BPO 2022-2023 Season: Program Book 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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BPO Board of Trustees/BPO Foundation Board Directors 4

BPO Musician Roster

Tchaikovsky Piano No. 1

M&T Bank Classics Series

October 14 and 15

Symphonic Spooktacular

BPO Kids Series October 16

The Chevalier 20 BPO Special October 19

The Music of The Moody Blues 29 BPO Rock Series October 21

Celebrating Sondheim 34 BPO Pops Series October 22 Sponsor a Musician

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CONTACT

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra 786 Delaware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14209 bpo.org

Kleinhans Music Hall 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY 14201 kleinhansbuffalo.org

BPO Administrative Offices (716) 885-0331 Box Office (716) 885-5000 Box Office Fax Line (716) 885-5064

Kleinhans Music Hall (716) 883-3560

MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD CHAIR

As fall settles in on our beautiful region, the myriad of colors and multitude of seasonal opportunities available in Western New York bring to mind the variety of offerings on the horizon at our own Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra.

Following the outstanding season opener with the return of superstar violinist Midori, we’re running the table for the next several concerts, from magical street puppets to demon barbers of Fleet Street. First up on October 14 and 15, the BPO debut of both conductor Mei-Ann Chen and young pianist Tony Siqi Yun in a program featuring Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka, and Tchaikovsky’s majestic Piano Concerto No. 1. Then we welcome BPO Kids back to Kleinhans October 16 with the annual Symphonic Spooktacular concert and costume parade.

A special performance, co-presented by Buffalo-Toronto Public Media, takes place on October 19 when play-within-orchestra TheChevalierhighlights the extraordinary life and musical compositions of the first major classical composer of color, Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Written and directed by Bill Barclay, the BPO performance features four actors and solo violin in the true story of the intertwined lives of Bologne, W.A. Mozart, and Marie Antoinette on the cusp of the French Revolution.

Another type of revolution hits the stage when the band GO NOW! joins the BPO for The Music of The Moody Blues in the first of four outstanding performances on the rock series this season. A Moody drummer for 25 years, Gordy Marshall leads a cadre of accomplished U.K. musicians in the classic rock music that defined a generation.

And finally, the BPO and three veteran Broadway vocalists pay tribute to the extraordinary talent of the late composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who changed the face of musical theater with shows including AFunnyThingHappenedontheWaytotheForum, Into The Woods, and SweeneyTodd

We’re just getting started on another exceptional season to remember. Carolyn and I hope you join us at Kleinhans on a regular basis.

Sincerely,

John R. Yurtchuk Chair, Board of Trustees

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA BOARD OF TRUSTEES AS OF SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

OFFICERS

John R. Yurtchuk, Chair

Scott Stenclik, Vice Chair — Chair-Elect

Angelo Fatta, Treasurer Peter Eliopoulos, Secretary

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Cindy Abbott Letro Douglas Bean

Jonathan Borden †

Janz Castelo †

Anne Conable Stephen B. Edge, MD*

JoAnn Falletta*

Daniel Hart*

Jim Hettich Mark Hodges †

William Keefer

Ronald Luczak

Alex Montante

Allan C. Ripley*

Casimiro D. Rodriguez, Sr.

Rev. Melody I. Rutherford

Diana Sachs †

Robin G. Schulze, Ph.D Joseph Sedita

Brett Shurtliffe † Sonny Sonnenstein Karen Sperrazza

Christine Standish

David Stark

Rev. Jonathan Staples Stephen T. Swift John Zak*

JOANN FALLETTA MUSIC DIRECTOR

Multiple Grammy Award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta serves as Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Music Director Laureate of the Virginia Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of the Brevard Music Center, and Artistic Adviser of the Hawaii Symphony. Recently named as one of the 50 great conductors of all time by Gramophone Magazine and among the top 10 conductors today by David Hurwitz of ClassicsToday.com, she is hailed for her work as a conductor, recording artist, audience builder and champion of American composers.

As Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Falletta became the first woman to lead a major American ensemble and has been credited with bringing the Philharmonic to an unprecedented level of national and international prominence. The Buffalo Philharmonic has become one of the leading recording orchestras for Naxos, with two Grammy Award-winning recordings.

In Summer 2022, Falletta made her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut at the Tanglewood Music Festival. International highlights for 2022-23 include concerts in Spain, Sweden, Germany, and Croatia. Her recent and upcoming North American guest conducting includes the National Symphony, and the orchestras of Baltimore, Detroit, Nashville, Indianapolis, Houston, Toronto, and Milwaukee. Internationally, she has conducted many of the most prominent orchestras in Europe, Asia, and South America. In the past year, she has led the National Symphony in two PBS televised specials for New Year’s Eve and the 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center.

*ex-officio † musician representatives

LIFE MEMBERS

Anthony Cassetta Randall Odza Edwin Polokoff

John N. Walsh III Robert G. Weber

BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

John J. Zak, Chair

Holly Hejmowski, Treasurer

Alexs Spellman, Secretary

Karen Arrison Michael Munschauer

John Yurtchuk

With a discography of over 120 titles, JoAnn is a leading recording artist for Naxos. She has won two individual Grammy Awards, including the 2021 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance as Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic in the world premiere Naxos recording, Richard Danielpour’s The Passion of Yeshua, and the 2019 Grammy Award as Conductor of the London Symphony for Spiritualistby Kenneth Fuchs. Her Naxos recording of John Corigliano’s Mr.TambourineMan:Seven PoemsofBobDylan with the BPO received two Grammys in 2008 and her 2020 Naxos recording with the BPO of orchestral music of Florent Schmitt received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award. Falletta is a member of the esteemed American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has served by Presidential appointment as a Member of the National Council on the Arts during the Bush and Obama administrations and is the recipient of many of the most prestigious conducting awards. She has introduced over 500 works by American composers, including well over 150 world premieres. ASCAP has honored her as “a leading force for music of our time.” In 2019, JoAnn was named Performance Today’s first Classical Woman of The Year.

After earning her bachelor’s degree at Mannes, Falletta received master’s and doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School.

For more information, visit www.joannfalletta.com.

JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR

A master of American musical style, John Morris Russell has devoted himself to redefining the American orchestral experience. He is in his seventh season as Principal Pops Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Russell made his debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in the fall of 2014, and later that season was named the third conductor to hold the position following in the footsteps of Doc Severinsen and Marvin Hamlisch. Mr. Russell’s concerts at the BPO reflect the diversity of American musical styles: from Classics to Jazz, Hollywood to Broadway, Country&Western to Rhythm&Blues. This season, Mr. Russell conducts Doo Wop, Broadway, and Holiday concerts.

Maestro Russell is also Conductor of the renowned Cincinnati Pops, one of the world’s most iconic and beloved pops orchestras. In his eleventh season, Mr. Russell leads sold-out performances at Cincinnati Music Hall, the Taft Theater, and Riverbend Music Center; additionally, he conducts the orchestra in concerts throughout the Greater Cincinnati region as well as domestic and international tours. Creator of the orchestra’s Classical Roots series, he also conducts the Pops family concert series and the annual USO Tribute Cincinnati Gala. The Cincinnati Pops recorded legacy continues under Mr. Russell’s leadership. He led the Cincinnati Pops on their first-ever Florida tour, and in 2017 he led the orchestra’s sixth tour to Asia including performances in Shanghai and Taipei.

For the last ten seasons, Mr. Russell has served as Music Director of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina, and conductor of the prestigious Hilton Head International Piano Competition. Under his leadership, the HHSO has enjoyed unprecedented artistic growth. Mr. Russell leads the orchestra in masterwork subscription concerts annually.

Between 2001-2012 Maestro Russell served as Music Director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, where he fostered a decade of unprecedented artistic growth. He led the WSO in seventeen national broadcasts on CBC Radio 2, and the orchestra’s first nationally televised production for the CBC series Opening Night, which received the orchestra’s first Gemini Award Nomination. Maestro Russell was named Conductor Laureate of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra in 2012.

As a guest conductor, John Morris Russell has worked with many of North America’s most distinguished ensembles. He has served as Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony, Associate Conductor of the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, Director of the Orchestral Program at Vanderbilt University, and Music Director with the College Light Opera Company in Falmouth, Massachusetts. He received a Master of Music degree in conducting from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Williams College in Massachusetts. He has also studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, and the Pierre Monteux School for Conductors in Hancock, Maine.

FERNANDA LASTRA CONDUCTOR DIVERSITY FELLOW

Fernanda Lastra was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina. She is a passionate and creative conductor with an energetic personality which characterizes her artistic and leadership style.

In 2021, Fernanda was selected as a conducting fellow for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music led by Mtro. Cristian Măcelaru. In 2019, she was a finalist for the Assistant Conductor position at the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, and in 2018 Fernanda was awarded First Prize for the conducting competition held by the Opera de Bauge, France.

Fernanda Lastra’s interests encompass a vast repertoire including symphonic, contemporary and opera works. She has served as assistant conductor in public opera performances, most recently the University of Iowa's 2019 production of Little Women by Mark Adamo.

Fernanda participated in masterclasses with esteemed maestri such as: Larry Rachleff, Marin Alsop, Donald Schleicher, Markand Thakar, Elizabeth Askren, Jac van Steen, Carlo Montanaro, Konstantinos Diminakis, Daizuke Soga, Luis Gorelik, Abel Rocha, Osvaldo Ferreira and Ariel Alonso.

Fernanda Lastra is a passionate advocate for Latin American composers, especially those from Argentina. In June 2020, she created Compositores. AR, a cycle of interviews with Argentinian composers in collaboration with the magazine MúsicaClasicaBA in Buenos Aires.

As a conductor-educator Fernanda served as principal conductor for the Central Pennsylvania Youth Orchestra during 2016-2017, as professor of orchestral activities at El Sistema, Argentina, from 2008- 2012 and as music faculty of La Plata University from 2005 to 2016. For four years Fernanda served as musical and artistic director of an instrumental training ensemble she founded in Argentina in 2013. Through this project she fostered community appreciation for classical music, with a broad repertoire and active participation in city festivals and cultural events.

Fernanda Lastra currently serves as Director of Orchestras at Augustana Collegein Rock Island, Illinois, where she leads the symphony and chamber orchestras. She also serves as Assistant Conductor for the University of Iowa symphony orchestra.

Fernanda earned two bachelor's degrees from La Plata University in orchestral and choral conducting, and a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from Penn State University. She is trained in piano and viola. Fernanda is currently completing doctoral studies in orchestral conducting at The University of Iowa under the mentorship of Dr. William LaRue Jones, Prof. David Becker and Dr. Mélisse Brunet.

HISTORY OF THE BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

As Buffalo’s cultural ambassador, the Grammy Award-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under Music Director JoAnn Falletta presents more than 120 Classics, Pops, Rock, Family and Youth concerts each year.

After the rise and fall of several forerunners, the BPO was founded in 1935, performing most often at the Elmwood Music Hall, which was located at Elmwood Ave. and Virginia St., and demolished in 1938 as its permanent home, Kleinhans Music Hall, was constructed. During the Great Depression, the orchestra was initially supported by funds from the Works Progress Administration and the Emergency Relief Bureau. Over the decades, the orchestra has matured in stature under outstanding conductors including William Steinberg, Josef Krips, Lukas Foss, Michael Tilson Thomas, Maximiano Valdes, Semyon Bychkov and Julius Rudel. The orchestra has welcomed many distinguished guest performers, such as Isaac Stern, Aaron Copland, Van Cliburn, Igor Stravinsky, Renée Fleming and Yo-Yo Ma. During the tenure of JoAnn Falletta, who has served as music director since 1998, the BPO has rekindled its history of radio broadcasts and recordings, including the release of 51 new CDs.

The BPO’s Naxos recording of composer John Corigliano’s “Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan,” won two Grammys. Our recordings are heard on classical radio worldwide.

JOANN FALLETTA, MUSIC DIRECTOR Angelo and Carol Fatta Endowed Chair

JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL, PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR

FERNANDA LASTRA, CONDUCTOR DIVERSITY FELLOW

FIRST VIOLIN

Nikki Chooi concertmaster Amy Glidden assoc. concertmaster LouisP.CiminelliFamily Foundation Endowed Chair Ansgarius Aylward asst. concertmaster Xiaofan Liu 2nd asst. concertmaster** Douglas Cone Deborah Greitzer Diana Sachs Alan Ross Andrea Blanchard-Cone Loren Silvertrust Hee Sagong

SECOND VIOLIN

HISTORY OF KLEINHANS MUSIC HALL

Since 1940, the orchestra’s home has been Kleinhans Music Hall, which enjoys an international reputation as one of the finest concert halls in the world due to its superb acoustics.

Kleinhans Music Hall was built thanks to the generosity and vision of Edward and Mary Seaton Kleinhans and the stewardship of their charitable dreams by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo, and the support of the federal government. The Community Foundation was bequeathed the estates of Mr. and Mrs. Kleinhans, who made their fortune from the clothing store that bore their name, and who died within three months of each other in 1934. The Public Works Administration, an agency of the New Deal, provided crucial funding that made it possible to complete the hall.

The Kleinhans, who were music lovers, specified their money was to be used “to erect a suitable music hall…for the use, enjoyment and benefit of the people of the City of Buffalo.”

The BPO performed at Kleinhans Music Hall’s official opening on Oct. 12, 1940, under the baton of Franco Autori.

Kleinhans Music Hall was designed by the Finnish father-and-son team of Eliel and Eero Saarinen, along with architects F.J. and W.A. Kidd. Kleinhans is known for its combination of graceful structural beauty and extraordinary acoustics. Eliel Saarinen’s aim was to create “an architectural atmosphere…so as to tune the performers and the public alike into a proper mood of performance and receptiveness, respectively.” In 1989, the hall was designated a National Historic Landmark, the highest designation of significance a site or structure can receive.

Kleinhans is owned by the City of Buffalo but operated by a separate 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Its Board of Directors is Jeremy Oczek, chair; Karen Arrison, vice chair; Stephanie Simeon, secretary and treasurer; Cindy Abbott Letro; Peter Eliopoulos; Tania Werbizky; and city officials including Byron Brown, Mayor of the City of Buffalo, and David Rivera, Niagara District Council member.

Antoine Lefebvre principal Jacqueline Galluzzo assoc. principal Richard Kay Robert Prokes Frances Morgante Amy Licata Shieh-Jian Tsai Iain Crampton*** Cindy Lin***

VIOLA Caroline Gilbert principal Anna Shemetyeva assoc. principal Matthew Phillips Kate Holzemer Natalie Piskorsky Janz Castelo Joshua Lohner

CELLO

Roman Mekinulov principal

Jane D. Baird Endowed Chair Feng Hew assoc. principal Nancy Anderson Robert Hausmann 2 David Schmude Amelie Fradette Philo Lee

BASS

Daniel Pendley principal

Garman Family Foundation Endowed Chair Brett Shurtliffe assoc. principal Michael Nigrin Edmond Gnekow Jonathan Borden Nicholas Jones Gary Matz

FLUTE

Christine Bailey Davis principal Linda Greene Natalie Debikey Scanio

PICCOLO Natalie Debikey Scanio

OBOE Henry Ward principal Joshua Lauretig Anna Mattix

ENGLISH HORN Anna Mattix

CLARINET

William Amsel principal Patti DiLutis Salvatore Andolina

E-FLAT CLARINET Patti DiLutis

BASS CLARINET AND SAXOPHONE Salvatore Andolina

BASSOON Glenn Einschlag principal Doron Laznow

CONTRABASSOON (vacant)

FRENCH HORN

Jacek Muzyk principal Kay Koessler Endowed Chair Daniel Kerdelewicz assoc. principal Sheryl Hadeka (L)

Joseph Alberico* Jay Matthews Daniel Sweeley

TRUMPET

Alex Jokipii principal Geoffrey Hardcastle Philip Christner

TROMBONE Jonathan Lombardo1 principal Timothy Smith

BASS TROMBONE Filipe Pereira TUBA Seth Rawleigh TIMPANI Matthew Bassett principal Dinesh Joseph assistant principal

PERCUSSION Mark Hodges principal Dinesh Joseph HARP

Madeline Olson principal MUSIC LIBRARY

Travis Hendra principal librarian Erin Vander Wyst assistant librarian

STAGE MANAGERS

Charles Gill

Interim Master property person IATSE Local 10

1 Chair dedicated to the memory of Scott Parkinson

2 Chair dedicated to the memory of Maer Bunis

* One Year Appointment

** Temporary Appointment

*** Partial Year Appointment (L) Leave of Absence

Friday, October 14, 2022 at 10:30 AM Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 7:30 PM

Classic Series

TCHAIKOVSKY PIANO NO. 1

Mei-Ann Chen, conductor

Tony Siqi Yun, piano

ANNA CLYNE

TCHAIKOVSKY

Masquerade

Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op.23

I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso

– Allegro con spirito

II. Andantino semplice

– Prestissimo – Tempo I

III. Allegro con fuoco

– Molto meno mosso – Allegro vivo

Tony Siqi Yun, piano

INTERMISSION

STRAVINSKY

Pétrouchka (1947 revision)

I. The Shrovetide Fair

II. Petrouchka's Cell

III. The Moor's Cell

IV. The Fair (towards evening)

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Buffalo Philharmonic welcomes conductor Mei-Ann Chen in her debut with the orchestra. She brings a program filled with color and drama, with Stravinsky's ballet masterpiece at the center. His fairy tale about Petrouchka the puppet is a tour de force for our orchestra, and is a perfect companion to a new work by Anna Clyne. For the finale, Tony Siqi Yun performs the most beloved of piano concertos, Tchaikovsky's powerful first concerto, in a program you will absolutely love!

PROGRAM NOTES

Anna Clyne (English; b. 1980)

Masquerade

Composed 2013; Duration: 5 minutes

English-born composer Anna Clyne has accumulated a number of accolades and prominent composer residencies with several major orchestras. Her landmark work Masquerade was commissioned for the BBC and premiered at the Last Night of the Proms in 2013.

The piece is an homage to the various en tertainments found in London’s pleasure garden promenade concerts of the 18th century. Clyne is inspired by the costumed dancers, acrobats, and masked performers that entertained Londoners, and sought to evoke the atmosphere in her work. A traditional drinking song is woven within disorienting orchestral tex tures, as if constantly distracted by one fascination after another.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian; 1840-1893)

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23

I. Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso– Allegro con spirito II Andantino semplice

– Prestissimo – Tempo I

III. Allegro con fuoco – Molto meno mosso – Allegro vivo

Composed 1875; Duration: 33 minutes

In 1875, Tchaikovsky was not quite famous, but the 35-year-old—notori ously sensitive—was no longer a stu dent seeking criticism from his peers. He played the score of his new First Piano Concerto for his trusted friend, pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, who reacted to the score with painful silence. Tchaikovsky had hoped Rubinstein would premiere the work, but he complained of impossible passages, uneven scoring, and perhaps was taken aback by some dangerous key changes. Rubinstein em bodied the ethos of a corner of Rus sian academic musicianship that sought Western validation through a conserva tive approach, but Tchaikovsky had no qualms pushing boundaries.

The famously tense encounter with Rubinstein was fortuitous for Tchaikovsky.

Refusing to change a note, he found an other pianist outside of Russia in Hans von Bülow (the German conductor-tobe), who eagerly championed the piece.

All the more fortunate, von Bülow was on the eve of an American tour, and would premiere Tchaikovsky’s new con certo half a world away in Boston.

The opening movement is bravely con structed with a massive introduction, first with brooding horns, followed by a heroic melody heard in bravura strings.

The pianist uses bold strokes with arpeggiated chords, then takes the melody for an intensely rhythmicized variation.

A foreboding cadenza harkens to the opening horn figure and returns to the sweeping heroic melody, for the last time fading into quietude. The uniquely long introduction sets the tone for the whole work, and the movement’s expo sition opens with a Ukrainian melody that acrobatically skips across the key board, but is contrasted by a subdued chorale. The opening movement is filled with the contrasts of a brutally attacking piano and serene lyricism. The develop ment fragments the movement’s themes in episodes that reveal a variety of in ventive textures and moods, concluding with another grasping cadenza that falls into the return of the primary melodies.

The grandiose opening movement finds respite in the simple second, which opens with atmospheric timesetting pizzicato and a delicate flute melody, repeated by the piano. The pastoral scene develops playfully, and the piano pushes the tempo with a quietly jovial country dance. The sweet opening melody makes a charm ing return to close the movement.

The calming placidity of the central movement only provides temporary reprieve, for the finale is a fiery jaunt in a rousing triple meter. After an exclam atory introduction, the piano jumps in with the primary staccato theme, answered by a booming orchestral tutti. A rondo, the movement has con trasting episodes inserted in between repetitions of this initial music, lyrically wandering or energetically flowing. The orchestra builds to a demanding fortissimo from the soloist, leading to a broad melody sung by the whole orchestra. The energy becomes frantic as the concerto races to its conclusion.

Igor Stravinsky (Russian; 1882-1971)

Pétrouchka

Composed 1911; Duration: 34 minutes

I. The Shrovetide Fair

II. Pétrouchka’s Cell

III. The Moor’s Cell

IV. The Fair (towards evening)

Born in 1882, Igor Stravinsky came of age in the wake of the influential Russian nationalists known as “The Mighty Five” under the private instruction of RimskyKorsakov. A naturally talented musician, the young composer avoided conserva tory training and mastered his teacher’s richly colorful orchestral palette, which eventually dropped him into the hands of impresario Sergei Diaghilev of Paris’ Ballet Russes.

While Russian culture has always wrestled with the struggle between Western and nationalistic approaches, it is almost ironic that the foreign, even exotic, sounds of Russian composers were the sensation of Parisian concert halls. When the green Stravinsky undertook his first Diaghilev commission in 1910, resulting in The Fire bird, with its imaginative sets, brilliant cos tumes, intense choreography, and breath taking score, it was an instant smash hit that left Paris audiences hungry for more. Stravinsky was immediately at work on a new milestone ballet, which premiered the following year: Petrushka. In four scenes, this burlesque-ballet tells a magical story of the well-known European trickster puppet known to English audiences as Punch. In an 1830 spring fair in St. Petersburg, the Charlatan brings Petrushka and two other puppets to life. Petrushka is in love with the Ballerina, who rejects him for the Moor. In a battle to the death, the Moor kills Petrushka with his scimitar.

From a peasant with a dancing bear to the Charlatan haunted by Petrushka’s ghost, the ballet recounts a fantastic tale that allows audiences to peer into a distant culture’s folklore.

The Ballet Russes fed Paris with tales from afar, and Stravinsky dazzled listeners with a vibrant and audacious score. He pitted Russian folk melodies against Viennese waltzes and, rather than smoothly assimilating his many musical sources, he presented them in contrasting blocks of sound. Segments of music remain distinct and then layer in cacophony, as in near the beginning when a rustic carnival hur dy-gurdy can be heard chugging along as the music of drunken merrymakers causes mischief.

Stravinsky’s success in producing distinct musical scenes that trip over one an other lay in his past studies with RimskyKorsakov. Each moment retains a colorful

character because the instruments can be heard playing in extreme ranges and in unique combinations. These peculiar sounds and groupings allow the different elements to remain distinct, even when they are heard at the same time. The powerful sense of orchestration displayed prominently here is immediately recognizable and a hallmark of the music Stravinsky would create throughout his career. A masterpiece in its own right, Petrushka’s near-ritualistic plot seems like a workshop of musical ideas that would soon come to full fruition in his monu mental RiteofSpring (1911-13).

—Chaz Stuart, 2022

TONY SIQI YUN, PIANO

“Tony is a true poet of the keyboard. Expressive, and with his own distinctvoice,yetelegantandpoised.” — Pianist Magazine

Born in Toronto, Canada, Tony Siqi Yun was the First Prize winner and Gold Medalist at the First China International Music Competition. He is currently studying piano and composition at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division.

In 2019, Tony collaborated with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin in the final round of the First China International Music Competition, and in 2021, he was invited to make his debut with Orchestre Métropolitain again under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. His outstanding debut with the China Philharmonic Orchestra at the Third Polish Culture Festival led to an invitation to tour with the orchestra in 2015. Yun appeared with the China Philharmonic Orchestra again in the 2018-19 season including the 2019 CCTV New Year’s Concert, and made his debut with the Shanghai Symphony and Ion Marin the same year. In 2018, Yun successfully collaborated with the Cleveland Orchestra at the final round of the Thomas and Evon Cooper International Piano Competition and won First Prize and the Audience Prize.

Recent highlights include recital debuts at Luxembourg Philharmonie, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, NDR Hannover and Leipzig Gewandhaus. In North America he recently made his concerto debut with the Toronto Symphony, and recital debuts at Stanford and Pepperdine universities.

MEI-ANN CHEN, GUEST CONDUCTOR

Praised for her dynamic, passionate conducting style, Taiwanese American conductor Mei-Ann Chen is acclaimed for infusing orchestras with energy, enthusiasm and high-level music-making, galvanizing audiences and communities alike. Music Director of the MacArthur Award-winning Chicago Sinfonietta since 2011, Ms. Chen has been named Chief Conductor of Austria’s Recreation Grosses Orchester Graz at Styriarte beginning fall 2021 after two seasons as the orchestra’s first-ever Principal Guest Conductor, making her the first female Asian conductor to hold this position with an Austrian orchestra. Since September 2019, she also serves as the first-ever Artistic Partner of Houston’s ROCO (River Oaks Chamber Orchestra). Ms. Chen also has served as Artistic Director & Conductor for the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Summer Festival since 2016. Highly regarded as a compelling communicator and an innovative leader both on and off the podium, and a sought-after guest conductor, she has appeared with distinguished orchestras throughout the Americas, Europe, Taiwan, The United Kingdom, and Scandinavia, and continues to expand her relationships with orchestras worldwide (over 110 orchestras to date). Honors include being named one of the 2015 Top 30 Influencers by Musical America; the 2012 Helen M. Thompson Award from the League of American Orchestras; Winner, the 2007 Taki Concordia Fellowship founded by Marin Alsop; and 2005 First Prize Winner of the Malko Competition (she remains as the only woman in the competition history since 1965 to have won First Prize), and ASCAP awards for innovative programming.

Born in Taiwan, Ms. Chen came to the United States to study violin in 1989 and became the first student in New England Conservatory’s history to receive master’s degrees simultaneously in both violin and conducting, and she earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting at the University of Michigan.

The 2022-23 season will see him make recital debuts at BASF Ludwigshafen, Musik und Kongresshalle Lübeck, and he will return to both the Leighton Center in Hong Kong, and Stanford Live. He will make his concerto debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano concerto No. 1 under the baton of Mei-Ann Chen, and later in the season he will rejoin Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra to make his subscription debut, performing Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto.

He is a recipient of the Jerome L. Greene Fellowship at the Juilliard School where he studies with Professors Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio. Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin is Yun’s active mentor.

Kids

SYMPHONIC SPOOKTACULAR

WILLIAMS

STRAUSS

MIRANDA

GOUNOD

COSTUME PARADE

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 7:30 PM

BPO Special Performance THE CHEVALIER

JoAnn Falletta, conductor Brendon Elliott, violin Thomas Brazzle, actor

Merritt Janson, actor David Joseph, actor Bill Barclay, actor, director

JOSEPH BOLOGNE, CHEVALIER DE SAINT-GEORGES

PROLOGUE from Symphony No.2 in D major, Op. 11 - Allegro Presto

from Violin Concerto Op.3, No.1 in D major - II. Adagio

SCENE I - PARIS from Symphony No 1 in G major, Op. 11 - III. Allegro assai

INTERLUDE

L’amant anonyme: Ballet No.1

SCENE II

From Violin Concerto in G, Op. 8, No. 9 – Allegro Assai

SCENE III - VERSAILLES

Violin Sonata No.2 in A major - complete

SCENE IV - BOLOGNE'S HOUSE

SCENE V – VERSAILLES

GLÜCK Dance of the Blessed Spirit (short selection)

MOZART Piano Sonata in A minor, K.310 (short selection)

Violin Concerto in A major, Op.5, No.2 - I. Allegro moderato

SCENE VI -THE CHEVALIER'S HOUSE

Violin Concerto in G major, Op.8, No.9 - I. Rondeau

Violin Concerto in A major, Op.5, No.2 – III. Allegro moderato

SCENE VII - VERSAILLES

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 11, II. Andante

SCENE VIII - AT THE THEATRE

Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 11, III. Presto

SCENE IX - PARIS Symphony Concertante in G major, Op.13, II. Rondeau & cadenza

SCENE X - VERSAILLES

Adagio in F Minor - piano solo

EPILOGUE

Violin Concerto No.9 in G major, Op.8, III. Rondeau

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Written and directed by Bill Barclay Music by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges

Produced by Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Concert Theatre Works Concert Version:

Co-presented by

Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2018

Premiered at The Tanglewood Learning Center, 2019

Recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Grant, 2020 Finalist-EugeneO’NeillNationalPlaywrightsConference,2021

Conducted by JoAnn Falletta Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Brendon Elliott, violin Directed and Music Edited by Bill Barclay

JosephBologne,ChevalierofSaint-Georges..........................Thomas Brazzle Queen Marie Antoinette of France.............................................Merritt Janson WolfgangAmadeusMozart.............................................................David Joseph CaptainPierreChoderlosdeLaclos...................................................Bill Barclay

Costume Designer...............................................................Charles Schoonmaker

Projections Designer..............................................................Christopher Hurrell

Associate Producer...................................................................Kimberly Schuette Production Manager and Properties............................................Justin Seward Cutter/Draper...................................................................................Christina Beam

The Action takes place in Paris and Versailles in the second half of 1778. The production runs 80 minutes without intermission.

Special Thanks:

Margaret Casely-Hayford CBE, and Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE, who first had the idea of a play about Bologne and who inspired me to write this project. Victoria Robey, OBE Chukwudi Iwuji Winston-Salem Symphony John Minigan Shawn Cody

Bill Barclay, Artistic Director www.concertheatreworks.com enquiries@concertheatreworks.com

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

It is 1778 and a bedridden, bankrupt Mozart is carried into the kitchen of 18th-century Black composer Joseph Bologne, known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. In spite of obvious differences,thesetwomenforgeafriendshipnavigatingacityhostiletooutsiders.Atthesame time, the Chevalier’s weekly music lessons with Queen Marie Antoinette associate him with the monarchywhilerevolutioninflamesFrance.Willhechooseloyaltytothecrownorviolentpursuit of abolition?

Weaving together Bologne’s own music with semi-staged dialogue, The Chevalier ultimately offers a thoughtful meditation on the true nature of equality.

It is astonishing, for example, that he and Mozart lived under the same roof in 1778. Mozart’s mother has just died, and he was alone and ill - this is all true. How he got there and what they must have discussed we have no idea. But there are enticing slivers of musical influence that passed from Bologne to Mozart, and which deserve to be dramatically explored for posterity to consider.

Around this time Marie Antoinette asks specifically for Bologne to be her private music teacher, creating enormous gossip and elevating Bologne to pole position in France. Her advocacy for Bologne to be head of the Paris Opera is true. The petition that comes back to haunt them both represents the limits of his career as a Black artist during slavery, and her limits as Queen of France while the world turned on her. Marie Antionette, Mozart, and Bologne are all immigrants, and while their challenges were enormously different, none felt accepted by pre-revolutionary Paris.

PROGRAM NOTES

I only found out about Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges in 2018. I was shocked. Here is a man whose story is by far the most surprising of any composer I’d ever studied. His music is wonderful and unknown, and he was mixed race at a time of horrific racial violence. As a musicologist of period music, I immediately learned all I could.

As I became more familiar with his life and music, a question emerged in my mind that utterly grabbed me and would not let me go: How as a culture have we allowed ourselves to forget this extraordinary man? For not only is he a composer, but an abolitionist, champion fencer, virtuoso violinist, music teacher to Marie Antoinette, Knight of the King, and general of the first Black regiment in military history. Why is he not more celebrated? What happened here?

On realizing the need for Bologne’s transformational story today, I approached several playwrights of colour to collaborate with me. I wished to procure the best of Bologne’s music to score a drama about his life, and I didn’t want to do it alone. Those conversations sadly were fruitless. I next turned to large theatres who could offer the ideal writer a commission I could not afford. This tactic also failed. Finally, I spoke to the Boston Symphony and explained the need for Bologne in our history of music where he was mysteriously absent. They offered me an opportunity to educate their audience during the inaugural season of the Tanglewood Learning Institute in 2019. I had written works of concert theatre for the BSO before and had earned my MFA in Playwriting. With only six months to produce a draft, I decided I had to do it all myself.

It was clear from the energetic response at the Tanglewood performance that Bologne had been forgotten far too long. The format of scenes and music could be improved, but it needed to tour so that new audiences could learn as we were learning. In the two years that have since transpired, the world has irrevocably changed. We’ve experienced Black Lives Matter which has encouraged many promoters to look for neglected artists Bologne’s music has enjoyed a longneeded resurgence as a result of those efforts. And yet, as is so often the case, most orchestras are playing the same two of his compositions. Most will move on with their regularly scheduled programming. But there is so much more not only of his wonderful music but also of his lifehis efforts as the first true artist advocate to abolish slavery, his humanity, struggles, and even his sense of humour - that is yet to be widely understood. This play aspires to be one of many attempts to correct that.

This was also the year King Louis XVI enacted Les Police des Noirs - literally “The Black Police,” a new force tasked with identifying all people of colour in Paris, not unlike Jews in 1930’s Germany. The radical wing of French politics sought to return free Black people to slavery, which to the French was out-of-sight, thousands of miles away, on the three colonial islands Martinique, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and Guadeloupe (Bologne’s birthplace). Bologne suffered horrible physical attacks and his share of insults and indignities. Contemporary reports show that his incredible gifts at fencing and diplomacy allowed him to survive with his head held high.

This concert version is merely Act I of a longer play that takes us through Bologne’s revolutionary years. We can only tease the second half of his life tonight, while insinuating parallels between the stirrings of revolution in Paris and the brewing toxic polarity of our politics today. Amidst all the drama and research, I have been the enormous beneficiary of so much help from friends, actors, readers, and dramaturgs of colour who have helped me understand Bologne’s psychology. It is a humbling process, a deeply collaborative one, and it is not complete. We are learning more about Bologne with every artist, audience, and promoter who comes into contact with him. I eagerly encourage you to share your thoughts with me directly, at enquiries@ concerttheatreworks.com

The Chevalier will tour over the next several years to orchestras around the world. All North American ensembles who perform The Chevalier and any of our other Concert Theatre Works, must join the National Alliance for Audition Support, run by the Sphinx Organization in Detroit, which provides audition grants for Black and Latino musicians. I encourage you to learn more about this fabulous initiative. We have made efforts to start one for European orchestras, so that together, through our combined efforts, orchestras start to look more like the audiences they seek and deserve.

I encourage you to be in touch, think critically, speak up, and look for more marginalized voices whom history has tragically forgotten.

Bill Barclay, Writer and Director

BILL BARCLAY, PLAYWRIGHT/DIRECTOR

Bill Barclay (Pierre Choderlos de Laclos) Director, writer, composer, and conductor Bill Barclay is artistic director of Concert Theatre Works. He was director of music at Shakespeare’s Globe from 2012-2019. This season’s collaborators include National Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Music of the Baroque, Chicago Symphony Center, Gandini Juggling, Milwaukee Symphony, United Strings of Europe, Chautauqua Institution, Caramoor Festival, and the Harlem Chamber Players. Broadway and West End credits as Music Supervisor include FarinelliandtheKing, TwelfthNight,and RichardIII,all starring Sir Mark Rylance.

A ‘personable polymath’ (London Times), Bill Barclay has debuted works of concert theatre for the LA Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Grammy-winning Silkroad Ensemble, City of London Sinfonia, and annually with The Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has created in some of the world’s most iconic spaces: The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, the Barbican, Buckingham Palace, Shakespeare’s Globe, The Southbank Centre, Hampton Court Palace, and Washington National Cathedral. Collaborators include the conductors Marin Alsop, Andris Nelsons, Dame Jane Glover, Charles Dutoit, Seigi Ozawa, JoAnn Falletta, Bramwell Tovey, Gianandrea Noseda, Harry Christophers, Trevor Pinnock, and Sakari Oramo. Other partners include The English Concert, Tanglewood, Cincinnati, and Virginia Symphonies, Orchestra for the Age of Enlightenment, National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, The Sixteen, Mostly Mozart Festival, and Handel & Haydn Society.

As a composer, Barclay’s original music has been performed in 197 countries, 42 US states, for President Obama, the British Royal Family, for the Olympic Torch, at the United Nations, and in refugee camps in Jordan and Calais. He recently created a new Four Seasons Recomposed for Max Richter on period instruments with the puppetry masters Gyre & Gimble. He conducted Soumik Datta’s KingofGhosts on tour with City of London Sinfonia, and the USACH Orchestra in Chile.

Barclay seeks to collapse the space between arts and advocacy, composing the film AMother’sLovefor the Wild Foundation, creating TalesinMigrationto score immigrant’s stories, and funding The National Alliance for Audition Support. His single LetNatureSing, made entirely of birdsong, debuted at #11 on the UK Pop Charts for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. A noted curator, he piloted the Candlelit Concerts series in the Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Playhouse from its construction in 2014, featuring major collaborations including the Royal Opera House, The Sixteen, BBC Proms and London Jazz Festival, and with guest curators John Williams, Trevor Pinnock, Lauren Laverne, the Brodsky Quartet, and Anoushka Shankar. He founded the label Globe Music, recognized by the BBC and Royal Philharmonic Society, for Shakespeare’s Globe where he produced music for 130 productions and 150 concerts over seven years, composing 12 including Hamlet Globe-to-Globe to every country on earth. Contributor to the Guardian and Songlines, Bill published Shakespeare, Music, and Performance for Cambridge University Press, and TheJonLipskyPlayAnthology for Smith & Kraus. He has lectured on the Music of the Spheres on three continents as a leading voice on Shakespeare’s music. His new essay is published in Shakespeare’s Music with Oxford University Press in 2022.

A lauded actor, Barclay received a Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, the largest grant for actors in the US. A Boston native and past acting company member at Shakespeare & Company (10 years, Resident Music Director), the Actors Shakespeare Project (10 years, Artistic Associate), and The Mercury Theatre (Colchester, UK). He trained in Bali, The National Theatre Institute, and Vassar College. MFA in Playwriting at Boston University.

His newest play with music, TheChevalier, was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and premiered at Tanglewood in 2019. A Finalist for The National Playwright’s Conference, it tours the US and UK in 2022 to raise money for the Sphinx National Alliance of Audition Support, which aims to address the lack of racial representation in orchestras in North America.

THOMAS BRAZZLE, ACTOR

Thomas Brazzle (The Chevalier) King Lear, Shane (The Guthrie); Macbeth, As You Like It, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare and Company), Treasure Island (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Grand Concourse; The Droll (WAM Theatre); Superior Donuts, Look Away (TheatreSquared); Julius Caesar (Old Hat Theater NYC); The Pelican (Voyage Theater NYC); Titus (Hudson Warehouse NYC). Lake Artifact (377 Films), Monstrous (377 Films), Boomerang (BET). Creative Director of Whet Ink Productions (https://link.edgepilot.com/s/f0c0c7e3/1nShnIqKFk6f aDVSuya3FQ?u=http://www.whetink.com/), and Operations Manager of Out of Hand Theater (Atlanta).

BRENDON ELLIOTT, VIOLIN

A three-time concerto competition winner, Brendon Elliott has performed with the New York Philharmonic and was recently guest soloist with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Richmond Symphony Orchestra. In 2015 and 2019, Brendon toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi Ensemble including Carnegie Hall. Brendon was a three-time semifinalist in the National Sphinx Competition, earning the National Sphinx Competition Achievement Award in 2012. He has soloed and performed with additional orchestras including Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra St. Luke’s, Chineke! Orchestra, and The Knights. Brendon enjoyed a role in the feature-length film documentary

The Bridgetower where he portrayed the young adult version of the Afro-European child violin prodigy George Bridgetower. In 2020 Brendon was featured in a short film about Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, for Concert Theatre Works at the WinstonSalem Symphony, available at www.wssymphony.org/chevalier/. Brendon received his Bachelors with Pamela Frank and Joseph Silverstein at The Curtis Institute of Music in 2016 and his Masters with Sylvia Rosenberg and Ronald Copes at The Juilliard School in 2018.

MERRITT JANSON, ACTOR

Merritt Janson (Marie Antoinette) is a New York based actor and writer working across theater, television, and film. Devoted to developing new work, Merritt has originated roles in Robert Woodruff's Notes From Underground and Autumn Sonata (Yale Rep, La Jolla, Theatre for a New Audience); Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, created by Ruben Santiago-Hudson (Two River); Built with Robert O’Hara at 59E59, Jonathan Franzen’s House For Sale directed by Daniel Fish (Duke Theater, Transport Group); Lloyd Suh’s Great Wall Story (Denver Center); The Deception created by Dominique Serrand (La Jolla); and The Onion Cellar with Amanda Palmer and The Dresden Dolls at the American Repertory Theater.

An Off-Broadway regular, Merritt has specialized in classical roles with Theater for a New Audience (JuliusCaesar directed by Shana Cooper, Sir Michael Boyd's Tamburlaine the Great, and Measure for Measure directed by Simon Godwin); The Public (Richard II w/WNYC, A Midsummer Night’s Dream); Red Bull Theater (Coriolanus) and Shakespeare Theatre DC’s Othello. Over five seasons with Shakespeare & Company she played Miranda opposite Olympia Dukakis in The Tempest, Viola in Twelfth Night, Rosalind in As You Like It, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Desdemona in Othello opposite John Douglas Thompson. Other works include the title role in The Wilma’s Eurydicedirected by Blanka Zizka, American Repertory Theater’s Britannicusdirected by Robert Woodruff, and Paradise Lost directed by Daniel Fish.

CHARLES SCHOONMAKER, COSTUME DESIGNER

Has extensive experience designing costumes for television, theatre, dance, and opera. Current projects for Concert Theatre Works include Mendelsshon’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Grieg’s Peer Gynt, and The Chevalier.

For Boston Baroque: Handel’s Agrippina and Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’ Ulisse in Patria. For Boston Midsummer Opera: The Barber of Seville, Don Pasquale, The Italian Girl in Algiers, Trouble in Tahiti, and Bon Appetit. Charles is the recipient of four Daytime Emmy Awards for his work in television and the IRNE for best costume design for Venus in Fur at the Huntington Theatre in Boston. Additional regional theatre credits include productions at Israeli Stage, Arts Emerson, the Berkshire Theatre Group, Dorset Theatre Festival, Chester Theatre Company, Weston Play House, Northern Stage, Bay Street Theatre, Riverside Theatre (FL), and seven seasons as the resident costume designer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Other dance credits: The Richmond Ballet, The Atlanta Ballet, Nashville Ballet, BAM Next Wave, Alvin Ailey Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, The Limon Company. Television credits include All My Children, As the World Turns, and Another World. He teaches costume design at Bennington College. Charles-Schoonmaker.com.

DAVID JOSEPH, ACTOR

David Joseph (Amadeus Mozart) has been at Shakespeare & Company for fourteen seasons. Past roles include James in Time Stands Still (nominated for Best Leading Actor Award), Mr. Darcy in ChristmasatPemberly and PrideandPrejudice, George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Elyot in Private Lives, Dorante in The Liar, Sebastian in The Tempest, Clown 2 (12 Characters) in 39 Steps. David earned a Best Leading Actor nomination for playing Charlie Chaplin in the world premiere of The Consul, TheTramp,andAmerica’sSweetheart at Old Castle Theatre, Shipwrecked, Player 2 (22 Characters) WINNER of Best Ensemble Award, Old Castle Theatre. Other recent roles include Mozart in The at Tanglewood, Thom in The Last Wife for WAM, Michael in CanYouHearMeBaby (NYC & The Goodwill Theatre), George in Word Play at Playwrites Horizons, (NYC), Johnny in Hotel California (NYC), Coleman in IMarriedTheIcepickKiller at Stella Adler Theatre (NYC). Film Credits: David was Producer and Starring role of the feature film Penny Land which premiered at Manhattan Film Festival, Damsel by Douglas Burgdorf, another feature film, premiered at the Spain International Film Festival, Romeo in Romeo & Juliet for The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Ang Lee’s TakingWoodstock, Glowing Screens’ Magdalena'sBrain. In 2008 & 2010 David had the honor of singing The National Anthem at Fenway Park in Boston.

JUSTIN SEWARD, PRODUCTION MANAGER

Before stepping into the role as production manager, Mr. Seward worked as props designer for past CTW productions of Midsummer Night’s Dream and A Soldier’s Tale. Justin resides in Boston and works full-time as Asst. Props Director for the Huntington Theatre Company, 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award recipient. Justin also regularly freelances for Antiques Roadshow (Asst. Set Decorator,) The Boston Pops, and Boston Symphony/Tanglewood. Justin has produced props for various Broadway and off-Broadway productions including The 39 Steps, Porgy and Bess, Sons of the Prophet, All the Way, and Finding Neverland. Mr. Seward has worked for various companies including Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Seagle Festival, North Shore Music Theatre, and American Repertory Theatre. Justin is a proud member of the Society of Properties Artisan Managers. www.justinsewardprops.com

Friday,

BPO Rock Presented By THE MUSIC OF THE MOODY BLUES FEATURING THE BAND GO NOW

Michael Krajewski, conductor

Mick Wilson, lead vocals, guitar

Nick Kendall, lead guitar, lead vocals

Patrick Duffin, bass guitar, vocals

Gordy Marshall, drums, percussion, flute, vocals

Program to be announced from the stage

Patrons are asked to turn off all electronic devices. The use of cameras and recording devices is strictly prohibited.

MICHAEL KRAJEWSKI, GUEST CONDUCTOR

Known for his entertaining programs and engaging personality, Michael Krajewski is a much sought-after Pops conductor in the U.S.A., Canada, and abroad.

His twenty-year relationship with the Houston Symphony included seventeen years as Principal Pops Conductor. He also served as Principal Pops Conductor of the Long Beach Symphony for eleven years, Principal Pops Conductor of the Atlanta Symphony for eight years, Music Director of The Philly Pops for six years, and Principal Pops Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony for twenty-five years. Michael’s busy schedule as a guest conductor includes concerts with major and regional orchestras across the United States. In Canada, he has appeared with the orchestras of Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Regina, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Overseas he has performed in Ireland, Spain, the Czech Republic,

Michael has conducted concerts featuring notable musicians and entertainers from many diverse styles of music. He has worked with classical luminaries such as vocalist Marilyn Horne flutist James Galway, pianist Alicia de Larrocha, and guitarists Pepe and Angel Romero.

In the field of popular music, he has performed with Roberta Flack, Judy Collins, Art Garfunkel, Kenny Loggins, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, Jason Alexander, Patti Austin, Sandi Patty, Megan Hilty, Matthew Morrison, Doc Severinsen, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Chieftains, Chicago, Pin Martini, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.

Born in Detroit, Michael studied music education at Wayne State University and conducting at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He was an Antal Dorati Fellowship Conductor with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and subsequently served as the DSO’s Assistant Conductor for four years. Michael now lives in Florida with his wife, Darcy. In his spare time, he enjoys travel, photography, and solving crossword puzzles.

GORDY MARSHALL, DRUMS, PERCUSSION, FLUTE, VOCALS

Gordy Marshall and Mick Wilson reconnected when Th Moody Blues and 10cc were performing a double-headline show at the Coca Cola Dome in Johannesburg in June, 2012 – it was 30 years since they had last worked together.

Ultimately, what came from that meeting was…this band. After Gordy left The Moodies in 2015, he and Mick revisited the band that they’d put together at the Johannesburg meeting. It was called The Rewind Project, and eventually it morphed into: GO NOW! The Music of THE MOODY BLUES.

Although GO NOW! Is technically a tribute band, it is also much more than that. With no attempt to ‘lookalike,’ this is essentially the very finest artists in their field gathering together to celebrate some of the 20th century’s best-loved com0posers and writers. The result is a honed live performance of music from what is widely considered to be ‘The Greatest Classic Rock Band of a Generation.’ THE MOODY BLUES – played with passion and outstanding technical proficiency.

During 25 years of touring with The Moody Blues, Gordy managed to slot in six years’ worth of tours with Justin Hayward on the arena tours of Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds. The flittering list of artists Gordy has worked with as a session musician include Sir Cliff Richard, Mariah Carey, Rod Stewart, Emma Bunton (Spice Girls), Joss Stone, Gary Barlow, Leo Sayer, Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs), Mike Batt Katie Melua, Chris Spedding, Herbie Flowers, Level 42’s Mike Lindup, Christ Thompson, Russell Watson, Jason Donovan, Daniel Bedingfield, and David Essex.

In addition to his pop and rock work, he has been involved in many West End musicals, including Fame, Great, We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia, Rent, Whistle Down the Wind, and Thriller Live! In 2012, Gordy saw the publication of his first travel book, PostcardsfromaRock&RollTour(published by Splendid Books). It’s available on Amazon, iTunes, Kindle, as an audio book, and directly from the GO NOW! Website. Sections of the audio book have been serialized on BBC Radio.

MICK WILSON, LEAD VOCALS, GUITAR

As a vocalist and percussionist, Mick has performed and recorded with artists such as Lionel Richie, Ricky Wilson, Gary Barlow, Cher, Ellie Goulding, Paloma Faith, Chris Rea, Smokey Robins, Jessie J., Robin Gibb, Lulu, and the K.L.F. In 2014, Mick was honored to be a part of the band for Jeff Lynne’s ELO concert in London’s Hyde Park.

After joining Graham Gouldman for an acoustic set in London in 1998, Mick became a regular in the latest incarnation of 10cc, taking on Lead Vocal duties and playing percussion, guitar, and keyboards, touring extensively in Europe, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the U.S.

Mick left 10cc in 2017 to concentrate on the FRONTM3N project with Peter Howarth (Hollies) and Pete Lincoln (The Sweet), and are currently performing in Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. They have released two albums, “All For One” and “Enjoy The Ride,” featuring hits from the bands and new original material.

He is also a regular member of the SAS Band, which play all over the world, with guest performers such as Brian May, Roger Daltrey, Roger Taylor, Kiki Dee, and Tony Hadley.

His debut solo album, “So The Story Goes” was co-produced and co-written with Graham Gouldman and his current release, “Chameleon” is a selection of cover versions that Mick has been playing in his solo shows over the past few years.

NICK KENDALL, LEAD GUITAR, LEAD VOCALS

Nick Kendall has, over the last decade, built a reputation as one of the UK’s finest session guitarists. He has performed with names such as 10cc, Alice Cooper, Brian May, Tony Hadley, Jimmy Somerville, and Gordon Giltrap to name a few.

He has held chairs in the West End on RockofAges,JerseyBoys, and Kinky Boots, and been a deputy on many others including We Will RockYou,Dreamgirls,Motown, and SunnyAfternoon. He has worked on the TV show the X Factor, and in the recording studio with artists such as Peter Cox (Go West), Kerry Ellis, Rhydian and Grace Kennedy, as well as recording guitar for various television and radio jingles. Nick also fronts his own Blues-Rock band, The Kendall Connection.

PATRICK DUFFIN, BASS GUITAR, LEAD VOCALS

Patrick studied at Goldsmiths College University of London and Trinity College London. As well as composing the themes for Come DineWithMe,LooseWomen, and MoneyforNothing on television, Patrick has also written production music albums for Universal, De Wolfe, and Westar.

He has performed with Natalie Imbruglia, Tony Hadley, and Jamie Scott. In the West End productions of Hairspray and Jersey Boys, he played guitar, drums, and mandolin.

Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 7:30 PM

BPO Kids Series

CELEBRATING SONDHEIM

Jason Seber, conductor Kerry O’Malley, vocals Alex Getlin, vocals Blaine Alden Krauss, vocals

BERNSTEIN / adapt. & orch. Peress

SONDHEIM

Overture to West Side Story

STYNE

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

Comedy Tonight: from A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum Everything Is Coming Up Roses from Gypsy

Another Hundred People from Company Being Alive from Company

Losing My Mind from Follies

Ladies Who Lunch from Company

INTERMISSION

SONDHEIM

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

The Ballad of Sweeney Todd from Sweeney Todd Johanna from Sweeney Todd Not A Day Goes By from Merrily We Roll Along

Children Will Listen from Into The Woods

Moments In The Woods from Into The Woods

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

SONDHEIM / orch. Jonathan Tunick

SONDHEIM / arr. David Charles Abell & Seann Alderking

SONDHEIM / orch. Jason Carr

Send in the Clowns from A Little Night Music

Finishing The Hat from Sunday In The Park With George

Move On from Sunday In The Park With George

Sunday from Sunday In The Park With George

Patrons are asked to turn off all electronic devices. The use of cameras and recording devices is strictly prohibited.

JASON SEBER, GUEST CONDUCTOR

Jason Seber is known for his inviting and engaging approach on and off the podium. A strong believer in the eclectic experiences which today’s symphony orchestras offer their communities, he strives to make music of many genres and styles accessible, relevant, and meaningful to diverse audiences across the country.

Seber has conducted many leading American orchestras, including the Charleston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Houston Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Nashville Symphony, San Diego Symphony, and the St. Louis Symphony, among others. This year he will make debuts with the Buffalo Philharmonic and the National Symphony in Washington, DC. Seber has had the pleasure of performing with a wide range of artists including Patti Austin, Mason Bates, Andrew Bird, Boyz II Men, Ashley Brown, Jinjoo Cho, Melissa Etheridge, Ben Folds, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Paul Jacobs, Wynonna Judd, Lyle Lovett, Brian Stokes Mitchell, My Morning Jacket, Leslie Odom Jr., Aoife O’Donovan, Pink Martini, Doc Severinsen, Conrad Tao, Bobby Watson, and Joyce Yang.

Seber recently completed a six-year tenure as associate conductor of the Kansas City Symphony. In this position he led the Symphony in over 300 performances on the Classical, Pops, Classics Uncorked, Family, Film + Live Orchestra, Education, and Christmas Festival series. He also served as co-host for the Symphony’s podcast, “Beethoven Walks into a Bar.” Prior to Kansas City, Seber was the education and outreach conductor at the Louisville Orchestra for three years.

A passionate advocate for music education, Seber has led the Honors Performance Series Orchestra in concert at Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, and Royal Festival Hall in London. He is a frequent guest conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra each summer in Breckenridge, CO and he has served as the All-State Orchestra conductor for Georgia, Missouri, and Pennsylvania, and upcoming in 2024, Kansas.

Seber lives in Louisville, KY with his wife Stephanie and enjoys sports, fantasy football, cooking, and golfing.

KERRY O'MALLEY, VOCALS

Kerry’s Broadway roles include Betty Haynes in IrvingBerlin’sWhite Christmas (original cast), The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods (2002 revival original cast, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominee), Sharone in On AClearDayYouCanSeeForever(2012 revival original cast), Dolly in Annie Get Your Gun, Billy’s Mum in Billy Elliot, Cyrano the Musical and Translations. Off-Broadway: Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive (original cast), Conor McPherson’s Dublin Carol (original cast), Finian’s Rainbow, Flight (original cast), Over the River and Through the Woods, and Bright Lights Big City (original cast).

Regional: Steve Wynn’s Showstoppers (Las Vegas), Ragtime, South Pacific, A Walk on the Moon, October Sky, The Unsinkable Molly Annabelle, Annabelle: Creation, Terminator Genisys, The Happening, Rounders, and the upcoming The Little Things with Denzel Washington.

Television: Series Regular roles in Those Who Kill (AMC), Costello (Fox), and The Mike O’Malley Show(NBC); Recurring roles in Snowpiercer (premiering in April on TNT), Shameless(Showtime), Brotherhood (Showtime), Boardwalk Empire (HBO), The Last Tycoon (Amazon), Survivor’s Remorse (STARZ), Strange Angel (CBS All Access), and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later (Netflix); and Guest Star roles in Young Sheldon, Blue Bloods, The Mentalist, The Orville, Modern Family, Major Crimes, Rizzoli & Isles, Bones, Backstrom, Masters of Sex, Chicago Med, Second Chance, Past Life, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Law & Order: LA, and many others. She is a graduate of Duke University and the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA.

ALEX GETLIN, VOCALS

Alex Getlin is a New York-based singer and actress. Most recently she made her Carnegie Hall debut with Michael Feinstein in “Hooray for Hollywood,” as part of his Standard Time series. A native New Yorker, she has spent the last year performing around the country in concert tributes to Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber with Spot-On Entertainment. She has appeared Off-Broadway in the company of Anything Can Happen in the Theatre – The Songs of Maury Yeston, after being hand-picked by Yeston to interpret his music. In June 2017, Getlin made her symphonic debut with the Pasadena Pops under the baton of Michael Feinstein in Broadway:TheGoldenAge where she starred alongside Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey.

In 2016, after graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in theater, Getlin was a featured soloist in Broadway Rising Stars at Town Hall. She made her professional singing debut at 17 in a solo cabaret show at The Regency Hotel in New York, presented by Mr. Feinstein. The New York Times called her “a confident, engaging young singer with a big voice,” and Broadway World hailed her as “a new and rare talent on the entertainment scene.”

She will be seen this summer as Fiona in Shrek, the Musical, at the Berkshire Theatre Group’s Colonial Theatre, where she previously appeared in the company’s production of The Music Man. Television credits include CBS “Shades of Blue” and Netflix “The Break with Michele Wolf.”

BLAINE ALDEN KRAUSS, VOCALS

Blaine Alden Krauss is currently starring in Hamilton as the standby for both Hamilton and Burr. He was thrilled to be part of the second season of “Pose” while appearing in The Cher Show on Broadway. Prior to that he was seen as ‘Lola’ in KinkyBoots shortly after making his Broadway debut in the smash hit Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812. He traveled the world as 'Simba' in The Lion King and starred in the Radio City Summer Spectacular. Blaine regularly performs with symphonies around the globe and is a regular performer at Feinstein's/54 Below. His talents led him in 2011 to be a feature performer for the largest Commemoration of 9/11 outside of the U.S at the Trocadero in Paris, France. In 2010 he was selected to be 1 of 20 Presidential Scholars in the Arts by the White House and Presidential Scholar Commission. This venture led to having met President Obama and concluded with a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He was selected to be the Feature Vocalist at the 2010 July 4th Celebration at the US National Archives; was a selected participant at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. His theatrical credits include Godspell and Spelling Bee at the West Virginia Public Theatre, Evita, Into the Woods, Civil War, Make Me A Song, Chess, and Jean Valjean in CCM's Les Miserables. Blaine is a proud graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

SPONSOR A MUSICIAN

Nikki Chooi, concertmaster Sponsored by Clement and Karen Arrison

Ansgarius Aylward, assistant concertmaster Sponsored Anonymously

Douglas Cone, first violin Sponsored by Bradford Lewis

Alan Ross, first violin Sponsored by Anthony J.* and Carmela M. Colucci

Loren Silvertrust, first violin Sponsored by Mrs. George F. Phillips, Jr.

Andrea Blanchard-Cone, first violin Sponsored by Drs. Clement and Margot Ip

Jacqueline Galluzzo, associate principal second violin Sponsored by Sandra and Dennis McCarthy

Amy Licata, second violin Sponsored by David I. Herer on behalf of ABC-Amega, Inc.

Xiaofan Liu, 2nd assistant concertmaster Sponsored by Michael D'Ambrosio

Robert Prokes, second violin Sponsored by Ansie Baird

Caroline Gilbert, principal viola Sponsored by Bruce and Gail Johnstone

Anna Shemetyeva, associate principal viola Sponsored by Christine Standish & Chris Wilk

Natalie Piskorsky, viola Sponsored by Dr. Patricia and Burt* Notarius

Matthew Phillips, viola Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. George G. Herbert

Kate Holzemer, viola Sponsored by Ms. Cindy Abbott Letro and Mr. Francis M. Letro

Janz Castelo, viola Sponsored by Anthony J. and Barbara Cassetta

Feng Hew, associate principal cello Sponsored by Kenneth Schmieder, in loving memory of Nancy L. Julian

Nancy Anderson, cello Sponsored by Stephen Still and Terrie Tucker

Robert Hausmann, cello Sponsored by Sally and Donald Dussing

David Schmude, cello Sponsored by Jim and Michal Wadsworth

Amelie Fradette, cello

Sponsored by Ms. Cindy Abbott Letro and Mr. Francis M. Letro

Brett Shurtliffe, associate principal bass Sponsored by Mr. Bruce C. Baird and Mrs. Susan O’Connor-Baird

Jonathan Borden, bass Sponsored by Edward N. Giannino, Jr.

Henry Ward, principal oboe Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Wetter

Joshua Lauretig, oboe Sponsored by Sonny & Diane Sonnenstein

Anna Mattix, oboe/English horn Sponsored by Bonnie and Nick Hopkins

William Amsel, principal clarinet

Sponsored by Dr. Gilbert Schulenberg

Patti DiLutis, clarinet

Sponsored by Dennis P. Quinn

Salvatore Andolina, clarinet/saxophone

Jennifer Dowdell, in memory of Charles and Nancy Dowdell

Glenn Einschlag, principal bassoon

Sponsored by Barbara B. Bunker

Daniel Kerdelewicz, associate principal, French horn Sponsored by Gretchen Wylegala and Stephen McCabe

Jay Matthews, French horn

Sponsored by Philip H. Hubbell, in loving memory of Jayne T. Hubbell

Sheryl Hadeka, French horn Sponsored by Linda Johnson & Sanford Eisen

Alex Jokipii, principal trumpet Jennifer Dowdell, in memory of Charles and Nancy Dowdell

Philip Christner, trumpet Sponsored by Frank and Wilma Cipolla

Jonathan Lombardo, principal trombone Sponsored by Nicole and Stephen Swift

Timothy Smith, trombone Sponsored by Arthur W. and Elaine I. Cryer

Filipe Pereira, bass trombone Sponsored by Constance A. Greco

Matthew Bassett, principal timpani Sponsored by Bonnie and Nick Hopkins

Mark Hodges, principal percussion Sponsored by Vanda and Paul Albera

Dinesh Joseph, percussion Sponsored by Lynne Marie Finn, on behalf of Broadleaf Results

Madeline Olson, principal harp Sponsored by Dr. and Mrs. Curtis F. Holmes

To learn more about the Sponsor a Musician program, please contact Jacqueline Chagnon at (716) 242-7821 or jchagnon@bpo.org

ANNUAL FUND

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges contributions received from the following individuals and foundations who gave $500 and above through September 5, 2022. While the thousands upon thousands of donors whose gifts ranged from $1 to $499 are too numerous to list here, we gratefully acknowledge those additional individuals, groups, companies and foundations who give to us so generously.

MILLONZI SOCIETY

$150,000+

The Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation

Carol & Angelo Fatta

The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.Foundation

John & Carolyn Yurtchuk

$50,000-$149,999

Anonymous

Mr. Brent Baird

Brian and Barbara Baird

Mark Chason & Mariana Botero Chason

Louis P. Ciminelli FamilyFoundation

The Robert and Patricia ColbyFoundation

Cullen Foundation

Carlos and Elizabeth Heath Foundation

W. & J. Larson FamilyFoundation

Mulroy Family Foundation

The Walter Schmid FamilyFoundation Charitable Trust

Bonnie & Nick Hopkins Christine Standish & Chris Wilk

$25,000-$49,999

Clement & Karen Arrison

Mr. Bruce C. Baird & Mrs. Susan O'Connor-Baird

The Montgomery FamilyFoundation

Steve and Nicole Swift

Mr. Gerald K. Thomas

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. LegacyFunds at CFGB

Roy and Ruth Seibel FamilyFoundation

Stephen Still and Terrie Tucker

Maestro’s Circle $10,000-$24,999

Cindy Abbott Letro and Francis Letro Paul and Vanda Albera

Sue Fay Allen & Carl Klingenschmitt

The Baird Foundation Mr. Charles Balbach

The Better Buffalo Fund at the CFGB Anthony & Barbara Cassetta Arthur W. & Elaine I. Cryer

Bob & Doris Drago Ms. JoAnn Falletta & Mr. Robert Alemany

Judith Fisher Robert J. & Martha B. Fierle Foundation

Patricia & William Frederick George and Bodil Gellman Cheryl Gorski

Mr. and Mrs. George G. Herbert Dr. and Mrs. Curtis F. Holmes

Hooper Legacy Foundation

Mr. Philip H. Hubbell Clement and Margot Ip Bruce and Gail Johnstone

Roberta & Michael Joseph Mrs. Ellen T. Koessler

Bradford Lewis

Lori Pacer, in memory of William J. Pacer

Donald MacDavid Charitable Trust Mr.* and Mrs. Reginald B. Newman II Mr.* and Mrs. George F. Phillips, Jr. Adam Rome and Robin Schulze Joseph & Carole Sedita

Sonny & Diane Sonnenstein David M. Stark & Cynthia Baird Stark Scott R. and Rachel C. Stenclik Gary and Katharina Szakmary

The Vincent and Harriet Palisano Foundation

Jack Walsh, in memory of Connie Walsh Robert and Judith Wetter

Concertmaster’s Circle

$5,000-$9,999

Anonymous (4) Ansie Baird

Oliver G. & Sarah Sloan Bauman Fund for the Arts

James and Linda Beardi James M. Beardsley & Ellen M. Gibson

Barbara Bunker Mr. Joseph F. Casey Frank and Wilma Cipolla

Conable Family Foundation Michael D'Ambrosio Wendy Diina Jennifer Dowdell, in memory of Charles and Nancy Dowdell Sally and Don Dussing

Peter & Maria Eliopoulos

Stephen Edge and Cynthia Swain Edward N Giannino, Jr E Joseph and Lynne Giroux Sarah Goodyear

Ms. Constance A. Greco

Patricia Prentice & James Grunebaum Dr. Elisabeth Zausmer and Dr. Angel A. Gutierrez Daniel and Barbara Hart David and Eva Herer

David and Lucinda Hohn

John J. and Maureen O. Hurley Robert and Hana Jacobi

Linda Johnson & Sanford Eisen Edwin M. Johnston, Jr. Michael & Marilee Keller

Ken & Paula Koessler

Mr. and Mrs.* Philip Kadet - The Linton Foundation

Mr. Warren Lippa Mr. Ron Luczak and Mr. Michael Boland

Lorinda McAndrew Voelkle Foundation Charles & Judith Manzella Stephen McCabe and Gretchen Wylegala

Dennis and Sandra McCarthy

Mr. and Mrs. James D. Newman

Patricia Notarius/ Premier Group Marie and Jay Novello, in memory of Don and Eileen Brutvan

Douglas & Laurette* Oak Pappalardo Family Foundation Mark and Stacy Parkinson Michelle & Gerald Parrish

Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Polokoff

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Priselac, Jr. Mr. Dennis P. Quinn David & Joan Rogers

Ronald Frank* & Anne Schneider

Dr. Gilbert Schulenberg Lowell and Ellen Shaw

Stephen and Monica Spaulding

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Sperrazza

Robert and Nancy Warner Memorial Fund at the FJP Martha and John Welte Bud and Sandy Whistler

Encore Circle

$2,500-$4,999

Anonymous (3)

Dr. George N. Abraham

Dr. and Mrs. Fred and Bonnie Albrecht

Joan and Peter Andrews Family Foundation

Douglas Bean and Elisa Kreiner Ann N. Bonte

The Reverend* and Mrs. Peter Bridgford

Mr. & Mrs. John Burkholder

Joanne Castellani & Michael Andriaccio

William & Ida Christie Fund for Music

Ms. Elizabeth G. Clark

Ms. Anne E. Conable

Richard and Cornelia Dopkins

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Easton Ms. Mary A. Ferguson Mrs. Marta Fernandez Thomas and Grace Flanagan Ilene and Peter Fleischmann Beth Fleming

AnneMarie Farmer and David Gaydosh Dr. Samuel Goodloe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Greene Dave & Katie Hayes Michele O. Heffernan and John J. Cordes

Dr. Barbara W. Henderson Philip & Marion Henderson Martha & Tom Hyde

Mr. James & Mrs. Diana Iglewski Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Jacobs Jr. Joseph & Anna Gartner Foundation Mr. William P. Keefer Joseph M. Kelly

In memory of W. R. Keppel from S. A. K. Dwight King & Leslie Duggleby Rosalind & Michael Kochmanski Susan B. Lee

Steve & Sandy Levinthal Sr. Beatrice Manzella William and Jane Mathias

Mr. and Mrs. John R. McClester

Mr.* and Mrs. Sheldon E. Merritt Denise Meyers-Rezabek

Frances L. Morrison Michael and Lorrie Munschauer

Dr. Thomas Nochajski

OSC Charitable Foundation Mary Jane and Walter Pawlowski Frederick S. & Phyllis W. Pierce Family Fund

Mrs. Susan A. Potter Peter & Nancy Rabinowitz Ms. Georgeann W. Redman Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Renner Thomas Rolle and Ms. Deborah Henning Dr. Richard J. Saab/Maureen Wilson Saab

Ken Schmieder and Nancy Julian* Miss Louise E. Seereiter Dr. Maxine Seller

Simple Gifts Fund

Dr. Joyce E. Sirianni Stephen Stewart Ronald Struzik

Dr. Joseph R. Takats, III Jeffrey J. Thompson

Drs. Mark and Maansi Travers Nicholas & Nicole Tzetzo

Barry & Donna Winnick Gregory and Donna Yungbluth John and Deanna Zak

Bravo Circle

$1,000-$2,499

Anonymous (9) Morton & Natalie Abramson JoAnne Alderfer Liz & John Angelbeck

Ann Holland Cohn Endowment Fund at the FJP Rita Argen Auerbach

Reverend James M. Augustyn

Mr. and Mrs. Teo Balbach

Bradford Banks

Mary L. and Ronald E* Banks

Mr. Steve Earnhart and Mrs. Jennifer Barbee

Drs. Kevin and Elizabeth Barlog

Thomas R Beecher, Jr. Dr. David B. Bender

Mr. Thomas Boeck

Gary & Willow Brost R. R. Bujnicki

Tim and Mary Lou* Butler

Dr. and Mrs. John L. Butsch

William Catto & Katharine Pierce

Cheryl Christie

Ms. Rosemary Christoff Dolan in memory of Gerald Christoff, composer and pianist

Dr. Sebastian* & Marilyn Ciancio Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Cohen

Jennifer Read and Craig Colder John and Patricia Connolly Dr. and Mrs. Harold G. Corwin, Jr.

Patti Cosgrove Legacy II Fund at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

Mr. and Mrs. David Croen

Jean McGarry and James F. Cunning Peter S. and Elizabeth H. Curtis Jane M D'Agostino

Beverly Davies Jason and Sheryl Davies Clotilde & Trey Dedecker

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. DePaolo James & Mary Frances Derby

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Detwiler

Tony* & Kathy Diina

Duane & Nancy DiPirro Mrs. Carol Donley

Richard and Cornelia Dopkins Miriam & Peter Dow Ellen & Victor* Doyno Patricia K Duffner

Edward G Eberl

Mr. and Mrs. Kim A. Ferullo Joyce E. Fink

Timothy and Deborah Finnell Robert and Ruth Fleming

The Honorable and Mrs. Leslie G. Foschio

Ms. Margaret A. Frainier Rose H. and Leonard H. Frank Community Endowment Fund

Eileen & Laurence Franz

Patricia B. Frey, Ed.D.

Mr. and Mrs. David Fried

Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Giambra Ms. Carol A. Golder

Marc J. Goldstein

Dr. Susan Graham and Dr. Jon C. Kucera George and Cecelia Grasser

Mr. and Mrs. William Greenman

Adrienne Tworek-Gryta and Matt Gryta Thomas J. Hanifin BPO Fund II at the Community Foundation for Greater

Buffalo

Mr. and Mrs. Van N. Harwood, Jr. Martha Haseley

Carla J. Hengerer

Amy & Eduardo Heumann Nancy Higgins

Richard and Lynn Hirsch Monte Hoffman, Niscah Koessler Mr. Paul A. Hojnacki John and Janice Horn Marie F. and Frederic K. Houston Fund at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

Mr. Bernhard Huber, Jr. Mrs. Pamela R. Jacobs Kevin and Kelly James Karen Jarvis

Thomas and Deborah Jasinski Luella H. Johnson Craig and Deborah Johnston Mr. Alex Jokipii and Ms. Shari L. McDonough

Mr. and Mrs. Benoy Joseph Mr. Charles J. Kaars Ms. Jennifer Kartychak Jane and John Kearns Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth R. Kahn Dr. Kathleen Keenan-Takagi Milton Kicklighter Verna Kieffer

Mr. and Mrs. Douglas G. Kirkpatrick Robert and Barbara Klocke Carol & John* Kociela

Mr. and Mrs. Jean Pierre A. Koenig Bob & Liz Kolken

Dr. Daniel Kosman and Dr. Gabriela Popescu

Mr.* and Mrs. Robert J. Kresse Risé & Kevin* Kulick Joan Kuhn

Drs. Jeffery Lackner and Ann Marie Carosella Mr. Donald Latt

Dr. John Leddy and Dr. Carmen Alvarez Amanda and Ian Lee-Bennett Paul and Jane Lehman

Drs. David B. and Madeline A. Lillie Catherine & Matt Lincoln Ms. Donna J. Ludwig Judy Marine Ms. Linda Marsh

Randy & Diana Martinusek Mr. George L. Mayers Elsie P. & Lucius B. McCowan Private Charitable Foundation Ms. Michaelene J. McFarlane Ms. Barbara Mellerski-Farkas Dr. and Mrs. Franklin H. Meyer David & Gail Miller Ms. Pennie C. Hoage Mitchell Family Philanthropic Fund at the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Mrs. Alexandra and Mr. Michael Montante Anne Moot Ms. Sharon F. Mortin Robert Moskowitz and Mary McGorray Sandra Mundier

Philip Nicolai and Mary Louise Hill

Dr. Michael F. Noe

Mr. Phillip L. Nones

Mr. and Mrs. Randall M. Odza

Mr. Gerald Pacillo

Eleanor & Tony Paterson

Laurence & Sylvia Paul

Lois and Thomas Pause Charitable Fund and the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo

Dr. & Mrs. Philip Penepent Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Penfold

Erin Peradotto

David Schopp and Mark Peszko Ms. Christye Peterson and Mr. Peter J. Grogan

Gregory Photiadis and Sandy Chelnov

Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Plyler Karen L. Podd

Keith & Beth Podgorny

Mr. Paul J. Polokoff

Joseph and Pamela Priest

Dr. Igor and Dr. Martina Puzanov

Ted and Mary Ann Pyrak

Ms. Stephanie Robb

Drs. John and Sheliah Roehmholdt Mary Anne Rokitka Ms. Elaine Rubenstein

Mr. Philip Rumore Dina & Carlos Santos

William and Elizabeth Savino Ruth and Darwin Schmitt Fund at the CFGB Susan and Jeffrey Schwartz

Mr. and Mrs. Roger L. Schintzius Mr. Michael B. Sexton and Dr. Sandra Sexton

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Seymour Caren and Stuart C. Shapiro

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shappee Larry & Barbara Sherman

Charles E. and Penelope R. Shuman Philanthropic Fund

Mr. Gerould R. Stange Alma Owen Strachan Jan Svec

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Symons Mr. Ronald G. and Mrs. Margaret N. Talboys

Nancy B. Thomas Susan & John Thomas

Mr. and Mrs. John C. Thompson Dr. Albert H. Titus and Dr. Ann M. Bisantz

Hon. and Mrs. Paul A. Tokasz Garin Tomaszewski

Lyle & Phil Toohey

Dr. & Mrs. Raymond C. Vaughan

Janet D. Vine

Dr. and Mrs. P.K. Wallace

Nellie B. Warner Endowment Fund

William & Valerie Warren William Weiss

Wende Family Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Wetter

Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Wiesen Wayne* & Janet Wisbaum Paul M. Wos Arden and Julie Wrisley

The Yadzinski Family

Charles and Maura Yates

Cynthia Zane & Stephen Mazurak* Mr. Paul Zarembka Dr. Gregory Castiglia & Dr. Valerie Zingapan

Drs. Bill Ziter & Cathy Gogan C. Richard and Joyce T. Zobel

Crescendo $500-$999

Anonymous (2) Ms. Gail Adema

Eileen M. & Erik S. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. James M. Arena Susan Baird Karen A. Barbee Mr. Matthew & Mrs. Kathleen Bassett Mr. Richard C. Batt Mark & Debbie Bauer Henry E. and Susan W. Beamer Endowment Fund at CFGB Mr. Donald M. Behr

Berardi Immigration Law Ms. Linda M. Betzer Peg Beyer

Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Bisson Alan and Barbara Blackburn Drs. Gale Burstein and Peter Bloom Derek & Laura Brann Bruce and Jill Brown Mr. and Mrs. William Brucker Ms. Bette J. Brunish Mr. & Mrs. David Bullions Mr. & Mrs. Dean & Patricia Burgstahler Mr. and Ms. Randall Burkard Tim and Mary Lou Butler

Drs. Evan & Virginia Calkins* Margaret C. Callanan Dr. Mireya B. Camurati Joseph and Susan Cardamone Jerry* & Barbara Castiglia Miss Victoria A. Christopher Mr. Michael Charles Cimasi Collins Charitable Foundation Mrs. Mary J. Clark Ginger and Gordon* Comstock Bob and Susan Conklin Diana M. Conroy Mrs. Donanne S. Coovert Andrea and Don Copley Paulette Crooke & Michael Toner Croucher - Fletcher Charitable Fund Mrs. Elizabeth Crump and Ms. Janet Cooper Ms. Ellen J. Daly Walter & Rosemary Dannhauser Mr. and Mrs. David Day Dr.* and Mrs. David C. Dean

Jonathan Dewald Gary Diamond & Julie Klotzbach Lusyd W. Doolittle Robert G Dunford

Drs. Philip Dvoretsky & Linda Ludwig Mr. Edward Eardley Amy P. Early M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Efron Marla Eglowstein Dr. Richard S. Elman and Dr. Nora Meaney-Elman Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ewing

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Fanning Mr. Leo Fedor Dr. W. Ferguson Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ferington Denise Ferkey and Jeffrey Swaluk Mrs. Judith Ferrentino Mr. and Mrs. Karl D. Fiebelkorn

Michael R. Fiels Family in honor of William J. Coughlin Edward* and Cynthia Fisher John & Imelda Fitzpatrick

Mr. John F. Fleischman Jr. Robert and Ruth Fleming Dr. Peter Fletcher Mr. William S. Flickinger Rita A. Forman Howard and Laurie Foster Maryann Saccomando Freedman Rick Friend

John Fudyma and Sarah Fallon Mrs. Joanne Gaffin Sue Gardner William H. Gardner Jeffrey & Norma Gentner Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth T. Glaser Drs. Philip Glick & Drucy Borowitz Mrs. Zella Glickman Mr. and Mrs. Peter H. Grace Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Greenlee Ms. Jane Griffin Kenneth W. Gross Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gurney Edward and Karen Healy Dr. and Mrs. Reid R. Heffner, Jr. Ms. Sharon M. Heim and Mr. David Wahl Mrs. Patricia Helfrich Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Hemmer Ann W Herman Dr. Theodore Herman and Ms. Judith Ann Cohen Ms. Olive Marie Hewett Richard and Laura Hill Richard and Virginia Hillegas Dr. & Mrs. Ralph W. Hinds, III Mr. Raymond and Mrs. Virginia Hohl Arleen Hollas

Duncan C. Hollinger Mr. Paul Homer & Ms. Kathryn Mary Homer David & Karen Howard Michael Huber Scott and Alyssa Hunt Hunt Charitable Foundation Peter & Mary Jo Hunt Yasushi Innami Dr. Thomas A. Jambro William & Genevieve James Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Jennings Claire E. Johnson Larry E. Jones and Nancy J. Rosenbloom Drs. Richard and Barbara Jurasek Nathan Kahn Theresa Kazmierczak Juliet E. Kline

Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Koppmann Mr. Charles Korn & Dr. Deborah Raiken George Kotlewski Paul & Marilyn Koukal James and Leslie Kramer

Ms. Rosemary Kuca and Mr. Kevin J. Hagerty David & Marilyn Kurzawa Dr. and Mrs. Kevin W. Lanighan Mr. and Dr. John M. Laping Ruth and Dick Lasure Mr. and Mrs. Don E Lawrence, Jr. Kathleen Le Fauve Msgr. Fred Leising Fern & Joel Levin

Mr. Douglas J. Levy Dr. Sanford Levy Dorothy M. Lien Christopher Lightcap

Faye Elizabeth Justicia Linde Howard and Lorna Lippes Joel & Andree Lippes

Dr. Thomas & Donna Lombardo Mrs. Olga Lownie Joseph and Kathleen Lucke Karen Magee

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Manly Robert & Elsie Martino Ms. Elaine Mackensen May Dr. and Mrs. Walter S. Mayo Dr. & Mrs. Philip McCarthy Mr. Scott W. McCone Louise McGrath McLain Foundation Michael and Lucille Melton

Mr. & Mrs. Frank & Tracy Mendicino Alicia Meyers

Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Miller Mrs. Sharon P. Miller Mr. John E. Milner

Dr. & Mrs. Herman S. Mogavero Jr. Robert and Nancy Morey Mark Lauretig & Susan Morgenstern Dr. Joshua Morra Sandra G. Morrison Brian and Jayne Murray JFF and JFFLabs Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Nice

Susan D. Nusbaum

Bernard & Linda O'Donnell Benjamin and Lila Obletz Endowment Fund Jeremy and Sally Oczek Barbara Ann Oliver Mr. Rick Paulson

Jo Anne Brocklehurst Robert S. Petersen

Rodney P. Pierce James and Nancy Poole Henry & Patty Porter Dr. Kevin & Merle Pranikoff

John & Betty Preble

Ms. Carol Dean Privitera Charles and Joanne Privitera Linda and Patrick Rankin Mr. Alex J. Ratkowski Mrs. Kathrin Reid

Mr. Charles Rice

Al and Cindy Ripley Randolph & Cathy Ritz

Mr. and Mrs. Casimiro D. Rodriguez Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Schaefer Ms. Elizabeth S. Rundle

Revs. Melody and Rodney Rutherford Mr. Glenn Sanders

Scott & Ardeen Schaefer

Barbara & Daniel Schifeling

John & Connor Cardot-Schloop Paul J. Schulz

Alvin Schuster & Gladys Gifford

Eleanor Scott Mary Anne Seifert

Henry & Tricia Semmelhack

Dr. Mary Ellen Shaughnessy Ms. Nancy Shepard

Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sherman

Mr. Joseph A. Shifflett

Peter Siedlecki & Lynnette Mende

Mr. and Mrs. Roger T. Sieracki John G. Sisson

Mr. Jeremy Smith

Lynne G. Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sodaro Melissa & Kurt Spaeth Mr. John Spears Lynn & JoAnn Spees Jean & Russ Speidel

James and Karen Stephenson Mr. Edwin F. Stohrer, Jr. Joan R. Strachan

Ruth and Ted Steegmann

Mr. William & Ms. Kathaginia Sullivan Marilyn & Irving Sultz Ms. Mary J. Syrek

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Szymkowiak Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Thompson Dr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Tomasi Mr. Guido A. Tomassi

Ms. Sylvia Tourbaf Sheila Trossman

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Turkovich Frederick Turner John H. Twist, D.D.S. Ilona Tylwalk

Chris and Kathy Tzetzo Charitable Fund Susan & Ron Uba

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Van Nortwick Dr.* and Mrs. Rocco C. Venuto Ms. Suzanne J. Voltz Mr. William Vosteen

Mr. Rudolph Vrbsky Ms. Suzanne Sheard-Walsh Mr. Angus Watkins and Mrs. Anne L. Watkins Karen Wehn Norman and Carole Weingarten Ms. Marlene A. Werner Mr. and Mrs. K. Wiedenhaupt Katherine Powel and Ann K. Wittowsky Mr. Martin Wolpin Quinn & Jewell Wright Ms. Kelly Ann Wright Mr. Bryan Zielenieski

TRIBUTE REGISTRY

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Jonathan Borden Edward N Giannino Jr

Karen Sperrazza Alison & Kevin Keane

James Wadsworth Ms. Mary Wadsworth Dan Hart Peter Fleischmann

Catherine M Beltz Dr. Richard & Maureen Saab

Angela Zimmerman Kim Lewis Schepart

In Honor of

Edward Walden Potter

Charlotte Potter Whitcher Trust

Sally and William Kellman Ann and Richard Kellman

Joseph Cutrona Donna Cutrona

In Memory of

April N.M. Baskin, Chair

John Bargnesi

Lisa Chimera

John J. Gilmour

Christopher D. Greene

Howard J. Johnson, Jr. Joseph C. Lorigo

Timothy Meyers

John J. MIlls

Frank J. Todaro

Jeanne M. Vinal

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PLANNED GIVING Musical Heritage Society

We are pleased to list the current members herein because they have realized the importance of “the gift that keeps giving.” Each of these individuals or couples have made provisions for a contribution to the BPO in their estate plans and while there are many different methods, the most common is by adding the BPO as a beneficiary in one’s will.

Anonymous (4)

Charlotte C. Acer

Elizabeth & John Angelbeck

Rita Argen Auerbach Charles Balbach

Jennifer Barbee

Donald M. Behr & Samuel E. Lolinger*

David Bender

The Reverend* and Mrs. Peter W. Bridgford James A. Brophy & Fraser B. Drew* Daniel R. Burch

Anthony J. Cassetta

The Joanne Castellani and Michael Andriaccio Charitable Trust Barbara & Jerry* Castiglia Gerard and Rachel Catalano Cheryl I. Christie Victoria A. Christopher

In honor of JoAnn Falletta and Donald McCrorey Dr. Sebastian* and Mrs. Marilyn Ciancio Louis & Ann Louise Ciminelli Ms. Elizabeth G. Clark Mrs. George Cohn Anne Conable Dr. Elizabeth Conant Ellen Todd Cooper Rev. Raymond G. Corbin Marilyn R. Cornelius Dr. Sharon F. Cramer and Mr. Leslie R. Morris* in honor of the BPO Viola Section Sandra B. Cumming Beverly Davies Mrs. Roberta Dayer Tim DiCarlo

Trusts

Anonymous AJL Fund

Lawrence M. Appleby Fund at the CFGB Cameron Baird Fund

Benderson BPO Endowment Fund

Virgil A. and Margaret L. Black Memorial Fund

Philip & Joyce Celniker Fund Irwin H. Cheskin Fund at the CFGB Mildred Bork Conners & Joseph E. Conners Fund Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society Inc. Endowment Fund Grace Neff Daniels Memorial

Mr.* and Mrs. Anthony N. Diina Ellen & Victor* Doyno Sarah & Donald Dussing Angelo & Carol Fatta Judith & John* Fisher Marjorie* and William Gardner Edward N. Giannino, Jr. Mr. George Eagan Ginther

Mr. & Mrs. Byron R. Goldman Ms. Constance A. Greco Susan J. Grelick

Peter Hall & M.E. O'Leary

Mr. & Mrs. George G. Herbert Monte & Cheryl* Hoffman Philip H. Hubbell in memory of Jayne T. Hubbell Paul A. Imbert Robert and Hana Jacobi Bruce and Gail Johnstone Theresa Kazmierczak

Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Kahn Nathan Kahn in honor of JoAnn Falletta, Dan Hart, and the BPO Musicians Kathleen Keenan-Takagi

The Herbert & Ella Knight Family Charitable Fund Rosalind and Michael Kochmanski Dr. Merrily Kuhn and Mr. James Kulwicki Eric E. & Ruth F. Lansing Steve & Sandy Levinthal Bradford Lewis, PhD Gerald & Barbara Lipa Francie D. & Joel N. Lippman

Mr.* & Mrs. J. A. Mattern Sandra and Dennis McCarthy Michael and Lorrie Munschauer Donna & Leo Nalbach

Rev. Russell A. Newbert

Drs. Howard & Karen Noonan Robert & Marion North Fund Mrs. Frederick S. Pierce Edwin Polokoff Susan Potter

Dennis Quinn

Virginia Ann Quinn Evelyn Joyce Ramsdell

John and Susan Rowles Paul and Gerda Sanio Kenneth Schmieder, In memory of Nancy L. Julian Gilbert Schulenberg

Betty J. Schultz

Catherine F. Schweitzer

Joseph and Carole Sedita Roger & Joan Simon Robert B. Skerker Dennis M. Smolarek Monica and Steve Spaulding David D. Stout & Janet E. Popp Stout Gerald R. Strauss Sue W. Strauss

Nancy B. Thomas Therese M. Vita Jim and Michal Wadsworth, as trustees of the Mulroy, Heath and Colby Foundations

Marjorie W. Watson

Wayne* & Janet Wisbaum

Elizabeth Ann Withrow

Anne Catt Filer Fund at the CFGB Howard F. Gondree Fund

Joan Hetzelt Hanifin Memorial Fund

D. Bruce and Gail Johnstone Fund at the CFGB

The Herbert & Ella Knight Family Charitable Fund

John and Carol Kociela Fund at the CFGB

Janet K. Larkin & John D. Larkin III Fund

Albert H. Laub Bequest

Donald I. MacDavid Charitable Trust Marie A. Marshall Fund

MPZ Endowment Fund Benjamin and Lila Obletz

*deceased

Endowment Fund

Mary Louise Olmsted Fund

Susan Harvey Prentis Fund

Margaret Frank Rofot

Charitable Lead Trust

Natalie Kubera Roth Fund

Martin and Barbara Schechtman Charitable Remainder Unitrust William Kenneth Schmitt Fund

Dr. & Mrs. Roy E. Seibel Philanthropic Fund

Joseph and Loretta Swart Fund

Nellie B. Warner Endowment Fund Charlotte Potter Whitcher Trust

To ensure your wishes are carried on for the BPO for generations to come, you may call Jacqueline Chagnon (716) 242-7821 for more information.

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra endorses the LEAVE A LEGACY® WESTERN NEW YORK program, an initiative of the WNY Planned Giving Consortium and a public awareness campaign of the National Committee on Planned Giving.

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BPO ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Administration

Daniel Hart

President & Executive Director

Diana Martinusek

Executive Assistant

Development

Jennifer Barbee

Associate Executive Director & VicePresident,Development

Mindy Takacs

AssociateDirectorofDevelopment Eli Campbell

AnnualFund&GrantsManager

Jacqueline Chagnon DonorRelationsManager

Taylor Heaphy

DevelopmentandDatabase Administrator

Carson Mannino SpecialEventsandProject Coordinator

Jordan Walker DevelopmentAssistant Luke Borkowski

KleinhansCapitalCampaign Coordinator

Education and Community Engagement

Robin Parkinson, Vice President, Education & Community Engagement

Rachael Pudlewski EducationManager

Finance

Kevin James

Vice President, Finance & Administration

Nicole M. Bodemer

Associate Director of Finance

Jacqueline Henry Finance/AccountsPayableAssociate Susan Hill

PayrollandHR/ Benefits Administrator Marilyn Miller Finance Assistant

Marketing

AndréeRenée Simpson MarketingManager

Kelcie Hanaka

DigitalMarketingManager

Cary Michael Trout GraphicDesigner/Consultant

Mikaela Huber MarketingAssistant Operations

Alison Bolton

Vice President, Artistic & OrchestraOperations

Connor Schloop Operations Manager Sarah Lewandowski OrchestraPersonnelManager Corinna Scozzaro

AudienceServicesManager Conn Sullivan Operations Assistant

Sales and Patron Services

Adam Cady

Associate Director of Patron Services

Laura Papit

AssistantManagerofPatron Services

Patron Services Representatives

Anne Boucher

Bethany Erhardt

Ally Jindra

Amy Sturmer

Kleinhans Music Hall Staff

Brian Seibel Event Manager

Reneé Radzavich BuildingServicesManager Michael Cassidy ChiefEngineer

Dennis Nawojski Concessions Manager Lucas Parks

Parking&Set-UpSupervisor

PATRON INFORMATION

WHAT TO KNOW AT THE BPO

• Kleinhans Music Hall will open 90 minutes before a concert’s scheduled start, or earlier depending on pre-concert activities.

• Special assistance in the areas of parking, seating, and hearing will be accommodated to the best of our ability. Please contact the Box Office ahead of your visit.

-Options are available for patrons using mobility aids or requesting a wheelchair accessible location and accompanying companion seating.

-Hearing Assistance Devices are available at the coat check.

-Please note: there is no elevator to the balcony level.

• It is strictly forbidden to record, photograph, or film during a performance in the Main Auditorium. Photography is permitted in the hall before and after concerts.

• Late arrivals will be seated at the first suitable break or at intermission. Late seating may not be in the purchased section.

• Security staff is available at all times, and an EMT is on site for all concerts and performances. Please notify an usher or staff member if there is a medical or security need.

• Kleinhans Music Hall maintains a smoke-free environment.

• All programs and artists are subject to change without notice.

• Sorry, no refunds or exchanges on single ticket purchases.

Shuttle Service and BPO Preferred Restaurants

BPO Parking at Kleinhans $8 evening and Sunday performances; $5 Coffee concerts and BPO Kids performances.

FREE Park and Ride Shuttle (SELECT Saturdays)

Shuttle service begins at 6pm and ends 30 minutes after the conclusion of the concert.

• D’Youville College Lot D, 430 West Avenue between Connecticut & Porter Ave, 14213 (SELECT Saturday performances only)

• BPO Clement House Lot, 786 Delaware Avenue corner of Summer Street, 14209 (SELECT Saturday performances only)

Shuttle service is only available for SELECT dates. Please join our email club at bpo.org or call the Box Office for updated information.

SALVATORE’S SYMPHONY SHUTTLE Saturday Nights $15 per person, leaving promptly at 6:30pm from the rear of the lot near the water tower, 6461 Transit Rd. and Genesee St. in Depew. Call the reservation hotline at (716) 885-5000 and select “shuttle” option to reserve your place, or reserve online at bpo.org

MARCATO by Oliver’s at Kleinhans Music Hall

A new concept for fine dining on Kleinhans Lower Level. For more information or to make reservations, call (716) 877-9662.

SALVATORE’S ITALIAN GARDENS

6461 Transit Rd. and Genesee St. in Depew. Call (716) 683-7990 for dinner reservations. Dinner and shuttle sold separately.