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W E LCO M E A Change in Tempo Do you remember the first time you came to Boettcher Concert Hall for a Colorado Symphony performance?

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Mine was June 2008, as I watched from my seat up in Mezzanine 8 as then-music director Jeffrey Kahane led the orchestra. Eight years later, I was on the podium myself, making my debut in a concert that previewed the orchestra’s 2016/17 Season.

So much instantly felt right that evening, especially the world-class music-making with our outstanding musicians and having genuine fun with the audience as I introduced each new piece. A year later, I led the orchestra once again in our Season Preview concert…this time as Music Director. The hall was packed, the energy electrifying—and for good reason.

This season is filled with amazing works in so many different musical genres. Renée Fleming, Yo-Yo Ma, The Rite of Spring, a tribute to Ella Fitgerald—it’s a fantastic season, and one I’m truly proud to present for the first time as your Music Director.

Over the past year, much has changed as I’ve prepared to assume this role: leaving my former job with The Cleveland Orchestra, moving across the country, and taking the podium here for our first season together—all while adjusting to the altitude!

But one thing has not changed: the Colorado Symphony’s perennial commitment to presenting a wide variety of exquisite music for our audiences.

It’s one of the many reasons I joined this extraordinary orchestra, and I hope you’ll join us here at Boettcher Concert Hall, again and again.

Here’s to a new era of making wonderful music together!

Warmly,

Brett Mitchell Music Director

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Join the Brett Mitchell Society In a time of new beginnings, the Colorado Symphony is pleased to launch the Brett Mitchell Society, a meaningful way for our most engaged donors and subscribers to have direct access to our new Music Director and have a profound role in the health and future of our orchestra. The Brett Mitchell Society was founded in the early spring of 2017 to give dedicated patrons at a certain giving level deeper access to the Symphony they love.

Brett Mitchell Society members receive extra perks throughout the season, including our quarterly newsletter From the Podium, Masterclasses with Brett Mitchell, Advance Access to one-night-only concerts and special events, and that’s just the start! Brett Mitchell Society members possess the unique opportunity to influence the shared vision of the Society and of the Colorado Symphony, and to present the Symphony to people everywhere as a world-class orchestra.

To join the 100-plus households who are helping ensure the Colorado Symphony’s future, please email rsvp@coloradosymphony.org or call Kate Bentley at 303.308.2472.

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STA F F LEADERSHIP TEAM Jerome H. Kern Chief Executive Officer Susan Ellis Chief Administrative Officer Coreen Miller Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer Anthony Pierce Chief Artistic Officer Parker Owens Chief Marketing Officer ARTISTIC Brett Mitchell Music Director Andrew Litton Principal Guest Conductor Duain Wolfe Chorus Director, Colorado Symphony Chorus Christopher Dragon Associate Conductor Andres Lopera Assistant Conductor Dave Aeling Production Stage Manager Travis Branam Assistant Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Larry Brezicka Orchestra Personnel Manager Mary Louise Burke Associate Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Aric Christensen Audio Engineer Joanne Goble Principal Orchestra Librarian Jonathan Groszew Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager / Assistant Librarian Deborah Guess Properties Master Philip Hiester Master Electrician Eric Israelson Chorus Manager Sam Jaehnig Head Carpenter Matt Koveal Manager of Artistic Operations Taylor Martin Assistant Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Mike Pappas New Media Center Barbara Porter Assistant Chorus Manager

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he Colorado Symphony performs for over 100,000 adults and children in Denver and throughout the region every year. It is our joy and privilege to create once-in-a-lifetime concert experiences for the people in our community, and to make our concerts as accessible as they are enjoyable.

Here are just a few of the free and discounted ticketing programs the Colorado Symphony has developed to ensure our concert hall doors are held open for everyone. continued on page 20

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BE OUR GUESTS: THE COMMUNITY TICKETING INITIATIVE The Colorado Symphony launched the Community Ticketing Initiative (CTI) in October 2014 with the goal of making Symphony concerts available to everyone who wishes to attend, regardless of cost barriers.

Through the CTI, the Colorado Symphony offers complimentary tickets to low-income and underserved individuals, children, and families for a wide array of concerts each season. Whether guests prefer classical music, holiday programs, or family concerts, the CTI brings patrons of all musical tastes to Boettcher Concert Hall.

In less than four years, the Symphony has partnered with more than 40 local groups.

In less than four years, the Symphony has partnered with more than 40 local groups including Big Brothers Big Sisters of Colorado, Brain Injury Alliance of Colorado, Hope Kids Colorado, Center for African American Health, and Veteran Tickets Foundation (VetTix).

Since its inception, the number of people served by the Community Ticketing Initiative has nearly doubled, from 3,607 served in the Symphony’s 2014/15 Season to 5,653 served by the end of the 2016/17 Season.

As the CTI grows, so does our patrons’ joy in attending Colorado Symphony concerts. Here is a letter (one of the many we are thrilled to receive) from one of the organizations we partner with to provide tickets to those they serve.

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OUT OF MANY, ONE: MILITARY DISCOUNTS

For the exceptional individuals who serve in the United States military, the Colorado Symphony is honored to provide discounted tickets to all active military personnel and veterans.

The Colorado Symphony commences our annual gala and Opening Weekend with the national anthem because we believe in the song that captures the spirit and values of our country. And we perform concerts on the Fourth of July because we want to celebrate our nation’s founding the best way we can: with beautiful music.

Last season, more than 1,400 of America’s servicemen and women came to Boettcher Concert Hall through our military discount program. Our musicians, board, and staff are thankful for the opportunity to express our gratitude for their service through the expressive power of performing music.

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CLASSICAL IS IN SESSION STUDENT MEMBERSHIPS

Student memberships are a recent addition to the offering of Colorado Symphony discounts, and the program has seen rapid growth as more and more students flock to Boettcher Concert Hall.

Established in the fall of 2016, over 80 students have already taken advantage of the Symphony's new, discounted membership program, with members in the inaugural year attending over 500 total concerts. Data is currently unavailable regarding the increase of selfies taken in the hall, but those numbers are equally promising.

While over 8,000 students and teachers received discounted tickets to Colorado Symphony performances during the 2016/17 Season, the Musicurious Membership for high school and college-aged students provides an even deeper discount for students through a one-time fee that provides access to most concerts through a season. The more concerts a student attends, the greater the value of the discount. Musicurious Membership is both a great deal for students on a budget and an excellent supplement to Economics 101.

Students have the choice of selecting a Solo Student Membership for $60, or a Harmony Student Membership for $99, which allows them to bring a fellow student as their guest to each concert at no additional charge. #friendsnightout Did you know you can also donate your tickets back to the Colorado Symphony if you can’t attend a concert?

Simply give them back before the start of the concert as a tax-deductible contribution by calling the Box Office at 303.623.7876, or visiting coloradosymphony.org

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STRAVINSKY'S THE FIREBIRD COLORADO SYMPHONY ANDREW LITTON, conductor JUSTIN BARTELS, trumpet Saturday's Concert is Gratefully Dedicated to Drs. Sarah and Harold Nelson Sunday's Concert is Gratefully Dedicated to Dr. Everette J. Freeman

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Boettcher Concert Hall STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements Quarter note = 160 Andante — Con moto JOHN WILLIAMS Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra Maestoso — Risoluto — Slowly Allegro deciso — INTERMISSION — STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1945 revision) Introduction — The Dance of the Firebird Pantomime No. 1 Pas de Deux of the Firebird and Ivan Tsarevich Pantomime No. 2 Scherzo: Dance of the Princesses Pantomime No. 3 Round Dance of the Princesses Infernal Dance of the King Kashchei Berceuse — Finale

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ANDREW LITTON, conductor Andrew Litton currently serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Colorado Symphony, Artistic Advisor of Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Music Director of the New York City Ballet, Artistic Director of the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sommerfest, and Conductor Laureate of Britain’s Bournemouth Symphony. He was also Music Director of the Dallas Symphony from 1994-2006. He guest conducts the world’s leading orchestras and has a discography of over 120 recordings with awards including America’s Grammy®, France’s Diapason d’Or, and many British and other honours. Litton has also conducted many of the world’s finest opera companies, such as the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Australian Opera. In 2011, in recognition of his work with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, King Harald V conferred the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit on Andrew Litton. Under him the orchestra has made appearances at the BBC Proms, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Musikverein, Berlin’s Philharmonie, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. Besides his Grammy®-winning Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with Bryn Terfel and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, he also recorded the complete symphonies by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, a Dallas Mahler cycle, and many Gershwin recordings, as both conductor and pianist. For Hyperion Andrew Litton’s recordings include piano concertos by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and Grieg with Stephen Hough;

by Shostakovich, Shchedrin, and Brahms with Marc-André Hamelin; and by Alnæs and Sinding with Piers Lane; Prokofiev’s Cello Concerto and Symphony-Concerto with Alban Gerhardt; Viola Concertos by Bartók and Rózsa with Lawrence Power; the complete symphonies by Charles Ives and orchestral works by Joseph Schwantner. Andrew Litton received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard in piano and conducting. He is an accomplished pianist, and often conducts from the keyboard and enjoys performing chamber music with his orchestra colleagues. For further information, please visit www.andrewlitton.com.

JUSTIN BARTELS, trumpet Justin Bartels has held the position of Principal Trumpet since July 2008.

In addition to his position with the Colorado Symphony, he served on the Faculty at the University of Colorado in Boulder as a Trumpet Lecturer/ Instructor. Justin is also a Visiting Guest Artist in Orchestral studies at the University of Denver. Previously, Justin was the Applied Trumpet Instructor at Regis University (2009-2012) and as a sabbatical replacement instructor at the University of Denver in the Fall of 2012. Justin performs with the Colorado Symphony Brass Quintet, Bartels Brass Sextet and is also a member of Up Close and Musical which provides educational concerts to local Denver students.

Mr. Bartels previously played Principal Trumpet with the Central City Opera Orchestra from 2005-2007 and 2009-2013. Prior to arriving in Denver, Justin had an established professional career. He held Principal Trumpet positions with Columbus (OH) Symphony (2007-2008), Augusta Symphony (2006-2007), South Carolina Philharmonic (2006) and The Columbus Indiana

CLASSICS BIOGRAPHIES Philharmonic (IN) (2001-2003). From 2003-2006, Justin was a also member of the New World Symphony. He has also played Guest Principal Trumpet with the San Francisco Symphony and St. Louis Symphony. He has had the pleasure of performing with many of the country’s top orchestras including: The New York Philharmonic, Alabama Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony and the Houston Symphony. Justin is a proud graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (B.M. 2003), he also attended the University of Alabama (BM Studies 1996-1997) and the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music (BM Studies 1997-2000). While on the path to becoming an orchestral trumpet player, Justin had the privilege to study with many great trumpet teachers and performers including: Marie Speziale, John Rommel, Ed Cord, Alan Siebert, Michael B. Johnson, and Joe Ardovino.

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CLASSICS PROGRAM NOTES IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971): Symphony in Three Movements Igor Stravinsky was born on June 17, 1882, in Oranienbaum, near St. Petersburg, and died on April 6, 1971, in New York City. The Symphony in Three Movements was composed in 1942-1945 and premiered on January 24, 1946, in New York, conducted by the composer. The score calls for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, three clarinets (third doubling bass clarinet), two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, bass drum, harp, piano, and strings.

Duration is about 24 minutes. Scott O’Neil conducted the last performance by the orchestra on March 20-22, 2009.

Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements came into existence, as it were, in pieces, and over a considerable period of time. The composer Alexander Tansman, Stravinsky’s close friend and eventual biographer, said that the first movement originated in 1942 as an orchestral piece with a prominent concertante piano part, not dissimilar from the way Petrushka had evolved thirty years before. The piano, however, had largely been subsumed into the orchestral texture by the time the movement was completed before the end of the year. The music for the Andante, composed during the spring of 1943, was first intended for use in the score of a film based on Franz Werfel’s novel The Song of Bernadette. Stravinsky said that the music was to accompany the vision of the Virgin Mary that miraculously appeared to the 19th-century peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous in the town of Lourdes, though its icy insouciance seems little related to the mood of that event, except for the prominence of its harp part. At any rate, Stravinsky withdrew from the project for artistic and financial reasons (as he did from every other movie deal proposed to him during the years he lived in Los Angeles), and the music, like the eventual first movement of the Symphony, remained an as-yet dissociated fragment. (The Song of Bernadette, incidentally, was made into an enormously successful if rather syrupy film in 1943 by director Henry King. It won four Oscars, including one for Jennifer Jones as Best Actress and one for Alfred Newman, who supplied the music.) The incentive to pull these musical orphans together into a finished symphony came with a commission from the New York Philharmonic in 1945. Stravinsky composed a third movement, which brought together the piano and harp featured in the two existing pieces, and completed the Symphony in Three Movements on August 7, 1945, just one week before the Japanese surrender ended World War II. He conducted its premiere in New York on January 24, 1946. It was his first new work to be heard after he became a naturalized United States citizen on December 28, 1945.

The first movement, Stravinsky said, “was inspired by a war film, a documentary of scorched-earth tactics in China. The middle part of the movement — the music for clarinet, piano and strings, which mounts in intensity and volume until the explosion of the three chords [from the full orchestra] — was conceived as a series of instrumental conversations to accompany a cinematographic scene showing the Chinese people scratching and digging in their fields.” The Andante, given its association with The Song of Bernadette and its prominent part for the harp, is a halcyon respite from the intensity of the surrounding movements. It is structured in Classical three-part form: a repeated-note melody in the strings informs the first and third sections of the movement; an austere passage, initiated by flute and harp and framed by shimmering chords floating in the high register of strings (before) and woodwinds (after), stands at the center. The movement is connected directly to the finale by a brief, chordal interlude. “The beginning of the finale,” Stravinsky explained, “is a musical reaction to the newsreels of goose-stepping soldiers. The march music is predominant until the fugue [begun PROGRAM 4 SOUNDINGS 2017/18 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG

CLASSICS PROGRAM NOTES in fragmentary manner by piano and trombone], which is the stasis and the turning point. The immobility at the beginning of the fugue is comic, I think — and so, to me, was the overturned arrogance of the Germans when their machine failed. The exposition of the fugue and the end of the Symphony are associated in my plot with the rise of the Allies and their eventual triumph.”

 JOHN WILLIAMS (B. 1932): Trumpet Concerto John Williams was born on February 8, 1932, in Flushing, New York. He composed his Trumpet Concerto in 1996 for the Cleveland Orchestra and its principal trumpet, Michael Sachs, who premiered the work at Severance Hall on September 26, 1996, under the direction of Christoph von Dohnányi. The score calls for three flutes (third doubling piccolo), three oboes (third doubling English horn), three clarinets (third doubling bass clarinet), three bassoons (third doubling contrabassoon), four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, and strings.

Duration is about 20 minutes. This is the first performance by the orchestra.

John Williams is one of America’s most widely known and highly respected composers.

Born in New York in 1932, Williams moved with his family when he was sixteen to Los Angeles, where his father worked as a studio musician. After serving in the Air Force, Williams returned to New York in 1954, working there as a jazz pianist in clubs and on recordings while attending the Juilliard School. He subsequently moved back to Los Angeles to enroll at UCLA and study privately with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. By the early 1960s, he was composing music for feature films and television, as well as working as a pianist, arranger, and conductor for Columbia Records. His music began to receive wide recognition during the 1960s, when he won Emmys for his scores for the television movies Heidi and Jane Eyre. Williams has since composed music and served as music director for well over 300 movies and television shows, including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, Jaws, E.T. (The Extra-Terrestrial), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, the Harry Potter movies, Catch Me If You Can, The Adventures of Tin-Tin, Lincoln, and The Book Thief. Williams has received 50 Academy Award nominations (the most of any living person and second only to Walt Disney) and won five Oscars, 23 Grammys, four Golden Globes, and four Emmys, as well as numerous gold and platinum records. In addition to his film music, Williams has written many concert works, including two symphonies, eight concertos, and numerous chamber and orchestral works. From 1980 to 1993, he served as conductor of the Boston Pops and has also appeared as guest conductor with major orchestras. Among Williams’ many distinctions are twenty honorary degrees, induction into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame, a Kennedy Center Honor (America’s highest award for artistic achievement), Golden Baton Award for Lifetime Achievement from the League of American Orchestras, National Medal of Arts, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Williams wrote of his Trumpet Concerto, “As a youngster growing up in the 1940s, I was not unaware of the enormous influence that the brass players of the great swing bands had on the young people of our country. Beginning with Louis Armstrong, whose contribution inspired generations of trumpeters, these artists extended the expressive capabilities of their instruments and can certainly be credited with developing a school of brass playing, the influence of which SOUNDINGS 2017/18 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG PROGRAM 5

CLASSICS PROGRAM NOTES can still be felt in nearly every musical ensemble that employs brass. ​“In my teen years, I too wanted to join in the fun. My father agreed that if I continued with piano studies, I could have a trombone, and he arranged for me to take lessons. I also taught myself to play a little on the trumpet, but I was never very comfortable switching mouthpiece size, so my brass playing — always amateur level to be sure — was pretty much restricted to the trombone.

“Given this background and after writing so much brass music for films and ceremonial pieces, you can imagine my pleasure when the Cleveland Orchestra asked me to write a concerto for their principal trumpeter, Michael Sachs. The premier performances in September 1996 were conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi with Mr. Sachs as soloist.”

Though Williams wrote that both the popular big band music of his youth and his own movie scores served as background to the Trumpet Concerto, their influences are more in the work’s virtuosity, rhythmic drive, melodic surety, and colorful instrumental palette than in any overt style characteristics. The Concerto opens, appropriately, with an introductory fanfare scored largely for brass led by the soloist’s tocsins. The main body of the movement is based on a muscular accompaniment with sharply dotted rhythms supporting a nimble, wide-ranging theme for the soloist. A more lyrical, less intense melody is introduced for contrast and formal balance. Following a development section based on the main theme, the opening fanfare is recalled as a bridge to a solo cadenza. A final iteration of the main theme serves as a coda that leads without pause to the second movement, whose scoring, expressive restraint, and brooding mood recall Aaron Copland’s Quiet City for trumpet, English horn, and strings, based on his incidental music for Irwin Shaw’s 1939 experimental play Quiet City, which explored the “night thoughts of many different kinds of people in a great city.” The play’s principal character was a jazz trumpeter, the spokesman for the author, whose music was intended to “arouse the conscience of his fellow players and of the audience.” Williams personalized this movement by assigning a prominent role to the solo trombone, his own youthful instrument. The finale is a musical dynamo, which admits a few lyrical passages but never slackens its charged rhythms or propulsive energy.

 IGOR STRAVINSKY: Suite from The Firebird (1945 Version) The Firebird was composed in 1909-1910 and premiered on June 25, 1910, in Paris, conducted by Gabriel Pierné. The score of the 1945 suite calls for two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, and strings. Duration is about 28 minutes. The 1945 Version of The Firebird was last performed on October 1 and 3, 1981, with Gaetano Delogu on the podium.

Fireworks. There could not have been a more appropriate title for the work that launched the meteoric career of Igor Stravinsky. He wrote that glittering orchestral miniature in 1908, while still under the tutelage of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and it shows all the dazzling instrumental technique that the student had acquired from his teacher. Though the reception of Fireworks was cool when it was first performed at the Siloti Concerts in St. Petersburg on PROGRAM 6 SOUNDINGS 2017/18 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG

CLASSICS PROGRAM NOTES February 6, 1909, there was one member of the audience who listened with heightened interest.

Serge Diaghilev was forming his Ballet Russe company at just that time, and he recognized in Stravinsky a talent to be watched. He approached the 27-year-old composer and requested orchestral transcriptions of short pieces by Chopin and Grieg that would be used in the first Parisian season of the Ballet Russe. Stravinsky did his work well and on time.

During that same winter, plans were beginning to stir in the creative wing of the Ballet Russe for a Russian folk ballet — something filled with legend and magic and fantasy. The composer Nikolai Tcherepnin was associated with the Ballet Russe at that time, and it was assumed that he would compose the music for a plot derived from several traditional Russian sources. However, Tcherepnin was given to inexplicable changes of mood and he was losing interest in ballet at the time, so he withdrew from the project. Diaghilev inquired whether Stravinsky had any interest in taking it over, and he agreed. The triumphant premiere of The Firebird in Paris on June 25, 1910, rocketed Stravinsky to international fame.

The story deals with the glittering Firebird and the evil ogre Kashchei, who captures maidens and turns men to stone if they enter his domain. Kashchei is immortal as long as his soul, which is preserved in the form of an egg in a casket, remains intact. The plot shows how Prince Ivan wanders into Kashchei’s garden in pursuit of the Firebird; he captures it and exacts a feather before letting it go. Ivan meets a group of Kashchei’s captive maidens and falls in love with one of them. The princesses return to Kashchei’s palace. Ivan breaks open the gates to follow them, but he is captured by the ogre’s guardian monsters. He waves the magic feather and the Firebird reappears to smash Kashchei’s vital egg; the ogre expires. All the captives are freed and Ivan and his Tsarevna are wed.

Stravinsky drew three orchestral suites from The Firebird. The third, from 1945, uses the reduced orchestration of the more familiar 1919 suite (the 1911 suite requires the very large orchestra of the original ballet), but incorporates several additional scenes from the full score. The first two, Introduction and The Dance of the Firebird, accompany the appearance of the magical creature. There follow three Pantomimes, the Pas de Deux of the Firebird and Ivan Tsarevich, and the Scherzo: Dance of the Princesses. Next comes the Round Dance of the Princesses, which uses the rhythm and style of an ancient Russian dance called the Khorovod.

The Infernal Dance of King Kashchei, the most modern portion of the score, depicts the madness engendered by the appearance of the Firebird at Kashchei’s court after the revelation to Ivan of the evil ogre’s vulnerability. The haunting Berceuse is heard when the thirteenth princess, the one of whom Ivan is enamored, succumbs to a sleep-charm which saves her from the terrible King while Ivan destroys Kashchei’s malevolent power. The Finale, initiated by the solo horn, confirms the life-force that had been threatened by Kashchei. ©2017 Dr. Richard E. Rodda

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Ms. Carol L. Rust Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Sandt Ms. Mary Ann Schultz Patrick Scully Mr. David Seeland Dr. and Mrs. David Shander Jo Shannon Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Silverman Ms. Janice Sinden Mr. and Mrs. William H. Speaker Hanspeter Spuhler Myron and Marcia Stein Julie and John Strain Mr. and Mrs. Michael Strear Helena and Allan Striker Ryan Sullivan Carol and Cedric Tarr Judy and Rob Tate Brandon Thall Mr. Frank Thomson Jennifer Thurman Skip Thurman Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Tillery Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Timblin Ms. Sheila Trader Dona Verschelden Ed and Patty Wahtera

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CO M M U N I T Y S U P P O RT Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ward Ms. Hanna Warren Mr. Jim and Mrs. Janice White Jordan Wight Mr. Dieter and Mrs. Marianne Wons Dr. and Mrs. Roy R. Wright Dick and Lorie Young Marsha F. Young Mr. and Mrs. Ken Ziebarth R.A. Zimmerman Joan Zisler

MATCHING DONATIONS

Thank you to those companies who match current and retired employee contributions to the Colorado Symphony and to our donors who apply for these matching gifts. Please check with your Human Resources Department to see if your contribution can double through the generosity of your company. To contact the Advancement Department directly, please call Sean Baker at 303.534.0757.

WOMEN OF NOTE DONOR LIST

The following are members of the Colorado Symphony’s Women of Note (WON). WON members receive exclusive benefits and event invitations throughout the season. The Colorado Symphony is grateful for the support of these dedicated individuals.

Anonymous Marin Alsop* Nancy Accetta Addie Barkley Paula Bernstein* Terry Biddinger* Libby Bortz Erna Butler* Taesuk Cho-Hwang Kirsten Collins Donna Connolly Anne Culver Courtney Ferer Kathie Finger Mary Lou Flater Monica Glickman Diane Hill Elizabeth Holtze Eileen Honnen-McDonald* Montjoy Kugeler Sandy Lasky* Nancy Lawrence Ann Levy Carolyn Longmire

Jeri Loser Merry Low Janet Mordecai Karin Mote Carol Murphy Elizabeth B. Neva Jane Nielsen Shelia O’Brien Diane Padalino Ursula Powell Margaret Roath Mary Rossick Kern* Suzanne Barber Ryan Suzanne Satter Alice Silver Phoebe Smedley Kathy Sphuler Vicki Sterling Janyce Wald Rivka Weisberg Judy Wigod *Founding Member

SPECIAL PROJECT DONORS

The Colorado Symphony constantly seeks new and creative ways to preserve the cultural legacy of symphonic music while actively co-creating its future. By working on new recordings and collaborations, the Colorado Symphony strives to stay relevant for generations to come.

Anonymous Col. Philip Beaver and Mrs. Kim Beaver Bob and Cynthia Benson Colorado Symphony Guild, Inc. Tom and Noel Congdon Mr. and Mrs. Scott Cromie Dr. Everette J. Freeman Mr. Paul E. Goodspeed and Ms. Mary Poole Jennifer Heglin Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome H. Kern Fred and Connie Platt Mr. Dan Poole Dr. and Mrs. Paul R. Rosen

EDUCATION DONOR LIST

Through our Musicurious program, your Colorado Symphony reaches thousands of young people within and well outside the Denver metro area, from months-old through high school and beyond. We always work to extend and increase our outreach and could not possibly do it without your support.

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CO M M U N I T Y S U P P O RT PLATINUM CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($50,000+) Anonymous Dresner Foundation Malone Family Foundation

Denver Post Charities, a McCormick Foundation Fund Precourt Foundation Scientific & Cultural Collaborative US Bank Foundation

GOLD CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($25,000+) Anonymous The Anschutz Foundation Mrs. Libby Anschutz Arrow Electronics, Inc. Mrs. Sandy N. Elliott

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($2,000+) Anonymous Nathan B. & Florence R. Burt Foundation Cherry Hills Cultural Associates Collage Giving Fund ECA Foundation Katherine McMurray Henry B. Mohr Parker Foundation TEGNA Foundation Ms. Lynne Valencia

CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($10,000+) Anonymous The AJL Charitable Foundation Ralph L. and Florence R. Burgess Trust The Denver Foundation Kern Family Foundation U.S. Bank Foundation Verizon Wireless Walter S. Rosenberry, III Trust SILVER CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($5,000+) Anonymous Colorado Symphony Guild, Inc.

SYMPHONY CONCERTMASTER ($1,000+) Anonymous Keith and Kathie Finger Kinder Morgan Foundation Singer F. Foundation SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ($500+) Anonymous Nancy Ball

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CO M M U N I T Y S U P P O RT Dr. John A. and Mrs. Jane H. Coppola Mr. Billy Harris and Ms. Linda Purcell Mr. Jon Isenhart Ms. Carla McWilliams Mr. and Mrs. Howard Turetzky R.A. Zimmerman

BALL SPONSOR LIST

The 2017 Colorado Symphony Ball: Rock and Roll Royalty celebrated our musical guest Tracksuit Wedding and raised over $1 million to sustain Symphony programs through table sales, donations, sponsorships, silent and live auctions, and real-time donations supporting our Educational programming including Very Young Composers.

PRESENTING SPONSOR ($75,000+) Arrow Electronics, Inc. VIRTUOSO ($50,000+) The Anschutz Foundation Liberty Global, Inc. Malone Family Foundation United Airlines Corporate MAESTRO ($25,000+) Anonymous AMG National Trust Bank Linda Shoemaker and Stephen M. Brett Mark Carleton Mr. Edward B. Cordes Sandy Elliott HomeAdvisor IAC Corporation Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome H. Kern Liberty Media Corporation LionTree Advisors, LLC ENCORE ($15,000+) Applejack Wine & Spirits Keith and Kathie Finger KPMG, LLP Mr. Trent and Mrs. Nicole Martinet Northern Trust Company Sherman & Howard CONCERTMASTER ($10,000+) Nancy and Tony Accetta Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Denver Broncos Football Club University of Denver Discovery Communications Stephanie and Adam Donner

Dr. Everette J. Freeman, President, Community College of Denver Diane S. Hill, Ph.D. and Kevin E. Somerville, Ph.D. Libby Anschutz Foundation Dr. Christopher Ott and Jeremy Simons The Publishing House Anna and John J. Sie Foundation PRINCIPAL ($5,000+) AEG Live AMC Network Baker & Hostetler, LLP Baker Botts, LLP Benefactor/Randall Carter Breakthru Beverage Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Carolyn and Young Cho Alyssa and Scott Clarke Colorado Rockies Baseball Club CU Anschutz Medical Campus CU Foundation DaVita DiBiase Family Fund Jayne Ford and Ken desGarennes Ali Pashel Frankfurt and Will Frankfurt Great Western Bank John and Bridget Grier Dr. Richard and Mary Krugman Sharon Magness Blake and Ernie Blake Dr. Marsha Tharakan and Dr. Jon Masoudi Coreen and Michael Miller MillerCoors Moye White, LLP 9NEWS Gary and Joyce Pashel Republic National Distributing Company Marcia and Richard Robinson Searchlight Capital Tracy Dunning and Eric Sondermann Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits Volunteers of America Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz WilmerHale ROCK LEVEL ($1,000+) FirstBank Stephanie and Adam Moore Judy and Alan Wigod BACH LEVEL ($500+) Boss Architecture Cadre General Contractors Inc. Julie and Jim Copenhaver Barbara and Ed Greene A. B. Hirschfeld Sandy and Evan Lasky

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CO M M U N I T Y S U P P O RT Susan and Howard Noble Nijole and Walter Rasmussen Jane and Rob Scofield DONATIONS Allée Photography Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Applejack Wine & Spirits Argonaut Wine & Liquor Bouquets Ceavco Merle C. Chambers Epicurean Jay’s Valet Live Nation Peter Lockley The Publishing House Republic National Distributing Company Barbara Servis Tracksuit Wedding

IN MEMORIAM GIFTS

The following gifts were made to the Colorado Symphony in memory of a family member, friend, or supporter of the symphony. These tributes hold an honored

place with the Colorado Symphony and we are privileged to recognize them.

In memory of David Abosch given by: Roger and Susan Bowles Dick and Sigrid Freese Mr. John and Mrs. Karen Kinzie Mr. Duain Wolfe In memory of Mr. Charles Ansbacher given by: Swanee Hunt Family Foundation In memory of Ms. Nan L. Barnett given by: Ms. Teresa D. Case Eileen P. Hayes E. Joyce Morgan Charles and Shirley Anne Sheets Janice A. Speer, classmates of Class of 1956 In memory of Terry Biddinger given by: Roger and Susan Bowles In memory of Bessie C. Burghardt given by: Bessie C. Burghardt Charitable Unitrust In memory of Ms. Muriel Cassidy given by: Mr. David Aker

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CO M M U N I T Y S U P P O RT In memory of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Caton given by: Catherine Caton Groene In memory of Mingwah Chan given by: Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Chan In memory of Blair Chotzinhoff given by: The Denver Foundation Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin Mrs. Nancy Schulein In memory of Dr. William R. Cook given by: Karen Cook In memory of Mr. Richard Culver given by: Marcia D. Strickland Wednesday Music Party In memory of Frances E. given by: Cynthia Schauer In memory of Paul and Ann Emrich given by: Mr. David Emrich In memory of Mr. Gerald Endsley given by: Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Ms. Virginia W. Farber given by: Ms. Penny Berenbaum Christina K. Chavez Ms. Vicki Dansky Mr. Michael Eber Ms. Nikki Reyer Facteau Mr. and Mrs. Kevan Gibson Lynda Goldstein Celeste and Jack Grynberg Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hirschfeld Brad Kornfeld Mrs. Linda Kornfeld Beth Levy Ms. Patricia Loewi Mr. Robert Loup Ms. Cynthia Lowinger Ms. Julie Malek Margie Margolies Rabbi and Mrs. David Meyer Louann and Micky Miller Recht Kornfeld PC Rose Community Foundation Sharon and Charles Rosen Temple Emanuel Denver In memory of Dr. Joyce S. Freeman given by: Freeman Family Foundation Ms. JoAnne Friedman In memory of Jerry and Joyce Friedman given by: Ms. JoAnne Friedman In memory of Mr. Michael Gaughan given by: Tanya and Bruce Caughey Mr. David W. Durnell Tim and Janet Taggert

In memory of Carol and Bill Gossard given by: Mr. and Mrs. Steve Wynkoop In memory of Manny Greenberg given by: Ellie Greenberg and Family The Sylvan Stool Family In memory of Mr. Ken Harper given by: Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Dr. H. Michael Hayes given by: Hayes Family Foundation In memory of retired musician Fred Hoeppner given by: Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bakemeier Drs. Paula and William Bernstein Roger and Susan Bowles Ed and Colleen Casper Rochelle Cohen Jim and Julie Copenhaver Mr. Edward and Mrs. Judith Elgethun David and Debra Flitter Dick and Sigrid Freese Mrs. Trisha F. Hood Mike Jalving and Susan Spero Mr. Gary Kleiman and Ms. Elisa Moran Judge and Mrs. John P. Leopold Karen Jo and Brett Levin John and Merry Low Ms. Cynthia R. Mancinelli Mr. and Mrs. James Maurer Paul and Barb Moe His friends and neighbors of Mountain View Elizabeth and Heather Neva Ms. Kathleen Newman F.R. Owen Ms. Mary Ann Rhode Don Ruggles Rob and Jane Scofield Mr. and Ms. Steve Straub Judy Wiese In memory of Mrs. Suzanne Kintzele given by: Ms. Marianne Bolt In memory of Kenneth W. Kohlenberg given by: Mr. Bryan Kohlenberg In memory of David Kulaas given by: Mrs. Jennifer S. Kulaas Pelham G. Pearce In memory of Lea LaParle given by: Ms. Donna S. Gerich In memory of Maurice Larue given by: Scott and Jackie Barnes Denis and Kathy Donnelly Ms. Carol A. Greenwald

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CO M M U N I T Y S U P P O RT In memory of Edward Levy given by: Ann Levy Ms. Denison Levy In memory of Marie Lindvall given by: Anonymous In memory of Dr. James List, M.D. given by: Emma L. Dafoe In memory of Suzanne Hewitt Lowell given by: Mr. and Mrs. Neil W. Hamilton Mr. Charles Homsy In memory of Thomas L. McClintock given by: Colorado Symphony Guild-Foothills Unit Ms. Nancy L. Graham G.J. and P.A. Graziano James D. and Elizabeth McMahon Mrs. Carol Reeves In memory of Ruthi McEwen given by: Frank Parce In memory of Virginia McGehee given by: Sarah C. Hite In memory of their late spouses, Richard McKennett and Sarah Porter given by: Carla McKennett and David Porter In memory of Trieba Clark Meeks given by: Ms. Penny Berenbaum Deanna J. Collins Larry O’Donnell and Kermit Cain Robert Pipkin Nadine C. Racek Revocable Trust In memory of Fred and Florence Mohr given by: Brad Metziner In memory of Maurine Howell Moody given by: Mr. Robert Moody In memory of Charles Lewis Mueldener given by: Challa Patchett In memory of her husband, Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr., M.D. given by: Jo Ann Paffenbarger In memory of Robert Peterson given by: Mr. John Peterson In memory of Herman D. Post given by: Dr. Robin D. Post In memory of Dorothy Presta given by: Mr. and Mrs. William Cowan Ms. Mary Neidig P. A. Price In memory of Ralph F. Proctor III given by: Mr. and Mrs. Steven H. Proctor In memory of Barbara Ridgway given by: Ms. Kathryn Taylor In memory of Erna Rockey given by: Roger and Susan Bowles

In memory of Erwin I. Rogoff, “Country before Self” given by: Mr. Bernie Rogoff and Ms. Jean Greenberg In memory of Mr. Harry T. Safstrom given by: Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Michael Schatz given by: Ms. Jo Ellen Cohen In memory of Robert Schulein given by: The Denver Foundation Mrs. Nancy Schulein In memory of Mary Ruth Smith given by: Ms. Anne H. Wheeler In memory of his wife, Tracy Smith given by: Mr. Clyde Eaton Smith In memory of Betty Sonnenberg given by: Sylvia Kreider In memory of Lee and Margaret Tipton given by: Tipton Family Foundation In memory of Sue Van Deusen given by: M Cati Flater David P. and Chady L. Hall Ms. Violet Wagener In memory of Guenther Vogt given by: Mr. Charles Anderson Ms. Anne Oberbroeckling In memory of Sam Wagonfeld given by: Dick and Sigrid Freese In memory of Seymour (SY) Wallach given by: Mrs. Merrily Wallach In memory of Mrs. Jean Watt given by: Rob and Jane Scofield In memory of Heinrich Weinberg given by: Dr. Adriana Weinberg In memory of Lisa Gayle Wigod given by: Alan and Judy Wigod In memory of Charleen Wippler given by: Ms. Linda Will In memory of Josephine Zoglo given by: Regina Zoglo

IN HONOR GIFTS

The following gifts were made to the Colorado Symphony in honor of a family member, friend, or special occasion. These tributes hold an honored place with the Colorado Symphony and we are pleased to recognize them.

In honor of Silver Ainomäe’s fine artistry given by: Elizabeth and Heather Neva In honor of Libby Anschutz given by: Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hirschfeld Mr. and Mrs. John Sie

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CO M M U N I T Y S U P P O RT In honor of Linda Battan given by: Nancy Battan In honor of Dr. Paula Bernstein given by: Ms. Marian Lyons Ms. Paula Folkman In honor of Marge and Ed Blaine given by: Dr. Judy Blaine In honor of Steve Brett and Linda Shoemaker for their work in our community: Anna and John J. Sie Foundation In honor of Christine and John Brown given by: Mr. Erik Bernstein In honor of Mary Louise Burke given by: Frank Y. Parce In honor of Char Campbell given by: Mr. and Mrs. Bradley James In honor of Christina Carlson given by: Ms. Marjorie H. Adler Carolyn and Ronald Baer Frederick W. Damour Virginia E. and Robert K. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Harold Logan In honor of Jeanette Carlson given by: Joseph Goldhammer

In honor of Willis V. Carpenter given by: Mr. Bryan Kohlenberg In honor of Ellie Caulkins given by: Anna and John J. Sie Foundation In honor of Taesuk Cho-Hwang given by: Ms. Ruth Williams In honor of Mary Claire and Jim Brothers given by: Ms. Melinda Quiat In honor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus given by: Jude Blum Ms. Cynthia Lowinger Susan Von Roedern Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sladovnik In honor of the Colorado Symphony Guild given by: Billie Busby and Sidney Smith In honor of Susan Ellis given by: Deanna J. Collins In honor of Brook Ferguson, Principal Flutist given by: Mr. Robert Moody In honor of Monica Glickman given by: Ms. Ruth Schorsch

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CO M M U N ISUPPORT T Y S U P P O RT COMMUNITY In honor of Frank Gordon given by: Trevor Crandall In honor of Bill and Carol Gossard given by: Anonymous In honor of retired musician, Chet Hampson given by: Susan Martin In honor of Philip C. Hiester, Master Electrician of the CSO given by: Mr. Eli Reshotko and Mrs. Adina Reshotko In honor of Diane S. Hill and Kevin E. Somerville given by: Michael P. Dowling Mr. and Mrs. Seth Weisberg In honor of Roy A. Kent given by: Anonymous In honor of Jerry Kern’s Birthday given by: Nancy Battan Mrs. Terry A. Biddinger Laura Bond Patty and Don Cook Mr. Stephen A. Edmonds Sari and Bob Freedman Mr. Philip Hiester and Ms. Deborah Reshotko Coreen and Michael Miller Ms. Julie B. Rubsam Mr. and Mrs. John Sie In honor of Mary Rossick Kern and Jerry Kern given by: Michael and Christine James Ms. Leslie Sexer Myron and Marcia Stein In honor of John and Karen Kinzie given by: Ms. Kathleen Dunnewald In honor of Keith Kirby given by: Ms. Sara Alt In honor of Nona Kolbe’s 100th Birthday given by: Brad Metziner In honor of Carole Leight given by: Mr. Erik Bernstein Ms. Melinda Quiat In honor of Ann Levy’ Birthday given by: Mrs. Sue Damour Rose Community Foundation In honor of Karen Littlefield given by: Mr. and Mrs. Steven H. Proctor In honor of Rebecca Moritzky given by: Barb Moritzky In honor of Frank Parce and Ellie Roberts given by: Mr. David Parce In honor of Jeffrey Pickard, MD given by: The Colorado Health Foundation

In honor of Ken Quarles given by: Frank Y. Parce In honor of Dr. Gerald Rainer given by: Dr. and Mrs. James G. Chandler In honor of Julie Rubsam given by: Driscoll Foundation Mollie Leone In honor of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Sanders given by: Ms. Ann Gugenheim In honor of Janice Schultz given by: Ms. Jennifer D. Spaulding In honor of Enid Slack’s Birthday given by: Mr. and Mrs. Dick Freese In honor of Jackson T. Stevens given by: Mrs. Bridget McNeil Mr. Chris Strom In memory of Barbara Uhrich given by: Mrs. Nancy C. Ives and Mr. M. J. Roddy Joan Manley Houlton In honor of John and Kristine Wallack given by: Richard Falb and Gail Skaggs In honor of Robert Warner given by: Ruth Mosteller In honor of Janet Way’s 90th Birthday given by: Frank Y. Parce In honor of Darlee Whiting given by: Hayes Family Foundation In honor of Alan and Judy Wigod given by: Robert Wigod In honor of our Concertmaster, Yumi Hwang-Williams given by: Michael P. Dowling In honor of Harold Wippler given by: Ms. Linda Will In honor of Duain Wolfe for his outstanding work with the Chorus given by: Mr. Eugene J. Nuccio In honor of Barbara and Jack Zable given by: Diane K. Henderson

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