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OAKLAND SYMPHONY V VI OAKLAND SYMPHONY MESSAGE FROM THE MAESTRO ur March concert begins with two Ogroundbreaking women from very different WHAT’S eras. Louise Farrenc taught piano at the Paris Conservatory during the 19th century and advocated successfully for her equal status with INSIDE her male colleagues, and Jessie Montgomery FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2019 is a rising star amongst composers of our own I RAISE UP MY VOICE | 3 time. I am always happy when we have great OAKLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 4 women composers on our season, as we did GUEST ARTISTS | 5 earlier this year with the great Florence Price. PROGRAM NOTES | 9

With these two concerts, we bring our MarcoSanchez.net Photo: SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2019 Bernstein Centennial observation to a SPRING CONCERT | 13 close, focusing on some of his vocal music. I have long looked forward OAKLAND SYMPHONY CHORUS | 14 to performing Bernstein’s Songfest, and I have Sheri Greenawald of the GUEST ARTIST | 16 San Francisco Opera Center to thank for contacting me and offering to PROGRAM NOTES | 17 provide the soloists from the talented Adler Fellows. We’ll end the season with the music from West Side Story, led by Toland Voice Competition FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2019 winner Julie Adams, a rising star who has sung with us several times in the WEST SIDE STORY | 19 past. This ends another great season which I have thoroughly enjoyed, and I OAKLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | 21 thank you for being a part of it. OAKLAND SYMPHONY CHORUS | 22 GUEST ARTISTS | 24 ~ Michael Morgan, Music Director and Conductor PROGRAM NOTES | 29 SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 SPRING CONCERT | 33 YOUTH ORCHESTRA | 34 MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR GUEST ARTISTS | 35 elcome to the final concerts of the 2018- PROGRAM NOTES | 36 W2019 Oakland Symphony season. Maestro ARTISTIC STAFF BIOGRAPHIES | 39 Morgan continues his vision to leverage local partnerships and raise up the voices of both ABOUT US | 42 rising stars and forgotten works. ANNUAL FUND DONORS | 43 TRIBUTE FUND | 47 In addition to honoring his teacher, Leonard Bernstein, Maestro Morgan features two CALVIN SIMMONS LEGACY SOCIETY | 48 women composers writing almost 200 years ENDOWMENT FUND | 49 apart—Louise Farrenc, one of France’s CORPORATE AND INSTITUTIONAL GIFTS | 49 strongest composers in the 19th century, and st VOLUNTEERS | 50 Jessie Montgomery, a successful 21 century composer and member of the acclaimed IN-KIND DONORS | 51 Catalyst Quartet. In April, Lynne Morrow and the Oakland Symphony BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF | 52 Chorus premiere a new commission titled Mass for Freedom that uses the framework of a traditional Latin Mass to tell the story of the civil rights Cover Design by: Nick Francis movement of the 1960s. Finally, the Symphony features a winner of the Oakland-based James Toland Vocal Competition in West Side Story, and the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra plays their final concert before embarking on a journey as musical ambassadors to China. ADVERTISING Onstage Publications This is YOUR Symphony, featuring the region’s finest talent, performing Advertising Department music that is embedded in the fabric of Oakland. None of this is possible 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 without your support. Thank you! e-mail: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com ~ Dr. Mieko Hatano, Executive Director This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser P.S. Never miss a concert—take advantage of the deals and become a Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45409. This program subscriber today! may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. Onstage Publications is a division of Just Business, Inc. Contents ©2019. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A.

OAKLAND SYMPHONY 1 2 OAKLAND SYMPHONY Business in the Arts Networking Circle Presents I RAISE UP MY VOICE

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LOUISE FARRENC Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 36 I. Adagio—Allegro II. Adagio cantabile III. Scherzo: Vivace IV. Finale: Allegro

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LEONARD BERNSTEIN Songfest 1. To the Poem (Frank O’Hara) 2. The Pennycandystore Beyond the El (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) 3. A Julia de Burgos (Julia de Burgos) 4. To What You Said (Walt Whitman) 5. I, Too, Sing America (Langston Hughes)/ Okay “Negroes” (June Jordan) 6. To My Dear and Loving Husband (Anne Bradstreet) 7. Storyette H. M. (Gertrude Stein) 8. If you can’t eat you got to (e.e. cummings) 9. Music I Heard with You (Conrad Aiken) 10. Zizi’s Lament (Gregory Corso) 11. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed (Edna St. Vincent Millay) 12. Israfel (Edgar Allan Poe) Mary Evelyn Hangley, soprano Natalie Image, soprano Ashley Dixon, mezzo-soprano Chris Oglesby, tenor SeokJong Baek, baritone Christian Pursell, bass-baritone

The 2018–2019 Season of Oakland Symphony is generously funded in part by the East Bay Community Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the California Arts Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and the Oakland City Council and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program.

OAKLAND SYMPHONY 3 OAKLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Michael Morgan, Music Director and Conductor Bryan Nies, Associate Conductor FIRST VIOLIN VIOLA ELECTRIC BASS TRUMPET Terrie Baune, Tiantian Lan, Patrick McCarthy William Harvey, Concertmaster Principal Principal Vivian Warkentin, Margaret Titchener, FLUTE Leonard Ott Asst. Concertmaster Asst. Principal Alice Lenahan, John Freeman Natasha Makhijani, Betsy London Principal Assoc. Concertmaster Stephanie Railsback Amy Likar TROMBONE Kristina Anderson Katy Juneau Rena Urso Bruce Chrisp, Carla Picchi Linda Green Principal Emanuela Nikiforova Clio Tilton OBOE Tom Hornig Stephanie Bibbo Andrea Plesnarski, Steve Trapani Baker Peeples CELLO Principal George Hayes Daniel Reiter, Robin May TUBA Gabrielle Wunsch Principal Scott Choate, Matthew Vincent Joseph Hébert, ENGLISH HORN Principal Maxine Nemerovski Asst. Principal Denis Harper Michelle Kwon TIMPANI SECOND VIOLIN Rebecca Roudman CLARINET Tyler Mack, Liana Bérubé, Elizabeth Bill Kalinkos, Principal Principal Vandervennet Principal Sharon Calonico, Michael Graham Diane Maltester PERCUSSION Asst. Principal Jeffrey Parish Ward Spangler, Adrienne Duckworth Paul Rhodes BASS CLARINET Principal Sergi Goldman-Hull Ginger Kroft Allen Biggs Cecilia Huang BASS Kevin Neuhoff Robert Donehew Patrick McCarthy, BASSOON Alison Miller Principal Deborah Kramer, HARP Josepha Fath Alden Cohen, Principal Meredith Clark, Hande Erdem Asst. Principal David Granger Principal Ben Tudor Carolyn Lockhart Andy Butler KEYBOARD Andy McCorkle HORN Hadley McCarroll, Meredith Brown, Principal Principal Alicia Telford PERSONNEL MANAGER Alex Camphouse Craig McAmis Ross Gershenson Audra Loveland LIBRARIAN Paul Rhodes

RECORDING ENGINEER Tom Johnson, Johnson Digital Audio

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MARY EVELYN HANGLEY, SOPRANO NATALIE IMAGE, SOPRANO first-year Adler Fellow with San Francisco second-year Adler Fellow with San Francisco A Opera, Mary Evelyn Hangley was praised AOpera, Natalie Image was a Metropolitan for her “stunning dynamic range and control.” Opera National Council Grand Finalist, praised Soprano Hangley has been featured on the stages by the New York Times for her “pristine high of the Glimmerglass Festival, Minnesota Opera, notes” and by Operawire for her “crystalline tone and the War Memorial Opera House in San [which] swirled through the house.” Her singing Francisco. Most recently, she performed the role has also been described as “crisp [and] buoyant” of Anna Sørensen in Kevin Put’s Silent Night with “sparkling coloratura and vocal cascades” by at the Glimmerglass Festival. During her two the San Francisco Chronicle after the 2017 Merola years as a Resident Artist with Minnesota Opera, Grand Finale Concert. As a participant in the Hangley sang leading roles for the company, Merola Opera Program, she also sang Clorinda in including Musetta in La bohème, Woglinde Rossini’s La Cenerentola. Last December, Image in Das Rheingold, and Contessa Almaviva in performed the title role in the North American Le nozze di Figaro. In addition to numerous premiere of Alma Deutscher’s Cinderella with comprimario roles, Hanley covered Freia in Opera San Jose. Other appearances have included Das Rheingold, Millicent Jordan in the world performing Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 premiere of Bolcom’s Dinner at Eight and as the Concerto Competition winner and Aurore the title role in Massenet’s Thaïs. She has in Massenet’s Le Portrait de Manon with San participated in many of the country’s leading Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM). young artist programs, including Minnesota Past highlights include Handel’s Messiah with Opera, the Glimmerglass Festival, and the the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra, Johanna Merola Opera Program. While at the Merola in Sweeney Todd (Opera on the Avalon), and Opera Program, Hangley was praised by Opera Mrs. De Rocher in Dead Man Walking (Opera News for singing “…with considerable allure” NUOVA). Image completed her master’s degree when taking over for an ill colleague mid- at SFCM in 2017, studying with César Ulloa. performance of Conrad Susa’s Transformations. Her undergraduate studies were in Toronto, In concert, Hanley has sung Mendelssohn’s Canada, with the Glenn Gould School of the Elijah, Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Saint-Saëns’ Royal Conservatory of Music. Christmas Oratorio, Schubert’s Mass in C major, and will be the soprano soloist in the Verdi Requiem at SUNY Fredonia in Spring 2019.

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ASHLEY DIXON, MEZZO-SOPRANO CHRISTOPHER OGLESBY, TENOR second-year Adler Fellow with San Francisco enor Christopher Oglesby (Woodstock, Georgia) AOpera, Ashley Dixon made her San Francisco Tjoins San Francisco Opera, as an Adler fellow Opera debut as a member of the Angel Quartet in for the 2019 Season. Most recently he was a It’s a Wonderful Life. As a participant in the 2017 Resident Artist at the Utah Opera, where he sang Merola Opera Program, mezzo-soprano Dixon Tybalt in Romeo et Juliette and was the tenor sang the role of Popova in William Walton’s soloist for Handel’s Messiah with the Utah The Bear and also covered the title role in Rossini’s Symphony. This past summer, Oglesby debuted La Cenerentola, ending her summer season on as Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress with the War Memorial Opera House stage singing the Merola Opera Program. Previously, as an an aria from Massenet’s Cendrillon. Dixon’s education artist at the Dallas Opera, he appeared 2016–17 season included her debut with Michigan in Mozart’s Bastien and Bastienne and in Davies’ Opera Theatre in Copland’s The Tender Land The Three Little Pigs. An active soloist and as Mrs. Splinters. In concert, Dixon appeared recitalist, Oglesby recently performed with the on the Hill Auditorium stage as a soloist in Utah Symphony, Abilene Philharmonic, Dallas Mozart’s Requiem and with University of Puccini Society, and Opera Diversitá. Other Michigan’s Men’s Glee Club in Schubert’s recent credits include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Ständchen. She also sang Dido in a concert Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and Box in performance of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with Cox and Box with the Amalfi Coast Festival, University of Michigan’s conducting program. University of North Texas, and Opera in Concert. In the same year, the Gerda Lissner Foundation He holds Bachelor of Music degrees in Vocal awarded her the Encouragement Award for Performance, Choral Education, and Band their Song/Lieder Competition in New York. Education from Lee University and a Master of In past seasons, Dixon was engaged as a young Music degree in Vocal Performance from the artist with the Des Moines Metro Opera, where University of North Texas. she made her professional debut as Flora in Verdi’s La Traviata. Her inaugural summer at the Merola Opera Program in 2015 had her singing La Ciesca in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Mrs. Nolan in Menotti’s The Medium. Dixon holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Music from Louisiana State University.

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SEOKJONG BAEK, BARITONE CHRISTIAN PURSELL, BASS-BARITONE first-year Adler Fellow with San Francisco second-year Adler Fellow with San Francisco AOpera, South Korean baritone SeokJong Baek AOpera, bass-baritone Christian Pursell appeared was last seen in San Francisco as a participant in four San Francisco Opera productions last fall: of the 2018 Merola Opera Program, where as Walter Raleigh in Roberto Devereux, a Jailer in he was featured in the Schwabacher Summer Tosca, Count Lamoral in Arabella, and an Angel Concert. Recently he was a resident artist of the First Class in Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Lyric Opera of Kansas City during the 2018 It’s a Wonderful Life. As a participant in the season where he sang the role of Yamadori in 2017 Merola Opera Program, he received critical Madama Butterfly by Puccini. Baek has earned acclaim for his performance as Dandini in his Bachelor and Master’s degrees at Manhattan La Cenerentola. His 2017 season saw debuts at School of Music in New York. Previous credits both Houston Grand Opera (Tom in Laura include La Traviata (Germont) with Aspen Kaminsky’s Some Light Emerges) and the Vienna Music Festival, La bohéme (Marcello, cover) State Opera (Second Englishman in Prokofiev’s with Martina Arroyo’s Prelude to Performance The Gambler), and he is featured on the 2017 Program, Das land des Lächelns (Tschang), and world premiere recording of Greg Spears’ Le roi l’a dit (Gautru) with Manhattan School of Fellow Travelers with the Cincinnati Symphony Music. Baek won 1st place at the 2018 Alan M. Orchestra. An avid concert soloist, recent and Joan Taub Ades Vocal competition, 3rd place performances include Britten’s War Requiem, at the 2018 Gerda Lissiner International Vocal Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem, and Beethoven’s Competition, and a grant at the 2018 Giulio Symphony No. 9. Pursell’s upcoming engagements Gari competition. He is also a special prize include Samuel in Handel’s Saul with Philharmonia winner at Sonora International competition Baroque Orchestra at Walt Disney Concert Francisco Ariza in Mexico, 2nd place at Alfredo Hall and Handel’s Messiah with the Mormon Silipigni vocal competition at New Jersey State Tabernacle Choir. opera, and 2nd place at New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera. Baek is a recipient of the Presser Foundation and Mae Zenke Orvis Scholarship in Opera Studies.

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MUSE ORCHESTRA During the 2018-19 season, participating students unite from the following 12 Oakland he after-school MUSE Orchestra is one schools to form the MUSE Orchestra: Bella Vista, Tcomponent of Oakland Symphony’s MUSic Cleveland, Franklin, Glenview, La Escuelita, for Excellence (MUSE) program. Aimed at 4th- Laurel, Lincoln, Sequoia Elementary Schools, 6th graders, the MUSE Orchestra is open to as well as Edna Brewer, Claremont, Oakland students from schools not served by our in-school Military Institute, and Roosevelt Middle Schools. mentoring program, as well as the 22 schools Students gain unique opportunities being part of that are, ensuring all Oakland students have the MUSE Program. This past February, students the opportunity to participate in our All-City worked with Michael Morgan and internationally Elementary Orchestra. This weekly program is acclaimed pianist Emanuel Ax. designed to serve as a first training ground for the orchestral experience. The tuition-free program is fully sponsored by Oakland Symphony and hosted by Franklin Elementary School and the Oakland Unified School District. MUSE ORCHESTRA FIRST VIOLIN THIRD VIOLIN VIOLA BASS Ava Calibuso, Adelina Lopez Gabe Gray Alexander Tyrvanen Concertmaster Alyssa Saechao Kiran Beattie Ava Lau Bronwen Cornford Liam Kinguyen CLARINET Darlin Diaz- Cherise Nguyen Oliver Arnold Mizuki Williams Velazquez Chi Sieu Huynh Antonio Rivera García Ella Bohanna Darren Zou CELLO Emiliano Parker Devayani Singh Abigail Tyrvanen TRUMPET Macie Chao Davianna Nguyen Aleya Lopez Johan Rivera García Nishant Rout Garvin Xu Amalia Campbell Kayla Sisavat Sela Sumii Elie Calibuso Bailey McAlister Matthew Beardsley Leah Ho Isaac Pinon SECOND VIOLIN Rosa Parker Itsuka Sumii Aadam Aleem Sol Hegarty Alcantar Kaylee Quach Ava Victoriano Winne Xu Quentin Collins Benjamin Luong Bridget Epstein Edamevoh Ajayi Gavinjon Luong Lucy Lagrone Zia Owens Zoe Khuu

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calls the work “a tribute to the 200th anniversary of the Star Spangled Banner…. Scored for solo string quartet and string orchestra, Banner is a rhapsody on the theme of the Star Spangled Banner. Drawing on musical and historical sources from various world anthems and patriotic songs, I’ve made an attempt to answer the question: ‘What does an anthem for the 21st century sound like in today’s multicultural environment?’ Banner picks up where Anthem left off by using a similar backbone source in its middle section, but expands further both in the amount of references and also in the role play of the string quartet as the individual voice working both with and against the larger community of the orchestra behind them…. The Star Spangled MONTGOMERY Banner is an ideal subject for exploration in contradictions. For most Americans the song represents a paradigm of liberty and solidarity Banner against fierce odds, and for others it implies a JESSIE MONTGOMERY contradiction between the ideals of freedom and (b.1981) the realities of injustice and oppression.”

orn in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, BMontgomery received a Bachelor’s degree BERNSTEIN from the Juilliard School in Violin Performance in 2003. She joined Community MusicWorks in Providence, Rhode Island, and became a member of the Providence String Quartet. She was a founding member of PUBLIQuartet, and has performed in the Catalyst Quartet. She is currently touring with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. Since 1999, she has been affiliated with the Sphinx Organization, which supports the accomplishments of young African-American and Latino string players. In 2012, she completed her graduate degree in Composition for Film and Multimedia at New York University.

In 2009, Montgomery was commissioned by the Providence String Quartet and Community MusicWorks to write Anthem: A tribute to the Songfest historical election of Barack Obama. “In that piece,” she says, “I wove together the theme LEONARD BERNSTEIN from the Star Spangled Banner with the (1918-1990) commonly named Black National Anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing by James Weldon Johnson ubtitled “A Cycle of American Poems for Six (which coincidentally share the exact same SSingers and Orchestra,” Songfest was originally phrase structure). commissioned for the American Bicentennial Year (1976). It wasn’t finished in time, so the When the Sphinx Organization commissioned a world premiere took place on October 11, new work, Montgomery responded with Banner, 1977, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the which was introduced in September, 2014, at Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Bernstein the New World Center in Miami. Montgomery conducted the National Symphony Orchestra,

OAKLAND SYMPHONY 9 PROGRAM NOTES with soloists Clamma Dale, soprano; Rosalind Elias, mezzo-soprano; Nancy Williams, mezzo- soprano; Neil Rosenshein, tenor; John Reardon, bass; and Donald Gramm, bass-baritone.

During the two years of its composition, Bernstein had considered a number of titles before settling on Songfest for the premiere. These included An American Songfest, Six Characters in Search of an Opera, Notes Toward an American Opera, The Glorious Fourth, Mortal Melodies, A Secular Service and Ballet for Voices, among others.

In his program note on the Bernstein website, Jack Gottlieb wrote that Bernstein’s purpose was “to draw a comprehensive picture of America’s artistic past, as seen in 1976 through the eyes of a contemporary artist. The composer has FARRENC envisioned this picture through the words of 13 po­ets embracing 300 years of the country’s history. Symphony No. 3 in G minor, Op. 36 The subject matter of their poetry is the American artist’s experience as it relates to his or her LOUISE FARRENC creativity, loves, marriages, or minority problems (1804–1875) (blacks, women, homosexuals, expatriates) within a fundamentally Puritan society. orn in Paris, Jeanne-Louise Dumont married Bthe flutist and music publisher Aristide Farrenc “The strongest binding musical force in the in 1821. She began piano lessons at the age of Cycle is that of unabashed eclecticism, freely six. She later studied with Anton Reicha, Johann reflecting the pluralistic nature of our most Nepomuk Hummel and Ignaz Moscheles. In eclectic country. The composer believes that with 1842 she became the first woman professor of the ever-increasing evidence of this unfettered piano at the Paris Conservatory, a position she approach to writing new music, typical of many held for thirty years. other composers to­day, we are moving closer to defining ‘American music’. In a musical world Farrenc’s first compositions, for solo piano, were that is becoming ever more international, the issued by her husband’s company in the 1820s. American composer—to the extent that his music She later shifted to chamber music: two piano can be differentiated as ‘American’—inevitably quintets, a piano sextet, two piano trios, a nonet draws from his own in­ner sources, however for winds and strings, two trios, and several diverse and numerous they may be.” instrumental sonatas. She wrote two concert overtures in 1834, which were performed in Paris, Brussels, and Copenhagen, and in 1841, she composed the first of three symphonies. Her music had many admirers, including Daniel- François-Esprit Auber, Fromental Halévy, Hector Berlioz and Robert Schumann.

Her third Symphony was introduced at the Société des concerts du Conservatoire in 1849. Katy Hamilton detects the influence of Weber and Beethoven in it, especially in the first movement, and Mendelssohn and Schumann in the last movement. “The second movement,” she writes, “is a beautifully lyrical Andante; and this is followed by a dancing Scherzo, the music driven forward on insistent, bouncing eighth notes in the lower strings.”

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Oakland Symphony Chorus SPRING CONCERT

Act 1 LYNNE MORROW, African American Spirituals and related songs Chorus Director Amazing Grace John Newton

Bawo, Thixo Somandla (Father, God Almighty) South African Hymn

Hear My Prayer Arr. by Moses Hogan Soon Ah Will Be Done Arr. by William Dawson Abide With Me Arr. by Moses Hogan Wade in the Water Arr. by Moses Hogan Kumbaya/Come By Here Hymn Ain’t Got Time to Die Hall Johnson We Shall Overcome Hymn Your Hand in Mine Betty Reid Soskin, Arr. by Lisa Forkish

Elijah Rock Arr. by Jester Hairston I Want Jesus to Walk with Me Arr. by Moses Hogan, Swen Ervin, soloist

Walk Together, Children Arr. by Moses Hogan Act 2 Premiere of commissioned new choral work, based on African American Spirituals for Oakland Symphony Chorus (Dr. Lynne Morrow) and chamber ensemble. Mass for Freedom Michael T. Roberts I. Kyrie Come by Here II. Gloria Woke Up This Mornin’ With My Mind Stayed on Freedom III. Credo Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round IV. Sanctus Ain’t Got Time to Die V. Agnus Dei We Shall Overcome

The text of Mass for Freedom combines the traditional spirituals with selected text from the Latin Mass Ordinary (in English translation) and additional words by the composer. Mass for Freedom commission underwritten by: SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2019 The Friendship Fund and Mark and Lisa Moss. The 2018–2019 Season of Oakland Symphony is generously funded in part by the AT 8 PM East Bay Community Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH California Arts Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal OF OAKLAND agency; and the Oakland City Council and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. OAKLAND SYMPHONY CHORUS

OAKLAND SYMPHONY CHORUS Vienna, and Prague for its first international tour. Lynne Morrow, Chorus Director The Chorus performs regularly with its partners, Oakland Symphony and Oakland Symphony he Oakland Symphony Chorus enriches our Youth Orchestra, as well as with a variety of other Tcommunity through high quality musical Bay Area orchestras. In June 2018, the Chorus performances and educational workshops that toured Italy and gave concerts in Rome, Pisa, and raise appreciation and understanding of choral San Marco Cathedral in Venice. music, while providing performance opportunities for people who love to sing. Established in 1958, April 2019 marks the premiere of a new choral Oakland Symphony Chorus is one of the East orchestral work, Mass for Freedom, which uses Bay’s finest choirs, and a premier resource for Spirituals (which became Freedom songs in the continuing education in the choral arts. In June 1960’s) as the source material. This commissioned 2015, the chorus travelled to Budapest, Györ, work was written by Bay Area composer Michael T. Roberts.

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SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Jennifer Adler Eva Arce # Laurence Brewer Jeffrey Bean, Jr. Bobbie Altman Joy Atkinson LaVora Copley Wai Pan Chan * Paula Aparicio Becky Bob-Waksburg Swen Ervin Charlie Crane # * Barbara Berry Natalie Balfour Jim Hasler Greg Doolittle Kristie Boering Karenlynne Bradley Gary Johnson Sheldon Greene Lisa Braver Moss Megan Columbus Bernie Juat Doug Jackson Mayotis Cephas Valerie Conwright Bryan Knauber Shakir Mackey Susan Chan Rena David Curtis Lawler Karl Malamud-Roam Valerie Conwright Cynthia Dodge Arnold Lee + Mark Moss Nancy Cotteral Virginia Frederick Robert McCree Michael Nathanson Jane English Lisa Friedman Dana Meyer Joe Orr Suzanne Freedman Nikki Gage Barbara Miller Leo Scurry Nicol Hammond Hannah Ginsborg Louis Orren Ken Saltzstine Liz Harvey Susanna Halliday Ricardo Pastor Mark Slagle Carol Henri Miller Jerry Reynolds Calvin Wall Susan Hernandez Venessa Hebert Steve Schultz Janet Hubbard Margaret Hegg Jim Stenson * Carol Hudson Karen Ivy Cadence Strange Hallimah Jones A.B. Jefferson Jordan Suhr + Assistant Conductor Mary-Jo Knight # Nan Jervey Cole Van Krieken * Section Leader Akemi Kunibe Alix Josefski Ted Vorster # Chorus Advisory Susan Lambert Kate Kinsey Committee Member Beth Lamont Kathy Laurence Jessen Langley # * Stephanie Leveene Annie Liu Shirley Lindley Linda Mrnak Linda Lipner Alice McCain Theresa Lo Laura Miller Nancy Lowenthal Erica Peck Mary Orin Phyllis Pennington- Sylvia Parker # Kent Wendy Pei Zoe Reiniger Sumire Rabb Logan Robertson Dhira Ramakrishnan Abbie Rockwell Carolyn Rising Karen Rossi Lisa Robinson Nanci Schneidinger * Erin Ronhovde Jasmine Strange Annie Shun Ilona Turner # Monique Stevenson Gia White # Gloria Stingly Jennifer Wilde Cynthia Webb- Felicia Wilson Beckford Marianne Wolf Loni Williams * Delia Zavala Siqing Yi

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In his senior year at Dartmouth, he sang in a performance of Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil, conducted by his friend Steven Fox. The power of that music blew his mind – and his perception of choral music – completely away.

He didn’t have much time to think about it then – he was busy writing his rock opera, Lotus Blooming in a Sea of Fire, and his band Stand Up Eight had just released its second album – but All-Night Vigil was a seed that took root deep in his soul. It was a passion for the power of the human voice – a power he felt multiplied exponentially when many voices joined to sing together. As that seed sprouted, grew, and flowered through the years, he dedicated his musical life to writing for voice.

Roberts’ mission is to inspire, enlighten, and entertain through this greatest of all instruments. MICHAEL T. ROBERTS His greatest joy is to draw people together with music, to connect listeners and performers with ichael T. Roberts writes music for voices – poetry, history, faith, meaningful stories, and Mmostly classical, inspired by his vernacular sacred places. roots. He spent his formative years as a songwriter and improviser on electric guitar in rock, jazz, Roberts received his M.M. in Composition from and funk, where music is good if the melodies the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where make you want to sing and the rhythms make he studied under David Garner and studied you want to move. He brings these instincts to choral writing and art song with David Conte. the concert hall, where music is good if it makes He received his B.A. in Music from Dartmouth you think as well as feel, where tradition is deep College, where he studied with Kui Dong. He but individuality is prized. has also studied at the Royal College of Music in London and the Berklee College of Music Growing up in New Canaan, CT, Roberts first in Boston. experienced choral music through weekly hymn singing at the Congregational Church. He thought it was pretty boring.

16 OAKLAND SYMPHONY PROGRAM NOTES Mass for Freedom a more perfect medium for it than a big group of MICHAEL T. ROBERTS people singing together in harmony? At the exact midpoint of the piece, in the heart n the spring of 2017, Lynne Morrow approached of the Credo, I want you to listen closely. You Ime with a powerful concept for a piece: start will hear a section that begins, “I believe in all of with a set of African-American spirituals that human life.” The beliefs expressed in this section evolved into anthems of protest movements, most were written by none other than the singers notably the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. bringing this piece to life for you tonight. Develop a new piece of music from the melodies, utilizing the framework of the traditional five- Their powerful words remind me of what Mass movement Latin mass to explore the sacred roots for Freedom is about, or perhaps what I hope it of these iconic spirituals. will do: inspire strength in you. Whatever may drive you, may you find strength in your beliefs, It took me several months of reading, listening, your values, your roots, your community, and contemplation, and conversations with Dr. your Cause. Morrow to clarify how I wanted to approach this rich, and potentially quite complex, task. I would like to thank: my family near and far Eventually, my vision for Mass for Freedom for supporting me throughout this project; emerged: an unequivocally sacred work that everyone at Oakland Symphony and Chorus— also tells a story – the story of the Civil Rights staff, singers, and players—for midwifing the movement, yes, but really the story of any journey Mass; and most especially Lynne, for entrusting through hardship and despair, undertaken by me with her vision and being there every step of people with common cause who find strength the way. in God and in one another. Could there be a more timeless tale than this? And could there be ~ Notes from Michael T. Roberts

hank you to the following individuals who generously donated in support of T Mass for Freedom commission. The Friendship Fund Mark and Lisa Moss Sheldon Green Margaret Hegg Karen Ivy Gary Johnson Dhira Khosla

OAKLAND SYMPHONY 17 18 OAKLAND SYMPHONY Bell Investment Advisors, Inc. presents WEST SIDE STORY Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS with

Julie Adams—Maria Bobby Conte Thornton—Tony Eileen Meredith—Anita Ryan Bradford—Riff

Oakland Symphony Chorus Lynne Morrow, Chorus Director

Members of Mt. Eden High School Concert Choir Ash Walker, Director

ACT I Prologue Jet Song Something’s Coming Dance at the Gym Blues Promenade Mambo Cha-cha Meeting Scene Jump Maria Tonight America Cool One Hand, One Heart Tonight Quintet The Rumble

INTERMISSION

The 2018–2019 Season of Oakland Symphony is generously funded in part by the East Bay Community Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the California Arts Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and the Oakland City Council and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program.

OAKLAND SYMPHONY 19 Bell Investment Advisors, Inc. presents WEST SIDE STORY Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book by ARTHUR LAURENTS with

Julie Adams—Maria Bobby Conte Thornton—Tony Eileen Meredith —Anita Ryan Bradford—Riff

Oakland Symphony Chorus Lynne Morrow, Chorus Director

Members of Mt. Eden High School Concert Choir Ash Walker, Director

ACT II Entr’acte I Feel Pretty Ballet Sequence Transition to Scherzo Scherzo Somewhere Procession and Nightmare Gee, Officer Krupke A Boy Like That/I Have a Love Taunting Scene Finale

The 2018–2019 Season of Oakland Symphony is generously funded in part by the East Bay Community Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the California Arts Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and the Oakland City Council and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. OAKLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Michael Morgan, Music Director and Conductor Bryan Nies, Associate Conductor FIRST VIOLIN CELLO CLARINET TIMPANI Terrie Baune, Daniel Reiter, Bill Kalinkos, Tyler Mack, Concertmaster Principal Principal Principal Vivian Warkentin, Joseph Hébert, Diane Maltester Asst. Concertmaster Asst. Principal Ginger Kroft PERCUSSION Natasha Makhijani, Michelle Kwon Ward Spangler, Assoc. Concertmaster Rebecca Roudman BASSOON Principal Kristina Anderson Deborah Kramer, Carla Picchi BASS Principal DRUM SET Ellen Gronningen Patrick McCarthy, Artie Storch, Deborah Spangler Principal HORN Principal Emanuela Nikiforova Alden Cohen, Meredith Brown, Asst. Principal Principal PIANO/CELESTE SECOND VIOLIN Ben Tudor Alicia Telford Kymry Esainko, Liana Bérubé, Principal Principal FLUTE/PICCOLO TRUMPET David Chen, Alice Lenahan, William Harvey, GUITAR Asst. Principal Principal Principal John Imholz, Candace Sanderson Rena Urso Leonard Ott Principal Sharon Calonico Amy Likar John Freeman Baker Peeples PERSONNEL MANAGER Adrienne Duckworth OBOE/ENGLISH HORN TROMBONE Craig McAmis Andrea Plesnarski, Bruce Chrisp, Principal Principal LIBRARIAN Tom Hornig Paul Rhodes

RECORDING ENGINEER Tom Johnson, Johnson Digital Audio

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OAKLAND SYMPHONY CHORUS Vienna, and Prague for its first international tour. Lynne Morrow, Chorus Director The Chorus performs regularly with its partners, Oakland Symphony and Oakland Symphony he Oakland Symphony Chorus enriches our Youth Orchestra, as well as with a variety of other Tcommunity through high quality musical Bay Area orchestras. In June 2018, the Chorus performances and educational workshops that toured Italy and gave concerts in Rome, Pisa, and raise appreciation and understanding of choral San Marco Cathedral in Venice. music, while providing performance opportunities for people who love to sing. Established in 1958, April 2019 marks the premiere of a new choral Oakland Symphony Chorus is one of the East orchestral work, Mass for Freedom, which uses Bay’s finest choirs, and a premier resource for Spirituals (which became Freedom songs in the continuing education in the choral arts. In June 1960’s) as the source material. This commissioned 2015, the chorus travelled to Budapest, Györ, work was written by Bay Area composer Michael T. Roberts.

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SOPRANO ALTO TENOR BASS Jennifer Adler Eva Arce # LaVora Copley Jeffrey Bean, Jr. Bobbie Altman Joy Atkinson Swen Ervin Wai Pan Chan * Paula Aparicio Becky Bob-Waksburg Jim Hasler Charlie Crane # * Barbara Berry Natalie Balfour Gary Johnson Greg Doolittle Lisa Braver Moss Karenlynne Bradley Bernie Juat Sheldon Greene Mayotis Cephas Megan Columbus Bryan Knauber Shakir Mackey Susan Chan Valerie Conwright Curtis Lawler Karl Malamud-Roam Nancy Cotteral Rena David Arnold Lee + Mark Moss Jane English Virginia Frederick Robert McCree Michael Nathanson Nicol Hammond Lisa Friedman Dana Meyer Joe Orr Liz Harvey Nikki Gage Barbara Miller Leo Scurry Carol Henri Hannah Ginsborg Louis Orren Ken Saltzstine Susan Hernandez Susanna Halliday Ricardo Pastor Mark Slagle Janet Hubbard Miller Jerry Reynolds Calvin Wall Carol Hudson Venessa Hebert Steve Schultz Hallimah Jones Margaret Hegg Jim Stenson * Mary-jo Knight # Lorraine Hoey Cadence Strange Susan Lambert Karen Ivy Jordan Suhr + Assistant Conductor Beth Lamont A.B. Jefferson Cole Van Krieken * Section Leader Jessen Langley # * Nan Jervey Ted Vorster # Chorus Advisory Annie Liu Alix Josefski Committee Member Terri Matera Stephanie Leveene Linda Mrnak Shirley Lindley Alice McCain Linda Lipner Lisa Melnik Theresa Lo Laura Miller Nancy Lowenthal Jessyca Mitchell Mary Orin Erica Peck Sylvia Parker # Phyllis Pennington- Wendy Pei Kent Sumire Rabb Zoe Reiniger Dhira Ramakrishnan Logan Robertson Carolyn Rising Abbie Rockwell Lisa Robinson Karen Rossi Erin Ronhovde Nanci Schneidinger * Annie Shun Jasmine Strange Monique Stevenson Ilona Turner # Gloria Stingly Gia White # Cynthia Webb- Rose Wang Beckford Jennifer Wilde Loni Williams * Felicia Wilson Siqing Yi Marianne Wolf Delia Zavala

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JULIE ADAMS BOBBY CONTE THORNTON winner of the 2014 Metropolitan Opera roadway: A Bronx Tale (dirs. Robert De Niro & ANational Council Auditions, 2015 George BJerry Zaks). Other NY Theater: My Fair Lady London Award, 2015 Elizabeth Connell prize (Bay Street Theater/dir. Michael Arden); Starting for aspiring dramatic sopranos, and recipient Here, Starting Now (York Theatre Company/ of a 2015 Sara Tucker Study Grant, soprano dir. Richard Maltby, Jr.). Regional: Thoroughly (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera); Julie Adams has been praised by the New York Modern Millie (The Muny/dir. Josh Rhodes); All-male Times for possessing a voice that is “rich, full and Jersey Boys slightly earthy in an expressive way.” A former A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow, Adams most (Two River Theater); World premiere of Ken recently appeared with San Francisco Opera Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors (McCarter Theatre Center/Cleveland Play House); (Paper as Freia in Das Rheingold, and Gerhilde in Die Grease Mill Playhouse). Film/TV: Walküre in Wagner’s The Ring Cycle. She has If Beale Street Could also appeared with San Francisco Opera as Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins); Madam Secretary (CBS); (Netflix); Mimì in La Bohème, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt The Code (CBS). Training: BFA, University of Michigan; Butterfly, Kristina in The Makropulos Case, First RADA. @bobby_conte Lady in The Magic Flute, and Karolka in Jen˚ufa.

Adams is thrilled to once again appear with EILEEN MEREDITH Oakland Symphony. Past roles with Oakland Symphony include Magnolia Hawks in Show ileen Meredith’s mother, a native of Puerto Boat and Rose in Street Scene. The 2018/19 season ERico, moved to Washington, D.C. to work sees Adams’ house debut with Arizona Opera as for the U.S. State Department. Eileen Meredith Anna Sørensen in Silent Night by Kevin Puts, and grew up in Maryland, where she began singing her house debut with Des Moines Metro Opera seriously in public high school. As a young adult, as Mimì in La Bohème. Orchestral engagements she lived in New York City before relocating to include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the the Bay Area. Meredith enjoys singing a wide Phoenix Symphony conducted by Tito Muñoz. range of music, and last fall she headlined a “Celebrating the Arts” concert at Oakland City Center. Her other concert highlights

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include Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Sir Paul Figaro in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. He appeared as McCartney’s Liverpool Oratorio, “Glitter and be Jake Wallace and Sid in La fanciulla del West at gay” from Candide with Oakland Symphony, the Castleton Festival, Virginia, under the baton Handel’s Messiah, Charpentier’s Midnight Mass of Maestro Lorin Maazel. During the 2015-2016 for Christmas, and Poulenc’s Gloria. She has season, he was a Mosher Studio Artist with Opera performed as a soloist with the San Francisco Santa Barbara, singing Masetto in Don Giovanni Symphony, Oakland Youth Orchestra, and many as well as covering the title role. He completed a other groups. residency at Shreveport Opera singing the Baron in La Traviata, Samuel in Pirates of Penzance As an opera singer, Meredith performed with and Dandini in La Cenerentola. Other 2014 companies such as Livermore Valley Opera engagements for the Bay Area native came as and Berkeley Opera before founding Island John Brooke in Little Women for the San Francisco City Opera in Alameda. Her most recent role Conservatory of Music, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte there was Magda in La Rondine. San Francisco for both SFCM and the Santa Cruz Symphony, Classical Voice noted last year that “her upper and Masetto in Don Giovanni for Hidden Valley register has an airy, sparkling quality reminiscent Opera, Carmel, CA. of Joan Sutherland’s.” She has sung lead roles in La Traviata, La Bohème, Lucia di Lammermoor, A proponent of contemporary opera, this past La Sonnambula, Don Pasquale, Rigoletto, summer he made an appearance in the west coast Il Trovatore, Threepenny Opera, Madama Butterfly, premiere of Libby Larsen’s Frankenstein with West and more. She has been vocal director for musicals Edge Opera, and last year made his Canadian debut such as Anything Goes, In the Heights, and in the world premiere of the opera Ours. He has Hairspray. She dedicates her performance to the performed concert work with Oakland Symphony, memory of Silfa Alonso Meredith. American Bach Soloists, Rogue Valley Symphony, Shreveport Symphony, and Opera Parallèle with Nicole Paiment. This past summer, he was a Marc RYAN BRADFORD and Eva Stern Fellow with LA Opera/Songfest. ailed as an “outstanding baritone” (Oregon He is an alumnus of DePaul University and the HMusic News) Ryan Bradford recently made his San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and has debut with Opera Colorado singing Happy in received distinction from the Fort Worth Opera La Fanciulla del West and covering Hannah McCammon Competition, Gerda Lissner Lieder Before in As One. Further roles on tour with Competition, the Loren. L. Zachary Competition, company include Belcore in L’elisir d’amore and East Bay Opera League, Florida Grand Opera Young Patronesses, and the Pacific Musical Society.

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MT. EDEN HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR In the fall of 2015, they were given the Hayward Ash Walker, Director Historical Society’s History award. They perform annually with the Oakland Symphony in their omprised of almost 100 auditioned singers, holiday Let Us Break Bread Together concert to Cthe Concert Choir is the largest ensemble out much acclaim, and are widely applauded by the of a six-choir program involving roughly 130 appreciative standing- room only audiences. They students at Mt. Eden High School in Hayward, performed in New York City’s Carnegie Hall on California.They do exchanges and festivals with Easter Sunday of 2003. In 2009 they returned to many local universities and colleges, including New York City and performed at Alice Tully Hall CSU East Bay, San Jose State University, Cal at Lincoln Center. On Sunday, May 10, 2015, Poly at San Luis Obispo, and San Francisco they once again performed at Carnegie Hall at the State University. They have also performed invitation of Manhattan Concert Productions in with the world-famous Chanticleer Men’s New York City. Ensemble in workshops and public performances. They have performed at conventions for the The ensemble is honored to be invited to American Choral Directors Association, the participate annually in the Golden State Choral California Music Educators Association, and the Competition. Since 1999, the choir singers have Kodaly Music Educators Association of America. consistently placed within the top 5. On the horizon for the 2018-2019 school year is a tour The choir has had distinct honors over the of California colleges and universities throughout years, including performances with the San the state, affording the students an opportunity to Francisco Symphony and Chorus. In November not only visit various institutions, but to also do of 2003, they received the Mayor’s award from exchanges and performances with collegiate choirs the City of Hayward as “Citizens of the Year.” from across the state.

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Mt. Eden High School Concert Choir Ash Walker, Director Emily Nicole Alvarado Alexis N. Flores Chinelle C. Matienzo Bianca Chiara E. Nikolas E. Alvarado Rachel N. Flores Caryn Joy S. Medina Salamida Raphael Amante Bonilla Denia-Joy Molina Danica Mae L. Hannah Bains Jason Fong Elijah Munsayac Salamida Gabriela M. Barahona Justin S. Fong Elleyana Musni Marc Jarrell H. Juliane Barcelona Akilah S. Frazier Christy M. Nguyen Salamida Jonathan E. Bataclan Chloe I. Garcia Phuong H. Nguyen Ana-Carolina V. Brallant Bedolla Sofia A. Genera John N. Nguyen Sambile Balderas Keialana Gomez Yda Francesca A. Natalie Sanchez Alyssa Beltran Elisha R. Green Oliveros Raven Santos Ivan Bognot Stacie Ho Marissa Omaque Xitaly Solis Nathaniel Burgos Laura L. Huynh Sabrina E. Omaque Damien C. Solis Obed I. Caamal Diana Jimenez Joshua Orellana Ornelaz Andre P. Cabrera Kamar D. Jones Kitana I. Palada Alina M. Sotelo Marika Verna T. Caleb M. Kam Espino Shaina L. Sunga Candelaria Omar A. Khan Penny J. Peng Kyle-Jeremiah C. Khalil K. Canlas Anise H. Knox Daevon M. Perdue Tandoc Hollene Claire Eshna S. Lachan Janezza F. Pontaoe Angelina N. Tran A. R. Cutay Daniel K. Larios Alexander Julius R. Brianna Tran Tiana Dang Nemecio Rada Brandon V. Tran Kristina L. De La O Kevin Le Nadia Ramirez Nam H. Tran Ashley D. Digdigan Sophia Lim Robbie Rancap Kenneth M. Tran Elia’shia Duirden Almax F. (AJ) Lising Khiara S. Reddy Nickolous L. Tutana Rich Valentino Marc R. Loreto Jordan L. Robinson Krystal Leah N. W. Eliares Laura L. Ludovico Esperanza L. Vanguardia Rodrigo B. Estavillo Santo Lukito Rodriguez Carlos Zapata Bahena Maya R. Faanunu Angelina Mangonon Eva S. Zavala

OAKLAND SYMPHONY 27 PRE-CONCERT PERFORMERS OAKLAND SPIRIT ORCHESTRA

akland Spirit Orchestra was founded in 2011 Oand features talented 4th-8th graders from all across Oakland. Alison Bailey Streich and Joan Tarika Lewis conduct this innovative group, and their mission is to cultivate a community of hard- working young musicians who uplift the spirits of the world with music and kindness. The musicians in OSO receive all lessons free of charge, the only requirement being attendance at all rehearsals/ performances and a commitment to developing musical excellence. OSO rehearses every week at West Oakland Middle School and maintains a busy performance schedule throughout the year. In addition to performing at such venues as Prescott Circus Theater, the Paramount Theatre, the Oakland Indie Awards, and Outside Lands, OSO’s Outward Bound program also brings music into senior homes and homeless shelters. OAKLAND SPIRIT ORCHESTRA VIOLIN BASS TRUMPET DRUMS Maleah Ward Patrick Botman De’Viona Hodges Eduardo Zapeda Xitlallit Gonzales Ibou Wainwright Ronald Ario Diana Hernandez STAFF Ashley Ferrer PIANO BARITONE Alison B. Streich, Sonae Jones Aamyah Legorreta Jamonte Wells Director Kaylene Jalyn Clark Tarika Lewis, Vongphachanh SAXOPHONE Co-Director Sierra Kang TROMBONE Nirali Bhakta EW Wainwright, DeJon Hollins Estrella Garcia Perez Sonita Som Mentor Hevi Khadadad Leonardo Garcia Perez

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notion; only now we have abandoned the whole Jewish-Catholic premise as not very fresh, and have come up with what I think is going to be it: two teenage gangs as the warring factions, one of them newly-arrived Puerto Ricans, the other self-styled ‘Americans.’ Suddenly it all springs to life. I hear rhythms and pulses, and – most of all – I can sort of feel the forms.” The title was changed to West Side Story.

After a try-out at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., the Broadway opening took place on September 26, 1957, at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. Max Goberman conducted, with a cast that included Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert, Mickey Calin, Ken Le Roy BERNSTEIN and Chita Rivera. The reviews were mostly positive. Brooks West Side Story Atkinson of the Times called it “a profoundly LEONARD BERNSTEIN moving show…as ugly as the city jungles and (1918-1990) also pathetic, tender and forgiving…. Everything contributes to the total impression of wildness, n 1949, choreographer Jerome Robbins ecstasy and anguish. This is one of those Iapproached Leonard Bernstein with a plan to occasions when theater people, engrossed in an adapt Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In his original project, are all in top form…. Leonard diary, Bernstein called it “a noble idea: a modern Bernstein has composed another one of his version of Romeo and Juliet set in slums at the nervous, flaring scores that capture the shrill beat coincidence of Easter–Passover celebrations. of life in the streets.” Walter Kerr, in the Herald Feelings run high between Jews and Catholics. Tribune, quibbled with parts of the production, Former: Capulets; latter: Montagues. Juliet but praised it overall: “The radioactive fallout is Jewish. Friar Lawrence is a neighborhood from West Side Story must still be descending on druggist. Street brawls, double death – it all fits. Broadway this morning. Director, choreographer, But it’s all much less important than the bigger and idea-man Jerome Robbins has put together, idea of making a musical that tells a tragic story and then blasted apart, the most savage, restless, in musical-comedy terms, using only musical- electrifying dance patterns we’ve been exposed to comedy techniques, never falling into the in a dozen seasons.” ‘operatic’ trap. Can it succeed? It hasn’t yet in our country. I’m excited. If it can work – it’s For his part, Bernstein was pleased. “The opening the first. Jerry suggests Arthur Laurents for the last night was just as we dreamed it,” he said. book.” Working titles for the project were East “All the peering and agony and postponements Side Story, The Romeo Show, or even Gangway! and re-re-re-writing turn out to have been worth it. There’s a work there; and whether it finally A month later, Bernstein noted that “prejudice succeeds or not in Broadway terms, I am now will be the theme of the new work. It will not be a convinced that what we dreamed all these years feud of aristocrats that keeps the lovers apart, but is possible; because there stands that tragic story, rather the prejudice of their Jewish and Italian with a theme as profound as love versus hate, families. The music will be serious music. Serious with all the theatrical risks of death and racial yet simple enough for all people to understand.” issues and young performers and ‘serious’ music and complicated balletics—and it all added up East Side Story lay dormant for seven years, when for audience and critics. I laughed and cried as Stephen Sondheim was hired to do the lyrics. though I’d never seen or heard it before. And I After a meeting with Laurents in 1955, Bernstein guess that what made it come out right is that reported: “We’re fired again by the Romeo we all really collaborated; we were all writing the

OAKLAND SYMPHONY 29 PROGRAM NOTES same show. Even the producers were after the dance (“Dance at the Gym”), Tony and Maria same goals we had in mind. Not even a whisper fall in love. Later Tony serenades her (“Maria”). about a happy ending has been heard. A rare They profess their love (“Tonight”). Meanwhile thing on Broadway. I am proud and honored to the Shark girls contrast Puerto Rico with the be a part of it.” mainland United States (“America”). Riff tries to calm his fellow Jets (“Cool”). Maria asks Tony to After 772 performances in New York, the show stop the rumble, as they imagine their wedding went on the road, returning to New York for (“One Hand, One Heart”). Both sides anticipate another 253 performances. The film version, the impending conflict (“Tonight Quintet”). with Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ The gangs meet and switchblades are drawn Tamblyn, George Chakiris and Rita Moreno, (“The Rumble”). Riff and Bernardo are killed. appeared in 1961. It was voted Best Picture of Maria dreams about Tony (“I Feel Pretty”). the Year and earned ten Oscars. Learning that Tony has killed Bernardo, the lovers dream about a peaceful world (“Somewhere”). The plot concerns two teenage gangs, the Jets The Jets ridicule a police officer (“Gee, Officer and the Sharks, and their turf war on the Upper Krupke”). Anita is angry about Tony’s deed West Side of New York City (“Prologue”). (“A Boy Like That/I Have a Love”). Chino arrives Riff, the Jets’ leader, wants a rumble with the and shoots Tony. Maria holds Tony in her arms Sharks. The idea is to challenge Bernardo, leader (reprise of “Somewhere”) as he dies. Gradually, of the Sharks, at the neighborhood dance. Riff all the members of both gangs assemble on either convinces his friend Tony, a former member of side of Tony’s body, ending the feud. The Jets the Jets, to meet at the dance. Some of the Jets and Sharks carry Tony’s body away, with Maria aren’t sure about his loyalty, but Riff believes trailing behind (“Finale”). that Tony is still one of them (“Jet Song”). Tony thinks that something important is about ~ Program Notes by Charley Samson, copyright 2019. to happen (“Something’s Coming”). At the

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Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra SPRING CONCERT

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 I. Allegro aperto Adrienne Burg, oboe (2018 Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition First-Place Winner)

FELIX MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 I. Allegro molto appassionato Mingye Wang, violin (2018 Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition Second-Place Winner)

INTERMISSION

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

ERNEST CHAUSSON Viviane, Op. 5

ZHOU LONG The Rhyme of Taigu

The 2018–2019 Season of Oakland Symphony is generously funded in part by the East Bay Community Foundation; the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; the California Arts Council, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; and the Oakland City Council and the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program. SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2019 AT 2 PM EL CERRITO HIGH SCHOOL, EL CERRITO

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Omid Zoufonoun, Principal Conductor FIRST VIOLIN SECOND VIOLIN CELLO OBOE Janice Yang, Anais Clancy, Ethan Tai Adrienne Burg Concertmaster Principal Blythe Davis Ani Jelalian Isabel Pulido, Gabe Poon, Eamon Riley Asst. Concertmaster Asst. Principal Eric Cho CLARINET Jenny Lee Summer Snelling Olivia Lease Nicholas Ebbers Andrew Chan Matthew Seo Andrea Wang Brian Kong Kayla Phan Claude Schoepfer Trinity Chang Vivien Li Mingye Wang Soomin Kong Milo Klise Joseph Kim Pearl Li Annika Seo Zealin Glick-Rieman George Moseley Joshua Summerlin Ayo Walker BASSOON Anna Ravid Takhmina Abdul Ethan Shin CJ Reith Mereth Niemoeller Rachel Snyder Jonah Makkonen Vincent Ciresi Adrienne Chan Eli Jordan Greta Glueck Sarah Goosen Ervin Young Rosie Ward HORN Davina Co Emma Tam Jewel Cha Mimi Canter Amy He Joanna Zhu Cynthia Shen Jackson Hahn-Smith Zeke Wheeler Sina Kalkan Kavi Amodt Aidan Ngo Kevin Ye Jessie Walker Claire Ma Jada Ramos Maame Dufie Awuah Kristie Phan Cole Lameyer Eva Lozeau de Guzman Jolie Yick BASS TRUMPET Shyam Byrd Ashni Mathuria, Olivia Ott Sarah Chavarria Principal Emma Yin Mia Albano, Camille Borris VIOLA Asst. Principal Aman Malhotra Arielle Zakim TROMBONE Hannah Lam Nistha Panda Allison Rigler Arthur Thach Sarah Bruno FLUTE HARP Shannon Liu Marielle Allen Ashlyn Ng Madeleine Riskin- Nyah Santiago Kutz Lynnea Bao PERCUSSION Vincent Garcia Alice Oh Seth Miu

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ADRIENNE BURG, OBOE MINGYE WANG, VIOLIN drienne Burg lives in Oakland. She joined ingye Wang, a sophomore at Dublin High AOakland Symphony Youth Orchestra in August, MSchool, has been studying violin for about 10 2016. She studies with Jesse Barrett, and has years. He has participated in various competitions taken lessons with world-renowned oboists Allan throughout the Bay Area, and currently studies Vogel and John Ferrillo. Her first solo performance under James Choi. He is now in his fifth year at was in May 2016, of Philip Parker’s Soliloquy and OSYO, and was fortunate enough to have the Dance. She has competed and earned Superior honor of performing in Cuba when the Youth ratings in CMEA Regional and State competitions Orchestra went on tour there in 2016. Mingye in 2016 and 2018. She participated as first oboe in also plays in his school orchestra, where he the first-ever San Jose State High School Honors was the co-concertmaster in his freshman year, Wind Ensemble. and now plays as the principal violist. Outside of orchestra, Mingye has also participated In addition to youth orchestra, she is also a in his school wind ensemble, the DHS Irish member of the Oakland Youth Chorus Chamber Guard, playing bass trombone for concerts Choir. She went on tour with OYC to New and sousaphone for marching season. In his Orleans in April, 2017, and also recorded with free time, Mingye enjoys both composing and the choir at Fantasy Studios in October, 2017. arranging music. He is currently teaching himself the trumpet, which he hopes to bring into She has thoroughly enjoyed attending Cazadero competition one year soon. Music Camp since 2012, first as a camper, and last year as staff. In her spare time, she enjoys playing soccer, supporting her OUSD teachers, and making intricately designed cakes.

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A. Hyatt King describes the Oboe Concerto as “vivacious,” and “distinctly French in style. Its cheerful outer movements have something of an operatic flavour, and the soloist is very much the prima donna.”

MOZART “Allegro aperto” (1st movement) from Oboe Concerto in C major, K. 314 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART MENDELSSOHN (1756-1791) “Allegro molto appassionato” ometime between April and September of (1st movement) from Violin S1777, Mozart wrote an oboe concerto for Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 Giuseppe Ferlendis, who had just come to work for the Archbishop of Salzburg. Mozart took it FELIX MENDELSSOHN with him to Mannheim, where another oboist, (1809-1847) Friedrich Ramm, played it repeatedly. would like to write you a violin concerto This Ferlendis Concerto was long thought to “I for next winter,” wrote Mendelssohn to his be lost, but in 1920 Bernhard Paumgartner friend Ferdinand David in July of 1838. “One in discovered a set of parts in the Salzburg E minor keeps running through my head, and Mozarteum that had belonged to Mozart’s eldest the opening gives me no peace.” son, Carl Thomas. Mozart scholars had been hot on the trail of the lost oboe concerto long before Mendelssohn and David had known each the actual score appeared. other since they were teenagers. By a strange coincidence, they were born in the same house When Mozart was in Mannheim late in 1777, he in Hamburg. When Mendelssohn was appointed was commissioned by a wealthy Dutch amateur conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, named De Jean to write “three short, simple he brought David in as concertmaster. concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute.” By early 1778, he had finished one of the concertos When he saw the rough draft of the score, David and three quartets. De Jean paid him half the fee. remarked: “This is going to be something great!… In his haste to end the matter, Mozart took the There is plenty of music for violin and orchestra, Ferlendis Concerto, transposed it up to D major but there has been only one big, truly great and palmed it off as an original flute concerto concerto (meaning Beethoven’s) and now there (K. 314). De Jean eventually got wind of this will be two.” Mendelssohn replied: “No, no! If I caper and was outraged. The proposed third flute finish this concerto it will certainly not be with concerto was never composed. any thought of competing with Beethoven.”

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It wasn’t until September of 1844 that the The reviews were mixed. The Musical Times Concerto was finished. David introduced it described the Fantasia as “a grave work, exhibiting with the Gewandhaus Orchestra on March 13, power and much charm of the contemplative 1845, with Niels Gade conducting. Two weeks kind.” Fuller Maitland of The Times wrote: “The later, the soloist wrote to Mendelssohn: “I should work is wonderful because it seems to lift one have written you earlier of the success that I had into some unknown region of musical thought with your Violin Concerto. It was unanimously and feeling. Throughout its course one is never declared to be one of the most beautiful quite sure whether one is listening to something compositions of its kind.” very old or very new…. The voices of the old church musicians…are around one, and yet there The Concerto’s popularity sometimes obscures is more besides, for their music is enriched with its structural innovations. Indeed, German all that modern art has done since.” musicians once devised a sing-along motto for the opening theme: “Schön wieder, schön wieder, das Mendelssohn Konzert” (Yet again, yet again, that Mendelssohn concerto).

CHAUSSON Viviane, Op. 5 WILLIAMS ERNEST CHAUSSON (1855-1899)

Fantasia on a Theme hausson’s first purely orchestral work was by Thomas Tallis Cthe symphonic poem Viviane. He wrote it RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS in 1882 and dedicated it to his fiancée Jeanne (1872-1958) Escudier, whom he married the next year. It was first played at a concert of theSociété Nationale hile editing the English Hymnal in 1906, de Musique, conducted by Edouard Colonne on WVaughan Williams included a tune by the Tudor composer Thomas Tallis (c.1505- March 31, 1883. 1585). It was one of eight melodies originally composed for the Metrical Psalter of Matthew The music was inspired by the Arthurian legend Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. The third of of the fairy Viviane and her affair with the wizard these was a setting of “Why fumeth in sight: the Merlin in the forest. In a preface to the score Gentile spite in fury raging stout?” Chausson wrote: “Viviane and Merlin in the Vaughan Williams incorporated the Tallis tune forest. Love scene. Messengers from King Arthur into a piece for double string orchestra with solo range through the forest seeking the enchanter; quartet called Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas he wants to escape and rejoin them. Viviane puts Tallis. It was first performed at the Three Merlin to sleep and surrounds him with thorn- Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral on bushes in flower.” September 6, 1910.

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Zhou says that The Rhyme of Taigu is an expansion of an earlier chamber work titled Taigu Rhyme. As he explains in his program note, “Taigu is the Chinese pronunciation of the Japanese word taiko, meaning ‘fat drum’. Although the tradition of Japanese taiko drumming has existed for many centuries, its origins can be traced back to the taigu tradition that grew out of Buddhist doctrines and courtly ceremonies in China. In Japan, taiko developed into a series of very specific categories and variations of drumming depending on the purpose and context of the performance. These include gagaku (court music); noh and kabuki accompaniment (theatre music); Buddhist and Shinto religious ceremonies; the simple marking LONG of the hours in daily life; and even as a means of communication in battle. Taiko also became an essential part of village life in Japan and was The Rhyme of Taigu used in farming and fishing rituals to encourage ZHOU LONG successful harvests, or to appease the spirits of (b.1953) ancestors. Whilst the Japanese tradition thus became very strong, Chinese taigu has scarcely orn in Beijing, Zhou graduated from the survived: it formed the basis of court music BCentral Conservatory in 1983 and was during the Tang dynasty (618–907 AD), but appointed composer-in-residence with the China only fragmentary musical sources survive.” The National Broadcasting Symphony. He became work is the composer’s attempt “to revivify an American citizen in 1999, and won the 2011 this ancient art form and capture something of Pulitzer Prize for Music for his opera, Madame its energy and spirit, by drawing both Chinese White Snake. He teaches at the University of and Japanese traditional elements (including a Missouri, Kansas City. large number of percussion instruments) into a contemporary western orchestral ensemble.” The Rhyme of Taigu was co-commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition ~ Program notes by Charley Samson, copyright 2019. at Brigham Young University and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. It is dedicated to the composer’s wife, Chen Yi, for her 50th birthday, in 2003, and was premièred by the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lan Shui, on May 23, 2003, in Singapore.

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MICHAEL MORGAN, LYNNE MORROW, MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR CHORUS DIRECTOR OAKLAND SYMPHONY OAKLAND SYMPHONY CHORUS

ichael Morgan was born in Washington, DC, where r. Lynne Morrow became Director of the Oakland Mhe attended public schools and began conducting DSymphony Chorus in 2005. During her tenure at the age of 12. While a student at Oberlin College the scope of the Chorus has expanded to include Conservatory of Music, he spent a summer at the contemporary, international, and neglected works, Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, studying with along with traditional choral repertoire. She conducts Gunther Schuller and Seiji Ozawa. He first worked the Chorus’ workshop performances of major works; with Leonard Bernstein during that same summer. hosts summer choral outreach “Sing-ins;” and prepares the Chorus for work with Oakland Symphony as His operatic debut was in 1982 at the Vienna State well as regional community and youth orchestras Opera, conducting Mozart’s The Abduction from with which it collaborates, such as Oakland the Seraglio. In 1986, Sir Georg Solti chose him to Symphony Youth Orchestra, Young People’s become the Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and California Symphony. Symphony Orchestra, a position he held for seven Dr. Morrow has collaborated with composer years under both Solti and Daniel Barenboim. In Michael Roberts to create a new commisioned work, 1986, he was invited by Leonard Bernstein to make Mass for Freedom, that will premiere in April 2019. his debut with the New York Philharmonic. As guest conductor, Morgan has appeared with most of Dr. Morrow received a GRAMMY nomination for her America’s major orchestras, as well as the New York work with the Pacific Mozart Ensemble (now Pacific City Opera, St. Louis Opera Theater and Washington Edge Voices), with whom she has also recorded two National Opera. CDs of Dave Brubeck’s choral music. Since 2001, she has directed the Voice and Opera/Music Theatre In addition to his duties with the Symphony since Programs at Sonoma State University. Dr. Morrow 1991, Maestro Morgan serves as Artistic Director of presents workshops on African American Spirituals, the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, Music including a workshop on a cruise to Alaska from Director at Bear Valley Music Festival, and San Francisco. Dr. Morrow has recently received the Music Director of Gateways Music Festival. He Heritage Keepers Award from the Friends of Negro is Music Director Emeritus of the Sacramento Spirituals. She has also given lectures on music for Philharmonic and Opera, and is on the boards of major Bay Area organizations including Oakland Oaktown Jazz Workshops, the Purple Silk Music Symphony. Dr. Morrow strives for a visceral connection Education Foundation, and the Mathematical to music, presenting works from every corner of Sciences Research Institute. the musical arts in fresh ways, to reach the widest possible audiences. This summer, he led a national youth orchestra of students from El Sistema programs organized by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, sharing the concert with Gustavo Dudamel. He makes many appearances in the nation’s schools each year. OAKLAND SYMPHONY 39 ARTISTIC STAFF BIOGRAPHIES

BRYAN NIES, OMID ZOUFONOUN, ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR OAKLAND SYMPHONY OAKLAND SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRA

ryan Nies is the Associate Conductor of Oakland mid Zoufonoun is a conductor, guitarist, BSymphony; former Principal Conductor of Festival Oeducator, and award-winning composer. His Opera; and former Principal Conductor of Oakland concert commissions aim to blend his Persian Symphony Youth Orchestra, which he led on musical heritage, learned under the guidance of international tours, including to Australia and his father, Ostad Mahmoud Zoufonoun, with New Zealand during the orchestra’s 40th season. western practices of counterpoint, harmony, and orchestration. Recent commissions include a Cello With “superb musical direction,” Nies conducted Sonata for the duet Martha & Monica, a guitar sold-out performances of Puccini’s Turandot, Loesser’s octet for the Guitar Foundation of America, a The Most Happy Fella, and Bizet’s Carmen at Festival choral setting of four Rumi poems for Pacific Opera to rave reviews that stated, “Nies is undeniably Edge Voices, and a four-movement orchestral work a talent to watch.” In addition, he has been a cover for the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra. conductor for the St. Louis Symphony, conducted Zoufonoun conducted the premiere of this latter performances with Opera Idaho, the Diablo work at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Symphony, and the Oakland Chamber Ensemble. and a professional première followed by Oakland With Eugene Onegin, he made his Opera San Jose Symphony, under the direction of Maestro Michael debut as Principal Conductor and continued with Morgan. As conductor, Zoufonoun’s recent notable performances of The Crucible, Werther, La recording of Bill Horvitz’ suite, A Long Walk, was Voix Humaine, Pagliacci, and the west coast premiere featured as an Editor’s Pick in Downbeat magazine. of Anna Karenina, becoming the second conductor to perform the work. Nies continues to conduct innovative operas including successful performances of As One with West Edge Opera and Erling Wold’s Fabrications. He regularly performs in recital and has debuted his first recording Amour“ sans ailes: Songs of Reynaldo Hahn” on the MSR Classics label in October of 2017.

Pursuing an avid interest in all musical genres, Nies has served as Associate Music Director with American Musical Theater of San Jose and Theatreworks in Palo Alto. He was a faculty member at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and is currently a lecturer at Stanford University.

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North Bay Opera, Trinity Lyric Opera, Pocket Opera, Mission City Opera, the Crowden School, Oakland School for the Arts, and Dominican University, among others. Bailey has taught conducting at the University of California-Davis and Notre Dame de Namur University.

As a choral director, Bailey has served as Music Director of Voices of Musica Sacra, Chorus Master for Festival Opera of Walnut Creek and Opera San Jose, and has been Guest Conductor for the University of California-Berkeley Chamber Chorus, the University of California-Davis Chorus, Chamber Singers, and Alumni Chorus, and the Berkeley Broadway Singers.

Bailey is also a composer, and his works have been performed and commissioned in the Bay Area and abroad. In 2010, Carlos Santana and Oakland East Bay Symphony performed his arrangements. As a baritone, oboist, and pianist, Bailey has performed with the San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Oakland East Bay, Berkeley, JOHN KENDALL BAILEY, Redding, Napa, Sacramento, and Prometheus Symphonies, American Bach Soloists, Philharmonia PRE-CONCERT SPEAKER Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, the Midsummer OAKLAND SYMPHONY Mozart and West Marin music festivals, San Francisco Bach Choir, Coro Hispano de San Francisco, Pacific ohn Kendall Bailey currently serves as Music Mozart Ensemble, Sacred and Profane, Masterworks JDirector of the Mozart to Mendelssohn Orchestra, Chorale of San Mateo, the Mark Morris and Merce Music Director of Mesopotamia Symphony Orchestra, Cunningham dance companies, the Berkeley, Golden and Associate Conductor of San Francisco Composers Gate, and Oakland Lyric opera companies, and many Chamber Orchestra. In 1994, Bailey founded the more. He has recorded for the Harmonia Mundi, Berkeley Lyric Opera and served as its Music Director Koch International, Pro Musica, Wildboar, Centaur, and Conductor until 2001. Since then, he has been and Angelus Music labels. He currently serves as a Principal Conductor of Oakland Youth Orchestra and pre-performance lecturer for the Oakland Symphony, Guest Conductor with Oakland Symphony, American and has also been a lecturer at San Francisco Opera, Philharmonic-Sonoma County, Diablo Symphony American Bach Soloists, Festival Opera of Walnut Orchestra, Oakland Ballet, Magik*Magik Orchestra, Creek, Gold Coast Chamber Players, and more; a critic San Francisco Civic Symphony, San Francisco for the San Francisco Classical Voice; and a writer of Concerto Orchestra, and has conducted productions real-time commentary for the Concert Companion. for Festival Opera of Walnut Creek, West Bay Opera,

Artistic Staff Photos: MarcoSanchez.net

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lassical and symphonic music in Oakland In addition to presenting unconventional yet Chave a rich history, dating back 85 years approachable concerts, the Symphony invests to the original Oakland Symphony (1933- heavily in education and outreach, working 1986), and the subsequent formation of with schools and in the community to introduce Oakland Symphony Chorus and Oakland people of all backgrounds to the joys of playing Symphony Youth Orchestra 60 years ago. an instrument and experiencing classical Oakland Symphony grew from this tradition of performance. To date, our education programs, community commitment. Following the including the MUSE (Music for Excellence) closure of the original Oakland Symphony in program and Oakland Symphony Youth 1986, the Chorus and Youth Orchestra split Orchestra, have helped over 100,000 young into two independent organizations. In 2010, people discover a passion for music. The Youth the Symphony, the Youth Orchestra, and the Orchestra provides training to young musicians Chorus merged to establish one organization with a rigorous program of weekly rehearsals, that combines the history and accomplishments extensive coaching with leading Bay Area of all three ensembles and is able to better serve professionals, and performance opportunities our entire community. After 27 years under the throughout the region and the world. Through name of Oakland East Bay Symphony, we are our Access Scholarships, no young musician is once again known as the Oakland Symphony. ever excluded from the Youth Orchestra due to limited financial resources. Oakland Symphony is celebrated as one of the most distinct regional orchestras in the country, Along with our education programs, we foster serving a diverse population through its unique the future of classical music through partnerships convergence of artistic excellence, community with contemporary musicians and composers. service, and education programs. Oakland To ensure the future of symphonic music, the Symphony Youth Orchestra was founded in Symphony regularly commissions works from 1963 and has been providing world-class composers who have never composed for a full orchestral training to young musicians for over orchestra. New American works are frequently 50 years. Oakland Symphony Chorus is in its showcased in our programming and young 60th season of serving the community through artists are encouraged to create as well as vocal training and performance opportunities perform. Recent commissions have included for all who love to sing. four new pieces in styles ranging from gospel to world music. The Symphony, Youth Orchestra, and Chorus have the shared aim of making classical music Throughout the years, the Symphony has fostered accessible to all members of our community collaborations with local arts organizations, from by presenting unique programs and attracting children’s choruses to jazz ensembles. Oakland a wide-ranging, culturally diverse audience. Symphony Chorus collaborates with a number We strive to bring together people who might of regional performing arts groups including otherwise never have met, to sit side-by-side Berkeley Symphony, California Symphony, and and share a meaningful cultural experience. In the Young People’s Symphony Orchestra, as the 28 years since Maestro Michael Morgan well as regularly collaborating and performing took on the artistic leadership of the Symphony, with the Symphony and Oakland Symphony we have united the diverse Oakland and East Youth Orchestra. The Chorus serves as a Bay communities through music, and now reach premier resource for continuing education in over 60,000 people annually. the choral arts and holds open auditions throughout the year.

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e gratefully acknowledge our generous donors, whose annual support enables us to build community through the artistic and educational programs of Oakland Symphony, Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Oakland WSymphony Chorus. The following list reflects gifts made to the annual fund or elevated events recorded between July 1, 2017 and February 28, 2019.

 Donating 5 or more years in a row  Donating 10 or more years in a row

LIFETIME MEMBERS Amy and Eddie Orton  Melodie and David Frances Greenberg and Generous donors of Jill and Wesley Smith  Graber  Don Chaiken  $100,000 or more Jennifer and Paul Vetter  Bonnie and Earl Hamlin  Mark Jacobs  over their history with Nicholas and Anne Whyte Stanley P. Hébert  Susan and Richard   Oakland Symphony. Amin Zoufonoun Leslie and Conway Jones Hansen Mary-Jo Knight and Pamela and Howard $7,500 - $9,999 Michael Parish Hatayama  Anonymous (2) Joanne F. Casey Karen Long  Carolyn and Robert Bonnie and Jim Bell Katherine and Lance Peter Lundberg and Heywood  Giles “Bud” Cropsey Gyorfi  James Mowdy  Helen Holmlund Bette and Robert Karen Ivy and Andrea Plesnarski and Kathleen Hunter Epstein James Ringland  Tom Nugent  Eman Isadiar James Hasler Kay Ruhland  Mary Ann and Judit Jackovics  Beverly and Randy Karen and Steve Nicholls  Don Parachini Mark Jacobs    Hawks Linda and Ewan Purkiss Ann Johnson $5,000 - $7,499​ Marianne Robison  Susan T. and Michael A. Jack Klingelhofer Pamela and Jim Robson  Jordan  Cornell C. Maier Ruth and Jeff Bailey  Shirley and Patrick Susan, Peter and Cristine Kelly Karl Mettinger Campbell Foundation  Natalie Scott  Carole Klein Karen and Steve Nicholls Susan Chan  Michèle Stone and Nick and Leah Leach  Berniece and Pat Kathryn and Christopher Harry Howe  David Leinbach  Patterson Dann  Susan and Paul Sugarman  Carl Lester Beryl and James Potter Peter and Jared Drake  Sharon Vonderau  Ellen and Barry Levine  Barbara and Joel Jennifer Duston and Jerry Vurek  Douglas Love   Richmon Evan Mapoles  Enevia and Kline Holly and Thomas Love Elayne and Joseph Frank  Wilson, Jr  Geralyn and Eugene Shirley and Philip Schild Eugene J. Zahas  Lynch  Robert A.D. and Debbra Marianne and Bill Gagen Connie and Jon Hartung  Pamela Magnuson- Wood Schwartz Margaret Hegg  $1,000 - $2,499 Peddle  Erma and Owen Smith Patti Heimburger  Anonymous  Thomas McNally Susan and Paul Sugarman Carol Henri  Carlene and Richard Karl Mettinger  Nancy S. Sweetland Marilyn Kecso Anderson  Alison Miller  Katherine van Hagan Robbin and Fred Kroger  Kristen Anderson Donald Monaco Donna M. Williams Kim Le Helen Berggruen  Ingrid Moore Susan and Moses Libitzky  Camille and Wayne Barbara Moran and Rhonda and Jack Morris Brotze  Charlie Haas  Mabel Morgan  $20,000 + Mary Olowin  Gwendolyn Buchholz and Richard K. Robbins  David Durand  Michael Morgan  Anonymous (2)  Paula and David Byrens  Mark, Lisa and James and Bonnie Bell  Margaret and Richard  Beryl Crumpton and Reuven Moss  James Hasler  Roisman  James Potter  Mike Moye Robert Kidd and Joan Story Monique Stevenson Nancy Sweetland  Patrice Cochran and Helen Nicholas and Jack Klingelhofer  Leslie Rogers  Robert Middleton  Berniece and Pat Margaret Warton and Steve Benting  Lisa and Tom Duryea Elisabeth and Michael Patterson  Ian Epstein and Kym Zilk O’Malley  Norman and Janet Pease Margery Eriksson and Eva and Aaron Paul  Barbara and Joel $2,500 - $4,999 Anonymous  James Nelson  John Protopappas  Richmon  Lorraine and Ronald Nancy Ragle and Donna M. Williams  Diane Appel and Daniel Cotton Gazzano  Bret Andrews Eleanor and Paul Mary and David Ramos $10,000 - $19,999 Cesestra E. and Teresa  Gertmenian  Sonjia and Gregory Anonymous (2)  Butner Patricia Chang and Michelle and Blake Redmond  Charles Crane and Gilmore  Brian Ripley Wendy Breuer  Charles Tai Michael Colbruno  John and Kendall Glynn Eric Ruhland Terrence Chan and Dale Marie Golden and Melinda and Roy Edward Sell Colette Collester  Hugh MacDonald  Samuelson  Bette and Robert Epstein  Rena David Charmaine Ferrera  Janine Goosen Helen and Peter Sheaff  Katrine and Harry Gray Romer Stevenson 

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Marsha Sutherland  Anne Jefferson  $250 - $499 Rose and Fredric Michelle Taplette and Jan Kang Tracy Achorn Hoffman  Marc Shaw Katherine Kiehn and Lyn Andersen  Cecilia Huang Ama Torrance  Heinz Lankford  Roger Anderson Russ Irwin  Cari Vaeth Terry Kulka and Dion and David Aroner  Sheri Jennings and Loni Williams  Gary Semans Karen Austin  Ian Smith  M. Hope Young and Susan Lambert Leslie, Alice and Virginia and Odell Kevin Best  Shelly Gin and Donald Ella Bacon  Johnson  and Josephine Lee Grace Bandong Donald and Judith Jones  $500 - $999 Thomas Leibowitz  Justin Bank Mary Kahn Sylvia Ahern and Kara Levine  Norman Banks  Anna Keim  Patrick Twomey L. J. Likar Kay Bell Robert Marshak and Kenny and Marvell Allen  Cristy and Tom Limon Roberta and Henry Berg  Judy Kelly  Eva Arce and Ross Hoyt Linda Lipner  Judith and Gary Blank  Kathleen Kelly  Dan Ashley Kathie Long  Terry Bowen Jeanne and Stuart Korn  John Barrett Edward Love  Sandra Bressler  Didi and Paul Kubicek  Barbara Beery  Ann and Robert Lynn  Erin Bydalek and Beth Lamont Carol and Claude Benedix  Lisa Malul Patrick Bengtsson Joyce Lashof  Cynthia, David and Joan and Roger Mann  Helen Cake  Maureen and George Benjamin Blumgart  Linda and John Manzeck John Calfas Lenahan  Roberta Brokaw  Denise Martini Jenny Carless William Lester  Kim Bronson  Doris Marx Susan Carter Amy Likar and Evangeline and William Merrilee Mitchell  Thomas Cavanagh Jack Paulus  Buell  Carla Moore and Jessica Chen Margaret Lipper Helene Byrne and Ted Allen  Gail Coney  Joseph Litvin John Vallerga  Mary Ellen Navas and David Conte  Nancy Lowenthal and Jessica Cao and Robert Archibald  Douglas and Rosemary Jean Savy  Xiaoping Liang Mary and Georgina Oram  Corbin  Christopher Lundin Lisa Caul and Lidia Owens Kathleen Courts and Amy Kyoko Reichenbach Robert Harrington  Renuka and Debu Panda William Abernathy  and Todd Lynch Rosemary Chang  William Parish Michelle Cruz Peverley Jean Mangels  Lillian and Donald Jim Payne  and Evan Peverley Helen M. Marcus  Cunningham  Margaret Pillsbury  Nikcole Cunningham Leslie Fay and Kathryn, David, Gabrielle Margaret Pinter  Christopher Curtis Evan Marks  and Sophia Danzeisen  Naomi and David Susan and Joseph Daly  Robert Marshak and Alecia DeCoudreaux Pockell  Jerrica Gonzales and Judy Kelly  Christine and John Maria and Jose Poncel Saumitra Das Alvin and Diane May Diskon  Honorable Jean Quan and Loris Davanzo  Alice McCain  Carolyn Doelling  Dr. Floyd Huen  Karen De Valois  Dorothy M. McIntosh  Seth Ducey and Frances and John Raeside  Patia and David Dial Kathleen and Daniel Mari de Almeida  Camille Reed Sara and Emerson McKinney  Sheila Dundon and Kennedy and Kathleen DuBois  Catherine McLane  Dale Radcliff Richardson  Heather Erickson and Martha and Lester Miller  Leila El-Wakil  Elizabeth Ruhland  Paul Lilly Barbara and Richard Erik and Florence Eriksson Miyo Saiki  Natalie Forrest and Miller  Sarah Everett  Valda Sanders  Douglas Sprague  James Morris  Tom Schunn and Alan Sauer and Wendy Franklin and Janet Mulshine  Anne Fay  Donald Ramos  Calvin Wall  Norma Murphy  Ed and Camilla Forhan  Debbra Noah Schwartz and Bonnie and Dick Gaither Mary Yvonne Napoleon  Christiane and Lewis Schwartz Foundation  Yoav and Robin Gal  Sharon Noteboom  Frederickson  Karen and Ross Scroggs  Maria Galou and Donna and Robert Oliver  Susan Gallardo and Neal Shorstein John Lameyer Elizabeth Orozco  Mark Freitas  Frances Slack and Kathleen Gilbert  Glenn Otterman Terry Gardner John Raeside  Caroline Girgis Sylvia Parker  Paul Garrison  Miriam Steinbock and Edward Gordon Wendy Pei and Reyla Graber Dennis Rothhaar  Dawn Graeff Timothy Sandberg Judy and Sheldon Greene  Kristi Swope and Marian and Roger Gray  Frank and Alice Pisciotto Bonnie Hampton Randall McEachern  Zachary, Peggy and Christine Raasch Susan and Charles Joan Thatcher Estate Grant Griffin  Wallace and Gayle Hanson  Chris and Joe Trevino Patricia and Jerry Ransom  Laurent Harrison  Patricia Troxel  Hamilton  Ana Rauch and Richard L. Hawkins  Frederica Von Stade  Melvin Harrison and John Torpey  Maxine Heiliger  Randall Matamoros and Barbara Hardacre Robert Reidy  James Henry  Nancy Wilkinson  Alan Harper Ann and Mike Richter  Wil and Carolyn Hobbs Rhonda and Nelson Laurie Harris Jonathan and Benjamin Jin and Fumiko Hoshino Williams Stuart Harrison and Ring and Maya Rath  Sally Houston  Nancy and Charles David Ring Debbie and Martin Carol Hudson  Wolfram  Jo and Kerry Hazelett Rokeach H. Nona Hungate Shirley and Richard Ross 

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Lisa Ruhland  Ann Binning Evelyn and Earl Dolven Jeff and Lucia Horner Mona Sabet Clifford and Gladys Block  Joanne Drabek and Mary Hovingh Jeanine and Guy Eileen Blood-Golden  Thor Start  Joanne and Hadwen Saperstein  Sallie Blytt Anne Drejet Howard Barbara Schaaf and Judith Bojorquez Adrienne and Tom Patricia Howze Robert Schock  Marilyn Bookbinder Duckworth  William Hull  Craig Schmid  Constance Boulware Luann Duggan  Nancy and Campbell Mary and Thomas Marion Brackett  Ashley Duggan Hunter  Schmitz  Arlene Branch Merlin Edwards Garry and Maryn Hurlbut Lori Schweitzer and Adam Broner Rachel A. Eidbo  Richard Hutson  Steven Caccamo Samuel and Judith Broude  Kathy Barrows  Frederick Isaac Sigmund Seigel Pat Brouillette Jane English and Saralinda and Michael Joy and David Shussett Valerie Brown Patrick Ferguson  Jackson  Kris Sinclair  June and Howard Browne  Jane and Gary Facente Jonathan and Joy Jacobs  Linda Skory  Erika Bruce and Rebecca and Frank Faiola Melissa James Thomas and Susan Smegal Richard Mercouris  Dorothy Finger Katherine Jarrett  Sylvia Smith and Gaylord Burke  Sheila Fischer LaDonna and Kenneth Stanley Kowalski  Veronica Burke Harry and Sheilah Fish  Jensen  Joanne Smyth Melody Burns  Diane Arney  George John Mary Strauss  Marsha Burt Sherri and Thomas Flynn  Alice and Dale Johnson Joanne Sung and Anne Cademenos Karen Fox-Reynolds and Stephen Johnson  Benson Lam James Campbell  Jerry Reynolds  Elayne Jones  Susan and George Troy  Harriet Caplan  Catherine and John Bernardino S. Juat, Jr.  Linda Underwood  Michael Cating and Francioch  William Kadner Diana Valle  Theresa Roeder  Aileen Frankel Heidi Kaseff and Charles, Geraldine and Helene and Norman Mary Franklin Lee Davisson Charles Waitman  Cavior  Dagmar Friedman Stephen and Ruth Kass  Hillary and Donald Yvette Chalom and Nancy Friedman and Irma Valencia and Walker Paul Fogel Terry Hill  James Keith  Kathy and Steve Wallcave  Marianne Chang  Norman Furuta  Barbara Kennedy-Dalder Carol Wang and Renee Charland  Patricia M. Gannon  Patricia Kernighan and Jamie Huang May Chen and John Ren Jewelle and James Gibbs  Paul Gordon  Cynthia Webb-Beckford  Glenda Cheng and Alice and Ralph Gillibert  Candis Cousins and Katherine and Jon Weiner  Alan Poon Hannah Ginsborg Bruce Kerns  Mary and Peter Weinstein  Linda Cheu Kenneth Gobalet Ellen Kerrigan and Helen M. Marcus  Sherlyn Chew  Judy Gong  Baker A. Peeples Forrest Winslow  Amy Chung  Barbara and Robert Grant  Barbara Kesel and H. Leabah Winter  Elizabeth Clark  Harvey Green Susan Rosenblatt Carolyn Yale  Shirley and George Elizabeth Greene Lucy Kinchen  Eva Mae Youngberg Coaston  Herbert and Leonore Annis and Nicholas Patrice Cochran Griffin  Kukulan  $100 - $249 Andrew Cohen Michael Griffith Sarah Kulberg  Ross and Alfreda Abbott Eva Cohen and Gail Grigsby and Mary Lou Kurtz  Mary de Silva Abinante  Steven Holtzman Alan Crockett Michelle Kwon Leorah Abouav- Illene T. Colby Harvey Green Louis Labat  Zilberman Zipporah Collins  Barry and Barbara Gross Regina Lackner Gloria Alexander  Megan Columbus Rachel Hanson Susan Driscoll LaMay  Anonymous Gregg Cook and Lucy Harris Neuritsa Lancaster Alessandra Aquilanti Victor Rosario  Penny and Steven Harris  Katherine Land Betsey Archer Peter Cook  Beverly and Randy Hawks  Lynn and William Lazarus Diane Fisk-Arney  Carol Copeland  Alana Zhou Household Alice Lenaghan and Sharon Ashby  Candis Cousins and Patricia Hedl Michael Stanish  Catherine Atcheson Bruce Kerns  Tamra Hege  Jean Levin  Eleanor Bade  Patricia Couture  Elizabeth Hendrickson David Lichtenstein  Margaret Bahan Judith Cox  Dixie Hersh Shirley and Donald Amelia and Paul Bailey Gabriela Crane Jim Taylor and Lindley  Deborah and William Gail Grigsby Terry Hinton Louise Linford  Baldwin  Michael Crozier Faye Hinze  Betsy and Karl Livengood  Natalie Balfour and Ann O’Connor and C.J. Hirschfield Maria Lloyd John Cove  Edward Cullen  Cindy and Richard Theresa Lo Jessica Balik Rosemary Darden Holbrook  Elisa London Daniel Bao Virginia Darrow Carolyn Holcroft Richard Lowe Marguerite Barron and Ann Davis Gayle Reynolds and Shirley Lu and Glen Leggoe  Heidi Kaseff and Keith Hollon  Charles Young Kathy Barrows  Lee Davisson Sandra Holloway Debrenia Madison and Maria Barsotti  George Day Eva Cohen and Reginald Smith  Edgar Benhard Kathleen and Mario Steven Holtzman Zahra Mahloudji and Steve Berley DiGiovanni  June and John Hopkirk  Michael Goldbach David Besley Steven Horn  Mary and Dale Mallet 

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Margaret and John Maloney  Nora Privitera and Magen Solomon  Tom Mangin Michael Banister  Jane Stallman  Judith Margulis and Jeffrey Kessel  Lisa Quadrato  Mary Stevens  Molly Marion George Queeley  Sheri Stock and Harry Reppert  Bennett Markel  Patricia and Robert Raburn Fred Strauss Jan Schmuckler and James Martin Paula Rainey Margaret Strom  John Masko Don Rath  Sandy and Jack Summerfield  Jonathan Mates-Muchin Nancy Reier Shannon Sutherland Tommie Mayfield  Gayle Reynolds and Keith Hollon  Jim Taylor  Eileen McAndrew Marie Rhein  Jim Taylor and Terry Hinton B. Joyce McCullum  M. Louise Rothman-Riemer and Mike Tennant  Mary and Joe McKenzie  Davis Riemer  Fern Tiger and Paul Thompson  Brenda McKinley  Gail and James Rigelhaupt  Ben Thompson  Karen McLennan Mary Roberts  Sandra Threlfall Larana and Jim McVay  James Robinson  Sandra Tillin  Jerene Meissert and Nancy Ebbert and Adam Rochmes Marta Tobey  Michael Robey  Michael Cating and Theresa Roeder  James Toland Howard Mel  Agnes Rogacsi  Elena and Christopher Toohey  Joan Shepherd Mellows and Miriam Rokeach Alice and John Trinkl Oliver Mellows Michael Roosevelt Freya Turchen Hector and Linda Mendez  Ann Root and Patrick O’Reilly David Turner James Meredith  Fred Rosenblum  Katherine and Jose Umali Dana Meyer Mary Rudser Laurie Umeh  Sun Mi and Chun Woo Lee Helen Rubardt Philip C. and Shantha N. Ursell  Ji Won Min Valerie Ruma Susan and C. Henry Veit  Patricia Mintz and Charlotte Russell Judy Velardi Greg Lieberknecht Kitty Russell-Banks  Marlene Vogelsang  Nancy and Ralph Moore Rich Russo Carolyn and H. Geoffrey Watson Jackie Morgan  Corinne Rydman and Josephine Webb Lynne Morrow  Logan Campbell Sigrid Weinmann Sally Mote-Yaffe and David Yaffe  Ralph Samuel  Emily Weinstein M. Gwaltney Mountford  Virginia Sanders-Hinds Janet Weinstein Sharmin and Farshid Moussavi  Linda Scaparotti Richard West  Roderick Murray  Christine Schaaf George and Bay Westlake  Catherine and James Nemechek  Shirley and Farrel Schell  Barbara and Christopher Westover George and Carol Nobori Nancy and Gregg Schluntz  Caelin White Melissa O’Connor Jan Schmuckler and James Martin Elizabeth Wierzbianska  Ann O’Connor and Edward Cullen  Kary Schulman Maureen Wikander  John O’Donnell Janice Scott  Judy Wilkinson  David Ojala Iris Segal Timothy Williams  Charlene Okamoto Nancy Sheehan Patricia and Phil Williams  Viviana and Robin Oliva-Kraft Joyce and Gerald Shefren Joye Wilson  Maria and Joseph Orr  Joan Shepherd Mellows and Olly W. and Elouise Wilson Charles Ostrofe  Oliver Mellows Valerie Winemiller  Wendy Polivka and Evan Painter  Theresa Sherry Steve and Laura Wolff  Ellen Larson Paisal  Mary Shields  Barbara and James Wolpman Lorraine Parmer Karen Marie Schroeder  Barbara Winslow Wong Mary Jane Pauley Susan and Stephen Shub Elaine Wong Elizabeth Pauw and Robert Shuken  Jennifer Xie and Geoffrey Chan David Hillman  Janice Silverman  Sally Mote-Yaffe and David Yaffe  Arlene Pearl Wendy Simon Jean Yang Phyllis and James Pennington-Kent Alice and John Trinkl Elaine Yeh Karol Pessin Margaret and Torger Skolmen Shirley Lu and Charles Young Jacqueline Phillips  Keith Slibsager  Emily Zell  Carla Picchi and Kurt Patzner Howard Smalheiser  Alana Zhou Household Wendy Polivka and Evan Painter  Deborah Smith Carola Ziermann Marianne Poppas  Jeanne Sherry Smith Arlene Zuckerberg  Virginia Smyly 

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In memory of In honor of In honor of In memory of Phil Abinante Laili Gohartaj Molly Lloyd and John Stevenson Kathleen da Silva Sara Schnaitter Dan Reardon Michèle Stone and Maria Lloyd Harry Howe In memory of In honor of Lill Anderson Americo Ernest Gonsalves In memory of In memory of Kristen Anderson Christine Niccoli Mary Maehl Molly and Bill Stolmack Terry Bowen Eleanor Bade In honor of In memory of Norman Katz Karenlynne Bradley John B. Hancock V In honor of Marsha Burt Mark Jacobs Alison Miller In honor of Lester and Martha Miller Michèle Stone In honor of In honor of Gregg Cook and Delida Costin Jonas P. Harrison In honor of Victor Rosario Elayne Sara McBarnette Laurent Harrison Michael Morgan Jan Kang Gregg Cook and In honor of In honor of Victor Rosario the MUSE Teachers In honor of Jim Hasler Marianne and Bill Gagen Mary Kahn Dr. Charles Crane Harriet Caplan Elizabeth Hook Marilyn Bookbinder Mark Jacobs In honor of Alice and Fred Feller In honor of Sonja Maund Beth Vandervennet Patrice Hidu James Meredith Jenny Carless In memory of Margery Eriksson Donald Monaco Heather Erickson and Rochelle David and James Nelson Ross and Karen Scroggs Paul Lilly Anita Behn Linda Lipner Enevia and Kline Wilson Andrea Plesnarski and Jane English and Tom Nugent Patrick Ferguson In memory of In memory of Laurie Umeh Ann Gordon Jane Kadner Dr. Ron Olowin Karen Ivy and William Kadner Michèle Stone and In memory of James Ringland Harry Howe Ms. Delores Williams Shirley and Donald In honor of Marvell Allen Lindley Cristine Kelly In memory of Patricia Mintz and Corinne Rydman and Fritzi Schoen In memory of Greg Lieberknecht Logan Campbell Susan and Paul Sugarman Valena Williams Jr. Christine Raasch Aileen Frankel In honor of Leo In memory of Jeanine and Guy Saperstein In memory of J.T. Mates-Muchin Marion Sherman Sally Driscoll Ellen Paisal In memory of Susan Driscoll In memory of David J. Williamson Jay Levine In memory of Helen M. Marcus In memory of Kara Levine Melvin Silverman Andrew A. Fredericks Janice Silverman In memory of Margery Eriksson and In honor of Margaret “Tommie” James Nelson Amy Likar In honor of Winslow Donna Johnke Keith Slibsager Barbara Winslow Wong In memory of Michelle Cruz Peverley Norman Furuta Earl Fredericks and Evan Peverley Illene T. Colby Julia Stenzel In memory of Douglas G. Sprague In memory of Natalie Forrest Mary F. Likar Amy Likar and Jack Paulus L. J. Likar

OAKLAND SYMPHONY 47 CALVIN SIMMONS LEGACY SOCIETY e are grateful to those who have remembered Oakland Symphony with bequests. These gifts will help establish and grow the Symphony’s endowment, providing support for future generations of students and music-lovers. For more Winformation contact our Development Department at (510) 444-0801 Anonymous (3) Susie Elkind † Samuel R. Miller and Albert J. Vizinho Toby C. Berger † James Hasler Maude H. Pervere Arthur Weil Marie Boss Harry Howe Irving and Muriel Ingeborg R. and Gregg Cook and Mark Jacobs Schnayer Reinald A. Wells † Victor Rosario Terry Kulka and Edgar J. Schoen and Donna M. Williams Giles “Bud” Cropsey Gary Semans Fritzi Schoen † Joye Wilson Jean Cunningham † Regina Lackner Lyn Sonfield † Kathryn and Harold Lawrence † B. Monique Stevenson † deceased Christopher Dann John Lee John B. Taylor † Arthur Dunlop † Edward Love Joan Thatcher †

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ndividuals who support the Endowment Fund help to ensure the long-term future of Oakland Symphony’s music, education and outreach programs. The donors listed below have made outright gifts, estate gifts, or irrevocable planned I gifts through a charitable remainder trust. For more information contact our Development Department at (510) 444-0801. LIFETIME LEADERSHIP THE EDWIN AND NANCY MARY LOU USHER Andrew and Teresa CIRCLE RICHARD FUND HÉBERT MEMORIAL FUND Gunther Jim and Bonnie Bell In support of the Stanley P. Hébert The Estate of Anne Giles “Bud” Cropsey Symphony’s education Conway and Leslie Jones Macpherson and outreach programs The Estate of John E. THE PAULINE WILKINSON Paul and Susan Sugarman JAY T. LEVINE and Helen A. Manning MACAULAY MEMORIAL MEMORIAL FUND The Estate of Thomas FUND NATHAN RUBIN In support of MUSE M. Price In support of the MEMORIAL FUND (Music for Excellence) Eleanor Swent Symphony’s education Conway and Leslie Jones The Estate of Jay T. The Estate of John and and outreach programs Marilyn Langlois Levine Thelma Taylor Lon and Mary Israel Ralph Samuel The Estate of Doris B. Arthur Weil Holerman Ingeborg R. and DAVID PAUL STEVENSON The Estate of Herbert Reinald A. Wells MEMORIAL FUND Chittenden The Estate of Elvera B. Monique Stevenson David and Melodie Graber Wollitz Smith

CORPORATE AND INSTITUTIONAL GIFTS

hank you to our corporate and institutional donors who support Oakland Symphony in a variety of ways, including T through grants, sponsorship, and the underwriting of our programs and events. AAK City of Richmond Levin Richmond Terminal Republic Services Airbnb The Clorox Company The Links, Incorporated - The Ross McKee Allied Propane Service, Inc. D’Addario Foundation Eden Rose Chapter Foundation Andersen Tax Delta Dental Macy’s West Scott Valley Bank Ann and Gordon East Bay Community Marina Way Properties Sidney E. Frank Getty Foundation Foundation Matson Navigation Foundation Bay Area Black Five Arts Fund MCE Clean Energy Sims Metal Management United Fund The Fremont Group, Inc. Mechanics Bank Union Bank Bay Area Paul Robeson The Friendship Fund Microsoft Varian Medical Systems Centennial Committee The Grubb Co. Mueller Nicholls The Wallace Foundation Bay Crossings IBM International Builders Walter and Elise Haas Bay Marine Boatworks Foundation Music Performance Fund Bell Investment John and Kendall Glynn Trust Fund Wareham Development Advisors Inc. Johnson & Johnson National Endowment Wells Fargo Bernard E. and Alba Kaiser Permanente for the Arts The William and Flora Witkin Charitable The Kinder Morgan National Gypsum Hewlett Foundation Foundation Foundation New West Communities The William H. Donner The Bernard Osher Klein Financial Pacific East Mall Foundation Foundation Corporation Pacific Harmony Women’s Philharmonic BNSF Railway Laconia Development Foundation Advocacy Caldecott Properties Lawrence Livermore Pfizer Foundation Zellerbach Family California Arts Council National Laboratory PG&E Foundation Chemtrade Logistics LDK Ventures Pottery Land, LLC Chevron League of American Rafanelli & Nahas City of Oakland Orchestras Rea Charitable Trust

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any thanks to our dedicated volunteers who help make all the work of Oakland Symphony, Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra, and Oakland Symphony Chorus possible. Volunteers donate their time, talent, and energy in many Mways throughout the year, from education programs to concerts and beyond. If you would like to volunteer with us, please call (510) 444-0801 or email [email protected].

Angela Allen and Marielle Michelle Galecki Lisa Luna Nanci Schneidinger Diane Appel, Mack and Vincent Garcia Shakir Mackey Carrie Sealine Daniel Cotton Dana Garza Zahra Mahloudji Meg Sedlak Paula Arapacio Valarie George Matthew Major Adrian Shin Nina Arrocena Kevin Goldberg Linda and John Manzeck Deepak Sohane Larisa Arroyo Cynthia Guevara Rosemary Mark Aneta Sperber Lynnea Bao Shirley Tubens Kathy Marks Gloria Stingily Joan Barnard Guggenheimer Evan Marks Michèle Stone Michelle Blackburn Ashley Hamilton Elliot McAuley Jasmine Strange Allison Bliss Lucy Harris Becky McFarland Kat Swift Mary Blume Laura Haworth Katie McLane Lorenzo Taylor Terry Boggs-Moura Margaret Hegg Barbara Miller and Audrey Walter Taylor Becki Bowers Miguel Hernandez Marvin Miller Joy Tejada Nicole Boyle Ronnie Hersler Amelia Moore Jim Tepperman Carol Braves Gene Ho Meriane Morselli Carolyn Thaxton Alma Broussard Valerie Hsieh Linda Mrnak Isabel Anne To Susie Butler Mike Huensche Aria Navab Rose Mary Towns Logan Campbell Caleb Hughes Steven Nicholls Lea Troeh Roshaun Campbell Karlean Inigo Angel Njenga Freya Turchin Helane Carpenter Bernadino Juat, Jr. Lisa Parker Cari Vaeth Mylene Carpenter Carol Kane Judith Pascoe Diana Valle Sybil Carpenter Genessa Kealoha Aaron Paul Brandie Van Vliet Jeanette Chang and Regina Key Janet Peterson Angel Vargas David Sadeli Amar Khalsa Jacqueline Phillips Albert Vasquez Gregg Cook and Joy Khoo Moriah Pierce Alondra Villasenor Victor Rosario Saeyeon Kim Chris Poston Mont Vinaiphat Maafi Cook Vera Kirichenko Denise Poteat Sharon Vonderau Oralia Corona Kyle Ko Cyara Randall Ash Walker Michele Covington Madeline LaForge Brenda Reeves Ayo and Jessie Walker Brittaney Creswell Jessen Langley Julio Reyes Ife Tayo Walker Mari de Almeida Susan Lambert Irene Rice Wei-Jing Wan Michelle Debord Lynn and Bill Lazarus Rachel Richardson Mark Wieder Brianna Deutsch Stephanie Leveene Hanna Rifkin Regina Williams Alex Diaz Measue Liotta and Logan Robertson Felicia Wilson Jay Dicker Walter Harper Pam and Jim Robson Kline Wilson Susan Diego Alejandra Llamas Helen Rodrigues and Gia White Susan Driscoll LaMay Claire Londgren Michael Maxson Phyliss White-Ayanruoh Tariq El-Amin Juan Lopez Iris Rodrigues Rita Xavier Debbie Evenich Krystina Lui Mary Rydman Alyssa Zhao Kathleen Ferris Helen Luo and Jamiel Allan Sagle Barbara Flores Lawrence Lum Jan Schmuckler

50 OAKLAND SYMPHONY IN-KIND DONORS

BUSINESSES Duende Restaurant & Philharmonia Baroque Jim Dennis 42nd Street Moon Bodega Orchestra & Chorale Sara Dobbins Active Reading Center East Bay Express Philz Coffee Poppea Dorsam Alma Acupuncture Edible Excursions Picán Peter Drake Albany Bowl Eye Physicians of the Picante Perry Dreiman American Conservatory East Bay Piedmont Piano Company Gail and Gerald Eiselman Theater Fairmont Hotels Claremont Raymond Vineyards Bette and Bob Epstein Ashkenaz Music & Dance Club and Spa Reuschelle’s Cheesecakes Greg Errico Community Center Farley’s East Reed Smith LLP David Fineman Asian Art Museum Fenton’s Creamery Renaissance Rialto Inc. Foster Goldstrom Assemble Restaurant Flora Restaurant & Bar —Allen Michaan Miles Graber Aurora Theatre Company Forrest’s Music Retzlaff Vineyards Katherine and Harry Gray Azzurro Travel Four Seasons Rancho Rialto Cinemas Cerrito Timothy Hall Bakesale Betty Encanto Santa Fe Rock Wall Wine Company Christine Harper BAMPFA Freight & Salvage Roland Feller Pamela & Howard Bar Cesar Galleria Scola Violin Makers Hatayama Batch Pastries Grand Lake Theater — Rosenblum Cellars Leslie and Jay Ifshin Bay Area Discovery Renaissance Rialto, Inc. San Francisco Opera Oscar Jackson Museum Greenway Golf Associates San Francisco Performances Leslie and Conway B. Bay Area Rainbow Higgins Jewelry Center San Francisco Symphony Jones, Jr. Symphony Hopscotch Second Line Vinyl Amy & Merle Kessler Beach Blanket Babylon Joan Story & Seghesio Family Vineyards Robert F. Kidd Bear Valley Music Festival Robert Kidd Semifreddi’s Bakery Congresswoman Bellanico J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines Sequoyah Country Club Barbara Lee Berkeley Ballet Theater J. Sahadi Jewelers SFJAZZ Brooke Levin Berkeley Bowl JP Seafood Co. Shiba Ramen Greg Liederknecht Berkeley Playhouse KBLX Shotgun Players Amy Likar and Jack Paulus Berkeley Repertory Theatre KDFC Classical Sidebar Restaurant Nancy Lowenthal Berkeley Symphony The Kleid Group Skyline Quartet Peter Lundberg Bette’s Oceanview Diner Knimble Spice Monkey Restaurant Carolyn Magrete Brushstrokes Studio Lagunitas Brewing St. George Spirits Jerry Martini Calavera Mexican Company Stagebridge Anthony McGill Kitchen & Agave Bar Landmark Theatres Steve Silver’s Beach Kathy & Craig Moody Cakes Made by M.E. Larceny Bourbon Blanket Babylon Maestro Michael Morgan Cal Performances La Mediterranée Sumbody Spa Dr. Lynne Morrow California Shakespeare La Note Restaurant Taro’s Origami Studio James Mowdy Theatre Lanesplitter Pizza Tesla Store Company Mark Moss California Academy of Lawrence Hall of Science TheatreWorks Susan Mrnak Sciences Layer Cake Wines Trabocco Kitchen and Destiny Muhammad California Great America Lindsay Wildlife Experience Cocktails Oakland Symphony Campovida Link Soul The UC Theatre Taube Board Members Capital Genealogy, Los Angeles Philharmonic Family Music Hall Jana Olson & Roger Carr Chris Patregnani Luka’s Taproom USS Hornet Museum Steve Parrish Captain Dan and Lounge USS Potomac Association Bruce Patrick Chef Ron’s Pastries Lungomare V. Sattui Winery Rachel Barton Pine C’era Una Volta Mariner Square The Vegetarian Gourmet Brian Ripley Chevron Athletic Club WineWise Lisa Rogovin Chez Panisse Restaurant Mockingbird WQXR Classical Radio Jeanine and Guy Saperstein and Café Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore YBCA The Honorable Libby Children’s Discovery Napa Valley Coffee Yoshi’s Oakland Schaaf, Mayor Museum of San Jose Roasting Company of Oakland Children’s Fairyland Natural Grocery Company INDIVIDUALS Tom Schunn and Ann Fay Chop Bar Oakland Athletics Janice Alley Susan and Peter Scott City Bloom, Inc. Community Fund Bobbie Altman Deborah and Ward City of Oakland Oakland Ballet Company Dan Ashley Spangler Classic Sails Oakland Hills Tennis Club Emanuel Ax Andrea and Paul Swenson Comal Restaurant Oakland Museum of Margaret Bahan James Taylor Concannon Vineyard California Justin Bank Alicia Telford Creative Framing Oakland Zoo Stan Barrett CMT Susan and George Troy and Gallery Oakocalyptic Mason Bates Hillary and Donald Walker Crogan’s Omni Hotels & Resorts Bonnie and Jim Bell D’Wayne & Michelle The Crucible One True Vine Nicolas Bearde Wiggins Dashe Cellars Winery Pacific Coast Brewery Bruce Beasley Donna M. Williams Delphi Trio Paramount Theatre Katharine Bierce Valena M. Williams, Jr. Diesel, A Bookstore Pavé Fine Jewelry Design Gary Bukovnik Eugene J. Zahas and DMA Organizing Penrose Restaurant Letitia and Craig Casebeer Wendy Howard Omid Zoufonoun

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS STAFF James Hasler, President ARTISTIC Delida Costin, Vice President Michael Morgan, Bette B. Epstein, Vice President Music Director & Conductor Lynne Morrow, Donna M. Williams, Treasurer Chorus Director Omid Zoufonoun, Monique Stevenson, Secretary Youth Orchestra Principal Conductor Bryan Nies, Associate Conductor Dan Ashley Arnold Lee, Chorus Assistant Conductor Charles Crane Kymry Esainko, Chorus Accompanist Christopher Dann Joseph Frank, Sr. ADMINISTRATION Katrine T. Gray Mieko Hatano, Executive Director Carol Henri Anne Cademenos, Development Senior Director Harry Howe Seth Ducey, Operations Director Conway B. Jones, Jr. Warren Williams, Education & Community Robert F. Kidd Engagement Director Michelle Kwon* Andrea Plesnarski* Caitlin Bryson, Marketing Manager Deborah Spangler* Patrice Hidu, Administrative Assistant Arianna Rice, Box Office & Patron Services Manager * Musicians’ representative Micah Dubreuil, Social Media Coordinator EMERITUS SOCIETY Marshall Lamm, Public Relations James F. Bell Craig McAmis, Orchestra Personnel Manager Kevin Best Paul Rhodes, Librarian Tanya Drlik Elizabeth Vandervennet, Lead Teaching Artist, Erik Eriksson MUSE Mentor & Cellist Margery Eriksson Paul Garrison Ronald Gazzano PARAMOUNT THEATRE FIRE NOTICE Dian Harrison There are sufficient exits in this building to Margaret Hegg accommodate the entire audience. Robert Heywood Karen E. Ivy The exit indicated by the lighted exit sign nearest your Sue Jordan seat is the shortest route to the street. Linda Lipner Edward Love In case of fire, please don’t run – walk through Debrenia Madison the exit. Barbara Miller Peter Myers Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Karen Nelson Steve Nicholls No cameras or tape recorders are permitted in Mary Oram the Paramount. Aaron Paul Genevieve Power For lost and found information, inquire at the main John Protopappas floor aisle 3, or call the box office at (510) 465-6400. Marlene Rogers Susan Sugarman John Torpey Don Walker Loni Williams Kline A. Wilson, Jr.

52 OAKLAND SYMPHONY OAKLAND SYMPHONY VII VIII OAKLAND SYMPHONY Did You Know? Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are: • 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools • 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair • 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance • 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem

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