2020 SEASON 2021 RESIDENT ORCHESTRA GREEN MUSIC CENTER SHARE EVERY MOMENT FRANCESCO LECCE-CHONG Music Director srsymphony.org 54-MUSIC (707) 546-8742 MODERNIZING MISSISSIPPI EXPLOR ATION Only with Viking, the small ship experts. Make your dreams come true in 2022 and be among the first to explore America’s mightiest of waterways with us. Visit viking.com/santarosasymphony, call 1-800-304-9616 or see your Travel Advisor. 2 Santa Rosa Symphony RESIDENT ORCHESTRA | WEILL HALL, THE GREEN MUSIC CENTER CST: #2052644-40 Serving Sonoma County musicians and their families since 1947 Serving Sonoma County musicians and their families since 1947. STANROY MUSIC CENTER 850 4th Street Santa Rosa (707)545-4827 www.stanroy.com 2020 – 2021 Season 3 When looking for the right people to manage your trust, start with the word itself. Trust. Expert financial advice is here whenever you need it. Ask a banker or visit exchangebank.com Trust and investment products are not FDIC insured. Not a bank deposit. 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Gorenberg Youth Ensembles Concert Schedule . 47 www.cagfamilylaw.com Institute for Music Education . 50-53 Orchestrating your For Your Information . 54 family law matter with Index of Advertisers . 57 compassion experience Visit us at srsymphony .org for the most up-to-date UU integrity information on all of our concerts and programs . UU UU respect Also find and engage with us on Facebook, Instagram UU creative solutions and Twitter . UU Program 2544 Cleveland Avenue, Suite 202 Editor: Sara Obuchowski-Mitchell Santa Rosa, CA 95403 Design: Performance Printing Center tel. 707.523.1810 Advertising: Ann Hutchinson [email protected] Program Notes: Elizabeth Schwartz Printing: Performance Printing Center divorce | child custody | adoptions Cover Design: Dennis Bolt Cover Photos: Susan and Neil Silverman Photography 2020 – 2021 Season 5 To learn how you can benefit the next generation of musicians, consult with your professional advisors and call the Santa Rosa Symphony Development Director at 707 546-7097 x 214. Securities offered through Securities America, Inc. Member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory service offered through Securities America Advisors Inc. 6 RubinsSanta Financial Rosa Symphony Strategies andRESIDENT Securities ORCHESTRA America are unaffiliated.| WEILL HALL, THE GREEN MUSIC CENTER Francesco Lecce-Chong, Music Director & Conductor Thank you so much for joining the Santa Rosa Symphony in a new year as we come together to celebrate the power of music to connect us—bringing joy, hope and comfort to our lives . We may not be in the Green Music Center in person, but imagine that across our community, we will all be gathering for a performance—in living rooms and backyards, on phones and TVs, with family or maybe some neighbors . In the face of the difficulties behind us and the struggles ahead, we will share the same uplifting musical experience together as we have always needed during past crises from 9/11 to the Tubbs fire . This is truly an historic moment in our Symphony's long history and we are so glad you will be a part of our first concerts, specifically programmed, directed and filmed for you to enjoy in your homes . If you are a long-time subscriber, this will be your chance to see our musicians up close on stage, from many different angles, and fea- tured in unique formations . And if you are new, you will be immersed SUSAN AND NEIL SILVERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY in our story, as you will get to know our musicians and learn about the many ways the Santa Rosa Symphony is a centerpiece of our community . This entire undertaking is a love letter to our community, while also being a statement to the world about what can be achieved through goodwill, trust and a commitment to building a brighter future together . In this new series of five concerts, we welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich as our first ever “Artistic Partner ”. Through presentations, interviews and online interactions with our viewers, Ellen will be giving us an incredible inside look at her artistic process as we travel through five of her works written across four decades . I have long been inspired by Ellen’s work and it is such a thrill to collaborate with her so closely . We will also move on from Beethoven to several 19th-century masterworks by Dvorak, Wagner, Brahms and Tchaikovsky . And, finally, several of our works will utilize our beautiful concert hall by using unique set-ups and letting our film crew get creative! I would like to finish with a personal note of gratitude . None of this would have been possible without an unwavering commitment to keeping our music alive, even under the most difficult of circumstances, from all our stakeholders—musicians, staff, board, donors, volunteers, ticket holders, the Green Music Center, Sonoma State University and many public officials . From the bottom of my heart – THANK YOU! Sincerely, To learn how you can benefit the next generation of musicians, consult with your professional advisors and call the Santa Rosa Symphony Development Director at 707 546-7097 x 214. Francesco Lecce-Chong Securities offered through Securities America, Inc. Member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory service offered through Securities America Advisors Inc. Rubins Financial Strategies and Securities America are unaffiliated. 2020 – 2021 Season 7 8 Santa Rosa Symphony RESIDENT ORCHESTRA | WEILL HALL, THE GREEN MUSIC CENTER Alan Silow, President & CEO Al Seidenfeld, Chairman of the Board This is my 19th year of As we begin our 93rd writing a season welcome symphony season, we column to all of you as remain steadfastly com- the administrative leader mitted to bringing music of this beloved symphony of the highest caliber to orchestra . Yet it is my first, our community . We have knowing it will be read as been presented unprec- part of our brave, new, edented pandemic-re- virtual world, to modify lated adjustments this a phrase from Aldous past year: cancelled and Huxley . That is the least of the changes that have re-scheduled concerts, re-imagined repertoire, befallen us since mid-March 2020 . and re-formatted music education experiences No matter what our particular challenges, and for our children and youth . Yet, none of this has there have been many, with the advent of the dissuaded us from our primary goal of making and COVID-19 pandemic, heat waves and wildfires, we sharing beautiful music . all find ourselves in a unique space between "the The Santa Rosa Symphony is one of the finest, no longer" and "the not yet ". In this space of crisis, best-managed orchestras in the U .S . While many the Santa Rosa Symphony has found opportunity . other symphonies have gone dark, we are a shin- The opportunity to reimagine our performance ing example of perseverance . We have an engaged model, while staying focused on the big picture Board of Directors, a competent and caring staff, of enriching your connection to our music . a dynamic music director, who delivers spirited And yes, of course, given this pandemic, it con- concert performances in tandem with gifted tinues to be virtual, not in person, for the second musicians, and distinguished guest artists . Our half of our season . But virtual hasn’t meant worse . Symphony is, simply stated, a gem . Sheltered in the safety of your home, our virtual From humble beginnings, the Santa Rosa performances to date gave every patron a more inti- Symphony has grown to become a cultural force mate concert experience, with closeups of our fine in our community . Besides being the acclaimed musicians and our charismatic conductor Francesco Resident Orchestra of the renowned Weill Hall Lecce-Chong, plus commentary and more, all cap- of the Green Music Center, we have community tured by a professional video production team . The outreach programs for students of all ages . Our results have been impressive and validating – we Institute for Music Education reaches approxi- had more viewing patrons, a younger demographic mately 30,000 students per year . And, no matter and more first-time donors than ever before . whether we are in the concert hall live or offering "Plan and adjust" has been our mantra built professionally-produced streaming, we will con- upon a foundation of artistic and educational tinue to bring you the finest in musical enjoyment . excellence, fiscal ingenuity and community We are immensely grateful for you, our devoted engagement . Yes, we have no doubt that substan- audience, for your continuing support as patrons tial challenges remain to be faced as we continue and donors . Your contributions help us create our ambitious and creative artistic plan . Yet for memorable musical experiences, educate our now, we are delighted that with your participation community's next generation and navigate what- we can continue a season like no other . ever challenges lie ahead . Your loyalty, and the Let us never forget the one thing that is abso- dedication of board members, staff, volunteers lutely clear: Our music has been and always will and the artistry of our musicians allow for great be an essential antidote to the trauma of our times .