2022 Cliburn Concerts Program Book

CLIBURN CONCERTS S P R I N G 2022

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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE

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2022 Spring Cliburn Concerts

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Welcome Message

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2022 Cliburn Competition

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Competitions Timeline

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Cliburn Concerts Underwriters

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Cliburn Education & Outreach

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Cliburn Digital Programs

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Yekwon Sunwoo - January 21 & 22

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Buddy Bray, host

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Education & Outreach Sponsors

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Junction Trio - February 11

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“Sweet Stillness” - February 24 & 25

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George Li - March 31 & April 1

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Jennifer Koh + Vijay Iyer - April 21

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Cliburn Endowment

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2019–2020 Cliburn Contributors

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2020–2021 Cliburn Contributors

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Tribute Fund

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CLIBURN CONCERTS SCHEDULE It’s time for a new season.

A season to be enlivened, once again, by great artists and artistry. A season to enjoy the array of invigorating music venues our hometown has to offer. A season to come together—never taking for granted the sense of community and inspiration that a live concert brings.

To our community, our friends, we say:

WELCOME BACK. CLIBURN CONCERTS SCHEDULE SPRING 2022

YEKWON SUNWOO 2017 cliburn gold medalist

Friday, January 21 - 8:00 p.m. the post at river east Saturday, January 22 - 2:00 p.m. modern art musuem of fort worth

JUNCTION TRIO

- piano i stefan jackiw - violin i jay campbell - cello Friday, February 11 - 8:00 p.m. tulips fort worth

conrad tao

“SWEET STILLNESS” - tenor i danbi um - violin i juho pohjonen - piano Thursday, February 24 - 7:30 p.m. kimbell art musuem Friday, February 25 - 8:00 p.m. the post at river east

karim sulayman

GEORGE LI piano

Thursday, March 31 - 7:30 p.m. kimbell art musuem Friday, April 1 - 8:00 p.m. the post at river east

JENNIFER KOH violin + VIJAY IYER piano & composer

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Thursday, April 21 - 7:30 p.m.

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Join us in celebrating an extraordinary year, as we look forward to our

June 27 – July 8, 2022

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MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH

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82 7/8 × 37 3/4 × 33 3/4 inches. Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, The Friends of Art Endowment Fund and Museum purchase. Photo by Kevin Todora. © Wangechi Mutu

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WELCOME TO CLIBURN CONCERTS Dear friends, To say 2022 is a meaningful year for the Cliburn is an understatement. First and foremost, after a historic one-year postponement (the first in our 60year history), we will host the sixteenth edition of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition— one of the preeminent classical music events in the world and the pride of Fort Worth—in June.

In March, 72 of the best pianists will come here from around the globe for their 25-minute chance to showcase their artistry and ability on the Cliburn stage in front of our Screening Jury—with the goal of securing one of only 30 spots to return in June as a competitor. Those performances are free and open to the public to attend at TCU’s PepsiCo Recital Hall.

Then the Competition begins June 2 at the brand-new Van Cliburn Concert Hall at TCU and concludes June 18 at Bass Performance Hall. You’ll want to be involved: buy tickets to attend now (they’re going fast!); contact our office for volunteer opportunities; watch the gorgeous and entertaining webcast. We have a lot of surprises in store in the lead up to and during the Competition, and we can’t wait to celebrate with you all. Stay tuned throughout the spring.

As the Cliburn turns 60 this year, we continue to innovate in order to engage as many people as we can with classical music—adapting to the times, while never sacrificing extremely high artistic integrity. We hope you’ve seen and continue to enjoy our multiple digital series that launched in 2020. But we (and you) know that there is no substitute for the live concert experience, and we’re so happy you’re joining us this season as we return to the traditions that we appreciate now more than ever, and as we also forge new ground to welcome new audiences.

We’re returning at last to the elegant Piano Pavilion auditorium of the Kimbell Art Museum with two full recitals; trying some new things with our longtime partner, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: a Q&A and concert format with our 2017 gold medalist to kick off the Competition countdown, and also a wonderful evening-time composer-driven event; using The Post at River East—the primary home for our recent Pop-Up Concerts—for three casual concerts (plus food and drink!); and hosting one special concert at one of Fort Worth’s newest club, Tulips.

Thank you all, and cheers to 2022!

Jacques Marquis President and CEO

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Jeffrey B. King Chairman of the Board

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SIXTEENTH VA N C L I B U R N I N T E R N AT I O N A L PIANO COMPE TITION JUNE 2 –18, 2022 28 CONCERTS. ENDLESS MEMORIES. VAN CLIBURN CONCERT HALL AT TCU BASS PERFORMANCE HALL

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FROM AROUND THE WORLD

MILLIONS WILL WATCH

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YOU ARE SPECIALLY INVITED

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2022–2023 COMPETITIONS SCHEDULE With the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition postponed from 2021 and 2020 respectively, the Cliburn will be doing something unpredecented: hosting all three of its international competitions in just 13 months’ time. This means that North Texas audiences will have the extraordinary opportunity to see the international best-of-thebest—from three different life stages—compete for a coveted Cliburn title, practically back to back.

JUNE 2–18, 2022 VAN CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

van cliburn concert hall at tcu & bass performance hall i marin alsop, jury chairman • Our flagship program celebrates its 60th Anniversary with this sixteenth edition • 388 pianists, age 18 to 31, from 51 countries applied; 72 will be selected to come to Fort Worth in March for Screening Auditions; just 30 will be chosen to return in June • Tickets for all 28 concerts and subscription packages are on sale now • Over four rounds of Competition, each finalist will play three recitals and three concertos, for more than four hours of repertoire per pianist; the live webcast is expected to exceed 10 million views • A host of free concerts and events complement the Competition, from symposia and educational events to a large-screen simulcast of the last two concerts and a Closing Party

OCTOBER 12–18, 2022 CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR PIANO COMPETITION

pepsico recital hall at tcu & bass performance hall i ralph votapek, jury chairman • “A celebration of music, and the people who have to make music, no matter what” (The Boston Globe ), the Amateur Competion is for non-professional pianists 35 and older • Created in 1999, it was the first of its kind in the United States and is widely considered a top achievement for exceptional amateur pianists around the globe • The 48 competitors and 24 festival participants selected represent 19 countries • Finalists perform on stage with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra at Bass Hall • The festival atmosphere provides participants with performance opportunities, symposia and other educational offerings, and vital feedback from jury members

JUNE 8–17, 2023 CLIBURN INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR PIANO COMPETITION & FESTIVAL

smu & meyerson symphony center i janina fialkowska, jury chairman

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• 2023 marks the third edition of our newest major program, which provides exceptional 13- to 17-year-old pianists with a platform for their talents and an entrance to the next steps of their artistic journeys • Considered one of the premier international competitions for young pianists, only 24 will be selected to compete and take part in the extensive festival opportunities as well • Finalists perform with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at Meyerson Symphony Center • The 2019 edition reached an audience of over 7,000 in-person and 650,000 watching online

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TAKE THE

LEAD ON PURSUING YOUR PASSION.

In TCU’s School of Music, we put our passion into practice. Our powerful academic and creative community challenges students to excel personally and musically to become the next generation of world-changing teachers, performers, scholars, composers and arts advocates.

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SPECIAL THANKS FOR CLIBURN CONCERTS

CLIBURN CONCERTS ENDOWMENT GIFTS Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bassd The Meadows Foundation Rosalyn G. Rosenthal Shirley G. Antond Electra Carlin Estate d

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CLIBURN UNDERWRITERS Ann L. & Carol Green Rhodes Charitable Trust Arts Fort Worth Carl B. and Florence E. King Foundation Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District Corporation Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Sewell Automotive Companies Sid W. Richardson Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts The Frill Foundation The Rea Charitable Trust The Ryan Foundation The Stayton at Museum Way Vantage Bank Texas William & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund William E. Scott Foundation PAGE

Commitments of $20,000 plus as of December 13, 2021.

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CLIBURN ANNUAL PROGRAMS

The Cliburn’s mission is to share excellent classical music with the largest audience possible, across cultural and economic boundaries. Through our host of annual programs, this vision hits home, reaching our local community in a meaningful way. In addition to our Cliburn Concerts series, the following initiatives inspire and educate North Texans of all ages throughout the year.

CLIBURN IN THE CLASSROOM The Cliburn designed Cliburn in the Classroom, its signature music education program, to introduce young audiences to classical music. Cliburn in the Classroom programs present the excitement of live piano performances to second-, third-, and fourth-grade students and reinforce the basic elements of music through fun, interactive activities within the context of classical piano repertoire. Cliburn in the Classroom is presented annually to more than 57,000 public elementary students across North Texas. The programs are offered at no cost to participating schools.

Pre-Covid Classroom Programs

CLIBURN IN THE COMMUNITY Cliburn in the Community provides the experience of live classical music performance for free to a broad audience through partnerships with vibrant venues and organizations throughout the Fort Worth area. The program brings in young, emerging artists for residences and also features top regionally based musicians.

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CLIBURN DIGITAL PROGAMS

DIGITAL PROGRAMS In 2020, the Cliburn launched a number of new digital offerings designed to bring its worldwide community together virtually, in a safe and joyful space for us all, no matter age, culture, or physical location.

CLIBURN MASTERPIECE Cliburn Masterpiece examines the who, what, when, where, and how of the greatest piano works. Cliburn laureates and other esteemed specialists join host Buddy Bray to lead us through the story of each piece—the composer, the background, the narrative, the characters, the technical difficulties, and more. Each episode ends with a standout, full performance of the piece from a past Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

CLIBURN.ORG/MASTERPIECE CLIBURN KIDS For our youngest Cliburn friends! Cliburn Kids is a collection of wonderfully entertaining 7- to 10-minute videos designed to introduce children to the fun of classical music. How does music paint pictures, tell stories, express feelings? Host Buddy Bray and guest artists use individual pieces to explore topics that delve into the way music is organized and structured, counting and rhythm, expressive elements, and sometimes just lighthearted enjoyment!

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A pianist who commands a comprehensive technical arsenal that allows him to thunder without breaking a sweat.

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– Chicago Tribune

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2017 Cliburn Gold Medalist

YEKWON SUNWOO Friday, January 21, 2022 I 8:00 p.m.

The Post at River East

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MOZART Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 BRAHMS Three Intermezzi, op. 117 Andante moderato Andante non troppo e con molto espressione Andante con moto CHOPIN Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, op. 60 DEBUSSY Estampes Pagodes La soirée dans Grenade Jardins sous la pluie DEBUSSY L’isle joyeuse Saturday, January 22, 2022 I 2:00 p.m.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth with Buddy Bray, host RESPIGHI Six Pieces for Piano Valse caressante Canone Notturno Minuetto Studio Intermezzo–Serenata STRAUSS Sonata in B Minor, op. 5 Allegro molto appassionato Adagio cantabile Scherzo. Presto Finale. Allegretto vivo SCHUBERT–LISZT Ständchen STRAUSS–REGER Morgen PAGE

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ABOUT YEKWON SUNWOO Gold medalist of the Fifteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (2017), Yekwon Sunwoo has been hailed for his “unfailingly consistent excellence” (International Piano) and celebrated as “a pianist who commands a comprehensive technical arsenal that allows him to thunder without breaking a sweat” (Chicago Tribune). A powerful and virtuosic performer, he also, in his own words, “strives to reach for the truth and pure beauty in music.”

The first Korean to win Cliburn Gold, Yekwon’s 2021–2022 season includes appearances with the Kaliningrad Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, and the Colorado Springs Philharmonic, as well as recitals in Great Barrington, Key West, Dallas, and Prescott, as well as his debut at Beethovenfest Bonn.

In previous seasons, he has performed as soloist with the Munich Philharmonic and Valery Gergiev, Royal Danish Orchestra with Thomas Søndergård, Fort Worth and Tucson Symphonies, Washington Chamber Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, National Orchestra of Belgium, Sendai Philharmonic, and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, amongst others. Recital appearances have included Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Salle Cortot, Hong Kong Arts Festival, and a tour of Japan.

An avid chamber musician, Yekwon’s collaborators include Benjamin Beilman, Linus Roth, Andrei Ioniță, Sebastian Bohren, Isang Enders, Tobias Feldmann, Gary Hoffman, Anne-Marie McDermott, and the Jerusalem and Brentano Quartets.

He has also toured Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama with the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation and performed at Chamber Music of Lincoln Center’s Inside Chamber Music Lectures.

In addition to the Cliburn gold medal, Yekwon won first prizes at the 2015 International German Piano Award, the 2014 Vendome Prize held at the Verbier Festival, the 2013 Sendai International Music Competition, and the 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competition.

Born in Anyang, South Korea, Yekwon began learning the piano at the age of 8, and made his recital and orchestral debuts in Seoul at 15. His teachers include Seymour Lipkin, Robert McDonald, Richard Goode, and Bernd Goetzke.

In 2017, Decca Gold released Cliburn Gold 2017 two weeks after Yekwon was awarded the gold medal; the recording includes his award-winning performances of Ravel’s La Valse and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Sonata. In 2020, Yekwon released his first studio album for Decca Universal Music Korea featuring an allMozart program.

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ABOUT BUDDY BRAY

BUDDY BRAY host Shields-Collins “Buddy” Bray has been artistic consultant for the Cliburn since 2003. Maintaining his longstanding commitment to new music, he serves as host and pianist for Cliburn at the Modern, bringing such living American composers as William Bolcom, John Corigliano, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel, Jake Heggie, Kevin Puts, Ned Rorem, and Ben Moore to Fort Worth. With music educator John Feierabend, Buddy created the Cliburn in the Classroom curriculum for second-, third-, and fourth-graders, and he continues to be deeply involved as writer, narrator, host, and sometimes-pianist at these uniquely interactive programs.

A skilled commentator and interviewer, Buddy will host the large-scale webcast of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in June 2022, as he did for the most recent Junior (2019) and Amateur (2016) Competitions. He also serves as host and artistic consultant for the Cliburn’s digital series, Cliburn Masterpiece and Cliburn Kids. See page 13 for more information on these series.

Buddy has been principal keyboardist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra since 1986, and has hosted the orchestra’s pre-concert discussion series Symphonic Insights since 1993. He has performed many times as soloist with orchestra, most recently in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, a work with which he has had a long association. He has also appeared as soloist with the Dallas and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, and in Miguel Harth-Bedoya’s “The Passion of the Tango” with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl.

Buddy was born in Mississippi and grew up in northeastern Louisiana. He studied there with Donald Cornell, and later with Steven De Groote at Arizona State University and TCU.

CLIBURN YOUTH ARTS EDUCATION & OUTREACH SPONSORS A special thank you those who supported our programming for young people: Alcon Foundation Arts Fort Worth BNSF Foundation Capital One, N.A. Communities Foundation of Texas Fash Foundation

Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation The DuBose Family Foundation The Graham and Carolyn Holloway Family Foundation Trust

Lowe Foundation R4 Foundation Scot and Melissa Hollmann Foundation Endowment of the Arkansas Community Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts

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Piano transportation supported by The Carolyn and Randall Hudson Cliburn in the Classroom Traveling Piano Endowment Fund.

Cliburn in the Community performances are presented by The Stayton at Museum Way.

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Watching the trio perform, one really couldn’t tell who was happier to be there — the rapt audience or the musicians, who threw themselves into repertoire they clearly love.... These three are onto something special.

– The Boston Globe

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JUNCTION TRIO Conrad Tao (piano) Stefan Jackiw (violin) Jay Campbell (cello)

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Tulips Fort Worth TAO Eventide BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in D Major, op. 70, no. 1 (“Ghost”) (II) ZORN Ghosts SCHUMANN Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, op. 63 Mit Energie und Leidenschaft Lebhaft, doch nicht zu rasch Langsam, mit inniger Empfindung Mit Feuer

Three visionary next-generation artists combine internationally recognized talents in the eclectic new ensemble, Junction Trio. The Trio has performed at Washington Performing Arts, Portland Ovations, Rockport Music, Chautauqua Institution, Royal Conservatory in Toronto, and the Aspen Music Festival. This season, the Junction Trio gives performances in Rockport, Moab, New Orleans, Key West, Eugene, Shriver Hall in Baltimore, at Duke Performances, and Cliburn Concerts in Fort Worth.

Junction Trio was selected by New York’s classical music radio station, WQXR, to be part of its inaugural Artist Propulsion Lab, which allowed them to engage collaborators and commission works. The opportunity also allows them to take advantage of WQXR’s various outlets to reach audiences via Greene Space performances, on-air curation opportunities, and more.

In the 2020–2021 season, live and virtual performances were presented by Caramoor, Harvard Musical Association, Corpus Christi, Cleveland, and Philadelphia Chamber Music Societies, Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music, and Emory University. Highlights of the 2019–2020 season included debuts at the Orange County Philharmonic Society and BIG ARTS Sanibel.

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ABOUT JUNCTION TRIO

CONRAD TAO piano A musician of “probing intellect and open-hearted vision” (The New York Times), Conrad Tao has appeared worldwide as a pianist and composer. Named “one of five classical music faces to watch” (The New York Times) last season, Tao is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Gilmore Young Artist—an honor awarded every two years to the most promising American pianists of the new generation.

In the 2019–2020 season, Tao made his recital debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Hall, and was presented in recital by Carnegie Hall and by the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall. Tao’s debut disc, Voyages, was declared a “spiky debut” by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross, and his second album, Pictures, was hailed by The New York Times as “a fascinatingalbum [by] a thoughtful artist and dynamic performer…played with enormous imagination, color and command.” Tao’s third album, Compassion, was released in fall of 2019.

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Tao was born in Urbana, IL, in 1994. He has studied piano with Emilio del Rosario in Chicago and Yoheved Kaplinsky in New York, and composition with Christopher Theofanidis.

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ABOUT JUNCTION TRIO

STEFAN JACKIW violin One of America’s foremost violinists, Stefan Jackiw captivates audiences by combining poetry and purity with impeccable technique. Praised for playing of “uncommon musical substance” that is “striking for its intelligence and sensitivity” (The Boston Globe), Jackiw has appeared as soloist with the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras.

Recent orchestral highlights include the Bournemouth Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, and the RTÉ National Symphony in Dublin. Past recital highlights include performances of the complete Ives violin sonatas with Jeremy Denk at Tanglewood and Boston’s Jordan Hall, and performances of the complete Brahms violin sonatas, which Jackiw has recorded for Sony. With the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie under Matthias Pintscher, Jackiw gave the world premiere of American composer David Fulmer’s Violin Concerto No. 2, “Jubilant Arcs,” commissioned for Jackiw by the Heidelberg Festival.

Born to physicist parents of Korean and German descent, Jackiw began playing the violin at the age of 4. His teachers have included Zinaida Gilels, Michèle Auclair, and Donald Weilerstein. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory, and he lives in New York City.

JAY CAMBELL cello Cellist Jay Campbell brings his eclectic creative interests to bear in performances that The New York Times calls “electrifying” and The Washington Post calls “gentle, poignant, and deeply moving.” The only musician ever to receive two Avery Fisher Career Grants—in 2016 as a soloist, and again in 2019 as a member of the JACK Quartet—he approaches old and new music with the same curiosity and commitment.

Campbell made his debut with the New York Philharmonic in 2013 and worked with Alan Gilbert in 2016 as Artistic Director for Ligeti Forward, a series featured at the New York Philharmonic Biennale at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2017, Campbell served as Artist-in-Residence at the Lucerne Festival alongside violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, with whom he later appeared in recital at New York’s Park Avenue Armory and the Ojai Music Festival. Campbell made his Berlin debut in 2018 at the Berlin Philharmonie with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

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Dedicated to introducing audiences to important contemporary music, Campbell has worked with some of the most creative musicians of our time, including Pierre Boulez, Elliott Carter, Matthias Pintscher, John Adams, Kaija Saariaho, Chaya Czernowin, Georg Friedrich Haas, and many others. His close association with John Zorn led to the 2015 release of Hen to Pan (Tzadik), which featured all works written for Campbell, and was listed in The New York Times year-end Best Recordings of 2015. A committed chamber musician, Campbell is a member of the JACK Quartet as well as of the Junction Trio.

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SWEET STILLNESS

Karim Sulayman (tenor) Danbi Um (violin) Juho Pohjonen (piano)

Thursday, February 24, 2022 I 7:30 p.m.

Kimbell Art Museum HANDEL “Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle,” HWV 205 RAMEAU Selection from Suite in A Minor, RCT 5 RAVEL Tzigane MASSENET Élégie VAUGHAN WILLIAMS “Silent Noon” from The House of Life “How Cold the Wind Doth Blow” intermission SCHUBERT “Ständchen” from Schwanengesang, D. 957 Im Abendrot, D. 799 Die Forelle, D. 550 An den Mond, D. 193 An die Laute, D. 905 KREISLER Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta STRAUSS “Morgen!” op. 27, no. 4 American Songbook HARBURG I DUKE “April in Paris” PORTER “I Love Paris” PIAF | LOUIGUY “La Vie en rose”

Friday, February 25, 2022 I 8:00 p.m.

The Post at River East Selections to be announced from the stage.

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ABOUT KARIM SULAYMAN

KARIM SULAYMAN tenor Lebanese-American tenor Karim Sulayman has garnered international attention as a sophisticated and versatile artist, consistently praised for his sensitive and intelligent musicianship, riveting stage presence, and beautiful voice. The 2019 Best Classical Solo Vocal GRAMMY® Award winner, he continues to earn acclaim for his programming and recording projects, while regularly performing on the world’s stages in opera, orchestral concerts, recital, and chamber music.

Current and recent season highlights include engagements at Carnegie Hall, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and the Ravinia Festival, as well as with the Chicago, Pittsburgh, and National symphony orchestras, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, and performing leading roles with Drottningholms Slottsteater, Houston Grand Opera, Florentine Opera, New York City Opera, and Boston Lyric Opera. Future engagements include the world premiere of David T. Little’s monodrama, What Belongs to You, written for Karim, and Alarm Will Sound, based on Garth Greenwell’s acclaimed novel.

Karim won the 2019 GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album for his debut solo album, Songs of Orpheus. His second solo album, Where Only Stars Can Hear Us, a program of Schubert Lieder with fortepianist Yi-heng Yang, debuted at #1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart and has received international critical acclaim, including being named “Critic’s Choice” by Opera News.

Karim has been featured on PBS Great Performances, and he appears on the second season of Dickinson on Apple TV+. In November 2016, Karim created a social experiment/performance art piece called I Trust You, designed to build bridges in a divided political climate. A video version of this experiment went “viral” on the internet and was honored as a prizewinner at the My Hero Film Festival. Karim has been invited to give talks and hold open forums with student and adult groups about inclusion, empathy, healing from racism, and activism through the arts.

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ABOUT DANBI UM

DANBI UM violin Praised by The Strad as an “utterly dazzling” artist, violinist Danbi Um captivates audiences with her virtuosity, individual sound, and interpretive sensitivity. She is a Menuhin International Violin Competition silver medalist, winner of the 2018 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and a recent top prizewinner of the Naumburg International Violin Competition.

Danbi made her concerto debut in 2014 with the Music Academy of the West’s Festival Orchestra, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein. She has since performed with the Israel Symphony, Auckland Philharmonic, and Vermont Symphony.

In 2018, she made her New York recital debut at Lincoln Center, presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and has since appeared in recital and chamber music performances in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Harris Theatre in Chicago, Wigmore Hall in London, and at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Um is an artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Festival appearances have included those at Marlboro, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Moab, Seattle, Caramoor, and Music@Menlo, and chamber music collaborators have included Anthony Marwood, Vadim Gluzman, Pamela Frank, Cho-Liang Lin, David Finckel, David Shifrin, Wu Han, and Gilbert Kalish.

Recent and upcoming highlights include solo appearances with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, a national tour with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, duo programs with guitarist Jiji, and performances at premiere national series including the Cliburn, Wolf Trap, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Concerts.

Born in 1990 in Seoul, South Korea, Danbi began violin lessons at age 3. She moved to the United States in 2000 to study at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she earned a bachelor’s degree. She also holds an Artist Diploma from Indiana University.

Her teachers have included Shmuel Ashkenasi, Joseph Silverstein, Jaime Laredo, and Hagai Shaham. She is a winner of Astral Artists’ National Auditions. She plays a 1683 “ex-Petschek” Nicolo Amati violin, on loan from a private collection.

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ABOUT JUHO POHJONEN

JUHO POHJONEN piano Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen is regarded as one of today’s most exciting and unique instrumentalists. He performs widely in Europe, Asia, and North America, collaborating with symphony orchestras and playing in recital and chamber settings.

This season, he performs Daniel Bjarnason’s concerto Processions with the Helsinki Philharmonic with the composer at the podium. Additional highlights include performances with the Colorado Symphony and Minnesota Orchestras, appearances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center—with whom he has a long-standing relationship, chamber projects for Parlance Chamber Concerts and Cliburn Concerts, and recitals in Helsinki and at the Vancouver Recital Society.

Juho’s illustrious resume of performances reveals a musician in demand internationally. He has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Finnish Radio Symphony & Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras, and with the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York, among others. He has collaborated with today’s foremost conductors, including Marin Alsop, Marek Janowski, Fabien Gabel, Kirill Karabits, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Pinchas Zukerman.

Notable recitals have included Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and Wigmore Hall, and in Antwerp, Hamburg, St. Petersburg, and Warsaw.

His most recent recording with cellist Inbal Segev features cello sonatas by Chopin and Grieg, and Schumann’s Fantasiestücke. His previous recordings include Plateaux on Dacapo Records and Maps and Legends on the Music@Menlo Live series. He is a member of the Sibelius Trio, which released a recording on Yarlung Records in honor of Finland’s 1917 centennial of independence. Juho launched MyPianist in 2019, an AI-based iOS app that provides interactive piano accompaniment to musicians everywhere. Designed and programmed by the pianist himself, the app acts as a “virtual pianist” for musicians looking to hone their skills or new materials.

Juho was selected by Sir Andras Schiff as the winner of the 2009 Klavier Festival Ruhr Scholarship, and has won other prizes at international and Finnish competitions.

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SWEET STILLNESS PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS How rare it is to experience a concert where pianist, singer, and violinist join together in glorious partnership! On this program, Karim Sulayman, tenor, Danbi Um, violin, and Juho Pohjonen, piano, will traverse a broad expanse of musical time, expressing separately and together every emotion of the human heart.

Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle, HWV 205 George Friedrich Handel (1685–1759) George Friedrich Handel composed nine arias between 1724 and 1726, on poems by an admired colleague, Barthold Heinrich Brockes. These arias reflect the fascination in the High Baroque with the interplay of poetry and music. Brockes’ fame today comes primarily from a text known as the Brockes Passion, a meditation on Christ’s Crucifixion that Handel set to music magnificently in 1712.

Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle, expresses a reverential sensitivity to nature characteristic of the budding Enlightenment. Framed in standard “song form” (opening section, contrasting section, return to opening section), the song beautifully interweaves the vocal line, violin embellishment, and keyboard accompaniment.

Selection from Suite in A Minor, RCT 5 Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) Moving from Handel to the French master Jean-Philippe Rameau, we dip into the refined style of the French Baroque. Here is music fit for the ear of a king, although Rameau’s actual career developed outside the Bourbon court. Rameau’s compositions include a long list of operas and ballets, but his four books of keyboard music compiled across many years command our respect too. A master of the clavecin (French term for harpsichord), Rameau enjoyed using figurations that suggest the arpeggiated textures of the lute. For his lyrical lines, Rameau used embellishments to ennoble rather than decorate.

The French approach to instrumental dance suites is highly flexible. The popular core dances (Allemande, Courante, Saraband, Gigue) usually appear, amplified by the Menuet, Rigaudon, Rondeau, and Musette, as well as other pieces. Many of Rameau’s movements received expressive, even frivolous titles like La Joyeuse or Les Tourbillons (Whirlwinds).

In this suite, Rameau explored the challenges of the harpsichord, including techniques that give the impression of using three hands at the keyboard. The suite concludes with a style of theme and multiple variations known as the “double.”

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SWEET STILLNESS PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS Tzigane Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) French artistic fascination with the “exotic” is well documented in iconic examples like Gauguin’s glorious paintings done in Tahiti and Bizet’s quintessential Spanish opera Carmen. Maurice Ravel also embraced Spanish themes (Bolero, Rhapsodie espagnole). He also was drawn to the culture of the Roma (gypsies, tzigane) whose origins and fate are complex and impactful, even today. The Roma people long caught the ear and eye of European painters, poets, and composers; thus, Ravel’s desire to replicate the color of gypsy music surprised no one. How he framed the work, though, did.

The piece opens with an extensive, mesmerizing passage for solo violin. When the piano finally enters, its timbre surprises the listener’s ear. Initially the piano and violin parts intertwine delicately. Then, the two forces pull apart, only to embrace again, first delighting in sheer melody and then launching into a furious dance.

Tzigane often is heard in a later version for violin and orchestra, but Ravel conceived it for violin and piano. He dedicated the composition to Jelly d’Arányi, great-niece of the celebrated violinist Joseph Joachim (which reminds us that Ravel’s music, however neoclassical, is rooted in Romanticism’s outpouring of emotions). It has become a standard showpiece for the violin and represents well the versatility of its composer who, while unrivaled in his compositional clarity, nonetheless stood ready to burst forth with passion. Élégie Jules Massenet (1842–1912) Jules Massenet is remembered chiefly for two operas: Manon and Werther. Of his chamber pieces, audiences are likely to be presented his ravishing Méditation for violin, based on a melody from his opera Thaïs.

Here, though, we find another work of great beauty. Élégie (1872) sets a poem by Louis Gallet, a prolific writer favored by Massenet, Saint-Saëns, and Bizet. Although brief, the poem poignantly contrasts Spring’s freshness with the loss of lover’s hope. Marked lento espressivo, Massenet’s melody pulls at our heartstrings. Heard in many different arrangements, the Élégie became a favorite of early recording superstars like Caruso and Gigli.

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SWEET STILLNESS PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS “Silent Noon” from The House of Life “How Cold the Wind Doth Blow” Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) In 1903, Ralph Vaughan Williams published a cycle of six songs under the title The House of Life, setting poems by Daniel Rossetti. Rossetti, brother of the poetess Christine Rossetti (known for In the Bleak Midwinter), and his brother William became seminal figures in the mid 19th-century group of artists known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Their distinct style of poetry and painting (inspired

by Flemish and Italian Renaissance art) brought renewed focus to the forms and Classical allusions that shaped our Western art tradition.

A half century later, Vaughn Williams’ music exhibited many of the same qualities as the Pre-Raphaelites. He was a prolific songwriter, although his most popular work is the crystalline tone poem The Lark Ascending. Songs, though, allowed Vaughan Williams to create intense portraits that could be linked into cycles with engaging, even piercing, narratives (On Wenlock Edge).

“Silent Noon,” the second song of the cycle, has taken on a life of its own due to its rivetingly beautiful melody expressing the first words, “Your hand lies open in the long, fresh grass.” Images from Rossetti’s poem build gently as the composer draws us into the “inarticulate hour when twofold silence was the hour of love.”

“How Cold the Wind Doth Blow” shows us another side of Vaughan Williams’ artistry. Extracted from a 1912 publication called Folk Songs from Sussex, this song gently embellishes a folk tune with a violin countermelody, a popular way of arranging traditional tunes for concert settings. Vaughan Williams’ keen interest in folk music was shared by others of his generation like Bartók and Kodály.

With an activist spirit, they strove bravely to gather, analyze, and protect the precious heritage of folk music threatened by modern technology and patterns of immigration from the villages to the cities.

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SWEET STILLNESS PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS “Ständchen” from Schwanengesang, D. 957 Im Abendrot, D. 799 Die Forelle, D. 550 An den Mond, D. 193 An die Laute, D. 905 Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Franz Schubert, arguably the greatest composer of German art song (Lieder), produced an astonishing number of songs in his short life (in excess of 500).

Songs have always mattered to composers, but around 1800, a confluence of fine poets and excellent composers caused an explosion of song across Europe, with German-speaking lands at the epicenter.

Ständchen is the fourth song from a cycle of 14 poems called Schwanengesang (Swan Song) written by Schubert in the last year of his life. Ständchen (text by Louis Rellstab) portrays a lover urging his sweetheart not to fear, but to come to him. Its melody is so beguiling that Franz Liszt later created a transcription of the song for solo piano.

Im Abendrot (In Evening Red), composed in 1825, is one of c. 50 devotional songs

by Schubert. It uses a short poem by Karl Lappe wherein the light of the setting sun reveals the trustworthy nature of the Creator and Creation. The simple, hymnlike texture veils the vocal prowess needed by a singer to deliver this beautiful song.

Die Forelle (The Trout) is an early song (1817) and sets a narrative poem by Christian Schubart wherein an onlooker observes a dishonest fisherman stirring the bed of a brook to disable a beautiful trout that otherwise outwitted him. The enthusiastic reception of this song led Schubert to use its melody in his Piano Quintet which goes by the name “Die Forelle.”

An den Monde (To the Moon, 1815) is the first of two songs Schubert wrote with this title. Set to a poem by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty, a mourning lover beseeches the moon to shine a light on the places his beloved used to sit and listen to the brook. The undulating accompaniment, reminiscent of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata,” sets a melancholic mood for the yearning melody.

Finally, An die Laute (To a Lute, 1827) employs a short poem by Johann Rochlitz wherein a lute helps convey through the breeze a young man’s secret love. The accompaniment unsurprisingly imitates the arpeggiation of the lute’s harmonies.

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SWEET STILLNESS PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS remains popular due to his instinctive understanding of the violin’s beauty and prowess. Easily able to compose music driven by technical gymnastics, he had a greater love for the compelling possibilities of Viennese dance rhythms, especially the ubiquitous waltz.

Kreisler’s musical pedigree was impeccable: a true Wunderkind, he survived that complicated stage of life and developed successfully as a mature artist. He was driven, though, from his beloved homeland in the years leading up to the Second World War and ultimately ended up in the United States.

The Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta was a late work (1948) and accordingly conveys through lovely melodies and ebullient rhythms his nostalgia for Old Vienna as it was before the ravages of two world wars. Virtuosity plays a big role in the piece, too, beginning with its rhapsodic opening and the predominance of double-stops. But virtuosity never overshadows the piece as the composer knits its sumptuous melodies in waltz rhythm into a mosaic of loveliness.

“Morgen!” op. 27, no. 4 Richard Strauss (1864–1949) Bearing a name often confused with the father-son masters of the waltz (Johann Strauss Sr. and Jr.), Richard Strauss created an astonishing musical legacy over a long and fruitful career. Even the effect of this single song, “Morgen!,” the last of four songs composed in 1894 as a wedding gift for his wife Pauline, causes us to hold our breath and ask: “Could anything more gorgeous be composed?”

Morgen sets a text by Strauss’ Scottish contemporary John Henry Mackay (1864– 1933) who was raised in Germany and thus mastered the German language.

Written initially for voice and piano, the song gained its distinctive counterpart for solo violin when Strauss transformed it into an orchestral work. In a very real sense, the shimmering lines of the violin convey the poem as vividly as the words intoned by the singer.

The composer’s own love of “Morgen!” is evidenced by how often he played it, especially to accompany a favorite soprano, Elizabeth Schumann. In a 1951 article in Etude magazine, Schumann explained the mutual interpretation the two forged by stating that the words “must follow each other, evenly, just as identical pearls follow each other in a necklace.”

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The song begins with a ravishing solo for the violin that creates a partnership with the singer’s melody. The vocal line enters ever so gently, steadily, almost imperceptibly developing into a melody so soaring and beautiful it cannot be described. The text bespeaks a love filled with an intense hope that transcends earthly conditions. “Morgen!” has become a signature song for many vocalists and stands as a crown jewel in the vocal repertoire.

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April in Paris Music by Vernon Duke (1903–1969). Lyrics by Yip Harburg (1896–1981).

The introspective song April in Paris, while about Paris, has its roots in New York, and represents the stellar collaboration between composer Vernon Duke and lyricist Yip Harburg, remembered for all the songs in The Wizard of Oz. Duke (known as Vladimir Dukelsky before passing through Ellis Island) had his formal training in tsarist Russia, but he fled in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution and ultimately landed in New York in 1922. There, he joined the community of stellar émigrés who were changing America’s artistic landscape.

Duke’s other top hits include Taking a Chance on Love and Autumn in New York.

April in Paris has been given iconic interpretations by artists like Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah Vaughan. As with any classic song, April in Paris can be rendered in many styles and invites each performer to paint Harburg’s visually rich poem and Duke’s haunting melody afresh.

I Love Paris Cole Porter (1891–1964) Cole Porter mastered both word and music in his prolific career as a songwriter—a talent rare in the realm of songwriting. Born in Indiana, Porter applied his classical training to musical theater. Seeking adventure and bigger success, he moved to Paris in 1917 and maintained a luxury apartment there, surrounded by exceptional artists who were reshaping styles in music, painting, dance, and fashion.

I Love Paris was written, however, not during his Parisian years, but later in his career after strings of hit songs for musicals in New York and films for Hollywood.

It remains one of Porter’s most beloved songs.

La Vie en rose Music by Louiguy (1916–1991). Lyrics by Édith Piaf (1915–1963).

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The program ends with one of the most poignant songs ever written: La Vie en rose.

The music was written by Louiguy, the pen name of composer Louis Guglielmi. The song, though, is associated far more with its original performer and the author of its lyrics, Édith Piaf. Piaf was a prolific songwriter and strong manager of her own career. Her personal life was filled with difficulties and illness. Still, Piaf’s haunting voice, her diminutive stature and passionate expressions, and her poignant story shape interpretations of this song to our own day. Her spirit stands before us whenever we hear La Vie en rose.

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SWEET STILLNESS TEXT & TRANSLATIONS

Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle Text by Barthold Henrich Brockes Music by Georg Friedrich Handel

Sweet silence, soft springs Translation by Hayden Muhl

Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle Ruhiger Gelassenheit!

Selbst die Seele wird erfreut, [Da, in deiner Süßigkeit, Ich mir hier nach dieser Zeit Voll mühsel’ger Eitelkeit], Jene Ruh vor Augen stelle, Die uns ewig ist bereit.

Sweet silence, soft springs Peaceful calm!

The soul itself will be gladdened, When I, after this time Of laborious futility, this peace I will see that awaits us in eternity.

Élégie Text by Louis Gallet Music by Jules Massenet

Elegy Translation by Richard Stokes

Ô doux printemps d’autrefois, vertes saisons, vous avez fui pour toujours!

Je ne vois plus le ciel bleu; Je n’entends plus les chants joyeux des oiseaux!

O sweet Spring of yesteryear, green seasons, you have fled forever!

I no longer see the blue sky, I no longer hear the joyous songs of the birds!

En emportant mon bonheur, Ô bien-amé, tu t’en es allé!

Et c’est en vain que revient le printemps!

You have fled, my love, and with you has fled my happiness.

And it is in vain that the spring returns!

Oui! Sans retour, avec toi, le gai soleil, Les jours riants sont partis!

Comme en mon coeur tout est sombre et glacé, tout est flétri pour toujours!

For along with you, The cheerful sun, the laughing days have gone!

As my heart is dark and frozen, so all is withered for evermore!

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SWEET STILLNESS TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS Silent Noon Text by Dante Gabriel Rossetti Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms ‘Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass.

All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge.

‘Tis visible silence, still as the hour glass.

Deep in the sunsearched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above.

Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.

How cold the wind doth blow Traditional text Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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How cold the wind doth blow Dear love How heavy fall the drops Of rain I never had but one true love And in the Greenwoods He was slain I’ll do as much for my true love As ever in my path of flames I will seek and mourn Upon his grave Dear love For twelve month and a day When these twelve was gone And passed The ghost began to speak And then asked:

“Why sit you here All on my grave?

Sweetheart, and will you not Let me sleep?”

What is it you want of me Sweetheart One kiss, one kiss From your snowy white lips Is all I crave from you Dear love My lips they are so cold as clay My breath smells heavy And strong If you were to kiss My snowy white lips Sweetheart Your time would not be long.

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SWEET STILLNESS TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS Serenade Translation by Richard Wigmore

Leise flehen meine Lieder Durch die Nacht zu Dir; In den stillen Hain hernieder, Liebchen, komm’ zu mir!

Flüsternd schlanke Wipfel rauschen In des Mondes Licht; Des Verräters feindlich Lauschen Fürchte, Holde, nicht.

Hörst die Nachtigallen schlagen?

Ach! sie flehen Dich, Mit der Töne süssen Klagen Flehen sie für mich.

Sie verstehn des Busens Sehnen, Kennen Liebesschmerz, Rühren mit den Silbertönen Jedes weiche Herz.

Lass auch Dir die Brust bewegen, Liebchen, höre mich!

Bebend harr’ ich Dir entgegen!

Komm’, beglücke mich!

Softly my songs plead through the night to you; down into the silent grove, beloved, come to me!

Slender treetops whisper and rustle in the moonlight; my darling, do not fear that the hostile betrayer will overhear us.

Do you not hear the nightingales call?

Ah, they are imploring you; with their sweet, plaintive songs they are imploring for me.

They understand the heart’s yearning, they know the pain of love; with their silvery notes they touch every tender heart.

Let your heart, too, be moved, beloved, hear me!

Trembling, I await you!

Come, make me happy!

Die Forelle Text by Christian Schubart Music by Franz Schubert

The trout Translation by Richard Wigmore

In einem Bächlein helle, Da schoß in froher Eil’ Die launische Forelle Vorüber wie ein Pfeil.

Ich stand an dem Gestade Und sah in süßer Ruh Des muntern Fischleins Bade Im klaren Bächlein zu.

Ein Fischer mit der Rute Wohl an dem Ufer stand, Und sah’s mit kaltem Blute,

In a limpid brook the capricious trout in joyous haste darted by like an arrow.

I stood on the bank in blissful peace, watching the lively fish swim in the clear brook.

An angler with his rod stood on the bank cold-bloodedly watching

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SWEET STILLNESS TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS Wie sich das Fischlein wand.

So lang dem Wasser Helle, So dacht ich, nicht gebricht, So fängt er die Forelle Mit seiner Angel nicht.

Doch endlich ward dem Diebe Die Zeit zu lang. Er macht Das Bächlein tückisch trübe, Und eh ich es gedacht, So zuckte seine Rute, Das Fischlein zappelt dran, Und ich mit regem Blute Sah die Betrogene an.

the fish’s contortions.

As long as the water is clear, I thought, he won’t catch the trout with his rod.

But at length the thief grew impatient. Cunningly he made the brook cloudy, and in an instant his rod quivered, and the fish struggled on it.

And I, my blood boiling, looked on at the cheated creature.

An den Mond Text by Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty Music by Franz Schubert

To the Moon Translation by Richard Wigmore

Geuss, lieber Mond, geuss deine Silberflimmer Durch dieses Buchengrün, Wo Phantasien und Traumgestalten Immer vor mir vorüberfliehn.

Enthülle dich, dass ich die Stätte finde, Wo oft mein Mädchen sass, Und oft, im Wehn des Buchbaums und der Linde, Der goldnen Stadt vergass.

Enthülle dich, dass ich des Strauchs mich freue, Der Kühlung ihr gerauscht, Und einen Kranz auf jeden Anger streue, Wo sie den Bach belauscht.

Dann, lieber Mond, dann nimm den Schleier wieder, Und traur um deinen Freund, Und weine durch den Wolkenflor hernieder, Wie dein Verlassner weint!

Beloved moon, shed your silver radiance through these green beeches, where fancies and dreamlike images forever flit before me.

Unveil yourself, that I may find the spot where my beloved sat, where often, in the swaying branches of the beech and lime, she forgot the gilded town.

Unveil yourself, that I may delight in the whispering bushes that cooled her, and lay a wreath on that meadow where she listened to the brook.

Then, beloved moon, take your veil once more, and mourn for your friend.

Weep down through the hazy clouds, as the one you have forsaken weeps.

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SWEET STILLNESS TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS An die Laute Text by Johann Rochlitz Music by Franz Schubert

To the Lute Translation by Richard Wigmore

Leiser, leiser, kleine Laute, Flüstre, was ich dir vertraute, Dort zu jenem Fenster hin!

Wie die Wellen sanfter Lüfte Mondenglanz und Blumen düfte, Send es der Gebieterin!

Neidisch sind der Nachbars Söhne, Und im Fenster jener Schöne Flimmert noch ein einsam Licht.

Drum noch leiser, kleine Laute: Dich vernehme die Vertraute, Nachbarn aber, Nachbarn nicht!

Play more softly, little lute, whisper what I secretly told you to that window there!

Like the ripple of gentle breezes, like moonlight and the scent of flowers, convey your secret to my mistress.

The neighbour’s sons are envious, and at the fair lady’s window a solitary lamp flickers.

So play still more softly, little lute: that my beloved may hear you, but the neighbours – no, not the neighbours!

Morgen!

Text by John Henry Mackay Music by Richard Strauss

Tomorrow!

Translation by Richard Stokes

Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen Und auf dem Wege, den ich gehen werde, Wird uns, die Glücklichen, sie wieder einen Inmitten dieser sonnenatmenden Erde ...

Und zu dem Strand, dem weiten, wogenblauen, Werden wir still und langsam niedersteigen, Stumm werden wir uns in die Augen schauen, Und auf uns sinkt des Glückes stummes Schweigen ...

And tomorrow the sun will shine again And on the path that I shall take, It will unite us, happy ones, again, Amid this same sun-breathing earth ...

And to the shore, broad, blue-waved, We shall quietly and slowly descend, Speechless we shall gaze into each other’s eyes, And the speechless silence of bliss shall fall on us ...

Translations ©Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder, published by Faber, provided courtesty of Oxford Lieder (www.oxfordlieder.co.uk)

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SWEET STILLNESS TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS April in Paris Lyrics by Yip Harburg Music by Vernon Duke April’s in the air But here in Paris April wears a different gown You can see her waltzing down The street The tang of wine is in the air I’m drunk with all the happiness That spring can give Never dreamed it could be So exciting to live Till April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom Holiday tables under the trees April in Paris, this is a feeling That no one can ever reprise I never knew the charm of spring I never met it face to face I never knew my heart could sing I never missed a warm embrace

I Love Paris Lyrics and music by Cole Porter Every time I look down on this timeless town Whether blue or gray be her skies Whether loud be her cheers, or whether soft be her tears More and more do I realize that...

I love Paris in the spring time I love Paris in the fall I love Paris in the summer when it sizzles I love Paris in the winter when it drizzles I love Paris every moment Every moment of the year I love Paris, why oh why do I love Paris Because my love is here

Till April in Paris Whom can I run to?

What have you done to my heart?

La vie en rose Lyrics by Edith Piaf. Music by Louiguy.

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Des yeux qui font baisser les miens Un rire qui se perd sur sa bouche Voila le portrait sans retouches De l’homme auquel j’appartiens

A gaze that make me lower my own A laugh that is lost on his lips That is the un-retouched portrait Of the man to whom I belong

Quand il me prend dans ses bras Il me parle l’a tout bas Je vois la vie en rose

When he takes me into his arms He speaks to me softly And I see life through rose-colored glasses

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SWEET STILLNESS TEXTS & TRANSLATIONS Il me dit des mots d’amour Des mots de tous les jours Et ça m’ fait quelque chose

He speaks words of love to me They are every day words and they do something to me

Il est entré dans mon coeur Une part de bonheur Dont je connais la cause

He has entered into my heart A bit of happiness That I know the cause of

C’est lui pour moi Moi pour lui dans la vie Il me l’a dit, l’a jure pour la vie

It’s only him for me And me for him, for life He told me, he swore to me, for life

Et, dès que je l’aperçois Alors je sens en moi Mon coeur qui bat

As soon as I notice him I feel inside me My heart beating

Des nuits d’amour à plus en finir Un grand bonheur qui prend sa place Les ennuis, les chagrins, s’effacent Heureux, heureux à mourir

Endless nights of love Bring great happiness The pain and bothers fade away Happy, so happy I could die

Quand il me prend dans ses bras Il me parle tout bas Je vois la vie en rose

When he takes me into his arms He speaks to me softly And I see life through rose-colored glasses

Il me dit des mots d’amour Des mots de tout les jours Et ça m’ fait quelque chose

He speaks words of love to me They are every day words And they do something to me

Il est entré dans mon coeur Une part de bonheur Dont je connais la cause

He has entered into my heart A bit of happiness That I know the cause of

C’est lui pour moi Moi pour lui dans la vie Il me l’a dit, l’a jure pour la vie

It’s only him for me And me for him, for life He told me, he swore to me, for life

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A bracing, fearless account…

Mr. Li’s playing combined youthful abandon with utter command.

– The New York Times

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GEORGE LI PIANO Thursday, March 31, 2022 I 7:30 p.m.

Kimbell Art Museum SCHUMANN Arabeske in C Major, op. 18 SCHUMANN Fantasie in C Major, op. 17 Durchaus fantastisch und leidenschaftlich vorzutragen Mäßig. Durchaus energisch Langsam getragen. Durchweg leise zu halten intermission QIGANG CHEN Instants d’un opéra de Pékin LISZT Sonata in B Minor

Friday, April 1, 2022 I 8:00 p.m.

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ABOUT GEORGE LI

GEORGE LI piano Praised by The Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression,” pianist George Li possesses an effortless grace, poised authority, and brilliant virtuosity far beyond his years. Since winning the silver medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Li has rapidly established a major international reputation and performs regularly with some of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors.

Recent and upcoming concerto highlights include performances with the Los Angeles, New York, London, Rotterdam, Oslo, and St. Petersburg Philharmonics; the San Francisco, Tokyo, Frankfurt Radio, Sydney, and Montreal Symphonies; as well as the Philharmonia, DSO Berlin, and Orchestre National de Lyon. He frequently appears with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra.

In recital, Li performs at venues including Carnegie Hall, Davies Hall in San Francisco, the Mariinsky Theatre, Elbphilharmonie, Munich’s Gasteig, the Louvre, Seoul Arts Center, Tokyo’s Asahi Hall and Musashino Hall, NCPA Beijing, Shanghai Poly Theater, and Amici della Musica Firenze, as well as appearances at major festivals including the Edinburgh International Festival, Verbier Festival, Ravinia Festival, Festival de Pâques in Aix-en-Provence Festival, and Montreux Festival.

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Li is an exclusive Warner Classics recording artist, with his debut recital album released in October 2017, which was recorded live from the Mariinsky. His second recording for the label features Liszt solo works and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, which was recorded live with Vasily Petrenko and the London Philharmonic, and was released in October 2019.

George Li appears by arrangement with Opus 3 Artists.

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GEORGE LI PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS Could there be two more different musical giants than Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt? Yet their works, united in this program, invite us to revel in the full breadth of Romanticism as expressed through the piano.

Arabeske in C Major, op. 18 Robert Schumann (1810–1856) From his earliest pieces, Robert Schumann chose to create small musical portraits— compositions called “character pieces.” Among these, his Arabeske (1839) remains a favorite of pianists and audiences.

In this period of his life, Schumann was focused on painting specific scenes through the piano’s sound, as evidenced by two masterful cycles (Carnaval and Kreisleriana) that preceded his publication of Arabeske. The term itself is borrowed from the 16th-century French word for “Moorish or Arabic ornamental design.” It became the name for a primary pose in ballet in the 1830s, just as the vocabulary of en pointe dancing developed.

Applied to music, arabesque usually implies a graceful piece, often decorated with figuration and pleasant to the ear. Here, though, Schumann’s penchant for hesitations in the tempo and expressions of longing through repetition of passages and elastic cadences add depth to the work.

Fantasie in C Major, op. 17 Robert Schumann (1810–1856) Any piece labeled a “fantasy” invites us to follow a journey through a free flow of ideas. Fantasies became popular in the Renaissance, especially for keyboard and lute. Later, when composers of Bach’s generation wrote a fantasy, formal conventions shaped the piece, but its improvisational nature nonetheless flourished, as did its technical demands. Still, 19th-century composers needed to take the keyboard fantasy, extend and elevate it, in order to create a major form.

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Schumann’s Fantasie, op. 17 is a demanding piece that requires its virtuosity to be subsumed into the narrative. In performance, the pianist becomes a poet reciting epic lines shaped by flashes of emotion, calls to action, and moments of tenderness.

Schumann wrote the first movement in 1836 under the title “Ruines” in response to his frustration at being separated from Clara Wieck, the brilliantly talented young pianist whom he hoped to marry. He then added two more movements, one called “Triumphal Arch” with the idea of raising money for a monument to Beethoven in that composer’s birth city of Bonn, and a third movement entitled “Constellation.”

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GEORGE LI PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS All titles were removed, though, when the work was published in 1839. Schumann dedicated his fantasy to Franz Liszt, an honor that pleased the Hungarian virtuoso.

Instants d’un opéra de Pékin Qigang Chen (b. 1951) This program allows us an opportunity to hear a ravishingly beautiful piece by the much-heralded composer Qigang Chen. Chen, born in Shanghai in 1951, has made his home in France since 1984, but his story is far more complicated. Chen survived the violence and hardships of the Cultural Revolution that began in 1966.

His mother and his father, Head of the Academy of Art in Peking, were interned in a concentration camp when he was a young teenager. Later he too would be sent to such a camp along with fellow students of his music academy. When the political culture shifted, Chen was allowed to study again and, in fact, prevailed in a grueling competition that opened the chance to study in Paris.

There he had the extraordinary good fortune not only to study with Oliver Messiaen, but to be intensely mentored by Messiaen as the master’s only, and final, student.

This mentorship included living under Messiaen’s roof for more than four years.

Messiaen helped soothe the psychological damage done by the ideological and physical punishments Chen had endured in China and guided the young composer in unleashing his enormous creativity.

Chen quickly evolved as one of the most celebrated and frequently performed composers of our time. He has been decorated with accolades from both France and China, including serving as music director for the 2008 Beijing Olympics (writing music for the opening ceremonies). His compositions incorporate the forms and musical vocabulary of both East and West. Many of his symphonic works, concerti, and songs employ standard classical forms and forces, while others—often with French titles—are cast in ancient Chinese tonalities and modalities shaped by the delicious sounds of honored Chinese instruments like the erhu, pipa, and banhu.

This episodic work, written in 2000, conveys the color and action of the 200-year old institution known as the Peking Opera. A performance art strictly regulated by traditional conventions and performed through singing, reciting, acting, acrobatics, and martial arts, the Peking Opera exists throughout China, although principally in Beijing (Peking), Tainji, and Shanghai. In this gorgeous work, Chan seeks to represent the energy and color of the Peking Opera. Thus, the piece utilizes a myriad of musical effects including the whole-tone and pentatonic scales, angular passages created by octave displacement, cascades of sound sweeping over PAGE

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GEORGE LI PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS pedal points, harmonic clusters running throughout the gamut of the piano, and many parallel intervals. Chen incorporates jazzy elements too. Not surprising for a contemporary work, particularly one penned by a student of Messiaen, Instants d’un opéra de Pékin is metrically complex, yet always aurally clear. Finally, the listener may be surprised by the way Chen brings this robust work to its conclusion.

Sonata in B Minor Franz Liszt (1811–1886) By the 1840s, Liszt had wearied of his exhausting life as a concert pianist, traveling extreme distances across Europe and beyond (including Moscow and Constantinople). Always on the road and dedicated to supporting his three children

by Princess Marie d’Agoult in Paris, he felt unable to follow his creative impulses.

Inside Liszt’s mind a new vision was unfolding. He had become fascinated by the possibilities of an orchestral work structured as a narrative to convey a specific subject or story. Called a symphonic poem (tone poem), this concept was in its nascent stages and struck 19th-century ears as more radical than our ears (conditioned by film scores) can perceive. Partly, the tone poem threatened to push classical form off the table. In addition, the tone poem seemed excessively driven by emotion, rather than learned skill.

But Liszt had a burning desire to express himself by composing intense, expressive orchestral music. In a radical turn decried by many, he decided to abandon the stage, take a position as Kapellmeister in the modest but cultured court at Weimar, and devote himself to composition. Here his creative frenzy produced a series of innovative tone poems that caused Weimar’s orchestral musicians to balk.

The Sonata in B Minor originates from this same impulse. Cast in four movements played in a continuous flow, the sonata has a structure that parodies standard sonata-allegro form. Yet its movements are separate, expanded, and knitted together through a set of themes (motives) that undergo continuous alteration in a process called thematic transformation.

This concept was not new, pioneered by Beethoven and used masterfully by Franz Schubert in his Wanderer’s Fantasy. But the sheer expanse of Liszt’s Sonata pushed thematic transformation to a deeper level. The opening figuration alone—a descending line played sotto voce (in a whispered manner)—sparked many subsequent ideas, as did the contrasting marcato passage that follows it. The sonata’s most sumptuous theme in D major appears early and generates many of PAGE

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GEORGE LI PROGRAM NOTES BY CAROL REYNOLDS the work’s triumphant passages. The Sonata also contains an unexpected, difficult fugue integrated in a manner reminiscent of the composer Liszt most admired: Ludwig van Beethoven.

For the pianist, the Liszt Sonata presents a huge mountain to climb. Studying it, not to mention performing it, can be the work of a lifetime. Following the overall difficult years in Weimar, Liszt moved to an entirely new life in Rome and an even more serious stage of composition. There he composed shimmeringly beautiful sacred music, shades of which, atmospherically, are already present in passages of the B-Minor Sonata.

Scholars and critics still pour over the possible meanings of this sonata: is it a portrait of characters in Goethe’s Faust, German literature’s masterpiece that Liszt developed into a huge tone poem? Is it a retelling of Milton’s Paradise Lost or the Fall of Man in Garden of Eden? Could it be autobiographical? Or might it simply present new melodic, harmonic, and coloristic possibilities, enriched by the legendary pianistic virtuosity of its composer?

The work was dedicated to Robert Schumann in a reciprocal move to honor Schumann’s dedication of his Fantasy to Liszt. Alas, by the time a copy of the score reached Leipzig, Schumann was incapacitated and living in an institution. In one of music history’s great ironies, Clara Wieck Schumann, a masterful pianist who safeguarded her husband’s legacy, famously found Liszt’s B-Minor Sonata to be “blind noise” and, in fact, “awful.” Clara’s instincts generally were impeccable, but any blindness here was entirely hers.

©Dr. Carol Reynolds www.professorcarol.com

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 I 7:30 p.m.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth with Buddy Bray, host BACH Sonata for Unaccompanied Violin No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003 Grave Fuga Andante Allegro Selections from Alone Together IYER Selections to be announced from the stage IYER The Diamond A Dream A Phantom A Drop of Dew A Flash of Lightning

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ABOUT JENNIFER KOH

JENNIFER KOH violin Recognized for intense, commanding performances, delivered with dazzling virtuosity and technical assurance, violinist Jennifer Koh is a forward-thinking artist dedicated to exploring a broad and eclectic repertoire, while promoting equity and inclusivity in classical music. She has expanded the contemporary violin repertoire through a wide range of commissioning projects and has premiered more than 100 works written especially for her. Her quest for the new and unusual, sense of endless curiosity, and ability to lead and inspire a host of multidisciplinary collaborators, truly set her apart.

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Ms. Koh unveils two new collaborations this season—Everything Rises with bass-baritone Davóne Tines and Bach 6 Solo with director Robert Wilson and choreographer Lucinda Childs. Everything Rises is a musico-theatrical experience borne of Ms. Koh’s and Mr. Tines’ own experiences as artists of color. She then reunites with director Robert Wilson and choreographer Lucinda Childs for a new work, Bach 6 Solo, that brings to life Bach’s sonatas and partitas with theatrical

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elements and dance. These projects join her ongoing critically acclaimed series Alone Together, Bach and Beyond, The New American Concerto, Bridge to Beethoven, and Shared Madness.

Additional highlights of 2021–2022 are two new recordings on Cedille Records, with whom she has released 14 previous albums: Alone Together and the complete box set of her Bach & Beyond trilogy. Alone Together was developed in response to the coronavirus pandemic and the financial hardship it placed on many in the arts community, bringing composers together in support of the many freelancers among them to write micro-works for violin. Ms. Koh’s Bach & Beyond series, originally released by Cedille Records in three installments, are released as a three-disc box set.

Ms. Koh performs a broad range of concertos that reflects the breadth of her musical interests from traditional to contemporary. She has appeared with orchestras worldwide, among them the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki Philharmonics; Cleveland, Mariinsky, Minnesota, Philadelphia, and Philharmonia (London) Orchestras; and Atlanta, Baltimore, BBC, Chicago, Cincinnati, National, New World, NHK, RAI (Torino), and Singapore Symphonies.

She played the role of Einstein in the revival of Philip Glass and Robert Wilson’s Einstein on the Beach from 2012 to 2014; and a particular highlight of her career was performing with St Vincent (Annie Clark) and S. Epatha Merkerson at the 2018 Kennedy Center Honors in a tribute to Mr. Glass. She has also performed for former First Lady of the United States Michelle Obama and former First Lady of South Korea Kim Yoon-ok in 2011.

Ms. Koh is the Founder and Artistic Director of ARCO Collaborative, an artist-driven nonprofit that advocates for inclusivity in classical music. She is also active as a lecturer and teacher: She has been on faculty at the Mannes School of Music since 2018 and held residencies at Brown, Cornell, Duke, and Tulane Universities, as well as at the Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory and College, and University of California, Santa Barbara.

Born in Chicago of Korean parents, Ms. Koh began playing the violin by chance, choosing the instrument in a Suzuki-method program only because spaces for cello and piano had been filled. She made her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. She was Musical America’s 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year and has also been recently recognized as a Virtuoso Award honoree by Concert Artists Guild in 2020 and “A Force of Nature” by the American Composers Orchestra in 2019. She was a top prize winner at Moscow’s International Tchaikovsky Competition, winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Oberlin College and studied at the Curtis Institute, where she worked extensively with Jaime Laredo and Felix Galimir.

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ABOUT VIJAY IYER

VIJAY IYER piano/composer Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” Vijay Iyer has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in 21st-century music. A composer and pianist active across multiple musical communities, Iyer has created a consistently innovative, emotionally resonant body of work over the last 25 years, earning him a place as one of the leading music-makers of his generation.

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four times in the last decade. He has been praised by Pitchfork as “one of the best in the world at what he does,” by the Los Angeles Weekly as “a boundless and deeply important young star,” and by Minnesota Public Radio as “an American treasure.”

Vijay’s musical language is grounded in the rhythmic traditions of South Asia and West Africa, the African American creative music movement of the 60s and 70s, and the lineage of composer-pianists from Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk to Alice Coltrane and Geri Allen. He has released 24 albums of his music, most recently UnEasy (ECM Records, 2021), a trio session with drummer Tyshawn Sorey and bassist Linda May Han Oh; The Transitory Poems (ECM, 2019), a live duo recording with pianist Craig Taborn; Far From Over (ECM, 2017) with the award-winning Vijay Iyer Sextet; and A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM, 2016), a suite of duets with visionary composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith.

Vijay is also an active composer for classical ensembles and soloists. His works have been commissioned and premiered by Brentano Quartet, Imani Winds, Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Silk Road Ensemble, International Contemporary Ensemble, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, and virtuosi Matt Haimowitz, Claire Chase, Shai Wosner, and Jennifer Koh, among others. He recently served as composer-in-residence at London’s Wigmore Hall, music director of the Ojai Music Festival, and artist-in-residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. A tireless collaborator, he has written big-band music for Arturo O’Farrill and Darcy James Argue, remixed classic recordings of Talvin Singh and Meredith Monk, joined forces with legendary musicians Henry Threadgill, Reggie Workman, Zakir Hussain, and L. Subramanian, and developed interdisciplinary work with Teju Cole, Carrie Mae Weems, Mike Ladd, Prashant Bhargava, and Karole Armitage.

Vijay Iyer appears by arrangement with Music and Art Management, Inc.

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Daniel R. Feehan Stephanie Fox Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Gorski Jr. Insperity / Greater Houston Golf Charity Sally and Jeff King Mr. and Mrs. James Robert Krick Ms. Mary Elizabeth Lattimore Mr. and Mrs. L. Russell Laughlin Lauri Lawrence Lou Martin / Nicholas and Louella Martin Charitable Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation Tami and Hunter McLean Anne S. and Henry B. Paup Mr. and Mrs. David M. Porter Shannon and Breck Ray Paige and Bob Russey / Lair Ranch Fund Fidelity Charitable Janny and Warren Strickland / Schwab Charitable Medea and Jonathan Suder / Friedman, Suder & Cooke The Christopher Family Fund of the Ayco Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Thiel Trinity Terrace Natalie A. Wilkins Martha and J.R. Williams Suzy Williams $1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous* Mr. and Mrs. Neils Agather

Mr. and Mrs. Mike Anderson Thomas H. Andrews II Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bailey Leslie and William Bannister Sasha and Ed Bass Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Berry Anita and Paul Bickley Juli and Brandon Bledsoe Mr. Bill Bond Mr. and Mrs. Sam W. Brous Lori and Jonny Brumley Robin and Gantt Bumstead Brenda and Chad Cline Michelle and Martin Conroy Mary and David Corley Costco Rose Anne Cranz Kathie Cummins and Russ Wohlers Ron DeFordd Drs. Rosemary and Jeffrey Detweiler Mary Jane and Crawford H. Edwards Fash Foundation Kristi and G. Walter Floyd Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Fortson Mr. and Mrs. Baker Gentry Ruthie and Richard Gessinger Kelly and Paul W. Greenwell Guido & Ruth Shumake Charitable Trust Hatter & Associates, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Havran Marcee and Jon Henderson

Rebecca and Reese Hillard Bethany and Sam Holland Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mack House, Jr. B. Blaine Smith and Richard O. Hubbard Teresa and Jim Hubbard Mr. and Mrs. William A. Hudson Wendy and James Hunsaker George W. Hutson Melissa and Terry L. Sandlin / J.B. and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Vicente L. Jocson Olivia and Jeff Kearney Mr. and Mrs. Dee J. Kelly, Jr. Jean and Gordon Kelly, Jr. Mary and Allan R. Kelly Mary Kathryn and Todd Kelly Kimbell Art Foundation Julie and Scott Kleberg Gail and Bill Landreth Mollie and Garland Lasater Dena Light and James Lathrop Adelaide Leavens Brooke and John R. Lively Lowery Asset Consulting LLC Francine R. Manilow Jean Martin Mr. and Mrs. Clyde S. McCall, Jr. Eunice and John K. McColm Mr. and Mrs. Cappy McGarr / Janie & Cappy McGarr Family Fund at Texas Women’s Foundation

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2019–2020 CLIBURN CONTRIBUTORS

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Tadashi and Elaine Yamagata Foundation Sallie and Joseph Tarride Jerry and James Taylor Moira and Frank Taylor Mary Katherine and Dean A. Tetirick Jean and John Roach / The Roach Foundation, Inc. The Robert S. and Joyce Pate Capper Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Mark Philip Thomas Sandra and Troy Tuomey Anna and Ken Turner Dr. Robert J. Turner III Shirley and Wes Turner Lee Ann and Steve Van Amburgh Mr. and Mrs. Bryan C. Wagner Anna Jean and Richard Walsh Rinda and Jeff Wentworth Sandi and Greg Wilson Anne & Richard R. Wistrand of the AYCO Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Mitch S. Wynne Yamagata Foundation $500 - $999 Anonymous Leilani and Doc Ashbaugh George Ann Carter Bahan Mr. and Mrs. John F. Beadles Emma and Christopher Beavers Drs. Joyce and Robert Beck Lou Ann Blaylock Cyd W. and Trey Brown

Martine Cardin-Allen Carol F. Ray Marital Trust Annabelle Corboy and Michael Poteet Victor N. Corpuz Gregory T. Davis Dede Duson Maria Fawcett and Daniel Fawcettd Dana and Lee Freese José Luis Garcia-Corona Mary Lynn Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Clay Grant Dr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Grant / Communities Foundation of Texas Shirley R. Gross Douglas Gullickson Gail Heaslet Ruth Ann Hoffman Dr. and Mrs. Christopher K. Hull Isabelle Hulsey Elisabeth Hyder Joseph A. Bank Kristine and Whit Kelly Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett Foundation Louise W. Kahn Endowment Fund of The Dallas Foundation L. R. Lumley Haddy and Edward Manuel Molyneaux Charitable Foundation Kit T. Moncrief Jamie Nelson Pamela Mia Paul Robert Jones Catering Becky Butler Scott Dr. and Mrs. Judson P. Smith Bev and John Snyder / Nancy and John Snyder Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation

Ms. Kristin N. Sullivan and Mr. Mitch Whitten Sharon and Bob Timmons Mary Elizabeth Van Meter Dr. Robert and Mrs. Lynda Webb John H. Williams Mrs. Vivienne H. Wilson Barbara and William Lott* Matching gifts made by the following: UBS Foundation USA Matching Gift Program Chevron Microsoft *includes matching gifts ^includes gifts made through North Texas Giving Day Communities Foundation of Texas d deceased

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Karla and Don McKenzie Ellen Messman Mrs. Maryanne Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. John David Moritz Denise Mullins and Pat Ashcraft Melissa and Stuart Murff Alann and William Nolan Kelsey and Gary Patterson / The Gary Patterson Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John Pergande Kelly and Brian Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Philpott Mr. and Mrs. Paul Prater Mr. and Mrs. Frost Prioleau Kelley and Steve Purvis Mr. and Mrs. Thompson E. Purvis III Conor and James Rainbolt Suzy and Ray Rhodes Beth Rivers and Woody Grossman Lauren and Drew Robbins Barbara H. Roels Ms. Ellen Roeser Regina J. Rogers Jude and Terry Ryan Patricia and Win Ryan Lisa and Eugene Schneider Pat and Alan Schutts Patricia H. Schutts Melissa and Kayvon Shahbaz Lynda and Grady Shropshire Gretchen and Whit Smith Thomas L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Stephens III Vicky and David Stropes

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2020–2021 CLIBURN CONTRIBUTORS The Cliburn Board of Directors acknowledges with deep gratitude contributions received for the Cliburn and the Van Cliburn Trust between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. Gratitude is also extended to the 367 individuals donating less than $500 not listed below. $25,000 and Above Anonymous Alice L. Walton Foundation Amon G. Carter Foundation Arts Fort Worth Sue and John Allen Chalk, Sr. Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust Kim and Glenn Darden Mr. and Mrs. John C. Goff Shannon and Mark L. Hart III Gaylord and Bradley Lummis / The Frill Foundation / Lummis Asset Management Mary Potishman Lard Trust Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Pangburn Foundation Rea Charitable Trust Roz Rosenthal / Rosenthal 1997 Charitable Lead Annuity Trust Sid W. Richardson Foundation The Ryan Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson

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$10,000 - $24,999 Anonymous Alcon Foundation Connie Beck and Frank Tilley BNSF Foundation TX Capital One, N.A. Barbara and Ralph Cox / Ralph F. and Barbara A. Cox Fund Fidelity Charitable

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Jill and Charles Fischer Foundation Kelly Hart Lowe Foundation Luther King Capital Management Martha V. Leonard Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation Gregory L. McCoy Mollie and Garland Lasater Charitable Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation Nesha and George Morey North Texas Community Response Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas Northern Trust R4 Foundation Sewell Automotive Companies Patricia A. Steffen Texas Commission on the Arts The Gillian S. Fuller Foundation, Inc. The Graham and Carolyn Holloway Family Foundation Trust The Junior League of Fort Worth, Inc. The Stayton at Museum Way William E. Scott Foundation $5,000 - $9,999 American Airlines Susanne and Kevin Avondet / TEDNOVA Giving Fund of the Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Barr Mrs. Cornelia C. Blake Trafton Bogert Brown Forman T. Gary Cole, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Craig Dearden Elizabeth L. and Russell F. Hallberg Foundation Fifth Avenue Foundation Frances C. and William P. Smallwood Foundation Nancy Hallman / Qurumbli Fund Fidelity Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Scot Hollmann Ann Hudson and Edward R. Hudson, Jr.d Jacques Marquis Nicholas and Louella Martin Charitable Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation Laura and Michael O’Brien Paula and Scott Orr / Scott A. and Paula R. Orr Fund Fidelity Charitable Lisa and Matt Rose / Rose Family Foundation Janny and Warren Strickland / Schwab Charitable The Terrell and Patsy Small Family Foundation Gwen Weiner / The EOS Foundation Trust Charles W. White $2,500 - $4,999 Amegy Bank Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Bartel Anne T. and Robert M. Bass

Juana-Rosa Daniell & Ron Danielld Ron DeFordd Cass Edwards III and Robbie Schroeder Fannie and Stephen Kahn Charitable Foundation Beth and Randy Gideon Heart of Neiman Marcus Foundation Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas Rebecca and Reese Hillard Mr. and Mrs. E. Randall Hudson III Melissa and Terry L. Sandlin / J.B. and Mary Lou Sandlin Family Foundation Sally and Jeff King Eddie M. Lesok Lili and Matt Luth Fund Fidelity Charitable Priscilla and Joe Martin Mr. and Mrs. John David Moritz Mr. and Mrs. David M. Porter Martha and Frost Prioleau / Schwab Charitable Shannon and Breck Ray Beth Rivers and Woody Grossman Terri and Gregory Scott Sexton Alpha Shireyd Virginia Street Smith Sara and Peter Sterling Family Fund Fidelity Charitable The DuBose Family Foundation Suzy Williams

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2020–2021 CLIBURN CONTRIBUTORS Mr. and Mrs. Clyde S. McCall, Jr. Marge and Nate McGrew Kit T. Moncrief Robert J. Myers Pamela Mia Paul Anne S. and Henry B. Paup Dr. and Mrs. Maxim Pekarev Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Philpott Ms. Vicki Ray and Dr. David Hendricks Jude and Terry Ryan Gretchen and Whit Smith Vicky and David Stropes Medea and Jonathan Suder / MJR Foundation Tadashi and Elaine Yamagata Foundation Sallie and Joseph Tarride Mary Katherine and Dean A. Tetirick The Robert S. and Joyce Pate Capper Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Thiel Shirley and Wes Turner John H. Williams Martha and J.R. Williams Sandi and Greg Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Mitch S. Wynne Yamagata Foundation $500 - $999 Harriet and Larry H. Anton Mr. and Mrs. William E. Bailey Susanna and Harper Bartolomei Joanne Beck Olivia Bernabei Mr. and Mrs. Michael K. Berry Nelia L. and Charles E. Blanton Jr. / Blanton

Family Fund J.P. Morgan Charitable Giving Fund Edwina Campbell Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Ward Cappel III Mitzi and Bill Davis Gregory Davis^ Dede Duson Cynthia J. Frey / Frey & Hardin Giving Fund Fidelity Charitable José Luis Garcia-Corona Ruthie and Richard Gessinger Sharon Godwin Mr. and Mrs. Clay Grant Shirley R. Gross Douglas Gullickson Cynthia and Rick Haterius Gail Heaslet Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mack House, Jr. Kay and Bill Howell Elisabeth Hyder Marcie and Michael Jarratt Louise W. Kahn Endowment Fund of The Dallas Foundation Ms. Dione Kennedy & Mr. Daniel Hagwood Gail and Bill Landreth Lauri Lawrence Barbara and Jay Lesok / Lesok Family Charitable Trust Fidelity Charitable L. R. Lumley Mr. and Mrs. Cappy McGarr Joseph Minton Molyneaux Charitable Foundation Denise Mullins and Pat Ashcraft Kristi Newton Kelsey and Gary Patterson Sue and Dane Pranke

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Prater Paige and Bob Russey / Lair Ranch Fund Fidelity Charitable Caroline Samis / Frost National Bank Patricia H. Schutts Melissa and Kayvon Shahbaz Joslyn and Greg Shirey Lynda and Grady Shropshire Carol and Terry Smith Bev and John Snyder / Nancy and John Snyder Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation Sonya and Amar Tanna The David M. Schwarz Architects Charitable Foundation, Inc. Virginia and Joe Tigue Sharon and Bob Timmons Pearl Toy / Toy Giving Fund Fidelity Charitable Maureda and Al Travis Robert VanStryland Albertine and Ralph Votapek Rinda and Jeff Wentworth Mrs. Sandra J. Werner Lee T. Wilkirson Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Yu ^includes gifts made through North Texas Giving Day Communities Foundation of Texas d deceased

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$1,000 - $2,499 Anonymous Lisa and Michael Anderson Thomas H. Andrews II Elizabeth and Lawrence Barron Shalini Batra Mr. Bill Bond Steve Brauer, Jr. / United Way of Greater Saint Louis Camille Comeau and Jay Hebert Michelle and Martin Conroy Rose Anne Cranz Kathie Cummins and Russ Wohlers Dr. Dennis Dalton Lucy Darden d Mr. and Mrs. Richard Davidovich Katie and James Day Fash Foundation Stephanie Fox Mr. and Mrs. Baker Gentry Ann and Richard Gipson Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Gorski, Jr. Ms. Gail Aronoff Granek Guido and Ruth Shumake Charitable Trust Marsha Heinkele Oxana Horodecka Dr. and Mrs. Vicente L. Jocson Kenneth and Cherrie Garrett Foundation Kimbell Art Foundation Constance Langston Adelaide Leavens Mr. and Mrs. Kevin G. Levy Margaret Lowry and Andrew Bradshaw Francine R. Manilow Haddy and Edward Manuel

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TRIBUTE FUND Donations of $75 or over have been made in the names of the following people between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2021. We are grateful for all tribute gifts including those made under $75.

IN HONOR Mary Frances Antweil Morris Palefsky Alim Beisembayev Mr. and Mrs. Larry Harbison Anne Marie and Doug Bratton Mr. and Mrs. E. Randall Hudson III Buddy Bray Ms. Gail Aronoff Granek Virginia Clay Jutka and Tamás Ungár Gary Cole Mitzi and Bill Davis Chiquita Costen Marian Frymire Yury Favorin, Michail Lifits, & Roberto Plano Dr. and Mrs. Christopher K. Hull Mildred Hedrick Fender Lucretia Darden

Kay Howell Kristi Newton Becky Butler Scott Anne and Richard Wistrand Jean and Gordon Kelly Paige and Bob Russey Vadym Kholodenko Linda M. Monk Suzanne and Kevin Levy Nenetta and Steve Tatum Gaylord and Bradley Lummis Elizabeth and Merrill Glasgow Priscilla and Joe Martin Charles W. White Ju Measday Andrew Measday Shirley and William McIntyre Internal Hunt Cares Operating Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas

Cami and John Goff Mr. and Mrs. Lu Christ

Scott Mitchell Heart of Neiman Marcus Foundation Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas

Mrs. Miriam Hall Deborah and Paul N. Renton, Jr.

Marianne E. Pohle Nancy and Tal Roberts

Adelaide Polk Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Fuller French

Gail Rawl George Ann Bahan Cornelia Blake Gary Cole Mary and David Corley Dr. and Mrs. Chris Ewin Mildred Hedrick Fender d Eunice and John K. McColm Mrs. Joseph R. Pelich, Jr. d Mr. and Mrs. David M. Porter Patricia H. Schutts Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Stephens III Rinda and Jeff Wentworth Suzy Williams Roz Rosenthal Jutka and Tamás Ungár Jude Ryan Ms. Kristin N. Sullivan and Mr. Mitch Whitten Michelle and Matthew Sigakis Susan Mathai and Chris Sigakis Thomas L. Smith Maestro and Mrs. John R. Giordano Carla Thompson Patricia H. Schutts Lias J. Steen Dr. Albert Travis Mattie Peterson Compton Suzy Williams John H. Williams

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TRIBUTE FUND IN MEMORY Alice G. Andrews Marianne E. Pohle Bill Bahan Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson James R. Blake Paige and Bob Russey Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson Peggy Bowie Olivia Bernabei Lee Brookshire Peggyd and John S. Pokrifcsak

Lucy Darden Kay and Bill Howell Jacques Marquis Paige and Bob Russey Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson Sam Decker Myra Decker Ron DeFord Jacques Marquis Raymond Deison Kim and Glenn Darden Mildred Drurey Bryan M. Erwin

Dr. Robert W. Brown Kay and Bill Howell

Mary Jeanne Dyess Kay and Bill Howell

Susan Riggs Brown Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson

Dr. Henri Fawcett Jutka and Tamás Ungár

Bill Chandler Mary Alice Chandler Selcer Dr. Julian Chong Kathy Crichton Alan Neville Clay Paige and Bob Russey Van Cliburn Francine R. Manilow Regina J. Rogers Jennifer Ann Corbett Gunhild Corbett Esther and Will Courtney Catherine and Wallace Schmuck

Lynn Terrell Gafford Cornelia Blake

Fern Stropes Vicky and David Stropes

Nika and Michela Kholodenko Linda M. Monk

William C. Teague Jimmy Culp

Rose Ann Kornfeld Paige and Bob Russey Anne Marion Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson Sandra Marquiss Mr. and Mrs. John E. Vroman Ted Mayo Olivia Bernabei Kay and Bill Howell Margaret Lowry and Andrew Bradshaw Lynda and Grady Shropshire Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson

Dr. John Sutherlin Guttry Jimmy Culp

Betty Claire Dupree McKnight Kay and Bill Howell Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson

Ann Hammond Ms. Kelly L. Gross

Robert E. More Paula F. Ridge

Michael Hawley Charisse Castagnoli

Olive Pelich Kay and Bill Howell Becky Butler Scott

Roger Horchow Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson Edward R. Hudson, Jr. Kay and Bill Howell Jacques Marquis

Peg Pokrifcsak Jacques Marquis Sarah Ray Paige and Bob Russey Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson

Anna Belle Thomas Kim and Glenn Darden Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Holt Hickman Kay and Bill Howell Paige and Bob Russey Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson Rice M. Tilley, Jr. Barbara and Ralph Cox Kim and Glenn Darden Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Holt Hickman Paige and Bob Russey Jude and Terry Ryan The Garvey Family Mr. and Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson Chancellor Lesa Roe, University of North Texas System Susan Tilley Mr. and Mrs. Clay Grant Ms. Susan O. Leonard Marietta Watson Mrs. Janna Poland Jennifer Wesson Janice and Bryan Barrett Dr. Scotti Wood Jimmy Culp Elaine Yamagata Lauren and Mark Yamagata Mary and Harvey Yamagata PAGE

Virginia Grey Law Culp Jimmy Culp

Cornelia Friedman Anonymous

Dee J. Kelly, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Dee J. Kelly, Jr.

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$75,000 + City of Fort Worth Texas Commission on the Arts Small Business Administration UnitedWay of Tarrant County

$25,000 - $74,999 Anonymous Fidelity Charitable John W. & M. Ann Mason David R. & Shelly Smith

$10,000 - $24,999 Fort Worth Promotion and Development Fund Frost Bank Houston & Sheila Hill Meta Alice Keith Bratten Foundation The Ryan Foundation Sid W. Richardson Foundation Visit Fort Worth Virginia O’Donnell Charitable Trust

Arts Fort Worth extends its sincere appreciation to these generous donors for their generosity and support of the arts in our community.

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$2,500 - $9,999 BNSF Railway Foundation Communities Foundation of Texas Fifth Avenue Foundation Junior League of Fort Worth North Texas Community Foundation Shoot Smart Tarrant County The Pate Foundation Virginia Street Smith Charitable Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation

LIVE $1,000 - $2,499 AREA 7.5" Facebook Karen & Larry Anfin Kathleen Yacio Sargent L.O. “Buzz” and Ruth Brightbill Maddie & Larry Lesnick Martha V. Leonard Fund at the North Texas Community Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Lary Milrany Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Mrs. Rosalyn G. Rosenthal Ms. Peggy Meade-Cohen Pacheco Koch $500 - $999 Rachel Guy Cecile Montgomery Schwab Charitable Tom Harkrider TranSystems Corporation Dione Kennedy & Daniel Hagwood Visiting Angels & Dale Brock Pam Presswood Laura Lumley Col. William Massad Dr. & Mrs. Bruce H. Weiner Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Kling

Thank you for your dedication to the arts. Arts Fort Worth, formerly ‘The Arts Council of Fort Worth’ extends its gratitude to the many other contributors whom we are unable to list here due to space limitations. Please visit artsfortworth.org for a full list of donors who supported Arts Fort Worth between October 1, 2019 and August 4, 2021.

1300 Gendy Street | Fort Worth, TX 76107 | 817.738.1938 | artsfortworth.org

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Thinking bigger to get better.

TREATBOLDLY.UNTHSC.EDU When you think of health, you think of wellness. But research and innovation are a big part of how we achieve it. HSC Fort Worth is more than a graduate medical school. We believe in the bigger picture of health. And we're investing in ideas that advance health care and improve outcomes for all people in North Texas.

2022 Special Exhibitions The Language of Beauty in African Art Spring/Summer 2022 Murillo: From Heaven to Earth Fall/Winter 2022

Admission to the permanent collection is always free.

When we're all connected, we're in it together.

HSC. ASK BRAVELY. TREAT BOLDLY.

View the full schedule of exhibitions, events, and programs at kimbellart.org.

The Kimbell’s 50th Anniversary October 2022

Photo © Nic Lehoux

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CLIBURN CONCERTS S P R I N G 2022

A NEW STEINWAY EXPERIENCE HAS ARRIVED IN FORT WORTH, TEXAS Steinway Piano Gallery of Fort Worth, a family-owned and operated showroom, brings the legendary Steinway commitment of quality and customer satisfaction to the Fort Worth area. Located in Sundance Square across from Bass Hall, our showroom offers the finest collection of Steinway & Sons and Steinway-Designed Boston and Essex pianos set in a unique environment for an exceptional selection process.

STEINWAY PIANO GALLERY 501 Commerce St. Fort Worth, Tx 76102 T E L . (817) 665-1853 WWW.STEINWAYPIANOS.COM

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