ALL TOGETHER NOW The Augusta Symphony applauds University Health Care System for being the Presenting SYMPHONY AUGUSTA Sponsor of our Community Chords Music Therapy Program in the Knox Music Institute. For more than 202 years - during prosperous years and those that challenged and changed us - University has worked to improve the health of those they serve in mind, body, and spirit. Thank you, University Health Care System, for more than 20 years of continuous support of the Augusta Symphony. We look forward to many more years of creating beautiful music together. | 2020-2021 augustasymphony.com/communitychords CONTENTS ABOUT YOUR AUGUSTA SYMPHONY SUPPORT Welcome . 5. Legacy Giving . 14 About Augusta Symphony . 7 Sponsors of the 2020-2021 Season . 27 Community Chords . 8 Sponsor a Musician . .28 Board of Directors and Staff . .11 Annual Fund . 29. Miller Theater . 24. Memorials and Honoraria . 32 Maestro Dirk Meyer Bio . 56 Endowment Fund . 33 Members of the Orchestra . .57 . Principals of the Orchestra . 58. Augusta Symphony SALUTATIONS Levi W . Hill, IV . .15 President, Board of Directors Anne Catherine Murray . .15 Executive Director Dirk Meyer . 17. Music Director Cammie Jones . 37 President, Augusta Symphony Guild Augusta Symphony Guild Cotillion 2019 . 41 Pamela Dorminey-Uros . .43 President, Augusta Symphony League Sue Alexanderson . 45 President, Friends of the Augusta Symphony SYMPHONY SERIES 2020 - 2021 1 2 3 Signature Interiors & Gifts Signature Shops on Furys Ferry Interior Design, Furniture, Decor Custom sewing and gifts 706.447.1503 2 3 4 SYMPHONY SERIES 2020 - 2021 WELCOME AT THE SYMPHONY… AS A COURTESY TO OUR MUSICIANS Arrival – doors to the theater open one hour before a AND PATRONS, PLEASE… performance to allow plenty of time to park and find your Silence – your cell phones prior to entering the hall . seat . Late arrivals will be held outside of the hall until there Young Concert Goers (6 years and younger) – are is a break between movements to be seated . encouraged to attend the Family Concerts at Columbia Handicap Accessibility – To best serve you, arrangements County . can be made by calling the Miller Theater Box Office at 706-842-4080 ext 1 prior to purchasing your seats . There is Applause – please hold all applause until the end of the an unloading zone immediately in front of the Miller Theater final movement of each piece . and a gentle slope into the theater, arcade, and restrooms with no steps . Wheelchair accessible seating and companion TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS… seating are located on the orchestra level . The Miller Theater Advance Tickets – may be purchased online at has an elevator to access the Creel-Harison Mezzanine AugustaSymphony com,. by calling 706-842-4080 ext 1, or Lobby, but balcony seating involves traversing stairs . in person at the Miller Theater Box Office at 708 Broad Street . ADA Parking – is available in the parking well on the 700 Box Office Hours – Monday – Friday 10:00 am – 2:00 pm block of Broad Street to patrons with ADA hangtags or license and two hours before a performance (subject to change) . plates as approved by the City of Augusta . These spaces fill Group Discounts - are available for groups of 15 or more . on a first-come, first-served basis and open 90 minutes prior Please contact the box office at 706-842-4080 ext 1 to Welcome to show . Drop off is permitted at the loading zone in front of make these arrangements . the theater where there is a wheelchair ramp available . We will be glad to provide assistance into the venue as needed . Tax Acknowledgements – are available for season subscribers only for tickets returned for resale 48 hours Managed Parking – Patrons should look for lighted Miller prior to the concert . Theater parking signs and attendants in reflective vests . Attendants will remain in the lot throughout the event . PROGRAM BOOK The most up-to-date parking information is available at Advertising – is one of the fundraising means by which the www .millertheateraugusta .com . Augusta Symphony Guild supports the Symphony . Please Additional Parking Options – are available in public continue to thank these individuals and businesses by lots . Please be mindful as many lots around the theater are patronizing them . We appreciate their long-standing efforts private property . Patrons are also encouraged to use ride to assist the Symphony in reaching our community and share services, such as Uber and Lyft . encourage your support of them . To become an advertiser, Security – all patrons will enter the theater under the please contact the office at 706-530-1338 for information Marquee at 708 Broad Street . To facilitate the safety of and rates . our guests, each patron will submit to bag check and metal Recycle Your Program at the conclusion of each concert detection prior to entry . A full list of prohibited items is by placing it on tables as you exit the hall . This allows us to available at www millertheateraugusta. com. Every patron is reduce its printing expenses and helps us be good stewards required to have a ticket to enter . Entry to the venue can be of our environment . expedited if you choose to carry a clear bag . Concessions – will be determined on a concert-by-concert basis this season . Lost and Found – is located at the box office . Please contact us at 706-842-4080 ext 1 to locate your lost item . 4 SYMPHONY SERIES 2020 - 2021 5 6 SYMPHONY SERIES 2020 - 2021 ABOUT AUGUSTA SYMPHONY th Now in its 66 season, Augusta Symphony is the primary Augusta Symphony has matured in artistic excellence About Augusta Symphony professional orchestra for the Central Savannah River while increasing programming and outreach to engage Area and pursues its mission, “to share the joy of great audiences of all ages and levels of music knowledge . This musical performance with our community—together we progress is made possible through the support of three are music,” through annual symphonic, Pops, and family dedicated groups of volunteers: Augusta Symphony concerts that reach approximately 20,000 people Guild, Augusta Symphony League, and Friends of each year . Via Community Chords Education, Veterans Augusta Symphony, along with the support of all of our Outreach, and Music Therapy programs, Augusta donors and patrons . Symphony further strives to foster broad accessibility The Miller Theater is the home of all Symphony to live classical music performance and a lifelong Series and Pops! performances and features a variety appreciation of the art form among people of all ages, of programming throughout the year . It was built in backgrounds, and means . Community Chords currently downtown Augusta in 1940 as an Art Moderne movie serves thousands of youth and adults in communities theater and vaudeville house and operated until within a 75-mile radius of Augusta . 1984 . In 2008, Peter S . Knox IV donated the Miller Founded in 1954 under the baton of Music Director Theater to the Augusta Symphony to be revitalized as Harry M . Jacobs, Augusta Symphony has evolved a performance venue The. restoration was the result of from a small group of 15 musicians to an 85-member a $23 million capital campaign, made possible by the professional ensemble and leading regional orchestra . generosity of individuals, corporations, foundations, Augusta Symphony has been led by four talented SPLOST funding, and state and federal historic tax conductors: Harry Jacobs until 1991, Donald Portnoy incentives . Construction took place in 2016-2017, and from 1991-2009, Shizuo Z Kuwahara from 2009-2016, the Miller Theater reopened with a grand Opening Night and Maestro Dirk Meyer, who is in his third season as Gala on January 6, 2018 . Music Director . During its sixty-six years of growth, The Augusta Symphony is a member of the League of American Orchestras, Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce, Greater Augusta Arts Council, North Augusta Chamber of Commerce, and Columbia County Chamber of Commerce . 6 SYMPHONY SERIES 2020 - 2021 7 8 SYMPHONY SERIES 2020 - 2021 COMMUNITY CHORDS EDUCATION Community Chords School Outreach brings performances and demonstrations by Symphony musicians and guest artists directly into CSRA schools . Symphony musicians perform engaging and interactive concerts for students and teachers . This season, many of these mini- concerts will be pre-recorded and provided to school groups as video links to share with students on their own schedules . The Discovery Concert annually provides over 1,200 elementary, middle, and high school students, including homeschoolers, with opportunities to experience a free live symphonic performance . Due to the pandemic challenges, this season’s Discovery Concert will be provided to area schools and home school groups as a video link to the recording of the “America” Symphony Series concert, which features multimedia images above the orchestra that students are sure to enjoy from the safety of their classroom or home . Community Chords The 2021 Youth Concerto Competition will be presented jointly by the Augusta Symphony and Augusta University’s Department of Music on Sunday, March 14, 2021 at the Maxwell Performing Arts Theater from 1 – 4 pm . The competition is open to students ages 10-18 residing in Georgia or South Carolina who are students of orchestral instruments including strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, and piano . The overall winner will earn the opportunity to perform with the Augusta Symphony in a concert under the direction of Maestro Dirk Meyer . VETERANS OUTREACH Through a partnership with the Charlie Norwood VA veterans with pain, anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic Medical Center Music Therapy program, Symphony stress disorder . Symphony musicians benefit as well by musicians perform at the VA hospitals, a Veteran Guitar building bridges with the community in which they perform Ensemble attends Symphony rehearsals, and symphony and experience the positive impact their craft has on the musicians play during Music-Assisted Group Meditation veterans and hospital staff .