CSO Beethoven Triple Concerto - program 11-18-22

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November 18 & 19 Belk Theater

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Erina Yashima, conductor Tai Murray, violin

Julie Albers, cello Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

Welcome to your CSO!

I’m so excited to welcome you back to the Charlotte Symphony this month for a wide variety of performances that speak to the Orchestra’s incredible breadth, agility, and spirit of discovery! A busy November begins with a live performance of Michael Abels’ score to the groundbreaking horror film Get Out. The very next night, acclaimed singer/ songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens joins the Orchestra for our Annual Gala to perform works from her Grammy Award-winning album They’re Calling Me Home.

The following week, CSO musicians perform side-by-side with the talented young musicians of the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestras, performing works by Dvořák, Grieg, and Elgar. And audiences will be dancing in the aisles when the world’s top ABBA tribute band joins the Orchestra to perform the band’s most iconic hits.

Later in the month, rising star Erina Yashima will lead the CSO in Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique, as well as Beethoven’s rarely performed Triple Concerto with a powerhouse trio of soloists. And finally, we head into the holidays with a trip on The Polar Express, followed by a joyful holiday concert pairing our majestic brass section with the incredible 3,500pipe organ at Charlotte’s First United Methodist Church.

This is what we mean when we say that the Charlotte Symphony is for everyone. So whether you’re here to experience gospel horror in Get Out, sing along to “Dancing Queen,” or revel in the glory of Beethoven’s “Triple,” we’re so glad that you’ve decided to join us!

Enjoy the performance! We look forward to sharing a wonderful season of Thanksgiving with you!

David Fisk President & CEO

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• The CSO has three programs for young musicians: the Youth Orchestra, the Youth Philharmonic, and the Youth Ensemble. CSO musicians participate in coaching throughout the year, and even perform with the young musicians!

• Reaching approximately 15,000 students each season, we also have extensive school programs, including Project Harmony, “Music and the Holocaust,” and “One Musical Family” Education Concerts.

• We perform throughout the region, from community parks and schools to breweries, senior care centers, and places of worship all season long.

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Friday, November 18, 2022 at 7:30pm Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 7:30pm Belk Theater at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center

Erina Yashima, conductor Tai Murray, violin Julie Albers, cello Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

MIKHAIL GLINKA (1804-1857)

Overture to Ruslán and Lyudmíla LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello & Orchestra in C Major, Op. 56, “Triple” I. Allegro II. Largo III. Rondo alla Polacca Tai Murray, violin Julie Albers, cello Anne-Marie McDermott, piano HECTOR BERLIOZ (1803-1869)

INTERMISSION concert duration: approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes. There will be one 20-minute intermission. This weekend’s performances are made possible in part by a generous gift from Mr. Douglas Young CONCERT PROGRAM page 5

German-born conductor Erina Yashima is the First Kapellmeister at the Komische Oper Berlin, taking on the position in September 2022. Yashima had previously been the Assistant Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra between 2019 and 2022, where she assisted Music Director Yannick Nézet Séguin and conducted the orchestra in concerts in Philadelphia and Saratoga.

As a rising star in the industry, Yashima has performed all over the world with acclaimed ensembles and orchestras. Recent highlights include debuts with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hanover, Orchestra della Toscana, Arena di Verona, Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, Albany Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Niederrheinische Sinfoniker, as well as returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Philadelphia Orchestra. Yashima also conducted a new production of Così fan tutte in her debut with the Washington National Opera, and has led a production of Rusalka at the Theater Krefeld und Mönchengladbach. Her final debut of the 21-22 season was at the Ravello Festival, conducting the Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini. The 2022-23 season will see Yashima debut with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, WDR Funkhausorchester, Beethoven Orchester Bonn, Hawaii Symphony Orchestra, and the Charlotte Symphony. At the Komische Oper Berlin, Yashima will conduct a variety of productions and programmes including Die Zauberflöte, Rusalka, Così fan tutte, Hamlet, a subscription concert, and the 75 th Anniversary Gala. Yashima will also conduct two productions of Don Giovanni, one at the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca and Teatro Goldoni in Livorno, and the other at the Ravenna Festival, Teatro Galli in Rimini, and Teatro Verdi in Salerno.

Yashima made her opera debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2017 with a production of Der Schauspieldirektor for children.

Erina Yashima

guest conductor

She conducted Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro in Novara and Ravenna in February 2019, and Rossini’s La Cenerentola both in 2017 in Lucca and again in 2018 in Piacenza with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra as well as Don Giovanni at the Teatro Verdi di Pisa.

Since 2015, Yashima has been studying with Riccardo Muti. As winner of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Sir Georg Solti Conducting Apprenticeship, Yashima assisted Maestro Muti and worked closely with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. During this period, Yashima collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and assisted conductors such as Esa Pekka Salonen, Christoph Eschenbach, and Edward Gardner.

Yashima was an active participant of the Italian Opera Academy in Ravenna, working with Riccardo Muti on Verdi’s Falstaff, as well as in Bernard Haitink’s masterclass at the Lucerne Festival and was a finalist at the INTERAKTION workshop with musicians from major German orchestras.

Tai Murray

violin

Described as “superb” by The New York Times, violinist Tai Murray has established herself a musical voice of a generation. “Technically flawless… vivacious and scintillating… It is without doubt that Murray’s style of playing is more mature than that of many seasoned players… “ (Muso Magazine).

Appreciated for her elegance and effortless ability, Murray creates a special bond with listeners through her personal phrasing and subtle sweetness. Her programming reveals musical intelligence. Her sound, sophisticated bowing and choice of vibrato, remind us of her musical background and influences, principally, Yuval Yaron (a student of Gingold & Heifetz) and Franco Gulli. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2004, Tai Murray was named a BBC New Generation Artist (2008 through 2010). As a chamber musician, she was a member of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society II (2004-2006).

She has performed as guest soloist on the main stages world-wide, performing with leading ensembles such as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Symphony Orchestra, and all of the BBC Symphony Orchestras. She is also a dedicated advocate of contemporary works (written for the violin). Among others, she performed the world premiere of Malcolm Hayes’ violin concerto at the BBC PROMS, in the Royal Albert Hall.

As a recitalist Tai Murray has visited many of the world’s capitals having appeared in Berlin, Chicago, Hamburg, London, Madrid, New York’s Carnegie Hall, Paris and Washington D.C., among many others.

Tai Murray’s critically acclaimed debut recording for Harmonia Mmundi of Ysaye’s six sonatas for solo violin was released in February 2012. Her second recording with works by American Composers of the 20th Century was released by the Berlin-based label eaSonus, and her third disc with the Bernstein Serenade on the French label Mirare.

Murray is an Assistant Professor, Adjunct, of violin at the Yale School of Music, where she teaches applied violin and coaches chamber music. She earned artist diplomas from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and the Juilliard School.

Tai Murray plays a violin by Tomaso Balestrieri fecit Mantua ca. 1765, on generous loan from a private collection.

Julie Albers

cello

American cellist Julie Albers is recognized for her superlative artistry, her charismatic and radiant performing style, and her intense musicianship. She was born into a musical family in Longmont, Colorado and began violin studies at the age of two with her mother, switching to cello at four. She moved to Cleveland during her junior year of high school to pursue studies through the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Richard Aaron. Miss Albers soon was awarded the Grand Prize at the XIII International Competition for Young Musicians in Douai, France, and as a result toured France as soloist with Orchestre Symphonique de Douai.

Ms. Albers made her major orchestral debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1998, and thereafter has performed in recital and with orchestras throughout North America, Europe, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2001, she won Second Prize in Munich’s Internationalen Musikwettbewerbes der ARD, and was also awarded the Wilhelm-Weichsler-Musikpreis der Stadt Osnabruch . While in Germany, she recorded solo and chamber music of Kodaly for the Bavarian Radio, performances that have been heard throughout Europe. In 2003, Miss Albers was named the first Gold Medal Laureate of South Korea’s Gyeongnam International Music Competition. In North America, Miss Albers has performed with many important orchestras and ensembles. Recent performances have included exciting debuts on the San Francisco Performances series and with the Grant Park Music Festival where she performed Penderecki’s Concerto Grosso for 3 cellos with Mr. Penderecki conducting. Past seasons have included concerto appearances with the Orchestras of Colorado, Indianapolis, San Diego, Seattle, Vancouver, and Munchener Kammerorchester among others.

In 2014, Miss Albers was named principal cellist of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. In addition to this appointment, she regularly participates in chamber music festivals around the world. 2009 marked the end of a three-year residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two. She is currently active with the Albers String Trio and the Cortona Trio. Teaching is also a very important part of Miss Albers’ musical life. She currently is Assistant Professor and holds the Mary Jean and

Charles Yates Cello Chair at the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

Miss Albers’ debut album with Orion Weiss includes works by Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Schumann, Massenet, and Piatagorsky and is available on the Artek Label. Julie Albers performs on a N.F. Vuillaume cello made in 1872 and makes her home in Minneapolis with her husband, Bourbon, and their dog, Dozer.

piano

Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott is a consummate artist who balances a versatile career as a soloist and collaborator. She performs over 100 concerts a year in a combination of solo recitals, concerti and chamber music. Her repertoire choices are eclectic, spanning from Bach and Haydn to Prokofiev and Scriabin to Kernis, Hartke, Tower and Wuorinen.

In the recent seasons, Ms, McDermott performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, Alabama Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players, and the New Century Chamber Orchestra.

Recital engagements have included the 92nd Street Y, Alice Tully Hall, Town Hall, The Schubert Club, Kennedy Center, as well as universities across the country. Ms. McDermott has curated and performed in a number of intense projects including: the Complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas and Chamber Music, a Three Concert Series of Shostakovich Chamber Music, as well as a recital series of Haydn and Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Most recently, she commissioned works of Charles Wuorinen and Clarice Assad which were premiered in May 2009 at Town Hall, in conjunction with Bach’s Goldberg Variations.

As a soloist, Ms. McDermott has recorded the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, Bach English Suites and Partitas (which was named Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice), and most recently, Gershwin Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra with the Dallas Symphony and Justin Brown. In addition to her many achievements, Anne-Marie McDermott has been named the Artistic Director of the famed Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado, which hosts the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony in addition to presenting over 40 chamber music concerts throughout the summer. She is also Artistic Director of two new Festivals; The Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival and The Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curacao.

Anne-Marie McDermott

As a chamber music performer, Anne-Marie McDermott was named an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in 1995 and performs and tours extensively with CMS each season. She continues a long standing collaboration with the highly acclaimed violinist, Nadja Salerno Sonnenberg. As a duo, they have released a CD titled Live on the NSS label and plan to release the Complete Brahms Violin and Piano Sonatas in the future. Ms. McDermott is also a member of the renowned piano quartet, Opus One, with colleagues Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom and Peter Wiley. She continues to perform each season with her sisters, Maureen McDermott and Kerry McDermott in the McDermott Trio. Ms. McDermott has also released an allSchumann CD with violist, Paul Neubauer, as well as the Complete Chamber Music of Debussy with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Ms. McDermott studied at the Manhattan School of Music with Dalmo Carra, Constance Keene and John Browning. She was a winner of the Young Concert Artists auditions and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Ms. McDermott regularly performs at Festivals across the United States including, Spoleto, Mainly Mozart, Sante Fe, La Jolla Summerfest, Mostly Mozart, Newport, Caramoor, Bravo, Chamber Music Northwest, Aspen, Music from Angelfire, and the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, among others.

FIRST VIOLINS

SECOND VIOLINS

HORNS

TIMPANI

PERCUSSION

TRUMPETS

TROMBONES

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

Byron Johns, Principal The Mr. & Mrs. William H. Van Every Chair Andrew Fierova Robert Rydel Richard Goldfaden Philip Brindise†

Alex Wilborn, Principal The Betty J. Livingstone Chair Jonathan Kaplan Gabriel Slesinger, Associate Principal The Marcus T. Hickman Chair

John Bartlett, Principal Thomas Burge

BASS TROMBONE Scott Hartman, Principal

TUBA Colin Benton, Principal The Governor James G. Martin Chair

Jacob Lipham, Principal The Robert Haywood Morrison Chair

Brice Burton, Principal HARP Andrea Mumm Trammell, Principal The Dr. Billy Graham Chair

roster lists the full-time members of the Charlotte Symphony. The number and seating of musicians onstage varies depending on the piece being performed.

Non-revolving position

Alternates between first and second violins

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Carrie Graham, Director of Artistic Planning

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ERICA CICCE

Oboe

hometown: Natick , MA

FUN FACTS

• I was the only American oboist invited to participate in the first oboe master class at the Académie Musicale de Villecroze, France with Alexei Ogrintchouk.

• I have a motorcycle and I go on father-daughter trips. Last year we did the Dragon Tail: 318 curves in 11 miles.

• I love to cook in my free time!

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Member of CSO since 2006

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PROGRAM NOTES

MIKHAIL GLINKA

born: June 1, 1804 in Novospasskoye, Russia

died: February 15, 1857 in Berlin, Germany

Overture to Ruslán and Lyudmíla (1842)

Mikhail Glinka is one of the great pioneers in the history of Russian music. After studying in St. Petersburg, Glinka traveled to Italy and Germany in the early 1830s. There, Glinka heard and studied the music of Beethoven, as well as the Italian bel canto opera composers Gaetano Donizetti and Vincenzo Bellini. Glinka himself wrote works based upon themes from popular Italian operas. But in his memoirs, Glinka recalled: All the pieces that I wrote to please the Milan composers…only served to convince me that I had followed a path foreign to my own instincts and frankly, that I could never be an Italian myself. Feelings of homesickness led me to gradually find my own Russian form of expression.

Glinka’s search for a Russian “form of expression” culminated in triumph on December 9, 1836, in St. Petersburg. There, Glinka’s opera A Life for the Tsar premiered at the Imperial Theater. A Life for the Tsar, based upon an incident in Russian history, and featuring Russian folk melodies, immediately won the hearts of the St. Petersburg audience. Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar is universally recognized as the first Russian national opera. Glinka’s second opera, Ruslán and Lyudmíla, premiered in St. Petersburg on December 9, 1842. Based upon a fantastic tale by Alexander Pushkin, Ruslán and Lyudmíla takes place in 9 th century Russia. Lyudmíla, daughter of the Grand Prince of Kiev, is about to marry the knight Ruslán. When monsters kidnap Lyudmíla, Ruslán sets out to rescue his beloved, with (after much adventure) happy results.

While complete performances of Ruslán and Lyudmíla are rare outside of Russia, the opera’s Overture has become a concert hall favorite. The brief and sparkling orchestral work, featuring melodies from the opera, sprints to a brilliant close.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

born: December 17, 1770 in Bonn, Germany died: March 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria

Concerto for Piano, Violin, Cello & Orchestra in C Major, Opus 56, “Triple” (1804)

composed: 1803-4

premiere: 1808 in Vienna, Austria

By the turn of the 18th century, Ludwig van Beethoven had established himself as one of Vienna’s most prominent musicians — a virtuoso pianist and composer of the first rank. Just as it seemed nothing could stand in the way of his continued rise to greatness, tragedy struck. In 1800, Beethoven, not yet thirty, began to realize that his hearing was deteriorating. The onset of deafness was only a matter of time. The irony was not lost on Beethoven; soon, he would be a composer unable to hear his own musical creations. On October 6, 1802, he wote the letter to his brothers known as the Heiligenstadt Testament, confessing that his hearing loss: ...almost made me despair, and I was on the point of putting an end to my life—The only thing that held me back was my art. For indeed it seemed to me impossible to leave this world before I had produced all the works I felt the urge to compose; and thus I have dragged on this miserable existence—a truly miserable existence. Beethoven responded to his adversity by composing at a furious pace. Masterpieces from the first decade of the 19th century include his Symphonies Nos. 2-6, the “Razumovsky” String Quartets, the “Waldstein” and “Appassionata” Piano Sonatas, and his only opera, Fidelio. The Triple Concerto belongs to that same fruitful period. Beethoven began composition of the Concerto in late 1803, completing the work in the summer of 1804. The Triple Concerto is scored for a trio of soloists (violin, cello and piano) and orchestra. Beethoven composed the Triple Concerto around the same time as his path-breaking “Eroica” Symphony. However, the Concerto’s three movements present a far more genial and lyrical side of Beethoven’s craft. The opening Allegro is the most expansive of the work’s three movements. A hushed Largo leads, without pause, into the finale (Rondo alla Polacca), based upon a polonaise, a sparkling Polish dance.

HECTOR BERLIOZ

born: December 11, 1803 in La Côte-Saint-André, France died: March 8, 1869 in Paris, France

Symphonie fantastique Opus 14

(1830)

premiere: December 5, 1830 in Paris

In September 1827, Hector Berlioz, then a 23-year-old student at the Paris Conservatory, attended productions by an English touring company of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet. In the performances, Harriet Smithson, a beautiful and young Irish actress, portrayed the tragic heroines Ophelia and Juliet. Berlioz immediately fell in love with her. Berlioz did everything within his power to try to get Smithson to take notice of him, but without success. In February of 1830, Berlioz wrote to his sister: “I am about to commence my grand symphony (Episode in the Life of An Artist), in which the development of my infernal passion will be depicted.” On April 16 of that same year, Berlioz announced that his Symphony was complete. The premiere of the Symphonie fantastique took place at the Paris Conservatory on December 5, 1830, with FrançoisAntoine Habeneck conducting the Orchestra of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. The drama, innovation, and sheer audacity of the young composer’s vision stunned the audience. By the time Harriet Smithson returned to Paris in 1832 and attended a performance of the “Fantastic Symphony,” it seemed the actress was the only person in the entire city who didn’t realize she was the inspiration for the music. When Smithson discovered the truth, she finally agreed to meet Berlioz. After a brief courtship, the two wed on October 3, 1833. Franz Liszt and Heinrich Heine served as witnesses. In the early 1840s, Smithson and Berlioz separated. Even after the acrimonious conclusion of their marriage, Berlioz acknowledged his artistic kinship with Harriet Smithson, and the profound influence she exercised upon his development as an artist. Toward the end of her life, Smithson suffered paralysis. After Harriet Smithson’s death in 1854, Liszt wrote to Berlioz: “She inspired you, you loved her and sang your love, her mission was fulfilled.”

The Irish actress Harriet Smithson (1800-1854), painted by English artist George Clint. Smithson was the inspiration for Berlioz’s Symphony fantastique and later, his wife.

Contemporary portraits of Harriet Smithson as Ophelia (left) and Juliet (right), during her 1827 performances with Charles Kemble’s English touring company at the Théâtre de l’Odéon in Paris.

Berlioz, a gifted and prolific writer himself, provided the following program notes for the 1845 published edition of his Symphonie fantastique

A young musician of morbidly sensitive temperament and lively imagination poisons himself with opium in an attack of lovesick despair. The dose of the narcotic, too weak to kill him, plunges him into a deep slumber accompanied by the strangest visions, during which his feelings, his emotions, his memories are transformed in his sick mind into musical images. The Beloved herself becomes for him a melody, a cyclical theme (idée fixe) that he encounters and hears everywhere.

(Note: The idée fixe is introduced approximately five minutes into the opening movement by the flute and first violins.)

I. Reveries — Passions

At first he recalls that sickness of the soul, those intimations of passion, the apparently groundless depression and intoxication he experienced before he met the woman he adores; then the volcanic love that she inspired in him, his delirious anguish, his furious jealousy, his return to tenderness, his religious consolation.

II. A Ball

He meets his beloved again in the midst of the tumult of a glittering fête.

III. Scene in the Country

On a summer evening in the country, he hears two shepherds piping back and forth a ranz des vaches (the traditional melody of Swiss shepherds for summoning their flocks); this pastoral duet, the peaceful landscape, the rustling of the trees gently rocked by the wind, some prospects of hope he recently found—all combine to soothe his heart with unusual tranquility and brighten his thoughts. But she reappears, he feels his heart tighten, he is smitten with sad foreboding: what if she were to prove false?…One of the shepherds resumes his simple tune; the other no longer responds. The sun sets…distant roll of thunder…solitude…silence.

PROGRAM NOTES

IV. March to the Scaffold

He dreams he has murdered his Beloved, that he has been condemned to death and is being led to the scaffold. The procession advances to the sound of a march that is now somber and agitated, now brilliant and solemn, in which the muffled sound of heavy steps is suddenly juxtaposed with the noisiest clamor. At the end, the idée fixe returns for a moment like a final thought of love, suddenly interrupted by the death blow.

V. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath

He imagines himself at a Witches’ Sabbath, among a hideous throng of ghouls, sorcerers and monsters of every kind, assembled for his funeral. Ominous sounds, groans, bursts of laughter, distant cries that other cries seem to answer. The Beloved’s melody reappears, but it has lost its noble and timid character; it has become a vulgar dance tune, unworthy, trite and grotesque: there she is, coming to join the Sabbath…A roar of joy greets her arrival… She takes part in the infernal orgy…The funeral knell, a burlesque parody of the Dies irae…the witches’ round… the dance and the Dies irae are heard together.

Portrait of a young Berlioz by Emile Signol, at the Académie de France, Villa Medici, where Berlioz spent some time as a Prix de Rome laureate during his trip to Italy in 1831-1832.

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Anonymous

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Sarah Goad

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Stuart Blackmon

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Sarah E. Schoedinger

Eileen Scholl

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Ginny Shaw

Carol Smith

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Larry Stratemeyer

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Melissa M. Tolin

Patti Tracey & Chris Hudson

Ms. Nancy Tretsch

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Minyan Wang

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Ms. Leslie Webster

Mr. Erik Weghorst

Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Wertheimer

Mrs. Carol Wilson

Allen & Clara Wolfe

Karen & Charles Wolff

GOVERNMENT

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Christopher Warren-Green, conductor Charlotte Master Chorale

Conductor Laureate Christopher Warren-Green returns to the Charlotte stage to lead his worldrenowned interpretation of Handel’s Messiah, featuring a quartet of soloists and Charlotte Master Chorale. Hallelujah!