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MESSAGE FROM THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA Dear Friends, I am delighted to be writing to you about two wonderful programs being offered by the Louisville Orchestra this month, and about the terrific guest artists who will be joining us at the Whitney. First, our Classics Series continues with two important masterworks, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade and Prokofiev’s “Violin Concerto #1,” compositions that bridge the Late Romantic era into the 20th Century. Sheherazade is among the most famous and most popular symphonic suites ever written. Composed in 1888, the suite has four movements with themes that recur throughout, and offers solos to many of the principal players in the orchestra, most notably, the concertmaster. It’s based upon the extraordinary tales woven by the beautiful princess, Sheherazade, in One Thousand and One Nights and combines two of Rimsky-Korsakov’s great strengths and interests: brilliant orchestration and Orientalism. Serge Prokofiev began composing his first violin concerto in 1915, put it aside to compose an opera, and then went back to it in 1917. It was premiered in 1923 in Paris with Serge Koussevitzky conducting at the same concert at which Igor Stravinsky made his debut as a conductor (in the premiere of his amazing Octet). The concerto is in three movements, it starts and ends in ethereal beauty, with a barn-burner of a scherzo in the middle! Two brilliant and rising young stars make their debuts with the LO on this concert, the conductor Jonathon Heyward and the violinist Benjamin Beilman. Maestro Heyward’s rise has been meteoric. He served for three years as assistant conductor of the Hallé Orchestra in England, and was named Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in the summer of 2021. He has an astoundingly busy schedule conducting orchestras throughout Europe and North America, and we’re lucky that it includes us! No less than the New York Times has described Benjamin Beilman’s playing as having “handsome technique, burnished sound, and quiet confidence (which) showed why he has come so far so fast.” His is the sort of all-around virtuosity that will make glorious the many demands of the Prokofiev, from nuanced pianissimos to brutal edginess. Two great artists making their LO debuts! The other program, which I have the pleasure to conduct on our Pops Series, is the great Michael Cavanaugh, pianist and vocalist, playing the music of Elton John. Cavanaugh was famously chosen by Billy Joel to play, well, Billy Joel in the Broadway musical “Movin’ Out” which he headlined for three years and more than 1200 performances. His voice, his keyboard skills and his amazing energy will make this an Elton John tribute to remember... and it’s possible that a couple Billy Joel tunes may show up as well! Welcome to the Whitney, everyone! I hope you enjoy every minute of every program, and as always, thank you for your support. We can’t do it without you.

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The Library Foundation, Brown-Forman Foundation, and the friends of the Library present Once Upon an Orchestra. Families are invited to join Louisville Orchestra ensembles for interactive, storytelling through music performances at Louisville Free Public Library branches.

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THANK YOU an Orchestra so successful. In partnership with the Louisville Free Public Library, we brought music and storytelling to thousands of families. The joy we experienced together through these programs was a highlight of our season and we look forward to seeing you again in the fall!

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T E D D Y A B R A M S , M U S I C D I R E C TO R An unusually versatile musician, Teddy Abrams is the widelyacclaimed Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra. Now in his eighth season as Music Director, Teddy has fostered interdisciplinary collaborations with the Louisville Ballet and Speed Art Museum, and led Louisville’s cultural response to the pandemic with the Lift Up Lou initiative. Among other works, the 202122 season includes the world premieres of Teddy’s new piano concerto written for Yuja Wang and a concerto for timba band and orchestra composed by Grammyaward winner Dafnis Prieto. Teddy's rap-opera, The Greatest: Muhammad Ali, premiered in 2017, celebrating Louisville’s hometown hero with an allstar cast that included Rhiannon Giddens and Jubilant Sykes, as well as Jecorey “1200” Arthur, with whom he started the Louisville Orchestra Rap School. Abrams’ work with the Louisville Orchestra has been profiled on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, PBS’ Articulate, and the PBS NewsHour. Teddy Abrams has been Music Director and Conductor of the Britt Festival Orchestra since 2013, where, in addition to an annual three-week festival of concerts, he has taken the orchestra across the region in the creation of new work—including Michael Gordon’s Natural History, which premiered on the edge of Crater Lake National Park in partnership with the National Parks Service, and was the subject of the PBS documentary Symphony for Nature; and Pulitzer Prize-winning-composer Caroline Shaw’s Brush, an experiential work written 6

and performed this past summer on the Jacksonville Woodlands Trail system. Abrams collaborated with Jim James, vocalist and guitarist for My Morning Jacket, on the song cycle The Order of Nature, which they premiered with the Louisville Orchestra in 2018 and recorded on Decca Gold. They performed the work with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in 2019. Teddy Abrams records on Universal Music Group’s Decca Gold Label. In addition to The Order of Nature, Teddy and the Louisville Orchestra recorded All In in 2017 with vocalist Storm Large. Teddy’s most recent recording was an original track, “Fourth Mode,” as part of UMG’s World Sleep Day. Highlights of Teddy’s 2021-22 season include engagements with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, and New World Symphony. He appears as a featured speaker at the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival. As a guest conductor, Teddy has worked with such distinguished ensembles as the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the San Francisco, National, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Vancouver, Colorado, Utah, and Phoenix Symphonies; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; and the Florida Orchestra. Internationally, he has worked with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, and the Malaysian Philharmonic. He served as Assistant Conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 2012-2014. From 2008 to 2011, Abrams was the Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor of the New World Symphony. An accomplished pianist and clarinetist, Abrams has appeared as a soloist with a

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THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA, 2021-2022 Teddy Abrams, Music Director Bob Bernhardt, Principal Pops Conductor Graham Parker, Interim Executive Director

FIRST VIOLIN

Gabriel Lefkowitz, Concertmaster Julia Noone, Associate Concertmaster Katheryn S. Ohkubo Heather Thomas Mrs. John H. Clay Chair

VIOLA

Jack Griffin, Principal Evan Vicic, Assistant Principal Jacqueline R. and Theodore S. Rosky Chair

Clara Markham Mr.† and Mrs. Charles W. Hebel, Jr. Chair

Stephen Taylor Scott Staidle Nancy Staidle Patricia Fong-Edwards Chelsea Sharpe, Interim

Jennifer Shackleton Jonathan Mueller

SECOND VIOLIN

Meghan Casper

Julia Cash, Interim Principal

LG&E-KU Foundation Chair

Kimberly Tichenor, Assistant Principal Maria Semes* Mary Catherine Klan Chair

Christopher Robinson, Interim Andrea Daigle Cynthia Burton Charles Brestel James McFaddenTalbot Judy Pease Wilson Blaise Poth

Virginia Kershner Schneider Viola Chair, Endowed in Honor of Emilie Strong Smith by an Anonymous Donor

CELLO

Nicholas Finch, Principal Jim & Marianne Welch Chair

Lillian Pettitt, Assistant Principal Carole C. Birkhead Chair, Endowed by Dr. Ben M. Birkhead

Christina Hinton James B. Smith Chair Endowed by Susannah S. Onwood

Allison Olsen Lindy Tsai Julia Preston

FLUTE

Kathleen Karr, Principal Elaine Klein Chair

Jake Chabot Donald Gottlieb

PICCOLO

Donald Gottlieb Alvis R. Hambrick Chair

OBOE

Alexandr Vvedenskiy, Principal Betty Arrasmith Chair, Endowed by the Association of the Louisville Orchestra

Trevor Johnson, Assistant Principal Jennifer Potochnic ‡

ENGLISH HORN Trevor Johnson

Philip M. Lanier Chair

CLARINET

Andrea Levine, Principal Brown-Forman Corp. Chair

Robert Walker Kate H. and Julian P. Van Winkle, Jr. Chair

Ernest Gross

BASS CLARINET

BASS

Brian Thacker, Interim Principal Open Robert Docs Karl Olsen, Acting Assistant Principal

Ernest Gross

BASSOON

Matthew Karr, Principal Paul D. McDowell Chair

Francisco Joubert Bernard

Jarrett Fankhauser Chair, Endowed by the Paul Ogle Foundation

Michael Chmilewski

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Jon Gustely, Principal Edith S. & Barry Bingham, Jr. Chair

Diana Wade Morgen Gary † and Sue Russell Chair

Brooke Ten Napel, Interim Assistant Principal/Third Horn Stephen Causey

TRUMPET Alexander Schwarz, Principal Leon Rapier Chair, Endowed by the Musicians of the Louisville Orchestra

Stacy Simpson ‡ James Recktenwald

TROMBONE

Donna Parkes, Principal* Brett Shuster, Interim Principal Nathan Siler ‡

BASS TROMBONE J. Bryan Heath

TUBA

Andrew Doub, Principal

TIMPANI

James Rago, Principal Mr. and Mrs.† Warwick Dudley Musson Principal Timpani Chair

PERCUSSION

John Pedroja, Principal

HARP

Open, Principal * On leave ‡ Denotes Auxiliary Musician † Deceased

B O B B E R N H A R D T, P R I N C I PA L P O P S C O N D U C TO R This season we celebrate the 40 seasons that Bob Bernhardt has been a constant presence with the Louisville Orchestra. Starting in 1981 as Assistant Conductor, then as Associate Conductor at the LO, then as Principal Guest Conductor of Kentucky Opera, and now in his 24th season as Principal Pops Conductor, he continues to bring his unique combination of easy style, infectious enthusiasm, and wonderful musicianship to the city and orchestra he loves. Bernhardt is concurrently in his sixth season as Principal Pops Conductor of the Grand Rapids Symphony in Michigan, and Principal Pops Conductor and Music Director Emeritus of the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, where he previously spent 19 seasons as Music Director, and is now in his 28th year with the company. He is also, since 2012, an Artist-in-Residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee. Previously, he was Music Director and conductor of the Amarillo Symphony, the Tucson Symphony, and Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rochester Philharmonic. In the past decade, Bob has made his conducting debut with the Baltimore Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, Cincinnati Pops, New Jersey Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Las Vegas Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony and Santa Barbara Symphony, all of which were rewarded with return engagements. 8

He has a continuing fourteen-year relationship with the Edmonton Symphony, conducting there several times each season, and as Festival Conductor for their Labor Day festival, Symphony Under the Sky. He made his debut with the Boston Pops in 1992 at the invitation of John Williams and has been a frequent guest there ever since. Recently, he returned to the podiums in Vail, Boston, Nashville, Detroit, Edmonton, Florida, Grand Rapids, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Santa Barbara, Portland (ME), Louisiana, and Rochester, and made his debut with the Utah Symphony, Portland Symphony (OR), Calgary Philharmonic, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. His professional opera career began with the Birmingham Civic Opera in 1979, two years before he joined the Louisville Orchestra. He worked with Kentucky Opera for 18 consecutive seasons, and with his own company in Chattanooga, where he conducted dozens of fully staged productions in a genre he adores. Born in Rochester, New York, he holds a master’s degree from the University of Southern California’s School of Music where he studied with Daniel Lewis. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he was an Academic All-American baseball player. (While not all the research is in, Bernhardt believes that he is the only conductor in the history of music to be invited to spring training with the Kansas City Royals. After four days, they suggested to him a life in music.) His children, Alex and Charlotte, live in Seattle. He and his wife, Nora, live in Signal Mountain, Tennessee.

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Sheherazade, Op. 35 (42 min.) I. “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship” II. “The Tale of Prince Kalendar” III. “The Young Prince and the Princess” IV. “The Festival at Bagdad – The Sea – The Ship Goes to Pieces on a Rock”

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES JONATHON HEYWARD (B. 1992) Jonathon Heyward is forging a career as one of the most exciting conductors on the international scene. Currently in his first year as a Chief Conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, in summer 2021, Jonathon took part in an intense, two-week residency with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain which led to a highly acclaimed BBC Proms debut. According to the Guardian, Heyward was “not too exhausted, though, to lead – from memory – a fast and fearless performance of Beethoven’s 'Eroica' Symphony, in which loud chords exploded, repeating like fireworks in the hall’s dome, and the quietest passages barely registered. It was exuberant, exhilarating stuff.” Acclaimed music writer and record producer, Ateş Orga noted: “This Prom was about Jonathon Heyward, NYOGB and Beethoven. ...Heyward’s a man of twenty-nine coolly heading for the stratosphere.” Heyward’s recent and forthcoming symphonic guest conducting highlights include debuts and re-invitations with the London Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony, BBC Scottish Symphony, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Plus the Brussels Philharmonic, SymfonieOrkest Vlaanderen, and Antwerp Symphony in Belgium; Philharmonie Zuidnederland in the Netherlands; Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine in France; Lahti Symphony in Finland; and St. Petersburg

Symphony in Russia. In his native United States in the current and upcoming concert seasons, Heyward looks forward to making debuts with the Baltimore, Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, San Diego, St. Louis, and Oregon Symphony Orchestras and with the LA Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. Equally at home on the opera stage, Heyward recently made his Royal Opera House debut with Hannah Kendall’s Knife of Dawn, having also conducted Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as well as the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s new opera, Wake, in a production by Graham Vick for the Birmingham Opera Company. Originally trained as a cellist and chamber musician, Heyward went on to take up the position of Assistant Conductor for both their opera department and the Boston Opera Collaborative, where he worked on such productions as La Bohème, Die Zauberflöte, and The Rape of Lucretia. In 2013, Heyward became the youngest ever semi-finalist at the Blue Danube International Opera Conducting Competition and, soon after, was appointed Associate Director of the Hampstead Garden Opera Company in London. In 2016, he completed his postgraduate studies in conducting with Sian Edwards at the Royal Academy of Music. In the 2017-2018 season, Jonathon was selected as a Los Angeles Philharmonic Dudamel Conducting Fellow, later stepping in to make his subscription debut with Hilary Hahn as part of the orchestra’s Bernstein @ 100 Celebration at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Heyward recently completed three years as Assistant Conductor of the Hallé Orchestra under the mentorship of Sir Mark Elder. In recognition of his extensive community outreach work and commitment to music education as Music Director of the Hallé Youth Orchestra, he received a finalist nomination for Young Creative of the Year at the Manchester Culture Awards 2018. BENJAMIN BEILMAN (B. 1989) American violinist Benjamin Beilman is winning plaudits across the globe for his compelling and impassioned performances, his deep rich tone, and searing lyricism. The Scotsman has described him as “a remarkable talent, delivering playing of rare insight and generosity, as captivating as it is gloriously entertaining” and the New York Times has praised his “handsome technique, burnished sound, and quiet confidence [which] showed why he has come so far so fast”.

Other highlights in 19/20 included debuts with the Danish National Symphony, Gürzenich (Cologne), Tonkünstler (Vienna), Antwerp Symphony orchestras, in the U.S. with the Utah Symphony and Minnesota orchestras, and his return to the London Chamber Orchestra to play/direct. In past seasons, Beilman has performed with many major orchestras worldwide including the Rotterdam Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle, Sydney Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Houston Symphony, and Philadelphia Orchestra both at home and at Carnegie Hall. In recital and chamber music, Beilman performs regularly at the major halls across the world, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall,

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During the Beethoven celebrations in 2020, Mr. Beilman performed the Beethoven Concerto with the Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Mark Janowski, the Wroclaw Philharmonic and their Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero on tour across Poland, the Orchestra Metropolitain (Montreal) with Han-Na Chang and with the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in Tugan Sokhiev’s closing concert as Musical Director. 14

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“...handsome technique, burnished sound, and quiet confidence showed why he has come so far so fast”. − New York Times

Louvre (Paris), Philharmonie (Berlin), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo), and at festivals he has performed at Verbier, Aix-en-Provence Easter, Prague Dvorak, Robeco Summer Concerts (Amsterdam), Music@Menlo, Marlboro and Seattle Chamber Music amongst others. In early 2018, he premiered a new work dedicated to the political activist Angela Davis written by Frederic Rzewski and

commissioned by Music Accord, which he has performed extensively across the US. Beilman studied with Almita and Roland Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago, Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank at the Curtis Institute of Music, and Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy, and has received many prestigious accolades including a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a London Music Masters Award. He has an exclusive recording contract with Warner Classics and released his first disc ‘Spectrum’ for the label in 2016, featuring works by Stravinsky, Janáček and Schubert. Beilman plays the “Engleman” Stradivarius from 1709 generously on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.

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ONE-MINUTE NOTES Known for her attentive arrangements and immersive world-building, Hannah Kendall’s music looks beyond the boundaries of composition. Her work bridges gaps between different musical cultures, both honoring and questioning the contemporary tradition while telling new stories through it. Contrasting fine detail with limitless abandon, she has become renowned both as a composer and a storyteller, confronting our collective history with narratively-driven pieces centered on bold mission statements. Early in his career, Serge Prokofiev was a ‘bad boy’ of Russian music, challenging tradition with thorny dissonances and percussive music. His First Violin Concerto represents a different facet of his musical personality; it is one of his neoclassical works. As such, it not only pays homage to the formal and stylistic legacies of Prokofiev's Western musical forbears, but also consciously emulates

THE SPARK CATCHERS HANNAH KENDALL (B. 1984) Born in London, Hannah Kendall is based in New York City and is a doctoral Fellow 16

some of their ideas. The balanced structure of the concerto's three movements and its clear delineation of themes both indicate that the composer had his forbears in mind. This concerto also bewitches with its warmth and tenderness. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov spent his career as an officer in the Russian navy, but his passion was music. A superb orchestrator, he is regarded today as one of Russia’s premier composers of the late 19th century. His Sheherazade features an obbligato role for our excellent concertmaster, Gabriel Lefkowitz. The recurring solo violin line represents the spellbinding voice of the Sultana as she relates the 1001 tales of the Arabian Nights, thereby staving off death by entertaining her husband. Sheherazade’s music is sinuous and seductive. The sultan’s theme, in the brasses, is barbaric, forceful, and masculine. Rimsky’s writing is enchanting: a perfect blend of exoticism and vivid orchestral color.

in composition at Columbia University. Growing up in Wembly, Kendall began music studies at the age of 4 starting with the violin and continuing with piano and composition and vocal studies at the University of Exeter. She was lauded for her composition as early as 2015 when she was noted as one of the “brilliant female composers under the age of 35” by the BBC’s Radio 3. Kendall’s The Spark

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P R O G R A M N OT E S Catchers premiered at the BBC Proms in August 2017 and is available on NMC. The composer’s note from the score outlines the firm narrative of this work: Lemn Sissay’s incredibly evocative poem, The Spark Catchers, is the inspiration behind this work. I was drawn to its wonderful dynamism, vibrancy, and drive. Specific words and phrases from the text have established the structure of the work and informed the contrasting musical characteristics created within the piece’s main components. The opening ‘Sparks and Strikes’ section immediately creates vigor and liveliness, with the piccolo and violins setting up a swelling rhythmic drive, interjected by strong strikes from the

rest of the ensemble. This momentum continues into ‘The Molten Madness’, maintaining the initial kinetic energy, whilst also producing a darker and brooding atmosphere introduced in the bass lines. A broad and soaring melodic line in the horns and first violins overlays the material, moving into a majestic episode led by the full string section, accentuated by valiant calls in the woodwind, brass, and percussion; culminating in a sudden pause. A lighter variation of the opening rhythmic material in the clarinets, harp, and strings follows, creating a feeling of suspense. The texture builds up through a jazzy figure led by the brass, leading to a powerful and surging interplay between the flutes, oboes, and violins.

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P R O G R A M N OT E S The lighter, clearer, and crystalline ‘Beneath the Stars/In the Silver Sheen’ section follows. Quiet and still, it is distinguished by its gleaming delicacy through long interweaving lines, high pitch range, and thin textures. An illuminating strike, underpinned by the glockenspiel and harp, signifies the climax of this section. Subsequently, the opening zest comes back again through dance-like material which culminates in ‘The Matchgirls March’ with its forceful and punchy words. The Spark Catchers ends with a coda-like section, which carries over the power of the ‘March’, whilst also incorporating variations on musical motives from ‘Sparks and Strikes’ and ‘The Molten Madness’; finally concluding on a sparkling flourish. – Hannah Kendall VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 IN D MAJOR, OP. 19 SERGE PROKOFIEV (1891 - 1953) If you were 25, came from a wealthy family in an absolutist state, and the status quo appeared to be on the verge of collapse, would you stick around and weather the storm – or opt for friendlier shores? Serge Prokofiev chose the latter option early in the Russian Revolution. By spring 1918, even train travel between Moscow and St. Petersburg had become risky because of political unrest; many Russians feared German invasion as much as the civil war. Prokofiev headed 18

east, across the Siberian steppes to Japan, and thence to California. His luggage contained several manuscripts, including a newly completed violin concerto. The piece was remarkably free of any sign of the chaos into which Russia had been thrown. One wonders whether Prokofiev was simply ignoring what was transpiring around him, for its melodies are positively ethereal. As classically constructed as any piece he wrote, this concerto is more tender and romantic than sardonic. We hear the sensitive and lyrical Prokofiev, rather than the savage and sarcastic facets that had already manifested themselves in other works. His First Violin Concerto strikes a wonderful balance between the violin's cantabile qualities and the excitement of a brilliant player giving free rein to sheer bravura technique. Prokofiev waited five years to hear this concerto performed. He left America for France in the early 1920s but could not persuade a French violinist to learn his concerto. Finally, in 1923, he found a soloist: Marcel Darrieux, the concertmaster of Serge Koussevitzky's specially recruited orchestra. A brilliant and forward-thinking musician, Koussevitzky conducted the première at the Paris Opéra on 12 October 1923. The press sniffed at the new concerto, dismissing it as Mendelssohnian. As Prokofiev's biographers Laurence and Elizabeth Hanson have written, "If there is one thing that disconcerts the intellectual Frenchman, it is genuine emotion openly expressed." Perhaps what the critics meant by "Mendelssohnian" was lyrical and melodious. Fortunately, the audience

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P R O G R A M N OT E S also included such luminaries as painter Pablo Picasso, ballerina Anna Pavlova, composer Karol Szymanowski, pianist Artur Rubinstein, and − most important − violinist Joseph Szigeti. The Hungarian virtuoso was thrilled with Prokofiev's concerto. Within a year Szigeti was touring with the piece all over Europe.

that this is no one-dimensional composer. Still, his finale brings back both melodic elements and the gentle spirit of the first movement, embellished by elaborate trills, thrilling passage work, and the sweetest of sounds. This is a concerto to take to the heart for many repeat hearings.

Szigeti surely responded to Prokofiev's winning combination of lyricism and sparkle. The soloist's opening theme is marked sognando ["dreamily"], over a shimmering, divided viola section. A poetic, magical quality wafts forth, both seductive and innocent, entwining us in a musical tale that unfolds at leisure. Prokofiev's central scherzo is wild, dissonant, sardonic, a reminder

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P R O G R A M N OT E S in late nineteenth-century Russia. The land itself spanned thousands of miles from west to east, subsuming vastly different cultures within its boundaries. When he began work on Sheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov had recently completed his friend Alexander Borodin's unfinished opera, Prince Igor, whose music is heavily tinged with Eastern flavor. The exotic harmonies of eastern culture exerted a strong influence on Rimsky's own symphonic suite. In his memoirs, My Musical Life, RimskyKorsakov wrote of Sheherazade: I had in view the creation of an orchestral suite in four movements, closely knit by the community of its themes and motives, yet presenting, as it were, a kaleidoscope of fairytale images and designs of Oriental character. ...All I desired was that the hearer, if he liked my piece as symphonic music, should carry away the impression that it is beyond doubt an Oriental narrative of some numerous and varied fairy-tale wonders. He placed a note at the head of his score recapitulating the story. Sultan Shakriar, convinced that all women are faithless, determines to put each of his wives to death after the first night. Clever Sultana Sheherazade saves herself one night by captivating her husband with different fairy tales and adventures. Driven by curiosity, the sultan repeatedly postpones her execution, eventually abandoning his bloodthirsty plan. Curiously, in later life, Rimsky-Korsakov spoke of aversion to an overly specific program for the Suite. While he acknowledged that the solo violin represented the silken voice of the gifted 20

Sultana as she related her stories, he held that his technique was a musical unifier, rather than a programmatic device. The composer wanted the story to act as a catalyst for each individual listener's imagination, rather than having us interpret the music as a literal illustration of the literary program. Sheherazade was sketched in Petersburg in early 1888 and completed during the summer while Rimsky-Korsakov was on holiday in the country. It was approximately contemporary with his Russian Easter Overture, and the two works were premiered at the same concert that December. Along with his Capriccio Espagnol, Rimsky-Korsakov felt that Scheherazade and the overture... ... close[d] a period in my work, at the end of which my orchestration had attained a considerable degree of virtuosity and warm sonority without Wagnerian influence, limiting myself to the normally constituted orchestra used by Glinka. Rimsky-Korsakov rightly regarded Sheherazade as the peak of his orchestration achievement, though not necessarily his finest musical achievement. Perhaps the greatest achievement of this suite is that the composer succeeded so completely in evoking the lush, exotic orientalism of his subject without the use of unconventional instruments. It is a veritable festival for the orchestra. Colorful solos for nearly every instrument ingeniously weave together the different melodic lines that connect the music and evoke the magical spirit of the 1001 Arabian nights.

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Teddy Abrams, Music Director Bob Bernhardt, Principal Pops Conductor Graham Parker, Interim Executive Director

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MICHAEL CAVANAUGH PLAYS MUSIC OF ELTON JOHN Friday, April 22, 2022 • 8PM The Kentucky Center, Whitney Hall Bob Bernhardt, conductor Michael Cavanaugh, piano + vocals Louisville Orchestra Pops Series is presented by Frank and Paula Harshaw in celebration of Bob Bernhardt’s 40th season at the LO.

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“New Voice of the American Rock ´n Roll Songbook” − Billboard Magazine

“The Amazing Michael Cavanaugh” − The New York Times

MICHAEL CAVANAUGH (B. 1972) Michael Cavanaugh is the voice of the American Rock & Roll Songbook and a charismatic performer and musician made famous for his piano/lead vocals in the Broadway musical Movin’ Out. Handpicked by Billy Joel to star in Movin’ Out, Cavanaugh evokes a style rivaling the Piano Man. He appeared in the show for three years with over 1,200 performances and received multiple accolades. The show culminated in 2003 with both Grammy and Tony award nominations. Mr. Cavanaugh began playing at age seven when his parents bought their first piano. Encouraged by family and friends, and inspired by his hero Billy Joel, Cavanaugh formed his first band at age 10 and began playing local functions, fine-tuning the craft that would become his chosen career. His first full-time gig as a musician was an extended engagement in Orlando, Florida, at a piano bar called Blazing Pianos. In January of 1999, Cavanaugh received an offer that would unknowingly change his life: an opportunity to play Las Vegas at the famed New York, New York Hotel and Casino. It was there that Billy Joel spotted him and joined him on stage one fateful night of February 2001. It only took two 22

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songs before Billy was convinced that he had found his new Piano Man: Michael Cavanaugh. Michael closed up shop at New York, New York, and moved to New York City to work alongside Billy Joel and Twyla Tharp to shape the Broadway Musical that would be called Movin’ Out. In the lead role, he received both Tony and Grammy nominations. With the close of Movin’ Out at the end of 2005, Cavanaugh began touring in his own right, creating a show that reinterprets the modern pop/rock songbook. His interpretation of the modern rock/pop songbook led to Billboard calling him “The New Voice of the American Rock and Roll Songbook,” and he was recognized by Reuters as Entertainer of the Year for the private events market. It wasn’t long before symphony orchestras discovered Cavanaugh’s talents and audience appeal. He accepted his first orchestral booking, “Michael Cavanaugh – The Songs of Billy Joel and More,” which debuted in April 2008

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with the Indianapolis Symphony and continues to tour today. In October 2008, he signed with Warner/ADA to distribute his first CD, In Color. In June 2010, Michael debuted his second symphony show in the Generations of Rock series titled “Michael Cavanaugh: The Songs of Elton John and More” and then debuted his third symphony show, “Singers and Songwriters: The Music of Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, and James Taylor,” in 2012. In 2015, he debuted his fourth symphony show, “Rockin’ Christmas with the Pops.” He continues to tour all four symphony productions along with performing with his band in performing arts centers and other public venues.

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TEDDY ABRAMS ...continued from p. 6... number of orchestras — including playconducting the Ravel Piano Concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony in 2017 and the Jacksonville Symphony in 2013 — and has performed chamber music with the St. Petersburg String Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Time for Three, and John Adams, in addition to annual appearances at the Olympic Music Festival. Dedicated to exploring new and engaging ways to communicate with a diverse range of audiences, Abrams co-founded the Sixth Floor Trio in 2008. Together, they founded and direct GardenMusic, the music festival of the world-renowned Fairchild Tropical Garden in Miami; they continue to tour regularly throughout the U.S. Abrams was a protégé of Michael Tilson Thomas from the age of eleven, and studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller and Ford Lallerstedt at the Curtis Institute of Music, and with David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival; he

was the youngest conducting student ever accepted at both institutions. Abrams is also an award-winning composer and a passionate educator. His 2009 Education Concerts with the New World Symphony (featuring the world premiere of one of Abrams’ own orchestral works) were webcast to hundreds of schools throughout South Florida. Abrams performed as a keyboardist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, won the 2007 Aspen Composition Contest, and was the Assistant Conductor of the YouTube Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 2009. He has held residencies at the La Mortella music festival in Ischia, Italy and at the American Academy in Berlin. Teddy was a proud member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra for seven seasons, and graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music, having studied piano with Paul Hersh.

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LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA 2021-22 BOARD of DIRECTORS Mr. Lee Kirkwood Chair Mr. Andrew Fleischman Chair-Elect Mr. James S. Welch, Jr. Immediate Past Chair Mrs. Carole Birkhead* Mrs. Christina Brown Mrs. Ritu Furlan Mrs. Mariah Gratz Mrs. Paula Harshaw Mrs. Carol Hebel*

Mrs. Michelle Hawk Heit Ms. Wendy Hyland Mr. Brian Kane Mrs. Beth Keyes Mr. Don Kohler, Jr. Mrs. Karen Lawrence Mrs. Carol Barr Matton Mr. Joseph Miller Mr. Guy Montgomery Mr. Khoa Nguyen Dr. OJ Oleka Mr. Timothy L. Peace Dr. Teresa Reed Mr. Jeff Roberts

Mr. Bruce Roth Mrs. Denise Schiller Mrs. Winona Shiprek* Mr. Gary Sloboda Ms. Min Son Mr. Dennis Stilger, Jr. Mr. William Summers, V Mrs. Lindsay Vallandingham Mrs. Susan Von Hoven Mrs. Mary Ellen Wiederwohl Mr. Robert H. Wimsatt *denotes Life Member

LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA ADMINISTRATION EXECUTIVE

Adam Thomas Artistic Coordinator & Assistant to the Music Director

Nathaniel Koch Executive Administrator

DEVELOPMENT

Graham Parker Interim Executive Director

Megan Giangarra Office Administrator & Patron Services Associate Jacob Gotlib Creative Neighborhood Residency Program Manager

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS Matthew Feldman Director of Artistic Operations Jake Cunningham Operations Manager Adrienne Hinkebein Orchestra Personnel Manager Bill Polk Stage Manager Chris Skyles Librarian

Bert Griffin Chief Development Officer Erynn McInnis Grant Writer Edward W. Schadt Director of Leadership Giving Jonathan Wysong Development Manager

FINANCE

Tonya McSorley Chief Financial Officer Stacey Brown Controller Cheri Reinbold Staff Accountant Angela Pike Receptionist

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY

Sarah Lempke O’Hare Director of Education & Community Engagement Jennifer Baughman Education & Community Engagement Coordinator

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

Michelle Winters Director of Marketing Arricka Dunsford Marketing & Communications Strategist Stephen Koller Graphic Designer

PATRON SERVICES

Carla Givan Motes Director of Patron Services Shane Wood Patron Systems Manager

ASSOCIATION OF THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA, INC . EXECUTIVE OFFICERS Lindsay Vallandingham President Mona Newell Immediate Past President Helen Davis VP Communications Pam Brashear & Liz Rorke VP Education Co-Chairs Jeanne James & Suzanne Spencer VP Hospitality Co-Chairs Marguerite Rowland VP Membership 26

Michele Oberst VP Ways and Means Susan Smith Recording Secretary Sue Bench Corresponding Secretary Ann Decker Treasurer Rita Bell Parliamentarian Carol Hebel, Winona Shiprek, & Anne Tipton President's Appointments A U D I E N C E

ALO BOARD of DIRECTORS Margie Harbst Paula Harshaw Sara Huggins John Malloy Carolyn Marlowe Marcia Murphy Nancy Naxera Roycelea Scott Ruth Scully Mollie Smith Harriet Treitz Carol Whayne

THETHE CONDUCTORS CORPORATE & FOUNDATION FOUNDATION MEMBERS CONDUCTORSSOCIETY SOCIETY CORPORATE AND MEMBERS FOUNDER| $250,000+ The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation William M. Wood Foundation

SUSTAINER | $100,000+ Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence Jasteka Foundation

VIRTUOSO | $50,000+

BENEFACTOR | $25,000+ Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation The Diaz Family Foundation Kindred Foundation LOUISVILLE

SUPPORTER | $10,000+ Anonymous Anonymous Foundation Augusta Brown Holland Philanthropic Foundation City of Windy Hills Gheens Foundation The Glenview Trust Company

Carol Barr Matton Charitable Foundation Roth Family Foundation, Inc. Weishar Family Foundation Wimsatt Family Fund

PATRON | $5,000+ Bass Family Foundation The Eye Care Institute GSR Foundation General Dillman Rash Fund

Arthur K. Smith Family Foundation Woodrow M. and Florence G. Strickler Fund University of Louisville School of Music WDRB Fox 41

MEMBER | $3,000+ Arthur H. Keeney Ophthalmic Fund Habdank Foundation

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L O U I S V I L L E O R C H E S T R A C O N T R I B U TO R S Annual gifts provide funding that is critical to the success of our mission to bring diverse programming and educational opportunities to our community. The Louisville Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following donors of record for the period of Feb. 1, 2021 to Jan. 31, 2022.

CONDUCTORS SOCIETY (FOUNDER) $250,000+ Christina L. Brown

CONDUCTORS SOCIETY (SUSTAINER) $100,000 - $249,999 Ms. Cary Brown and Dr. Steven E. Epstein Owsley Brown III Lindy B. Street

CONDUCTORS SOCIETY (VIRTUOSO)

$50,000 - $74,999 Anonymous William and Julie Ballard Mr. † and Mrs. George S. Gibbs III Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harshaw William and Susan Yarmuth

CONDUCTORS SOCIETY (BENEFACTOR) $25,000 - $49,999 Anonymous (2) Ambassador Matthew Barzun and Brooke Brown Barzun Brian Kane Warwick Dudley Musson Mr. Justus J. Schlichting Jason Zachariah

CONDUCTORS SOCIETY (SUPPORTER)

$10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (2) Edith S. Bingham Marilyn and Brooks Bower Mr. David † and Mrs. Patricia Daulton Elisabeth U. Foshee Ritu Furlan Louise and Jay Harris Charles † and Carol Hebel Gill and Augusta Holland Lee and Rosemary Kirkwood Mary Kohler Estate of Dr. Carl E. Langenhop Kenneth and Kathleen Loomis Sheila G. Lynch Carol Barr Matton Guy and Elizabeth Montgomery John and Patricia Moore Thomas Noland † and Vivian Ruth Sawyer Bruce and Marcia Roth Rev. Alfred Shands † Winona and Joseph Shiprek Dennis Stilger Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James R. Voyles James and Marianne Welch Jane Feltus Welch Orme and Mary Wilson

CONDUCTORS SOCIETY (PATRON) $5,000 - $9,999 Steve and Gloria Bailey Dr. and Mrs. David P Bell Barbara Berman Elizabeth W. Davis

Susan Diamond Nan Dobbs Ms. Donna Emerson Andrew and Trish Fleischman Kendra Foster and Turney Berry David and Regina Fry Thelma Gault Matthew and Lena Hamel Owen and Eleanor Hardy Elizabeth and Mike Keyes Carolyn Neustadt Dianne M. O'Regan Tim and Shannon Peace Marla Pinaire Dr. Teresa Reed Jeff and Paula Roberts Gary and Amy Sloboda Dr. Gordon Strauss and Dr. Catherine N. Newton Ann and Glenn Thomas Ruth and Bryan Trautwein Susan and Michael Von Hoven Dr. Joan and Robert Wimsatt Dr. and Mrs. Richard Wolf

CONDUCTORS SOCIETY (MEMBER)

$3,000 - $4,999 Teddy Abrams John and Theresa Bondurant Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Burton Walter Clare Thomas A. Conley III Mr. and Mrs. Donan Mr. and Mrs. William L. Ellison Jr. Mary Louise Gorman Mariah Gratz June Hampe Kent and Katherine Oyler Dr. Carmel Person Norman and Sue Pfau Clifford Rompf Russell and Theresa Saunders Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sireci Robert Steen Thomas and Anita Grenough Abell Endowment Fund Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Wardell Maud Welch Mary Ellen Wiederwohl and Joel Morris Prelude

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$1,500 - $2,999 Dr. Fredrick W. Arensman Dr. Stephen and Jeannie Bodney Mr. Stephen P. Campbell and Dr. Heather McHold Brian Cook Marguerite Davis Gerald Doss Mr. and Mrs. Daniel L. Dues Rev. John G. Eifler Joseph Glerum Bert Greenwell John R. Gregory Kenneth and Judy Handmaker David Sickbert and Thomas Hurd Allison Jacobs Estate of Margot Kling Karl and Judy Kuiper Thomas and Judith Lawson

Bethany Breetz and Rev. Ronald Loughry John and Sharon Malloy Drs. Eugene and Lynn Gant March Jennifer and Charles Marsh Lynn and Roy Meckler Glynn Morgen Susannah S Onwood Joseph A. Paradis III Fred and Claudia Pirman Eugenia and John Potter Gordon and Patty Rademaker Sharon Reel Gary † and Sue Russell Marianne Rowe Rev. Edward W. Schadt Alleine Schroyens Mark Slafkes Susan and Raymond Smith Carole Snyder Dr. Anna Staudt Richard Stephan Mary C. Stites Dr. and Mrs. Temple B. Stites Constance Story and Larry G. Pierce Beverly J. Tilmes Elizabeth B. Vaughan Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Vaughan Dr. Juan Villafane Carolyn Marlowe Waddell Kendrick Wells III Dr. and Mrs. Nathan Zimmerman

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$500 - $1,499 Anonymous (5) Mr. Karl Adams Carlyn and Bill Altman Cheryl Ambach David and Madeleine Arnold Boe and Judith Ayotte Joseph and Linda Baker John and Mary Beth Banbury Clarence and Mary Barton Tom and Marceline Barton Mike and Gail Bauer David B. Baughman Hans Bensinger Stephen and Sharon Berger Tanya and Wendell Berry Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Berry Cornelia Bonnie Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence H. Boram Dennis and Joan Brennan Virginia and Gary Buhrow Mary Burkhart Drs. Frank and Carolyn Burns Dave Calzi Will and Kathy Cary Karen and Robert Chatham Patricia Chervenak Michael and Nancy Chiara George and Frances Coleman Cynthia and David Collier Jeff and Marjorie Conner Jill and William Cooper Robert Cox Betsey Daniel Kate and Mark Davis

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Robert and Ann Decker Carol W. Dennes Pat DeReamer and Cynthia DeReamer Rollins Dr. John and Mrs. Dee Ann Derr Judy Dickson James and Etna Doyle Ann-Lynn Ellerkamp Bert and Jane Emke Carl and Roberta Fischer George and Mary Lee Fischer Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Fischer Dr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Fletcher Julie and Laman Gray Jr MD John and Jody Hamilton Mary C. Hancock Barbara B. Hardy Carl Helmich Jr. Chris and Marcia Hermann Denise Holmgren Thomas and Patrice Huckaby Wendy Hyland Barbara Jarvis Anne Joseph Danielle B. Kannapell Richard Kaukas Warren Keller Tamina and Edward Kim The Edwards-Kuhn Family Dr. and Mrs. Forrest S. Kuhn Dwight Kyle Margaret Lanier Kate and Allan Latts Portia Leatherman Willard and Lynnette LeGette Samuel and Stephanie Levine Cantor David Lipp and Rabbi Laura Metzger Mrs. Sallie Manassah Anne Maple Ms. Nancy Martin Joan McCombs Susan S. Means Elizabeth Merdian Kathryn Mershon Bob and Barbara Michael William Mitchell Biljana N. Monsky Abigail L. Mueller Dr. Sean Muldoon Ronald and Debra Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Nesmith Dr. and Mrs. Lynn L. Ogden Dr. Naomi J. Oliphant Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Olliges Jr. Mrs. William P. Peak Sharon Pfister Joan Pike Arthur Pratt Carol Clow Pye Douglas Rich Dr. Jon H. Rieger † Marsha Roberts John Robinson Embry Rucker and Joan MacLean Robert Rudd Denise Schiller Dr. and Mrs. Saleem Seyal Ellen and Max Shapira Ruth Simons Vernon M. and Peggy T. Smith

L O U I S V I L L E O R C H E S T R A C O N T R I B U TO R S Mr. Sheryl G. Snyder and Mrs. Jessica Loving Richard O. Spalding Eileen Spears Katherine Steiner Mary and John Tierney Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Tipton Jeanne D. Vuturo Robert and Ann Wade Joyce and Jim Walters Manning G. Warren III Matt and Kathy Watkins William and Ginny Weber Robert Weekly Roger and Janie Whaley Stephen and Patricia Wheeler Emily and Ellington Willingham Raleigh and Roberta Wilson Jonathan and Stephi Wolff Frank and Keitt Wood Dr. Janice W. Yusk Jeanne and Paul Zurkuhlen

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$250 - $499 Anonymous (6) Michael and Barbara Abell Ms. Mary Beth Adams Doris L. Anderson Corrine and Matthew Anderson Walter and Lynne Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Joe F. Arterberry Mary Kay H. Ballard John Bates Nancy Beasley Wm. David and Judy Beaven Sara Blake and Kingsley Durant Eunice F. Blocker Bruce Blue and Louise Auslander Mr. Daryl Booth Jane Burbank James C. Carpenter William Carrell II Susan Collins Judith K. Conn Paul Contois Virginia J. Copenhefer Arthur and Virginia Cromer Virginia B. Cromer Dr. Christopher Croot

Deborah A. Dunn Traci and John Eikenberry Mr. James Engler Janet G. Falcone Dr. Walter Feibes Mr. Matthew L. Feldman Nancy Fleischman Leslie and Greg Fowler Ed Garber Dr. Karen Abrams and Dr. Jeffrey Glazer Edward and Linda Goldstein Mrs. Connie Goodman Elizabeth Goodman Pamela Greene Dr. Misty and Mr. Bert Griffin Karen R. Harris Dr. Mary Harty Lawrence A. Herzog Dr. Frederick K. Hilton Jane Hoke Brett Hudspeth Carl and Donna Hulsewede Alec Johnson and Rachel Grimes Doris B. Jones Dean Karns Dr. and Mrs. David Karp Elizabeth Malcolm Kelly James and Rebecca King Jim Kinsman Barbara and Gary Knupp Mr. Phillip Kollin and Ms. Brooke Heisel Stanley Krol Lawrence Lambert Amy and Matthew Landon Elizabeth S. Lavin Dr. and Mrs. Robert G. Lawrence Dr. † and Mrs. † Leonard Leight Mr. Fred Levein Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Levine Thomas M. Lewis Philip Lichtenfels Gretchen Mahaffey David McAfner Ms. Erynn McInnis Robert and Grace McKeel Mona and John Newell Susan Norris Dr. OJ Oleka

William and Joana Panning Don and Jan Parson Janet Patterson John and Lue Peabody Dianna and Peter Pepe Lynn Pereira Robert Petrokubi Judith N. Petty Dr. and Mrs. Timothy B. Popham Doug Elstone and Russ Powell Dr. Sarah Cox and Mr. Dwight D. Pridham Mitchell and Cindee Rapp Tracy Redmon David Rodger Bill and Judy Rudd Barbara Sandford Courtney and Brandon Schadt Margaret Scharre Susan G. Zepeda and Dr. Fred Seifer Marshall and Terrie Sellers Richard and Terri Smith Donald Snow Natalie Stephens Dr. and Mrs. Gerald F. Sturgeon Linda Shapiro and Bob Taylor Mr. and Mrs. William Theuer William F. and Barbara J. Thomas Ron and Mary Thompson Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Tillett Jr. Anna Laura and Thomas Trimbur Linda and Chris Valentine Lindsay Vallandingham Tom Wakefield Dennis and Julie Walsh Jane Walsh William and Alice Walsh Suzanne Warner Martha F. Watson Betty S. Weaver Anita and Shelton Weber Crawford and Alice Wells Prudence Westholm James and Carole Whitledge Joan T. Whittenberg Susan Harris Wilburn Michelle Winters Grace Wooding Judith and John Youngblood

ROBERT S. WHITNEY SOCIETY Members of The Robert S. Whitney Society are Individuals who have generously made estate plans for the Louisville Orchestra. For more information on ways to join the Whitney Society, please contact Edward W. Schadt, Director of Leadership Giving at 502-585-9413 or ESchadt@LouisvilleOrchestra.org. Anonymous Doris L. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Gary Buhrow Douglas Butler and Jamey Jarboe Walter Clare Mr. † and Mrs. Stanley L. Crump Janet R. Dakan Betty Moss Gibbs Anita Ades Goldin Louise and Jay Harris Mr. † and Mrs. Charles W. Hebel, Jr. Mr. Henry Heuser, Jr. Dr. Carl E. Langenhop † Mrs. Philip Lanier Mr. and Mrs. † Warwick Dudley Musson Dr. Naomi Oliphant Susannah S. Onwood Paul R. Paletti, Jr. Sharon Pfister Mr. † and Mrs. Gary M. Russell Rev. Edward W. Schadt Rev. Gordon A. and Carolyn Seiffertt Dr. Peter Tanguay and Margaret Fife Tanguay Bob Taylor and Linda Shapiro Rose Mary Rommell Toebbe † Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Wolf † Denotes deceased

EVENTS CALENDAR APRIL 3 Alton Brown Live Beyond the Eats 6:30PM, Whitney Hall kentuckyperformingarts.org 8 An American Dream Kentucky Opera 8PM, Brown Theatre KYOpera.org

15 Sam Vulcano from Impractical Jokers 7PM, Brown Theatre kentuckyperformingarts.org

23 Leanne Morgan: Big Panty Tour 4PM & 7PM, Brown Theatre kentuckyperformingarts.org

22 Michael Cavanaugh Plays Music of Elton John Louisville Orchestra 8PM, Whitney Hall louisvilleorchestra.org

30 Reclaimed Treasures Louisville Orchestra 8PM, Whitney Hall louisvilleorchestra.org

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MAY 14 Leon Bridges 8PM, Louisville Palace louisvillepalace.com 14 Fantastique Louisville Orchestra 8PM, Whitney Hall louisvilleorchestra.org

T H E AT R E S E R V I C E S COURTESY • As a courtesy to the performers and other audience members, please silence all mobile devices. • The emergency phone number to leave with babysitters or message centers is (502) 562-0128. Be sure to leave your theater and seat number for easy location • Binoculars are now for rent in the lobby for select performances. Rental is $5 per binocular. An ID must be left as a deposit. • Cameras and recording devices are not allowed in the theaters. • Latecomers will be seated at appropriate breaks in the program, as established by each performing group. Please be considerate of your fellow audience members during performances. Please remain seated after the performance until the lights are brought up. • Children should be able to sit in a seat quietly throughout the performance. • To properly enforce fire codes, everyone attending an event, regardless of age, must have a ticket.

ACCESSIBILITY Wheelchair accessible seating at The Kentucky Center is available on every seating and parking level, as well as ticket counters and personal conveniences at appropriate heights. Infrared hearing devices are available to provide hearing amplification for patrons with hearing disabilities in all spaces of The Kentucky Center and Brown Theatre, including meeting spaces. Audio Description is available for selected performances for patrons who are blind or have low vision. Caption Theater is available for selected performances as a service for patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing. Please make reservations for services at the time you purchase your ticket through the Box Office to ensure the best seating location for the service requested. Call (502) 566-5111 (V), (502) 566-5140 (TTY) or email access@kentuckycenter.org for more information about the range of accessibility options we offer, or to receive this information in an alternate format.

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LOUISVILLE LANDMARK Renovations to the home were made in the early 1900s under the supervision of Mrs. Middleton, who fashioned the Southern-style Greek Revival mansion we know today as Whitehall House & Gardens. Perhaps the most dramatic change was the dedication of an entire room from the original house for a staircase, opening up the center hall with an effect that is both light and airy. 30

Many of these changes were somewhat atypical to Victorian architecture of the period, but historians have reasoned that Whitehall's renovation was to reflect Mrs. Middleton's idea of an antebellum mansion of a bygone era. Read more about this Louisville landmark and catch some exciting performance previews in the FREE March issue of Audience Magazine.

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