovanec Dr. and Mrs. Donald S. Gann Mr. and Mrs. Kent Walker Kari Peterson and Benito R. and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hubbard, Jr. Audrey and Stanford G. Gann, Sr. Jim and Leslie Wharton Ben De Leon Mr. Christian C. Johansson George Garmer Christopher H. Winslow Lynn Rhomberg Max H. Jordan, Jr. Mr. Price and Dr. Andrea Gielen Sander L. Wise Roger and Barbara Schwarz

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BSO Members enjoy exciting benefits that bring them even closer to the music, beginning at $75 with a behind-the-scenes Don Spero and Nancy Chasen George and Sue Driesen look at a BSO rehearsal. At higher levels, you can celebrate with Alan Strasser and Patricia Hartge Drs. Charles and Cynthia Field your BSO musicians at cast parties, and our Governing Thomas M. Ward Mr. and Mrs. Karl Flicker Members (donors $3,000 and above) enjoy priority ticketing Sylvia and Peter Winik Robert and Carole Fontenrose and other exclusive benefits. Louis R. Forbrich Jr. and STRATHMORE SYMPHONY Kathleen M. Forbrich SOCIETY GOLD Mr. and Mrs. Roberto B. Friedman $2,000–$2,999 Carol and Jerry Gimmel UPCOMING BSO MEMBER EVENTS The Adler Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Sanford A. Glazer All events are open to both Meyerhoff and Strathmore Anonymous Marlene and William Haffner members, regardless of the host venue. Caroline W. and Rick Barnett Keith and Linda Hartman Cecil Chen and Betsy Haanes Ms. Marilyn Henderson and Dr. Mark Cinnamon and Mr. Paul Henderson Upcoming Meyerhoff Events: Ms. Doreen Kelly Rita Mahon and Richard Henry Dimick Foundation Esther and Gene Herman ON-STAGE REHEARSAL John C. Driscoll Ellen and Herb Herscowitz THU, MAY 9 Kathleen Emery David A. and Barbara L. Heywood 9:15 am, Continental Breakfast Robert and Patricia Fauver Linda Lurie Hirsch 10 am, Rehearsal Dr. Edward Finn Madeleine and Joseph Jacobs* GOVERNING MEMBER SILVER MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($3,000+) Dr. and Mrs. Harvey R. Gold Ms. Daryl Kaufman Drs. Joseph Gootenberg and Peter Kimmel and Stephanie Jackson Get up close and personal with violinist James Ehnes Susan Leibenhaut Ms. Kathleen Knepper and your BSO musicians as they rehearse Tchaikovsky’s David and Anne Grizzle Anita Difanis and Richard Krajeck virtuosic Violin Concerto. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hoefler R. Noel Longuemare Fran and Bill Holmes Michael and Judy Mael ALLEGRETTO DINNER Betty W. Jensen Mr. Mark Mattucci and THU, MAY 30 Stephen Kramer Ms. Judith A. Furash 5:30 pm, Cocktails in Meyerhoff Lounge Rita and Bernard Meyers David and Kay McGoff 6:30 pm, Dinner in the Park Avenue Lounge Mary Padilla David and Anne Menotti Herb and Rita Posner Merle and Thelma Meyer $60 per person, meal selections to follow Richard and Melba Reichard Dr. and Mrs. Stanley R. Milstein SYMPHONY SOCIETY GOLD MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($2,000+) Donald M. Simonds Ms. Barbara and Dr. Mortimer Mishkin Join us for an evening of food and wine, culminating in Karen Rosenthal and M. Margaret O’Rourke Beethoven’s final piano concerto “Emperor,” performed Alexander Stiffman Kevin W. Parker by André Watts. Janice and Richard Tullos Mr. and Mrs. Peter Philipps Henry and Debbie Tyrangiel Thomas Plotz and Catherine Klion Marc and Amy Wish Andrew and Melissa Polott OPEN REHEARSAL Donald and Carolann Regnell FRI, JUN 7 STRATHMORE SYMPHONY Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Rogell 9:15 am, Light Refreshments SOCIETY SILVER Mr. and Mrs. Barry Rogstad 10 am, Rehearsal $1,200–$1,999 Jo Ellen and Mark Roseman BEETHOVEN LEVEL MEMBERS AND HIGHER ($150+) Anonymous (5) Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rosenbaum Come and hear Marin Alsop conduct Mahler's monumental Charles Alston and Susan Dentzer Dr. Janice Marie Rusnak Mr. and Mrs. Larry Avrunin Dr. and Mrs. S. Gerald Sandler Ninth Symphony. Mr. William J. Baer and Estelle Luber Schwalb Ms. Nancy H. Hendry Steven and Donna Shriver Upcoming Strathmore Events: Dr. Marilyn Bate Leslie J. and Andrew D. Skibo Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Bergman Marshall and Deborah Sluyter MUSICAL MONDAY Sherry and David Berz Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Spero MON, MAY 6 Bea and Roger Blacklow Gary Hartmann and Lori Stone 7:30 pm at St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church Ms. Jane B. Boynton Mr. and Mrs. Richard Swerdlow (5450 Massachusetts Ave, Bethesda) Mr. Richard H. Broun and Dr. Andrew Tangborn Ms. Karen E. Daly Rev. Joan Taylor Enjoy an evening of chamber music with BSO Musicians. Gordon F. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Wartofsky Mingle with these artists and your fellow supporters at a post- Ms. Sharon P. Brown David Wellman and concert dessert reception. Ms. Barbara Brownridge and Marjorie Coombs Wellman Mr. Thomas E. Walsh Ms. Susan Wellman BEHIND THE SCENES Mr. Nicholas Burger and Len Wiener and Edie Herman WITH AB SENGUPTA Ms. Dawn Alley Dr. Ann M. Willis and Mr. John Grigg SAT, MAY 18 Frances and Leonard Burka Lynne Yao 6 pm on the Marriott Concert Stage at Strathmore Charitable Fund H. Alan Young and Abhijit Sengupta, BSO’s Director of Artistic Planning, gives a Mr. Harvey A. Cohen and Sharon Bob Young, Ph.D. pre-concert talk on the complex process of planning a full Mr. Michael R. Tardif Collins Family Fund * Deceased orchestra season. Tickets to the 8 pm concert not required to Mr. and Mrs. David Cohen ^ Governing Members Executive attend the talk. Questions welcome! Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dante Committee EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE For Meyerhoff events, please RSVP to [email protected] or 410.783.8074. For Strathmore events, please RSVP to [email protected] or 301.581.5215. MAR–APR 2019 / OVERTURE 39 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

and other BSO education and outreach programs are essential. Harvey grew up in Queens, regularly attending musical and theatrical performances in New York City, both as a student and with his family. His mother was an amateur flutist with the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and he has played the piano and sung in choruses since childhood. Michael grew up in rural Maine, where opportunities to study music or experience live performance were more limited. He has special memories of listening to symphony and opera recordings with his family and enjoying live performances of touring chamber ensembles at his school. “My life is so enriched by classical music,” Harvey says. “I can’t imagine a world without it. Exposure is so important!” Michael had no idea how difficult it is to become a world-class musician until he began studying voice. This experience has deepened his appreciation of what professional singers and musicians do, especially the mastery of both Harvey Cohen and Michael Tardif the technical demands and emotional HARVEY COHEN AND MICHAEL TARDIF were so excited when Strathmore expression that opera singers must achieve opened in February 2005 as the second home of the Baltimore Symphony to sing and act simultaneously. Orchestra. They were delighted to have “a great orchestra and world-class “Imagine hearing Mozart, Brahms or Beethoven live in their day,” says Harvey. concert hall” so close to their home in Bethesda. Harvey and Michael quickly “It’s still exciting to hear their music live. Now became BSO subscribers, and in 2010 they relocated right next to Strathmore. everything is accessible through technology, “Now we walk to concerts, and the music follows us home. We are very spoiled!” but no recording can come close to live performance. Part of hearing is feeling—it’s a visceral connection.” He delights in being Harvey, a hydrogeologist, studies piano; his Bernstein’s MASS, Beethoven’s Symphony surprised by unexpected musical interpretations, husband Michael, an architect, studies voice. No. 9 (anytime!) and Act 1 of Die Walküre especially when performers take advantage Both are passionate about music, especially during the 2011 Wagner centenary. of the acoustical differences between the live performance in a beautiful concert hall Harvey and Michael believe that Strathmore and Meyerhoff concert halls. with state-of-the-art acoustics. “There is everyone, especially children, should have To give these experiences to future nothing like the experience of live the opportunity to hear and perform music. generations, Harvey and Michael have made performance,” says Harvey. “There is nowhere You learn to “listen carefully, absorb the a bequest to the BSO. “You can’t take it with else you can go to hear quiet, unamplified music, soak it in.” They know that musical you, but you can give the amazing gift of music.” To which Michael adds, “For the price training develops critical thinking and music! Live performance is ephemeral. If of a ticket, you have something that stays with communication skills and note how you’re not there in the moment, it’s gone. you forever. I live for those performances that well-spoken and poised young musicians You have to make it possible for other people last a lifetime.” Favorite BSO moments include are. Both agree that OrchLab, OrchKids to have that experience.”

YOUR MUSICAL LEGACY Please let us know if you have named the BSO in your estate plans—we would like to thank you! To learn more, please contact Sara Krusenstjerna, Director of Philanthropic Planning, at 410.783.8087 or [email protected]. Please visit BSOmusic.giftplans.org.

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The Board of Directors of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra established The Legato Circle to honor individuals who have included a charitable gift to the BSO in their long-term financial plans, securing a legacy of musical excellence for future generations.

WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOLLOWING LEGATO CIRCLE MEMBERS: Anonymous (5) Jim Doran Gwynne and Leonard Horwits Marge Penhallegon George and Frances Alderson Freda Dunn Mr.* and Mrs. Richard E. Hug Beverly and Sam* Penn Donna and Paul Amico Dr. Jeanne Dussault and David and Susan Hutton Cornelius Ridgely Dr. James M. Anthony Mr. Mark Woodworth The Honorable* and Amalie R. Rothschild Paul E. Araujo John and Donna Easton Mrs. Christian M. Kahl Doris Sanders Michael J. Batza, Jr. and Carol and Alan Edelman Dr. Phyllis R. Kaplan Lois Schenck and Tod Myers Patricia K. Batza Margaret A. Fallon Mrs. Barbara P. Katz Eugene* and Alice Schreiber Hellmut D.W. (Hank) Bauer Mr.* and Mrs. Maurice R. Feldman Jo Ansley B. Kendig Susan Sharp Nancy H. Berger Debra Brown Felser and Peter T. Kjome Burdette and Judith Short Barry D. and Linda F. Berman Gary Jay Felser Nicholas Klise Susan and Charles Shubin Deborah R. Berman Haswell M. and Madeline S. Paul Konka and Susan Jim and Sandy Smith Mr. David H. Bernstein Franklin Dugan-Konka Nancy E. Smith Bea and Roger Blacklow JoAnn and Jack Fruchtman Suzan Kiepper Krannich Dr. and Mrs.* Solomon H. Snyder Ellen Baron Blaustein and John A. Galleazzi and Miss Dorothy B. Krug Catherine R. Soares Mordecai P. Blaustein, M.D. Elizabeth A. Hennessey Dr. James and Lynne LaCalle Karen Soisson John and Marjorie Blodgett Audrey and Stanford G. Gann, Sr. Dr. Sandra R. Leichtman Mr. Edward Steinhouse George and Joan Marie Gebhardt Mrs. Alma T. Martien Bond Ruth and Jay Lenrow Dr.* and Mrs. Harry S. Stevens Sandra Levi Gerstung Sharon P. Brown Lynne and Joseph J. Lentz, Jr. Harriet Stulman Mrs. Norma Goldberg Ms. Jeanne Brush Joyce and Dr. Harry Letaw, Jr. Dr. and Mrs.* Carvel Tiekert Patrick M. Green Dr. Robert P. Burchard Sarellen and Marshall A. Leonard Topper Bob Greenfield John Cahill Levine, M.D. Reggi and Bill Veatch Stephanie R. Hack Emmy L. Volenick Katharine H. Caldwell Gerri Hall and David Nickels Mr. Richard W. Ley Mrs. Constance R. Caplan Constance J. Lieder Charles Emerson Walker, Ph.D. Dr. Jane Halpern and John Warshawsky Mrs. Selma Carton Mr. James Pettit Earl and Darielle Linehan Hosea T. Chew Joy Mandel and Tim Nehl Susan G. Waxter Carole B. Hamlin Jay M. Weinstein Mr. Harvey A. Cohen and Ms. Denise A. Hargrove Mrs. George R. McClelland Mr. Michael R. Tardif Carol O’Connell Minkin Mark Wiesand Kristine Heine W. Owen and Nancy J. Harvey L. Cohen and Barbara and Michael Hettleman Charles and Amy Miron Martha R. Krach Mrs. Joy Munster Williams, Jr. Mrs. Betty J. Himeles and Rebecca Wingate Mark D. and Judith* L. Coplin The Martin S. Himeles, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nerenberg Dr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cordes Drs. Erol and Julianne Oktay Charles* and Shirley Wunder Foundation Mr. and Mrs.* Calman J. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Cowie, Jr. John Hirsch and Rebecca M. Stanley* and Linda Hambleton Zamoiski, Jr. Anna Weller Dahl Cowen-Hirsch Panitz Ms. Ethel Zelenske Athena and Scott Dalrymple Len and Betsy Homer Mr. and Mrs. John A. Pecora Ronald E. Dencker Beth R. Horton William and Kathleen Pence * Deceased

WE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOLLOWING DONORS, NOW DECEASED, WHO HAVE PROVIDED A LEGACY GIFT IN SUPPORT OF THE BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:

Mrs. Ruth Alsop Mildred and Patrick Deering Robert and Ryda H. Levi Mr. William G. Robertson, Jr. Barbara F. Appell Dr. Perry A. Eagle Robert Lienhardt Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Mrs. Claire Beissinger Winnie and Bill Flattery Ruby Loflin-Flaccoe Randolph S. and Amalie Rothschild W. George Bowles Harvey D. Gold Lauretta Maisel Dr. Henry Sanborn Phyllis Wagner Brill Douglas and Hilda Goodwin Mrs. Jean M. Malkmus Eugene Scheffres and Mrs. Phyllis B. Brotman Dailina Gorn Ruth R. Marder Richard E. Hartt Elizabeth A. Bryan Mr. Joseph P. Hamper, Jr. Esther Holden Miller Mrs. Muriel Schiller Mr. Walter Budko Katharine Hoffman Robert and Marion Neiman Dr. Albert Shapiro Mrs. Frances H. Burman Judith C. Johnson Ralph W. Nichols George Steele Joseph and Jean Carando Dr. and Mrs. Murray M. Margaret Powell Payne Gideon N. Stieff, Jr. Clarence B. Coleman Kappelman Mrs. Margery Pozefsky Howard A. and Rena S. Sugar Sergiu and Robinne Comissiona Albert D. Keller Joan Marie Pristas Mignon Y. Velie Margaret Hammond Cooke Richard M. Lansburgh Thelma T. Randolph Albert and Martha Walker Roberta L. and Richard John Christian Larsen Mr. Robert N. Riley Ingeborg B. Weinberger A. Davis Bernice S. Levinson Lawrence Melvin Roberts Dr. Mildred Zindler

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LEAD GOVERNMENT FUNDERS The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is funded by operating grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, The Citizens of Baltimore County, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Howard County Arts Council, Carroll County Government, and the Maryland State Department of Education.

The Citizens of Baltimore County

SPONSORS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS

THE CENTURY CLUB: $100,000 OR MORE

FOUNDER’S CIRCLE: $50,000–$99,999

$25,000–$49,999

$10,000 –$24,999

$5,000 –$9,999 CITY CAFÉ LORD BALTIMORE HOTEL CORPORATE OFFICE PROPERTIES TRUST MILES & STOCKBRIDGE GEORGETOWN PAPER STOCK OF ROCKVILLE THE IVY HOTEL GORDON FEINBLATT, LLC ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER LLP

$1,000 –$4,999 EAGLE COFFEE COMPANY INC. ELLIN AND TUCKER, CHARTERED EDDIE'S MARKET SUPERIOR TOURS

For more information on joining our team of generous institutional funding partners, please contact the Associate Director of Institutional Giving Gabriella Giannini at 410.783.8022 or [email protected].

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BOARD, ENDOWMENT TRUST & STAFF

BSO BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITI Sara Krusenstjerna Wesley Thompson TICKET SERVICES DIRECTORS DIRECTOR OF PHILANTHROPIC CONDUCTOR OF SO, BSYO Barry D. Berman, Esq. PLANNING Amy Bruce DIRECTOR OF TICKET SERVICES Laura Burrows Matthew Urquhart OFFICERS Erin Mellott ASSISTANT PERSONNEL MANAGER & ANALYTICS Constance R. Caplan ANNUAL FUND MANAGER John Waters Morgan Gullard Barbara M. Bozzuto* MANAGER OF SPECIAL EVENTS Catherine H. McClelland Joanne M. Rosenthal RECEPTIONIST CHAIR DIRECTOR OF PRINCIPAL GIFTS Benjamin H. Griswold IV & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS Eric Johnson Peter T. Kjome* Frank Wise TICKET SERVICES AGENT PRESIDENT & CEO Ann L. Rosenberg Richard Spero HOUSEKEEPER COMMUNITY LIAISON FOR Timothy Lidard Carole Wysocki MANAGER OF VIP TICKETING Lainy LeBow-Sachs* M. Sigmund Shapiro BSO AT STRATHMORE VICE CHAIR DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & Stuart O. Simms COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Juliana Marin Dannielle Sturgeon SENIOR TICKET AGENT Hilary B. Miller* INSTITUTIONAL GIVING VICE CHAIR Maria Veres FOR STRATHMORE COORDINATOR CHAIR LAUREATE ARTISTIC PLANNING COORDINATOR Barry F. Rosen * Peter Murphy Angel Terol TICKET SERVICES MANAGER VICE CHAIR Michael G. Bronfein DIRECTOR, BSO SECOND Steven R. Schuh* Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr. CENTURY CAMPAIGN MARKETING & Michael Suit TREASURER PUBLIC RELATIONS TICKET SERVICES AGENT Calman J. Zamoiski, Jr. Tyler Wert DEVELOPMENT EVENTS Kathleen A. Chagnon, Esq.* COORDINATOR Meredith Burke SECRETARY * BOARD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATES † EX-OFFICIO Rosie Constantine BOARD MEMBERS FINANCE COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR Marguerite Walsh & INFORMATION PRESIDENT Rick Bernstein BALTIMORE SYMPHONY TECHNOLOGY Rafaela Dreisin ENDOWMENT TRUST DIRECTOR OF AUDIENCE Carolyn Stadfeld A.G.W. Biddle, III Janice Johnson DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY SENIOR ACCOUNTANT Kelly Cantley Sandra Files Barbara Kelly Chris Bartlett TREASURER CHAIR Evinz Leigh DIGITAL MARKETING MANAGER August J. Chiasera ADMINISTRATION ASSOCIATE Theresa Kopasek Betsy Osterman Barbara M. Bozzuto PARLIAMENTARIAN Robert B. Coutts Kyle Steele MARKETING & PR ASSOCIATE Kenneth W. DeFontes, Jr DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING Walter Doggett III Sandy Feldman Devon Maloney IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Peter T. Kjome Donna Waring DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS Alan S. Edelman PAYROLL ACCOUNTANT Joseph Meyerhoff, II Freddye Silverman Erin Ouslander Michael F. Ernst Jeff Wright VICE PRESIDENT, SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER COMMUNICATIONS Rick Monfred DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION Sandra Levi Gerstung Steven R. Schuh TECHNOLOGY Lindsay Sheridan Jo Kendig Dr. Michael G. Hansen* DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND VICE PRESIDENT, EDUCATION Andrew A. Stern STRATEGIC ENGAGEMENT Joseph Jennings Jr. Carolyn Lassahn Calman J. Zamoiski, Jr. GENERAL MANAGER Adeline K. Sutter VICE PRESIDENT, MEETINGS Christian C. Johansson Tiffany Bryan GROUP SALES MANAGER & PROGRAMS Robert C. Knott BSO STAFF DIRECTOR OF PATRON SERVICES Sarah Levine VICE PRESIDENT, Rebecca Cain RECRUITMENT/MEMBERSHIP Dr. Sunil Kumar DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA ORCHKIDS Peter T. Kjome AND HALL OPERATIONS Marc E. Lackritz PRESIDENT & CEO Sharniece Adams Larry Albrecht ORCHKIDS LEAD PROGRAM VICE PRESIDENT, SYMPHONY STORE Sandy Laken† Sarah Beckwith Shirley Caudle HOUSEKEEPER COORDINATOR GOVERNING MEMBERS CHAIR VICE PRESIDENT & CFO Vicki McAdory OFFICE MANAGER Alvin Crawley Paola Avila Marshall A. Levine, MD* Raquel Whiting Gilmer ORCHKIDS LEAD PROGRAM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ORCHKIDS MANAGER OF FACILITIES Howard Majev, Esq. COORDINATOR Jamie Kelley Morgan Daly Valencia McClure VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION ASSISTANT Rachel Burbank ORCHKIDS PROGRAM MANAGER overture Jay Orlandi Linda Moxley Rose Ferguson VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING HOUSEKEEPER Sean Campbell PRODUCTION E. Albert Reece, M.D. & COMMUNICATIONS ORCHKIDS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Jess Griggs Devon Maloney Terry M. Rubenstein* Tonya McBride Robles OPERATIONS MANAGER Camille Delaney EDITOR VICE PRESIDENT Nicholas Hersh ORCHKIDS DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS Stephen D. Shawe, Esq. & GENERAL MANAGER Janet E. Bedell ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / April Dodge PROGRAM ANNOTATOR CONDUCTOR OF YO, BSYO Dan Shykind Adrienne Shevchuk ORCHKIDS DIRECTOR OF EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO THE Jinny Kim DEVELOPMENT Meredith Burke James T. Smith, Jr. PRESIDENT AND CEO SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Kurt Fedde Solomon H. Snyder, M.D.* Hannah Borowski ORCHKIDS ADMINISTRATIVE Rosie Constantine ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO † Kimone Kocica COORDINATOR PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Marguerite Walsh SENIOR STAFF AND EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTOR PRESIDENT, BALTIMORE SYMPHONY MANAGER OF VENUE SALES ASSOCIATES Kay Sheppard Alicia Kosack ORCHKIDS SENIOR PROGRAM Baltimore magazine Peter L. Winik DEVELOPMENT MANAGER OF BALTIMORE SYMPHONY MANAGER Custom Division YOUTH ORCHESTRAS 1000 Lancaster Street, Ste. 400 † Ivan Alekhin Nick Skinner Jeffrey T. Zoller Baltimore, MD 21202 CHAIR, BALTIMORE SYMPHONY DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS Jerry Pedroza ORCHKIDS DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS YOUTH ORCHESTRAS COORDINATOR PRODUCTION MANAGER AND STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS 410.873.3900 Louis Diez Julia Perry Miloš Tošić Ken Iglehart DIRECTOR OF ANNUAL FUND AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS ORCHKIDS ARTISTIC AND PROGRAM DIRECTOR LIFE DIRECTORS DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS COORDINATOR OPERATIONS COORDINATOR [email protected] Peter G. Angelos, Esq. Gabriella Giannini MaryAnn Poling 443.873.3916 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF Dan Trahey CONDUCTOR OF CO, BSYO ORCHKIDS ARTISTIC LIAISON Rheda Becker INSTITUTIONAL GIVING Michael Tranquillo Abhijit Sengupta Mollie Westbrook ART DIRECTOR Yo-Yo Ma Demetreus Gregg DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC PLANNING CAMPAIGN & RESEARCH ORCHKIDS SENIOR PROGRAM Lynn Talbert Harvey M. Meyerhoff ASSOCIATE Jared Thigpen MANAGER ADVERTISING DIRECTOR OF FOOD & BEVERAGE ACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVE Robert E. Meyerhoff Monica Jilling Danielle Williams ANNUAL FUND MANAGER, Renee Thornton ORCHKIDS SENIOR MANAGER [email protected] Linda Hambleton Panitz BSO AT STRATHMORE HOUSEKEEPER OF EDUCATION 443.974.6892

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