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DAVID ALAN MILLER

Heinrich Medicus Music Director

New York City's Carnegie Hall, and at the SHIFT Festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Other accolades Mr. Miller has received include Columbia University’s 2003 Ditson Conductor’s Award, the oldest award honoring conductors for their commitment to American music; the 2001 ASCAP Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming; and in 1999, ASCAP’s first-ever Leonard Bernstein Award for Outstanding Educational Programming.

Two-time Grammy Award–winning conductor David

Alan Miller has established a reputation as one of the leading American conductors of his generation. As music director of the Albany Symphony since 1992, Mr. Miller has proven himself a creative and compelling orchestra builder. Through exploration of unusual repertoire, educational programming, community outreach, and recording initiatives, he has reaffirmed the Albany Symphony’s reputation as the nation’s leading champion of American symphonic music and one of its most innovative orchestras. He and the orchestra have twice appeared at "Spring For Music," an annual festival of America's most creative orchestras at

Frequently in demand as a guest conductor, Mr. Miller has worked with most of America’s major orchestras, including those of Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, as well as the New World Symphony, the Boston Pops, and the New York City Ballet. In addition, he has appeared frequently throughout Europe, the UK, Australia, and the Far East as guest conductor. Since 2019, Mr. Miller has served as Artistic Advisor to the Little Orchestra Society in New York City, and, from 2006 to 2012, served as Artistic Director of “New Paths in Music,” a festival of new music from around the world, also in New York City.

Mr. Miller received his most recent Grammy Award in 2021 for his recording of Christopher Theofanidis’ Viola Concerto, with Richard O’Neill and the Albany Symphony, and his first Grammy in 2014 for his Naxos recording of John Corigliano's "Conjurer," with the Albany Symphony and Dame Evelyn Glennie.

His extensive discography also includes recordings of the works of Todd Levin with the London Symphony Orchestra for Deutsche Grammophon, as well as music by Michael Daugherty, Kamran Ince, Michael Torke (London/Decca), Luis Tinoco, and Christopher Rouse (Naxos). His recordings with the Albany Symphony include discs devoted to the music of John Harbison, Roy Harris, Morton Gould, Don Gillis, Aaron J. Kernis, Peter Mennin, and Vincent Persichetti on the Albany Records label. He has also conducted the National Orchestral Institute Philharmonic in three

acclaimed recordings on Naxos.

A native of Los Angeles, David Alan Miller holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and a master’s degree in orchestral conducting from The Juilliard School. Prior to his appointment in Albany, Mr. Miller was associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. From 1982 to 1988, he was music director of the New York Youth Symphony, earning considerable acclaim for his work with that ensemble. Mr. Miller lives in Slingerlands, New York, a rural suburb of Albany.

MISSION STATEMENT: The Albany Symphony Orchestra celebrates our living musical heritage. Through brilliant live performances, innovative educational programming, and engaging cultural events, the Albany Symphony enriches a broad and diverse regional community. By creating, recording, and disseminating the music of our time, the Albany Symphony is establishing an enduring artistic legacy that is reshaping the nation’s musical future.

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ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL DAVID ALAN MILLER

Heinrich Medicus Music Director

The Albany Symphony Orchestra’s string sections use revolving seating. Players behind the stationary chairs change seats systematically and are listed alphabetically.

VIOLIN

Jill Levy

CONCERTMASTER

LIFETIME CHAIR, GOLDBERG CHARITABLE TRUST

Eiko Kano + ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Elizabeth Silver ^

Jamecyn Morey ^

Paula Oakes ^

Funda Cizmecioglu

PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN

Mitsuko Suzuki

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL SECOND VIOLIN

Barbara Lapidus ^

ENDOWED BY MARISA AND ALLAN EISEMANN

Gabriela Rengel ^+

Brigitte Brodwin

Ouisa Fohrhaltz

Heather Frank-Olsen

Emily Frederick

Rowan Harvey

Margret E. Hickey

Christine Kim

Sooyeon Kim +

Aleksandra Labinska

Kae Nakano

Yinbin Qian

Harriet Dearden Welther

VIOLA

Noriko Futagami

PRINCIPAL

ENDOWED IN PERPETUITY BY THE ESTATE OF ALLAN F. NICKERSON

Sharon Bielik

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Daniel Brye^

Carla Bellosa

Ting-Ying Chang-Chien

Anna Griffis

Hannah Levinson

CELLO

Susan Ruzow Debronsky

PRINCIPAL SPONSORED BY AL DE SALVO & SUSAN THOMPSON

Erica Pickhardt

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Kevin Bellosa

Marie-Thérèse Dugré

Catherine Hackert

Hikaru Tamaki

BASS

Bradley Aikman

PRINCIPAL

Philip R. Helm

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Michael Fittipaldi ^

Luke Baker

James Caiello

FLUTE

Ji Weon Ryu+ PRINCIPAL

Mathew Ross

OBOE

Karen Hosmer

PRINCIPAL

Grace Shryock

ENGLISH HORN VACANT

CLARINET

Weixiong Wang

PRINCIPAL IN MEMORY OF F.S. DEBEER, JR.

-ELSA DEBEER IN MEMORY OF JUSTINE R.B. PERRY

-DAVID A. PERRY

Bixby Kennedy

BASSOON

William Hestand

PRINCIPAL

ENDOWED IN PERPETUITY BY THE ESTATE OF RICHARD SALISBURY VACANT

HORN

William J. Hughes

PRINCIPAL

Joseph Demko

Alan Parshley

Victor Sungarian

TRUMPET

Eric M. Berlin

PRINCIPAL

Eric J. Latini

TROMBONE

Greg Spiridopoulos

PRINCIPAL

Karna Millen

BASS TROMBONE

Charles Morris

TUBA

Derek Fenstermacher

PRINCIPAL

TIMPANI

Kuljit Rehncy

PRINCIPAL

PERCUSSION

Richard Albagli

PRINCIPAL

Mark Foster

HARP

Lynette Wardle

PRINCIPAL

PERSONNEL MANAGER

JJ Johnson

UNION STEWARD

Greg Spiridopoulos

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BEETHOVEN’S NINTH

SATURDAY | APRIL 22, 2023 | 7:30 PM

SUNDAY | APRIL 23, 2023 | 3:00 PM

TROY SAVINGS BANK MUSIC HALL

DAVID ALAN MILLER, CONDUCTOR ANNE AKIKO MEYERS, VIOLIN ALBANY PRO MUSICA

Blue Electra (1954-)

Michael Daugherty

I. Courage (1928)

II. Paris (1932)

III. From an Airplane (1921)

IV. Last Flight (1937)

INTERMISSION

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 “Choral” (1770-1827)

I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso

II. Molto vivace

III. Adagio molto e cantabile

IV. Presto - "O Freunde nicht diese Töne”

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MICHAEL DAUGHERTY

Multiple Grammy Award-winning composer Michael Daugherty has achieved international recognition as one of the 10 most performed American composers of concert music, according to the League of American Orchestras. His orchestral music, recorded by Naxos over the last two decades, has received six Grammy Awards, including Best Contemporary Classical Composition in 2011 for Deus ex Machina for piano and orchestra, and in 2017 for Tales of Hemingway for cello and orchestra. Since 2020, new commissions include orchestral works for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Omaha Symphony, and a concerto for violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, who gave its world premiere with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center in 2021.

Michael Daugherty was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1954 and is the son of a dance-band drummer and the oldest of five brothers, all professional musicians. As a young man, Daugherty studied composition with many of the preeminent composers of the 20th century including Pierre Boulez at IRCAM in Paris (1979), Jacob Druckman, Earle Brown, Bernard Rands and Roger Reynolds at Yale (1980-'82), and György Ligeti in Hamburg (1982-'84).

Daugherty was also an assistant to jazz arranger Gil Evans in New York from 1980 to 82. In 1991, Daugherty joined the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance as Professor of Composition, where he is a mentor to many of today’s most talented young composers. He is also a frequent guest of professional orchestras, festivals, universities and conservatories around the world.

Daugherty’s music is published by Peermusic Classical/Faber Music, Boosey & Hawkes and Michael Daugherty Music. For more information on Michael Daugherty and his music, see his publisher’s websites.

BLUE ELECTRA FROM THE COMPOSER

Blue Electra (2022) for solo violin and orchestra was commissioned by and written for violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, who premiered the violin concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gianandrea Noseda at the Kennedy Center on November 10, 2022.

Blue Electra is inspired by the sensational life and mysterious disappearance of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (1897-1937), who vanished without a trace when she was flying her “Electra” airplane over the Pacific Ocean. Celebrated around the world as “Queen of the Air,” she was also an advocate for women’s rights, an aviation professor at Purdue University, and the author of three books and numerous poems.

The concerto is in four movements:

The first movement, “Courage (1928),” is a musical reflection on a poem written by Earhart before her first transatlantic flight across the Atlantic:

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,

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Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings

After her pioneering flight as the first woman to fly nonstop solo across the Atlantic, Earhart received the Legion of Honor from the French Government. In the second movement, "Paris (1932)," I imagine Earhart as a guest of honor celebrating at a high society “Hot Jazz” soirée in Paris.

The third movement, “From an Airplane (1921),” is a musical rumination on a poem written by a young Earhart dreaming of the day she will be in the pilot seat of an airplane as it spirals through the clouds:

Even the watchful, purple hills

That hold the lake

Could not see so well as I The stain of evening

Creeping from its heart

Nor the round, yellow eyes of the hamlet Growing filmy with mists.

The fourth movement, “Last Flight (1937),” refers to Earhart’s attempt to fly around the world in her “Electra” airplane. Running out of fuel on the last leg of her flight, she and her plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific never to be found.

ANNE AKIKO MEYERS

Anne Akiko Meyers regularly performs around the world as soloist with leading orchestras, in recital, and is a prolific recording artist with more than 40 recordings. A muse and champion of living composers, she recently premiered and performed "Fandango" by Arturo Márquez with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at The Hollywood Bowl, Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall and the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City, and Blue Electra by Michael Daugherty at the Kennedy Center with Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra to massive critical and audience acclaim.

Meyers' many television appearances include The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Evening At Pops with John Williams, CBS News Sunday Morning, Great Performances and Countdown with Keith Olbermann (in a segment that was the third most popular story of that year). John Williams personally chose Meyers to perform the main theme from Schindler's List for a Great Performances PBS telecast, and Arvo Pärt invited her to perform at the opening ceremony concerts of his new center and concert hall in Estonia. Meyers premiered Samuel Jones’ Violin Concerto with the All-Star Orchestra led by Gerard Schwarz in a nationwide PBS broadcast special and Naxos DVD release. Her recording of Somei Satoh’s "Birds in Warped Time II" was used by architect Michael Arad for his award-winning design submission that became The World Trade Center Memorial in lower Manhattan.

Meyers has been featured in commercials and advertising campaigns including J.Jill, Northwest Airlines, DDI Japan and TDK, and was the inspiration for the main character’s career path in the novel The Engagements written by popular author J. Courtney

ANNE AKIKO MEYERS

Sullivan. She collaborated with children’s book author and illustrator Kristine Papillon on Crumpet the Trumpet, appearing as the character Violetta the violinist, and recently appeared in a documentary about legendary radio personality Jim Svejda. Outside of traditional classical, Meyers has collaborated with a diverse array of artists including jazz icons Chris Botti and Wynton Marsalis, avantgarde musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, electronic music pioneer Isao Tomita, pop-era act Il Divo, and singer Michael Bolton.

She performed the national anthem in front of 42,000 fans at T-Mobile Park in Seattle and at Dodger Stadium, and she was featured on CBS’s The Good Wife, was profiled on NPR's Morning Edition with Linda Wertheimer and All Things Considered with Robert Siegel, and she curated “Living American” on Sirius XM Radio’s Symphony Hall. Meyers was the top-selling traditional classical instrumental soloist of the year in 2014 and the only classical artist for NPR’s 100 best songs list in 2017.

Meyers was born in San Diego and grew up in Southern California where she and her mother traveled eight hours roundtrip from the Mojave Desert to Pasadena for lessons with Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. She continued her studies with Josef Gingold at Indiana University and, at the invitation of legendary teacher Dorothy DeLay, moved to New York at the age of 14 to study with her, Felix Galimir and Masao Kawasaki at The Juilliard School. She has received the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Distinguished Alumna Award from the Colburn School of Music, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Juilliard School.

Meyers performs on the Ex-Vieuxtemps Guarneri del Gesù, which is dated 1741 and considered by many to be the finest sounding violin in existence, and endorses Larsen Strings.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

“What makes Beethoven (1770-1827) so supremely popular a composer is that his music embodies something of universal human experience, and his triumph (for he is always ultimately triumphant) is the final hope of men.”

So wrote the conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent. We tend not to use such terms with other composers. “Universal human experience”? “Triumph”? “Final hope of men”? These are phrases we associate only with Beethoven, because of particular circumstances in his life that made him struggle and that made his struggle evident in his music. We might also note that there is a seriousness of purpose— not grimness—that colors most of his work. It is an almost palpable intensity, one that

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

comes out most obviously in the piano sonatas and the string quartets, those most intimate forms.

What were those circumstances? They seem chiefly to have been his cantankerous personality (Sargent refers to Beethoven’s “almost total incapacity to divine the feelings of others”); his deafness, which became noticeable to him at the age of 28, in 1798; and his powerful and complex relationship with his nephew, Karl, for whom Beethoven had responsibility after the death of his brother in 1815. Add to these tensions the natural inquisitiveness of his mind about matters political and philosophical and a belief that he existed “to convey in music what he had learned from life,” and we have, perhaps, some understanding about why this enormous body of work—nine symphonies, seven concertos, an opera, choral music, chamber music—seems to convey such a strong sense of purpose and a no-nonsense attitude.

Symphony No. 9 “Choral”

It took Johannes Brahms quite a few years to produce his Symphony No. 1, and one of the reasons this highly self-critical composer gave was that he could always hear the footsteps of a “giant” behind him. That giant was, of course, Beethoven. In homage to tonight’s symphony, the young Brahms wrote two movements of a symphony, also in D minor, before giving up the project and turning those movements into, first, a two-piano sonata, and then the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1. It wasn’t until he was 43, in 1876, that he was confident enough to complete the first of his four symphonies, and that one was in C minor. After all of Brahms’ worries, his friend Hans von Bulow still dubbed it Beethoven’s 10th!

Interestingly, Beethoven himself took a long time to let this symphony cook. He first

became attracted to Friedrich Schiller's poem “Ode to Joy” in 1796, and he thought he might use it in an overture. He didn’t. He flirted with the text again in 1813, but nothing came of those sketches. It wasn’t until 1822 that he undertook the whole work in earnest, which was finally premiered in Vienna in 1824.

That premiere was evidently quite an event. By this time, of course, Beethoven was stone deaf. When the audience burst into applause, the alto soloist had to turn the composer towards the crowd for recognition. The concertgoers, suddenly touched by the scope of his disability, produced, as George Grove called it, “a volcanic explosion of sympathy and admiration….”

How to navigate this monumental, 65-minute work? In their book The Concert Companion, Robert Bagar and Louis Biancolli refer to musicologist Marion Scott’s succinct appraisal of the chief ideas of the four movements: destiny, physical exuberance/ energy, love, and joy. That blueprint is a place to start.

The opening movement begins with descending fourths and fifths, first mysteriously, then furiously. What follows is a series of strenuous declarations by the lower voices, interrupted by brief, lyrical phrases in, say, the flutes or upper strings. But tension is the operative word, and it’s maintained by sforzandi, crescendo, dotted rhythms, dissonances, and the layering of one orchestral section on another. The movement ends with a mighty unison statement of the opening theme.

Traditionally, the scherzo is the third movement, not the second, but there is little that’s traditional in this symphony. Elements—elements of “physical exuberance”— to enjoy here are the driving dotted rhythms; the fugal gestures; that

kettledrum that echoes five times, with the fifth time starting a beat “late”; and a number of dramatic silences. The middle section, called the trio, presents a contrasting mood. Here the bassoon kicks off some charming playing by the winds and brass. Back comes the scherzo, lively and insistent. The trio tries to reemerge, but the strings deny its return, a technique that foreshadows the strings’ control at the beginning of the fourth movement.

The first part of the third movement is marked adagio molto e cantabile: very slow and singing. As Edward Downes notes, it

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is in “Beethoven’s beloved variation form, actually double variations, for there are two basic themes…” After a brief introduction, the first theme emerges in the strings. It’s built on that familiar falling fourth. Then, to signal the beginning of the second theme, Beethoven conjures up a surprising transitional chord, a device he employs to great effect throughout this movement. This second theme, announced in the second violins, is marked andante moderato: steady walking. The yearning mood of both themes is broken about two-thirds of the way through the movement with a few outbursts, but they finally melt into the glories of the two melodies. Love, indeed.

The fourth movement starts with a clever stroke. The orchestra repeats melodic snatches from the previous movements, each of which is rejected by the double basses. The winds then proffer a new motive, the melody over which Schiller’s words will ultimately be sung, and this one wins the day.

PORTALS

THE VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE OF PAUL GOESCH

MARCH 18–JUNE 11, 2023

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It’s a congenial tune, and when the violent opening of the movement tries to insert itself into the proceedings again, a human voice intercedes, beginning a remarkable celebration of Joy, “the God-descended daughter of Elysium.” The stately motive is soon transformed into a Turkish march (an exotic touch much employed by composers in Beethoven’s day). Orchestral passages, choral sections, and vocal solos alternate, each taking up the battle cry for joy and the unity of all humankind. There are staggeringly original moments here: the high tessitura of the voices, the abrupt alternations in tempi, and the rhythmic accents. Of course, there is a mighty fugue. And when this torrent of sound concludes, you realize what a crowded place Beethoven’s head must have been.

Beethoven note by Paul Lamar

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DAVID ALAN MILLER, Heinrich Medicus Music Director

SOUNDTRACK NEW YORK:

MUSICAL SCENES FROM A CINEMATIC STATE

Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023

7:30pm • Palace Theatre

David Alan Miller, conductor • Kevin Cole, piano

Featuring selections from such cinematic scores as West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein), The Lord of the Rings (Howard Shore), Taxi Driver (Bernard Herrmann), King Kong (Max Steiner), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Henry Mancini), George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Rivets, and much more!

DAUGHERTY + TCHAIKOVSKY & THE BLUE DANUBE

Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023 • 7:30pm

Sunday, Nov. 12, 2023 • 3:00pm

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

David Alan Miller, conductor

Johann Strauss Jr.: The Blue Danube Waltzes

Michael Daugherty: Last Dance at the Surf • To the New World

P.I. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3, “Polish”

YEFIM BRONFMAN PLAYS BRAHMS

Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023 • 7:30pm

Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023 • 3:00pm

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

David Alan Miller, conductor • Yefim Bronfman, piano

Loren Loiacono: new work

Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2

Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4

STEINKE + MOZART & MORE FROM 1784

Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024 • 7:30pm

Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024 • 3:00pm

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

David Alan Miller, conductor

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Overture & selections from The Marriage of Figaro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 19

Harriet Steinke: new work

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 80

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BRONFMAN

DAUGHERTY

SIMON + RHAPSODY IN BLUE @ 100

Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024 • 7:30pm

Proctors in Schenectady

David Alan Miller, conductor • Kevin Cole, piano

Greg Spiridopoulos, trombone

Carlos Simon: AMEN!

George Gershwin: An American in Paris

Jack Frerer: Trombone Concerto

George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

THE FOUR SEASONS + ESMAIL

Saturday, March 16, 2024 • 7:30pm

Sunday, March 17, 2024 • 3:00pm

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

David Alan Miller, conductor

Reena Esmail: The History of Red

Edward Elgar: Serenade for Strings

Derek Bermel: Sailing over Algiers

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons

CUONG + BEETHOVEN

Saturday, April 13, 2024 • 7:30pm

Sunday, April 14, 2024 • 3:00pm

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

David Alan Miller, conductor

Justin Benavidez, tuba • Sandbox Percussion

Viet Cuong: Next Week’s Trees • Re(new)al • Tuba Concerto

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 4

SEASON FINALE!

AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL

Saturday, June 8, 2024 • 7:30pm

EMPAC in Troy

David Alan Miller, conductor • Clarice Assad, piano

PROGRAM INCLUDES:

Joan Tower: 1920/2019

Clarice Assad: Piano Concerto

Christopher Theofanidis: On the Bridge of the Eternal

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THE MUSIC OF STAR WARS

SATURDAY | MAY 6, 2023 | 7:30 PM

PALACE THEATRE

DAVID ALAN MILLER, CONDUCTOR

Be transported to a land far, far away as David Alan Miller and your Albany Symphony play John Williams’ iconic music from Star Wars. Don’t miss this special event featuring memorable moments from the original trilogy and the more recent blockbuster additions to the intergalactic canon.

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JOHN WILLIAMS

In a career that spans seven decades, John Williams has become one of America’s most accomplished and successful composers for film and for the concert stage. He has served as music director and laureate conductor of one of the country’s treasured musical institutions, the Boston Pops Orchestra, and he maintains thriving artistic relationships with many of the world’s great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Williams has received a variety of prestigious awards, including the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Olympic Order, and numerous Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards.

Williams has composed the music and served as music director for more than 100 films. His almost-50-year artistic partnership with

director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films, including Schindler’s List, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, four Indiana Jones films, Saving Private Ryan, Amistad, Munich, Hook, Catch Me if You Can, Minority Report, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Empire of the Sun, The Adventures of Tintin and War Horse. Williams has composed the scores for Star Wars, the first three Harry Potter films, Superman: The Movie, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone, Nixon, The Patriot, Angela’s Ashes, Seven Years in Tibet, The Witches of Eastwick, Rosewood, Sleepers, Sabrina, Presumed Innocent, The Cowboys and The Reivers, among many others. In addition to his activity in film and television, Williams has composed numerous works for the concert stage, among them two symphonies, and concertos for flute, violin, clarinet, viola, oboe and tuba.

JOHN WILLIAMS

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BOARD OFFICERS

Jerel Golub, Chair

Faith A. Takes, Vice Chair

David Rubin, Treasurer

John Regan, Secretary

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kaweeda Adams

Melody Bruce, MD

Dr. Benjamin E. Chi

Judith Ciccio (Ex Officio)

Marcia Cockrell

Ellen Cole, Ph. D.

Becky Daniels

Marisa Eisemann, MD

Nicholas Faso

Alan Goldberg

Joseph T. Gravini

Catherine Hackert (Ex Officio)

Anthony P. Hazapis

Jahkeen Hoke

Edward M. Jennings

Daniel Kredentser

Mark P. Lasch

Steve Lobel

Cory Martin

Anne Older

Henry Pohl

Dush Pathmanandam

Barry Richman

Hon. Kathy M. Sheehan (Ex Officio)

Rabbi Scott Shpeen

Louis Solano

Micheileen Treadwell

DIRECTORS’ COUNCIL

Rhea Clark

Denise Gonick

Sherley Hannay

Charles M. Liddle III

Judith B. McIlduff

John J. Nigro

STAFF

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Anna Kuwabara, Executive Director

FINANCE

Scott Allen, Finance Director

DEVELOPMENT & MARKETING

Robert Pape

Director of Development & Marketing

Alayna Frey

Box Office & Marketing Coordinator

Amanda Irwin

Annual Fund & Grants Manager

Nyla McKenzie-Isaac

Marketing & Development Assistant

Keynola Russell

Individual Giving Coordinator

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Jae Gayle, Director of Education & Community Engagement

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS

Derek Smith

Director of Operations & Programming

JJ Johnson, Personnel Manager

Daniel Brye, Housing Coordinator

Myles Mocarski, Librarian

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CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE

The Albany Symphony is grateful to the following individuals for their vital ongoing support. Updated March 15, 2023. *In Memoriam

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Drs. Melody A. Bruce & David A. Ray

Drs. Ellen Mary Cosgrove & Thomas Evans

Jeffrey Fahl

Mr. & Mrs. Ephraim & Elana Glinert

Alan Goldberg

Edward & Sally S. Jennings

Judith & William Kahn

Sara Lee & Barry Larner

Charles M. Liddle III*

Steve & Vivian Lobel

The Massry Family

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Maston

Hilary & Nicholas Miller

Vaughn Nevin

Robert & Samantha Pape

Larry & Clara Sanders

Rabbi Scott Shpeen

Mrs. Jeanne Tartaglia

Bonnie Taylor* & Daniel Wulff

William Tuthill & Gregory Anderson

Barbara & Stephen Wiley

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE VIRTUOSO LEVEL

($1,500-$2,499)

Mr. & Ms. John Abbuhl

Hermes & Linda Ames

Linda & Michael Barnas

Paul & Bonnie Bruno

Charles & Charlotte Buchanan*

Drs. Ellen Cole & Doug North

Kirk Cornwell & Claire Pospisil

Dr. & Mrs. Harry DePan

Dr. Joyce J. Diwan

David Ernst

Joseph & Linda Farrell

Dr. & Mrs. Reed Ference

Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Gordon

The Family of Morton Gould & Eric Gould

Joe Gravini & Beth Cope

Holly Katz & William Harris

Karen S. Hartgen-Fisher

Mr. & Mrs. E. Stewart Jones Jr.

Wendy Jordan & Frank Murray

Marilyn & Stan Kaltenborn

Herbert & Judith Katz

Alexander & Gail Keeler

Mr. Robert J. Krackeler

Georgia & David Lawrence

Drs. Matthew Leinug & Cyndi Miller

Mr. Donald Lipkin & Mrs. Mary Bowen

Alan & Karen Lobel

Charles & Barbara Manning

Judy & Ted Marotta

Mr. Cory Martin

Judith B. McIlduff

Paul & Loretta Moore

Meaghan Murphy & Nicholas Faso

Stewart Myers

Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Older

Henry Peyrebrune

Dr. Nina Reich

Barry & Nancy Richman

Lee & Donna Rosen

Mark J. Rosen & Leslie Newman

Alan & Leizbeth Sanders

Peg & Bob Schalit

David Shaffer

Dwight & Rachel Smith

Paul & Janet Stoler

Ms. Judith (Josey) Twombly

Mrs. Candace King Weir

Michael & Margery Whiteman

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE FRIEND LEVEL

($1,000-$1,499)

Albany Medical Center

Dr. Richard & Kelly Alfred

Wallace & Jane Altes

Judith Ciccio

Dr. & Mrs. William J. Cromie

Drs. Paul J. & Faith B. Davis

Ruth Dinowitz

James Edgar

Jack M. Firestone

Roseanne Fogarty & Perry Smith

Lois Foster

John & Linda Fritze

David Gardam & Mary McCarthy

Terry Gitnick

Ms. Jill Goodman & Mr. Arthur Malkin

Michael & Katharine Hayes

Anthony P. Hazapis

Dr. Joseph Peter Lalka & Ms. Teresa Ribadenerya

Robert C. & Mary P. LaFleur

William Lawrence

Mrs. Agnes Leahy

Dr. & Mrs. Neil Lempert

Robert & Jean Leonard

Dr. & Mrs. Richard MacDowell

Mrs. Nancy McEwan

Patricia & Kevin O’Bryan

Sarah M. Pellman

Susan Picotte

Hiroko Sakurazawa

Harriet B. Seeley

Peggy & Jack Seppi

Ms. Ronnye B. Shamam

Herb & Cynthia Shultz

Ronald & Nadine Stram

Robert P. Storch & Sara M. Lord

I. David & Lois Swawite

Dr. and Mrs. Frank Thiel

Dale Thuillez

Anders & Mary Ellen Tomson

Avis & Joseph Toochin

Dr. Micheileen Treadwell*

F. Michael & Lynette Tucker

Lawrence & Sara Wiest

FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS, & GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

The Albany Symphony is deeply grateful to the foundations, corporations, and government agencies whose ongoing support ensures the vitality of our orchestra. Updated March 21, 2023.

$100,000+

Empire State Development

Capital Region Economic Development Council

Carl E. Touhey Foundation

$50,000+

New York State Council on the Arts

$25,000+

Aaron Copland Fund for Music

League of American Orchestras National Endowment for the Arts

$10,000+

Amphion Foundation

The Bender Family Foundation

Broadview Federal Credit Union

Hannay Reels, Inc.

Lucille A. Herold Charitable Trust

May K. Houck Foundation

Nielsen Associates

Nigro Companies

New Music USA

The John D. Picotte Family Foundation

M & T Charitable Foundation

The Picotte family Foundation

Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation

Sano-Rubin Construction

Stewart’s Shops

Vanguard-Albany Symphony

$5,000+ Capital Bank

Alice M. Ditson Fund

Faith Takes Family Foundation

The Galesi Group

Graypoint, LLC

AllSquare Wealth Management

Atlas Wealth Management

Discover Albany

New York Industries for the Disabled

Howard & Bush Foundation

The Hershey Family Fund

$2,500+

Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust

Charles R. Wood Foundation

Hudson River Bank & Trust

J.M. McDonald Foundation

The Business for Good Foundation

The Peckham Family Foundation

The Robison Family Foundation

Fenimore Asset Management, Inc.

The Troy Savings Bank Charitable Foundation

The David and Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund,Inc.

$1,500+ Pioneer Bank

$1,000+

Dr. Gustave & Elinor Eisemann

Philanthropic Fund

Firestone Family Foundation

Hippo’s

Pearl Grant Richmans

Repeat Business Systems Inc.

Whiteman Osterman and Hanna LLP

CORPORATE SPONSORS

The Albany Symphony acknowledges the support of our corporate sponsors whose contributions recognize the importance of the Albany Symphony in building civic pride, educating our youth, and contributing to the cultural life of all people in the Capital Region. Updated March 21, 2023.

CELINE & DANIEL KREDENTSER

JOHN D. PICOTTE FAMILY FOUNDATION

CARL E. TOUHEY FOUNDATION

COURTYARD BY MARRIOTT SCHENECTADY AT MOHAWK HARBOR

This concert season has also been made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, the City of Albany, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Capital District Economic Development Council, Vanguard-Albany Symphony, and the support of our donors, subscribers, and patrons.

The Albany Symphony is grateful to the following individuals for their vital ongoing support. Updated March 10, 2023.

SYMPHONY CIRCLE ($500-$999)

LINDA ANDERSON

AL AUMICK

JAMES AYERS & MIRIAM TREMENTOZZI

JEEVARATHNAM AYYAMPERUMAL

DONALD & RHONDA BALLOU

ELMER & OLGA BERTCH

SUSAN & GUS BIRKHEAD

JOHN BOHRER-YARDLEY

ROBERT G. BRIGGS

WESLEY R. & SHELLEY W. BROWN

PAUL & BONNIE BRUNO

MICHAEL BUCKMAN

MR. DAVID CLARK

DEANNA COLE

ROBERT A. & SUSAN Y. COOK FUND

JANE & JOHN CORROU

DR. AND MRS. WILLIAM J. CROMIE

MR. WILSON CRONE

PERNILLE AEGIDIUS DAKE

MARY BETH DONNELLY

ROBERT & MARJORIE DORKIN

KATE & JERRY DUDDING

HERB AND ANNMARIE ELLIS

HOPE ENGEL GREENBERG & HENRY GREENBERG

JOHN ENGSTER

MR. & MRS. JOHN J. FERGUSON

PAUL & NOREEN FISK

MARVIN & SHARON FREEDMAN

ROBERT FROST

MS. MARY MCCARTHY & MR. DAVID GARDAM

KEITH C. LEE

LYNN GELZHEISER

MR. RONALD C. GEUTHER

DAVID & JANICE GOLDEN

MR. PAUL J. GOLDMAN

MR. & MRS. ALLEN S. GOODMAN

SHIRLEY & HERBERT GORDON

ROBERT & MARY ELIZABETH GOSENDE

MICHAEL HALLORAN

KATHARINE B. HARRIS

ROBERT R. HENION III

PAUL HOHENBERG

MARTIN ATWOOD HOTVET

KAREN HUNTER & TODD SCHEUERMANN

JOHN & JANET HUTCHISON

MRS. ELLEN JABBUR

MARILYN & STAN KALTENBORN

RUTH KILLORAN

ROBERT C. AND MARY P. LAFLEUR

DR. & MRS. JEREMY & JODI LASSETTER

JOHN M LAWRENCE

WILLIAM LAWRENCE

MR. JAMES LEVINE

DAVID & ELIZABETH LIEBSCHUTZ

TOM & SUE LYONS

DR. CHRISTOPHER JOHN MAESTRO

DAVID & TANYSS MARTULA

KAREN MELCHER

BENJAMIN & RUTH FACHER MENDEL

PATRICIA MEREDITH

ANNE MESSER & DANIEL GORDON

RICHARD & BEVERLEY MESSMER

BARBARA METZ

SARAH & RANA MUKERJI

STEPHEN & MARY MULLER

STEWART C. MYERS

WILLIAM & ELIZABETH NATHAN

RONALD DUNN & LINDA PELOSI-DUNN

CYNTHIA PLATT & DAVID LUNTZ

PAUL & MARGARET RANDALL

MR. ROBERT REILLY

DEBORAH ROTH & ALAN KAUFMAN

MR. & MRS. STEVEN & TAMMY SANDERS

RICHARD SCARANO

MR. ROBERT SCHER & MS. EMILIE GOULD

WALTER SCOTT

CYNTHIA SERBENT

ANNE-MARIE SERRE

DAVID SHAFFER

PATRICIA SHAPIRO

MRS. JOANNE SHAY

GLORIA & DAVID SLEETER

SANDRA & CHARLES STERN

MS. JEAN STEVENS

JAMES SULLIVAN

AVIS & JOSEPH TOOCHIN

LINDA VALENTINE

STEPHANIE H. WACHOLDER & IRA MENDLESON III

WHEELOCK WHITNEY III

MICHAEL L WOLFF

DRS. SUSAN STANDFAST & THEODORE WRIGHT

DAYLE ZATLIN & JOEL BLUMENTHAL

APPLAUSE CIRCLE ($250-$499)

THOMAS AMYOT

MS. JANET ANGELIS

ELIZABETH & JOHN ANTONIO

JEFFREY ASHER

MRS. ANNE ALEERTIN

MR. & MRS. JOSEPH BAGGOTT

DR. RONALD BAILEY

RICHARD & SUSAN BAKER

THE BANGERT-DROWNS FAMILY

ANNE & HANK BANKHEAD

DR. & MRS BEEHNER

RACHEL BLOCK

SHARON BONK

RUTH BONN

DOUG & JUDY BOWDEN

E. &REW BOYD

MRS. NAOMI BRADSHAW

CHARLES BRAVERMAN & MS. JULIA ROSEN

DIANE & WILLIAM BRINA

THE BRUCKNER SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC.

CAROL F. BULLARD & WORTH GRETTER

TIMOTHY BURCH

STANLEY MICHAEL BYER

MICHAEL A. BYRNE

RICHARD & LORRAINE CARLSON

MRS. JENNY CHARNO

JIM COCHRAN & FRAN PILATO

ANN & WILLIAM COLLINS

RUIKO K. CONNOR

MS. MAUREEN CONROY

JANET R. CONTI

MR. ROBERT DANDREW

MR. LARRY DEYSS

TERRELL DOOLAN

MR. ROBERT S. DREW

SUSAN J. DUBOIS

ELENA DUGGAN

ILZE EARNER

ANN & DON EBERLE

PAM FERNANDEZ

KELLIE FREDERICKS

ROY & JUDITH FRUITERMAN

CHRISTINA GALANTE

ROBERT J GALLATI

BARBARA P. GIGLIOTTI

CHANDLEE GILL

DR. REID T. MULLER & DR. SHELLEY A. GILROY

EMILIE GOULD

JOHN GROSS

DAVID E. GUINN

PHIL & DIANNE HANSEN

MS. JILL HARBECK

DR. & MRS. JOSEPH J. HART

JOHN HAWN

JUSTIN HELLER

SUSAN HOLANDER

MRS. ANN M JEFFREY

MS. AMBER JONES

JOHN & MARCIA RAPP KEEFE

WILLIAM & DANA KENNEDY

DR. BEATRICE KOVASZNAY

MRS. MARGARET KOWALSKI

KARL BENDORF & PATRICIA LACEY

SALLY LAWRENCE

BENNETT & DEBORAH LIEBMAN

ELISE MALECKI

MRS. THERESA C. MAYHEW

FRANCES T. MCDONALD

ROBERT MCKEEVER

PATRICK MCNAMARA

MICHELLE MILLER-ADAMS

MRS. SHEILA MOSHER

MARCIA & ROBERT MOSS

JUDITH ANN MYSLIBORSKI, MD

LEE & HEIDI NEWBERG FUND

MS. DIANE O'BRIEN

PATRICIA & KEVIN O’BRYAN

JOEL & ELIZABETH HODES

CAROL & ED OSTERHOUT

WILLIAM PANITCH

EDWARD B. PARRAN & JAMES F. GUIDERA

ELEANOR PEARLMAN

LUCIA PEENEY

MR. & MRS. ROBERT EDWARD PETT

DIANA PRAUS

MRS. TINA W. RAGGIO

MR. STEVEN RICH

ALEXANDRIA RICHART

RIDER, WEINER & FRANKEL, P.C.

MS. MARIN WYATT RIDGWAY

JILL & RICHARD RIFKIN

KENNETH & SUSAN RITZENBERG

GEORGE & INGRID ROBINSON

ERIC S. ROCCARIO MD

STEVEN & JANICE ROCKLIN

MS. JULIA ROSEN

ROSEMARIE V. ROSEN

MARTHA ROZETT

GRETCHEN A. RUBENSTEIN

PAUL & KRISTINE SANTILLI

MARY KAY SAWYER

MR. & MRS. DAVID & SUSAN SAWYER

WILLIAM & GAIL HAULENBEEK SCHANCK

DR. HARVEY & HAPPY SCHERER

RALPH & DOROTHY SCHULTZ

MR. JOHN SCHWARZ

SUSAN V. SHIPHERD

MICHAEL & MONICA SHORT

SHARON SIEGEL

MARTHA & ARNOLD SLOWE

LOUIS SOLANO

MS. AMY JANE STEINER

MR. CHARLES MICHAEL STEPHENS

HON. & MRS. LARRY G STORCH

PROF. BEN G. SZARO

JOHN & SALLY TEN EYCK

PAUL TOSCINO

TERRY & DANIEL TYSON

LINDA DEMATTIA UNDERWOOD

MRS. CANDICE VAN ROEY

PATRICK & CANDICE VAN ROEY

JEFF VANDEBERG

JANET VINE

DAWN STUART WEINRAUB

PAUL WING

BARBARA YOUNGBERG

BARBARA ZAVISKY

DR. & MRS. DAVID H. ZORNOW

PATRON CIRCLE ($100-$249)

WILFRED ACKERLY

MRS. CAROL ACKERMAN

CATALINA ALEGRE, MD

MS. EDITH ALLARD

AIMEE ALLAUD

CAMILLE & ANDREW ALLEN

RABBI LAURENCE ARYEH ALPERN

ROSEMARIE AMENDOLIA

MS. GAYLE ANDERSON

SHIRLEY R. ANDERSON & ROBERT FISHER

SUZANNE ANDERSON

MARTIN ANNELING

ELIZABETH A ARDEN

RUTH ARNESON

MR. WILLIAM V ARNETH III

CHIP ASHWORTH

STEVEN AXELROD

SUSAN & RONALD BACKER

PHYLLIS BADER-BOREL

MRS. LAURA BARRON

DIANE BARTHOLDI

LAURENCE & SHARON BEAUDOIN

SITSO BEDIAKO

DR. & MRS. THOMAS & ADRIENNE BEGLEY

ANITA BEHN

MR. KARL BENDORF

KRISTIN BENNETT

SAMUEL BERG

JOHN J BIANCHI

JAMES D. BILIK

ROBERT & RITA BLOCK

VALERIE BOK & JOSEPH LOMONACO

FELICIA BORDICK

JOSEPH & PATRICIA BOUDREAU

MARY J. BR&

MR. BOB P. BR&

MRS. ANNE BREWSTER

DAVID BRICKMAN & KAREN CIANCETTA

MS. ELLEN BRICKMAN

HON. CAROLINE EVANS BRIDGE

DR. RACHELLE BRILLIANT

MARIANNE BROSS

ELISABETH BROWN

MR. AARON BROWN

CYNTHIA S BROWN-LAFLEUR

CENZI, BRUCE, & JOAN

CRESCENTIA & BRUCE BRYNOLFSON

CAROL BUTT

MR. JAMES LOUIS BUZON

VICTOR L. CAHN

CHARLES & EVA CARLSON

KENNETH & JANICE CARROLL

SARAH & PATRICK CARROLL

PAUL CASTALLANI

LOIS & PATRICK CAULFIELD

MR. MICHAEL J. CAWLEY

BENJAMIN CHASE

MS. MARIA CHAU

DR. BENJAMIN CHI

ALEX CHRONOPOULOS

THOMAS CHULAK

LONNIE CLAR

MS. RAE CLARK

DAVID O. CLEMENTS, JR.

MR. AARON R COBLE

DRS. ELLEN COLE & DOUG NORTH

MS. LAVONDA COLLINS

DAVID CONNOLLY

MATT COOPER

MIRIAM COOPERMAN

MR. LESLIE CRAIGUE

BONNIE & STEVEN CRAMER

ANNE CRONIN

ELLEN-DEANE CUMMINS

BARB & GARY CUNNINGHAM

MARC DANIEL

CAROL DECKER

PHILIP DEGAETANO

GARRETT & MICHELE DEGRAFF

PAUL DELLEVIGNE

MS. JOAN DENNEHEY

MR. WILLIAM DESANTIS

MS. SHARON DESROCHERS

DR. & MRS. ANTHONY J. DETOMMASI

MICHAEL DEVALL

MRS. MARY A. DEVANE

MR. & MRS. PAUL DICHIAN

LOUANN DICKENS

MR. BRUCE & JUNE DIEFFENBACH

LINDA DIRGA

MR. YOUNG R. DO

KEVIN P. DONOVAN

MARIANNE DONOVAN

HOLLIS DORMAN

JAN & LOIS DORMAN

JILL DORSI

MARILYN & PETER DOUGLAS

CAITLIN A. DRELLOS

KEVIN DUBNER

MS. PRISCILLA DUSKIN

DR. FREDERICK & BARBARA EAMES

JOHN & PAMELA EBERLE

MR. SETH EDELMAN

DON EDMANS & DEBRA PIGLIVENTO

MS. KATELYN EGAN

MS. TANJA EISE

MR. & MRS. LYNN ELLSWORTH

DAVID EMANATIAN

LORRAINE & JEFF ENGLISH

DONNA FADDEGON

PRISCILLA FAIRBANK & OWEN GOLDFAUB

MRS. VALORIE FALCO

MS. RACHEL L. FARNUM

DR. & MRS. REED FERENCE

MARY FIESS

LINA MILAGROS FINLAN

SUSAN & HUGH FISHER

SID FLEISHER & GAYLE ANDERSON

LAWRENCE & SUSAN FLESH

ANNE E FORTUNE

MR. REG FOSTER & MS. MARYANN JABLONOWSKI

NANCY T. FRANK

ELAINE C. FREEDMAN

KAREN & BRUCE FRISHKOFF

MR. & MS. JON K. FRITZE

ROBERT FROST

THE FRUSCIONE FAMILY

LAWERENCE GAMBINO

BARBARA & EUGENE GARBER

MS. JOAN GAVRILIK

LYNNE L. GELBER

BRUCE J. GELLER

CHUCK & SALLY JO GIESER

MR. STEWART GILL

SANDRA & STEWART GILL

CAROL GILLESPIE & MARION E. HUXLEY

CHARLES & WENDY GILMAN

CHARLES & KAREN GODDARD

GARY GOLD & NANCY PIERSON

MR. ALAN GOLDBERG

EDWARD J. GORMAN

MR. JUDSON L GRAHAM

JOSEPH GRAVINI & ELIZABETH COPE

CHRIS & SHIRLEY GREAGAN

MR. & MRS. WALTER GREENBERG

MARK HARRIS & MELANIE GREENSPAN

DIANE & JOHN GREGO

LOIS GRIFFIN

DAVID & MARILYNN GRIMM

ROBERT F. GUERRIN

MR. JIM GUIDERA

THERESA TOMASZEWSKA & JAMES GUMAER

MR. & MRS. CARLTON & SUSAN GUTMAN

MR. ARTHUR HABERL

CHARLES HAGELGANS

MS. BARBARA DIANE HAINES

MS. JOAN HAM

HENRY & PAULINE HAMELIN

TERESA HANSEN

HELEN HARRIS

HOLLY KATZ & WILLIAM HARRIS

MS. TERESA HARRISON

KATHLEEN R. HARTLEY

LEIF & CLAUDIA HARTMARK

MR. & MRS. RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN

MR. DREW HARTZELL

MS. MARYANNE HARVEY

AUDREY T. HAWKINS

MR. & MRS. SCOTT & JESSE HAWKINS

GAIL D. HEIM

MR. & MRS. FREDERIC & LAURA HELLWITZ

LEE HELSBY & JOSEPH ROCHE

MEGUMI K. & DIETRICH P. HEMANN

MR. WILLIAM J. HETZER

PHYLLIS & STEPHEN HILLINGER

MR. RICHARD ALLAN HORAN

MS. LINDSEY SUSAN HOTALING

ROBERT & ELLEN HOTZ

MR. CHARLES G HOUGHTON

MRS. CHERI HOURIGAN

MS. HELEN HOUSE

CHUONG HUANG

LUCINDA HUGGINS

W. ROBERT HUNZIKER

MR. R. DANIEL HURWITZ

HON. IRAD & JAN INGRAHAM

MS. CAITLIN IPPOLITO

SUSAN JACOBSEN

JEAN JAGENDORF

MR. SCOTT B JELSTROM

ERIC & PRISCILLA JOHNSON

PHILIP & BRIGITTE JOHNSON

VICTOR JUHASZ

SHELLEY JUSTA

MS. DEBORAH KARNES

GEORGE KASH

MR. ROBERT A. KATZ

JOE & MARY KELLY

KENT FAMILY FUND

MR. CHARLES KIMBALL

J. ERIC KING & KATHLENE THIEL

EDWARD J. & &REA E. KISH

JOSIE KIVORT

EDITH KLIMAN

MR. ADAM C. KNAUST

CHERYL GELDER-KOGAN & BARRY A. KOGAN, MD

DR. DOUGLAS H. LENZ & MRS. KARIN M.

KRASEVAC-LENZ

DAVID & DIANE KVAM

PAUL LAMAR & MARK EAMER

MARY LAMPI & BERNARD MELEWSKI

WALTER & SANDY LANE

JENNIFER LANGE

GORDON VENNARD

PETER & LORI LAURICELLA

MS. JEANNINE LAVERTY

MARIANNA LAWLER

GEORGIA & DAVID LAWRENCE

MS. JUDY LECAIN

ELIZABETH LEE

CYNTHIA LEVINE

KAREN LIPSON

CARLOS LLUCH

TIMOTHY & JUDITH LOOKER

ENRIQUE LOPEZ

SYLVIE BROWN & KERSTEN LORCHER

MS. KARYN LOSCOCCO

MONICA MACKEY

MR. & MRS. STEPHEN & MARY MADARASZ

WILLIAM & GAIL MADIGAN

BEVERLY & RICHARD MAGIDSON

JOHN MAGILL

MARYBETH MAIKELS

KEITH MAKRIN

CLAIRE MALONE

SUSANNA MARTIN

LOUISE & LARRY MARWILL

MS. JOAN MASTRIANNI

WILSON & MARILYN MATHIAS

MR. ARTHUR MATTISKE

LINDA MAYOU

RICHARD MCCLUNG

MR. JAMES MCCLYMONDS

ELENA MCCORMICK

THOMAS MCGUIRE

FELTON MCLAUGHLIN & ANNA TAAFFE

MS. BETH MCLAUGHLIN

KAREN CARLSON & RICHARD MCNALLY

KATHLEEN MCNAMARA

MR. RAYMOND W. MICHAELS

FRED & PAULINE MILLER

MARY FRANCES MILLER

PAT MION

ELIZABETH & BILL MOLL

MR. DAVID E MOLLON

TOM BENOIT & MARY MORAN

MR. & MRS. JOHN MORONEY

ALICE & RICHARD MORSE

MS. CHERYL MUGNO & MR. WILLIAM TROMPETER

MRS. & MR. JUDITH V. NESTLEN

DAVID NICHOLS

KEN JACOBS & LISA NISSENBAUM

CHRISTOPHER NOLIN

JEREMY OLSON

MR. ANTHONY OPALKA

PETER & KATHLEEN ORDWAY

BRAD & BARBARA OSWALD

MR. JOHN PADUANO

MR. STEPHEN PAGANO

MR. PETER PAGEREY

JAMES & GEORGIANA PANTON

ROBERT & SAMANTHA PAPE

ROBERT & LORETTA PARSONS

JOSEPH PAWLOSKI

PROF. JEAN ELISABETH PEDERSEN

NANCY PETERSEN

BOB & LEE PETTIE

CHRISTIAN & CAROL PFISTER

MS. DEBORAH PHAFF

MRS. RUTH L PIERPONT

ROBERTA PLACE

MR. RICHARD A PLATT

MR. & MRS. ROBERT D. PLATTNER

DORIS FREEDMAN POCK

JOHN SMOLINSKY & ELLEN PRAKKEN

ROSEMARY PYLE

MR. DAVID QUIST

MR. FRANK RALBOVSKY

LAURA Y. RAPPAPORT

BARBARA RASKIN

LENORE & JACK REBER

CHERYL V. REEVES

DR. CHRISTOPHER & KENDALL REILLY

GAIL RHEINGOLD

SUSAN RIBACK

DR. JOSEPH PETER LALKA & MS. TERESA RIBADENERYA

MS. SABRINA EVE RICCI

MR. & MRS. KEVIN & JENNIFER RICHARD-MORROW

GEORGE RICHARDSON

MR. & MRS. GEORGE P. RICHARDSON

WAYNE & MONICA RAVERET RICHTER

ALISON RILEY-CLARK

RAMON & MARY RODRIGUEZ

H. DANIEL ROGERS

MR. & MRS. HARLAN & CATHERINE B. ROOT

FRANK L. ROSE

MRS ROSENFELD &Y ROY

DAVID M. RUBIN & CAROLE L. JU

DANIEL & MERIS RUZOW

JOHN RYAN

MR. JOHN PAUL RYAN

MS. MARGARET M. RYAN

MR. WILLIAM D. SALLUZZO

MS. JOAN SAVAGE

PEG & BOB SCHALIT

JOANNE SCHEIBLY

MR. LAWRENCE SCHELL

LOIS & BARRY SCHERER

KENDRA SCHIEBER

MR. JIM & MRS. JANIE SCHWAB

DODIE & PETE SEAGLE

PEGGY & JACK SEPPI

ANN SHAPIRO & BARRY PENDERGRASS

IN MEMORY OF FELIX SHAPIRO

JULIE & WILLIAM SHAPIRO

MR. & MRS. WILLIAM A. SHAPIRO

MRS. DOLORES A. SHAW

MR. JOHN SHEPPARD

STEPHEN J. SILLS MD

JIYOON SIMCOE

STEPHEN C. SIMMONS FAMILY

MR. KENNETH SINGER

ROSALIE & ROGER SOKOL

TERESA MARIA SOLE

JOYCE A. SOLTIS

MR. IAN R. ST. GEORGE

DONALD & MORAG STAUFFER

JOHN & LOIS STAUGAITIS

LESLIE E. STEIN

DR. & MRS. YARON & KATIE STERNBACH

DAVID H. STEWARD

WILLIAM STEWART & ROSE MARY KINGSLEY

NORMAN & ADELE STROMINGER

SHEILA SULLIVAN

ANDREW SWARTZ

AMY & ROBERT SWEET

EDWIN & PAMELA TAFT

MS. JACQUELINE TENNEY

MS. MARTHA TEUMIM

JOSEPH THATCHER

GARY THOMPSON

MRS. SARAH Z. TILLMAN

MR. MICHAEL TOBIN

DORIS TOMER

MS. MONICA TRABOLD

DR. & MRS. RICHARD UHL

MICHELE VENNARD & GORDON LATTEY

MR. JAMES VIELKIND-NEUN

MARIA VINCENT

MARC VIOLETTE & MARGARET LANOUE

MARTHA VON SCHILGEN

MR. JAMES FLEMING & LAWRENCE TYLER WAITE

DEWITT & DOROTHY ELLINWOOD

WENDY WANNINGER

LARRY WATERMAN

MR. WOLFGANG WEHMANN

JERRY & BETSY WEISS

MR. ERIC DEAN WEISS

SHARON WESLEY

FREDERICK & WINNIE WILHELM

MS. ELIZABETH F. WILLIAMS

ELLIOTT & LISA WILSON

ALEX WIRTH-CAUCHON

RUSSELL WISE & ANN ALLES

MR. MEYER J. WOLIN

MR. DAVID WOOD

MS. SUSAN WOOD

BONNIE TAYLOR & DANIEL WULFF

DR. SHELLEY M. ZANSKY

IN HONOR, CELEBRATION & MEMORY

Updated March 21, 2023. *In Memoriam

In Memory of Virginia Adams

Linda Dirga

In Honor of David Ray and Mimi Bruce

Dorothy Seagle

In Memory of Elsa deBeer

Jenny deBeer Charno

In Memory of Edna deBeer

Thomas & Ann Connolly

In Loving Memory of Mary Rita Flanagan

Michael A. Byrne

In Memory of Allan D. Foster

Mrs. Lois V. Foster

In Memory of Shirley Gardam

Maryann Jablonowski

Reg Foster

Mary McCarthy

David Gardam

Doris Tomer

Stephanie Wacholder

In Loving Memory of Beatrice and Robert Herman

Arthur Herman

Dr. & Mrs. Neil Lempert

Lawrence Marwill

Louise & Larry Marwill

In Honor of Janet Kurposka

Elaine Verstandig

In Honor of Anna Kuwabara

Monica Mackey

In Memory of Susan Martula

Alex Wirth-Cauchon

Elena Duggan

Megumi Hemann

Edward Kish

Paul Lamar & Mark Eamer

David & Tanyss Martula

Thomas McGuire

Marsha Lawson

Anne & Thomas Older

Rider, Weiner & Frankel, P.C.

Margaret Schalit

Richard & Anne Martula

William & Julie Shapiro

Robert Sweet

Dawn Weinraub

In Loving Memory of Dr. Heinrich Medicus

Anne & Thomas Older

In Honor of David Alan Miller

Albany Medical Center

Phyllis Cooney

Karen Hartgen-Fisher

Arthur Herman

Celine & Daniel Kredentser

David & Elizabeth Liebschutz

Steve & Vivian Lobel

Chet & Karen Opalka

Gretchen Rubenstein

Lois & Barry Scherer

Susan St. Amour

In Honor of Connie and Ned O'Brien

Diane O'Brien

In Memory of Anne Posner

David Posner

In Honor of Jill Rifkin

James D. Bilik

Mary Brown

Mikaila Espera

Ellen Kelly

Bennett and Deborah Liebman

Natalie Mantley

Roberta Sandler

Brad Smith

Katherine Wentworth-Ping

In Memory of Pearl Sanders

Larry & Clara Sanders

In Honor of Ronnye Shamam

Samuel Berg

Barbara Nelson

Ruth Pierpont

In Honor of Alice M Trost

Mr. & Mrs. Donald T. Edmans

In Memory of Dr. Manuel Vargas

Lois Foster

In Memory of Gael Casey Vecchio

Aimee Allaud

Margaret Skinner

In Memory of Gerry Weber

Janet Angelis

Theresa Mayhew

In Honor of Barbara and Steve Wiley

Paul Lamar & Mark Eamer

In Honor of Barbara Wiley

Elaine Walter

In Memory of George William "Bill" Zautner

John King

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Gifts of all sizes make it possible for the Albany Symphony to maintain our tradition of artistic excellence and innovation and community engagement for generations to come.

There are many options to make a planned gift to the Albany Symphony that enable anyone to leave a legacy of music:

• Charitable bequests

• IRA or 401(k) beneficiary designation

• Gifts of life insurance or appreciated stocks

• A bequest in a will or living trust

TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ENCORE SOCIETY, PLEASE CONTACT: Robert Pape | Director of Development & Marketing (518) 465-4755 x144 | Robertp@albanysymphony.com

WE INVITE YOU TO CREATE YOUR OWN LEGACY AND JOIN THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF ENCORE SOCIETY

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Matthew Bender IV

Melody Bruce, MD

Charlotte & Charles Buchanan

Susan Bush

Adella S. Cooper

Susan Thompson & Al De Salvo

Marisa Eisemann, MD

David Emanatian

Alan P. Goldberg

Robert & Monica Gordon

Edward M. Jennings

William Harris & Holly Katz

Charles Liddle III

Steve Lobel

Dr. Heinrich Medicus

Marcia Nickerson

John L. Riley

Harry Rutledge

Gretchen A. & Lewis C. Rubenstein

Ruth Ann Sandstedt

Rachel & Dwight Smith

Harriet & Edward Thomas

Micheileen J. Treadwell

Paul Wing

To keep orchestral music alive in our community, and to ensure that future generations experience its joy, please consider joining the Albany Symphony Encore Society.

ALBANY SYMPHONY MUSICIAN HOUSING PROGRAM

Did you know that many of the musicians of the Albany Symphony do not live in the Capital Region? Musicians travel from New York, Boston, Montreal, Nashville, Fort Lauderdale and even as far as Texas to perform with the Albany Symphony. Typically, our musicians are here from Thursday through Sunday of a concert week. Through the generosity of local host families, the Albany Symphony Musician Housing Program was created. Without the support of our host families, we would not be able to maintain the high caliber of musicians who perform with our orchestra. Many of our hosts have created strong bonds with the musicians that stay with them, creating friendships that last a lifetime.

Camille & Andrew Allen

Jenny Amstutz

Dan Bernstein & Efrat Levy

Concetta Bosco

Mimi Bruce & David Ray

Charles Buchanan

Barbara Cavallo

Ben Chi

Diane Davison

Susan & Brian Debronsky

Michelle DePace & Steven Hancox

Nancy & John DiIanni

Star Donovan

Bonnie Edelstein

Lynn Gelzheizer

David Gittelman & Tom Murphy

Catherine & Carl Hackert

Debra & Paul Hoffmann

Susan Jacobsen

Marilyn & Stan Kaltenborn

Nettye Lamkay & Robert Pastel

Barb Lapidus

Eric Latini

Bill Lawrence & Alan Ray

Eunju Lee & Brian Fisher

Susan Martula & David Perry

Anne Messer & Dan Gordon

Jon & Sigrin Newell

Helen J. O’Connor

Marlene & Howard Pressman

Reese Satin

Joan Savage

Dodie & Pete Seagle

Julie & Bill Shapiro

Elizabeth & Aaron Silver

Lorraine Smith

Onnolee & Larry Smith

Lois & John Staugaitis

Harriet Thomas

Andrea & Michael Vallance

Marjorie & Russ Ward

Margery & Michael Whiteman

Carol Whittaker

Dan Wilcox

Barbara Wiley

Merle Winn*