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ENCORE! The

Magazine of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestr a

2012-2013 Season • Volume 19 – Edition 6

April - May 2013

DEPARTMENTS

PERFORMANCES

5 Welcome!

April 19

7 ENCORE! Advertisers

MAYO CLINIC COFFEE SERIES FUSION SERIES

8 About the Orchestra | Symphony Staff

Music and Poetry

8 Group Tickets and Transportation

Coffee concert sponsored by BRASS

10 Jacksonville Symphony Musicians 12 Music Director and Conductors

April 25, 26 & 27

16 Jacksonville Symphony Chorus

FLORIDA BLUE MASTERWORKS SERIES

18 Education, Youth Orchestra and Community Programs 58 Volunteer News

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Masterworks Guest Artists sponsored by Ruth Conley

62 Donation Form and Levels of Giving 65 The Cadenza Society

MAY 4

66 Thank You, Donors!

JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY SPECIAL EVENT

Chris Botti Concert sponsored by Regions Bank Guest artist sponsored by FIS

SPONSOR SPOTLIGHTS

24 Mayo Clinic 30 Florida Blue

MAY 10 & 11 MAYO CLINIC COFFEE SERIES FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL POPS SERIES

45 Fidelity National Financial, Inc. 64 Thank You, Sponsors!

OF SPECIAL INTEREST

John Williams Spectacular Friday evening concert sponsored by Guild Friends of the Jacksonville Symphony Saturday concert sponsored by Florida Times-Union

May 17 & 18

7 Mark Your Calendar – Concerts May 23 Through 26 10 An Interview with Fabio Mechetti – Part III 16 Painted Violins on Display – Drawing May 17 36 JSYO Festival of String | National Conductor Preview 37 Jacksonville Symphony Food Drive – Through April 27

FLORIDA BLUE MASTERWORKS SERIES

Choral Spectacular – Britten: War Requiem Concert sponsored by the Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust Masterworks Guest Artists sponsored by Ruth Conley

42 JSYM Broadcasts on WJCT

MAY 21

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THE 2013-14 SEASON THE SEARCH BEGINS! – Page 6

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COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

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LEADERSHIP Jacksonville Symphony Association Executive Committee Richard H. Pierpont, Chair R. Chris Doerr - Florida Blue, Immediate Past Chair Martin F. Connor, III, Chair-Elect Kay Nichols - Fidelity National Information Services, Treasurer Halcyon E. Skinner - McGuireWoods LLP, Secretary J. F. Bryan, IV, Vice Chair, Board Leadership Matthew McAfee - Driver, McAfee, Griggs & Peck, Vice Chair, Development Joel Settembrini - Saalfield Shad, Vice Chair, Artistic Affairs H. W.“Buzz” Goodall, Vice Chair, Marketing • Frederick W. Schantz, Vice Chair, Endowment At Large: Anthony Kurlas - Merrill Lynch • Joseph A. Nicosia Ex Officio: Alberta Hipps, President, Symphony Guild • Gurmeet Keaveny, President, BRASS Thomas Pippin, President, ARIAS

Board of Directors Corporate Council: Martha E. Barrett – Bank of America Leonard B. Curry – ICX Group Karl Halbach – ADP Brad King – Wells Fargo David Mann – SunTrust Terrence L. McGrane – PriceWaterhouseCoopers Community Council: Lynn Alligood Elizabeth Augustus John S. Billings Candice Bobeck Michael Boylan Carl N. Cannon Elizabeth Lovett Colledge, Ph.D. Joyce Q. Couch

Christian Oldenburg – Regency Centers Toni Porterfield – Main Street America George Scanlon – Fidelity National Financial R. Travis Storey – KPMG David Strickland – EverBank Charles L. Zink – PGA Tour

Barbara Darby, Ed.D. Margaret Gomez Anne Hopkins, Ph.D. Ross T. Krueger, M.D. Anne Lufrano, Ph.D. John Marchese Claudia Minch, Musician Representative

Mary Ellen Smith Christopher H. Smith Mark Spatola, M.D. Lee Thomas Ronald Townsend Peter B. Wright, Musician Representative Gwendolyn Yates Wayne Young

Honorary Board Members Ruth Conley Mrs. Robert D. Davis David W. Foerster John L. Georgas

Preston H. Haskell Robert E. Jacoby Frances Bartlett Kinne, Ph.D., Life Member Arthur W. Milam

Mary Carr Patton Jay Stein Jim Van Vleck James H. Winston

Ex Officio Board Members The Honorable William Bishop, President, Jacksonville City Council The Honorable Alvin Brown, Mayor, City of Jacksonville The Honorable Betty Burney, Chair, Duval County School Board Tim Cost, President, Jacksonville University John Delaney, President, University of North Florida Laura Dwyer, Executive Director, First Coast Community Music School 4 E n c o re !

The Honorable Audrey Gibson, Duval County Legislative Delegation Nathaniel Glover, President, Edward Waters College Dr. Willis Holcombe, Interim President, Florida State College at Jacksonville Walter M. Lee III, President, Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce Nikolai P.Vitti, Ed.D., Superintendent, Duval County Public Schools Robert Arleigh White, Executive Director, Cultural Council of Jacksonville

Past Chairs 1950-52 1952-55 1955-57 1957-58 1958-60 1960-61 1961-62 1962-64 1964-65 1965-67 1967-68 1968-69 1969-70 1970-72 1972-73 1973-74 1974-76 1976-78 1978-80 1980-81 1981-82 1982-83 1983-84 1984-86 1986-87 1987-88 1988-89 1989-90 1990-91 1991-92 1992-93 1993-94 1994-95 1995-96 1996-97 1997-98 1998-00 2000-02 2002-04 2004-06 2006-07 2007-09 2009-11

Olin E. Watts, Founding President Wellington W. Cummer Hugh R. Dowling Giles J. Patterson Carl S. Swisher Gert H. W. Schmidt Robert R. Bowen Roger L. Main Charles L. Hoffman Hugh Abernethy Archie J. Freels Harold K. Smith Jacob F. Bryan, III Ira M. Koger J. Shepard Bryan, Jr. Randall C. Berg W. E. Grissett, Jr. B. Cecil West James C. Blanton David C. Hastings Alford C. Sinclair Constance S. Green Arthur W. Milam John H. McCallum Preston H. Haskell Sylvia F.“Tibby” Sinclair J. F. Bryan, IV David W. Foerster E. William Nash, Jr. James H. Winston Robert T. Shircliff Robert O. Purcifull Carl N. Cannon Phillip E. Wright Jay Stein Mary Ellen Smith R. Travis Storey John S. Peyton A.R.“Pete” Carpenter Steven T. Halverson Gerald J. Pollack Jim Van Vleck R. Chris Doerr

Jacksonville Symphony Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors Frederick W. Schantz, Chairman Gilchrist B. Berg Margaret Gomez Christian Oldenburg Robert T. Shircliff

W E LC O M E ! April-May, 2013 Dear Symphony Patrons, It is a pleasure to welcome you to enjoy your Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. The season is building to a crescendo with Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto featuring Jon Kimura Parker and renowned conductor Gerard Schwarz, Britten’s colossal War Requiem, a John Williams Tribute, and an evening with trumpet sensation Chris Botti. I am very honored and excited to return to the symphony as president and CEO. For nearly 25 years, I have been deeply involved in bettering the quality of life for our community. Coming full circle, I’m now back where I started, working to ensure Jacksonville Symphony’s position as our premier performing arts organization. One of my first priorities is to continue to expand the symphony’s donor base. To help me achieve this ambitious goal, Stacy Ridenour has agreed to serve as a vice president for development with a focus on major and individual gifts, planned giving, and our work with our valued partners, BRASS, ARIAS and the Symphony Guild. Thanks to your enthusiasm for great music, ticket sales, attendance and contributions have been trending positively for the past two years. To those of you who have renewed your season tickets, we applaud you. Currently, we are in the process of selecting a new music director. The 2013-14 season will offer unparalleled excitement, with a roster of stellar young guest conductors taking the podium.Your participation in this process is critical. Now is the time to join us on this exciting musical journey. Also, we are launching the 2013 Florida Blue Community Challenge campaign “It’s Your Orchestra!” this month. (See page 63 for details.) We are grateful to Florida Blue and several generous individuals and corporations that have given $200,000 to help leverage new and increased support from the community. Each new or increased gift will be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis. The Jacksonville Symphony is one of our community’s greatest assets – a real treasure. I urge you to participate in this challenge with your new or increased gift prior to May 31. It is great news for all of us in the community, knowing that a contract agreement has been reached between the Symphony Association and the Musicians’ Union. Most importantly, we thank you, our patrons. The musicians value your ongoing participation and deeply appreciate your generous applause. Together, we have a bright future filled with exciting opportunities for our orchestra! Lastly, we thank Richard H. Pierpont, who is nearing the end of his two-year term as chair of the Jacksonville Symphony Association. I’m sure you will join me in congratulating Dick on a job well done and in giving a heartfelt welcome to Martin Connor, as he begins as chairman on June 30. We thank you for your continued support and look forward to seeing you next season. Sincerely,

David L. Pierson, President

MISSION To create experiences that enrich the human spirit and inspire a lifelong love of music. VISION The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is a vibrant organization recognized regionally and nationally for artistic excellence and innovative programs in education, audience engagement and community collaboration.

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THE SEARCH BEGINS! Experience Eight Acclaimed Guest Conductors on the Florida Blue Masterworks Series. Be a part of this historic musical journey! As the Jacksonville Symphony begins the search for its next Music Director, you have a unique opportunity to experience the artistry of these acclaimed maestros. ANDRE RAPHEL – “Under his leadership, the orchestra was transparent, energized and full of shadings that propelled the music…” The Philadelphia Inquirer

TEDDY ABRAMS – “The 23-year old conductor is a greatly gifted musician who appears on the verge of a major podium career…” South Florida Classical Review

Conducting ROMEO AND JULIET Feb. 13, 14 & 15, 2014

Conducting GERSHWIN & TCHAIKOVSKY Oct. 3, 4 & 5, 2013

COURTNEY LEWIS – “One of the most

WARD STARE – “He exudes charm as he bounds on stage and bows to the audience from the podium. And once he picks up the baton, he’s all about the music…” Musical America

exciting and moving performances I’ve ever heard. Absolutely riveting from beginning to end, with one insight, one revelation after another…” Boston Phoenix Conducting WAGNER & RACHMANINOFF Mar. 3, 14 & 15, 2014

Conducting BRAHMS SYMPHONY No. 1 Oct. 25 & 26, 2013

ANDREW GRAMS – “...Grams’ insightful and affectionate reading proved the biggest revelation. The conductor managed to evoke heart-stopping stillness and bracing vibrancy, sometimes at the same time…” The Salt Lake Tribune

ROBERT MOODY – “Robert Moody led

Conducting VIRTUOSO LISZT Apr. 3, 4 & 5, 2014

Conducting BEETHOVEN’S “EROICA” Nov. 21, 22 & 23, 2013

SHIZUO Z KUWAHARA – “He certainly

CRISTIAN MACELARU – “Under Macelaru’s

has brought a newness to the symphony. I’m looking forward to the bigger and better things to come…” The Augusta Chronicle

finely detailed direction, the musicians delivered this score with clockwork precision…” Chicago Tribune

Conducting THE FIREBIRD Apr. 25 & 26, 2014

Conducting BRAHMS SYMPHONY No. 2 Jan. 9, 10 & 11, 2014

his musicians with skill and authority.... You can come back anytime, Mr. Moody, so long as you keep bringing us music like this…” Charleston (SC) City Paper

THESE SYMPHONY SPECIALS JUST ANNOUNCED. SIR JAMES GALWAY

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Sat., Mar. 29, 2014 at 8 p.m. The Indigo Girls smashed through the charts with “Closer to Fine,” “Galileo,” and more. The Jacksonville Symphony and Indigo Girls come together for one unique evening of tight-knit harmonies.

James Galway, special guest

Join the “Man with the Golden Flute,” Sir James Galway, in a festive,“one night only” event with the Jacksonville Symphony.

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Mark Your Calendar – Catch the Jacksonville Symphony Around Town Mark your calendar for these Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra concerts during Memorial Day Weekend and the Jacksonville Jazz Festival.

Let Freedom Ring

Jacksonville Jazz Festival

Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m.

Saturday, May 25 (Time to be announced)

First Baptist Church, Fernandina Beach

Swingin' Stage – Main Street and Monroe Street

Hosted by ARIAS. See page 60 for details.

Rachelle Ferrell with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra

Concert on the Green Sunday, May 26 at 8 p.m. See page 20 for details. Magnolia Point Golf Club, Green Cove Springs Rain Site: St. John’s Country Day School Performing Arts Center

Fabio Mechetti conducts “Let Freedom Ring” on May 23.

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The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra (JSYM) is one of the leading orchestras in Florida and the Southeast and integral to the quality of life for First Coast residents.

Founded in 1949, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has been led by Music Director and Principal Conductor Fabio Mechetti since 1999. The Orchestra’s superior quality and commitment to Florida composers “offered a timely reminder of how much interesting music-making goes on outside what are traditionally regarded as major music centres,” as reported by the Toronto Star. The Orchestra has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and has appeared on American Public Media’s “Performance Today.” Having hosted some of the most renowned artists of the past century, including Isaac Stern, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich, the Jacksonville Symphony

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About the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra

Symphony Staff Administration David L. Pierson, President Sally Pettegrew, Director of Administration Laurie Saisselin, Receptionist Artistic Operations Richard Naylor, General Manager Kevin Roberts, Operations Manager Tony Kamnikar, Education & Community Programs Manager Scott C. Gregg, Youth Orchestra Music Director and Principal Conductor Peggy Toussant, Jump Start Strings Coordinator Patron Development Toni Paz, Vice President for Patron Development Stacy Ridenour, Vice President for Development Lorraine Roettges, Director of Institutional Giving Paul Witkowski, Director of Communications Kenneth Shade, Graphic Designer Katie Scales, Marketing Manager Bill Cosnotti, Account Executive Catherine Grossholz, Individual Giving Coordinator Kristin Livingston, Institutional Giving Coordinator R. Hugh Patterson, House Manager Box Office Scott Hawkins, Patron Services Manager Betty Byrne, Patron Services Agent Linda Chaney, Patron Services Agent Nadia Della Penta, Patron Services Agent Dennis Rowan, Patron Services Agent

Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra. Beyond the stage, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is an outstanding community partner, serving four county school districts and collaborating with numerous organizations. Close to 2,000 music lovers provide essential support through a network of volunteer groups including the Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, BRASS (Beaches Residents Actively Supporting the Symphony), ARIAS (Amelia Residents In Action for the Symphony), Youth Orchestra parents, and concert ushers.

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T H E O R C H E ST R A Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Fabio Mechetti, Music Director and Principal Conductor

Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor

Michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor

Haskell Endowed Chair

Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair

Violin Philip Pan, Concertmaster * Melissa Pierson Barrett, Associate Concertmaster* Christopher Chappell, Acting Principal Second* Aurelia Duca, Acting Assistant Principal Second* Andrew Bruck* Clinton Dewing* Patrice Evans* Anna Genest* Lois Elfenbein Gosa* Max Huls* Jeanne Majors* Annie Morris* Glynda Newton* Piotr Szewczyk* Ilana Kimel+ Lela LaBarbera+ Karen Pommerich+ Marguerite Richardson+ Carol Whitman+ Naira Cola-Underwood Stephanie Lindsay Angela Loizides Joni Roos Kelly Solms Bernie Vaughn Jennie Vaughn

Flute Les Roettges, Principal* Rhonda Cassano, Dr. Hugh A. Carithers Endowed Chair* Deborah Heller+

Percussion Steve Merrill, Principal* Kevin Garry* Joel Panian+ Charlotte Mabrey+

Piccolo Deborah Heller+

Harp Kayo Ishimaru, Principal*

Oboe Eric Olson, Principal* Claudia Minch* Tony Kamnikar

Keyboard Ileana Fernandez, Principal*

Viola Merryn Ledbetter Corsat, Principal* Karen Bair Boling* Cynthia Kempf* Colin Kiely* Susan Pardue* Jorge A. Peña Portillo* Ellen Caruso Olson+ Helen Kirklin

Contrabassoon Anthony Anurca*

Cello Alexei Romanenko, Principal* Laurie Casseday* Betsy Federman* Vernon Humbert* Kathy Dennis+ Shannon Lockwood Jin-Won Kim Peña Bass John Wieland, Principal* Patrick Bilanchone* Kevin Casseday* Todd Lockwood* Jason Lindsay+ Paul Strasshofer+ 10 E n c o re !

English Horn Claudia Minch* Clarinet Peter Wright, Principal* Marci Gurnow* Artie Clifton Bass Clarinet Marci Gurnow* Bassoon Marat Rakhmatullaev, Principal* Anthony Anurca* Ted Shistle

Horn Kevin Reid, Principal* Christopher Dwyer* Aaron Brask* Mark Knowles* Trumpet Julian Kaplan, Principal* Hunter Eberly* Brian Osborne+ Trombone Jeffrey Peterson, Principal* Michael Hosford*^ Bass Trombone Louis Bremer*^ Tuba James Jenkins, Principal* Timpani Kenneth Every, Principal*

Orchestra Personnel Christopher Dwyer, Personnel Manager Kenneth Every, Assistant Orchestra Library Carol Whitman, Librarian Deborah Heller, Assistant Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Donald McCullough, Director Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair

Liz McAlhany, Manager Ileana Fernandez, Rehearsal Pianist Technical Staff Ray Klaase, Stage Manager Shamus McConney, Technical Director James L. Pitts, Jr., Stage Associate Skip Becker, RPT, Concert Piano Technician Vernon Humbert, Harpsichord Technician The Musicians of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra are proudly represented by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 444. Backstage Employees are proudly represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (I.A.T.S.E.) Local 115, Saul Lucio, Business Agent.

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A conversation with Fabio Mechetti – Part III

In his penultimate year at the helm of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Fabio Mechetti graciously shared his insights from his backstage studio at Jacoby Symphony Hall. Earlier this season, writer Michael Burnson, representing Encore!, posed questions designed to enlighten and entertain the thousands of JSYM patrons who have enjoyed Fabio’s performances for more than a decade. Part II of the interview was presented in March. We conclude with Part III. E: About your style, and your overall conducting ability: I have witnessed you conduct many, many pieces without notes. How is this possible? FM: I wish there was an easy answer. There are a couple of conductors— many more than a couple— who have photographic memories. I would love to have a photographic memory, but I don’t. E: How can that be? FM: I have to study more than they do. E: There are some conductors out there who can look at a sheet of music and they know it? FM: Yes. Ozawa is one of them. Maazel is another one. They have a photographic memory. They can look at a Shostakovich Symphony and about an hour later they know it. I have a much harder time. But for me, it helps if I analyze it. If I break down structures and kind of divide the piece in many sections, and then I go over this, go over that, eventually the combination of these things make me memorize it. I have the facility, once I memorize it, to retain it. So if I conduct a piece now that I haven’t done in ten years, I can’t bring it up immediately, but it will be easy for me to recapture what I have memorized. Some people with photographic memories lose it the next week. E: You’ve got a set of markers in your head, and when you hit that marker you know exactly what to do. FM: Yes. I don’t memorize the sound; I memorize the structure, and I memorize how these things fit into the whole. Most good music has a structure that is well-defined by the composer. And once you understand how they work,

it becomes easier to memorize as well. And, of course, the more you conduct it, the more you can mechanize it. I don’t think that conducting from memory is necessarily better than conducting with a score, but I think musicians appreciate it more if I’m visually in contact with them. Toscanini used to say,“Conductors should have the music in their head, not their head in the music.” If you are constantly looking to the music, you lose contact with the musicians. And that’s very important!

E: What suggestions could you make for us, the audience, to support you? What do we need to do to improve the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra overall? FM: That’s a good question, because one of my biggest frustrations the whole time I’ve been in Jacksonville is the fact that, in spite of having one of the best halls in the country – acoustics, accessibility, and a very fine orchestra that provides a wide variety of offerings throughout the season, we still have to fight every week for people to come. There are people in Jacksonville who have never attended a concert. I think that is a sign of society. I am not blaming Jacksonville. It’s happening all over the world right now, a decline of interest. People who love music are a small minority. This problem is not new; it’s been true throughout the history of music. But in the days of Mozart and Beethoven, aristocrats, kings and emperors supported them. It continued to be that way until local governments took over in Europe. In the United States, there were great supporters like the Rockefellers, Carnegies, Eastmans, those people who always had that interest in mind: to support the Arts. The billionaires and millionaires of today have other interests outside the Arts. E: Would you agree it has to begin with bringing children up in the world, and allowing the Arts to be emphasized as children come through the educational process? And from there you cultivate and grow an audience. FM: Exactly. I think that’s part of it. It is a very long process because classical music or the Arts in general are against many odds when it comes to keeping the attention, and attracting young people to participate in our activities. They have so many options out there that detract from them getting involved with the Arts. It’s not part of most schools these days. When I was growing up, music and the Arts were part of our regular curriculum. But we all know that, particularly in public schools these days, there is no music or arts in general. And on TV there is no music or arts at all. E: That’s the other point I was going to ask you about. Don’t you think that, unlike the age of Mozart or Bach, we have a population that is distracted by so many other things that require our time and attention, and there are only seven days in a week and 24 hours in a day? So where do

they make room to attend the symphony, where there is pure, good music? FM: I’m glad you mentioned that because I’m actually right now writing something about that aspect.You used the word “distracted,” which is the correct word in the sense that I think society today is inundated with useless information, and superficial choices. It becomes very difficult for them to actually commit to something that is going to be relevant. Even the word “relevant” these days has been misused in my opinion, if we use “relevant” meaning “popular.” Something is relevant when it is popular. But I think something is relevant when it is meaningful. Some things that today we consider relevant, are, in my opinion completely irrelevant. Everything now becomes entertainment. Enlightenment has been replaced by entertainment. Most Arts projects or Arts manifestations are entertainment. Even politics has become

FM: Brazil has always supported the Arts, even during economic upheaval. What is has done, more recently, was to open up participation for private enterprise. The model that my orchestra, for instance, is built on is that the government says,“Here it is. We guarantee all the salaries and the basic resources for programming, etc. In exchange for that you will do this, this, this and that. If you want to do anything additional, if you want more programs, if you want to do tours, if you want to have a youth orchestra, you go out and raise money in the private sector.” Brazilian tax law is very generous to people and companies who donate to the Arts, more so than the United States. It’s a combination of both models – the traditional European model of public support, and the American model of sponsorship, that will guarantee the maintenance of symphony orchestras in the future. At this point, the best Brazilian orchestra, the biggest one that has been doing this for almost two

Fabio Mechetti conducting the Minas Gerais Philharmonic in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Photo by Eugênio Sávio.

entertainment. During the recent presidential debates, people just wanted to see the entertainment aspect of it. Even justice becomes entertainment. What is really meaningful and important, the message, the content, is forgotten. Those of us who depend on the real Arts – music and painting or literature – suffer from that because society is distracted. The only way the Arts are going to be relevant again is if we start pointing that out to our society without fearing to offend anyone. Research shows that whenever you have major economic downturns, what preceded it was a period of decadence in appreciation of cultural values. E: We have not made the Arts overall a priority and we haven’t made good music. We haven’t put energy or funding into promoting good music. FM: I agree totally with that. And not only music; but good art in general. I don’t see it happening – and again, I don’t like to say this about all of society because I’m one of them, but I think the degree of intellectual mediocrity we are experiencing right now has no parallel. It should be the opposite. We’ve never really been so influenced by so much information, nor had so much facility in gathering information. At the same time, we don’t know what to do with it. Read the entire interview at JaxSymphony.org. “A Conversation With Fabio Mechetti” is posted in three parts on the News blog. Click “News”, then “Symphony Notes.”

decades, is the Sao Paulo Symphony. Its funding is about 70 percent from the government and 30 percent from the private sector. Eventually it could even be 50/50. But if we did get to that point, it would be ideal. In Europe, you can also see governments doing the same now. They are very keen on subsidies for the orchestra, but anything above and beyond they have to get money from private enterprise. I think the future of not only symphony orchestras but opera houses, etc., is going to be a combination of both. What I fear in this country is that there are zero dollars, or almost zero, from the state. And it is impossible to continue to support quality arts if you’re only going to rely on private money. It’s happening all over. Many orchestras have folded; opera houses have closed. What I think we have tried to do in Brazil is to develop a model that can prove that it is first of all justifiable as an investment. It brings quality of life to the community, it brings culture to the community, and it brings economic impact to the community. We are also showing to private enterprise that it is their responsibility as well to be a part of this. Because the tradition in Brazil is,“Well, this is the government’s function; it’s not my function to be involved with the Arts.” Providing education and culture, as health, is our obligation.

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T H E C O N D U CTO R S Fabio Mechetti Music Director and Principal Conductor Haskell Endowed Chair

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One of the most respected conductors in the United States and internationally, Fabio Mechetti has continually led the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra to great artistic heights since 1999. The 2012-13

season is Maestro Mechetti’s penultimate year with the Jacksonville Symphony, highlighted by a gala performance with Itzhak Perlman, Verdi’s grand opera Otello, Britten’s monumental War Requiem and much more.

Honored with Brazil’s Carlos Gomes Prize for Best Conductor of 2008, Maestro Mechetti garners consistent praise for his artistry and knowledge of repertoire. Currently, he also serves as music director and principal conductor of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic in Brazil. He held the post of music director of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra for 11 seasons and led the Syracuse Symphony for ten seasons, becoming music director in 1993. Beyond the Jacksonville Symphony stage, Mr. Mechetti’s conducting highlights in the 2012-13 season include concerts in Puerto Rico and Mexico, as well as the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma and a tour of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic to Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Also an acclaimed opera conductor, Mr. Mechetti has led 12 fully-staged operas with the Jacksonville Symphony. He made his American opera debut with the Washington Opera, served as music director of the Rio de Janeiro Opera, and directed productions in Syracuse, Spokane and Brazil.

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In addition to his Carnegie Hall orchestral debut with the New Jersey Symphony, Mr. Mechetti has appeared as guest conductor with orchestras througout the Unites States, including the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and the orchestras of Seattle, Utah, Rochester, San Antonio, San Jose, Austin, Phoenix, Charlotte, Omaha and Long Island, as well as orchestras in Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela. Recent engagements also include orchestras in Finland (Tampere Philharmonic) and Scotland (BBC Scottish Symphony). Winner of the 1989 Malko International Conducting Competition in Denmark, Mr. Mechetti has conducted extensively in Scandinavia. He led the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand and has made several appearances with the orchestras of Tokyo, Sapporo and Hiroshima. Mr. Mechetti served as associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, leading concerts at the Kennedy Center, the West Lawn of the Capitol and at Wolf Trap. He was also resident conductor of the San Diego Symphony. Mr. Mechetti holds Master’s degrees in conducting and composition from the Juilliard School of Music. Married to the concert pianist Aida Ribeiro, the two are proud parents of young twin daughters Carolina and Marina.

Michael Butterman Resident Conductor Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

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Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and audience and community engagement. In addition to his relationship with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra since 2000, he is music director of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra. In addition,

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Mr. Butterman serves as principal conductor for education and outreach for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. This past season was highlighted by his debut with the renowned Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Butterman returns to the Cleveland Orchestra in 2012-13 for two concerts, and makes his debut with the California Symphony. Recent guest conducting engagements also include appearances with the Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, Hartford Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, El Paso Symphony and Asheville Lyric Opera, among others. Summer appearances include Tanglewood, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado, and the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia. Mr. Butterman gained international attention as a diploma laureate in the Prokofiev International Conducting Competition and as a finalist in the Besançon International Conducting Competition. As the 1999 recipient of the Seiji Ozawa Fellowship, he studied at Tanglewood with Robert Spano, Jorma Panula, and Maestro Ozawa. In 1997, Mr. Butterman was sponsored by UNESCO to lead the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Moldova. For six seasons, Mr. Butterman served as music director of Opera Southwest in Albuquerque. He was also was director of orchestral studies at the LSU School of Music and principal conductor of the LSU Opera Theater. Previous conducting positions also included the Columbus Pro Musica, Ohio Light Opera and Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. While at Indiana University, Mr. Butterman conducted a production of Leonard Bernstein’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at the Kennedy Center He was subsequently invited by the Bernstein estate to perform the work in New York. Mr. Butterman’s work has been featured nationally on “Performance Today,” and can be heard on the Newport Classics label and on a new disc with the Rochester Philharmonic and actor John Lithgow. www.michaelbutterman.com

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Known for his entertaining programs and clever humor, Michael Krajewski is a much sought after conductor of symphonic pops. His role as Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra principal pops conductor spans 17 seasons of great music and variety. He is also the principal pops conductor of the Houston Symphony and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra – the first to hold such a title in Atlanta.

As a guest conductor Michael has performed with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras; the Boston and Cincinnati Pops; the San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis and National Symphonies, and numerous other orchestras across the United States. In Canada he has led Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, and the Edmonton, Winnipeg and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies. Other international appearances include performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Ulster Orchestra in concerts in Belfast and Dublin. Michael conducted the video Silver Screen Serenade with violinist Jenny Oaks Baker, which aired worldwide on BYU Broadcasting, and led the Houston Symphony on two holiday albums. This season Michael conducts his original “Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel” program throughout North America, featuring

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Donald McCullough Director, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair

Hailed by the Washington Post for his â&#x20AC;&#x153;dazzling expertise,â&#x20AC;? Donald McCullough is considered one of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pre-eminent choral conductors. Mr. McCullough conducted the Master Chorale of Washington at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for more than a decade before becoming the new director of the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus for the 2012-2013 season. During Mr. McCulloughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenure with the Master Chorale, the 120-member symphonic chorus performed sixteen world premieres,

produced three nationally distributed CDâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, performed throughout Central Europe on two international tours, received The Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence in North America, performed in New York in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, the Lincoln Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Avery Fisher Hall and Riverside Church, and became the chorus of choice for the National Symphony Orchestra, performing with such renowned conductors as Leonard Slatkin, Kurt Masur and Ivan Fischer. The Chorale became known for singing â&#x20AC;&#x153;with an innate sense of lyricism and musical poiseâ&#x20AC;? (Washington Post) in performances that were described as â&#x20AC;&#x153;sensitive, scrupulous and heartfeltâ&#x20AC;? (Washington Post). Mr. McCullough is also a composer whose works have been critically acclaimed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and are represented by several publishers. At the invitation of German and Polish consulates, Mr. McCullough led the Master Chorale in the European premiere of one of his most moving compositions,

Holocaust Cantata: Songs from the Camps, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, as well as in Krakow, Dresden and Berlin during the European commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII. Previously, Mr. McCullough was the founder and music director of two Norfolkbased choruses: the Virginia Chorale, which remains the State of Virginiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only professional choral ensemble, and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Holding bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degrees in organ and vocal performance from Stetson University and masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degrees in sacred music and vocal performance from Southern Methodist University, his diverse experience â&#x20AC;&#x201C; as a conductor, music director, composer and clinician â&#x20AC;&#x201C; gives him valuable insights into the needs and abilities of all variety of choirs. A native of Jacksonville, Mr. McCullough now resides in Atlantic Beach and his music can be found at www.donaldmccullough.com.

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Painted Violins on Display Local artists are using violins as canvases to support music education. They’ve generously donated original works of art for the Symphony Guild’s “Music for Your Eyes” project. The violins are on display at Jacksonville Symphony concerts. Patrons can purchase chances to win one of these pieces, with proceeds going to benefit Harmony Grants for area music teachers. Last chance for tickets! “Music for Your Eyes” drawing is May 17. Call Jenny at 904.358.1479 to purchase by phone.

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Donald McCullough, Director Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair

Throughout its nearly 30-year history of making great music with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus has been a part of many landmark Symphony events. Performance highlights include Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony for the tenth anniversary of Jacoby Symphony Hall and Orff ’s Carmina Burana for the Jacksonville Symphony’s first-ever commercial recording. The Chorus has also participated in each of the Jacksonville Symphony’s annual grand opera productions.

After an exciting audition and performance process, Donald McCullough has recently been appointed as the new director of the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, beginning this season. Considered one of America’s pre-eminent choral conductors, McCullough conducted the Master Chorale of Washington at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for more than a decade. Jacksonville Symphony Chorus membership is made up of volunteers who come from all walks of life, sharing a spirit that can only come from singing choral music. The Chorus includes some of the First Coast area’s finest voices. The steadily growing roster also includes many professional musicians and skilled amateur performers. This season the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus performs Christopher Rouse’s festive Karolju, followed by Holiday Pops and Handel’s Messiah. The Chorus is also featured in Verdi’s Otello and in the Choral Spectacular concert featuring Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. To join voice with the Chorus, call 904.354.5479 ext. 221 and ask about audition information. 16 E n c o re !

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EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY PROGRAMS Through its education and community activities each year, the Jacksonville Symphony reaches nearly 84,000 students and adults annually in Duval, Clay, St. Johns and Nassau counties. The mission of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is to create experiences that enrich the human spirit and inspire a lifelong love of music. Access to the cultural arts transforms the lives of program participants by strengthening their spirit through music. Participating in the arts can change perceptions and lead to new ways to look at the world. This includes enabling underserved community members to have the opportunity to experience the life-enhancing benefits that the arts provide.

Many people have fond memories of playing in a school band or orchestra, or singing in a school choir. Unfortunately, most cultural arts programs in public schools have been significantly reduced and our children do not have these same experiences. The growth of future audiences – and future artists – depends upon broad-based access to the arts. The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s music education programs allow our children to experience the benefits of a cultural arts education: increased academic achievement,

creative thinking, problem solving and communication skills, which provide the foundation for success in school and life. The Jacksonville Symphony believes music is integral to the community solution for school readiness and academic success so that all of our children reach their most promising potential.

JSYM Music Education and Outreach Programs Include: Musical Storybooks for PreK & K Musical Storybooks is an early childhood literacy & music program designed to foster a love of reading through music for 900 underserved pre-schoolers at Title I preschools and Head Start programs.

Jump Start Strings In collaboration with Communities in Schools (CIS), JSYM has developed a free stringed instrument instruction program for 125 underserved students. JSYM musicians provide violin, cello and bass instruction at six after school programs run by CIS.

Ensemble Visits for Schools, Seniors and Community Venues JSYM Ensembles visit schools, after school programs, senior centers and community venues for 150 performances. Audiences experience music in an intimate environment and learn from discussions with musicians.

Prelude and Young People’s Concerts for Grades 2-5 Preludes and Young People’s Concerts bring almost 20,000 children to 14 performances at Jacoby Hall to experience live symphonic music, using music education as a catalyst for enhancing academic performance and fostering creativity and social development.

EverBank Family Series Four value-priced hour-long concerts designed specifically for families with children offer a fun introduction to orchestral music.

Instrument Zoo The Instrument Zoo is an important outreach program provided by the Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony. Children have a “hands on” opportunity to play one of 50 instruments brought to schools or community venues such as the City of Jacksonville’s Art in the Park as well as prior to Family Series concerts.

The Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra The JSYO, led by Music Director and Principal Conductor Scott C. Gregg, provides excellent training and performance opportunities for over 270 young musicians ages 7-21, comprised of six levels of ensembles led by a team of professional conductors.

Masterclasses Guest artists work with students from JU, UNF, FSCJ and Douglas Anderson.

Adult Education Words on Music: A pre-concert program by Maestro Mechetti prior to 27 Masterworks concerts to enhance the patron’s concert experience. Talkback: An interactive post-concert discussion after 10 Saturday Masterworks concerts featuring the guest artists, conductor and local radio host, Arthur Crofton. Symphony 101: A lunch and lecture series that describes behind the scenes at the Jacksonville Symphony.

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The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce an endowment gift of $750,000 from J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver in support of its music education programs. The Symphony will use the gift’s annual disbursement of $30,000 to support the newly-named J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Music Education Series. The annual disbursement will help Symphony education programs which include Musical Storybooks, Young People’s Concerts, Jump Start Strings, Instrument Zoo, Ensemble Performance visits to schools and senior centers, and Master Classes by visiting guest artists. “It is our hope that this gift inspires others in our community to give significant support to our Symphony, one of the vital cultural pillars of the First Coast,” said Wayne Weaver.

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SPOTLIGHT ON EDUCATION Tuition Fund for JSYO Students The Education Committee of the Jacksonville Symphony Guild is proud to provide tuition support for Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra (JSYO) students. The Eleanor H. King Tuition Fund is available for students seeking enrollment in one of several JSYO ensembles. Thanks to the generous efforts of friends and donors to the Eleanor H. King Tuition Fund, many students are able to continue their musical growth in one of the most comprehensive youth orchestra programs in the Southeast. To make a donation, call the Symphony Guild at 904.358.1479 or email jnewman@jaxsymphony.org. Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra

20th Anniversary Scott C. Gregg, Music Director and Principal Conductor Winston Family Endowed Chair

Amazing Final Concert for Jump Start Strings This season, the Jump Start Strings students gathered three times as a full ensemble, to prepare for their big yearend performance. Based at six different Communities in Schools “Team Up” after-school sites, the students have weekly violin, cello and bass lessons from a Jacksonville Symphony musician and daily supervised practice sessions. On March 17, they took part in the Festival of Strings concert, with the string ensembles from Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra, Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and LaVilla School of the Arts. “Their performance surpassed our highest expectations,” said Jump Start Strings Coordinator Peggy Toussant. “The hard work and practice really paid off.”

The 2012-13 recipients of the Eleanor H. King Tuition Fund. Your donation will help increase this group of young musicians in the coming school year. Photo by Steve Patrick

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The Jump Start Stings performed on the Jacoby Hall stage at the Festival of Strings Concert. Photo by Steve Patrick

The Jacksonville Symphony thanks the following for their support of the Education Programs: Bank of America bestbet Poker, Simulcast, and Gaming and Mary Carr Patton In memory of Janice Ann Branch CSX City of Jacksonville Cummer Family Foundation Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation The Jessie Ball duPont Fund Duval County Public School Board

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Coffee Series Friday, April 19, 2013, at 11 a.m. Fusion Series Friday, April 19, 2013, at 7:30 p.m. Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Music and Poetry Michael Butterman, conductor Angela Brown, soprano Claude DEBUSSY

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A Woman’s Life Angela Brown, soprano

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Thank you, Symphony Guild The Coffee Concert is hosted by the Jacksonville Symphony Guild. Coffee and tea are provided by Fazzini’s Coffee & Tea. Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

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Angela Brown Personifying the Ideal American dramatic soprano, Angela Brown has sheer vocal power, luxurious finesse, shimmering, high pianissimos and a charming personality larger than life. Her highly successful Metropolitan Opera debut in 2004 sparked media excitement with reviews from The New York Times: “At last an Aida,” Associated Press: “There’s no doubt her voice is powerful enough for Verdi,” CBS Evening News: “…the future of opera has arrived,” and features on the front page of The New York Times and in Oprah, Essence, Ebony, Classical Singer, Reader’s Digest, and Psychology Today magazines. Performances this season include Aida with Edmonton Opera and North Carolina Opera, “A Woman’s Life” performances and recording with Nashville Symphony for the Naxos label, and an extended run of holiday “Yuletide” concerts as star and co-host with the Indianapolis Symphony. Ms. Brown was a featured artist for the National Rotary Convention, National Anthem soloist for an Indianapolis Colts home game, performances at Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall, and a return engagement in Moscow for Porgy and Bess. Including the Jacksonville Symphony, Ms. Brown’s additional performances of A Woman’s Life have been with Boulder Philharmonic, also conducted by Michael Butterman, and Oakland East Bay Orchestra conducted by Michael Morgan. Ms. Brown is a trailblazer on a mission to bring operatic and classical vocal performance to a diverse audience. Her witty and inspired recital program titled “Opera… from a Sistah’s Point of View” dispels the myths of opera through lively commentary on opera plots and characters, show-stopping arias and poignant art songs. A noted interpreter of African-American spirituals, Ms. Brown produced Mosaic, a collaborative recording with guitar and piano. Last season’s performances included Aida with Hamburg State Opera, Tosca with Pittsburgh Opera, Porgy and Bess with Leipzig Radio Orchestra and the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, and Christmas concerts with Carmel Symphony. She held residencies and recitals at Skidmore College, Opera Birmingham, Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, Walker Theatre in Indianapolis, and the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference.

Program note by Michael Butterman

The Poet as Muse A conductor has a responsibility to discover, understand and convey the layers of meaning and emotion contained within the works he or she performs. In fulfilling that responsibility, I find it indispensable to explore the context of a work’s creation. I want to know about the composer’s life circumstances, as well as the larger cultural, political and social factors that he or she may have been expressing, whether consciously or unconsciously. A work of music does not spring complete from whole cloth—it arises from and reflects everything about the world in which the composer lived. Just as music reflects a composer’s cultural context, it can also bear the imprint of inspiration from an allied art form such as visual art or literature. Over the past few seasons, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has explored some of this artistic cross-fertilization, with

concerts exploring music and theater, and music and dance. Tonight we examine the nexus of music and poetry. Goethe famously opined that “music begins where words end,” and most people take this assertion to mean that music can express that which is beyond verbal description. I would agree that the abstract nature of musical tones tends to bypass a listener’s logical/rational thought processes and more directly impact his subconscious or artistic side. But that most musical of literary forms–poetry–affects us in much the same way and by many of the same means. Like music, poetry has rhythm; it has a tempo and tone. And many composers, including Franz Liszt, Claude Debussy and Richard Danielpour, have used this allied art form as a point of departure for their own works. Franz Liszt envied the structural freedom enjoyed by Romantic poets. Wishing to liberate musical expression from what he saw as the straight-jacket of structures like sonata-allegro form, he

Program Facts Claude Debussy

Richard Danielpour

French composer Born: 1862, Saint Germain en-Laye, France; died: 1918, Paris

American Composer Born: 1956, New York City

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Composed: 1894 Premiered: December 22, 1894, at the Société Nationale de Musique in Paris, Gustave Doret conducting. Last JSYM performance: October 2008, Discovery Series in Jacoby Symphony Hall, Fabio Mechetti, conductor. ca. 10 minutes.

Ludwig van Beethoven German composer Born: 1770, Bonn, Germany; died: 1827, Vienna Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92 Movement II, Allegretto Composed: 1811-1812 Premiered: December 3, 1813, Vienna, the composer conducting Last JSYM performance: March 2012, Masterworks Series in Jacoby Symphony Hall, Mei-Ann Chen, conductor. ca. 9 minutes

A Woman’s Life Composed: 2007 for Angela Brown Premiered: October 16, 2009, by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin, conductor, with Angela Brown as soloist. First performance by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra ca. 28 minutes

Franz Lizst Hungarian composer, pianist, and conductor Born: 1811, Doborjan, Hungary; died: 1886, Bayreuth, Germany Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No. 3, S.97 Composed: 1850-1854 Premiered: February 23, 1854 at Weimar, Germany Last JSYM performance: May 2011, Fusion Series in Jacoby Symphony Hall, Roger Nierenberg, conductor.

developed a new symphonic genre that he called the “symphonic poem,” or “tone poem.” These works are vaguely programmatic and often have literary prefaces that serve as a point of departure or a kind of listener’s guide. Les Préludes is by far the best known of Liszt’s many works of this type. Based on a verse by Alphonse de Lamartine, the composition proceeds according to no conventional formal plan, but rather follows the conceptual contours and intensity of the verse that inspired it. Some years later, Claude Debussy, whose style has often been described as “musical impressionism,” wrote a work inspired by the symbolist poet, Stéphane Mallarmé. Mallarmé’s poety is anything but concrete, abounding in atmosphere and oblique suggestion. This aesthetic undoubtedly appealed to Debussy, who relished gauzy textures, tone for tone’s sake, and “non-functional” harmonies. As with Liszt, the poetic vision inspired the music, but in this case, Debussy conceived of his music as a preamble to the poetry, rather than the other way around. His famous Prelude to ‘The Afternoon of a Faun’ is a landmark in musical history. In the words of Pierre Boulez, “the flute of the faun brought new breath to the art of music.”´ There are also more concrete connections between poetry and music, such as when a composer sets a poet’s words to music to be rendered by a chorus or soloist. In so doing, a composer sets out to identify and highlight a poem’s inherent melodic line, rhythmic pacing, tone color and emotional impact. A great many composers, from Schubert to Brahms, Wolff and Faure, have excelled in writing art songs, usually for a solo vocalist and piano. Others, like Richard Strauss, have gloried in setting poems for singers with the complement of a full symphony orchestra. In this program the symphony will be joined by renowned soprano, Angela Brown, for whom composer Richard Danielpour set seven poems by Maya Angelou. Titled A Woman’s Life, the texts for this song cycle were chosen by Angelou to trace the experience of life–from childhood through old age–as viewed from the perspective of an African-American woman. The resulting work is deeply affecting and succeeds in providing the already potent poetry an additional level of meaning and emotional impact. Artistic inspiration is not a one-way street, however, and while our concert THE POET (continued on next page) E n c o re !

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THE POET (continued from previous page) will focus on poetry as the composer’s muse, it is also the case that music itself can fire the imaginations of poets. A year or so ago, listeners of American Public Radio’s Performance Today were asked to suggest a work of music to serve as the basis for a poem from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams. The consensus choice was the famous ‘Allegretto’ movement from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. We will present both the music and the resulting poem, along with one additional poetic offering. Rita Dove’s Ludwig van Beethoven’s Return to Vienna stands as a poem inspired not by a specific piece of music, but rather by the life circumstances of one of history’s greatest composers. The same contextual details that conductors endeavor to understand and convey in their interpretations are here the basis for Ms. Dove’s work of poetic imagination. Examining interdisciplinary connections between art forms unfailingly leads to deeper and more nuanced appreciation. The Jacksonville Symphony is delighted that this program is in step with our community’s Cultural Fusion initiative. Through explorations such as tonight’s, we hope to promote a fuller understanding of art, of the relationship between arts and artists, and of the myriad ways in which life experiences are given artistic expression. –Michael Butterman

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A Woman’s Life

III. They Went Home

VI. My Life Has Turned to Blue

Richard Danielpour, music Maya Angelou, poetry

They went home and told their wives, that never once in all their lives, had they met a girl like me. But...They went home. They said my house was licking clean, no word I spoke was ever mean, I had an air of mystery, But...They went home. My praises were on all men’s lips, they liked my smile, my wit, my hips, they’d spend one night, or two, or three, But...They went home.

Our summer’s gone the golden days are through. The rosy dawns I used to wake with you have turned to grey, my life has turned to blue.

I. Little Girl Speakings Ain’t nobody better’n my Daddy, you keep yo’ quarter, I ain’t yo’ daughter. Ain’t nobody better’n my Daddy. Ain’t nothing prettier’n my dollie, hear what I said, don’t pat her head, Ain’t nothing prettier’n my dollie. No lady cookinger than my Mommy, smell that pie, see I don’t lie, No lady cookinger than my Mommy.

IV. Come. and Be My Baby II. Life Doesn’t Frighten Me Shadows on the wall Noises down the hall Life doesn’t frighten me at all. Bad dogs barking loud Big ghosts in a cloud Life doesn’t frighten me at all. Mean old Mother Goose Lions on the loose They don’t frighten me at all. Dragons breathing flame On my counterpane That doesn’t frighten me at all. I go boo, make them shoo I make fun Way they run I won’t cry So they fly I just smile They go wild Life doesn’t frighten me at all. Tough guys in a fight All alone at night Life doesn’t frighten me at all. Panthers in the park Strangers in the dark No, they don’t frighen me at all. That new classroom where boys all pull my hair Kissy little girls with their hair in curls They don’t frighten me at all. Don’t show me frogs and snakes And listen for my scream If I’m afraid at all It’s only in my dreams. I’ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe. Life doesn’t frighten me at all Not at all, not at all Life doesn’t frighten me at all.

The highway is full of big cars going nowhere fast And folks is smoking anything that’ll burn Some people wrap their lives around a cocktail glass And you sit wond’ring where you’re going to turn. I got it. Come. And be my baby. Some prophets say the world is gonna end tomorrow But others say we’ve got a week or two The paper is full of ev’ry kind of blooming horror. And sit wond’ring what you’re gonna do I got it. Come. And be my baby. V. Let’s Majeste I sit a throne upon the times When Kings are rare and Consorts slide into the grease of scullery maids. So gaily wave a crown of light (astride the royal chair) that blinds the commoners who genuflect and cross their fingers. The years will lie beside me on the queenly bed And coupled we’ll await the ages’ dust to cake my lids again.

The once-green lawns glisten now with dew. Red robin’s gone, down to the South he flew. Left here alone, my life has turned to blue. I’ve heard the news that winter too will pass, that spring’s a sign that summer’s due at last. But until I see you lying in green grass, my life has turned to blue. VII. Many and More There are many and more who would kiss my hand, taste my lips, to my loneliness lend their bodies’ warmth. I have want of a friend. There are few, some few, who would give their names and fortunes rich or send first sons to my ailing bed. I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body’s mend. And that one is my love. From The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House)

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Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. Friday & Saturday, April 26 & 27, 2013, at 8 p.m. “Words on Music” one hour prior to each Masterworks concert Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto Gerard Schwarz, conductor Jon Kimura Parker, piano

Ellen Taaffe ZWILICH

Avanti! (Fanfare for Jerry)

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Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso — Allegro con spirito Andantino semplice — Prestissimo Allegro con fuoco

Jon Kimura Parker, piano 1 INTERMISSION 2 Antonín DVOR ÁK

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”

Adagio — Allegro molto Largo Scherzo: Molto vivace Allegro con fuoco

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Notes on the Program by DR. RICHARD E. RODDA

Ellen Taaffe Zwilich American composer born: 1939, Miami. Avanti! (Fanfare for Jerry) Composed in 2010 for symphonic band and three off-stage brass sextets; arranged for orchestra in 2011. Original version premiered on October 8, 2010 at Florida State University in Tallahassee; orchestral version premiered on February 3, 2011 in Seattle conducted by Gerard Schwarz. First performance by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, a native of Miami, Florida, began playing piano, violin and trumpet as a youngster, and was composing music by the age of ten. Zwilich did both her undergraduate and master’s studies at Florida State University, where she worked with the distinguished Hungarian composer and pianist Ernst von Dohnányi; after a year of teaching in South Carolina, she went to New York for advanced coaching on violin with Ivan Galamian. She supported herself in New York as a free-lance violinist, and in 1965, she joined the American Symphony Orchestra, founded just two years before by Leopold Stokowski. Increasingly attracted to composition, Zwilich enrolled at the Juilliard School, where she studied with Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, receiving her doctorate in composition in 1975, the first woman to earn that degree from the school; in 1993, she joined the Juilliard faculty. In 1983, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her Symphony No. 1, the first woman to receive that award for music. From 1995 to 1999, Zwilich was the inaugural appointee to the Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She currently holds the Francis Eppes Distinguished Professorship at Florida State University. ZWILICH (continued on page 34)

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Gerard Schwarz

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Internationally recognized for his moving performances, innovative programming and extensive catalogue of recordings, American conductor Gerard Schwarz serves as music director of the All Star Orchestra, an ensemble created to perform in an upcoming public television series with of some of the best classical musicians in the United States, including Jacksonville Symphony’s own principal flutist Les Roettges. Mr. Schwarz is also music director of the Eastern Music Festival in North Carolina and Conductor Laureate of the Seattle Symphony. With more than 300 world premieres to his credit, Schwarz has always felt strongly about commissioning and performing new music. As music director of the Eastern Music Festival, that focus continues with numerous world premieres, including one of his own works. During his tenure, he has expanded the Festival’s audiences to the largest in its history, incorporated a composer in residence program, developed three new concert series and increased collaboration with the Appalachian Summer Festival. A sought-after guest conductor, Mr. Schwarz has led many of the world’s greatest orchestras. He is also known for his operatic performances, having appeared with the Juilliard Opera, Kirov Opera, Mostly Mozart Festival, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera and Washington National Opera. He has led 21 productions with the Seattle Opera. In his nearly five decades as a respected classical musician and conductor, Mr. Schwarz has received hundreds of honors and accolades including two Emmy Awards, 13 Grammy nominations, six ASCAP Awards and numerous Stereo Review and Ovation Awards.

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He holds the Ditson Conductor’s Award from Columbia University, was the first American named Conductor of the Year by Musical America and has received numerous honorary doctorates. Most recently, the City of Seattle recognized his outstanding achievements and named the street alongside the Benaroya Hall “Gerard Schwarz Place,” and the State of Washington gave him the honorary title of “General” for his extraordinary contributions as an artist and citizen.

Jon Kimura Parker One of the most sought-after performing pianists today, Jon Kimura Parker performed an unprecedented array of piano concertos in the past few seasons, including Rachmaninoff No. 3, the Rachmaninoff-Paganini Rhapsody, Tchaikovsky No. 1, both Brahms Concertos, Barber, Gershwin, Grieg, and several by Mozart and Beethoven. A true Canadian ambassador of music, Mr. Parker has given command performances for Queen Elizabeth II, the United States Supreme Court, and the Prime Ministers of Canada and Japan. He is an Officer of The Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian honor. Highlights of this season include performances with the major orchestras of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, a tour of the United States with Bramwell Tovey and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, an appearance with Peter Oundjian and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and numerous orchestral appearances across the U.S. and Canada. He is honored to appear with the Tokyo Quartet in their farewell season, and also performs a special recital program “Doing Rite by Stravinsky,” featuring his own transcription of Rite of Spring to celebrate that work’s centennial. The ‘alla breve’ symbol represents cut-time, or a quick pace, in music. This section allows the listener to quickly understand the program.

ZWILICH: Avanti! (2010) World-famous composer and Florida native Ellen Taaffe Zwilich first composed this fanfare as the first section of a piece for symphonic band to commemorate the opening of the renovated Ruby Diamond Center at Florida State University. Zwilich created an orchestral version of it for Gerard Schwarz’s last season with the Seattle Symphony. BEASER: Ground O (2002) This lyrical and moving reflection inspired by the aftermath of the 9-11 tragedy, far removed from a fanfare, does share common ground with Zwillich’s Avanti!. Written by American composer Robert Beaser, the orchestral version of it was created for Schwarz’s last season with the Seattle Symphony. TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 (1874-1875) Perhaps the best-known and certainly one of the most popular piano concertos of all time, this classic by the Russian master of melody has lost none of its grandeur, beauty, and virtuosic dazzle. v

DVOR ÁK: Symphony No. 9 (1892-1893) Czech composer Antonin Dvor`´ák wrote this symphony while in the United States. Filled with Bohemian folk elements, it also pointed the way for an American musical style. The famous second movement, inspired by Negro spirituals, was later given words (Goin’ Home). If you close your eyes in the first and last movements, you might imagine a Western! – Lynne Radcliffe E n c o re !

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What To Listen For … Avanti! (“Forward!”) was originally composed in 2010 as the first section of Fanfare, Reminiscence and Celebration for symphonic band for the opening of the renovated Ruby Diamond Auditorium at Zwilich’s alma mater, Florida State University in Tallahassee. The Fanfare, originally for band and three brass sextets stationed throughout the hall, was adapted the following year for orchestra as Avanti! for Gerard Schwarz’s final season as Music Director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, which gave the premiere on February 3, 2011 in Seattle. Avanti! captures the celebratory essence of the auspicious event for which the music was conceived.

Robert Beaser American composer born: 1954, Boston. Ground O Composed in 2002 as the final movement of Souvenirs for Piccolo and Piano; arranged for orchestra in 2010. Original version premiered on August 15, 2002 in Washington, D.C. by piccoloist Carole Bean and pianist Jeffery Watson; orchestral version premiered on February 17, 2011 in Seattle conducted by Gerard Schwarz. First performance by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Robert Beaser was born in Boston in 1954 and started composing as a teenager — he conducted the premiere of his first orchestral work, Antigone, with the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra in 1972 — before entering Yale University, where he studied with Jacob Druckman, Toru Takemitsu, Earle Brown and Yehudi Wyner while earning his bachelor’s (1976, summa cum laude), master’s (1981) and doctoral degrees (1985). His other composition teachers have included Betsy Jolas at Tanglewood and Goffredo Petrassi in Rome (in 1977, Beaser became the youngest person ever to win the Prix de Rome from the American Academy in Rome); he studied conducting with Otto-Werner Mueller, Arthur Weisburg and William Steinberg. Since leaving Yale, Beaser has been based in New York City, where he has served as co-music director 34 E n c o re !

and conductor of the contemporary chamber ensemble Musical Elements and composer-in-residence, composer advisor and artistic director of the American Composers Orchestra; he joined the faculty of Juilliard in 1993 and has chaired the Composition Department since 1994. Beaser’s distinctions include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Fulbright Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts, Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Charles Ives Scholarship, Nonesuch Commission Award and honors in the Stroud International Competition in England; his Mountain Songs, written for flutist Paula Robison and guitarist Eliot Fisk, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1986 as “Best New Classical Composition.” What To Listen For … The elegiac Ground O (the letter “O,” not zero) was originally composed in October 2001 as the last of the six Souvenirs for Piccolo and Piano; the orchestral arrangement was done in 2010, as the tenth anniversary of 9-11 approached, for Gerard Schwarz’s final season with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, which ensemble he led in the work’s premiere on February 17, 2011. The composer wrote of Ground O, “It was simply impossible for anyone from around where I live [Beaser’s studio is in downtown Manhattan] not to have been profoundly affected by the events of September 11th. As we hobbled around trying to make sense of it all, many of us resorted to the only thing we knew how to do: compose. For the longest time I was uncomfortable referring to it literally, and left the piece hanging with temporary working titles. Yet as time receded and worked its magic, I began to more readily accept things for what they were. I couldn’t bring myself to use the ‘Zero’ in the title, though, so I skewed it to O.”

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Russian composer born: 1840, Votkinsk; died: 1893, St. Petersburg. Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23 Composed in 1874-1875; revised in 1889. Premiered on October 25, 1875 in Boston, with Hans von Bülow as soloist. Last JSYM performance: March 2007, Masterworks Series in Jacoby Symphony Hall, Fabio Mechetti, conductor, with Arnaldo Cohen as soloist. At the end of 1874, Tchaikovsky began a piano concerto with the hope of having a success great enough to allow him to leave his irksome teaching post at the Moscow Conservatory. By late December, he had largely sketched out the work, and sought the advice of Nikolai Rubinstein, Director of the Moscow Conservatory and an excellent pianist. Tchaikovsky reported the interview in a letter: “On Christmas Eve 1874, Nikolai asked me to play the Concerto in a classroom of the Conservatory. We agreed to it. I played through the work. There burst forth from Rubinstein’s mouth a mighty torrent of words. It appeared that my Concerto was utterly worthless, absolutely unplayable; the piece as a whole was bad, trivial, vulgar.” Tchaikovsky was furious, and he stormed out of the classroom. He made only one change in the score: he obliterated the name of the original dedicatee — Nikolai Rubinstein — and substituted that of the virtuoso pianist Hans von Bülow, who was performing Tchaikovsky’s piano pieces across Europe. Bülow gladly accepted the dedication and asked to program the premiere on his upcoming American tour. The Concerto created such a sensation when it was first heard, in Boston on October 25, 1875, that Bülow played it on 139 of his 172 concerts that season. What To Listen For … The Concerto opens with a sweeping melody nobly sung by violins and cellos above thunderous chords from the piano. Following a decrescendo and a pause, the piano presents the movement’s snapping main theme. (Tchaikovsky said that this curious melody was inspired by a tune he heard sung by a blind beggar at a street fair.)

The clarinet announces the lyrical, bittersweet second theme. The simplicity of the second movement’s three-part structure (A–B–A) is augured by the purity of its opening — a languid melody in the solo flute. The center of the movement is of different character, with a quick tempo and a swift, balletic melody. The languid theme and moonlit mood of the first section return to round out the movement. The crisp rhythmic motive presented immediately at the beginning of the finale and then spun into a complete theme by the soloist dominates much of the movement. In the theme’s vigorous full-orchestra guise, it has much of the spirit of a robust Cossack dance. To balance the vigor of this music, a romantic melody is introduced by the violins. The dancing Cossacks repeatedly advance upon this bit of tenderness, which shows a hardy determination. The two themes contend, but the flying Cossacks have the last word. v

Antonín Dvorák Czech composer born: 1841, Nelahozeves, Bohemia; died: 1904, Prague.

reflection of his own feelings about the country. “I should never have written the Symphony as I have,” he said, “if I hadn’t seen America.” What To Listen For … The “New World” Symphony is unified by the use of a motto theme that occurs in all four movements. This bold, striding phrase, with its arching contour, is played by the horns as the main theme of the sonata-form opening movement, having been foreshadowed (also by the horns) in the slow introduction. Two other themes are used in the first movement: a sad, dance-like melody for flute and oboe that exhibits folk characteristics, and a brighter tune, with a striking resemblance to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, for the solo flute. Many years before coming to America, Dvor`´ák had encountered Longfellow’s epic poem The Song of Hiawatha, which he read in a Czech translation. The great tale remained in his mind, and he considered making an opera of it during his time in New York. That project came to nothing, but the Symphony’s second movement was inspired by the forest funeral of Minnehaha

and the third by the dance of the Indians at the feast. The second movement is a threepart form (A–B–A), with a haunting English horn melody (later fitted with words by William Arms Fisher as the folksongspiritual Goin’ Home) heard in the first and last sections. The recurring motto here is pronounced by the trombones just before the return of the main theme in the closing section. The third movement is a tempestuous scherzo with two gentle, intervening trios providing contrast. The motto theme, played by the horns, dominates the coda. The finale employs a sturdy motive introduced by the horns and trumpets after a few introductory measures in the strings. In the Symphony’s closing pages, the motto theme, Goin’ Home and the scherzo melody are all gathered up and combined with the principal subject of the finale to produce a marvelous synthesis of the entire work — a look back across the sweeping vista of Dvor`´ák’s musical tribute to America. ©2013 Dr. Richard E. Rodda

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World” Composed in 1892-1893. Premiered on December 16, 1893 in New York, conducted by Anton Seidl. Last JSYM performance: March 2002, Masterworks Series in Jacoby Symphony Hall, Fabio Mechetti, conductor. When Antonín Dvor`´ák, aged 51, arrived in New York on September 27, 1892 to direct the new National Conservatory of Music, both he and the institution’s founder, Mrs. Jeanette Thurber, expected that he would help to foster an American school of composition. He was clear and specific in his assessment: “I am convinced that the future music of this country must be founded on what are called Negro melodies. They can be the foundation of a serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States…. There is nothing in the whole range of composition that cannot find a thematic source here.” The “New World” Symphony was not only Dvor`´ák’s way of pointing toward a truly American musical idiom but also a E n c o re !

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Festival Finale!

In March, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra hosted the 2013 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, the League of American Orchestra’s biennial conducting showcase. The event featured six highly talented emerging conductors in a working rehearsal setting with the orchestra. Leaders from several orchestras around the country were in attendance. Our own subscribers and donors also enjoyed the opportunity to observe.

In March, more than 300 students assembled for the grand finale of the JSYO Festival of Strings. This showcase event included the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra’s Overture, Foundation, Encore and Premiere string ensembles with the JSYO Philharmonic Strings. Our Jump Start Strings students also performed, as well as ensembles from LaVilla School of the Arts and Douglas Anderson. JSYO standouts Andrew Blocker and Maia Delegal were featured with Philip Pan and Chris Chappell from the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Four Violins. Part of the Publix Super Markets Charities JSYO Series, the concert was sponsored by Douglas Anderson School of the Arts.

Sameer Patel (above) and Keitaro Harada were among the six promising young conductors leading the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Photos by Bassel Jadaa.

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Rehearsal for the JSYO Festival of Strings finale. Photo by Steve Patrick.

Symphony Food Drive Through April 27 The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, in partnership with the Orchestras Feeding America national food drive, will be collecting food donations to benefit the Downtown Ecumenical Services Council (DESC), a Jacksonville emergency services agency which provides assistance to the poor, particularly families with children and the elderly, sick or disabled.

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Saturday, May 4, 2013, at 8 p.m. Jim and Jan Moran Theater, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Chris Botti With the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Morihiko Nakahara, conductor Chris Botti, trumpet Billy Kilson, drums • Geoffrey Keezer, piano • Richie Goods, bass Leonardo Amuedo, guitar • Sy Smith, vocals • Caroline Campbell, violin

Selections will be announced from the stage. There will be one intermission. Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts. Dana’s Limousine is the official transportation of the Jacksonville Symphony. Omni Jacksonville Hotel is the official hotel of the Jacksonville Symphony. One Enterprise Center Garage is the official parking company of the Jacksonville Symphony.

Morihiko Nakahara Morihiko Nakahara has served as music director of the South Carolina Philharmonic since 2008. This season also marks his tenth season with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, first as its associate conductor and now as resident conductor. Known for his charismatic presence on and off the podium, innovative and audience-friendly programming skills, and thoughtful interpretations of both standard and contemporary repertoire, Mr. Nakahara was featured in the League of American Orchestras’ prestigious Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview in March 2005, hosted by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Since then, he has developed a close working relationship with the Jacksonville Symphony, conducting the orchestra regularly and serving as its associate conductor during the 2007-08 season. Recent guest conducting engagements have taken him to the symphony orchestras of Oregon, Charleston, Chattanooga, Lansing, Peoria, and Green Bay, as well as the Chicago Pro Musica. A passionate believer in audience development and music education for all, Mr. Nakahara is a popular clinician, guest conductor, and lecturer at various educational institutions. As a personable ambassador for classical music, he is regularly featured on local media outlets, and speaks about wide ranging topics including arts advocacy, leadership and management skills, and economic development at local businesses and service organizations. A native of Kagoshima, Japan, Mr. Nakahara holds degrees from Andrews University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He previously served as music director of the Holland Symphony Orchestra in Michigan and taught at Eastern Washington University and Andrews University. He resides in Columbia, S.C. 40 E n c o re !

Chris Botti Impressions, trumpeter Chris Botti’s Grammy-winning Columbia Records CD, is the latest in a stellar parade of albums that have firmly established him as the world’s largest selling jazz instrumentalist. Add to that a cluster of Grammy nominations and four No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Jazz Albums listings. As Botti began his planning for the new album, he was determined to do some “familiar songs” for Impressions, songs that reached back to his fascination with the melody and balladry that have been essential to his music. The album’s roster of special guests includes Andrea Bocelli, Vince Gill, Mark Knopfler, Herbie Hancock, David Foster and violinist Caroline Campbell. Its far-ranging program encompasses many other areas, deeply influenced by conversations Botti had with fans during the world-wide touring that keeps him on the road as much as 300 days a year. Botti seemed destined to become a musician almost from the very beginning. Born in Portland, Oregon, he was encouraged to pursue music by his mother, a concert pianist. He also had an early taste of the international world that would become his primary territory as a successful performing artist. His father, who is Italian, taught English and Italian languages, and he took the family to live in Italy for several years. After attending Indiana University, and studying with jazz educator David Baker, trumpet teacher Bill Adam, jazz trumpeter Woody Shaw and jazz saxophonist George Coleman, he moved to New York in the mid-1980s. His early career was spent crafting his skills in settings reaching from the Buddy Rich Big Band and Frank Sinatra to Natalie Cole and Joni Mitchell. He later played extensively with Paul Simon, and had an especially creative association with Sting. Now a major artist in his own right, selling more than three million albums, he has found a form of creative expression that begins in jazz and expands beyond the limits of any single genre. With Impressions and the albums that preceded it, Chris Botti has thoroughly established himself as one of the most innovative figures of the contemporary music world.

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Coffee Series Friday, May 10, 2013, at 11 a.m. Pops Series Friday & Saturday, May 10 & 11, 2013, at 8 p.m. Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

John Williams Spectacular Michael Krajewski, conductor Olympic Fanfare and Theme Cowboys Overture Theme from Jaws Flying Theme from E.T.: The Extraterrestrial Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone Excerpts from Fiddler on the Roof BOCK, arr. Williams March from Superman (Not performed on Coffee Concert)

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Celebrating John Williams One of the most popular and successful American orchestral composers of the modern age, John Williams has a massive list of awards including over 41 Oscar nominations, twenty-odd Gold and Platinum Records, two Emmys, three Golden Globes, 18 Grammys and seven BAFTA Awards from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Best known for his film scores and ceremonial music, Williams is also a noted composer of concert works and a renowned conductor.

1 INTERMISSION 2 The Coffee Concert is performed without an intermission.

Jurassic Park (Not performed on Coffee Concert) The Mission Theme (Precedes Fiddler on the Roof on Coffee Concert) Music from Star Wars: Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare Main Title Duel of the Fates (Phantom Menace Suite) Anakin’s Theme (Phantom Menace Suite) Imperial March (Star Wars Suite) Throne Room and End Title (Star Wars Suite) All selections composed by John Williams, except where noted. Thank you, Symphony Guild The Coffee Concert is hosted by the Jacksonville Symphony Guild. Coffee and tea are provided by Fazzini’s Coffee & Tea. Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts. Dana’s Limousine is the official transportation of the Jacksonville Symphony. Omni Jacksonville Hotel is the official hotel of the Jacksonville Symphony. One Enterprise Center Garage is the official parking company of the Jacksonville Symphony.

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John Williams was honored at Tanglewood on his 80th birthday with a grand party last August. Pictured (from left) are Jessye Norman, John Williams, Steven Spielberg, Yo-Yo Ma, Keith Lockhart and James Taylor. It was a highlight of the festival’s 75th anniversary season. Photo by Hilary Scott for Berkshire On Stage

Mr. Williams has composed the music and served as music director in films including Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Far and Away, Empire of the Sun, The Terminal and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. His scores for the films Jaws, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Schindler’s List, as well as the Indiana Jones series, have won multiple awards and produced best-selling recordings. His scores for the original Star Wars trilogy transformed the landscape of Hollywood film music and became icons of American culture. In 2012, Williams was WILLIAMS (continued on next page)

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nominated for Oscars in both War Horse and The Adventures of Tintin and in 2013, he was nominated for an Oscar for his original score for Lincoln. In August 2012, the nation celebrated William’s 80th birthday with a star-studded gala at Tanglewood featuring the Boston Pops. Director Stephen Spielberg, during his remarks, said that Williams’ scores were the single most significant contribution to his success as a filmmaker. The event included many other tributes to Williams, including from President Obama, former President Clinton, conductor Seiji Ozawa and even members of the Boston Red Sox, whose greetings were accompanied by Williams’ “Fanfare for Fenway.”

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Friday & Saturday, May 17 & 18, 2013, at 8 p.m. “Words on Music” one hour prior to each Masterworks concert Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Choral Spectacular Fabio Mechetti, conductor Grant Cooper, chamber orchestra conductor Barbara Shirvis, soprano Stanford Olsen, tenor Timothy LeFebvre, baritone Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, Donald McCullough, Director Jacksonville Children’s Chorus, Darren Dailey, Director Benjamin BRITTEN

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This concert will be performed without an intermission. Text begins on page 54. Stay after for “Talkback” following Saturday Masterworks, May 18, from the stage with Maestro Mechetti and guest soloists. Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts.

Concert sponsored by The Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust

Notes on the Program by LYNNE RADCLIFFE

Benjamin Britten English Composer Born: 1913, Lowestoft, England; died: 1976, Aldeburgh, England War Requiem, Op. 66 Composed in 1961. Premiered May 30, 1962, at St. Michael’s Cathedral, Coventry, England, with Meredith Davies conducting the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Coventry Festival Choir, with soprano Heather Harper as soloist; and the composer conducting the Melos Ensemble (chamber orchestra), with tenor Peter Pears and baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as soloists. First performance by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. ca. 78 minutes (9’, 26’, 10’, 9’, 3’, 21’) This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of Britten’s birth. What an incredible century it has been; exponential technological advances have proportionately changed daily life in ways unimagined in 1913. However, technology had proceeded sufficiently to make World War I, 1914-1918, one of the deadliest in history. World War II, 1939-1945, claimed the title, with some casualty estimates as high as 80 million, or four percent of the 1939 world population of two billion. Benjamin Britten was a pacifist from his early years throughout his life. Musing in 1971 on its possible origins, Britten told an interviewer: “I can remember the first time – I think it was the very first day that I was in school – that I heard a boy being beaten, and I can remember my absolute astonishment that people didn’t immediately rush to help him. And to find that it was sort of condoned and accepted was something that shocked me very much. Whether or not it all grew from that I don’t know.” Those closest to Britten felt this was the genesis. Another influence may have been from his first composition teacher and BRITTEN (continued on page 51)

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Barbara Shirvis Acclaimed for her “gorgeous tone, technical security and a touching vulnerability” by the Boston Globe, soprano Barbara Shirvis has grown a reputation that has been praised as “magnificent” by the Los Angeles Times. An “authentic blonde beauty” (Opera News), Ms. Shirvis has been a frequent guest with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, most recently as Desdemona in Verdi’s Otello. This season, Ms. Shirvis performed as soloist in Britten’s War Requiem for the American Choral Directors Association and made her debut with Hawaii Opera Theatre as Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus. Last season she sang Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Beethoven’s “Ah! perfido” in a return to the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra, and the title role in Manon Lescaut with Chautauqua Opera. Recent highlights include Johanna in Linkola’s Rockland with the Pine Mountain Music Festival and her debut with Anchorage Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Ms. Shirvis performed as Micaela in Carmen and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte with New York City Opera, and made her recital debut at New York’s Weill Recital Hall. With husband Stephen Powell, she sings in duo recitals around the country.

Stanford Olsen In a career of more than 1,200 performances on five continents, distinguished American tenor Stanford Olsen has performed with most of the world’s great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony. He has collaborated with the leading conductors of the

generation and, outside of the U.S., he has been a frequent guest with the Berlin Philharmoniker, Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, L’Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia Orchestra and Israeli Philharmonic, among others. In addition to his appearance with the Jacksonville Symphony as Nemorino in The Elixir of Love and tenor soloist in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mr. Olsen’s recent engagements include The Shepherd in Oedipus Rex with Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, the Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the Bach B Minor Mass with Seattle Symphony, Carmina Burana with the St. Louis Symphony and Aegisth in Elektra at the Maggio Musicale in Florence. A three-time Grammy nominee, Mr. Olsen is a featured soloist on the 2012 release Glory by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. For 15 years, Mr. Olsen held the Shelfer Eminent Scholar in Music Chair at Florida State University. This fall he joined the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater and Dance as Professor of Music.

Timothy LeFebvre Nationally acclaimed baritone Timothy LeFebvre has wide-ranging experience from the operatic stage to the concert hall. Recent performances include Mozart’s Requiem with West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, solo recitals at Oberlin Conservatory and University of Michigan, Mendelssohn’s Elijah with New Dominion Chorale, Brahms’ Requiem with Hamilton College, Beethoven’s Mass in C with Wichita Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem with Susquehanna Valley Chorale, Brahms’ Requiem with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and Messiah with the Handel Choir of Baltimore. Mr. LeFebvre has appeared in concert with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Wichita Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, West Virginia Symphony

Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony and American Symphony Orchestra. His operatic experience features performances with Central City Opera, Tri-Cities Opera, Sarasota Opera, Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, Syracuse Opera, Indianapolis Opera and Opera Theater of Pittsburgh. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and Binghamton University, Mr. LeFebvre is is currently Associate Professor of Singing at Oberlin Conservatory of Music. His previous appearances with the Jacksonville Symphony include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Dvorak’s Te Deum, Bernstein’s Arias and Barcarolles, Handel’s Messiah, and Ping in Puccini’s Turandot.

Grant Cooper Born in New Zealand as the son of a professional opera singer, conductor Grant Cooper sang and acted in his first opera at age four and studied piano and music theory prior to college. After completing his degree in pure mathematics at the University of Auckland, Mr. Cooper traveled to the United States for further studies in music. His initial opportunities as a conductor grew from his colleagues’ invitations to lead larger chamber ensemble performances. Since then, his many guest conducting engagements have included the Jacksonville Symphony, The Florida Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Auckland Philharmonia, and Syracuse Opera, among many others. Upcoming engagements include the Kennedy Center Orchestra and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Prior to accepting his position as artistic director and conductor of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 2001, Mr. Cooper served as resident conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra for ten seasons. He also serves as artistic director of the annual COOPER (continued on next page) E n c o re !

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Bach and Beyond festival in Fredonia, New York. A commissioned composer, Mr. Cooper’s concert works include A Song of Longing, Though…, for soprano and orchestra, which has received numerous performances in recent seasons, and his ballet, On the Appalachian Trail, which was premiered in 2010 at Chautauqua. He recently completed a commission to write original film scores for two Charlie Chaplin movies and last year composed a chamber work on commission from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., which was premiered there in 2012. In the spring of 2012, Mr. Cooper’s dedication to serving the West Virginia arts community was recognized with his receiving the Governor’s Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts.

Darren Dailey Artistic and Executive Director, Jacksonville Children’s Chorus Celebrating his seventh season in Jacksonville, Darren Dailey has been shaping The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus into a worldclass organization. Under his artistic leadership the Chorus has grown to serve more than 450 First Coast children annually with five core performance choirs, multiple satellite rehearsal locations, and outreach throughout the region. He has introduced Chorus singers and their audiences to innovative and renowned guest artists, and he has broadened the Chorus’s opportunities including performance tours in the Southeastern states, to Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center and Ireland. Mr. Dailey received a Bachelor of Music Education degree with a concentration in Voice from Westminster Choir College and a Master of Music Education in Choral Conducting from Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music.

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Donald McCullough, Director Liz McAlhany, Manager • Ileana Fernandez, Rehearsal Accompanist Soprano Jerrye Baker Alla Bartosh May Beattie Louise Brooks Susan Calfee Gloria Cardona Sandra Clarke Elaine Crawford Katherine Crowell Tracy Davis Stephanie Doerr Amy Fannin Kate Flint Pat Gavaletz Maggie GraichenHerrera Kathy Hunt Jacqueline Jones Kiki Karpen Lili Lauer Ginger Lindberg * Marianna Malinovskaya Kristin Markham Barbara Miller Sevella Mostella Marianne Murray Christina Ng Linda Persandi Carol Porfilio Kelsey Potratz Tracey Potratz Nancy Purcell

AJ Ruvane Tatyana Schlenoff Gale Shultz Janet Snell Eileen Ward Jill Weisblatt Elizabeth Zettler Alto Deborah Baker Carole Vanderhoef Banks Dorothy Jean Bush Rita Cannon Anita Cardona Megan Chan Libby Conner Susan Conners Nancy Crookshank Melissa Devers Carolyn Dickson Kathryn Eaton Penny Floyd Karin Fulton Michele Gardner Hale Carol Heckrotte Deborrah Hoag Shawna Hodges Megan Friese Kaufman Jean Krueger Leyse Lowry Linda MacLeod

Elizabeth McAlhany Pat Medlock Molly Miller Eliza Nesmith Sally Offen Rosina Paul Katrina Foppiano Pierson Anne Petersen Vickie Prince Caitlin Regan Wynn Redmon Judy Reid Patti Robertson Connie Roush Kim Rowland Jordan Rutter Debra Shelton Sharon Snow Jerri Lea Ware April Zitnay Tenor William Adams * David Avery Stan Ballenger Denny Clark Matheus Coura Julie Cross * Kent Dorsey David Floyd Wayne Heckrotte Stephen Hwang Jim Maher

James McGuffin Osvaldo Medina John Petersen Sam Young Bass Wayne Bailey Charles Carroll Kenny Chin Dale Choate Stephen Choate Bradley Corner David Hotchkiss Ryan Justice Ken Kutch Bill Meisel Archie Miiller Joseph Murray Thomas Nesbitt Bernie Oechsli John Pugh Robert Quinby Mark Robinson Karl Rogers John Ruvane Jeffrey Schroer Mark Stallings * Buddy Stone Richard Stritter Richard Sykes Hugh Tobias John Weitzel Paul Witkowski

* We are grateful to the members of the Jacksonville Masterworks Chorale and its director, Dr. Mark Stallings, who joined us for this performance.

Jacksonville Children’s Chorus Darren Dailey, Artistic and Executive Director Tatyana Schlenoff, Rehearsal Accompanist

Members of the Concert and Touring Choirs Catherine Bouchereau Corrie Bryan Sarah Bryan Olivia Crespo Mary Dailey Megan Dailey Emma Doukmak Theresa Eland

Brittany Ferrell Mehgan Fox Adia Gomes Jennie Gordon Julia Goricki Natalie Hodge Brandon Hines Akai McDaniel

Courteney Miller Jasmin Muslimani Maegan Ocampo Abigail Patterson Meena Pelgar Dana Popky Nadia Ray Hannah Rowland

Sophia Schlenoff VIctoria Schnock Brooke Stephens Tori Vossman Alexei Watts Boston Woods Hannah Woods Caleb Wooten

The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus The mission of the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus is to provide a high-quality, choral music education for children of diverse backgrounds, fostering teamwork, self-discipline, accomplishment and pride while filling an important cultural need in the community and sharing the beauty of the choral art form through artistically excellent performances. The Chorus has grown to serve more than 450 First Coast children. Its performance choir program includes over 220 talented young singers ages seven through eighteen. Participating children come from a diversity of racial, religious, and socio-economic backgrounds, hail from five counties in Northeast Florida and represent over 100 schools. More than 25 percent of the members receive scholarship support. The Jacksonville Children’s Chorus is the official Children’s Chorus of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.

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mentor, Frank Bridge (1879-1941), who was profoundly impacted by World War I (understandable, as over 1.5 million English died) to the extent that his compositional output was nearly halted, undergoing an enormous transformation. Britten first began studying with Bridge in 1927 at age 14, and remained close to him to the end of Bridge’s life. Britten credited Bridge with instilling the principles which shaped him as a composer. With his lifelong participation in pacifist causes and organizations, the Coventry arts committee’s request in 1958 for a piece to commemorate the rebuilding of war-destroyed Coventry Cathedral was particularly appealing to Britten. He had apparently intended to write a work of similar scale after the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 but it never materialized due to an impasse in negotiations between his publisher and the BBC. Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of Britten quotes him referring to the War Requiem as “a kind of reparation.” He also shares Britten’s description of the work in his letter of inquiry of February 16, 1961, to the famous German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: “Please forgive me for writing to such a busy man as yourself… Coventry Cathedral, like so many wonderful buildings in Europe, was destroyed in the last war. It has now been rebuilt in a very remarkable fashion, and for the reconsecration of the new building they are holding a big Festival at the end of May and beginning of June next year. I have been asked to write a new work for what is to us all a most significant occasion. I am writing what I think will be one of my most important works. It is a full-scale requiem mass for chorus and orchestra (in memory of those of all nations who died in the last war), and I am interspersing the Latin text with many poems of a great

English poet, Wilfred Owen, who was killed in the First World War. These magnificent poems, full of the hate of destruction, are a kind of commentary on the Mass; they are, of course, in English. These poems will be set for tenor and baritone, with an accompaniment of chamber orchestra, placed in the middle of the other forces. They will need singing with the utmost beauty, intensity and sincerity. Peter Pears [Britten’s life partner] has agreed to sing the tenor part, and with great temerity I am asking you whether you would sing the baritone.” (Britten conceived the work for three separate entities: the full orchestra, chorus, and soprano; a 12-member chamber orchestra, tenor, and baritone; and boys’ choir accompanied by organ.) Fishcher-Dieskau accepted. What Britten did not include, because it hadn’t happened yet, is what makes this work particularly interesting to Jacksonville audiences. In the fall of 1960 Britten had become enamored of the playing of Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, subsequently meeting and writing a sonata for him; they became fast friends. Britten invited Rostropovich and his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, to his festival at Aldeburgh in June of 1961. Although they had some difficulty in obtaining permission from the Soviet government, Rostropovich and Vishnevskaya came and participated in the festival. Britten was so taken with Vishnevskaya’s voice that he decided to write a part for her in the War Requiem. When Britten learned that she had not sung in English, he decided to write her part in Latin. An endearing photograph of Galina Vishnevskaya hugging Britten demonstrates her response to his solution. Fast forward to 1987: young conductor Fabio Mechetti was assistant conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., and the principal conductor was none other than Mstislav

Rostropovich. The 1986-87 season-ender was four performances of the War Requiem, with Rostropovich conducting the larger orchestra and chorus, Fabio Mechetti conducting the chamber orchestra, and Galina Vishnevskaya singing the part that was written for her. Since that time, Fabio has conducted the War Requiem in Spokane and Syracuse. Back in May of 1962, things didn’t go so smoothly near the work’s premiere in Coventry. Due to the Soviet government’s refusal to allow her to leave, Vishnevskaya had to be replaced by English soprano Heather Harper, who had only ten days to learn the part. Rehearsals were hampered by the pounding of construction, the Cathedral refused to allow a platform for the orchestra and chorus, and the excellent acoustic promised was a nightmare. On the night of the first performance, the Cathedral staff initially only allowed one small door to be opened for the vast crowd queuing in the streets, which caused a delay to the start of the performance. However, the work was received with tumultuous praise. FischerDieskau reported being “completely undone” by the text and the music.Vishnevskaya was able to make the recording with all intended participants early in 1963; it garnered nearly a quarter million sales in five months. The popularity and critical acclaim of War Requiem might best be revealed by an obviously jealous complaint by Stravinsky that if one didn’t praise the work it was tantamount to “not standing for God Save the Queen.” Britten dedicated the work to four friends, three of whom died in World War II: In loving memory of Roger Burney, Sub-lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Piers Dunkerley, Captain, Royal Marines David Gill, Ordinary Seaman, royal Navy Michael Halliday, Lieutenant, Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve BRITTEN (continued on next page)

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The ‘alla breve’ symbol represents cut-time, or a quick pace, in music. This section allows the listener to quickly understand the program.

Britten: War Requiem (1961) British composer Benjamin Britten, a committed pacifist, was commissioned to write this work for the rebuilding of the war-destroyed Coventry Cathedral. War Requiem follows the form of the Requiem Mass with six sections: Requiem aeternam, Dies irae, Offertorium, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, and Libera me; each containing “commentary” consisting of the poetry of World War I poet Wilfred Owen. The work is written for three entities: larger orchestra, chorus and soprano; chamber orchestra, tenor and baritone; and boys’ choir with organ. Two conductors are required: one for the larger orchestra and chorus, and one for the chamber orchestra. – Lynne Radcliffe E n c o re !

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He inscribed the score with a quote from poet Wilfred Owen, who died at age 25 just before the armistice in 1918: “My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity… All a poet can do today is warn.” Britten’s canon of works includes 13 operas, a host of choral, orchestral, chamber, and solo compositions as well as some film music. His operas are among the most often performed of the 20th century. He is universally regarded as one of the great composers of the century. Having refused the offer of knighthood, Britten finally accepted a life peerage by which he was named Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, County of Suffolk. He died in December of 1976 just after his 63rd birthday of congestive heart failure at his beloved Aldeburgh. Rostropovich is pictured with the family in the procession of mourners. What to Listen For: As Britten’s letter to Fischer-Dieskau revealed, the structure of this work is that of the movements of the Requiem Mass performed by chorus and orchestra (and/or soprano soloist) or boys’ choir and organ, each followed by settings of Owen’s poetry sung by tenor and baritone and accompanied by chamber orchestra. These poetic responses provide a powerful, chilling, earthly reality to the ancient liturgical text. Loss of innocence is a common theme in Britten’s works; the boys’ choir (children’s chorus in this performance) with organ represents innocence. The juxtaposition of players and text fuels War Requiem. All of Britten’s immense skill in writing both large and small instrumental and vocal forms, his gift for drama in music, and his passion for pacifism are brought to bear in this magnum opus. I. Requiem aeternam Britten makes extensive use of the tritone: the interval achieved by moving three whole steps. This unstable sound was called “the devil’s interval” during the Middle Ages as it was believed to have sinister qualities. In the preface to the score of War Requiem, Malcolm MacDonald wrote, “ The interval of the augmented fourth (tritone) – symbolizing two equally opposed and irreconcilable forces – often dominates the music; it undermines all tonal certainties and is only resolved with great difficulty.” 52 E n c o re !

The work calls for two antique bells in C and F-sharp (they form a tritone). Opening with the piano’s rumbling low C, the chorus, accompanied by bells, intones “Requiem aeternam” on F-sharp. Thus it begins. The tenor responds to the funeral bells with “What passing bells for these who die as cattle.” Vivid orchestration in the chamber group delivers military trappings and reflects the acerbic anger of the soloist. II. Dies irae Playing on the reference to the trumpet in the text, the movement begins with brass fanfare. Britten’s percussive treatment of this text is especially ominous as the chorus utters single short syllables repeated likewise by the orchestra. Interposing brass and percussion bring it to a fever pitch. Muted trumpets recalling the sound of bugles lead to the baritone’s sad “Bugles sang.” Enter the foreboding soprano hurling punctuated dotted rhythms echoed by the orchestra: “The book shall be brought containing all whereby the world shall be judged…” The chorus responds piteously in counterpoint accompanied by marching timpani: “What shall I, a wretch, say then?” The movement ends with soprano and chorus imploring the “Great King” to show mercy. Snare drum introduces the eerily satirical tenor and baritone duet “We walked quite friendly up to death.” Dissonant woodwinds conjure a macabre carnival atmosphere with triplet rhythms in the strings and percussion recalling an English jig. After such injury, orchestral and choral balm is applied in the beautiful, pleading “recordare” by the female voices, but it is short-lived. Male choristers take the “confutatis maledictus” which leads to the baritone’s invocation to a great cannon: “Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm.” The slow, intensifying deliberation of the singer is enhanced by graphic orchestration in the chamber group. Following a recap of the “Dies irae,” the chorus evokes the heavy weight and rhythm of a funeral cortege as the soprano’s wails reach ever higher in the “lacrymosa.” Tremolos in woodwinds and strings paint sunrays in the poignant “Move him into the sun.” III. Offertorium The boys return with “Domine Jesu Christe” which is taken over with an aggressive fugato by the chorus and orchestra on the theme of God’s promise to Abraham.

Tenor and baritone follow with an astonishing retelling of the Abraham and Isaac story. After a jaunty beginning and appropriate drama, the soloists chant reverently the instructions of the Angel of the Lord over static arpeggiation of the harp before the story takes a terrifying turn. As the tenor and baritone veritably dance the morbid conclusion, the boys dutifully offer up their sacrifice accompanied by a persistent organ ostinato suggesting soulless mechanized beeps. IV. Sanctus Sanctus bells sound more like those of warning as the soprano joins in similar fashion but Britten delivers a celebratory anthem of praise that pulls out all the stops. The jubilation is cancelled by the “blast of lightening from the east,” Owen’s despair sung dolefully by the baritone. V. Agnus Dei Perhaps the defining moment in War Requiem comes when the tenor sings of a mutilated crucifix (“One ever hangs…”) found in battle and the sacrifice of the “gentle Christ” while the chorus sings the “Agnus Dei” (Lamb of God). The pure, sotto voce tenor hangs weightless over the stepwise undulation of the orchestra. The rare resolution of a major chord is reached with the “dona eis requiem” (grant them eternal rest) of the chorus and the tenor’s “dona nobis pacem” – grant us peace. VI. Libera me Following the dark, “Libera me” (deliver me) of the chorus and soprano, the chamber orchestra assumes the orchestra’s chord to support an exchange between tenor and baritone (“It seems that out of battle”). This is the moment that ‘undid’ FisherDieskau in the premiere; he, a German, was singing to the tenor, an Englishman who had addressed him as “strange friend:” “I am the enemy you killed.” The last of Owen’s words used, “Let us sleep now,” layer gently with the chorus as they soar into paradise guided by the angelic soprano. The celestial proceedings are interrupted twice by the tritone bells with boys (now corrupted?) in accord; the final interruption brings the chorus full circle to their initial “Requiem aeternam.” Only the “amen” brings repose.

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BRITTEN War Requiem The text follows in the form of the Requiem Mass, with “commentary” from poet Wilfred Owen.

I. REQUIEM AETERNAM CHORUS Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Rest eternal grant them, O Lord; et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let perpetual light shine upon them. BOYS’ CHOIR Te decet hymnus, Deus in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem. Exaudi orationem meam. Ad te omnis caro veniet.

There shall be singing unto Thee in Zion, and prayer shall go up to Thee in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer. Unto Thee all flesh shall come.

SOPRANO SOLO AND CHORUS Liber scriptus proferetur, in quo totum continetur, unde mundus judicetur. Judex ergo cum sedebit, quidquid latet apparebit, nil inultum remanebit. Quid sum miser tunc dicturus? Quem patronum rogaturus, cum vix justus sit sicurus? Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me, fons pietatis!

A written book will be brought forth, in which everything is contained, from which the world will be judged. So when the Judge is seated, whatever is hidden shall be made known, nothing shall remain unpunished. What shall such a wretch as I say then? To which protector shall I appeal, when even the just man is barely safe? King of awesome majesty, who freely saves those worthy of salvation, save me, fount of pity!

TENOR SOLO What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries for them from prayers or bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, — The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

TENOR AND BARITONE SOLOS Out there, we’ve walked quite friendly up to Death; Sat down and eaten with him, cool and bland, — Pardoned his spilling mess-tins in our hand. We’ve sniffed the green thick odour of his breath, — Our eyes wept, but our courage didn’t writhe. He’s spat at us with bullets and he’s coughed Shrapnel. We chorussed when he sang aloft; We whistled while he shaved us with his scythe.

What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes. The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of silent minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier’s paid to kick against his powers. We laughed, knowing that better men would come, And greater wars; when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death — for Life; not men — for flags.

BOYS’ CHOIR Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison.

Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy.

II. DIES IRAE CHORUS Dies irae, dies illa solvet saeclum in favilla, teste David cum Sibylla. Quantus tremor est futurus, quando Judex est venturus cuncta stricte discussurus! Tuba mirum spargens sonum per sepulchra regionum, coget omnes ante thronum. Mors stupebit et natura, cum resurget creatura judicanti responsura.

This day, this day of wrath shall consume the world in ashes, so spake David and the Sibyl. Oh, what great trembling there will be when the Judge will appear to examine everything in strict justice! The trumpet, sending its wondrous sound across the graves of all lands, shall drive everyone before the throne. Death and nature shall be stunned when all creation rises again to stand before the Judge.

BARITONE SOLO Bugles sang, saddening the evening air, And bugles answered, sorrowful to hear. Voices of boys were by the river-side. Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad. The shadow of the morrow weighed on men. Voices of old despondency resigned, Bowed by the shadow of the morrow, slept. 54 E n c o re !

CHORUS Recordare, Jesu pie, quod sum causa tuae viae, ne me perdas illa die. Quaerens me, sedisti lassus, redemisti crucem passus; tantus labor non sit cassus. Ingemisco tamquam reus, culpa rubet vultus meus, supplicanti parce, Deus. Qui Mariam absolvisti et latronem exaudisti, mihi quoque spem dedisti. Inter oves locum praesta et ab hoedis me sequestra, statuens in parte dextra. Confutatis maledictis, flammis acribus afflictis, voca me cum benedictis. Oro supplex et acclinis, cor contritum quasi cinis, gere curam mei finis.

Recall, dear Jesus, that I am the reason for Thy time on earth, do not cast me away on that day. Seeking me, Thou didst sink down wearily, Thou hast saved me by enduring the cross; such travail must not be in vain. I groan like the sinner that I am, guilt reddens my face, Oh God, spare the supplicant. Thou, who pardoned Mary and heeded the thief, hast given me hope as well. Give me a place among the sheep and separate me from the goats, let me stand at Thy right hand. When the damned are cast away and consigned to the searing flames, call me to be with the blessed. Bowed down in supplication I beg Thee, my heart as though ground to ashes: help me in my last hour.

BARITONE SOLO Be slowly lifted up, thou long black arm, Great gun towering toward Heaven, about to curse; Reach at that arrogance which needs thy harm, And beat it down before its sins grow worse; But when thy spell be cast complete and whole, May God curse thee, and cut thee from our soul!

CHORUS AND SOPRANO SOLO Dies irae, dies illa solvet saeclum in favilla, teste David cum Sibylla. Quantus tremor est futurus, quando Judex est venturus cuncta stricte discussurus! Lacrimosa dies illa qua resurget ex favilla judicandus homo reus; huic ergo parce Deus.

This day, this day of wrath shall consume the world in ashes, so spake David and the Sibyl. Oh, what great trembling there will be when the Judge will appear to examine everything in strict justice! Oh, this day full of tears when from the ashes arises guilty man, to be judged: Oh Lord, have mercy upon him.

TENOR SOLO Move him into the sun — Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, — Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved — still warm — too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? — O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth’s sleep at all? CHORUS Pie Jesu, Domine, dona eis requiem. Amen.

Gentle Lord Jesus, grant them rest. Amen.

A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him. But the old man would not so, but slew his son, — And half the seed of Europe, one by one. BOYS’ CHOIR Hostias et preces tibi, Domine, laudis offerimus, tu suscipe pro animabus illis, quarum hodie memoriam facimus: fac eas, Domine, de morte transire ad vitam.

Lord, in praise we offer to Thee sacrifices and prayers, receive them for the souls of those whom we remember this day: Lord, make them pass from death to life.

IV. SANCTUS SOPRANO SOLO AND CHORUS Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Saboath! Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis! Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini! Hosanna in excelsis!

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts! Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory. Glory to God in the highest! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Glory to God in the highest!

BARITONE SOLO After the blast of lightning from the East, The flourish of loud clouds, the Chariot Throne; After the drums of Time have rolled and ceased, And by the bronze west long retreat is blown, Shall life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will He annul, all tears assuage? — Fill the void veins of Life again with youth, And wash, with an immortal water, Age?

III. OFFERTORIUM BOYS’ CHOIR Domine Jesu Christe, rex gloriae, Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni et de profundo lacu. Libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum; CHORUS sed signifer sanctus Michael representet eas in lucem sanctam, quam olim Abrahae promisisti et semini ejus.

Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, deliver the souls of the faithful departed from the pains of hell and the bottomless pit. Deliver them from the jaws of the lion, lest hell engulf them, lest they be plunged into darkness;

When I do ask white Age he saith not so: “My head hangs weighed with snow.” And when I hearken to the Earth, she saith: “My fiery heart shrinks, aching. It is death. Mine ancient scars shall not be glorified, Nor my titanic tears, the sea, be dried.” Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra

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SPRING CONCERT but let the holy standard-bearer Michael lead them into the holy light, as Thou didst promise Abraham and his seed.

BARITONE AND TENOR SOLOS So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as they sojourned both of them together, Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father, Behold the preparations, fire and iron, But where the lamb for this burnt-offering? Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps, And builded parapets and trenches there, And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son. When lo! an angel called him out of heaven, Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, Neither do anything to him. Behold,

Sunday, May 19, 2013, at 5 p.m. Jacoby Symphony Hall

20th Anniversary

Tickets: Adult: $10 - Child: $5

The JSYO Announces

AUDITIONS for NEXT SEASON May 28 - 31, June 1 & 2, 2013 FSCJ South Campus, Building M-2

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TENOR SOLO It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With piteous recognition in fixed eyes, Lifting distressful hands as if to bless.

V. AGNUS DEI TENOR SOLO One ever hangs where shelled roads part. In this war He too lost a limb, But His disciples hide apart; And now the Soldiers bear with Him. CHORUS Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.

Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, grant them rest.

And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan. “Strange friend,” I said, “here is no cause to mourn.”

TENOR SOLO Near Golgotha strolls many a priest, And in their faces there is pride That they were flesh-marked by the Beast By whom the gentle Christ’s denied.

BARITONE SOLO “None,” said the other, “save the undone years, The hopelessness. Whatever hope is yours, Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.

CHORUS Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem.

For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping something had been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled. Now men will go content with what we spoiled. Or, discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled. They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress, None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress. Miss we the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled. Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even from wells we sunk too deep for war, Even the sweetest wells that ever were.

Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, grant them rest.

TENOR SOLO The scribes on all the people shove And bawl allegiance to the state, But they who love the greater love Lay down their life; they do not hate. CHORUS Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona eis requiem sempiternam. Dona nobis pacem.

Lamb of God, that takes away the sins of the world, grant them eternal rest. grant them peace.

VI. LIBERA ME CHORUS AND SOPRANO SOLO Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna in die illa tremenda, quando coeli movendi sunt et terra, dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem. Tremens factus sum ego et timeo, dum discussio venerit atque venture ira: quando coeli movendi sunt et terra. Dies irae, dies illa, calamitatis et miseriae, dies magna et amara valde,

Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death in that awful day when the heavens and earth shall be shaken, when Thou shalt come to judge the world by fire. I am seized with fear and trembling, until the trial shall be at hand and the wrath to come: when the heavens and earth shall be shaken. That day, that day of wrath, of calamity and misery, a great day and exceeding bitter,

I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark; for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.” TENOR AND BARITONE SOLOS “Let us sleep now . . .” BOYS’ CHORUS, CHORUS AND SOPRANO SOLO In paradisum deducant te Angeli: May the angels elad you into Paradise; in tuo adventu suscipiant at your coming may the Martyrs te Martyres, receive you. et perducant te and conduct you in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem, into the holy city, Jerusalem. Chorus Angelorum te suscipiat, May the chorus of angels receive you, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere and with Lazarus, once a pauper, aeternam habeas requiem. eternally may you have rest. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, Lord, grant them eternal rest, et lux perpetua luceat eis. and let perpetual light shine upon them. Requiescant in pace. Amen. May they rest in peace. Amen.

Join Voice with the Symphony Chorus For close to 30 years, the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus has been making great music with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. The volunteer members come from all walks of life who share the spirit of choral singing. In 2013-14, the chorus will begin its second season under the leadership of Donald McCullough, one of America’s pre-eminent choral directors (bio on page 15). Upcoming performances include Verdi’s Requiem, Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem, “Holiday Pops” and Handel’s Messiah. To find out more about next season’s auditions, call 904.354.5479, ext. 221. Information about the Symphony Chorus appears on page 16 and online at JaxSymphony.org.

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JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

SPECIAL EVENT Applause for a Symphony of Donors!

JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Fabio Mechetti, Music Director & Principal Conductor, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair Michael Krajewski, Principal Pops Conductor, Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair

This concert is for you, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra family of donors. At the close of a most remarkable season, your contributions continue to affirm the Jacksonville Symphony’s commitment to inspiring, enriching and uplifting this community. Together, we look forward to a bright future for your Orchestra!

Patron Highlights from 2012-13 Ed and Julie McCarthy, trustees of concert sponsor Jess and Brewster J. Durkee Foundation, backstage with Fabio Mechetti (center)

Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at 7 p.m. Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Donor Appreciation Concert Fabio Mechetti, conductor

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN

Overture to Goethe’s Egmont, Op. 84

Maurice RAVEL

“The Enchanted Garden” from Mother Goose Suite

Bedr`´ich SMETANA

“The Moldau” from Mà vlast (My Fatherland)

John WILLIAMS

“Flying Theme” from E.T.: The Extraterrestrial

Antonin DVOR ÁK

Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, “From the New World”

Steve and Joan Shewbrooks

IV. Allegro con fuoco Latecomers will be seated after completion of the piece. Cellular phones and personal electronics must be turned off when inside the concert hall. Cameras and audio/visual recording are not permitted and personal devices may not be used as such. We appreciate your cooperation in avoiding any extraneous noises during concerts. Dana’s Limousine is the official transportation of the Jacksonville Symphony. Omni Jacksonville Hotel is the official hotel of the Jacksonville Symphony. One Enterprise Center Garage is the official parking company of the Jacksonville Symphony.

Jay and Ellen Sherline, with Stacy Ridenour (center)

JSYO and Douglas Anderson student Claudia Beshears, Laurie DuBow, Douglas Anderson Orchestra Director Brian Griffin, and JSYM Timpanist Ken Every. At the Sit-on-Stage event for Conductor’s Club-Bronze members is John Ebacher (right) with JSYM Bassist Patrick Bilanchone.

At the Itzhak Perlman gala dinner are (above) Aida Ribeiro (left), with Brad and Nancy Anderson; (below, from left) Joy and Howard Korman, with Mary Patton.

Mark and Rita Allen

Mark and Beth Brockelman

Spread the word! The 2013 Florida Blue Community Challenge is underway. See page 63 for details. E n c o re !

VO L U N T E E R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S Message from The Guild It has been a great honor to serve as president of the Guild this year. President-Elect Allene Groote will be installed as Guild president at our year-end luncheon scheduled for June 4 at San Jose Country Club at 11:30 a.m. Please mark your calendars and call the Guild office at 904.358.1479 to make your reservations. This year has gone by so fast and I want to thank the Guild board and executive committee for their support. I thank all the committee chairs, “Social Register” special event hosts, and all the volunteers who have given so many hours to support our mission “to further awareness of music and music education and to create strong community support of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra through fundraising projects.” One special way of support is the Eleanor H. King Tuition Fund. This special fund was established in 2009 to honor one of our most young-atheart members, for the purpose of helping to meet tuition needs of deserving students in the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra (JSYO). We appreciate Ms. King and all she has done to enable children to have an experience that will last their whole lives with participation in the JSYO. Contributions to this special fund can make a real difference in a child’s enrichment, by providing music education opportunities which may not be available by any other means. See page 19 to find out how to donate to this program. Please note contributors below to the Friends of the Guild and to the Eleanor H. King Tuition Fund. The Guild sends a big thank-you for all your contributions.

Alberta Hipps

Pictured are the 2012-13 recipients of the Eleanor H. King Tuition Fund. Call 904.358.1479 to donate to this special fund for JSYO students and their families.

Alberta Hipps, President, The Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony

In helping the Guild further awareness of music and music education and to create strong community support of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra through fundraising projects (the Guild’s Mission statement). The Guild recognizes the generosity of these symphony supporters:

The Eleanor H. King Tuition Fund In memory of Mrs. Nona Jones Rawls: Eleanor H. King Anonymous Mrs. Dolores Alderman Dr. Brian Armitage James and Pauline P. Barnes Allen & Sue Berry James & Tina Chou Mr. & Mrs. Robert Covin Karen M. Fleming Mr & Mrs Arnold Gildenhorn Scott & Camille Gregg Sandra Hibbard

Dr. Mary Jeanette Howle Bill & Olga Joos Cynthia & Robert Kastner Eleanor King National Society of Arts and Letters – Ms. Sharon Scholl, Phd. Margaret V. Novelli Elizabeth & David Nusz Dr. Samuel Root Suwannee Shuntich Dorcas G. Tanner Shirley Thomson Virginia Wearn Linda Wilkinson

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Guild Friends of the Jacksonville Symphony Dolores Alderman Sue Ashby Eleanor Ashby Robin Berenberg Monica Litwin Boccieri Susan and Roy Bolenbaugh Sandy Borntraeger Marilyn Carpenter Wendy and Rocco Catucci Clarissa Chandler Mary Coleman Sharon Connor Marilyn and Lee Dorson James and Awilda C. Duffy Mary E. (Betsy) Dunlap Virginia and Charles Dunn Bonnie Ennis Josephine Flaherty F.L.A.G.S. (Fleet Landing Active Guild Supporters) Margaret Foester Anita Geiger Allene Groote B.A. & Delores Grubbs Harry and Majorie Gruber Shirley Hanson Joan S. Haskell Fran and Alan Herzog In Honor of Martha Yohe Fran and Alan Herzog Sandra Hibbard Alberta Hipps Ellen Hudson Monica Litwin Jacoby

Sue Jarecki Dorothy Karkanen Naomi Karkanen Susan Kelley Denise Kowkabany Helen Lane Rose and Phil Littlefield Pat and Mike Manko Eleanor Maxwell Jeanne Williams Moomaw Mati Mulvihill Teresa de Balmaseda Milam Joan W. Newton Janet A. Nicosia Georgianne Pionessa Martha Read Gert and Rebecca Schumann Lorraine Scruby Joseph and Billie Sherin Mrs. Robert Shircliff Susan Shulman John and Carolyn Solomon Mary Love Strum Erlane Tait Mrs. C. Herman Terry Ellen Thorne Gwen J. Tomic Enith Vardaman Ouida Walker Sherrie Webb Suzanna Wolff Martha Yohe Mary Ellen Young

VO L U N T E E R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S Message from BRASS Spring is a time for hope and renewal. The days lengthen and the sun shines more brightly. Our Jacksonville Symphony enters spring with hope and energy. What a wonderful time to part of this great orchestra! On Friday, April 5th, before the BRASS-sponsored Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Martin Connor (JSYM Chair-Elect) David Pierson (JSYM President) and Peter Wright (JSYM Principal Clarinetist) announced that a contract agreement had been reached between the Symphony Association and its musicians. On Sunday, April 7th we honored Maestro Fabio Mechetti at BRASS’ 22nd Annual Black Tie Dinner Gala. Patrons filled the event to capacity and heard a fantastic program performed by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. We had a very successful fundraising event - I would like to thank the event organizers and supporters for making the night truly memorable. This will be my last letter as president of BRASS as my term draws to a close in May. It has been an honor and a privilege to carry the baton for the last two years. I am delighted to introduce Bob Golitz as the president-elect who will lead BRASS’ efforts to bring the joy and passion of our Symphony to all our friends in the Beaches community. Log on to BRASSonline.org and find out more. The website is full of stories and pictures of our past and upcoming events. If you live at the Beaches, please become a Beaches Resident Actively Supporting the Symphony and keep the beat going on... Membership starts at $35. For more information contact us at info@BRASSonline.org or call 904.207.2392.

BRASS Annual Dinner and Concert

With Regards,

Gurmeet Keaveny Gurmeet Keaveny, President, BRASS

BRASS Concertmaster Society Members Mr. & Mrs. Andy Abate Mr. & Mrs. Conrad F. Ahrens Richard & Lyn Atkinson Laura Bailey A.R.N.P. Jim & Sally Baldwin Ted & Nancy Burfeind Phillip & Sandra Burnaman Michael Colina and Robin Halpin Joe and Amy Corpe Douglas & Jacqueline Crane Tyler & Sally Dann Mr. & Mrs. John Davies Mr. & Mrs. Mark Davey Charles & Virginia Dunn, Jr. David C. Ferner Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Fernley III Josie Flaherty Jack & Pat Flock Bob & Mary Lee Golitz Buzz & Susan Goodall Sam and Donna Heffner III Mr. & Mrs. John C. Herrin Richard Hickok & Andrea Ashley Tom & Bondy Hodgkins Bob & Monica Jacoby Bill & Heather Johnson, Jr. Dr. Robert & Charlotte Jones Bob & Diana Kane Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Keaveny Jim Keller & Marguerite D Keller Fred & Laura Kusumoto

Lynda Linforth John & Maria Malone Mr. & Mrs. Joseph and Karen Martin Larry Martinez & Kimmerly Otte Thomas & Bettie Mason David & Tracy Mayo Davis & Sandra McCarty Sally McCue Aida and Fabio Mechetti Mr. & Mrs. Willis Mills David & Bernadette Miron Dr. Kent New & Mrs. Jennifer Sawyer New Janet & Joseph Nicosia Richard Quina Jim Ross Mr. J. William Ross John and Susan Ryzewic Nadine Sabatier Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Schlipf Gary & Laura Shivers Debbie Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Spadaro Mr. & Mrs. Nick Stam Tom and Dorretta Svoboda Bob & Gwynne Tonsfeldt Chris and Lisa West Phil & Arlene Wiesner Drs. Herb Wolfsen & Christine Ng Quentin & Louise Wood Richard & Janet Zborowski

BRASS Director and Event Chair Diana Kane, with husband Bob.

(From left) BRASS Officers Nick Stam and Marguerite D'Andrea Keller, with BRASS President-Elect Bob Golitz.

BRASS Membership Levels Annual Membership: $35 Single – $60 Family BRASS Leadership Circle: $100 - $349 • BRASS Concertmaster Society: $350+

Three generations of the Jacoby Family, (from right) Bob and Monica Jacoby, granddaughter Jackie Snyder, and daughter Debbie Snyder.

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VO L U N T E E R O R G A N I Z AT I O N S Message from ARIAS (Amelia Residents In Action for the Symphony) Every year since its founding, ARIAS has fulfilled its missions of being active in support of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra; bringing music education to the children of Nassau County; and presenting concerts and special programs to Amelia Island and to our wonderful membership. In addition to funding music education programs in Nassau County and the annual “Let Freedom Ring” concert, ARIAS continues to sponsor a variety of events. We also sponsor bus trips to the Symphony for many concerts (details on right). ARIAS sponsors programs for Nassau County schoolchildren, including Jacksonville Symphony concerts and ensemble visits. Each year more than 500 Nassau County students attend a concert in Jacoby Symphony Hall and 5,000 Nassau County students experience Symphony ensemble performances in their schools. The ARIAS Instrument Zoo was received by every fourth grade elementary school student in the county last season. If you’re an Amelia/Fernandina resident, please consider joining ARIAS and tell your friends and neighbors. Help us grow this The ARIAS “Let Freedom Ring Concert” valuable cultural service for our area. takes place on Thursday, May 23 at First Baptist Fernandina Beach at 7 p.m. Annual dues are $50 for individuals and $85 for couples. In addition to dues, ARIAS is sponsored in part by First Coast Community Bank and many gracious individual donors.

Tom Pippin

ARIAS 2013 Events Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. “Let Freedom Ring” First Baptist Church, Fernandina Beach Tickets $20 On sale at The Book Loft, Front & Centre, Amelia Island Convention and Visitors Bureau, Fernandina Beach Golf Club and The Golf Club of Amelia Island.

Friday Masterworks Nights April 26 & May 18 Round-trip bus from Amelia Island to Jacoby Symphony Hall. $18 per person. Call 904.354.5547.

Tom Pippin, President ARIAS Information: 904.261.0105 Membership: 904.261.6498

ARIAS Sponsors School Performance

Music with the Maestro

In March, more than 850 children enjoyed a performance by the Jacksonville Symphony Percussion Ensemble at Yulee Elementary School. This musical learning opportunity was sponsored by ARIAS. Steve Merrill, Kevin Garry and Ken Every (pictured, from left) were excellent and entertaining, as they provided lots of volume and fun. The school looks forward to more Symphony Ensemble events and ARIAS Instrument Zoo visits. ARIAS thanks the Nassau County School System for valuing these programs and the Jacksonville Symphony for providing this community outreach. Bravo!

In February, ARIAS members enjoyed a musical evening with Fabio and Aida Mechetti at the Amelia Island Ocean Club. Fabio and Aida performed four-hand piano selections and talked about upcoming Jacksonville Symphony concerts.

John and Cherie Billings (center) with Fabio and Aida Mechetti, and their daughters Marina (front, left) and Carolina. Photo by Walter Petersen.

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Tear out the individual donor form below. Mail checks payable to the Jacksonville Symphony Association to: JSA Development Department 300 Water Street, Suite 200 Jacksonville, FL 32202

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with additional support from Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust, Robert and Monica Jacoby, Josie Flaherty, Stein Mart, David and Elaine Strickland

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will match any new or increased gift UP TO $200,000.

Dear Symphony Patrons, Everywhere you turn, you hear the Jacksonville Symphony being described as a community treasure and vital to our quality of life. The time is now for all of us in the Jacksonville community to align our actions with our words. Our Orchestra’s future success hinges on the extent of support demonstrated by each of us who cares about our Symphony and our City. “It’s Your Orchestra,” the 2013 Florida Blue Community Challenge campaign, launches this month. We are grateful to Florida Blue and several generous individuals and corporations that have given $200,000 as leverage for new and increased financial support for the Symphony. If the Jacksonville Symphony is something you personally treasure and value as an essential community asset, please consider a new or increased gift prior to May 31st and double the impact of your support at this critical time! Your gift is truly appreciated by our stellar musicians, by the 80,000 students touched each year by our education programs, by the 350 Youth Orchestra and Jump Start String students, and by all the community leaders and citizens like you who are working together to build a great City anchored by our world-class Orchestra.

Stacy Ridenour Yours truly,

Stacy Ridenour Vice President for Development

Your gift must be received by May 31, 2013 to be eligible for this match!

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The Jacksonville Symphony is grateful to thank some of our most important music makers. PRINCIPAL SPONSORS

N A T I O N A L ENDOWMENT F O R T HE A RT S

Special Gift in Honor of

Together with Joannie & Russell Newton and Brooke & Hap Stein

The Julius N. Frankel Foundation

The Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust

J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver

Ruth Conley The DuBow Family Foundation Bob & Lynn Alligood

CONCERT SPONSORS Acosta Sales & Marketing • Yvonne Charvot Barnett • BRASS • Jess & Brewster J. Durkee Foundation • FIS The Guild Friends of the Jacksonville Symphony • Harbinger Sign • Lender Processing Services • The Main Street America Group Stratton & CompanyMalnove Packaging Solutions • Omni Jacksonville Hotel • Raymond James & Associates, Inc. • Rayonier • Regions Bank Scott-McRae Group • David and Linda Stein • Stein Mart • Stellar Foundation • US Assure • U.S. Trust • Westminster Woods

EDUCATION SPONSORS bestbet Poker, Simulcast, and Gaming and Mary Carr Patton • Cummer Family Foundation • Jessie Ball duPont Fund Duval County Public Schools • Enterprise Holdings Foundation • Fanny Landwirth Foundation • Florida State College at Jacksonville The Henry & Lucy Gooding Endowment • Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation • The PLAYERS • Publix Super Markets Charities Rice Family Foundation • Rotary Club of Fleming Island • Rowe Family Foundation Shacter Family Foundation • Carl S. Swisher Foundation TD Charitable Foundation • Wells Fargo Foundation • Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts IN-KIND SPONSORS Agility Press • AT&T Advertising Solutions • CSX • Dana’s Limousine & Transportation • Fazzini’s Coffee & Tea • The Hartley Press JAX Chamber • Parsley’s Piano • Riverside Liquors • Steinway & Sons • Wilson’s Limited, Inc.

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The Jacksonville Symphony Association gratefully acknowledges these members for including the symphony in their estate planning.

Mark and Rita Allen Bruce and Mary Anderson Sandra Sue Ashby Rick E. Bendel Jacob F. Bryan IV Elizabeth I. Byrne Clarissa and Warren Chandler Estelle and Terry Chisholm Col. and Mrs. Robert B. Clarke Luther and Blanche Coggin Elizabeth Schell Colyer Ruth P. Conley Robert and Caroline Covin Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cowden Dr. Amy Crowder in memory of Carole V. Ewart Chris and Stephanie Doerr Jeff Driggers Brock Fazzini Josephine Flaherty Mr. and Mrs. Allan Geiger John L. Georgas

Linda Barton Gillis Sue Gover Scott and Camille Gregg Dr. Dan W. Hadwin and Dr. Alice Rietman-Hadwin Preston H. Haskell Richard Hickok and Andrea Ashley Bev and Bill Hiller Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Naomi E. Karkanen Frances Bartlett Kinne, PH. D. Norman and Dolores Kramer Mrs. Edward W. Lane, Jr. Dr. D. Anne and Mr. Daniel Lombardo Doug and Laura Mathewson Ambassador Marilyn McAfee Frances Watts McCurry Friend of the Symphony Friend of the Symphony Sherry Murray Mr. and Mrs. E. William Nash, Jr.

Janet and Joseph Nicosia Evelyn and Val Palmer Ruth (Rusty) Pierce Richard and Leslie Pierpont Victoria M. Rogers J. William Ross Mrs. Ruthwood C. Samek Carol and Bob Shircliff Mrs. Sally Simpson Al Sinclair Helen Morse and Fritz Skeen Ana and Hal Skinner Gwynne and Bob Tonsfeldt Chip and Phyllis Tousey Rev. W. Glenn Turner Mary Jane and Jack Uible James and Joan Van Vleck Friend of the Symphony Renee Winkler Friend of the Symphony

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The Jacksonville Symphony Association gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following individuals, businesses and foundations: Gifts to the Annual Fund as of March 28, 2013

Businesses, Foundations & In-Kind Donors Baton Society – $50,000+ Bank of America / Merrill Lynch • City of Jacksonville • Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville • Fidelity National Financial • Florida Blue FSCJ - South Campus • Julius N. Frankel Foundation • The Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony

Fabio Mechetti Society – $25,000-$49,999 Anonymous in honor of the City Rescue Mission Staff bestbet Poker, Simulcast, and Gaming and Mary Carr Patton • BRASS • DuBow Family Foundation EverBank • Haskell Company • Jessie Ball duPont Fund • Mayo Clinic • PGA TOUR Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust • State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs Target • THE PLAYERS • Valdemar Joost Kroier Endowment Fund • VyStar Credit Union Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts Platinum – $10,000-$24,999 Acosta Sales & Marketing Brooks Rehabilitation Cummer Family Foundation Edna Sproull Williams Foundation Fanny Landwirth Foundation FIS G. Howard Bryan Endowment Fund Jess & Brewster J. Durkee Foundation Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Merrill Lynch Private Client Group Omni Jacksonville Hotel Publix Super Markets Charities Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Rayonier Regency Centers, Inc. SteinMart, Inc. SunTrust Bank, North Florida The Florida Times-Union The Thomas M. Kirbo and Irene B. Kirbo Charitable Trust

Stratton & Company Malnove Packaging Solutions Lin Rainey Interiors Regions Bank Rice Family Foundation Scott-McRae Group, Inc. TD Charitable Foundation The Kessler Fund The Main Street America Group Wells Fargo Westminster Woods on Julington Creek Wilsons Limited, Inc.

Silver – $3,500-$4,999 Stellar Foundation US Assure

Bronze – $2,250-$3,499 Enterprise Holdings Foundation Lender Processing Services, Inc. Performance Security Inc. Herb and Ann Rowe Charitable Foundation

Gold – $5,000-$9,999

Prelude – $1,250-$2,249

Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Automatic Data Processing, Inc. Carl S. Swisher Foundation Fazzini’s Coffee & Tea Harbinger Sign Hartley Press

Borkowski Family Foundation Eisman & Russo LBA Group Riverside Liquors & Village Wine Shop The Framing Establishment

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Friends – $1,249 or less A-B Distributors, Inc. Agility Press Availity Avondale Gallery Brown Enterprises City Cycle Courtyard Marriott, Orange Park Crestline Hotels and Resorts Edge City Frazier Jewelers Green Man Gourmet Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bunker Mr. and Mrs. Michael Barrett Mr. James Hardwick Ms. Jennie Szaltis Ms. Judith Ripka Penney Retirement Community Travel Program Roger Bansemer Rotary Club of Fleming Island The Alhambra Dinner Theatre The Grotto The Wardroom LTD

BRASS Dinner-Concert Gala: Ruth Conley (second from right) with her family, (from left) Jane and Paul Conley, Debbie Bower, Ann and Tom Smith, and Ned Bower. More photos on page 59.

Individual Donors Baton Society – $50,000+ Ruth Conley in memory of Paul Conley • Josephine V. Flaherty Monica and Bob Jacoby • Mrs. C. Herman Terry

Fabio Mechetti Society – $25,000-$49,999 Bob and Lynn Alligood • Amy and Gilchrist B. Berg • Chris and Stephanie Doerr Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Newton, Jr. • Mary Carr Patton J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver • Charles and Vivien Zink Platinum – $10,000-$24,999

Gold – $5,000-$9,999

Sandra Sue Ashby Sally and Jim Baldwin Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bryan, IV G. Howard Bryan Endowment Fund Mr. and Mrs. A. R. “Pete” Carpenter Sharon and Martin Connor Sally and Tyler Dann Isabelle and Robert D. Davis Jane and Jack Dickison Jon A. Ebacher and Jill T. Wannemacher Andrew Farkas John L. Georgas Paul and Nina Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Preston H. Haskell Dr. and Mrs. Ross T. Krueger E. Michel and Heidja Kruse Mrs. Edward W. Lane, Jr. Anne and Robert Lufrano Teresa and Arthur Milam Janet and Joseph Nicosia Lee and Darlene Nutter Dick and Leslie Pierpont J. William Ross Mrs. J. Louis Schaefer Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff Ann H. Sims David and Linda Stein Erlane D. and John E. Tait Lee and Dorothy Thomas George and Ellen Williams Winston Family Foundation Quentin and Louise Wood Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Worth

Rita and Mark Allen Mr. and Mrs. Danny Berenberg John and Cherie Billings Paul and Kathy Bosland Warren and Clarissa Chandler The Clinton Family Fund, in honor of Martin F. Connor, Chair elect and fellow trustees (Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Henry and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Houpert) Elizabeth Lovett Colledge Leonard Boyd and Molly Curry Tom and Jesse Dattilo Susan P. Davis Edward and Susan Doherty William G. Gingrich Mr. and Mrs. John Godfrey Margaret Gomez Friend of the Symphony Mr. and Mrs. George V. Grune Karl R. Halbach by ADP Time and Labor Mgmt Mrs. Egbert Heilman Mr. and Mrs. James A. Heinz Joe and Renate Hixon Mr. and Mrs. J. Malcolm Jones Michael and Marianne Jordan Dorothy and Naomi Karkanen Frances Bartlett Kinne, Ph.D. John and Bette Klacsmann Fund Patty and Jim Kleck Frank Knowles Richard and Janet Tatiana Langford Lazzara Family Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Lonsdale Mr. and Mrs. John Marchese Susan and Ron Masucci Mr. and Mrs. Matthew McAfee Mr. and Mrs. Terrence L. McGrane

Platinum Leadership Society To learn more about this very important group of donors, call Toni Paz at 904.354.8289.

Margaret Leu Means Bill and Sallyann Morris Dorothea E. Neinstedt Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pippin Ronald and Antonia Porterfield Dr. and Mrs. Russell W. Pratt Mr. William L. Ritchie Sheila and Louis Russo Susan and John Ryzewic Mr. and Mrs. George Scanlon Susan and Fred Schantz Mrs. Ruth Schwarzmann Mr. and Mrs. Joel Settembrini, Jr Hal and Ana Skinner Dr. Richard G. Skinner, Jr. Dr. Edward and Mary Ellen Smith Kent and Marie Smith Linda L. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Christopher H. Smith Virginia K. Smith Reg and Bonnie Smith Dr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Soud Drs. Mihaela Ionescu and Mark A. Spatola Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Spetnagel, III Joseph and Anna Spiak Margaret and Travis Storey David and Elaine Strickland Luke and Barbara Thornton Chip and Phyllis Tousey Mr. & Mrs. Rolf Towe Jim and Joan Van Vleck Tom Rusk Vickery Friend of the Symphony Yvonne B. West Dr. and Mrs. Scott Wiedenmann Judith Williams Dr. Eugene and Brenda Wolchok Martie Yohe Carleton and Barbara Zacheis E n c o re !

Silver – $3,500-$4,999 Stephen E. and Phyllis C. Bachand Mrs. Audrey Baker Nancy and Ted Burfeind Martin and Gina Cone Cornehl Family Foundation Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation Lorena Doolittle Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gibbs, III Pat and Fred Gieg Cynthia and Walter Graham, Jr. Bob and Pat Henderson Calvin and Ellen Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Victor A. Hughes Magnolia Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Knight Dave and Mary Pat Kulik Mr. and Mrs. Anthony S. Kurlas Carolyn Marsh Lindsay Frances W. McCurry Mary J. Miller Jeanne and David Moomaw Lin Rainey Ina W. Richter Ray and Jan Ross Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Sisisky Helen Morse and Fritz Skeen Marianne and Ben Stein Gwynne and Bob Tonsfeldt Rev. W. Glenn Turner Ms. Barbara W. Webster Norma and Jack Williams Arlen and Doris Yokley Charitable Foundation Bronze – $2,250-$3,499 Mr. and Mrs. Conrad F. Ahrens Anonymous in honor of the City Rescue Mission Staff Eleanor Ashby Drs. J. Duncan and Julie Baker Ginny and Bob BonDurant John and Cletia Bowron Patricia Sanow Bramlett Mark and Beth Brockelman Carol and Jim Bryce Carl and Rita Cannon Sandra and Andrew Clarke Linda and Patrick Clyne Meade and Alvin Coplan Harvey and Lois Dann Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Dempsey Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Drew Reed and Nancy Freeman Judy and George Gabel Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Goldberg Rabbi Robert Goodman Claudia B. Gordon Marion Haynes Mrs. Joan F. Heller Mr. and Mrs. John C. Herrin David and Sally Ketcham Mrs. Anne Kufeldt Annette Laubscher and Ken Mattiace Mrs. John R. Mackroth Bill and Barbara Maletz Mr. and Mrs. H. Davis McCarty Ms. Sara McCue Donald McCurry and Suzanne Keith James B. Miles Charles and Diane Newman Bob and Flo Anne O’Brien Mrs. John G. Pflugfelder Mrs. Elsa Troeh and Mr. Thomas M. Pope Ted and Jane Preston Greg and Ellen Rogowski Dr. William C. Rupp and Dr. Janice Clarke Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Sawyer The Shacter Family

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Sherin Stephen and Joan Shewbrooks Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Shorstein Samuel Shorstein Al Sinclair Mrs. Robert D. Slimmon Mireille and Robert Threlkel Michael and Kim Ward Dr. and Mrs. H. Warner Webb Barbara C. West Mr. and Mrs. John P. Wilchek Dr. and Mrs. Albert H. Wilkinson, Jr. Dr. Mary Ellen Young and Donald Owen Prelude – $1,250-2,249 Judith and Robert P. Adelman Harold E. Aken, Jr. Linda R. Alexander Mrs. Walter H. Alford Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Amato Grace Andersen David and Beth Arnold Teri and Jim Babcock Shirley and Dave Bailey Dr. and Mrs. Richard Balzer Lu Ann Bear Berman Family Foundation Drs. Roger and Marsha Bertholf Joyce Blackburn Mr. and Mrs. James C. Blanton Annette and Bill Boling Borkowski Family Foundation Sandy and Jack Borntraeger Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Boushie Otis and Joan Bowden Mr. and Mrs. David B. Boyer Harry and Jan Branch John and Hilary Breen Rod and Pat Brock Mr. Redpath Bruce Mary Ann and Shepard Bryan Mr. and Mrs. Shermon Burgess Sandra and Phillip Burnaman Mrs. William S. Burns Pat and Stan Cairns Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Cannon Ms. Kathryn Captain Pamela Causey and Arthur Hurwitz Stell and Terry Chisholm George and Patricia Clegg Mary Lou Coate Imogene and Neal Coleman Alice Mach Coughlin Robert and Caroline Covin Mort and Renee Crim Peter and Lois Dalmares Mrs. David L. Dalton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Davis Sue and Jerry Dorsch Mr. Jerry Draper and Mrs. Lennys Campos Marcus E. Drewa Dr. and Mrs. James W. Dyer Joe C. Ebbinghouse, M. D. Mrs. George C. Elliott Bill and Rosemary English Bishop Felipe Estevez Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Euston Randy and Lynn Evans Nancy and Shel Ferdman David Ferner Sally and Tom Fernley Mr. and Mrs. David Foerster Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John Fryer Ben and Judy Fryrear Clark and Lauretta Gaylord Jeanne M. Gibbs Sherrick and Patricia Gilbert

Nathaniel Glover, President - Edward Waters College Friend of the Symphony Wayne Greenberg and Elizabeth Shahan O. C. and Mae Jean Gregg Robert and Susan Gregg Jim and Pat Griffiths Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Grimes Mr. Thomas J. Grzelinski Drs. Dan and Alice Rietman-Hadwin Terree and Bob Hays Bondy and Tom Hodgkins Kennon and Linda Holmes Friend of the Symphony Dr. Anne H. Hopkins Ira and Eva Jackler Diane and Thomas Jacobsen Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Randolph R. Johnson Lillian and Bunky Johnson, Jr. Donna and Gil Johnson Tom and Brenda Johnson Mrs. Hobart H. Joost Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Kaplan Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Keaveny Dr. and Mrs. John R. Kelley Bill and Barbara Ketchum Brad and Cindy King Donald R. Knab Janine Leland and Tom Larson Hal Latimer Norman and Mary Ellen Ledwin Harriet LeMaster Joe and Chresanthe Lemieux Gene H. Lewis Rabbi and Mrs. Joshua B. Lief Phil and Rose Littlefield William and Mary Ellen Ludeking Pat and Mike Manko Mary Alice Massey Ann and Bob Maxwell Mr. and Mrs. Philip S. May Jr Alison McCallum Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. McCart, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Lester McDevitt Julie and Michael McKenny Mr. Yancey A. Montgomery and Catherine Drennon Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Moorer, Jr Linda Moseley Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Henry C. Newcomer, USAF (Ret) John and Dorothy Nutant Brita M. O’Carroll Mr. Christian Oldenburg Mrs. Daniel C. O’Leary Jr Gloria and Martin Olsen David and Kathryn Olson Marie and Joel Pangborn John and Kathryn Peyton Dale and Carol Porfilio Jack and Patti Quaritius Richard Quina and Patricia Bentley Lynne Radcliffe Friend of the Symphony Rich, Brandon and Stacy Ridenour Mrs. Gene Davis Ritchie William and Luyan Roelke Victoria M. Rogers Bruce Rosborough Dr. and Mrs. Lowell Salter Mrs. Ruthwood C. Samek Colleen Sanchez Mrs. Miyuki Scheidel Mr. and Mrs. Tino Schuler Gert and Becky Schumann Paul Shuler Steve and Judy Silverman Martine and John Slemp Mrs. Harold K. Smith Tom and Ann Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Spadaro George and Shirley Spaniel Dr. Mandell and Rita Diamond Stearman Mrs. C.G. Strum Mr. and Mrs. Dale C. Sweeney Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Tepas, III John and Roz Toshach Susan and James Towler John and Alice Trainer Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Triano Gabriele VanZon Mrs. Georgia Wahl Carol and Manuel Wallace Mary and Frank Watson Audrey McDill and Jim White Arlene and Phil Wiesner Dr. and Mrs. Charles N. Winton Mr. and Mrs. A. Daniel Wolff III Mr. and Mrs. Jacob E. Worner Hon. Gwen Yates and Lt. Col. Alton Yates, Ret. Mary Jean Zimmerman Carolyn and Elliot Zisser Friend – $750-$1,249 Mr. and Mrs. John M. Adler Dr. and Mrs. George F. Armstrong Jr Delavan and Sally Baldwin Albert and Janan Bateh Joe Begley Candy and John Bobeck Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Bower Michael and Susan Boylan Col. and Mrs. E. M. Brisach Stephen M. Brown Dr. and Mrs. William Bullock Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bunker Jim and Mary B. Burt Luther and Blanche Coggin Tom and Pat Conway Mary Crumpton Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Darnall Deborah Jump Dawson George and Sachi Deriso Mr. and Mrs. Henry D’Hulst Margie and Bud Dorsey Oscar R. Gunther M.D. Suna Hall Karen Harris A. Sherburne Hart Maryanne Helffrich Dawn and Michael Huskey Mr. and Mrs. J. Curtis Hyers Pam and Mike Jackson Arthur and Joanne Jones Dr. Lawrence and Kathy Kanter Richard and Nancy Kennedy Ted Klein and Barbara Levoy The E. J. Kovarik Philanthropic Fund Mr. Mark L. LaVigne and Dr. Sonja Schoeppel Mark and Mary Lemmenes Hal and Frances Lynch Mrs. James R. Malm Mary and Walter Maupay Joe and Nancy McTighe Marcia Mederos Lee and Bobbie Mercier Mr. and Mrs. Michael Minch Michelle Mullen Joy and Jack Myers Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Naman Bill and Fran Nash Robert and Thelma Nied Deborah and David Pierson Mr. and Mrs. Robert Quinby Judy and Jere Ratcliffe Judith Ripka

Rev John S Rogers Dr. and Mrs. Wilbur C. Rust Ed and Whitney Selover John and Suzanne Spanier Brooke and Hap Stein Mrs. Albine Stickney Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Thompson Mrs. Frank Upchurch Emily Van Vliet Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Vineyard Dr. and Mrs. John D. Wilcox, Jr. Mr. Richard S. Woods Supporter – $550-$749 Mr. and Mrs. Michael Akel Richard and Janice Anderson Lorrimer and Judith Armstrong Dr. William and Linda Ann Bainbridge Claudette and Richard Barker Jr. Michael and Melissa Barrett Dr. and Mrs. Dwight S. Bayley Marian and Joe Bender, Jr. Lisa and Earl Benton Dr. Joy and Mr. Steven Boyne Mr. Frank E. Briber Lynn and Gary Busch Dr. and Mrs. William H. Caldwell Mary S. Campbell LCDR and Mrs. Arthur Catullo, USN (Ret.) Ian M. Charlton Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Coleman Dr. and Mrs. C. L. (Mike) Cotten Ms. Joyce Couch Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cowden Mims Cushing Bud and Dotty Davis Mr. Walter DeReu Charles and Virginia Dunn Dr. and Mrs. A. Ronald Eckels Mark R. Evans Ms. Lisa Everett J. R. Fullerton Marcia and Jeff Funderburk Ms. Mary Alice Westrick and Dr. Thomas A. Gonwa Jean Haines James Hardwick Mrs. Ann Harwood-Nuss and Mr. Robert Nuss Stephen and Ruth Ann Heller Sally and Tom Henderson Howard and Janet Hogshead Mrs. William G. Holyfield, Jr. Jay and Jeanne Huebner Robert and Rue Hunter Mack and Freda Johnson William Kastelz, Jr. in loving memory of Sandra Bob and Cindy Kastner Charles and Christine Keyser Sally J. Kircher Mr. and Mrs. David Lovett Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Margol Tom and Harriet Nesbitt Barbara Nettles Jennifer Sawyer New and Kent New John and Lorraine Orr Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Patterson Rev. Richard and Mary Petry Joseph K.and Maria G. Pinnell Roger and Phyllis Platte Mr. and Mrs. C. Poniatowski Friend of the Symphony Ron and Dorothy Rogginger Mr. Neil Rose and Dr. Jeannie Rose Dr. and Mrs. Paul Ross George and Jeri Ross Anne and John Ruvane Harold S. Salzman

Mrs. Patricia M. Sams Tom and Jane Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Chris Seubert Marlene and Harry Skilton Dr. and Mrs. Gregory E. Smith Friend of the Symphony Lane and Virginia Sutton Jennie Szaltis Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Torres Silvana and Bob Wall Mr. Thomas Whittemore Col. and Mrs. Charles T. Williamson Carolyn Munro Wilson David and Leigh Wohlfarth Dr. and Mrs. Peter B. Wright, Jr. Contributor – $300-$549 Capt. and Mrs. H. C. Abelein, USN Portia S. Ackerman M/M David Albert Capt. Marvin G. Alexander In memory of Cecil Cole from Dickey, Joel, Leighton and Andrea from New Orleans Sarah K. Allen Anne and Billy Allen Friend of the Symphony Dr. and Mrs. Jack Leventhal Mrs. Barbara Arnold Mr. and Mrs. William S. Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Bailet Lisa and Bill Barton Earle E. Baruch, III Mrs. May Beattie Mrs. Gertrude R. Bengtson Friend of the Symphony Carolee and Gerald Bertisch Mr. and Mrs. Norman Beyer Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blaine Ed and Cathi Blair Mrs. Ingrid Boettcher Roy and Susan Bolenbaugh Mr. and Mrs. William Braddock Tim and Lucy Brannon Dr. and Mrs. Paul Brazis Dr. and Mrs. Duncan J. Brown Major and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown Sandra B. Bryant Cecilia Bryant Caren and Dennis Buchman Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Buchwalter Dr. and Mrs. Robert Buelow R. and L. Y. Cabrera Mr. and Mrs. Stafford Campbell David and Lynne Campbell John and Audrey Canarina Dr. and Mrs. Jon O. Carlson A. E. Cason, Jr. and Constance N. Cason Col. and Mrs. Robert B. Clarke Friend of the Symphony Fred Cohrs Anne and Richard Conway Sharon and Brant Cotterman James and Suzanne Crankshaw Cheryl S. Cummer Noel and Mildred Dana Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Davis Marian Dickson in memory of Steve Dickson Mr. and Mrs. Tom Donovan Patrick and Linda Doran Friends of the Symphony Julia M. Edgerton Mrs. Kenneth W. Eilermann Sheila A. Todd Virginia M. Elliott Barbara F. Endriss David Engdahl

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Dalton and Carolyn Epting Kevin and Darlene Estes Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ezequelle Ms. Gigi Feazell Donald and Kathryn Felten Mr. and Mrs. Jack Flock Jane and Ernie Ford Forster Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David M. Foster Bill and Judy Franson Victoria and Robert Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Fribourg Jim and Elaine Funk Yves Genre Judge and Mrs. Marvin Gillman Don and Carolyn Glisson Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Goodyear Paul and Phyllis Greenfield Michelle and Bob Grobman Bob and Sandy Gryb Gisela Haemmerle Carolyn Hall Mr. and Mrs. Russell J. Hamrick Jack and Grace Hand Drs. Alfred D. and Katherine A. Harding Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Harding Michelle Harold Mrs. Charles T. Harther Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel H. Hawver Mr. Rushton W. Hays Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hegarty Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Henrici Selden and Mary Henry Mr. and Mrs. S. David Hicks John and Helen Hill Derek and Debbie Holmes Mr. and Mrs. George J. Hossenlopp Bob and Jean Hurner Frank and Louise James Dr. and Mrs. James C. Jamison Samuel and Carlotta Jennings Judge Jean and Greg Johnson Lorene and Bob Johnson Rev. and Mrs. Nathaniel N. Jones Mr. and Mrs. William J. Joos Dr. and Mrs. Robert Joyce Shelley and Burt Kagen Ruth and Jack Kelly Barbara Keltz Janet and Frank Killackey Thomas and Mary Kirk Ruth and Richard Klein Sunny and Harold Krivan Shelley and Martin Kulchin James and Karen Larsen Richard and Marjorie Lasko Alison R. Leonard Jesus Diaz and Gretchen Lipke Mr. and Mrs. Charles Loeck Dean and Mary Lohse Eleanor L. Lotz Leyse Lowry Mr. and Mrs. Donald Maley Sarah and Bill Mallory Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Marasco Jr Mrs. Rose S. Marfuggi Dave and Linda Martinak Dr. Mike and Marilyn Mass Mr. Joseph E. McCauley Dr. and Mrs. James McCully Dr. and Mrs. William McLear Mr. and Mrs. Frederick McNabb Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McNamara Mr. and Mrs. P. L. McWhorter Leeanne and John Meadows Archie and Dianne Miiller

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Jo Ann S. Miller Martin and Leni Mittelacher Peggy Moore Lance and Barbara Mora Judy and Jerry Moran Caroline B. Morse Mr. and Mrs. Padraic Mulvihill Mr. James I. Munson III Regis P. and Elaine E. Murtha John and Kathie Nevin Mr. Robert Pallais D. Hale and C. Parker Audrey B. Patterson Sue Patton Dr. and Mrs. W. Lanier Pearce Rusty B. Pierce Patricia J. Pillmore Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Poindexter Lewis and Rose Marie K. Preddy Capt. Victor S. Radlinski, USN (Ret) Mike and Julia Suddath Ranne Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Ras, D.D.S. Mel and Kay Ridgway Mel and Kay Ridgway Donald Albert James Robinson Walter F. Rogers, Jr. Claudia and Steve Russey Ann Sandberg Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Sanders Rosemary Savage Judy and Robert Schnitzer Lorraine H. Scruby Richard and Patricia Seiter Mr. and Mrs. Edward Shemeley Dr. and Mrs. Rodrigo R. Sievert Mrs. Bryan Simpson Dr. and Mrs. Sippens Robin Smathers Jeffrey and Rachel Smith Clayton and Rachel Smith Stuart and Janet Smith Dr. Carolyn H. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sorenson Dr. and Mrs. William Stahl Nick and Alixe Stamatogiannakis Dr. and Mrs. Gerald W. Stokes Bev and James Stuck Sharon Sugden Linda and Jim Sylvester Crew of Tievoli Bud and Max Tanis Fred and Janice Teich Mr. Michael Tierney Philip and Gwen Tomic Dr. Theodore P. Townsend in memory of Rosemary Townsend Mrs. John P. Traylor Dr. and Mrs. George Trotter Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Turner Marcie Turner, Ph.D. Donna Tuttle Mrs. Robert F. Uible Mr. Rudolf E. Urban Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Van Cleve Garry and Delma Vander Veer Jay and Bill Vogeley Billy J. and Nettie T. Walker Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Walker Mrs. Edna B. Wallace Norbert and Lois Wann Norma D. Watkins Anne Topping Weed Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Weidenmier Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. Wickersty Marilyn J. Wilkerson Mr. and Mrs. Donald Willamson

Mr. Patrick M. Williams Dana Williams Linda Clark Williams Mary Jane and Hank Wilson Bob and Dianne Wilson Ms. Pam Wolfe and Mr. Rick Kahlbaugh In memory of Kathryn Woodworth Dr. Daniel S. Yip and Teresa Rodriguez-Yip Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Young Barry and Eunice Zisser Associate â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $100-$299 Jim Abercrombie Carol Abraham Sylvia Darlene Adams Cynthia Akre Joyce and Kenneth Aldrich Dr. and Mrs. Cecil Allf Mr. and Mrs. William J. Alznauer Barbara Ames Mary Ames Layton and Viola Anderson Wylie and Shaaron Anderson Robert and Mary Ann Anderson Dr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Anello Jr Mr. and Mrs. Barry Ansbacher Ms. Elaine P. Atkins Phyllis and Mark Atkins Ms. Lurana C. Austin and Mr. Richard Austin Mr. and Mrs. Jean Avakian David Avery Tamara Aycock William N. and Julie C. Babcock Mr. and Mrs. Frank Backilman H. John Badenhoop Mr. and Mrs. David Bahn Marvin and Elaine Bailey Jeff and Carrie Bailey Scott and Cara Baity Janean C. Baker Susan and Cameron Baker Howard and Ginny Baldwin Ms. Mary Ball Mr. and Mrs. John Banks Mr. and Mrs. George Banks Chris and Shirley Banwell Arthur W. Barker Mr. Earl M. Barker James C. and Pauline P. Barnes Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Barnes Mayes Barnett Beverly B. Barrs Friend of the Symphony Eleanor Beaty June Beaver Catherine Beckham David and Gloria Beeman Dale and Peggy Beerbower Ms. Doris E. Benson George L. Bergstresser Allen and Sue Berry Chester and Carol Bialik Shirley Watts Bing Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bishop, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bishop Mr. and Mrs. Leo Blatz Barbara and Carl Bloesing Susan and Joe Board Jeff and Terese Boas Mrs. Ruth Boehmer Charles Bohannon Friend of the Symphony Pat Boney Bonnie Booth Teri and Zim Boulos David and Eleanor Bows

Capt. and Mrs. Frederick A. Braman Doris B. Branch Richard and Paula Brand Charles and Lois Bray Francoise P. B. Bree Ann S. Joiner Brewster Marilyn and Robert Bridgers Don and Cheri Briggs Mr. and Mrs. David A. Brinson Ann F. Brinton Mr. Michael R. Britten-Kelly and Ms. Janet L. Markham Michael Britten-Kelly Gordon and Shelly Brock Mr. and Mrs. C. Clayton Bromberg Judge Alban and Mary Grace Brooke Elaine Brown Jane and Bob Brown Dr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Brown Eleanor Bryan Mr. and Mrs. James C. Bryant Roger and Shirley Budden Paul and Sandy Bue Mrs. Clelia Bullard Kathleen Bullock Mrs. Harry J. Burke Howard and Laura Buss Shelia McLenaghan and Duke Butler Thomas G. Butler Jan and Lewis Buzzell Mrs. Marion E. Byrd Elizabeth I. Byrne, Ed.D. Elizabeth Holz Cahill Bruce and Glynda Caldwell Mr. and Mrs. Garry Calvert Roy and Mary Calvin Dr. and Mrs. Jaime Calzada Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Campbell

John and Marisa Finotti Dr. Richard Carlson Barbara Carman Tom and Helen Carmichael Bruce and JoAnn Carpenter Ethel R. Carrie Patricia Carver Friend of the Symphony Lewis & Wilma Caton Wendy and Rocco Catucci Doug Chapman and Deborah Saulsbury Mr. and Mrs. Gordon K. Chapman Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Charron Peg and Chip Chassman Kerstin Chelius Martha Chewning Hunter Chiles Joseph and Elizabeth L. Chornyei Gary and Barbara Christensen Molly Rinehart and Charles Christian Yap S. and Conchita Chua Ms. Roberta T. Cirocco Ivan and Delorese Clare Mr. and Mrs. Charles B. Clark Richard T. and Susan M. Clark Cynthia Clayton Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Cleland Mike and Mary Clemens Jeff and Lee Ann Clements Rodney Cleveland Rick and Lu Cloyd Mr. and Mrs. James E. Cobb Mr. James R. Cochran, Jr. Perry C. and Shirley Cohen Shelly and Martin Cohen Yvonne Cohen Kathy and Charlie Cold

Helene Coleman Mr. John Coles Dr. Cecilia A. Collins Mr. and Mrs. John H. Colnaghi Dr. and Mrs. Gerard Coluccelli Elizabeth Schell Colyer Mrs. Carol L. Conklin Friend of the Symphony Mr. and Mrs. Herbert G. Conradi Catherine Conway Georgie and John Cook Carolyn and George Cooper Ted and Marg Copeland Rev. and Mrs. Robert C. Corbett Sr. Marcus M. Cornelius III Mr. and Mrs. John D. Corse Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Cosenza Bill and Kathy Cosnotti Jennifer A. Costarino Mrs. Donald M. Cox Dr. James A. Cranford, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Cribbs, Jr. Carl and Sue Crist Donald Crist Nancy J. Crookshank Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Crowder Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crowley Joanne Crowley Sally and Michael Curto Jack and Mary Cusick Ms. Annabel Custer Becky and Donald Custis Mr. Douglas Cuthbert Drs. Omar and Lorraine Dajani Barnwell and Anis Daley Mr. and Mrs. Norman Dalton Harriett L. Dame Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Datz

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Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Datz Mr. and Mrs. William Davenport Mrs. J. K. David in loving memory of Dr. J. K. David, Jr. Wilma David Mr. and Mrs. C. Davidson Chet and Andrea Davis Mrs. Snead Davis Nan and Gordon Davis Mr. Hal Davis and Ms. Jacqueline Humes Elise S. Day Julius Dean Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Deary Melba and John Dedmon Robert and Margaret Dees Ms. Anne B. Delegal Delegal Law Offices Ms. Genevieve Deloach Jan DeMuynk Susan DePalma Ann Derby Dr. and Mrs. Ankit R. Desai Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. DeSelding Marilyn Desser Ann and Richard DeVane Florence E. Dexter William and Regina Dietrich George and Joan Dismore Debbie Dodak Mr. and Mrs. John Dolan Mr. Truman Donoho Susan and Doran Donovan Mrs. Karen Donziger Kent and Jan Dorsey Robert W. Dorsey in Memory of Alice Dorsey Friend of the Symphony Katherine and Dan Doulet Robert and Evelyn Douty Barbara J. Drake Jeff Driggers Cathy and Kevin Driscoll Ms. Catherine M. Drompp Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. DuBow Mr. and Mrs. Mike Duclos Emily Dudziak Corrie and Terri Duffy Friend of the Symphony Mr. and Mrs. David M. Dunlap Bettye M. DuPree Robert Duss Allan and Roni Dye Dr. and Mrs. James E. Dynan Leslie and Bob Eberling Mr. and Mrs. C. Verne Eden MG and Mrs. Maurice O. Edmonds Thomas and Marian Edwards Mr. and Mrs. Gary Ehlig Barbara Elgin Mrs. Sandra S. Elliott Claudia Robb Ellis Roger and Skye Elsas Kristen and Bill Ely Patricia M. Emery Tommy and Jane Entenza Mel and Carole Esman Mr. John Estes Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Evans Walt Evans Susan and Francis Evans Ruth and Emmett Evans Tony and Mona Ewest Jim and Attavia Facciolo Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Fackler Roger and Mimi Fait Ms. Patricia A. Falke Mr. and Mrs. Tom Farmer Gabriel and Ann Farra Friend of the Symphony

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Renee and Michael Favo Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Felicetti Ed Fennell Claddagh Constructors, Inc. Bruce Ann and Lee Ferguson Helen Ferrell Lualhati V. Ferro George and Jackie Fetherston Mr. and Mrs. Harry Feuerherm Dr. and Mrs. John W. Fiore Andrew and Claire Fioriti Mrs. George Fipp Mr. Robert Fitzgerald Edward Fitzgerald Joe and Barbara Folmar Mr. and Mrs. Edwin A. Foreman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Fox Mr. William H. Frank George Franke Allan and Audrey Freed Anne F. Freeman Leslie A. Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. French Marie M. Friedsam Mrs. Barbara Fuller Jack and Willis Galliher Norm and Alice Garber Bruce and Cheryl Gardner Eleanor Gardner Chuck and Sheryl Gates Dale and Yvonne Gatz Mr. Donald W. Gauthier Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Gazeley Edward S. Gebert Linda K. George Pat and Linda Gilberto Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gildenhorn Rick and Sally Giles Charles and Russell Glasheen Jean and Dave Gleason Harvey and Barbara Glover Matthew Godek Helen S. Godwin Lorraine Goldhill and Susan Nordmeyer Rabbi Mark and Dr. Meryl Goldman Ms. Karen Goldstein Mary Lee Golitz Mr. and Mrs. Robert Goll Mr. Ed Goossen Charles and Sherra Grabill Dr. Arnold Graham Smith and Ms. Shannon Goossen Jim and Nancy Grant Dr. and Mrs. James Greco James Green Mr. and Mrs. Bill Green Susan and Hugh Greene Michael Greene Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Greenslet Dr. and Mrs. Louis F. Gregory Elinor M. Gregory Mr. and Mrs. Brent Gregory Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gremp Mr. and Mrs. John J. Grexa Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Griffith Dr. and Mrs. John Grisnik Janet and Scott Griswold Mr. and Mrs. Randall Groger Mrs. Brenda Gross Barbara A. B. Gubbin Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Guthrie, Jr. Eileen S. Haerther D. Hale Eleanor (Skippy) Hale Portia and Leonard Hall Keith and Charlotte Hall Barbara Hall Bill and Kent Hamb

Mrs. Wade Hampton Katherine Handyside Jean G. Hanna Malcolm and Joyce Hanson Dorothy Harkins Alan and Joan Harmon Charles and Alice Harper Jane S. Harrell William Hartman Vic and Carol Hasselblad The Hathaway Family Norma Hayden Doris L. Hayes Anne Marks Hayhurst Tom and Jan Healy Michael and Rosa Heard Kathleen and John Hedge Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heekin Donna and Sam Heffner Jean Heinrich David Hemphill Molly Hendrickson Catherine Henry Josh Henry Al Herndon Arthur C. Herrington Bill and Kathy Herschleb Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hersh JoAnn and Larry Hertz Dr. Robert Hess Richard Hickok and Andrea Ashley Carol Hicks Hal and Rose Higdon Shirley and Bill Hightower Dr. Joan A. Hill Bev and Bill Hiller Ms. Elizabeth R. Hilton Friends of the Symphony Nadia and Chris Hionides Elaine and Phil Hiscock Elaine Hodge Mrs. Beverly W. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Alva A. Hollon Jr Flo Holloway George H. Holmes Dennis and Libby Holt Paula and Ken Horn Marjorie Horner Brian J. Horton Joan and Darryl Houseman Susan and Michael Howard Alan Howard Adm. Jonathan Howe Dr. Mary Jeanette Howle Ingrid and Ron Hughes Mr. Robert C. Hughes Dr. Deanna Hughes Kay and Richard Hull Tara Hunt Dr. Lee and Nancy Hunter Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hutton Connie Hutton Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Hyde, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Inboden, Jr. Lina Ingraham Mr. and Mrs. Victor Insetta Vesselina Ivanov Emoke Ivanyi Sheldon and Voncile Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Jacobs Fran and Bill Jacobs Leo and Sheila Jacobson Walter and Joan Jacoby Hansell T. Jeffers, Jr. Ms. Mardee S. Jenrette Ralph Jensen Friend of the Symphony

Bunky and Marie Johnson Richard and DeAnn Johnson Grace and Jotham Johnson Capt. and Mrs. Charles E. Johnson, USN (Ret) Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Johnson Jean E. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Terrence D. Jones Ms. Barbara A. Jones Ms. Martha Jones Mary O. Jones Mrs. Jacqueline C. Jones Mr. George G. Joseph Roderick and Pricilla Jungbauer Mr. and Mrs. C. Ronald Kalapp Stanley Kantor Joseph and Barbara Kaplan Luke and Sandy Karlovec James Karr Mrs. George M. Katibah Deborah and Alan Katz Paul and Maxine Kaufman Kaunitz Family Charitable Gift Fund Stephen and Susan Kaye Cathy and Dave Keener Kim Keffer Robert Keith Joanna M. Kennard Ray Ketcham Leedom Kettell Mr. Steve Kimmel Jean M. King Bill and Maureen Kirschhofer Sharlie Kitchen John and Nancy Klein Evan Klippel Holly and Tom Klose George and Susan Knapp Patricia D. Knowles Bill and Kay Koepplin Janet and Ron Kolar Ms. Betty L. Kolkedy Mr. and Mrs. James Kolster R. Kostecki, M.D. Mrs. Fifi Kovacs Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kowkabany Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Kraemer Alan and Adria Krantz and Family Riki Krezdorn Steven and Esther Kruer Lore D. Kruger Ken and Barbara Kruger Janet S. Kuehn Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kunzweiler RADM Ronald and Charlene Kurth Mrs. William L. Kyle, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Lafer Laura Lake Helen Lambert Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. Lambert Kathryn Crampton and Jason Lang Rebecca and James Langer R. Ward Lariscy Barbara Larkin and Bill McTiernan Mr. and Mrs. Jack Larkins Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lawrence Shirley Davidson Leaõ Todd and Kay Leary George F. Lee, Jr. Mrs. Chantal Lefevre Barbara A. Leis Charles Lembcke and Jean Pyle Catherine H. Lemme Mr. and Mrs. Franz Lerch Jacqueline and Lawrence Lesniak Drs. Jeffrey and Ilene Levenson Richard and Margaret Levin

Anne R. Lewellen Janet Ponton Lewis Mr. and Mrs. G. Edwin Lewis Mrs. Noody (Betty) Lewis Eric and Marion Linda Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Lindeman, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lindner Charles and Vickie Lindsey Tom and Mary Jo Linnen Leonard Lipkin Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Littell Mr. and Mrs. Leighton M. Lobdell Margo Locke Norma K. Lockwood Mr. and Mrs. Todd Lockwood Mr. Craig P. Lokken Hiram and Joan Lomanto Mr. Daniel and Dr. D. Anne Lombardo William F. and Carol L. Long James and Mary Longanbach Bobby and Chet Lonnquist Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Loonam Jim and Robin Love Mr. Tim Lozier Mr. Donald V. Luebke David and Helen Lunny Elizabeth Lurie Dr. and Mrs. James G. Lyerly, Jr. Lawrence and Billie Lynch Bill and Mary Lou MacLeod Donna Macleod Janet W. MacLure Pat and John MacNichols Mr. Ramin Mahmoodi and Dr. Maria Mahmoodi Ms. Eleanor E. Mahoney Nita Malbasa Jerry and Janet Mallot Gary Manasse D.M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mandeville Mrs. Betsy A. Maness Ray and Judith Mantle Dr. and Mrs. Rodney A. Marcom Mr. Anthony Marini Joseph and Karen Martin Robert B. and Nancy J. Martin Victor and Natalie Martinelli Andrea and Joseph Marx Mr. Randall Masciana Linda R. Matthews Ruth C. Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Maxwell Larry and Judy May Bernard Mazie Ambassador Marilyn McAfee Mr. Lavon McBroom Bernard and Joy McCabe Mrs. Rose C. McCall Shirley McCall Ms. Ann H. McCandless Mr. Bernard McCarthy and Ms. Iva Nathanson EdgeCity Rufus and Mariam McClure Allan and Rosemary McCorkle Mr. David L. McCullough Mr. and Mrs. Brion W. McDermott Dennis and Laurie McDonagh Desmond and Josephine McElroy Beverly and Ray McEneaney Mr. and Mrs. Philip K. McEnery Judge and Mrs. Patrick McLaughlin William and Brenda McNeiland Mrs. Walter A. McRae, Jr. Barbara and Charles McTiernan Philip and Virginia Meadows Lydia Saris, M.D. and Daniel Mechenbier Richard and Margit Mehne

Inez Mellow Myron and Ellen Mensh Bill and Becky Mentz Alex and Joann Meyer Marian S. Meyer Jean and Wayne Middleton Mr. and Mrs. Gordon B. Middleton Katrina Miglietta Suzanne and Ted Mikalsen Douglas and Jane Miller CDR and Mrs. R. R. Miller Margaret L. Miller Dr. and Mrs. Robert Miller Bruce and Cathy Miller Mr. and Mrs. Michael V. Milton Herb and Carol Mintzer Mary Monroe Mrs. Robert C. Montgomery Mr. and Mrs. David E. Moore Judy and Ben Moore, MD Ed and Valerie Morales Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Morehead Dr. David A. Mosborg and Ms. Holly E. Fulton, Esq. Cunard and Mary Moseley Mr. Art Mosley and Dr. Patricia Calhoun Mosley Howard and Ann Moss Sylvia Mottel Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mullaney Ms. Margaret L. Murphy Jim Murphy Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Myers III Judge and Mrs. Bernard Nachman Edward Nadgorny Kathryn M. Nall Mary Ann Napier Tom and Jean Nehl Barbara and Bob Nellson Charles and Marge Nelson Elizabeth M. Neville William and Arlene Newman Jeanette E. Newman Ms. Elizabeth Niebrugge Mr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth E. Noon Irv and Roseanne Norwood Virginia and George Novak Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Novak Margaret Vesley Novelli Dr. and Mrs. Paul Oberdorfer Regenia K. O’ Connor Earl and Susan Oehler Susan Oehler Dr. William Olney Tom and Patricia Orr Harold and Ruby O’Steen Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Otto Mr. Richard L. Ouellette and Mrs. Elizabeth Neville Nancy J. Overton Sandy and Fred Owen Jennifer Paetzold Patricia D. Page Mrs. Gary Pajcic Evelyn and Val Palmer Roger and Edie Palmer Dendy and Rallis Pappas Eugenia and Paul Pappas Dr. and Mrs. Peter S. Pappas Alan and Kathy Paquette Barbara and T Parkinson Howard N. Parks Margaret B. Partridge Diane and John Pasieka Fran and Pat Patterson Joseph and Christina Pattison Danielle Payne Alice Payne Allan and Patricia Pearce

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John and Sharon Peavy Janet and Herbert Peeler Jim and Linda Pellot Jack and Marilyn Perkins Sam Perkovich, Park Side Realty Group Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Perlis Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Perritt Robin Pesek Mrs. I.G. Peters Walter and Nancy Petersen Thomas H. Petersen Phillip and Ellen Petersen John and Sally Pettegrew Ms. Carla Philcox Mr. Thomas W. Phillips Barbara Pieper Lamar and Lucy Pitts Steve and Nigsih PlauchĂŠ Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Plotkin Meg Plunkett John and Martha Poitevent Susan Ponder-Stansel James and Deborah Poole Barbara Porter Mr. Steven Porter Friend of the Symphony Doris M. Powell Helen and Don Powell Mr. Jack and Dr. Miriam Price William Price Ms. Penelope Proserpi Mr. and Mrs. Harry Quay Mr. and Mrs. James Rafferty John and Sally Ragsdale Mr. Hendrick P. Rahusen Shirley M. Rand Carolyn Rankin Christine Rasch Thomas Raskin John and Diana Rawle Mr. and Mrs. Gary Reichow Mr. Peter A. Reiman Mr. and Mrs. Louis Remmer Belinda Revel-Addis Frederick and Lindley Rhodes Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Riddell Pamela and Keith Riechmann Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rivera Law Office of Kathryn S. Robbie William C. Robbins Friend of the Symphony John and Barbara Roberts Sylvia Roberts Judith and Bruce Robertson Dr. Mary K. Robinson Patricia Robinson Dr. Sarah Robinson Capt. William J. Rodriguez and Ms. Helene V. Murphy Drs. Kyle P. Etzkorn and Lorraine Rodriguez Mrs. John G. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Rogers Ms. Catherine A. Rogers Patricia Roloff Samuel W. Root Dr. and Mrs. Howard N. Rose Carolyn and Terrone Rosenberry Dr. and Mrs. Myron E. Rosenfeld Charles R. and Marci Ross Mr. Carl Rudnick and Mrs. Julia Tkachenko Jeffrey and Gail Rudolph Dan and Nancy Rush Patricia Russ Peter M. and Sandra J. Ryan Mr. and Mrs. John Ryder Drs. Todd Sack and Barbara Sharp Frieda Saraga

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Mike and Karen Sayre Dr. and Mrs. Frank Scarvey Linda and John Schaedel Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schaller Mary Schelonka Friend of the Symphony Steven and Carolyn Schenker Jeanne and Arthur Schilling Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schlamm Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Schlipf Mr. and Mrs. David Schreck Judd Schwartz Gary and Maria Sease Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Van Seaton Joseph Seay Cynthia Segraves Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Seubert Don and Miriam Shafer Patricia Shannon Martha T. Shannon Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sharko Mr. Roger Sheets Walter and Sharon Shepherd Jay and Ellen Sherline Mr. and Mrs. David J. Sherwood A. Joyce Shirley Pat and Mike Shomer Michael and Sandra Shore Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Showalter Mr. and Mrs. Robert Siebert Dr. and Mrs. Robert Sierakowski Mr. John Sievers Mary and Greg Sikora Bernie and Jackie Simms Bert and Joyce Simon Doris and Fred Singer Friend of the Symphony Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Sisler Mrs. Irene Sloat Elva Slotterback Laurel and Ken Smith Gwen C. Smith Ken and Sue Smith Ansel Smith Mr. and Mrs. James Smyrles Ms. Eleanor Snite Catherine and Todd Snowden Dr. and Mrs. M. E. Snyder Ms. Joan Soderberg-Glaraton Jay and Joan Solomon Dr. and Mrs. Gary Soud Vivian Southwell Dewey Sparks Mr. and Mrs. Shepard C. Spink Michael Spino and Susan Henderson Tom and Sharon Sprott Jackie Stack and Alton Coulter James Stacy Tom and Jane Stead Mrs. Susan Stein Judy and Dave Steinmeyer Malcom and Georganna Stephens Mr. and Mrs. John D. Sterling Dr. and Mrs. Timothy Sternberg Edward Stetzer CDR and Mrs. Leon M. Stevenson Dr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Stokes, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Stout Dr. and Mrs. James B. Strachan Richard and Phyllis Strand Allyn and Tomoko Strickland H. Paul Strickler H. Lamar Strother Mr. and Mrs. Jerry H. Sullivan Sharon L. Sullivan Jim and Kathy Swanson

Friend of the Symphony Bob and Kaaren Tague Mable W. Tan Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Tannenbaum Honorable Sharon H. Tanner D. G. Tanner Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Taylor Patricia Teems Kathleen and David Teichert Katharine Teltsch Van Terrell and Susan Gordon Art and Jolna Thomas Jon and Cindy Thompson W. L. Thornton Martha Thorpe William N. Thurman Carol Tibbetts Tyler and Paula Tibbetts Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Tickler Ann Tillou George and Norma Tobi Friend of the Symphony Sheila A. Todd Drs. Karen and Cyril Toker Mrs. Jackie Tomassetti Phillip Tomberlin, Jr. Elissa Tommasi Mr. and Mrs. Louis Tonti Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Toussant Ruthann Strebler and Donald Towery Dorothy and Michael Travers Trendler USA Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Trkula Martha and Fred Tromberg Patricia Trumball Janet Anderson and Bill Tumas Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Tunnicliffe III Bess Turk Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tygart Ann C. Tyler Russell and Carolyn Ueber Susana Urbina Mr. and Mrs. Frank D. Usina The Van Kouteren Family Mr. and Mrs. Larry VanderMeulen Enith E. Vardaman Mr. and Mrs. Lester Varn, Jr. Ms. and Mrs. Frederick S. Varn Jack and Carole Varney Jimmy and Susan Verbeck Mr. Bruce Villas Dr. and Mrs. Brian H. Vitsky Alan and Ruth Voss Paul and Carolyn Votaw Grace Voyles and Mary Voyles Mr. and Mrs. James D. Wadsworth E.P. & H.A. Walker Marvel S. Wallace Col (Ret) and Mrs. Burton J. Walrath James Wang Leigh and Pat Ware Esther S. Warner Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Warner, Jr. Robert and Carolyn Warren Don and Brenda Waters Andy and Diana Watson Alan and Sherry Watt Grace D. Wawzynski Jean and Kenneth Webley Mr. and Mrs. John Wegl Conrad and Melissa Weihnacht Charlene Weiss William and Elizabeth Weitzel Jean A. Welch Julia and Buford Wells Klaus and Barbara Wenger

Jennifer Werba Robert Wert Rosalie and Ted Wessel Mary Alice Wester Drs. A. Quinton and Susan H. White Margaret S. White Len and Bonnie Whitehead Janet Whitmill Kate and Don Wiest John and Carol Wilber Mr. and Mrs. Nolan R. Wilkes Jr Mike and Ginger Wilkins Susan J. Wilkinson Stephen Williams Norman and Christine H. Williams Kathy Williams Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Williams Pat Williams Elizabeth Riker Williams Ms. Christine Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Hugh P. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wingo Renee Winkler Doris Wiseman Clair and Irwin Witt Chuck and Cami Wodehouse Marjie Wood Mr. and Mrs. Stephen C. Woodford N. P. Woolford and Altamese Henry Elizabeth Woolley Mr. and Mrs. Fred Woolsey Dick Workman Mr. Richard Workman Gilbert & Nancy Wright Mr. Robert O. Wright Ms. Elaine S. Wright Peter and Frances Wynkoop Sylvia G. Cotner and Mary Wysong Marjorie Wyzan Betty and Guy Yolton Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Young Mildred Young Charles and Lynn Young Friend of the Symphony Mr. and Mrs. E. Ellis Zahra, Jr. in honor of Isabelle and Robert D. Davis Dr. and Mrs. David Zapala James L. Zeart Mr. Charles Zeorlin Mr. and Mrs. John W. Zimmerman April and Lou Zitnay Cmdr. and Mrs. Robert D. Zvacek

Gift in Honor of Ann F. Skinner Mr. and Mrs. Allen Skinner

Gift in Memory of Carol B. Hughes First Presbyterian Church, Fernandina Beach

Gift in Honor of Mrs. Robert W. Storandt Barbara C. West

Gift in Memory of Edie Lambert Leslie and Bob Eberling

Gift in Honor of Faith U’Ren Larry and Kathy Orr

Gift In Memory of Gorden Rainey Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bishop, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John S. Bunker Josephine V. Flaherty Mr. and Mrs. David Foerster Mrs. Wade Hampton Mr. and Mrs. Ron Hedge Calvin and Ellen Hudson Ms. Virginia M. Hull Arthur and Joanne Jones Mr. George G. Joseph Mr. Roland Kennedy R. Ward Lariscy Carole Mehrtens Ms. Penelope Proserpi Dr. and Mrs. James L. Schumacher

Gift in Memory of Dr. David L. Dalton Mrs. Bryan Simpson Gift in Memory of Jack S. Dreher Eric and Marion Linda Mrs. Kimberly Popovich Gift in Memory of Margaret Fleet Mr. and Mrs. Robert Israel Gift in Memory of Dr. Alvin Gross Dr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Maida The Strayer Family Ann C. Tyler

Gift In Memory of Leslee Rickard Dr. and Mrs. Lowell Salter

Gift in Honor of Clarissa Chandler Charlotte Drake Gift in Honor of Andrew L. Clarke Mr. and Mrs. H. Palmer Bell Gift in Honor of Connie Davis Deercreek Home and Garden Club Gift in Honor of Dr. Meryl and Rabbi Mark Goldman Daniel Hoffheimer Gift in Honor of Arthur Homme Doug and Laura Mathewson Gift in Honor of Liz McAlhany Sandra S. Clarke Gift in Honor of Larry and Kathy Orr Faith U’Ren

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