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Playing to Our Strengths Fostering creative thinking and growth through the performing arts
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6 Welcome
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Colorado Symphony Staff
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Making Beautiful Music, Together
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Playing to Our Strengths
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Colorado Symphony Musicians
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Musician Spotlight
12 Colorado Symphony Board of Trustees
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Community Support
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WELCOME The Real Duration of a Concert When I was in grade school, my mother made two things very clear to me: symphonic music is an essential, beautiful experience and girls could grow up to be anything they wanted to be. That’s why she took my sister and me to Boettcher Concert Hall to see our Colorado Symphony perform. Marin Alsop was Music Director and quickly became our role model for her talent, ambition, and her groundbreaking drive. Besides an everlasting love of Mozart, my mom taught me something else, perhaps without realizing it: seeing music performed live is a joy we experience together and individually. Since then, I’ve attended literally thousands of concerts around the country and our beautiful state and have dedicated my life to philanthropy, because that’s exactly what I wanted to pursue: giving back for a greater good. Hers was a lesson that stuck, to say the least. We’re proud to be Colorado’s Symphony; ours is a state like no other. Like most Coloradans, I’m outside as soon as the sun’s out to enjoy our mountains and all they offer. And we’re incredibly fortunate — as a Symphony, as a community — to have stunning outdoor venues like Red Rocks Amphitheatre. We’ve already announced some of our Red Rocks summer concerts with Pink Martini, Diana Krall, and Jethro Tull, and I can’t wait to see them all perform with our musicians. I’m a Denver native, and, like you, I’ve seen some mind-blowing changes over the years that affect us all — booming businesses, a population explosion, changing landscapes. One major transformation I’m especially looking forward to is Brett Mitchell joining us as Music Director in our 2017/18 Season, and taking our concert series and education programs to new heights with his energy, vision, and leadership. As a non-profit, the Colorado Symphony provides music education programs for lifelong learning — programs that rely on your support of our Annual Fund to continue and grow. Before this concert begins, I’m asking you to jump to page 20 and read about music education and philanthropy. Consider how this performance will make you feel, and how you’ll feel if your generosity means others can share this same joy for years to come. It’s incredible how something that lasts less than two hours can affect you for the rest of your life, isn’t it? With gratitude, Christina Carlson Chief Advancement Officer
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What Happens When You Give to the Colorado Symphony? Your donation ensures that superb symphonic performances by world-class musicians will continue to enliven and enrich our city. With each donation, you’re also supporting... A VIBRANT AND ACTIVE ORCHESTRA • 80 full-time musicians from all over the world • 191 days spent performing 85 concerts in Boettcher Hall FRESH TAKES ON CLASSICAL MUSIC • Casual and immersive Sip with the Symphony events • REMIX concerts and events for Young Professionals • Our annual Symphony Ball with live rock performances MORE ACCESSIBLE CONCERTS • 11,000+ students and teachers attended concerts for $10 • 5,000+ Community Ticketing Initiative guests attended concerts for free CHILDREN’S MUSIC EDUCATION • 25,000 K-12 students attended Youth Concerts at Boettcher Concert Hall • In-school education programs for grades Pre-K through 5 • On-site mentorship with Colorado Symphony Teaching Artists for grades K-12
Be Instrumental in Making Great Music. Give Today. Our entire staff and orchestra make financial contributions to the Colorado Symphony each year. Join us by making your own contribution at coloradosymphony.org/donate.
Ways to Give Individual donations, legacy giving, gifts of stock, and event sponsorship are just a few of the ways you can support the Symphony. Contact Director of Development Gerry Heise at gheise@coloradosymphony.org or 303.308.2475 for more information.
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ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
VIOLIN Yumi Hwang-Williams Concertmaster The Mary Rossick Kern & Jerome H. Kern Concertmaster Chair Claude Sim Associate Concertmaster Yi Zhao Assistant Concertmaster Ben Odhner Fixed 4th Chair Paul Primus Principal Second Allegra Wermuth Assistant Principal Second Alessandra Jennings Flanagan Fixed 3rd Chair / Second Larisa Fesmire Thomas Hanulik Wyn Hart John Hilton Anne-Marie Hoffman Miroslava IvanchenkoBartels Dorian Kincaid Karen Kinzie Mark Lamprey Susan Paik Miroslav Pastusiak Erik Peterson Robert Stoyanov Delcho Tenev Amy Tyson Bradley Watson Tena White Wenting Yuan
Charlyn Campbell   Marsha Holmes Leah Kovach Helen McDermott Kelly Shanafelt Phillip Stevens
VIOLA Basil Vendryes Principal Catherine Beeson Assistant Principal Mary Cowell Fixed 3rd Chair
OBOE Peter Cooper Principal Emily Moscoso * 2nd / Assistant Principal Jason Lichtenwalter
CELLO Austin Fisher Acting Principal Judith McIntyre Acting Assistant Principal Susan Rockey Bowles Danielle Guideri Thomas Heinrich Margaret Hoeppner Matthew Switzer Alice Yoo * Susan Yun BASS Steve Metcalf
Principal
Nicholas Recuber Assistant Principal John Arnesen Susan Cahill James Carroll Jeremy Kincaid Owen Levine FLUTE Brook Ferguson Principal Catherine Peterson 2nd / Assistant Principal Julie Duncan Thornton PICCOLO Julie Duncan Thornton
ENGLISH HORN Jason Lichtenwalter CLARINET Jason Shafer Principal Abby Raymond 2nd / Assistant Principal Andrew Stevens E-FLAT CLARINET Abby Raymond BASS CLARINET Andrew Stevens BASSOON Chad Cognata Principal Tristan Rennie 2nd / Assistant Principal Roger Soren CONTRA-BASSOON Roger Soren HORN Michael Thornton Principal Carolyn Kunicki Kolio Plachkov 3rd / Associate Principal David Brussel Austin Larson Assistant Principal TRUMPET Justin Bartels Principal Philip Hembree 2nd / Assistant Principal Patrick Tillery Associate Principal
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TROMBONE John Sipher Principal Paul Naslund 2nd / Associate Principal Gregory Harper BASS TROMBONE Gregory Harper TUBA Stephen Dombrowski Principal HARP Courtney Hershey Bress Principal TIMPANI William Hill Principal Steve Hearn Assistant Principal PERCUSSION John Kinzie Principal Steve Hearn Michael Van Wirt ORCHESTRA LIBRARIAN Joanne Goble Principal Jonathan Groszew Assistant
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BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICERS Jerome H. Kern, Co-Chair Dr. Mary Rossick Kern, Co-Chair Stephanie Donner, Esq. Treasurer Susan Bowles,* Secretary TRUSTEES Anthony T. Accetta Dr. Paula P. Bernstein Susan Cahill* Young Cho Jim Copenhaver Zachary D. Detra, Esq. BJ Dyer Sandy Elliott Jack Finlaw Dr. Everette J. Freeman Dr. Michael G. Gundzik Diane S. Hill, Ph.D. Jessica Hobbs Yumi Hwang-Williams* Kathleen Johnson, Esq.
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EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Rose Blaschke President, Colorado Symphony Guild Ginger White City and County of Denver, Arts & Venues EMERITUS TRUSTEES William K. Coors John Low W. Gerald Rainer Lee Yeingst HONORARY TRUSTEES Governor John Hickenlooper Mayor Michael B. Hancock Christopher J. Ott, M.D.
ASSOCIATE BOARD OFFICERS Jackson Stevens, Chair William Kowalski, Treasurer Andrea Copland, Secretary Chris Strom, Marketing Chair Rachel Yeates, Membership Chair Brandon Seifert, Events Chair ASSOCIATE BOARD MEMBERS Marilyn Brock Mike Fredregill Gerry Heise Leah Kovach Bridget Kennedy McNeil Sarah Parmley Kelly Waltrip
SymphonyPreludes Pre-concert events to enhance your experience!
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Classical music author and historian Betsy Schwarm will share information about the composers and pieces on the program. Ms. Schwarm is a celebrated Denver icon. Catch her in action before hearing your Colorado Symphony!
Ever wonder what your Colorado Symphony musicians think about the music? Come find out! Violist Phillip Stevens hosts an informal Q&A featuring additional Colorado Symphony musicians who are delighted to share their unique point of view on the composers and pieces you’ll be hearing.
Take your mind, body, and spirit to a deeper listening plane with Catherine Beeson, Assistant Principal Violist for your Colorado Symphony. Catherine will guide you to an internal understanding of the music you’ll be hearing by encouraging your super powers of inquiry, observation, and application.
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COLORADO SYMPHONY STAFF LEADERSHIP TEAM Jerome H. Kern Chief Executive Officer Coreen Miller Chief Financial Officer Anthony Pierce Chief Artistic Officer Christina Carlson Chief Advancement Officer Parker Owens Chief Marketing Officer Susan Ellis Chief Administrative Officer Doug Yost Chief of Information Services ARTISTIC Brett Mitchell Music Director Designate Andrew Litton Principal Guest Conductor Duain Wolfe Chorus Director, Colorado Symphony Chorus Christopher Dragon Associate Conductor Andres Lopera Assistant Conductor Emily Scott Director of Artistic Administration 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 Kyle Kamrath Manager of Artistic Operations
Taylor Martin Assistant Conductor, Colorado Symphony Chorus Jessica Mays Outreach Coordinator Mike Pappas New Media Center Barbara Porter Assistant Chorus Manager Phillip Strom Artistic Coordinator ADVANCEMENT / DEVELOPMENT Gerry Heise Director of Development Sean Baker Annual Giving Manager Kate Bentley Development Associate Emily Spirk Development Administrative Assistant EDUCATION Catherine Beeson Director of Community Education Programs Shari Myers Education Coordinator FINANCE Annette Brown Staff Accountant Paula Rossin Staff Accountant INFORMATION SERVICES Matt Krupa Manager of Information Technology MARKETING / PUBLIC & COMMUNITY RELATIONS Stephanie Derybowski Digital Media Specialist Rachel Trignano Manager of Public & Community Relations SALES & PATRON SERVICES Susan Kelly Director of Sales & Patron Services Ian MacIntyre Manager of Patron Services Amanda Cantu Lead Patron Services Associate Sherri Colgan Patron Services Associate Molly Epstein Group Sales Associate
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SEPTEMBER Renée Fleming with the Colorado Symphony SEPT 9
C L A S S IC S
C L A S S IC S
SEPT 22-24 FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Queen of Jazz: A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald SEPT 30
OCTOBER Purple Rain: The Music of Prince OCT 7 OCT 13-15
C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
C L A S S IC S
Handel’s Messiah DEC 8-9
OCT 26-27
A Colorado Christmas
THU-FRI 7:30 SAT 2:30
FAMILY
DEC 15-17
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HOLI DAY
FRI 7:30 ■ SAT 2:30 & 6:00 ■ SUN 1:00 HOLI DAY
WED 7:30
Too Hot To Handel DEC 22-23
SPECI AL
SUN 7:30
Holiday Brass Returns to Boettcher Concert Hall DEC 20
HOLI DAY
FRI-SAT 7:30
Yo-Yo Ma with the Colorado Symphony DEC 10
CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Disney in Concert: MOVIE AT THE S YMPHON Y Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas™
OCT 28
FAMI LY
SUN 1:00
DECEMBER All-Beethoven Conducted by Brett Mitchell DEC 1-3
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Halloween Spooktacular!
CL ASSI CS
S PEC IA L
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Stravinsky’s The Firebird OCT 20-22
NOV 26
SPECI AL
SAT 7:30
Drums of the World
SAT 7:30
Mozart’s Requiem
THU 7:30
Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Natasha Paremski NOV 17-19
SAT 7:30
LI STEN/HEAR
Ravel's Boléro & Colorado Premiere NOV 11
S YMPHON Y PO PS
CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
LISTEN/HEAR 101 Decoding Classical & Baroque, Broken Down NOV 9
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
NOVEMBER Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony No. 41 NOV 3-5
SAT 7:30
Opening Weekend: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 SEPT 15-17
S PEC IA L
FRI-SAT 7:30
HOLI DAY
A Night In Vienna DEC 31
HOL IDAY
SUN 6:30
JANUARY Harry Potter MOVIE AT THE S YMPHO N Y and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ In Concert JAN 5-6
FRI-SAT 7:30
A Tribute to Arthur Fielder and the Boston Pops JAN 13 JAN 19-21
FEB 2-4
John Williams: An American Journey FEB 9-10
S PEC IA L
FRI-SAT 7:30
Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring FEB 16-18
C L A S S IC S
C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
LISTEN/HEAR 102 L IS TEN/HEA R Anything But Innocent: The Hard-Core Romantics FEB 22
THU 7:30
SAT 7:30
MARCH Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Olga Kern MAR 2-4 MAR 9-10 MAR 11
FRI-SAT 7:30 CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Colorado Symphony Ball 2018 Fillmore Auditorium APR 28
MAY 3-4
FUNDR AI SER
SAT 6:00
M AY Jurassic Park In Concert
MOVI E AT THE SYMPHONY
THU-FRI 7:30
Pirates of the Symphony Seas! Buntport Theater and the Colorado Symphony MAY 6 MAY 11-13
S PEC IA L
CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00 LI STEN/HEAR
THU 7:30
ROCK ON! with the Colorado Symphony
SYMPHONY POPS
SAT 7:30
Two Titans: Bernstein & Mahler MAY 25-27
FAMI LY
SUN 1:00
LISTEN/HEAR 104 Musique Nouveau – The Current Voice
MAY 19
CL ASSI CS
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
FAMILY C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
John Denver: A Rocky Mountain High S YMPHO N Y POPS Concert Celebration With The Colorado Symphony MAR 23
SPECI AL
SUN 1:00
Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto No. 5 MAR 16-18
C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30
Carnival of the Animals
THU 7:30
Wagner: The Ring Without Words
MAY 17
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Video Games Live™ Returns!
LI STEN/HEAR
Mozart’s “Elvira Madigan” Piano Concerto No. 21
Red Carpet Rewind: S YMPHON Y PO PS Celebration of the Music of the Academy Awards FEB 24
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
Béla Fleck: Concerto for Banjo and Orchestra No. 3
APR 20-22
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
CL ASSI CS
LISTEN/HEAR 103 The American Voice
APR 13-14 C L A S S IC S
FRI-SAT 7:30 ■ SUN 1:00
FEBRUARY Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé
APR 6-8
APR 12 S YMPHON Y PO PS
SAT 7:30
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons
APRIL Copland’s Rodeo Conducted by Andrew Litton
FRI 7:30
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Playing to Our Strengths By Rachel Trignano
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” - Albert Camus Early on a snowy January morning, Catherine Beeson — Director of the Colorado Symphony’s Education and Community Programs and our Assistant Principal Viola player — drove from Denver to Colorado Springs to accept the Colorado Music Educators Association’s 2017 Exemplary Service to Music Education Award. “It is humbling to be in a room full of people who take seriously our responsibility to foster creative thinking and growth through the performing arts,” Catherine said to the room full of musicians and teachers. Like so many other local music educators, Catherine — along with her fellow Colorado Symphony musicians and colleagues — work hard to supplement our local schools’ music education programs. It’s a cause we believe in, because we believe all students deserve the proven benefits of music education — and that the future of symphonic music depends on them.
Music on Our Minds The rewards and decline of music education have been researched and reported for years, and the same conclusions are drawn time and again: early-age immersion in music improves test scores, enhances cognitive development, staves off mental decline in later years — the list goes on. Yet music programs in schools steadily dwindle as funds dry up and standardized testing remains in the foreground.
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One of the Colorado Symphony’s most in-demand programs is Very Young Composers, which places Symphony musicians in schools to guide students in creating original compositions using sounds, feelings, story-telling, and basic music lessons. The pieces are then performed in the students’ schools, communities, and even at Boettcher Concert Hall. Other in-school programs like MathNotes and Music of Life teach music in context of math and natural sciences to grade-schoolers, and students of all ages receive in-school lessons from the Symphony’s Teaching Artists through our Master Mentor program. Our adult education efforts like pre-concert Preludes, post-concert Talkbacks, and Inside the Score — which is getting revamped and revitalized for the 2017/18 Season — continue the Colorado Symphony’s commitment to lifelong music education.
Your Presence Determines Our Future Any Symphony relies heavily on active audiences who are educated to appreciate the arts, and patrons who make charitable donations to sustain them. In our world, these are often the same people. And whether we call you donors, patrons, guests, or audiences, you are absolutely philanthropists, and you are directly involved in the life cycle of a Symphony. Like most orchestras, we raise more money than we earn — 57% of our budget relies on your charitable donations and sponsorships. At the start of the 2016/17 Season, the Colorado Symphony had the great fortune to announce we had gotten out of our long-standing deficit and begun a successful endowment campaign. “An endowment is essential to a Symphony’s longevity,” says Christina Carlson, the Symphony’s Chief Advancement Officer. “Think of an endowment fund like a long-term savings account, and an Annual Fund like a checking account: both are crucial to financial health — but the Symphony’s day-to-day operating budget relies directly on the Annual Fund.” In other words, our concerts, education programs, and musician and staff salaries are all largely funded directly by you.
Stronger Together “I believe that philanthropy is the love of mankind and that it improves our own lives as much as the lives of others,” says Christina. “Philanthropy is a strengths-based pursuit. When you give to a cause you believe in, you, the donor — whether you’re giving your time, talent, or treasure — support your passions and what matters most to you. I love working with people and learning why they give. It’s an incredibly fulfilling journey of self-discovery.” Our plans for expanding our lifelong music education programs throughout our community are picking up fantastic momentum, especially as Brett Mitchell joins us as Music Director for the 2017/18 Season. He’s on a mission to make symphonic music more approachable through inventive repertoire and inspiring education for audiences of all ages. And when today’s music education is threatened, so is the future of your Symphony. Our longevity is as tied to the generosity of our donors as it is to each upcoming generation’s connection to the arts. As long as the Colorado Symphony has your loyal support, we can continue to educate the students in our community. Consider your causes, and the effects they have. Where do you see your Symphony in ten years? In fifty? And who’s going to be in the Hall? What’s your strength as a Symphony supporter? Contact Chief Advancement Officer Christina Carlson at ccarlson@ coloradosymphony.org or 303.308.2495.
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MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT All Together Now by Rachel Trignano
Yi Zhao, Assistant Concertmaster
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PHOTO: PETER LOCKLEY
Colorado’s one of the fastest-growing states in the U.S., and Denver’s proven itself as a migration destination — and not just for businesses and outdoors enthusiasts. The Colorado Symphony’s roster boasts musicians from all over the world: Ukraine, China, South Korea, and Bulgaria are just a few countries from which our musicians hail. Two of our musicians, Assistant Concertmaster Yi Zhao and Violinist Myroslava IvanchenkoBartels, took the time to reflect on the life events that brought them to Colorado, and what they enjoy about life here — as performers, parents, partners, and Coloradans.
Myroslava Ivanchenko-Bartels, Violin
Beginnings “I was born in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province in China. I always wanted to learn a musical instrument, and I remember I saw Itzhak Perlman playing on TV. Later that night, I used chopsticks to imitate playing the violin on my shoulder. My parents asked me if I wanted to learn the violin, and I said ‘YES!’ without a moment’s hesitation! “I started studying the violin when I was 7, and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing selected me when I was 12. Afterwards, I got my Bachelor’s at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore. There, I met Professor Cho-Liang Lin, who would become my mentor at Rice University for my graduate degree.” – Yi Zhao, Assistant Concertmaster “I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, to parents who are both professional musicians (a violist and a bassoonist). When I was 6, I asked them to teach me music, so they bought me a piano. I was accepted to Lysenko Music School — but the piano studios were full and they suggested I try violin. I am so glad I did! I studied violin from the age of 7 at the Kyiv Specialized Music School and later the National Music Academy of Ukraine.” – Myroslava Ivanchenko-Bartels, Violin
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Colorado-Bound “This is my sixth year in the United States. Before I moved to the U.S. for my graduate studies, I had been here a few times for chamber music performances in New York and Baltimore. Knowing there were many talented players, teachers, and opportunities (competitions, prestigious music festivals, master-class series) in the States for musicians, I decided to get my Master of Music at Rice with Mr. Lin, who has inspired me since childhood and even now. I auditioned for the Assistant Concertmaster position in the Colorado Symphony, and, thankfully, was chosen for the job.” – Yi “I came to the U.S. on an exchange visitor visa in 1998 when I was almost 20 years old to attend Southern Methodist University in Dallas. When I finished my graduate degree, I earned a fellowship spot with Miami’s New World Symphony, where I met my future husband Justin Bartels — Colorado Symphony’s Principal Trumpet. “We got married and went on to perform in Birmingham, where Justin grew up, and Ohio before coming to Denver in 2008 when Justin won the Principal Trumpet position just before our first daughter was born. I auditioned in 2010 for a section violin spot with Colorado Symphony and was very happy to have gotten in! “When I came to the U.S., I wasn’t planning on immigrating here, though I always admired America and its people. But one never knows what is in store for them. After a few visa statuses, piles of paperwork, several interviews, and a substantial amount of money I have become a proud U.S. citizen in September 2016.” – Myroslava
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BRETT MITCHELL, conductor Hailed for delivering compelling performances of innovative, eclectic programs, Brett Mitchell has been named the fourth Music Director of the Colorado Symphony, beginning in the 2017/18 Season. Prior to this fouryear appointment, he will serve as Music Director Designate during the 2016/17 Season. Mr. Mitchell is also currently the Associate Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra. He joined the orchestra as Assistant Conductor in 2013, and was promoted to his current position in 2015, becoming the orchestra’s first Associate Conductor in over three decades and only the fifth in its 98-year history. In this role, he leads the orchestra in several dozen concerts each season at Severance Hall, Blossom Music Center, and on tour. Mr. Mitchell also serves as the Music Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, which he recently led on a fourcity tour of China. In addition to these titled positions, Brett Mitchell is in consistent demand as a guest conductor. Recent and upcoming guest engagements include the orchestras of Columbus, Dallas, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Oregon, Rochester, Saint Paul, and Washington (National Symphony Orchestra), among others. He has collaborated with such soloists as Rudolf Buchbinder, James Ehnes, Leila Josefowicz, and Alisa Weilerstein, and has served as cover conductor and musical assistant at The Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Born in Seattle in 1979, Brett Mitchell holds degrees in conducting from the University of Texas at Austin and composition from Western Washington University, which selected him as its Young Alumnus of the Year in 2014. He also studied at the National Conducting Institute, and was selected by Kurt Masur as a recipient of the inaugural American Friends of the Mendelssohn Foundation Scholarship. Mr. Mitchell was also one of five recipients of the League of American Orchestras’ American Conducting Fellowship from 2007 to 2010.
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Jason Shafer joined the Colorado Symphony as Principal Clarinet at the start of the 2013-2014 Season. Previously, he played for four years as a fellow with the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, FL. He received his Bachelor of Music with Highest Distinction from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he studied with Kenneth Grant. His other major musical influences include Mark Nuccio and Burt Hara. Jason has appeared in guest principal roles with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony, and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, where he has been a regular member since 2012. Always looking for opportunities to travel, he has performed abroad in Austria, Estonia, and Russia. Jason has collaborated in chamber music performances with Yefim Bronfman, Jeremy Denk, and Laura Aikin; as a concerto soloist, he has performed with the Colorado Symphony, the Sun Valley Summer Symphony, the New World Symphony, and the Eastman Philharmonia, among others. He is passionate about teaching and is on the faculty of the University of Northern Colorado; he also taught at the Metropolitan State University of Denver from 2015-2016. In addition, Jason studied piano during his time at Eastman, and loves to accompany other musicians.
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES PAUL DUKAS (1865-1935): La Péri, Poème Dansé (1912) Paul Dukas was born on October 1, 1865, in Paris and died there on May 18, 1935. He composed La Péri in 1912 and conducted its premiere on April 22, 1912, in Paris. The score calls for three flutes (third doubling piccolo), two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, three bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, celesta, two harps, and strings. Duration is about 20 minutes. The last performance by the orchestra took place on December 9 and 10, 1968, with Vladimir Golschmann conducting. Paul Dukas spent his entire life in Paris as a greatly respected teacher and composer. He showed his musical aptitude early, teaching himself to play piano, and entered the Conservatoire in 1882, where he proved to be an excellent student, winning the second Prix de Rome in 1888. Though he had to abandon his formal training for a time to serve in the army, he turned that period to good use by studying many of the classical works of music, the basis upon which he later built his own compositions. (He later edited several volumes of works by Rameau, Beethoven, Couperin, and Scarlatti.) After his stint in the military, he completed the overture Polyeucte, his first work to be performed publicly. The Symphony in C major followed in 1896, and he gained international recognition a year later with The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Dukas held important positions throughout his life as an instructor at the Conservatoire and as a critic, and was awarded the Legion of Honor in 1906. Stern self-criticism of his compositions led him to destroy all his unpublished manuscripts before his death, so that his small musical legacy comprises only three overtures, a symphony, an opera (Ariane et Barbe-Bleu), a ballet (La Péri), three piano works, a short Villanelle for horn, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Dukas’ La Péri was one of four ballets commissioned and premiered by Natacha Trouhanova at her gala performance in Paris’ Théâtre du Châtelet on April 22, 1912. (D’Indy’s Istar, Florent Schmitt’s La Tragédie de Salomé and Ravel’s Adélaïde, ou le langage des fleurs, set to the orchestrated version of his Valses nobles et sentimentales, rounded out the glittering program.) The story of La Péri concerns an aged Persian nobleman, Iskender, who wanders the world seeking the Flower of Immortality, which he finds in the hand of a beautiful sleeping “Péri” (an imaginary fairy-like being in Persian mythology represented as a descendent of the fallen angels who are excluded from Paradise until their penance is accomplished). He plucks the Flower from her grasp, she awakens, and he is filled with longing for her. She dances the dance of the Péris for him, and draws nearer until their faces touch. He surrenders the Flower to her, she disappears, and Iskender is surrounded by the darkness of mortality. This visionary story drew from Dukas a twenty-minute score of luxuriant opulence, which Dukas preceded with a thematically unrelated Fanfare for brass that was added just before Trouhanova’s premiere performance. As a preface to the score, Dukas provided a poetic telling of the story that captures its visionary exoticism: It happened that at the end of his youthful days, since the Seers observed that his star was growing pale, Iskender went about Iran seeking the flower of immortality. The sun sojourned thrice in its dozen dwellings without Iskender finding the flower. At last he arrived at the end of the earth, where sea and clouds are one. There, on the steps that lead to the hall of Ormuzd, a Péri was reclining, asleep in her jeweled robe. A star sparkled above her head; her lute rested on her breast; in her hand shone the flower.
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES It was a lotus like unto an emerald, radiant like the sea in the morning sun. Iskender noiselessly leaned over the sleeper and, without awakening her, snatched the flower, which suddenly became between his fingers like the noonday sun over the forests of Ghilan. The Péri, opening her eyes, clapped the palms of her hands together and uttered a loud cry, for she could not now ascend towards the light of Ormuzd. Iskender, regarding her, wondered at her face, which surpassed in beauty even the face of Gurda-ferrid. In his heart he coveted her. The Péri knew the thoughts of the King, for in Iskender’s right hand the lotus grew purple and became as the face of longing. Thus the Servant of the Pure knew that this flower of life was not for him. To recover it, she darted forward like a bee, while the invincible lord bore away from her the lotus, torn between his thirst for immortality and the delight he beheld. But the Péri danced the dance of the Péris, always approaching him until her face touched his face; and at the end he gave back the flower without regret. Then the lotus was like unto snow and gold, as the summit of Elbourz at sunset. The form of the Péri seemed to melt in the light coming from a chalice, and soon nothing more was to be seen than a hand raising the flower of flame, which faded in the realm above. Iskender saw her disappear. Knowing from this that his end drew near, he felt the darkness surround him.
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791): Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622 (1791) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on January 27, 1756, in Salzburg and died on December 5, 1791, in Vienna. He composed his Clarinet Concerto in October 1791, just two months before he died. Though there is no record of its premiere, the work was probably played soon after its completion by Anton Stadler, for whom it was written. The score calls for strings plus pairs of flutes, bassoons, and horns. Duration is about 30 minutes. Bil Jackson was the soloist and Jeffrey Kahane conducted when the concerto was last performed on March 18, 2006. Mozart, the man, continues to puzzle and to fascinate. Peter Shaffer’s brilliant play and movie, Amadeus, portrayed the composer as an insensitive, foul-mouthed, puerile lout roaring through Vienna raising envy, tempers, and women’s skirts while dispensing masterpieces like a gum-ball machine. While each of these strains did indeed run through Mozart’s personality, they do not account entirely for his character, as Shaffer would seem to have us believe. Mozart’s relationship with the man for whom he wrote the Clarinet Concerto is only one example refuting the playwright’s view. Mozart harbored a special fondness for the graceful agility, liquid tone, and ensemble amiability of the clarinet from the time that he first heard the instrument as a young boy during his tours, and he later wrote for it whenever it was available. During his years in Vienna, he was especially impressed by the technical accomplishment and expressive playing of the clarinetist in the imperial court orchestra, Anton Stadler. Stadler was a Freemason, and, when Mozart
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES joined the fraternity, the two musicians became close friends. Those last years of Mozart’s life were ones of stifling poverty, ill health, and family problems that often forced him to go begging for loans from others, especially another fellow Mason, Michael Puchberg, who earned many laudatory footnotes in the closing pages of the composer’s biography for his generosity. It says much about Mozart’s kindness and sensitivity that he, in turn, loaned Stadler money when he could, and even once gave him two gold watches to pawn when there was no cash at hand. The final accounting of Mozart’s estate after his death showed that Stadler owed him some 500 florins — several thousand dollars at today’s rate. Stadler also came out of the friendship with far more than just some of Mozart’s silver. In addition to the flawless Clarinet Concerto, Mozart wrote for him the Clarinet Quintet (K. 581); the Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Viola (K. 498); the clarinet and basset horn parts in the vocal trios; and the clarinet solos in the opera La Clemenza di Tito. The Clarinet Concerto started as another piece apparently intended for Stadler — a work for basset horn (alto clarinet), strings, two flutes, and two horns that was sketched as early as 1789. When Stadler conferred with Mozart about the solos in Tito, it seems that he encouraged him to revise the sketch into a full concerto for his instrument. The Clarinet Concerto was the next-to-last work that Mozart completed, followed before his untimely death in December 1791 by only the Masonic Cantata (K. 623) and the unfinished Requiem. The Concerto’s beauty, grace, and deep emotion mark it as one of his supreme masterpieces. Only the greatest creator could have balanced music of such limpid, effortless formal perfection with the incipient Romantic sensibility pulsing beneath the work’s surface, a quality that the noted German musicologist Friedrich Blume wrote imparts “the impression of consummate equipoise and proportion.” The first movement is an exquisitely sculpted sonataconcerto form throughout which the dark, sensuous sound of the clarinet is carefully integrated into the orchestral texture. The simplicity of the theme and structure of the following Adagio belie the emotional depth of its music. The rondo-finale not only maintains the spirit of gaiety associated with that form, but also brings to it an entire world of feelings, by turns cheerful and somber, effusive and introverted. This wonderful Concerto embodies the words of the renowned pianist and Mozart specialist Lili Kraus, who stated in a New York Times interview of several years ago: “There is no feeling — human or cosmic — no depth, no height the human spirit can reach that is not contained in Mozart’s music.”
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV (1844-1908): Scheherazade, Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 (1888) Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was born on March 18, 1844, in Tikhvin, near Novgorod and died June 21, 1908, in St. Petersburg. He composed Scheherazade in June 1888 and completed the orchestration in August; he conducted the orchestra of the St. Petersburg chapter of the Russian Musical Society in the premiere on December 15, 1888. The score calls for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, and strings. Duration is about 42 minutes. Carlos Miguel Prieto was on the podium when the piece was last performed on October 5-7, 2012. “In the middle of the winter [of 1888], engrossed as I was in my work on Prince Igor and other things, I conceived the idea of writing an orchestral composition on the subject of certain episodes from Scheherazade.” Thus did Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov give the curt explanation of the genesis of his most famous work in his autobiography, My Musical Life. His friend Alexander Borodin had died the year before, leaving his magnum opus, the opera Prince Igor, in a state of unfinished disarray. Rimsky-Korsakov had taken it upon himself to complete the piece, and may well have been inspired by its exotic setting among the Tartar tribes in 12th-century central Asia to undertake his own embodiment of musical Orientalism. The stories on which he based his work were taken from the Thousand and One Nights, a collection of millennium-old fantasy tales from Egypt, Persia, and India which had been gathered together, translated into French, and published in many installments by Antoine Galland beginning in 1704. They were in large part responsible for exciting a fierce passion for turquerie and chinoiserie among the fashionable classes of Europe later in the century, a movement that left its mark on music in the form of numerous tintinnabulous “Turkish marches” by Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, and a horde of lesser now-faded lights, and in Mozart’s rollicking opera The Abduction from the Seraglio. The taste for exoticism was never completely abandoned by musicians (witness Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers or Puccini’s Madama Butterfly or Turandot or even The Girl of the Golden West; Ravel prided himself on his collection of Oriental artifacts), and proved the perfect subject for Rimsky-Korsakov’s talent as an orchestral colorist. Preliminary sketches were made for the piece in St. Petersburg during the early months of 1888; the score was largely written in June at the composer’s country place on Lake Cheryemenyetskoye, near Luga; and the orchestration completed by early August. Scheherazade was a success at its premiere in St. Petersburg in December, and it has remained one of the most popular of all symphonic works. To refresh the listener’s memory of the ancient legends, Rimsky-Korsakov prefaced the score with these words: “The sultan Shakriar, convinced of the falsehood and inconstancy of all women, had sworn an oath to put to death each of his wives after the first night. However, the sultana Scheherazade saved her life by arousing his interest in the tales she told him during 1,001 nights. Driven by curiosity, the sultan postponed her execution from day to day, and at last abandoned his sanguinary design. Scheherazade told many miraculous stories to the sultan. For her tales she borrowed verses from the poets and words from folk-songs combining fairy-tales with adventures.” To each of the four movements of his “symphonic suite” Rimsky gave a title: The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship, The Story of the Kalandar Prince, The Young Prince and the Young Princess and Festival at Baghdad — The Sea — Shipwreck. At first glance, these titles seem definite enough to lead the listener to specific nightly chapters of Scheherazade’s soap opera. On closer examination, however, they prove too vague to be of much help. The Kalandar Prince, for PROGRAM 6 SOUNDINGS 2016/2017 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES instance, could be any one of three noblemen who dress as members of the Kalandars, a sect of wandering dervishes, and tell three different tales. “I meant these hints,” advised the composer, “to direct but slightly the hearer’s fancy on the path which my own fancy had traveled, and leave more minute and particular conceptions to the will and mood of each listener. All I had desired was that the hearer, if he liked my piece as symphonic music, should carry away the impression that it is beyond doubt an Oriental narrative of some numerous and varied fairy-tale wonders.” Of the musical construction of Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov noted, “A characteristic theme, the theme of Scheherazade herself, appears in all four movements. This theme is a florid melody in triplets, and it generally ends in a free cadenza. It is played, for the most part, by the solo violin.” There is another recurring theme, given in ponderous tones in the work’s opening measures, which seems at first to depict the sultan. However, the composer explained, “In vain do people seek in my suite leading motives linked always with the same poetic ideas and conceptions. On the contrary, in the majority of cases, all these seeming leitmotives are nothing but purely musical material, or the given motives for symphonic development. These given motives thread and spread over all the movements of the suite, alternating and intertwining each with the other. Appearing as they do each time under different moods, the self-same motives and themes correspond each time to different images, actions and pictures.” Well, then, if there is here no programmatic plot and if the movements tumble forth in some sort of free musical fantasy, how is the attentive listener to find his way through RimskyKorsakov’s story of Scheherazade? Perhaps the advice of Donald N. Ferguson about this veritable orgy of blazing orchestral color and atmospheric sensuality is profitably heard: “Ecstasies of imaginatively fulfilled desire: visions of celestial luxury engendered in the hashish-fevered mind of some squalid dreamer in the market place of Baghdad or Teheran — such are the tales of Scheherazade and the Arabian nights.” ©2016 Dr. Richard E. Rodda
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Mr. John F. Estes, III and Mrs. Norma Horner Fine Arts Foundation Jack Finlaw and Gregory Movesian FirstBank Holding Company of Colorado The Friedlander Family - Great Lakes Marine Denver Mr. and Mrs. Greg Fulton Deborah and Theodore Gaensbauer Jon Gamm and Kathleen Sgamma Mrs. Sally S. Gart Mr. and Mrs. George C. Gibson Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gleason Lynda Goldstein Veronica Goodrich Ms. Jean M. Gordon Sally Haas Higbie Fund Lorraine and Harley G. Higbie Bill and Donna Hoberecht Mr. and Mrs. Del Hock Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hucks, Jr. Renate and Joseph Hull The Humphreys Foundation Mrs. Eleanor L. Isbill Thomas J. Jirak and Susan Graber Edeltraud Johnson Joe and Francine Kelso Donna C. Kornfeld Mr. George Kruger Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kugeler
Mr. Gregory Kushnir Sandy and Evan Lasky Warren and Nancy Lawrence Don Leach Judge and Mrs. John P. Leopold Mrs. Ann C. Levy Robert and Patricia Lisensky Ms. Sara Long M. Catherine and James R. Look John and Merry Low Mr. Claude M. Maer, Jr. Ms. Joan Manley Mr. Robert and Mrs. Barbara Marchbank Stephen McConahey Family Foundation Virginia and Bill McGehee Mr. and Mrs. Neil McLagan Mr. Ed Mellor Sharon L. Menard Michael and Sharon Modiz Kirsten and David Morgan Robert and Carol Murphy Judie and Ron Neel Elizabeth and Heather Neva Mr. and Mrs. Mark Newhouse Ms. Sheila O’Brien Occasions Catering Joseph R. Parker Foundation Dan and Susan Paulien Kerry Pearlman Sue and Edwin Peiker Bonnie C. Perkins Dr. Peter S. Quintero Nijole and Walter Rasmussen Myra and Robert Rich Steven and Joan Ringel Dr. and Mrs. Paul R. Rosen Brian and Michele Rowland Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Sanders Dave Schmitz Henry R. Schmoll Mr. Robert E. Schueller Shapiro Family Chiropractic Roger Shapiro and Renee Peterson Alice Silver and Tom Byrnes Ruth S. Silver Mr. Terry Smith William Smith and Shirley Scott Eric Sondermann and Tracy Dunning Galen & Ada Belle Spencer Foundation Mr. Gordon W. Stenger Vicki and Harry Sterling Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Beatrice Taplin Marion Thurnauer and Alexander Trifunac Mr. and Mrs. Howard Turetzky Ms. Lynne Valencia Dr. and Mrs. Ed Van Bramer Paul Von Behren and Denise McCleary Richard E. Wagner Loren E. Warner Larned A. Waterman & Paul S. Messard Trust Peter Wells and Julie Gordon Malcolm and Donna Wheeler Drs. Richard and Jean Williams Michael and Sandra Wilson
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Duain Wolfe Lee and Doris Yeingst SYMPHONY CONCERTMASTER ($1,000+) Anonymous (4) Charles and Joan Albi Arc Thrift Store Michelle and Stephen Bailey Mr. Robert M. Balas Margaret and Larry Ballonoff Mr. James D. Balog Ms. Barbara Berryman Hannah Kahn and Arthur Best Marcia D. Bishop John and Sandy Blue Margaret C. Bozarth Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Brand Don and Nita Burkhardt Ms. Patricia Butler Keith and Lindsay Campbell Mr. and Mrs. John B. Chafee Drs. Jodi A. Chamber and Sally Palmer Drs. Henry and Janet Claman David and Joan Clark Sheila M. Cleworth Catherine Cole Drs. Marc Cohen and Kathryn Hobbs James and Toni Cohig Ms. Sherri Colgan
Mr. Ronald Covey Anne M. Culver Karen and William Curtis Mike and Bonnie Dalke Mr. Robert and Mrs. Lenore Damrauer Angelica Daneo and Patrick McKinstry Zach and Joy Detra Mrs. Mary Donlon Mr. and Mrs. William D. Doty Mr. Shannon and Mrs. Stephanie Duffy Mr. Garrettson Dulin, Jr. Max and Carol Ehrlich Evan D. Ela-Collins Cockrel & Cole, P.C. Evan and Kim Ela Drs. Ellen and Anthony Elias Barbara Neal and Edward E. Ellis EnCana Cares (USA) Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James W. Espy Ms. Lee C. Everding Clark and Martha Ewald Jim and Jo Ferguson Mrs. Mary Lou Flater Dr. and Mrs. Robert Freedman Mr. David F. Fritz Mr. and Mrs. John E. Fuller Dr. and Mrs. John H. Gale Woody and Georgia Garnsey B.J. and Grace George Dr. David M. Gillum
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT The Gilman Family Foundation Ms. Katherine Gold Dr. Burton and Mrs. Lee Golub Veronica Goodrich Jonathan and Julia Gordon Hugh and Nancy Grove Ms. Julia Gwaltney Charles A. and Pat Hadley Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Haggerty Dr. and Mrs. John L. Hall Ms. Shirley Hamilton and Ms. G. Brooks Clouser M.R. Hammond Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Harry The Havercroft Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Leeon E. Hayden Mr. David J. Hayes Mrs. Joan Hazen Mr. Nick Hazen Diane D. Henry Mr. Philip Hiester and Ms. Deborah Reshotko Judith and Jim Hilton Penny and Glen Holguin Ms. Christine L. Honnen Marilyn Howard Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hucks, Jr. Michael E. Huotari and Jill R. Stewart Yumi Hwang-Williams Mr. Martin and Mrs. Susan Inglis Mr. and Mrs. Bradley James Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Jenkins Craig N. Johnson and Alicia J. McCommons Mr. Douglas C. Jones Robert W. Karow Donald and Henny Kaufmann Ms. Kimberly Keen Ms. Carla Kem Kemp Family Fund Mr. Allen Kemp Dr. Peter Kennealey and Dr. Colleen Murphy Mr. John Kenney Heidi and Randy Keogh Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kern Ms. Denise Keyser Ms. Anastashia Khokhryakova Mr. Bryan Kohlenberg Ruth and George Krauss Phyllis and James Kurtz-Phelan Mr. Dwight Landes Penny and Dick Leather Minnie B. Lindsey John and Mary Lohre Mrs. Jeri Loser John and Merry Low Mr. Greg and Mrs. Julie Lucas Jean L. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. John S. Martin Dr. Jerrald McCollum Barbara McDonnell Dr. and Mrs. John G. McFee Mr. and Mrs. David McGaw Robert Meade Ms. Janet Melson Ms. Anne Akiko Meyers Coreen and Michael Miller
Ms. Jennifer Miller Thomas Milligan Ms. Anne B. Mills Gene and Dee Milstein Mr. Robert R. Montgomery Mr. Douglas G. and Dr. Laura B. Moran Janet Mordecai Anne and David Necker James Neely Ms. Mary Neidig Mr. David Parce Mr. and Mrs. W. Peterson Nelson 9NEWS Mr. Stephen Norris Dr. Richard and Mrs. Florence O’Day Ed and Jean Onderko Dr. Bonnie M. Orkow, Ph.D. Linda Diekvoss and Paul Parish Dr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Paton Ms. Sue Pawlik Mr. and Mrs. Mike Pokorny Al and Ursula Powell The Publishing House Mrs. Dorothy M. Read Richard Replin and Elissa Stein Mr. Eli and Mrs. Adina Reshotko Ayliffe and Fred Ris Ms. Margaret Roath Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio PC Mr. Robert Rodriquez Terri and Jay Rolls Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rootes Dr. Turpin H. Rose Michele Rowland Sallie and John Ruhnka Jim and Doreen Ryan Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Saunders Ruth Schoening Nancy & Robert Schulein Fund William Schumacher Mr. and Mrs. George Shaw Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Shultz Singer Family Foundation Sam and Marty Sloven Billie Smith Mr. David C. Smith Marlis and Shirley Smith Billie Busby and Sidney Smith William and Janice Smith Sol Lingerie Philip Stoffel and Tricia Hughey Dr. Bill Strempel Marcia D. Strickland Helena and Allan Striker Mr. Steven Suflas Mr. Lloyd Sweet Lou and Katherine Svoboda Tim and Janet Taggert Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Tashiro Walt and Sally Tejan Mr. Roger P. Thomasch Tipton Family Foundation Kyle and Bev Turner Mr. Tim and Mrs. Lisa Walsh
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Peter Weiser Mr. and Mrs. Tor Westgaard Rev. Stephen R. Weston Jon Wilkerson Dr. John Willhardt Mr. Jerry Winter and Ms. Lois Keener Henry E. Wurst Family Foundation Ms. Phyllis J. Young Dick and Lorie Young YourCause, LLC SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ($500+) Anonymous (5) Dr. and Mrs. Jules Amer DeAnn Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Gary Armstrong Ms. Cynthia Auer Bruce Avery Lewis and Judith Babcock Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Baldwin Carlos A. Barradas Mr. Edward Bartholic Mr. Robert L. Bartholic Richard and Linda Bateman Mr. and Mrs. James Beall Dr. and Mrs. Henry J. Beckwitt Anne and Henry Beer Ms. Mariette Bell George and Phee Belsey Claire Benson Mary Bessesen Mrs. Terry A. Biddinger Mr. Michael Biere and Ms. Patricia Romero Ms. Ellen Blatt Mr. and Mrs. Kermit J. Boothroyd Henry C. Bourne, III and Alisa Bourne Mr. and Mrs. Grant Bowry Ms. Susan Brasel Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Brauchli Ms. Betty Brega Ms. Emily Brett Dr. and Mrs. David Brewer Mr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Elaine Brickman Michael and Catherine Brondos Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bronesky Ms. Barbara Brown Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Bryan Sandy and Rogene Buchholz M. Peyton and Suzanne Bucy - Bucy Family Fund Mrs. Elizabeth S. Budd Judge Doris E. Burd Robert and Linda Bushman Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Butz Mr. David Cahn Douglas and Constance Cain Lois M. Calvert Teresa Campos Christina Carlson Caulkins Family Foundation Ms. Martha Chamberlin Mr. Lee Chew Dr. David and Mrs. Delores Claassen Delores I. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Clark Colton
Dee Colton Mr. Frederic Conover Ms. Mary Cook Paul and Eileen Cooper Mr. Scott Coors and Dr. David Hurt Dr. John A. and Mrs. Jane H. Coppola Frances S. Corsello Dr. James W. Craft Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Craft Ray and Kathleen Cravy Mr. Lee Cryer Hille L. Dais Suzanne Dakin Ms. Ruth Dalrymple Jesse Davidson and Ellen Blatt Dr. and Mrs. Toby Derloshon George and Yonnie Dikeou Dorothy Dowden The Dowling Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Drew Kathryn and Gary Dudley Louise and Robert Dudley Ms. Shirley M. Duman Dr. and Mrs. Michael P. Earnest Leslie Easton Mr. Stephen A. Edmonds Mr. Edward and Mrs. Judith Elgethun Lucy and Dan Ellerhorst Mr. Don Elliott Mrs. Susan Ellis and Mr. Izzy Abbass Mr. Bayard Ewing Ms. Elizabeth J. Feitner Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Fieman Paul S. Fischer Ms. Gail Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Flannery David and Debra Flitter Frederick G. Fish Foundation Dr. Lauren Fraser and Ms. Rebecca Coughlin Mrs. Joann Freedman Freeman Family Foundation Ms. JoAnne Friedman Deborah S. Froeb Virginia E. and Robert K. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gallagher Dr. Ben and Mrs. Jean Galloway Todd Gander and Terry Hsu-Gander Lester and Joan Garrison Marian P. Gelfand Fund Linda Laird Giedl Marshall and Jenifer Gile Michael Gill Mr. and Mrs. Jim Golanty Tamara Golden and Tim Worrall Mr. Barry J. Goldstein and Mrs. Thorey Goldstein Mr. and Mrs. James B. Grange Ms. Andrea J. Grant Mr. John and Mrs. Judy Green Mr. and Mrs. Gerald M. Greenberg Mr. Robert Greene Mr. and Mrs. Peter Griffiths Martha and Jim Groebe Renee and Martin Gross Donald Hagengruber
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Ms. Grace M. Halmi Charles and Linda Hamlin Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hancock Mr. Billy Harris and Ms. Linda Purcell Sarah Hart Mr. and Mrs. John Helfrich Keith Herman Melvin and Carolyn Hess Ms. Susan A. Hill Mr. Stephen Hindes Cynthia Hinds Sarah C. Hite Dr. Bradley O. Hofer Mike and Vicki Hoffman Graham and Cathy Hollis Robert Homiak and Susan Schneider Ms. Sally Hopper Andrew Hornbrook Mrs. Isabella W. Horsky Robert and Betty Huzjak IBM International Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Andrew M. Johanos Mr. Eric E. Johnson Mrs. Kathleen Johnson and Mr. Stephen Vierling Margie Lee Johnson Marvin and Carole Johnson Dr. and Mrs. Everette G. Jones Ms. Dianne Eddolls Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Judd Mr. and Mrs. Colman Kahn
Mrs. Diana Kasson Dr. and Mrs. Michael Kelley Ms. Judy H. Kessenich John and Alicia Kinnamon Oza and Milan Klanjsek Mel and Roberta Klein Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Kleinsteiber Midge Korczak Eric Krein Mr. Gregg and Mrs. Amy Kvistad Nancy Lambertson David C. Leger Judy and Dan Lichtin Theodore Lichtmann Mr. and Mrs. Harold Logan Patty Lorie Mr. Joseph Lubinski Ms. Marian Lyons Mrs. Jean Macferran Bruce W. Martin Harold P. Martin, M.D. Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin Mr. and Mrs. Amos C. Mathews Mr. and Mrs. Robert McClelland Ms. Tracey McCullough Carla E. McKennett The Janet Melson Charitable Gift Fund Virginia Messick Jay and Lois Miller Ron and Bonnie Milzer
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Mr. Brett and Mrs. Angela Mitchell The Moe Family Charitable Fund Cheryl L. Moody Ms. Kathie Moore Corinne Morse and David Beeman William and Rosemarie Murane Mrs. Cynthia F. Nagel Ms. Marcia G. Naiman Newberry Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Nies Ms. Kristen Nordenholz Mr. Robert and Mrs. Ilsa Nordenholz Larry O’Donnell and Kermit Cain Ray O’Loughlin and Jamie Henderson Mary and Art Otten Carl Patterson David and Doris Pearlman Ms. Leah Peer Ms. Karen Peterson Mr. and Mrs. George C. Pickering Patrick and Susan Pientka Mr. Cason and Mrs. Rachel Pierce Mr. Hugh Pitcher Sally Plummer Mary and Bernard Polak Ed Post Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Praetorius Ms. Julie Prange Mr. Bennett L. Price Mr. Nick Recuber Nancy and Gene Richards Dr. Richard and Mrs. Sandra Roark Dr. Gregory Robbins Eleanor Roberts Anthony C. and Patricia J. Romeo Mr. Steven M. Ropa Sig and Lucille Rosefeld Mr. and Mrs. William E. Russell Ms. Carol L. Rust Mr. Clayton Saylor Cynthia L. and Paul D. Schauer Ms. Mary Ann Schultz Ms. Carla L. Seeliger Mr. and Mrs. Karl O. Seller Betty and Maurice Serotta Ms. Barbara Servis Dr. and Mrs. David Shander Jo Shannon Mr. and Mrs. Conner W. Shepherd Ph.D. Dr. and Mrs. Arnold Silverman Drs. Robert H. Slover, II and Robin Slover Dr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Smith James Smith and Robert Karow Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Smith John W. Kure and Cheryl L. Solich Mr. and Mrs. William H. Speaker Hanspeter and Kathryn Spuhler Myron and Marcia Stein Mr. Daniel Stenersen Gordon Stenger and Brooke Goudy Mrs. Mary L. Stewart Julie and John Strain
Mrs. Elaine B. Strauch Mr. and Mrs. Michael Strear Mrs. Mary C. Symonton Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Talley Carol and Cedric Tarr Judy and Rob Tate Mr. Frank Thomson Mr. Charles Thorman Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Tillery Nan Timbel David Tourtelot and Nikki Headlee Ms. Sheila Trader Barbara J. Tramutt Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trantow Helen Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Virtue Ed and Patty Wahtera Ms. Shirley Ward Ms. Hanna Warren Rosemary Whitaker Jordan Wight Daniel C. Williams Werner and Mary Winkler Jim and Marlene Wogsland Mr. Dieter and Mrs. Marianne Wons George and Beth Wood Richard and Mary Ann Woods Amy Wright Dr. and Mrs. Roy R. Wright Marsha F. Young Tom Zeiler Mr. and Mrs. Ken Ziebarth R.A. Zimmerman Mr. and Ms. Michael A. Zoellner Ms. Regina M. Zoglo
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 Development Department directly, please call Kate Bentley at 303.308.2472.
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
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT 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
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT 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. PLATINUM CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($50,000+) Anonymous Malone Family Foundation Target
Mr. Jon Isenhart Ms. Carla McWilliams Mr. and Mrs. Howard Turetzky R.A. Zimmerman
BALL SPONSOR LIST
The 2016 Colorado Symphony Ball raised money through table sales, individual and corporate contributions, sponsorship, silent and live auctions, and real-time voting during “THE BATTLE OF THE BANDS: REMATCH” where guests voted for their favorite band. This year’s bands were the Colorado Symphony, The DaVita Blues All Stars, and Tracksuit Wedding. PRESENTING SPONSOR ($75,000+) The Anschutz Foundation Arrow Electronics, Inc.
GOLD CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($25,000+) Anonymous
VIRTUOSO ($50,000+) Anonymous Liberty Global
CHAIRMAN’S SOCIETY ($10,000+) Anonymous The AJL Charitable Foundation Ralph L. and Florence R. Burgess Trust The Denver Foundation U.S. Bank Foundation Verizon Wireless Walter S. Rosenberry, III Trust
MAESTRO ($25,000+) Anonymous AMG National Trust Bank DaVita Expedia Keith and Kathie Finger IAC Corporation Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome H. Kern
SILVER CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($5,000+) Anonymous Colorado Symphony Guild, Inc. Denver Post Charities, a McCormick Foundation Fund PeyBack Foundation Scientific & Cultural Collaborative US Bank Community Development Xcel Energy Foundation
ENCORE ($15,000+) Delta Dental Plan of Colorado Mrs. Sandy Elliott LionTree Advisors, LLC Dr. Christopher Ott and Mr. Jeremy Simons Sherman & Howard Linda Shoemaker and Steve Brett
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 Ms. Lynne Valencia SYMPHONY CONCERTMASTER ($1,000+) Anonymous Ms. Connie Bender Kinder Morgan Foundation Singer F. Foundation SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ($500+) Anonymous Nancy Ball Dr. John A. and Mrs. Jane H. Coppola Mr. Billy Harris and Ms. Linda Purcell
CONCERTMASTER ($10,000+) Mr. and Mrs. Tony Accetta Baker Botts, LLP Baker & Hostetler, LLP Centura Health Davis Graham & Stubbs, LLP Denver Broncos Football Club Discovery Communications Adam and Stephanie Donner Diane S. Hill and Kevin E. Somerville Amanda Precourt/The Precourt Foundation The Publishing House University of Denver PRINCIPAL ($5,000+) AEG Live AMC Network Sue Anschutz-Rodgers BeneFactor Boss Architecture Breakthru Beverage Cadre General Contractors, Inc. Mr. Scott Campbell Colorado Rockies Baseball Club
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Cooley, LLP CU Anschutz Medical Campus Ms. Susan Drumm Mrs. Susan Ellis and Mr. Izzy Abbass Ms. Jayne Ford Dr. Everette J. Freeman, President, Community College of Denver GBSM, Inc. Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Hogan Lovells U.S. LLP KPMG, LLP Libby Anschutz Foundation Dr. Jon Masoudi The Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch Coreen and Michael Miller 9NEWS The Pashel/Chapman Group Pentec Health Republic National Distributing Company Mr. and Mrs. Richard Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Jim Shpall Eric Sondermann and Tracy Dunning Mr. Walker and Mrs. Jenna Stapleton Volunteers of America Willis Towers Watson ($2,000+) Merle C. Chambers Mr. John F. Estes, III and Mrs. Norma Horner
Four Five One Events Mr. Paul E. Goodspeed and Ms. Mary Poole Mr. and Mrs. Ed Greene Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hirschfeld Mr. Keith Ladner Alan and Judy Wigod ($1,000+) Mr. Brad Bawmann Jim and Julie Copenhaver Mr. and Mrs. Bruce DiBiase Ms. Donna S. Gerich Ms. DeAnn Grasingers Bill and Donna Hoberecht Sandy and Evan Lasky Mr. and Mrs. Howard Noble Elyse Tipton and Paul Ruttum Mr. Adam Wimmer ($500+) Mr. Rick D. Bailey Alvina Crouse Ms. Dianne Eddolls Mr. Stephen A. Edmonds Forensic Pursuit Ms. Lisa Hayes Mr. Brooks and Ms. Lauren Kanski Mr. Thomas Lorz Ms. Mary Neidig Nijole and Walter Rasmussen
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Ms. Barbara Servis Mr. John H. Voorheis Mr. Ernest and Mrs. Patti Ward IN-KIND DONATIONS Applejack Wine & Spirits Bouquets Ceavco Constellation Brands DaVita Blues All Stars Epicurean Jays Valet Leopold Brothers Live Nation The Publishing House Republic National Distributing Company Tivoli Brewing 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 Mr. John and Mrs. Karen Kinzie Duain Wolfe In memory of Gene Amole from KVOD given by: Mr. R. Glesner and Mrs. B. Schwarm Glesner In memory of Eleanor Scott Annable given by: J. Fern Black In memory of Mr. Charles Ansbacher given by: Swanee Hunt Family Foundation In memory of Darthelia Baker given by: Ms. Veatrice Monroe In memory of John Carlson given by: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russel In memory of Muriel Cassidy given by: Mr. David Aker 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 Robert and Selma Cohen given by: Barbralu Cohen In memory of William R. Cook given by: Karen Cook In memory of Ben Cooper given by: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Russel In memory of Harold Dillon given by: Ellen Coulter Lisa Dillon
John and Meritt Hutton Scott Hutton Leslee Viehoff In memory of Willis Dutra-Silveria given by: Ms. Janet M. Erjavec 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 Lynn Erion given by: Ms. Jo Ellen Cohen In memory of her father, Barney Fox, on Father’s Day given by: Leslie Tjarks 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 Julie Gannon given by: Deep Space Systems 5K team 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 Eleanor Hayden given by: Ms. Jean Melville In memory of Dr. H. Michael Hayes given by: Hayes Family Foundation In memory of Allen Johannes Heim given by: Arik Heim Christian Heim Lauren Yager In memory of Jeannine D. Hiester given by: Phillip C. Hiester In memory of retired musician Fred Hoeppner given by: Anonymous Dr. and Mrs. Richard Bakemeier Drs. Paula and William Bernstein Jim and Julie Copenhaver Mr. Edward and Mrs. Judith Elgethun David and Debra Flitter 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 Mr. and Mrs. James Maurer Paul and Barb Moe
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Ms. Kathleen Newman F.R. Owen Don Ruggles Rob and Jane Scofield Mr. and Ms. Steve Straub Judy Wiese In memory of Kenneth W. Kohlenberg given by: Mr. Bryan Kohlenberg In memory of David Kulaas given by: Mrs. Jennifer S. Kulaas In memory of Samuel Lancaster given by: Ms. Mary Louise Burke 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 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 Ronald S. Loser given by: Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Bansbach, III Mr. Jim Bowers Ms. Betty Brega Mr. and Mrs. Mackintosh Brown Mr. and Mrs. George M. Canon Centennial Airport Mr. Robert L. Eaton Mrs. Ann B. Fawcett Barbara H. and Charles Ferguson Mr. Joesph Flierl Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Fuller Mr. Frank M. Hall, III Mr. Roger D. Hunt Judge and Mrs. John P. Leopold Meg MacDonald Mr. and Mrs. Neil McLagan Brian and Deborah Magoon Ms. Lucille Maun Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Olson Ms. Virginia L. Park Robinson Waters & O’Dorisio, PC Mr. William C. Rodraun Ms. Julie Shade Ms. Karyn Thompson-Panos Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Warren 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 their late spouses, Richard McKennett and Sarah Porter given by: Carla McKennett and David Porter In memory of Pierson F. Melcher given by: Cynthia Melcher In memory of her husband, Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr., M.D. given by: Jo Ann Paffenbarger In memory of Roxanne Pinneo given by: Quality Life Services Ms. Dorothy Wright 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 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 David Callistus Smith given by: Mr. Stephen M Book Ms. Darla Duval Ms. Lougena M. Foxhoven Mr. Tony and Mrs. Gina Gradisher Ms. Colleen Higgins Ms. Carmen Huff Mr. Charles R. McMullin Shawn Miller Ms. Letitia Ottem Mr. James Schmitt Ms. Krista Wright Ms. Katarina Zarlengo 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 Ablie Ubran given by: Mr. and Mrs. David McGaw 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 Seymour (SY) Wallach given by: Mrs. Merrily Wallach In memory of Jean Watt given by: Rob and Jane Scofield
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT 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 Jim Withers given by: Ann and Henry Jesse In memory of Dorothy Yoder given by: Ms. C. D. Chalfant Ms. Joanne Y. Dearth In memory of Bill Zishkagiven by: Lisa, Susan, and Ellen Madsen 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 In honor of Kristina Arko given by: Alenka Han In honor of Linda Battan given by: Nancy Battan In honor of Kay Ann Obering Powers Benda given by: Ms. Ronnie Mitzner In honor of Dr. Paula Bernstein given by: Ms. Paula Folkman In honor of Marge and Ed Blaine given by: Dr. Judy Blaine 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. & Robert K. Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Harold Logan In honor of Taesuk Cho-Hwang given by: Ms. Ruth Williams In honor of Ellie Caulkins given by: Anna and John J. Sie Foundation
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT In honor of Ms. Jo Ellen Cohen’s birthday given by: Mandelbaum Family Charitable Foundation Ms. Sharon Marks Flora and Morris Mizel Foundation Ms. Faye Gardenswartz In honor of the Colorado Symphony Chorus given by: Jude Blum Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sladovnik Susan Von Roedern In honor of the Colorado Symphony Guild given by: Billie Smith In honor of Pera Beth Eichelberger given by: Anonymous Marian Bakken Karen Fabean In honor of Monica Glickman given by: Ms. Ruth Schorsch 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 James Hart given by: Ms. Kathleen A. Schmidt In honor of Philip C. Hiester, Master Electrician of the CSO given by: Mr. Eli Reshotko and Mrs. Adina Reshotko In honor of Dr. Diane Hill given by: Michael P. Dowling In honor of our Concertmaster, Yumi Hwang-Williams given by: Michael P. Dowling In honor of Jerry Kern given by: Nancy Battan Mrs. Terry A. Biddinger Laura Bond Patty and Don Cook Mr. Stephen A. Edmonds Sari and Bob Freedman Mr. and Mrs. John Sie In honor of Mary Rossick Kern and Jerry Kern given by: Michael and Christine James 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 Samuel Lancaster given by: Mr. Keith F. Corrette In honor of Carole Leight given by: Ms. Melinda Quiat In honor of Rebecca Moritzky given by: Barb Moritzky
In honor of Kathy Newman given by: Ms. Sheila Lehrburger In honor of Scott O’Neil given by: Colorado Symphony Guild, Inc. John and Kathleen Sloan In honor of Frank Parce and Ellie Roberts given by: Mr. David Parce 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 Chuck and Janet Robinson given by: Jim and Lorraine Adams In honor of Eleanor Roberts given by: Mr. David Parce In honor of Julie Rubsam given by: Mollie Leone In honor of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Sanders given by: Ms. Ann Gugenheim In honor of Kathleen Schmidt given by: Edith M. and Norman C. Bertelsen 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 Robert Steiger given by: Gretchen Williams In honor of Irene Szyliowicz’s 80th Birthday given by: Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Spilka 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 Darlee Whiting given by: Hayes Family Foundation In honor of Alan and Judy Wigod given by: Robert Wigod In honor of Ava Williams given by: Daniel Williams 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 In honor of Rowena Zelkind given by: Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Spilka
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