Encore - 2014-15 Season - Issue 1

Encore!

The Magazine of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra

Courtney Lewis New music director of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra

SEPTEMBER – NOVEMBER 2014

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Encore!

The Magazine of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra

2014 - 2015 SEASON

volume 21 – EDITION 1

15 SEPTEMBER 26 & 27 MAYO CLINIC COFFEE SERIES FLORIDA BLUE MASTERWORKS SERIES

Welcome, Courtney Lewis!

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4 Welcome!

7 Jacksonville Symphony Musicians 9 About the Orchestra 10 Music Director and Conductors 42 Volunteer Activities and Events 44 Education, Youth Orchestra and Community Engagement 48 Join a Giving Club and Enhance Your Symphony Experience 49 The Cadenza Society 50 Thank You, Donors!

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the orchestra Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Celebrating 30th Season with a Lincoln Center Performance

Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate 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

The all-volunteer Jacksonville Symphony Chorus has sung for 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 sung in each of the Jacksonville Symphony’s annual grand opera productions.

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus auditions are scheduled in September and January.

To join voice with the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, call 904.354.5479, ext. 221 and ask about audition and membership information.

James Jenkins, Principal*

Flute

Violin

Dr. Hugh A. Carithers Endowed Chair*

Isabelle Davis Endowed Chair

Founded in 1985 by past Music Director Roger Nierenberg, 2014-15 marks the Chorus’ 30th season. In November 2014, 70 singers from the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus will travel to New York to form the core of a 120-member chorus under Mr. McCullough’s direction in the Lincoln Center premiere of his Holocaust Cantata, presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY).

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John Wieland, Principal* Patrick Bilanchone* Kevin Casseday* Todd Lockwood* Jason Lindsay+ Paul Strasshofer+

Fabio Mechetti, Conductor Laureate

Philip Pan, Concertmaster*

With some of the First Coast area’s finest voices, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus members come from all walks of life who share the spirit of singing great choral music. With a three-decade tradition of making great music with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the roster also includes many professional musicians, skilled amateur performers and students.

Since 2012, the Chorus had been led by esteemed choral director and composer Donald McCullough.

Bass

Melissa 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* Ilana Kimel* Jeanne Majors* Annie Morris

The George V. Grune Endowed Chair*

Glynda Newton* Piotr Szewczyk* Bernie Vaughn*^ Lela LaBarbera+ Stephanie Lindsay +^ Karen Pommerich+# Marguerite Richardson+ Naira Underwood-Cola+^ Jenny Lee Vaughn+^ Carol Whitman+

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

Cello Alexei Romanenko, Principal* Hovhannes Alanakyan*^ Laurie Casseday* Betsy Federman* Vernon Humbert* Kathy Dennis+ Shannon Lockwood+^

Les Roettges, Principal* Rhonda Cassano

Deborah Heller+

Timpani Kenneth Every, Principal*

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

Harp Kayo Ishimaru, Principal*

Piccolo Deborah Heller+

Keyboard Ileana Fernandez, Principal*

Oboe Eric Olson, Principal* Claudia Minch*

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Donald McCullough, Director

English Horn Claudia Minch* Clarinet Peter Wright, Principal* Marci Gurnow*

Bass Clarinet Marci Gurnow*

Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair

Ileana Fernandez, Rehearsal Pianist The Musicians of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra are proudly represented by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 444.

Bassoon Rose Vrbsky T Anthony Anurca*

Contrabassoon Anthony Anurca*

Horn Kevin Reid, Principal* Debra Fialek*^ Aaron Brask* Mark Knowles*

Trumpet Julian Kaplan, Principal* Brian Osborne*^ Jonathan Stites+^

Trombone Jeffrey Peterson, Principal* Jason Stein*^

Bass Trombone Louis Bremer*^

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about the jacksonville symphony orchestra

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra ranks among the nation’s top regional orchestras and is vital to the City of Jacksonville’s continued growth. From September through May, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performs at the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts and in community venues throughout the First Coast and statewide.

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s 2014-15 season features the debut of Courtney Lewis as music director designate. Courtney begins his first full season as music director in 2015-16. Highlights in 2014-15 include featured artists Audra McDonald and Paul Williams and productions of Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess and Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty ballet.

As a not-for-profit cultural and educational organization, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s mission is to create experiences that enrich the human spirit and inspire a lifelong love of music.

Its programming reflects the diversity of the community and is relevant to today’s audience, offering live symphonic variety – from classic masterpieces and new works, to ballet, opera, theater and popular styles. Each season nearly 70,000 young people and adults benefit from the Orchestra’s diverse educational and community engagement opportunities including Young People’s Concerts,

Classroom Concerts by visiting ensembles, the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra, Jump Start Strings, Cover the Town With Sound, and Symphony 101.

Founded in 1949, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra has hosted some of the most renowned artists of the past century, including Isaac Stern, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Itzhak Perlman, Kathleen Battle and Mstislav Rostropovich. Acclaimed for its “superior quality” by the Toronto Star, the Jacksonville Symphony has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and has been broadcast nationally on “Performance Today.”

An American orchestra with its own dedicated concert hall, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra’s home is the acoustically superb Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall. As reported by the Palm Beach Daily News, “… we surely deserve and need to have a full time orchestra [in south Florida]. We can only hope that it would be as good as the Jacksonville Symphony.”

Beyond the stage, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra serves four county school districts and collaborates with a wide range of organizations. And close to 2,000 music lovers in the community are members of Symphony volunteer groups.

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the conductors Courtney Lewis Music Director Designate Haskell Endowed Chair

With clear artistic vision, subtle musicality, and innovative programming, Courtney Lewis has established himself as one of his generation’s most talented conductors. Mr. Lewis is also the assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Previous appointments have included associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. From 2008 to 2014, Courtney Lewis was the music director of Boston’s acclaimed Discovery Ensemble, a chamber orchestra dedicated not only to giving concerts of contemporary and established repertoire at the highest level of excellence, but also bringing live music into the least privileged parts of Boston with workshops in local schools.

Mr. Lewis made his major American orchestral debut in 2008 with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and has since appeared with the Atlanta Symphony, National Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Alabama Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and Ulster Orchestra. Recent and upcoming engagements include debuts with the Vancouver Symphony, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, and Edmonton Symphony, as well as returns to the Minnesota Orchestra, Alabama Symphony, and RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

Born in the United Kingdom, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Mr. Lewis graduated from the University of Cambridge where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and clarinet with Dame Thea King. The British conductor completed his degree with a focus on the late music of György Ligeti and attended the Royal Northern College of Music, where his teachers included Sir Mark Elder and Clark Rundell.

Michael Butterman Resident Conductor Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and to audience and community engagement. In addition to his conducting tenure with the Jacksonville Symphony since 2000, he serves as music director for both the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra and the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra, and is the new music director of the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, celebrating its inaugural season in 2014-2015. He is also in his 15th season as principal conductor for education and outreach for the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

As a guest conductor, Mr. Butterman made his debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2012, and was immediately reengaged for two concerts the following season. Other recent engagements 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, California Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Pensacola Opera and Asheville Lyric Opera, among others. Summer appearances include the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado and the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia.

In 2014-15, he makes his debut with the Victoria Symphony in Canada and returns to the podium of the Santa Fe Symphony.

He was a diploma laureate in the Prokofiev International Conducting Competition and 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.

For six seasons, Mr. Butterman served as music director of Opera Southwest in Albuquerque.

At Louisiana State University, he was director of orchestral studies and principal conductor of opera. He conducted opera at the Indiana University School of Music and was associate music director of Ohio Light Opera. While at Indiana University, he conducted a highly acclaimed production of Leonard Bernstein’s 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue at the Kennedy Center.

He has conducted recordings for Newport Classics and with the Rochester Philharmonic featuring actor John Lithgow. For more information, log on to michaelbutterman.com.

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the conductors Michael Krajewski Principal Pops Conductor

Calvin and Ellen Hudson Charitable Trust Endowed Chair

Known for his entertaining programs and clever humor, Michael Krajewski is a much sought after conductor of symphonic pops. In addition to his role with the Jacksonville Symphony, which spans 19 seasons, Michael is also music director of The Philly Pops and principal pops conductor of the Houston Symphony and Atlanta Symphony.

As a guest conductor Mr. Krajewski has performed with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras; the Boston and Cincinnati Pops; the San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Phoenix and National Symphonies, among numerous others.

In Canada he has led Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic, and the Toronto, Edmonton, and Winnipeg Symphonies. Other international appearances include the Hong Kong and Malaysian Philharmonics, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and this season’s debut with Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. Krajewski is the conductor of the video Silver Screen Serenade with violinist Jenny Oaks Baker that aired worldwide on BYU Broadcasting and on recording he led the Houston Symphony on two holiday albums. This season, he is conducting his original “Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel” program all over North America. His other collaborative programs have included James Galway, Marilyn Horne, Alicia de Larrocha, Roberta Flack, Art Garfunkel, Kenny Loggins, Wynonna Judd, Ben Folds, Doc Severinsen, Pink Martini, and Cirque de la Symphonie, among many others.

With degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit and the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, Mr. Krajewski furthered his training at the Pierre Monteux Domaine School for Conductors. He was a Dorati Fellowship Conductor with the Detroit Symphony and later served as that orchestra’s assistant conductor. He was resident conductor of the Florida Symphony and served as music director of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra.

Michael lives in Orlando with his wife Darcy. For more information, log on to MichaelKrajewski.com.

Scott C. Gregg Youth Orchestra Music Director and Principal Conductor

Winston Family Endowed Chair

In addition to his role with the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra (JSYO), Scott Gregg is music director of the Saint Augustine Chamber Orchestra (SACHO), artistic & executive director of the First Coast Community Music School, and a respected educator and clinician throughout Northeast Florida.

In 2014-15, Mr. Gregg celebrates his 20th year holding the Winston Family Endowed Chair with the JSYO. Mr. Gregg has served as music director for education of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, music director for the Youth at the Beaches Arts Guild and music director for FSCJ’s Summer Musical Theater Experience. In 2006, Mr. Gregg helped found the First Coast Community Music and in 2014 he became the school’s artistic & executive director.

Mr. Gregg was associate conductor of the Goucher Symphony Orchestra, assistant conductor of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, and staff conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra, as well as music director of the Bach Society Orchestra in Cambridge, Mass. He has conducted the Alabama All-State Orchestra, Brevard Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Birmingham Symphony, Richmond Philharmonic, the Orchestra National du Capitole de Toulouse, France, and the Kielce Philharmonic in Poland.

Mr. Gregg was a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Institute, Aspen Music Festival and Conductor’s Institute in South Carolina. He was a semi-finalist in the International Conductors’ Competition in Besançon, France and the Stokowski Conducting Competition in New York.

As a student, Mr. Gregg served as concertmaster of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra and made his solo debut with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in music theory and composition with a minor concentration in astrophysics. At Peabody Conservatory of Music he earned a master’s degree in conducting and was awarded the Christopher Percy Prize.

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the conductors Donald McCullough Director, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair

Hailed by the Washington Post for his “dazzling expertise” on the podium, Donald McCullough is considered one of America’s pre-eminent choral conductors. After leading the Master Chorale of Washington in the John F. Kennedy Center Concert Hall for more than a decade, he developed a reputation for creating choruses that sang “with an innate sense of lyricism and musical poise” (Washington Post).

During his tenure with the Master Chorale, the 120-member symphonic chorus performed 16 world premieres, produced three nationally distributed CDs, and toured twice throughout Central Europe. The Chorale earned The Margaret Hillis Achievement Award for Choral Excellence in North America, performed in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, and became the chorus of choice for the National Symphony Orchestra.

Mr. McCullough is also a composer whose works have been critically acclaimed throughout North America and Europe. Routinely sought after for commissions, his works have been described as “powerful and heart-wrenching,” “mystically beautiful” and “remarkably inspirational.”

In response to an invitation from 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. The work was performed in Krakow, Dresden, Berlin and at the AuschwitzBirkenau Memorial during the European commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the end of WWII. In November 2014, 70 singers from the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus will travel to New York to form the core of a 120-member chorus under Mr. McCullough’s direction in the Lincoln Center premiere of his Holocaust Cantata, presented by Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY).

A native of Jacksonville, he recently moved to Atlantic Beach, Fla., to focus on his expanding composing career and in 2012 became the director of the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus.

His music can be found at donaldmccullough.com.

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A French Celebration Buffet Group honors 450 years of the First French Colony in America On May 1, 1562, near what is now Jacksonville’s National Park, an event of global significance occurred: the first French colonial expeditions of exploration sailed into the mouth of what is today called the St. Johns River. French Huguenot Captain Jean Ribault named the river, “le reviere de mai” (the River of May). On June 29, 1564, the fort “La Caroline” was completed, and on June 30, the French settlers and the Timucua natives shared a meal reminiscent of the Thanksgiving feast we celebrate today of which is noted in the First Thanksgiving in America.

Buffet Group Wind Instruments and the Jacksonville Symphony Association now honor the Sesquiquadricentennial of La Caroline in a spirit of thanks and friendship through the dedication of opening night performances by Principal Clarinetist Peter Wright, a Buffet Group artist, and the orchestra’s presentation of Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique, conducted by Courtney Lewis.

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For additional information on the National Park Service celebration benefitting the Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation, a 501(c)(3), please visit the lobby during any of the Masterworks I, II, or Pops I concert performances, and view the beautiful baritone horn on display for auction, courtesy of Buffet.

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COFFEE series Concerts sponsored by

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MASTERWORKS series J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

Friday, SEPTEMBER 26 l SATURDay, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014 l 8 PM

“Words on Music” one hour prior to each Masterworks concert Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

welcome, courtney lewis! courtney lewis, conductor PETER WRIGHT, CLARINET Dudley

Festival Overture on the American National Air,

BUCK Gioachino

The Star-Spangled Banner (Not on Coffee)

Introduction, Theme, and Variations for Clarinet and

ROSSINI Orchestra, QR vi/57 (Not on Coffee)

Introduction: Andante (sostenuto)

Theme: (Allegretto)

Variation 1: Piu Mosso

Variation ll

Variation lll

Variation IV: Largo Minore – Piu Mosso – a Temp

Variation V: Maggiore

Peter Wright, clarinet

Judith HiJinx!

CLOUD

Peter Wright, clarinet

INTERMISSION The Coffee Concert is performed without intermission.

Hector

Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14

BERLIOZ

Episode d’un la vie d’un artiste…en cinq parties

(An Episode of the Life of an Artist…in Five Parts)

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.

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Courtney Lewis With clear artistic vision, subtle musicality, and innovative programming, Courtney Lewis has established himself as one of his generation’s most talented conductors. Mr. Lewis is also the assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic.

Previous appointments have included associate conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. (see page 10 for full bio.)

Peter Wright

Masterworks guest artists sponsored by Ruth Conley

Peter Wright has been the principal clarinet of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra since 1975. He attended Jacksonville University where he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree, and the Eastman School of Music where he received his Master of Music degree. He furthered his studies toward a Doctorate at Florida State University.

Mr. Wright has performed numerous times at ClarinetFest®, the International Clarinet Association’s world-class annual convention, including host cities New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Vancouver, Kansas City, Austin and Los Angeles. He was the coordinator of the International Clarinet Association’s Orchestra Audition Competition from 2008 to 2011.

In 2008 he performed the Mozart Concerto, K. 622 on a basset clarinet generously provided by Buffet Group Wind Instruments.

Mr. Wright is a Buffet Artist and a Rico Artist.

His exhilarating hobby of riding roller coasters has taken him around the world. A member of the American Coaster Enthusiasts (ACE), Peter rides many roller coasters during his travels.

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Public Sponsors and Support

THE MUSIC AND YOU Words on Music – One hour before every Masterworks concert.

Talkback – Following every Saturday Masterworks concert.

Look & Listen Online – Program notes, audio clips and videos.

WJCT Broadcasts – Mondays at 7 pm, October - June.

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Notes on the Program by Lynne Radcliffe

Dudley Buck

American composer, organist and author Born: 1839, Hartford Connecticut; Died: 1906, West Orange, New Jersey

Festival Overture on the American National Air Composed and premiered in 1879.

Last Jsym performance: September 2010, Masterworks Series, Fabio Mechetti, conductor. ca. 7 minutes Happy 200th birthday to “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Originally titled “Defence of Fort McHenry,” the poem was written

by Francis Scott Key in September 1814 following the British attack on Fort McHenry in the War of 1812. He set the text to a popular British tune written by John Stafford Smith entitled “To Anacreon in Heaven” for the Anacreontic Society (a men’s social club) in London. It was officially adopted as our national anthem by a resolution of Congress in 1931.

Dudley Buck was a very successful organ recitalist, composer and author of books on music. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, to an affluent family, he studied music in Europe following college and held major posts as church organist in the Northeast. The canon of his works includes many sacred and secular genres. Having written “Concert Variations on the Star-Spangled Banner,” for organ in 1866, Buck wrote the Festival Overture to celebrate Independence Day in 1879.

What to Listen For… Buck achieves a festive atmosphere from the start of the piece with a robust, original tune studded with syncopation and underpinned with a steady eighth-note accompaniment. Presented as the second theme, the national anthem tune is first stated simply by the low brass while the higher woodwinds maintain the running accompaniment. The piece proceeds by developing both themes as well as presenting them in counterpoint. A majestic setting of the Star-Spangled Banner concludes the Overture.

Gioachino Rossini

Italian composer Born: 1792, Pesaro, Italy; died: 1868, Passy, France

Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra Composed: 1809.

First performance by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. ca. 13 minutes (4’, 1’, 1’, 1’, 1’, 2’, 3’) The son of a horn player and a singer, Rossini showed musical promise early, writing his first opera by age fourteen. He enrolled in the Conservatory of Bologna in 1806, where he was soon to be known as “il Tedeschino” (the Little German) due to his adoration of Mozart.

Rossini’s musical output is monumental, the operas alone numbering 39. He also wrote several cantatas, a variety of instrumental music, as well as sacred choral works and secular vocal pieces. He belongs to the rare company of composers who earned large profits from their music. An avid gourmand (with the waistline to prove it), he became a renowned amateur chef. Restaurants in Italy still serve dishes attributed to Rossini.

An international figure, Rossini lived in Austria and France in addition to his native Italy. Before the Italian Revolution of 1848, he was invited to participate in the Congress of Verona by Metternich. Later, he spent five handsomely-paid months in England and was presented to King George IV. At the outbreak of the Italian Revolution, Rossini moved to France, the home of his second wife, where he spent the remainder of his life.

What to Listen For… This work, which has been aptly described as “something of a coloratura aria for the clarinet,” reflects the energy and exuberance of 17-year-old Rossini. It also gives more than a nod to Mozart, with its slow, elegant introduction comprised of beautiful melodies, perhaps paying homage to the great composer who wrote the most famous concerto for clarinet in the repertoire.

The highly ornamented theme and five variations follow, all but one of them rigorous etudes. The fourth variation in the minor mode provides relief from the athleticism and exploits the expressive potential of the clarinet. As expected, the final variation demands the greatest virtuosity, featuring a dramatic cadenza and triumphant ending. We get only a smattering of the famous accelerandocrescendos which later earned Rossini the nickname “Signor Crescendo.”

The Introduction and Theme are the source material for arias from two of his operas.

“La pace mia smarrita,” (“My peace is lost”) from Moses in Egypt, 1818, is heard in the Introduction, and “O quante lacrime finor versai,” (“Oh how many tears I’ve shed”) from La Donna del Lago, 1819, is drawn from the Theme.

Judith Cloud

American composer, singer, and teacher Born: 1954, Reidsville, North Carolina

HiJinx!

Composed in 2013-2014 for Peter Wright and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Tonight’s performance is the world premiere. ca. 10 minutes Judith Cloud’s catalog includes numerous vocal, choral, and instrumental works.

Her gift for vocal writing was born out of her own rich experiences as an accomplished mezzosoprano soloist. Born in 1954 in Reidsville, NC, into a musical family, Cloud studied voice, conducting, and composition at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where her composition teacher was Robert Ward.

Among Cloud’s most notable compositions is her cantata Feet of Jesus, a magnificent work set to poems by Langston Hughes.

In 2009 she was awarded first place for the Sorel Medallion in Choral Composition with her piece for chorus and guitar, Anacreontics.

Dr. Cloud is Coordinator of Voice at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she has taught since 1989.

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CLOUD (Continued from previous page) Composer Notes “HiJinx! was commissioned by [Jsym Principal] clarinetist Peter Wright in the spring of 2013. It is a mostly humorous piece aimed at entertaining the audience and the members of the orchestra. I also intended it to be a suitable companion to the Rossini Introduction, Theme and Variations, also featured on the Jacksonville Symphony’s 2014-15 season opener.

Keenly aware of Peter’s fine soloistic abilities I approached organization of the work around quotations from well-known clarinet solos. The work was composed between December and March with Peter’s mischievous personality constantly in mind, thus the inclusion of random quotations from opera, chamber music and popular song.”

What to Listen For… Calling for 20 different percussion instruments - including digeridoo, motor horn, steel drum, and toy sqeaker, to name a few – HiJinx! is guaranteed to entertain and fascinate. Quotations range from the very familiar, e.g. Peter and the Wolf, “Ding, Ding, Ding Went the Trolley,” “Voi che sapete” from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro to the not-so-familiar such as Honegger’s Pacific 231, and Bartok’s The Miraculous Mandarin. Beginning with playful banter in the low strings which is soon picked up by other instruments, Cloud sets the stage for this clever, wellconstructed piece written to demonstrate the virtuosity and personality of Principal Clarinet Peter Wright, who celebrates his 40th year with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Cloud’s striking use of rhythm, including that of human voices, energizes the work, while her singer’s flair for melody and vivid imagination create an exciting, amusing ride through the land of the orchestra clarinet.

Opening Weekend Special Thanks to:

Hector Berlioz

French composer, conductor and critic born: 1803, La Cote-St.-Andre, France, died: 1869, Paris

Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14 Composed in 1830.

Premiered December 5, 1830, at the Paris Conservatoire, conducted by Habenek.

Last Jsym performance: September 2012, Masterworks Series, Fabio Mechetti, conductor. ca. 58 minutes (16’, 7’, 17’, 7’, 11’)

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Berlioz possessed an imagination possibly unparalleled in music history. The only instrument he played well was the guitar; how he conceived the orchestral effects his music produces speaks to his genius.

Almost as passionate about literature as he was about music, Berlioz adored Shakespeare. When an English troupe brought the Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson to Paris to substitute for the actress who was originally cast in the role of Juliet, French audiences were wild for her. Berlioz was obsessed with her, sending her notes and putting himself near her.

She did not return his ardor.

When Berlioz wrote his Fantastic Symphony, using much previously written musical material, he wrote a program for this symphony in five movements. The program is in the score and is printed below. The story is partly autobiographical, based on his love affair with Miss Smithson, who, at that point, he had never actually met. Faust’s impact on Berlioz is evident in this eerie tale which shocked and offended many. However, those astute enough to have musical foresight marveled at this truly fantastic work. A fascinating and unprecedented feature of the work is the “idée fixe,” or fixed idea – an ever-arching melody representing his beloved – which appears in every movement in a different context.

BERLIOZ (Continued on page 21)

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A Chat With Courtney Lewis When did you know that music would be your career path?

Music was one of the most important parts of my childhood.

A fantastic teacher at high school opened my ears to the richness of classical music. He taught me to listen to as much as possible.

When he played the class The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, Beethoven’s Eroica and Bach’s first Brandenburg Concerto, I was intoxicated by the sheer power, joy and passion of this music, and knew I had to spend my life with it.

What was your first conducting experience like?

Somehow my audition to conduct the university orchestra at Cambridge went well. I then found myself preparing Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 with 100 eager, but frighteningly accomplished musicians. Nothing prepares you for the first time you stand in front of a symphony orchestra and realise that everyone is staring straight at you! Terrifying, but thrilling. Simon Rattle once described conducting as ‘an un-kickable habit.’ I was an addict from day one.

TIFFANY MANNING

This is quite a transition year for you.

It’s the start of two wonderful new chapters: life in Manhattan as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and in your vibrant city as music director of the Jacksonville Symphony, the first orchestra to trust me with its artistic leadership. It’s going to be an exciting journey!

Courtney, we are thrilled to have you join our community.

Tell us more about you.

I grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. As I’m sure you know, Belfast has a chequered history due to the many different identities locals ascribe to. I call myself Northern Irish or British. My father was a barrister [lawyer] and my mother is a professor at Queen’s University, Belfast. I also have a sister, Cara, and a brother, Adam, who are both doctors in London.

From what we understand of Belfast, was it ever dangerous for you growing up there?

Thankfully, ‘The Troubles’ (the colloquial euphemism for the violent terrorism that scarred Northern Ireland from the 1960s until the late 1990s) didn’t play much of a role in my childhood, which was spent singing in choirs, learning the piano and clarinet, playing in youth orchestras, writing music, running, rowing, acting and cooking. In the summers, my parents often took us to France – usually to find as many good restaurants as possible – or to California, where much of my father’s family lives.

Why did you want to be music director for the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, specifically?

It’s a fantastic orchestra in a spectacular hall. As a city, Jacksonville is on the cusp of something great, and the orchestra is poised to be a major leader in that growth. I loved working with the musicians and felt great support from community leaders. The potential is huge.

What do you hope to accomplish for the Symphony in your first few seasons here?

Musically, I want to diversify the orchestra’s repertoire. The musicians are hungry for this. I want the Jacksonville Symphony to be seen as a leader among regional orchestras. I want to attract new audiences of all ages to the orchestra. But I shouldn’t be the youngest person in the hall, so we will be setting up a young professionals group to reach out to my peers, too! We are planning a broader range of concert experiences at Jacoby Hall and playing in other venues in Jacksonville and beyond.

For locals who have yet to experience the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, why should they?

You have one of the great orchestras in your backyard. I believe classical music is the most potent of the performing arts; it can take you anywhere and convey just about every conceivable emotional state. We are dying to share our passion with you, and I promise, if you come once, you’ll be back!

Catch up on Courtney – Follow Courtney Lewis’s blog at www.Jacksonville.com/conductingelectricity.

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BERLIOZ (Continued from page 19) A few years after he wrote the symphony, Miss Smithson relented and they were married. It was not a match made in Heaven.

What to Listen for…

This is program music at its most descriptive; follow the program and you’ll follow the music. It would be helpful to take notice in the first movement of the idée fixe, which is first presented by the violins (doubled by flutes) with the lower strings accompanying; this is necessary for comparison in the other movements.

In the fourth movement (The March to the Scaffold), a solo clarinet briefly attempts the idée fixe but is cut off by the “blade” of a loud chord.

The fifth and final movement may be recognizable to those unfamiliar with this symphony as it has been used in movies and other vehicles of pop culture. The idée fixe appears in the clarinets, altered to a “vulgar” dance rhythm. After a tutti section the woodwinds accompany the clarinet idée fixe. Funeral bells signal the Dies irae from the requiem mass (the Catholic audience in France was well familiar with it), intoned by the bassoon and tuba. The Dies irae is then taken up twice as fast by the horns and trombones. Pandemonium builds as the witches’ round dance is treated contrapuntally, leading to the shocker – the woodwinds and brass play the Dies irae while the strings play the witches’ round dance. The great orgy continues to a forceful ending.

Program of the Symphonie Fantastique Berlioz indicated in his score a written program, which begins as follows: “A young musician of unhealthily sensitive nature and endowed with vivid imagination has poisoned himself with opium in a paroxysm of lovesick despair.

The narcotic dose he had taken was too weak to cause death but it has thrown him into a long sleep accompanied by the most extraordinary visions. In this condition his sensations, his feelings and memories find utterance in his sick brain in the form of musical imagery. Even the beloved one takes the form of melody in his mind, like a fixed idea which is ever returning and which he hears everywhere.”

First movement. Visions and Passions “At first he thinks of the uneasy and nervous condition of his mind, of somber longings, of depression and joyous elation

without any recognizable cause, which he experienced before the beloved one had appeared to him; he thinks of his almost insane anxiety of mind, and his raging jealousy, of his re-awakening love, of his religious consolation.”

appears once more. His heart stops beating, painful forebodings fill his soul. ‘Should she prove false to him!’ One of the shepherds resumes the melody, but the other answers him no more…sunset…distant rolling of thunder…loneliness…silence.”

Second movement. A Ball.

“In a ballroom, amidst the confusion of a brilliant festival, he finds the loved one again.”

Fourth movement. March to the Scaffold.

“He dreams that he had murdered his beloved, that he has been condemned to death and is being led to the guillotine.

A march that is alternately somber and wild, brilliant and solemn, accompanies the procession…The tumultuous outbursts are followed without modulation by measured steps. At last the fixed idea returns, for a moment a last thought of love is revived – which is cut short by the fall of the blade.”

Third movement. Scene in the Fields.

“It is a summer evening. He is in the country musing when he hears two shepherd lads who play the ranz des vaches (the tune used by the Swiss to call their flocks together) in alternation.

This shepherd duet, the locality, the soft whisperings of the trees stirred by the zephyr wind, some prospects of hope recently made known to him, all these sensations unite to impart a long unknown repose to his heart and to lend a smiling color to his imagination. And then she

Fifth movement. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath.

“He dreams that he is present at a witches’ dance, surrounded by horrible spirits, amidst sorcerers and monsters in many fearful forms, who have come to BERLIOZ (Continued on next page)

Historically Speaking In 1809, when Rossini composed his Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra: Napoleon’s troops arrested Pope Pius VII and took him to Liguria.

James Madison was inaugurated as the fourth U.S. President.

Robert Fulton obtained a patent for the steamboat. Paddlewheel steamers (pictured right) became an important mode of transportation on the St. Johns River.

In 1830, when Berlioz composed Symphonie Fantastique: The coronation of Queen Victoria took place in Westminster Abbey in London.

The Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.

First Florida census: population: 34,370.

In 1879, when Dudley Buck composed his Festival Overture The Tuskawilla, pictured here docked in Palatka, on an American Air: was built in 1875 in Jacksonville. She was World premieres: Ibsen’s A Doll’s among the stern paddlewheel steamers of the House in Copenhagen; Gilbert mid- to late 1800s. and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance in London.

New York City’s Gilmore’s Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and opened to the public.

– Lynne Radcliffe

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BERLIOZ (Continued from previous page) attend his funeral. Strange sounds, groans, shrill laughter, distant yells, which other cries seem to answer. The beloved melody is heard again but it has its noble and shy character no longer; it has become a vulgar, trivial and grotesque kind of dance. She it is who comes to attend the witches’ meeting. Friendly howls and shrieks greet her arrival…She joins the infernal orgy… bells toll for the dead...a burlesque parody of the Dies irae…the witches’ round dance…the dance and the Dies irae are heard at the same time.” ©2014 by Lynne Radcliffe A regular contributor to Encore!, Lynne Radcliffe has been active as a performer, music educator, and church musician in the Jacksonville area since 1983. She has served as music education program manager for Jsym and as host of “WJCT presents the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra.”

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J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, 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

Friday, october 10, 2014 l 11 aM friday & saturday, october 10 & 11, 2014 l 8 pm Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

SOUNDS OF SIMON AND GARFUNKEL MICHAEL KRAJEWSKI, CONDUCTOR A.J. SWEARINGEN & JONATHAN BEEDLE, SPECIAL GUESTS

Selections will be announced from the stage.

There will be one intermission.

The Coffee Concert is performed without intermission.

Friday concert dedicated by The Vanguard Charitable-Kessler Fund in honor of the 13th Annual Daniel Pearl World Music Days, a global initiative which uses the power of music to bridge cultural differences.

Thank you, Symphony Guild The Coffee Concert is hosted by the Jacksonville Symphony Guild.

Coffee and tea are provided by Martin Coffee Company, Inc. 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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Michael Krajewski Known for his entertaining programs and clever humor, Michael Krajewski is a much sought after conductor of symphonic pops. In addition to his role with the Jacksonville Symphony, which spans 19 seasons, Michael is also music director of The Philly Pops and principal pops conductor of the Houston Symphony and Atlanta Symphony.

Capturing the Magic of Simon and Garfunkel A.J. Swearingen and Jonathan Beedle have been performing this remarkable tribute to the music of Simon & Garfunkel for more than a decade. Their sold-out shows prove that the effect on their audiences is undeniable.

A chance meeting in 1991 in a local club in Bethlehem, Pa., brought these two talented artists together. A brief introduction and moments later they were blending their voices as if they had been performing together for a lifetime. A.J.’s warm baritone and Jonathan’s soaring tenor combine flawlessly to capture the essence and magic of Simon & Garfunkel’s sound of the early years in Greenwich Village.

With a quiet stage and an acoustic guitar, A.J. and Jonathan re-create the memories of the classic hits and obscure songs of Simon & Garfunkel.

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saturday, october 18, 2014 l 8 pm SUNDAY, october 19, 2014 l 3 pm Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

THE MUSIC OF ELVIS CHRISTOPHER CONFESSORE, CONDUCTOR TERRY MIKE JEFFREY BAND, SPECIAL GUESTS TERRY MIKE JEFFREY • DEBBIE JEFFREY • ADAM JEFFREY KEVIN SYNAN • TIFFANY OKERSON • JEREMY SMITH

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.

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Christopher Confessore Currently serving as music director of the Brevard Symphony Orchestra in Florida, Christopher Confessore is also resident conductor and principal pops conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to frequent Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra appearances, his schedule has included conducting engagements with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Sarasota Orchestra, Hartford Symphony, New Mexico Philharmonic and the Orlando Philharmonic.

Mr. Confessore has accompanied a distinguished list of artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell and Lang Lang. As a pops conductor, he has appeared with Grammy Award winners Art Garfunkel, Roberta Flack, Judy Collins, Marvin Hamlisch, Chris Botti, Indigo Girls, LeAnn Rimes and Charlie Daniels, and Tony Award winner Idina Menzel.

Terry Mike Jeffrey Fronting his own band since the 1970s, Terry Mike Jeffrey has performed all over the world, with live performances throughout North America, the Caribbean and Europe.

The band recently returned from shows in Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Russia.

Endorsed by Graceland/Elvis Presley Enterprises, Terry is one of the most celebrated Elvis music performers. He has been featured with orchestras throughout the country performing Elvis’ authentic arrangements, including the Memphis Symphony Orchestra’s Elvis 80th Birthday Concert. He was musical director and played the starring role in Elvis - An American Musical, a multi-media show from the producers of Grease and Beatlemania. The show toured the United States and Canada, and ran on Broadway in the late 1980s.

Terry has performed with such stars as Jewel, Los Lobos, Dixie Chicks, Fats Domino, The Mavericks, Steve Wariner, Ricky Skaggs, Leon Russell, Chet Atkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Travis Tritt. He appeared 56 times as a guest on TNN’s “Music City Tonight.” In Stand By Your Man - The Tammy Wynette Story, he played Tammy’s father and understudied several roles. Other musical theater adventures have included Beehive, Always - Patsy Cline, Hairspray, and Ring Of Fire The Johnny Cash Musical.

Terry and his wife Debbie reside in their hometown of Paducah, Kentucky.

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Friday, october 24 l SATURDay, october 25, 2014 l 8 PM

“Words on Music” one hour prior to each Masterworks concert Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

violin virtuosity larry rachlEff, CONDUCTOR JAMES EHNES, VIOLIN Jean

Violin Concerto in D Minor, op. 47

SIBELIUS Allegro moderato (D Minor) Adagio di molto (B-flat Major) Allegro ma non tanto (D Major)

James Ehnes, violin

INTERMISSION Sergei Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, op. 100 PROKOFIEV Andante (B-flat Major) Allegro marcato (D Minor) Adagio (F Major) Allegro giocoso (B-flat Major) 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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Notes on the Program by Edward Lein

Jean Sibelius

Finnish composer and conductor Born: 1865, Tavestehus, Finland; died: 1957, Järvenpää, Finland

Violin Concerto in D Minor, op. 47 Apart from saunas, Nokia phones and the Angry Birds video game, the music of Jean Sibelius is Finland’s most celebrated export, and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto is the most-frequently recorded of all 20th century works that share the title. But given its inauspicious debut, the concerto’s current popularity was hardly a foregone conclusion.

Sibelius was not yet three when his father died of typhus, forcing his pregnant mother to uproot her two (soon to be three) small children and move in with her mother, grandmother, sister and two aunts. It was a musical household, and although the future composer of Finlandia displayed no prodigious talent, by age five he had SIBELIUS (Continued on next page)

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James Ehnes

Masterworks guest artists sponsored by Ruth Conley

Known for his virtuosity and probing musicianship, violinist James Ehnes has performed in over 30 countries on five continents, appearing regularly in the world’s great concert halls and with many of the most celebrated orchestras and conductors. The Times, London acclaimed of his “playing of phenomenal control, allied to musicianship of the highest order.”

In the 2014-15 season Mr. Ehnes performs concerts with the Royal Philharmonic, Danish National, Melbourne, Sydney, NHK, Vienna, and Boston symphony orchestras, with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and recitals in Prague, London, Toronto, Fort Worth and Montreal. He also appears with the Ehnes Quartet across North America and will lead the winter and summer festivals of the Seattle Chamber Music Society, where he is the artistic director.

With an extensive discography of more than 35 recordings featuring music ranging from J.S. Bach to John Adams, his recent projects include Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto paired with Shostakovich’s String Quartets Nos. 7 & 8, an American Chamber Music disc, and the final volume of his four disc collection of the music of Béla Bartók. His recordings have been honored with many international awards, including a Grammy, a Gramophone, and nine Juno Awards.

Mr. Ehnes was born in 1976 in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. He began violin studies at age four, and at nine became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin. He studied with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and at The Juilliard School. James Ehnes is a Member of the Order of Canada.

Mr. Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715. He currently lives in Bradenton, Florida, with his wife and daughter. He appears by arrangement with Opus 3 Artists. Log on to jamesehnes.com for more information.

Larry Rachleff Now celebrating his 19th season as music director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Larry Rachleff also serves as director of orchestras and the Walter Kris Hubert chair at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in Houston. This past season’s tour of the Shepherd School Orchestra was met with critical acclaim for both their Meyerhoff Hall concert in Baltimore and their Carnegie Hall concert.

He has also been music director of the San Antonio Symphony.

“A take-charge maestro who invests everything he conducts with deep musical understanding” (Chicago Tribune), Mr. Rachleff is in constant demand as a guest conductor. Recent engagements include the Utah Symphony, Houston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and Phoenix Symphony, among others. Summer festival engagements include Tanglewood, Aspen, Interlochen, Chautauqua, Brevard Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Opera Theatre of Lucca, Italy, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. He is invited every year to conduct the Juilliard Orchestra.

SIBELIUS (Continued from previous page) begun to amuse himself by improvising on Granny’s out-of-tune piano.

Aunt Julia was a piano teacher who gave young Janne his first music training, but he was loath to practice. The turning point came at age 14 when he got his hands on a violin. He was determined to master it and was well on his way, but his relatively late start, growing stage fright, and a shoulder injury during his 20s prevented Sibelius from realizing his adolescent dream of becoming a virtuoso violinist.

His youthful dedication did provide the inspiration and technical expertise to craft his only concerto into one of the most challenging works for violin and orchestra ever penned. Unfortunately, the technical demands proved too great for the concerto’s first soloist, and the 1904 premiere was a failure. Sibelius withdrew the concerto to tighten the form, prune some gratuitouslyvirtuosic solo passages, and lighten some of the orchestral scoring. Despite the improvements, the reception of the revised version the following year was tepid.

The concerto only really caught fire three decades later when Jascha Heifetz added it to his repertoire and recorded it for a 1935 release.

What to Listen for…

Like Mendelssohn, Sibelius dispenses with an orchestral introduction for his sonata-form first movement. Amid a murmur of muted violins, the soloist emerges as if suspended in a mist, intoning a folk-like melody tinged with a sadness distilled from times long past. A “mini-cadenza” precedes the first orchestral tutti, which in turn introduces a transitional theme that morphs into the SIBELIUS (Continued on next page)

About Violin Concerto in D Minor Composed in 1902-03; revised 1905 Premiered on February 8, 1904, with soloist Viktor Novácˇek and the Helsinki Philharmonic, conducted by the composer.

Revision premiered on October 19, 1905, with soloist Karl Halír and Staatskapelle Berlin, conducted by Richard Strauss.

Last Jsym performance: September 2008, Masterworks Series, Fabio Mechetti, conductor, with Sarah Chang as soloist. ca. 34 minutes (17’, 10’, 7’)

From the Podium

A conversation with Larry Rachleff

Noted for his rich and productive rapport with orchestra musicians, the Salt Lake Deseret News recently acclaimed, “His interpretation was charged with power and passion that never waned… The musicians were at the top of their game.” A former faculty member of Oberlin Conservatory, Mr. Rachleff also served as conductor of the Opera Theatre at the University of Southern California and has conducted and presented masterclasses all over the world. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Roger Williams University.

Did you have a hand in selecting tonight’s program?

An advocate of public school music education, Mr. Rachleff has conducted All-State orchestras and festivals in virtually every state in the United States as well as throughout Europe and Canada. He has served as principal conducting teacher for the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Conductors’ Guild and the International Workshop for Conductors.

Although it is your first time conducting here, have you worked with our musicians elsewhere?

Larry Rachleff lives in Houston with his wife, soprano Susan Lorette Dunn, and their young son, Sam. He appears by arrangement with Seldy Cramer Artists.

This particular program was suggested by the Orchestra, and I loved it! Guesting and program selection differs city to city but that’s how it worked this time. I had never considered these two masterworks on the same concert, but it makes real sense.

Two towering 20th century compositions, both Eastern European in every flavor possible.

Both are dark, but with a glowing soul at the same time. With rhythmic vitality and soaring melodic material omnipresent in both, they make a strong paring with an intermission to separate their powerful content.

Have you worked with our soloist?

I have never worked with James before, but of course have known his work and heard his recordings. He is clearly one of the greats today and I so look forward to sharing the Sibelius with him. It is a fabulous piece that is known to have so many unique challenges and rewards.

I am looking forward to seeing and working with your orchestra. Several players I know from various summer festivals and some others are alumni from Shepherd School where I teach.

When guest conducting, how does the rapport develop between you and the musicians?

Guesting is a bit like going to someone’s home for dinner. With an orchestra such as yours, they are veterans at helping your guests feel welcomed I am sure. One does not have much time to develop meaningful connections, but you have to start that right away.

It is fun, in that rollercoaster sort of way, meeting new companions for a significant journey to hopefully create an evening or two that is meaningful, alive, and yes, fun!

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SIBELIUS (Continued from previous page) yearning second subject, presented by the returning soloist in rapturous doublestopped sixths. The orchestral closing section is vigorous and march-like with a folksy finish. The soloist’s “big cadenza” follows, forming the bulk of the development section. The orchestra takes the lead recapping the main themes while the soloist dazzles with bravura commentary, and further development is provided along the way.

The second movement overflows with an expansive, Romantic lyricism unusual in Sibelius’s mature works. Despite the “very slow” tempo marking Sibelius manages to test the soloist’s virtuosity, especially in the middle section where one bow must play two lines of counterpoint in 2-against-3 rhythms!

tarantella-like dance (in 3/4 time rather than 6/8), followed by a heavy-footed polonaise.

Although Sibelius referred to the movement as a danse macabre, it was Sir Donald Francis Tovey who provided the mostquoted characterization when he called it a “polonaise for polar bears.” Some mistake this as an insult, but in context Tovey simply provided a humorous, alliterative allusion to Sibelius’s Nordic heritage while praising his handiwork. (Otherwise someone surely would have pointed out that polar bears are not indigenous to Finland!)

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Historically Speaking In 1904, when Sibelius composed his Violin Concerto: The stage play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up premiered in London.

Henry Ford set a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 mph on the frozen surface of Lake St. Clair in Michigan. William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. broke that record 15 days later with a speed of 92.3 mph on Ormond Beach.

Vanderbilt with his Mercedes on Ormond Beach

In 1944, when Prokofiev composed his Fifth Symphony: WWII – The siege of Leningrad was lifted; 155,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy (D-Day), leading to victory in Europe.

Entertainment - The Ozzie and Harriet radio show debuted; oft-lampooned Florence Foster Jenkins gave a recital in Carnegie Hall. She died a month later.

A U.S. Navy TBF Avenger torpedo bomber on a training exercise from NAS Ft. Lauderdale, known as Flight 19, disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle.

The plane that searched for it disappeared as well.

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Sergei Prokofiev Ukrainian-Soviet composer, pianist and conductor Born: 1891, Sontsovka (now Krasne), Ukraine; died, 1953, Moscow, USSR

Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, op. 100 Composed in 1944.

Premiered on January 13, 1945, at the Moscow Conservatory, conducted by the composer.

Last Jsym performance: February 1995, Masterworks Series in the Civic Auditorium, Roger Nierenberg, conductor. ca. 44 minutes (13’, 9’, 13’, 9’) I was returning to the symphonic form after a break of sixteen years. The Fifth Symphony is the culmination of an entire period in my work. I conceived it as a symphony on the greatness of the human soul. -– Sergei Prokofiev Prokofiev was at the height of his creative powers and popularity when he composed his Fifth Symphony in 1944. He had returned to his Motherland in 1936, following an 18-year sojourn in the West after the Russian Revolution. It seems incredible that anyone would have departed Paris to set up housekeeping in Moscow during Stalin’s Reign of Terror, but the Great Depression had pared the homesick composer’s income and quashed prospects for new productions of his ballets and operas. Prokofiev already had made extended visits to the USSR to concertize, teach, and collaborate on commissions, and Soviet officials had proffered ingratiating invitations encouraging his return. Imagining himself immune from politics and with complete faith in his talent, Prokofiev headed “home.”

The intervening years before the premiere of the Fifth Symphony on January 13, 1945, had been very productive. Even after Hitler’s 1941 invasion had edged World War II within twenty miles of Moscow, Prokofiev composed relatively unabated.

He moved among various safe havens set up by the Soviet Composers’ Union; during a summer’s month in 1944 the short score of his new symphony emerged in the last of

these. By autumn he was safely back in Moscow, and finished the orchestration in November.

When Prokofiev mounted the podium for the first performance he was greeted like a conquering hero. Only two weeks prior had seen the successful premieres of his Piano Sonata No. 8 and Ivan the Terrible, Part 1. As the 53-year-old composer raised his baton and the ovation faded, everyone suddenly could hear booming artillery celebrating the Soviet Army’s advance into Germany. Pianist Sviatoslav Richter recalled, “He waited, and began only after the cannons had stopped. There was something very significant in this – something symbolic.”

What to Listen For… The symphony’s first movement unfolds as a straight-forward sonata form, with an expansive principal subject transitioning into the sweeping second theme. The dominant motif in the closing section is a quick flourish followed by rapidly repeated notes; similar motifs provide a unifying element among the movements. Like Brahms in his Fourth Symphony, Prokofiev restates the opening in the home key as the development

begins, but, like Tchaikovsky, lets full-bodied melodies rather than motivic fragments dominate the discourse. Brasses herald the recapitulation, and the coda becomes a victory celebration, complete with thunderous percussion imitating cannonfire – recalling those salvos from before the performance.

For the galloping second movement Prokofiev salvaged music from his original “happy ending” version of Romeo and Juliet (Nos. 53-54 in Simon Morrison’s restoration of Prokofiev’s original score).

The slow movement presents a waltz-like theme Prokofiev drew from his score to an unrealized film of Pushkin’s Queen of Spades. Signaled by piano reiterating a percussive rhythmic figure, the middle section includes a funereal cortège that becomes martial and menacing, after which the reprise of the waltz soothes like a lullaby. An “icy” coda closes the movement, the polar opposite of Wagner’s Magic Fire Music.

Prokofiev’s finale is a playful rondo. It begins with a calm introduction recalling the main tune from the first movement, and ends with a frantic coda that plunges headlong, driven by manic clockwork to a final big bang.

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The symphony earned Prokofiev a Stalin Prize and got him onto the cover of TIME magazine following the Boston premiere that November. Sadly, he never conducted again after his triumphant Moscow performance.

Shortly thereafter Prokofiev suffered a concussion (or stroke?) from which he never fully recovered. Slowed, yes – but with over two dozen works yet to come. ©2014 by Edward Lein.

Edward Lein produces Jacksonville Public Library’s Music @ Main concerts and was a 2006 finalist in the Jacksonville Symphony’s “Fresh Ink” Florida Composers Competition.

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Music For Your Eyes The 2014-15 Painted Violins are truly Music For Your Eyes!

The “Music For Your Eyes” project of the Education Committee of The Guild raises funds for the Harmony Grant program that gives grants to area teachers who use music in a classroom project.

This year there are eleven entries and drawing tickets will be sold throughout the season. The final drawing is scheduled for May 22, 2015.

BENEFIT Music Festival Fri,Oct 31 at 7:30 pm

Something A Little Wicked This Way Comes....

Regina Torres, mezzo-soprano Bonita Wyke, piano Sat, Nov 1 at 8 pm

Evening of Piano Music Kamila Shahtakhtinski, piano

Haydn • Chopin • Scriabin Sun, Nov 2 at 7:30 pm

Philip & Friends

Philip Pan, JSYM Concertmaster Conservatory Orchestra Max Huls, conductor

All 3 benefit performances for $25!

Only one ticket available.

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special event JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY

FAMILY series J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

SUNDAY OCTOBER 26, 2014 l 3 pm & 6 pm Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

SYMPHONIC SORCERY The Music of Harry Potter SCOTT C. GREGG, CONDUCTOR MARCY LANNAN, WITCH/NARRATOR PHIL FULTON, AS IGOR

In addition to his role with the Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra, Scott Gregg is music director of the Saint Augustine Chamber Orchestra and artistic & executive director of the First Coast Community Music School. (see page 11 for full bio.)

Marcy Lannan

Harry Potter and The Sorceror’s Stone

WILLIAMS

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

WILLIAMS

Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban

WILLIAMS

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire

WILLIAMS

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

HOOPER

Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince

HOOPER

Special thanks to the Symphony Guild’s Instrument Zoo volunteers for participating in the pre-concert activities before the Family Series concert.

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.

Scott C. Gregg

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Performer, theatre educator and circus aerialist, Marcy Lannan is involved in Theatre for Young Audiences as a performer and artist-inresidency leader with Quest Theatre, offering theatrical programming to young people across Canada. Based in Calgary, Alberta, she holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama, and has trained extensively in dance, puppetry and circus arts.

Marcy has toured nationally and internationally as an actor with Ocho Rojo and is a core member of The Late Late Breakfast Show, a sketch comedy company. Performance credits include Penelope vs. the Aliens, Shoes of Sand; Macbeth, The Queens; Neruda Nude, The Dali Hours, Gretchen’s Nightmare; and Cardboard Sign Brigade, for which she won the 2006 Enbridge Emerging Artist Award.

Phil Fulton Actor Phil Fulton has worked professionally in theatre, film, television and voice-over and has toured internationally to theatres across Canada, and in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and the United States.

His passion is Theatre for Young Audiences, in which he has worked extensively touring plays, creating curriculum and teaching drama to young people.

Past credits include Vimy (Citadel, world premiere); The Cripple of Inishmaan (Theatre Calgary-Betty Mitchell award for Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role); Penelope vs the Aliens, Birdbrain, The Field, New Canadian Kid; Treasure Island; American Buffalo, Illegal Entry; Spiders Web, An Inspector Calls and Roald Dahl’s Little Red Riding Hood. When he is not acting, Phil lives in Calgary with his wife and son and works at the Calgary Humane Society promoting compassion and care for homeless animals.

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Friday Pops

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COFFEE series

guest artists sponsor

FIDELITY NATIONAL FINANCIAL

Saturday concert sponsored by

POPS series

J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, 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

Friday, NOVEMBER 7, 2014 l 11 aM • friday & saturday, NOVEMBER 7 & 8, 2014 l 8 pm Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

SALUTE TO AMERICA MICHAEL KRAJEWSKI, CONDUCTOR THE UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY MEN’S GLEE CLUB, SPECIAL GUESTS Fanfare and Star-Spangled Banner National Emblem March

arr. Prechel BAGLEY

Norwegian Sailor’s Chorus from

The Flying Dutchman

WAGNER

Pilgrims’ Chorus from Tannhäuser*

Times Square, 1944 from On the Town

WAGNER

There Is Nothing Like a Dame from

South Pacific A George M. Cohan Tribute

BERNSTEIN RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN arr. WENDEL

My Country*

Victory at Sea: Symphonic Scenario

arr. Prechel

Ave Maria*

Naval Hymn

Armed Forces Medley

RODGERS, arr. Bennett BIEBL DYKES

arr. Hayman, Kessler

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

STEFFE, arr. Wilhousky

* Not performed on Coffee concert

INTERMISSION The Coffee Concert is performed without intermission.

Thank you, Symphony Guild The Coffee Concert is hosted by the Jacksonville Symphony Guild. Coffee and tea are provided by Martin Coffee Company, Inc. 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.

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U.S. Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club The United States Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club, under the direction of Dr. Aaron Smith, is the most active of the Naval Academy’s musical organizations and has achieved national prominence as one of America’s premier men’s choral ensembles.

Recent appearances on network television include “The Kennedy Center Honors” (CBS), “The Today Show” (NBC), “The Early Show” (CBS), “Christmas in Washington” (NBC and TNT) and “Good Morning, America” (ABC). The ensemble has been seen performing in San Diego’s Copley Symphony Hall, New York’s Avery Fisher Hall and Washington’s Kennedy Center. It has performed extensively throughout the United States and abroad, including Chile, Argentina, and multiple European tours with performances at St. Peter’s in the Vatican, St. Paul’s in London, and cathedrals in Brussels, Wells, Winchester and Salisbury.

Performing masterpieces of choralorchestral literature with many of the nation’s leading orchestras, the Men’s Glee Club’s most recent collaborations include Boston Pops Orchestra, Charlotte Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and Nashville Symphony. In addition to the Academy’s annually sold-out concerts of Handel’s Messiah with the Annapolis Symphony, symphonic repertoire has included Orff’s Carmina Burana, Requiems by Brahms, Dvorˇák, Mozart, and Verdi, Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, and Vaughan-Williams’ A Sea Symphony among many others.

Recent notable appearances include the Inaugural Concert “We Are One” performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial for a live audience of more than half a million and an internationally televised audience, the dedication ceremony of the National Pentagon Memorial, the Ronald Reagan Freedom Award, the Commissioning of the George H. W. Bush Aircraft Carrier (CVN-77), numerous concert tours, a joint performance with Chanticleer, and a newly released CD.

Michael Krajewski’s biography appears on page 11.

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FLORIDA BLUE

Concerts sponsored by

MASTERWORKS series

The Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust Notes on the Program by Edward Lein

J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

Friday, NOVEMBER 14 l SATURDay, NOVEMBER 15, 2014 l 8 PM

“Words on Music” one hour prior to each Masterworks concert Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

mozart requiem Michael Butterman, conductor Mary Wilson, soprano* Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano*

Olivier Messiaen

French composer, organist, teacher, and ornithologist Born: 1908, Avignon, France; died:1992, Clichy (a suburb of Paris), France

L’ascension (“The Ascension”)

Composed in 1932-1933 Premiered on February 9, 1935, in Paris, conducted by Robert Siohan First performance by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. ca. 27 minutes (6’, 6’, 6’, 9’)

Javier Abreu, tenor* Jason Hardy, bass* Jacksonville Symphony Chorus* Olivier

L’ascension (The Ascension),

MESSIAEN

Four Symphonic Meditations

The Majesty of Christ Asking Glory of His Father Serene Hallelujahs of a Soul Yearning for Heaven Hallelujah on the Trumpet, Hallelujah on the Cymbal

Christ’s Prayer as He Ascends to His Father INTERMISSION

Wolfgang Amadeus Requiem in D Minor, K 626 (Beyer edition)* MOZART

I. Introitus: Requiem aeternam

II. Kyrie eleison

III. Sequentia (Dies irae; Tuba mirum; Rex tremendae;

Recordare; Confutatis; Lacrymosa)

IV. Offertorium (Domine Jesu; Hostias)

V. Sanctus

VI. Agnus Dei

VII. Communio: Lux aeterna

Dedicated in memory of Doina Gradina Farkas 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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Among 20th century church musicians none had a higher profile nor was more profoundly influenced by his faith than French composer, organist and teacher Olivier Messiaen. Even as a child Messiaen was an independent thinker and highly self-motivated, traits encouraged by his mother, a poet, and father, an English teacher and translator of Shakespeare’s complete works. While his younger brother might ask for toys and sweets, Olivier limited his Christmas wish-lists to the opera scores he’d pore through at the piano, having taught himself to play. Although Messiaen said his parents “were not believers,” when their 11-yearold son entered the Paris Conservatoire he already knew, quite on his own, that the Roman Catholic Church would be the guiding force throughout is long life.

Messiaen finished his coursework in 1930, and the following year was appointed organist at La Trinité; apart from internment during World War II, he remained at the Parisian church until his death. He also gained recognition as one of the century’s most influential teachers, first at the Schola Cantorum de Paris, then at the Conservatoire after the War. Completed in 1933, L’ascension (“The Ascension”) uses neither an Asian-inspired rhythmic foundation nor the birdsong heard in Messiaen’s later works. Still, there is no mistaking the composer’s unique voice, with melodies and atmospheric harmonies colored by his “modes of limited transposition.” These are seven musical scales that alternate MESSIAEN (Continued on page 38)

Mary Wilson

Masterworks guest artists sponsored by Ruth Conley

Soprano Mary Wilson is acknowledged as one of today’s most exciting young artists. Cultivating a wide-ranging career singing chamber music, oratorio and operatic repertoire, she has appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. In Baroque repertoires she has joined Philharmonia Baroque, Musica Angelica, American Bach Soloists, Boston Baroque, Florida Bach Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Casals Festival, and the Carmel Bach Festival.

She is noted for her portrayals of Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, Susannah in Le Nozze do Figaro, and Gilda in Rigoletto, and has appeared most recently with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, Minnesota Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Dayton Opera, Arizona Opera, Tulsa Opera, Southwest Opera, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Goodman Theatre.

Adriana Zabala Adriana Zabala enjoys a vibrant and unique career that includes opera, song repertoire, new works, concert and oratorio. Last season included a return to Jacksonville Symphony as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro and as soloist in Handel’s Messiah. She performed with Florentine Opera as Sesto in Giulio Cesare, and in Mahler’s Third Symphony with Quad City Symphony Orchestra. Recently, Ms. Zabala created the role of Sister James in Minnesota Opera’s world premiere of Doubt, and was seen as Cherubino in Florentine Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro. The upcoming 2014-2015 season brings an exciting role debut as Joanna in Carly Simon’s opera Romulus Hunt with Nashville Opera and the world premiere of The Manchurian Candidate with Minnesota Opera, as well as concert appearances the Winter Park Bach Festival for Mozart’s Requiem, the Minnesota Orchestra for Mahler’s Second Symphony, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Quad City Symphony.

Javier Abreu Puerto Rican tenor Javier Abreu is a commanding force on stage, incorporating a rich, sweet and agile voice, with ample dramatic skills. Engagements last season included his debut with Atlanta Opera as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, Tonio in La fille du régiment with Madison Opera, appearances with the Phoenix Symphony and Lexington Philharmonic in Handel’s Messiah and the Philadelphia Ballet in Orff’s Carmina Burana. He also sung the Castleman in a workshop of The Long Walk with American Lyric Theater, a role he will reprise with Opera Saratoga for the work’s world premiere. The 2014-15 season sees his return to Nashville Opera in Florencia en el Amazonas, his debut with Virginia Opera in Sweeney Todd, Lindoro in L’italiana in Algeri with Opera Santa Barbara, First Elder in Handel’s Susanna with the Collegiate Chorale, and soloist with the Louisville Orchestra for Carmina Burana.

Jason Hardy Bass Jason Hardy most recently appeared with the Richmond Symphony in Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust and with New York’s St. Thomas Church in Handel’s Messiah. Additional recent engagements include his critically-acclaimed Leporello in Don Giovanni with both Portland Opera and New York City Opera, Don Magnifico in Nashville Opera’s La Cenerentola, the title role in The Marriage of Figaro with Arizona Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, and Madison Opera, Baron Kelbar in Un giorno di Regno with Glimmerglass Opera, and the dual roles of Grandpa George/Mr. Beauregard in the World Premiere of The Golden Ticket with the Atlanta Opera.

In concert he performed Stravinsky’s Les Noces with the New York City Ballet and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Verdi’s Requiem in Prague and Haydn’s Creation in Montreal with the Berkshire Choral Festival, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with the Atlanta Sacred Chorale, and Mozart’s Requiem and Bach’s Cantata No.106 with the Handel Choir of Baltimore.

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U P C OM I NG EVE NTS COMMUNITY EVENTS

PERFORMANCES

COVER THE TOWN WITH SOUND

Mayo Clinic Coffee Series Fidelity National Financial Pops Series

SOUNDS OF SIMON & GARFUNKEL Fri, Oct 10 at 11 am & 8 pm Sat, Oct 11 at 8 pm Pops concerts sponsored by Regency Centers

Special Event

Sun, Oct 5 at 3 pm Glenmoor at World Golf Village

Sat, Nov 1 at 2 pm The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens

Sun, Nov 2 at 3 pm Palms Presbyterian Church

MUSICAL STORYBOOKS

HOTEL CALIFORNIA A Salute to the Eagles Wed, Oct 15 at 8 pm The Jacksonville Symphony does not perform at this event.

Special Event CertusBank Matinee Series

THE MUSIC OF ELVIS Sat, Oct 18 at 8 pm Sun, Oct 19 at 3 pm Sunday concert sponsored by David and Linda Stein

Florida Blue Masterworks Series

VIOLIN VIRTUOSITY Fri & Sat, Oct 24 & 25 at 8 pm Saturday concert sponsored by BRASS

Family Series Special Event

Sun, Nov 1 at 11 am Jacksonville Public Library, Main Branch

SYMPHONY 101

MEET THE WOODWINDS Thu, Oct 23 at 12:30 pm Times-Union Center

BRASS

2014 BRASS BONANZA Sun, Sep 28 at 5 pm Sawgrass Country Club

SYMPHONIC SORCERY The Music of Harry Potter Sun, Oct 26 at 3 pm & 6 pm Mayo Clinic Coffee Series Fidelity National Financial Pops Series

SALUTE TO AMERICA Fri, Nov 7 at 11 am & 8 pm Sat, Nov 8 at 8 pm Friday Pops concert co-sponsored by BRASS & FIS Saturday Pops concert sponsored by VyStar

Florida Blue Masterworks Series

MOZART REQUIEM Fri & Sat, Nov 14 & 15 at 8 pm Concerts sponsored by The Main Charitable Trust

Tickets: 904.354.5547

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The Jacksonville Symphony

A Holiday Tradition!

CLASSICAL HOLIDAY Fri, Nov 21

Family Series

THE POLAR EXPRESS

HANDEL’S MESSIAH

JIM BRICKMAN

Sponsored by St. Vincent’s HealthCare

Sponsored by Harbinger Signs

Mayo Clinic Coffee Series Fidelity National Financial Pops Series CertusBank Matinee Series

Publix Super Markets Charities JSYO Series

Fri, Dec 5

Sat, Dec 6

Sun, Dec 7

Fri, Sat & Sun, Dec 12, 13 & 14

HOLIDAY POPS

JSYO HOLIDAY CONCERT

Sponsored by Scott-McRae Group

Coffee concert sponsored by Westminster Woods Pops concerts sponsored by SteinMart Special thanks to the Jess & Brewster J. Durkee Foundation

Sponsored by Sawcross, Inc.

THE KING’S SINGERS

FIRST COAST NUTCRACKER

TOAST! TO THE NEW YEAR!

The Jacksonville Symphony does not perform.

Sponsored by VyStar

Tue, Dec 16

Fri, Sat & Sun, Dec 19, 20 & 21

Mon, Dec 8

Wed, Dec 31

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MESSIAEN (Continued from page 36) distinctive combinations of whole- and half-tones, including the whole-tone scale previously exploited by Debussy, and the exotic octatonic scale favored by RimskyKorsakov and Stravinsky.

Melody drives the musical forms, with several themes based on Gregorian chants or chant fragments “transposed” into Messiaen’s modes. Much of the orchestration suggests organ registrations, and Messiaen later transcribed the first, second and fourth movements as a suite for organ solo, but composed a new third movement to replace the orchestral scherzo with a bravura toccata better suited to the keyboard.

What to Listen For… The contemplative first meditation highlights the brass choir with woodwind reinforcement, while the rapturous second features woodwinds supported by strings.

The third meditation resounds with fanfares as the full orchestra dances into a closing fugato; where the other movements aspire to a celestial timelessness, this one embraces earthbound celebration. For strings alone and with a final dominant 7th

chord left hanging, Messiaen’s concluding meditation slowly ascends like an immutable “amen.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian composer and pianist Born: 1756, Salzburg, Austria; died: 1791, Vienna, Austria

Requiem in D Minor, K 626

Composed in 1791; completed by Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766-1803); edited by Franz Beyer (b. 1922) Premiered on December 10, 1791, for Mozart’s memorial service in Vienna (Introitus & Kyrie) First complete public performance on January 2, 1793, in Vienna Last Jsym performance: April 2009, Masterworks Series, Fabio Mechetti, conductor, with soloists Kelley Nassief, soprano; Stacy Rishoi, mezzo-soprano; Scott Ramsay; tenor and Philip Cutlip, bass, and the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, directed by Jon O. Carlson. ca. 54 minutes (6’; 3’; 2’, 3’, 6, 3’, 4’; 4’, 5’; 2’, 6’; 4’; 6’)

From the Podium

By Michael Butterman

The works on tonight’s program present complementary, though quite contrasting, theological perspectives and musical vocabulary. To a large extent, Mozart’s tone is determined by text of the traditional Requiem mass, with its emphasis on sin, atonement, judgment and pleas for mercy. There is considerable darkness, even dread, to be felt upon hearing this music. Indeed, Mozart employs an orchestra that emphasizes darkerhued and more muted instruments (trombones, basset horns, no flutes). At several key structural points, he presents elaborate fugues, conveying a serious and academic gravitas through the use of what was, already at the time of its composition, an oldfashioned style very much associated with liturgical music.

Messiaen’s approach is less traditional and more personal. A deeply religious Catholic, he embraced a personal theology that emphasized mysticism and religious ecstasy. In L’ascension, we hear hypnotic chords that resemble prayer mantras, as well as chant-like unison melodies that exist in modes of his own invention. Throughout, there is a sense of joy mixed with quiet awe at the prospect of Christ being reunited with God the Father upon his ascension to Heaven.

The structure of the Mozart is cyclical in that the musical material of the opening (Kyrie fugue) is also heard at the end (Cum sanctis tuis in aeternam fugue). This technique is not uncommon in Requiems (Brahms did it, too) and serves to musically underscore the cyclic nature of earthly life: dust to dust. We also experience a rounded journey in Messiaen’s work, wherein the calm of the opening is paralleled by the serenity of the final movement’s slowly rising string chords.

So with these two works, we have, on the one hand, dark and light, agony and ecstasy.

But we also find a common profundity and seriousness of purpose – qualities entirely appropriate to our reflection of this journey of life that we all share.

Michael Butterman’s biography appears on page 10.

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During Mozart’s final summer his financial prospects were looking rosy. He had two new operas nearing production, La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute.

Plus, while wishing bon voyage to a London-bound “Papa” Haydn, the previous December Mozart had received an offer to headline an English concert series of his own. That July a stranger knocked at Mozart’s door to commission a requiem on behalf of an anonymous benefactor. Mozart accepted, collecting a generous fee up front, but his operas took precedence, and his Clarinet Concerto and Little Freemason Cantata would interrupt in the fall.

Mozart fell ill while in Prague for the September premiere of Tito, most likely from failing kidneys. Returning home, the unusually cold Vienna autumn hastened his decline, and his symptoms included occasional delirium. Constanza, the composer’s beloved Frau and confidante, never believed his delusions, but reported her husband sometimes had convinced himself he’d been poisoned, and that the mysterious stranger was a supernatural emissary of Death ordaining the Requiem for Mozart’s own funeral. Mozart worked feverishly to complete his last masterpiece, but became bedridden on November 20.

This time Death did knock. Uninvited, it entered just before one-o’clock in the early hours of December 5, 1791.

Documents surfaced in the 1960s revealing the commission actually came from Count Franz von Walseggt, who wanted a memorial for his recently-deceased countess. Known to pass off others’ compositions as his own, the Count had sent his valet to meet with Mozart.

With the commission unfulfilled, Constanza feared she would have to refund the payment. Fortunately, Mozart had finished the Introitus, and left a detailed shortscore through the Hostias (except for a fragmentary Lacrimosa), together with instructions to repeat music from the Introitus and Kyrie for the final Communio.

He also had discussed and sung through the score with Franz Süssmayr, among others. Although Süssmayr was not her first choice, Constanza ultimately solicited the 25-year-old to complete the Requiem.

Süssmayr had to work slapdash to fulfill the commission, and almost from the start his contribution was criticized for shoddy part-

writing and clumsy orchestration. In 1972, German musicologist Franz Beyer prepared a new edition correcting the obvious problems. Beyer’s edition repeats the closing hosanna phrases in the Sanctus and Benedictus to overcome the abruptness of Süssmayr’s original, but otherwise allows us to share the same music heard by listeners of the first complete performances.

While reworking the Requiem in the mid-1980s for a different edition, Richard Maunder determined the Agnus Dei is paraphrased from Mozart’s “Sparrow” Mass; others have noted similarities between the opening of Süssmayr’s Sanctus with the Dies irae. How much, if any, direct guidance Mozart provided for these we likely will never know. But we do know Süssmayr deserves our thanks for bringing forward Mozart’s last testament of undeniable genius.

Historically Speaking In 1791, when Mozart composed his Requiem: At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself as the first Emperor of the French in a thousand years; the Napoleonic Code is adopted An ordinance barring the game of baseball within 80 yards of the Meeting House in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is the first known reference to the game in North America.

The first permanent settlement in modern Jacksonville was founded as “Cowford” at a narrow point in the St. Johns River where cattlemen could ford their livestock across.

The location was approximately 3,000 feet west of Fort San Nicolas.

In 1932, when Messaien began work on L’Ascension: Ghandi was arrested by the British and jailed. He began his famous hunger strike.

The Great Depression – U.S. unemployment reached 24.5%.

The Lindbergh baby was kidnapped and later found dead.

©2014 by Edward Lein.

Edward Lein produces Jacksonville Public Library’s Music @ Main concerts and was a 2006 finalist in the Jacksonville Symphony’s “Fresh Ink” Florida Composers Competition.

Jacksonville Beach, Florida – Dedication of ”A Memorial to Children” (Lindbergh Baby Monument), September 17, 1932. Large group of children surrounding memorial. B. Mickler holding baby. Photo courtesy of Beaches Historical Society.

– Lynne Radcliffe

Jacksonville Symphony Chorus

Donald McCullough, Director Tom Zimmerman Endowed Chair Ileana Fernandez, Rehearsal Accompanist • Jill Weisblatt, Manager Soprano Kumasi Aaron Jerrye Baker Susan Baker May Beattie Celeste Ennis Bicknell Marisa Bovenzi Louise Brooks Susan Calfee Sandra Clarke Melanie Cost Margaret Crawford Katherine S. Crowell Julie Davis Tracy Davis Alyce Decker Stephanie Doerr Janet Elsila Amy Fannin Kate Flint Amber Forster Pat Gavaletz Rachel Hanauer Brittany Harmon Maggie Graichen-Herrera Kathy Hunt Kiki Karpen Megan Kaufman Michelle Kemp Lili M. Lauer Lena Leon de Lahaye Ginger Lindberg

Marianne McAlhanyMurray Marianna Malinovskaya Kristin Markham Elan Mastin Kate Medill Paula Merritt Barbara Miller Sevella Mostella Laura Jane Pittman Kelsey Potratz Nancy Purcell AJ Ruvane Dianne Smith Janet Snell Shelby Spalter Heather Wakefield Eileen Ward Jill Weisblatt Christa Williams Terri Williams Glynis A. Wood Alto Carole Vanderhoef Banks Deborah Harden Baker Elisabeth Bricknell Kathleen Brown Dorothy Jean Bush Rita R. Cannon Estelle Chisholm Elizabeth Claggett Libby Conner

Susan Conners Nancy Crookshank Carolyn Dickson Kathryn Eaton Penny Floyd Karin Fulton Madge Bruner Hazen Carole Heckrotte Keri Height Lynda Height Deborah Hoag Janice Kuo Leyse Lowry Liz McAlhany Patricia Medlock Molly Miller Sally Offen Jane Palmer Rosina Paul Anne Petersen Katrina Foppiano-Pierson Vickie Prince Nancy Redfern Wynn Redmon Caitlin Regan Judy Reid Patti Robertson Connie Roush Kim Rowland Sandra Scott Debra Shelton Sharon Snow Vivian Southwell

Laura Stephenson Sherilyn Van Orden Jerri Lea Ware Cindy Wohl April Zitnay Tenor David Avery Stan Ballenger Esteban Cano Denny Clark Julie K. Cross David Floyd Wayne Heckrotte Michael Hodges Tim Hulse Mark Macco Christopher S. Martin Jim McGuffin Osvaldo J. Medina Daniel Moses Brandon Pack John Petersen Robert Quinby Reg Smith Buddy Stone Jack G. Sumrall III Billy Ware Sam Young Bass Charles Carroll Kenny Chin

Dale Choate Bradley Corner Gregg Gerlach Robert Hall Franklin Hurst David Hotchkiss Ken Kutch Jim Maher Walter Mattingly Bill Meisel Archie Miiller Joseph Murray Tom Nesbitt Mark O’Connor Bernie Oechsli R. Hugh Patterson Karl Rogers John Ruvane Jeffrey Schroer Richard T. Stritter Richard Sykes Todd Teears Hugh Tobias John Weitzel Paul Witkowski Peter Wynkoop See page 7 for more about the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus.

For audition information, call 904.354.5479, ext. 221.

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special event J AC K SON V I L L E SY M P HONY ORCH E STRA Courtney Lewis, Music Director Designate, Haskell Endowed Chair Michael Butterman, Resident Conductor, Jim Van Vleck Endowed Chair

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014 l 8 pm Robert E. Jacoby Symphony Hall, Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts

Classical holiday Conducted by Chelsea tipton, ii Rimsky-Korsakov Polonaise from Christmas Eve Corelli

Christmas Concerto

Pachelbel Canon Bizet

L’Arlésienne: Suite No. 1

INTERMISSION

Wendel

Christmas a la Valse

Tyzik Amazing Grace Tchaikovsky

The Nutcracker Suite

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.

Chelsea Tipton, II American conductor Chelsea Tipton II is now celebrating his sixth season as music director of the Symphony of Southeast Texas in Beaumont.

Mr. Tipton is last season’s recipient of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Aspire Award, awarded to an African American or Latino artist who demonstrates a commitment to community and inclusiveness. Recently appointed principal pops conductor of the New Haven Symphony, he has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Indianapolis, New Jersey, Nashville, San Antonio and Houston Symphonies, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana (Palermo), Dohnanyi Symphony Orchestra (Budapest), Brooklyn, Louisiana, and Rochester Philharmonic among others.

Mr. Tipton conducted the Sphinx Competition Showcase gala concert in Carnegie Hall, which was the culmination of a ten-city tour with the orchestra. During the summer of 2011, Tipton was part of an extensive European tour with pop artist Sting taking him to 15 countries working with 19 different European orchestras. He prepared the orchestras for the concerts and performed with Sting in concert in the Canary Islands, Granada and Cap Roig Spain.

The Jacksonville Symphony

A Holiday Tradition!

See page 37 for a complete list of holiday events. Tickets: 904.354.5547 | JaxSymphony.org Encore! 41

VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES Symphony Guild The Guild marked the official beginning of the season at its retreat on September 8, sharing new ideas, fundraising events and warm camaraderie. We anticipate a large turnout to welcome Courtney Lewis, who will be the guest of honor for the Membership Coffee on October 8, hosted at Tamaya, an ICI Homes Community. The Guild’s new Holiday Shoppe will make its debut at the Coffee Concert on October 10. Please stop by and visit. The year ahead is innovative and exciting, and we hope you join us at our various events.

As a not-for-profit organization, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is a member-supported, community asset.

Those who care about our mission offer philanthropic support, community advocacy, volunteer governance, and gifts of time and talent. Get involved by giving a gift, joining an auxiliary group, serving as an usher or singing in the chorus. A variety of rewarding opportunities are available.

Pictured at the Guild’s Annual Luncheon in June are (from left) Bonnie Ennis, Rose Littlefield, Pam Gerrish Nelson, Stacy Gambrell and Allene Groote.

BRASS New music director Courtney Lewis joins the 11th annual BRASS Bonanza on Sunday, September 28 at the Sawgrass Country Club. The event includes dinner and a mini-concert by several Jacksonville Symphony musicians. This is a great opportunity to meet Courtney and to hear what’s in store for the upcoming season.

Cost is $75 per person. Contact brassjax@ gmail.com or nadinesabatier@bellsouth.net for tickets and information.

Enjoying last year’s BRASS Bonanza are (from left) Maryann Imbriani, Mary Lee Golitz, Joe Spadaro and Michael Imbriani.

ARIAS More than 500 residents enjoyed the “Let Freedom Ring” concert at First Baptist Church in Fernandina Beach.

ARIAS sponsors this annual event to the community to start the Memorial Day Weekend celebrations. The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, led by Morihiko Nakahara, presented a concert of American music to honor our country and fallen veterans. Robert Quinby, a long standing member of ARIAS and the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus, sang the Star-Spangled Banner to start the program. The “Armed Forces Salute” involved six Veterans, residents of Amelia Island, who presented the flags of their respective branch of the Service.

GET INVOLVED

Pictured at “Let Freedom Ring” are (above) U.S. Marine Veterans Cal Atwood (left) and Jim Thomas, and (below) Bob and Jane Brown with their granddaughter Victoria Louis.

Photos by Walter Petersen.

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ARIAS - (Amelia Residents In Action for the Symphony) ARIAS’ primary goals are to bring the Jacksonville Symphony to Amelia Island, to encourage Nassau residents to attend symphony concerts, and to provide music education to children in Nassau County Schools through Jacksonville Symphony performances and Instrument Zoo. ARIAS also sponsors a scholarship program and more. For information, please call 904.261.0105.

BRASS (Beaches Residents Actively Supporting the Symphony) The members of BRASS support the Jacksonville Symphony by fostering orchestral music appreciation, promoting concert attendance, providing financial support and facilitating music education. For information, log on to BRASSonline.org or call Michael Imbriani, BRASS President, at 610.322.7766.

The Guild – The Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony strives to further awareness of music and music education and to create strong community support of the Symphony. Fundraising activities include the Holiday Shoppe and the Painted Violins.

Outreach and special events include the Instrument Zoo, Harmony Grants, scholarships for qualified music students, Coffee Concerts, Musicians’ Appreciation luncheon and more. For information, please call 904.358.1479 or log on to JaxSymphony. org or JaxSymGuild.com.

Volunteer Ushers – At each concert, our Jacksonville Symphony Volunteer Ushers make everyone feel welcome and contribute toward making performances run smoothly for patrons. To find out how to join this great team, call 904.354.5479.

Symphony Chorus – The Jacksonville Symphony Chorus is in its 30th season of making great music with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. The all-volunteer chorus includes some of our area’s finest voices who share the spirit of singing choral music. For audition dates and information, call 904.354.5479.

volunteer events BRASS and OLLI

The Holiday Shoppe

BRASS Sponsored Concerts

Available in the lobby at Coffee Concerts (Oct. 10, Nov. 7 and Dec. 12) and at First Coast Nutcracker (Dec. 19-21)

This Fall BRASS is sponsoring two Jacksonville Symphony performances: Saturday, October 25 “Violin Virtuosity” on the Masterworks Series and Friday, November 7 “Salute to America” on the Pops series.

This popular Guild-sponsored fundraiser features an array of Nutcrackers and unique gift items for those on your holiday list.

BRASS is partnering with Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNF to present a four-course series. Dates are Sept. 22, Oct. 20, Nov. 10 and Jan. 5, prior to the week’s Masterworks concerts. Learn about the time, place and people surrounding the composers and the music. Cameo appearances by Jsym musicians bring the music alive. For information, log on to olliunf.org.

Music for Your Eyes The 2014-15 Music for Your Eyes painted violins are on display at concerts throughout the season. Purchase your drawing tickets for a chance to win one of these beautiful works donated by local artists. Music for Your Eyes is a fund raising project for the Guild’s Harmony Grant program.

Meet and Greet Members of Arias will have an opportunity to “Meet and Greet” Courtney Lewis on Tuesday, October 7 at a wine and cheese reception. Please call Pat Murray at 904.321.4147 for details.

ARIAS Goes to the Symphony Upcoming ARIAS group outings at the Symphony include Fri., Oct. 10 Coffee Concert “Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel” (bus & concert); Sun., Dec. 14 Holiday Pops Matinee (bus & concert); Sun., Jan. 18 Royal Philharmonic with Pinchas Zukerman (bus & concert); Fri., Jan. 30 “Happy Birthday Mozart” (dinner, bus & concert); Sat., Feb. 7 “Porgy & Bess” (dinner, bus & concert); Fri., Feb. 13 Coffee Concert “Pops In Love” (bus & concert); Fri., Mar. 6 “An Evening with Paul Williams” (bus & concert); and Sun., May 3 Bus & Concert “Sleeping Beauty” (bus & concert). Please call Pat Murray at 904.321.4174 for ticket and bus reservations. You can also ride to each Friday Masterworks concert from Amelia Island. Call 904.354.5547 for details.

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EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Each year, the Jacksonville Symphony reaches nearly 70,000 students and adults annually in Duval, Clay, St. Johns and Nassau counties.

Children & Families Family Series Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra VyStar First Coast Nutcracker “Sleeping Beauty” Ballet

Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra The JSYO is one of the best and most comprehensive youth orchestra programs in the Southeast, enrolling more than 270 students.

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

2014-2015 Publix Super Markets Charities JSYO Series 2014 Fall Concert Sunday, November 9, 2014, at 5:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall

Schools & Teachers Prelude Concerts (Grades 2 & 3) Young People’s Concerts (Grades 4 & 5) Classroom Concerts (Grades 1 through 8) Musical Storybooks (Preschool & Kindergarten) Instrument Zoo & Harmony Grants Teacher Ticket Discounts Jump Start Strings (Grades 3, 4 & 5) Master Classes Pizza With the Players Opera with “Porgy and Bess”

Free Holiday Concert Monday, December 8, 2014, at 7:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall Free Chamber Music Recital Thursday, January 22, 2015, at 7:00 pm UNF Recital Hall 2014 Young Artists Competition Concerto Finals Monday, January 26, 2015, at 6:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall

Adults

Festival of Strings Sunday, March 1 2015, at 5:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall

Symphony101 Words on Music Talkback Ensemble Performances for Seniors Cover the Town With Sound

Major/Minor Concert with the Jsym Saturday, March 7, 2015, at 8:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall

If you’d like to support these efforts to bring music to children in Northeast Florida, please contact the Jacksonville Symphony’s membership offices at 904.354.1473.

2015 Spring Concert Sunday, May 17, 2015, at 5:00 pm Jacoby Symphony Hall Visit the JSYO website for more details. www.jaxyouthorchestra.com

Thank You, Education Sponsors and Partners, for Bringing Harmony to the First Coast!

ADP Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation and The League of American Orchestras Arias Bank of America Foundation BBVA Compass Bank Carl S. Swisher Foundation CertusBank Cummer Family Foundation Donald C. McGraw Foundation Douglas Anderson School of the Arts DuBow Family Foundation Duval County Public School Board

Edna Sproull Williams Foundation Enterprise Holdings Foundation EverBank Fanny Landwirth Foundation Florida State College at Jacksonville The Henry & Lucy Gooding Endowment The Guild of the Jacksonville Symphony In memory of Ann F. Skinner J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Mr. James Winston Jessie Ball duPont Fund The Main Street America Group

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The Masucci Family THE PLAYERS Championship Publix Super Markets Charities Rayonier Foundation Robert and Thelma Neid Herb and Ann Rowe Charitable Foundation Mrs. Ruthwood C. Samek Sawcross, Inc. Scott-McRae Group University of North Florida Wells Fargo Foundation Mr. William L. Ritchie Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts

Find out more and get involved!

Call 904.354.5657, or log on to JaxSymphony.org.

J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Music Education Series

Jacksonville Symphony Believes in Music Education So many musicians, including those in the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, trace their love of music to their school education.

The Symphony’s new music director, Courtney Lewis, talks about how music was one of the most important parts of his childhood. “I had a fantastic teacher at high school who opened my ears to the richness of classical music. He taught me to listen to as much as possible, from the Renaissance to living composers.”

Jacksonville is seeing a resurgence of music education. There is now an art and music teacher for every elementary school in the Duval County Public Schools, thanks to the vision of DCPS Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti. The Jacksonville Symphony is proud to offer many different programs to help support school initiatives and to provide avenues for involvement.

Jump Start Strings works with schools that have predominately underserved populations. It is part of the after-school programs organized by Communities In Schools. Jump Start Strings provides children in grades 3, 4 and 5 with cello, violin or bass instruction and supervised practice sessions. Patrice Evans, violinist with the Jacksonville Symphony and Jump Start Strings instructor explains the experience. “I enjoy the transformation that happens before your eyes,” she said. “There are children who have made incredible progress and exceeded all my expectations.”

The Symphony also holds Prelude Concerts for children in grades 2 and 3, and Young People’s Concerts for grades 4 and 5. Symphony Ensembles give Classroom Concerts in elementary and middle schools. High school students attend Pizza with the Players, which occurs after the Coffee Concerts. For Cellist Vernon Humbert chats with schoolchildren during a just $25, the student Sound Jacksonville Symphony string ensemble performance at SA Hull Elementary School.

Check Card gives access to every Jacksonville Symphony Masterworks and Coffee concert for the entire season.

The Instrument Zoo program brings Symphony Guild volunteers to local schools, allowing children to try out the full array of orchestra instruments. For some, this is the first time having a musical instrument in their hands.

It’s safe to say that the Patrice Evans is one of several Jacksonville Symphony Jacksonville Symphony musicians who serve as instructors in the Jump Start Orchestra operates the most Strings program. in-depth and varied youth music programs in North SOUND CHECK CARD Florida. If you’d like to learn more about the A Great Value for Symphony’s offerings for children or would Students and Families like to financially support its efforts, please call the Jacksonville Symphony membership offices at 904.354.1473.

For $25, the Sound Check Card offers students (up to age 25) admission to all Masterworks, Coffee and other select concerts for an entire season.

The Musical Storybooks program fosters a love of reading through music.

Cover the Town With Sound offers free neighborhood concerts.

The Sound Check Card also allows up to two admissions for accompanying parents or friends, for $10 each (cash only).

The Sound Check Card can be purchased online at JaxSymphony.org or by calling 904.354.5547.

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Saturday, November 15

8:00pm Lazzara Performance Hall at UNF

Bus Packages Don’t like to drive at night? Don’t want to worry about parking?

Leave the car close to home, relax and ride with fellow concertgoers. Make your advance reservations for specially packaged evenings from St. Simons Island, St. Johns/ Mandarin, Palm Coast and The Villages.

For more information about group sales, bus/dinner packages and restaurant discounts, please call Group Sales at 904.356.0426.

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Alexandra Ackerman John Azar Stephanie Cost Omar Cueto Abel Harding Jacob Long Gary McCalla Debbie Moreland Cheryl Amos Riddick Kerri Stewart Jesse Wilson

Tickets starting at $35

The Jacksonville Symphony gratefully acknowledges some of our most important music makers.

Ruth Conley

The Julius N. Frankel Foundation

State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture.

The Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust

The Jessie Ball duPont Fund

Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC

Robert D. and Isabelle T. Davis Endowment Fund

J. Wayne & Delores Barr Weaver

The DuBow Family Foundation

Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts

The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation

Acosta Sales & Marketing • ADP • Yvonne Charvot Barnett Young Artist Fund • Bob & Lynn Alligood • Biscottis Brooks Rehabilitation • Buffet Group Wind Instruments • Cummer Family Foundation • Jess & Brewster J. Durkee Foundation FIS • Hartley Press • Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation • The Kirbo Charitable Trust • Fanny Landwirth Foundation Martin Coffee Co. • Donald C. McGraw Foundation • Publix Super Markets Charities • Raymond James & Associates, Inc. David and Linda Stein • Carl S. Swisher Foundation • Edna Sproull Williams Foundation • Dana’s Limousine and Transportation Services • U.S. Trust • Vanguard Charitable-Kessler Fund Agility Press • BBVA Compass Bank • Claude Nolan Cadillac • George M. Cohen Foundation • Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Enterprise Holdings Foundation • Harbinger Sign • JAX Chamber • Lloyd A. Fry Foundation • The Main Street America Group Parsley’s Piano • Performance Security, Inc. • Rayonier • Regions Bank • Riverside Liquors & Village Wine Shop The Rowe Charitable Foundation • Scott-McRae Group, Inc. • The Stellar Group • The Stupski Foundation • St. Vincent’s HealthCare US Assure • Westminster Woods on Julington Creek • Wilson’s Limited, Inc. • Wells Fargo Foundation A-B Distributors, Inc. • American Electrical • AmeriCare Home Health Comcast • Deutsche Bank • Jacksonville University • Sawcross, Inc. Media Partners: Clear Channel Outdoor • FOLIO Weekly • WEJZ Lite 96.1 WJCT Public Broadcasting • WOKV AM 690 Community Partners: Encore! 47

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Betty Lu Grune and Annie Morris, the George V. Grune Endowed Violin chair, bond over breakfast!

Conductor’s Club members gain first hand access to the Orchestra’s artistry at Sit-on-Stage rehearsals.

Jsym musicians and guest artists are an inspiration to musicians and audiences of today and tomorrow.

Join a Giving Club and Enhance your Symphony Experience!

Platinum Club Diamond - $50,000

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Open Rehearsals November 12

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JUST FOR MEMBERS Doors open at 6 pm Rehearsal at 7 pm Join Michael Butterman and the Jacksonville Symphony Chorus and Orchestra as they rehearse Mozart’s Requiem.

January 15

All Harmony Club members are invited to the annual Donor Appreciation Concert, and are also invited to purchase tickets in advance of public sale.

For more information about giving to the Jacksonville Symphony and for a full listing of donor benefits, please visit www.jaxsymphony.org/donate.

Doors open at 1 pm Rehearsal at 2 pm Join Steven Reineke and friends with your Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra as they mix a Mad Men musical cocktail with music of Paul Anka, Brenda Lee, Ben E. King and more!

Rehearsals are open by invitation to donors of $150+.

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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, Ed.D. Clarissa and Warren Chandler Estelle and Terry Chisholm Col. and Mrs. Robert B. Clarke Luther and Blanche Coggin Elizabeth Schell Colyer Ruth P. Conley Mrs. Caroline S. Covin Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cowden Dr. Amy Crowder in memory of Carole V. Ewart Chris and Stephanie Doerr Brock Fazzini Josephine Flaherty Friend of the Symphony (5)

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Mr. and Mrs. Allan Geiger 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 Mr. and Mrs. E. William Nash Jr

Janet and Joseph Nicosia Mr. Val Palmer Ruth (Rusty) Pierce Richard and Leslie Pierpont 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 Stephen Williams Renee Winkler

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The Jacksonville Symphony Association gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following individuals, businesses and foundations: Gifts to the Annual Fund between July 1, 2013, and September 18, 2014 ∆ Designates a gift in-kind * Designates deceased

CENTURY CLUB – $100,000+ BRASS (Beaches Residents Actively Supporting the Symphony) Ruth Conley in memory of Paul Conley City of Jacksonville, Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville Fidelity National Financial Florida Blue Julius N. Frankel Foundation Monica and Bob Jacoby State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs & the Florida Council on Arts & Culture

PLATINUM CLUB: DIAMOND – $50,000 - $99,000 Anonymous gift in honor of the City Rescue Mission Staff Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Day Chris and Stephanie Doerr Jessie Ball duPont Fund Josephine V. Flaherty The Florida Times-Union ∆ Jacksonville Symphony Guild Mr. and Mrs. John Mayfield ∆ Mrs. C. Herman Terry YP ∆

PLATINUM CLUB: RUBY – $25,000 - $49,999 Bank of America / Merrill Lynch Amy and Gilchrist B. Berg bestbet The Brumos Companies Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bryan, IV CertusBank Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC ∆ CSX Isabelle T. and Robert D. Davis DuBow Family Foundation EverBank Haskell Valdemar Joost Kroier Endowment Fund Roger L. and Rochelle S. Main Charitable Trust Mayo Clinic Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Newton, Jr. Omni Hotel & Resorts ∆ Regency Centers, Inc. Weaver Family Foundation Woodcock Foundation for the Appreciation of the Arts PGA VyStar Credit Union

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PLATINUM CLUB: EMERALD $10,000 - $24,999 Acosta Sales & Marketing Bob and Lynn Alligood Sandra Sue Ashby Sally and Jim Baldwin Yvonne Charvot Barnett Endowment Biscottis ∆ Brooks Rehabilitation G. Howard Bryan Endowment Fund Mr. and Mrs. A. R. “Pete” Carpenter Sharon and Martin Connor Cummer Family Foundation Sally and Tyler Dann Jane and Jack Dickison Jess & Brewster J. Durkee Foundation Jon A. Ebacher and Jill T. Wannemacher Mr. Andrew Farkas FIS Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation and the League of American Orchestras Paul and Nina Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Preston H. Haskell Jaguars Foundation Vanguard Charitable - Kessler Fund The Thomas M. Kirbo and Irene B. Kirbo Charitable Trust E. Michel and Heidja Kruse Fanny Landwirth Foundation Mrs. Edward W. Lane, Jr. Anne and Robert Lufrano Estate of Mrs. Jean Lumpkin Donald C. McGraw Foundation Martin Coffee Company ∆ Arthur W. Milam and Teresa de Balmaseda Milam Lee and Darlene Nutter Publix Super Markets Charities Raymond James & Associates, Inc. Mrs. J. Louis Schaefer Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Shircliff Dr. Edward and Mary Ellen Smith Drs. Mihaela Ionescu and Mark A. Spatola David and Linda Stein SteinMart, Inc. Stratton & Company Retirement Financial Strategies David and Elaine Strickland Erlane D. and John E. Tait US Trust George and Ellen Williams Edna Sproull Williams Foundation Winston Family Foundation Quentin and Louise* Wood Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Worth CONDUCTOR’S CLUB GOLD $5,000 - $9,999 ADP, Automatic Data Processing, Inc. John and Cherie Billings Candy and John Bobeck Paul and Kathy Bosland Riverplace Capital Management, Inc. Buffet Group Woodwind Instruments The Clinton Family Fund in honor of Mary Patton Elizabeth Lovett Colledge The Community Foundation of Northeast Florida Tom and Jesse Dattilo Susan P. Davis Edward and Susan Doherty Alice and O’Neal Douglas Friend of the Symphony (2) Mr. and Mrs. John Godfrey Margaret Gomez

Harbinger Sign Hartley Press ∆ Mrs. Egbert Heilman Bob and Pat Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Randolph R. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. J. Malcolm Jones Dr. Frances B. Kinne John and Bette Klacsmann Fund Patty and Jim Kleck Dr. and Mrs. Ross T. Krueger Richard and Janet Tatiana Langford Mrs. Richard C. Lonsdale Magnolia Foundation The Main Street America Group Mr. and Mrs. Matthew S. McAfee Julie and Michael McKenny Margaret Leu Means Dorothea E. Neinstedt Ms. Kay Nichols Janet and Joseph Nicosia Parsley’s Piano ∆ Mary Carr Patton Dick and Leslie Pierpont Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pippin PriceWaterhouseCoopers Regions Bank Susan and John Ryzewic George and DiAnne Scanlon Susan and Fred Schantz Scott-McRae Group, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Settembrini, Jr. Dr. Richard G. Skinner, Jr. Kent and Marie Smith Reg and Bonnie Smith Virginia K. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Spetnagel III Joseph and Anna Spiak St. Vincent’s HealthCare Brooke and Hap Stein Stupski Foundation in memory of Elizabeth G. Stupski Carl S. Swisher Foundation Lee and Dorothy Thomas Chip and Phyllis Tousey US Assure Jim and Joan Van Vleck Tom Vickery and Sarah McAlhany Wells Fargo Westminster Woods on Julington Creek Dr. and Mrs. Scott Wiedenmann Dr. Eugene and Brenda Wolchok Martie Yohe Carlton and Barbara Zacheis CONDUCTOR’S CLUB SILVER $3,500 - $4,999 AAA Travel Auto Club South Mark and Rita Allen Stephen E. and Phyllis C. Bachand Drs. Julie R. and James D. Baker, III Mrs. Audrey Baker Annette and Bill Boling Ginny and Bob BonDurant Nancy and Ted Burfeind Mrs. William S. Burns and Mrs. David L. Dalton Carl and Rita Cannon Dr. and Mrs. John D. Casler Claude Nolan Cadillac, Inc. Linda and Patrick Clyne Cornehl Family Foundation Fund Sue and Jerry Dorsch Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Drew Enterprise (Rent-a-Car) Holdings Foundation Pat and Fred Gieg William G. Gingrich Cynthia and Walter Graham, Jr. Calvin and Ellen Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Victor A. Hughes Ira and Eva Jackler Lillian and Bunky Johnson, Jr. Naomi Karkanen Dave and Mary Pat Kulik Carolyn Marsh Lindsay Frances W. McCurry James B. Miles

Gerald L. Nichols and Jacqueline W. Nichols Foundation, Inc. Marie and Joel Pangborn Performance Security, Inc. Deborah and David Pierson Dr. and Mrs. Russell W. Pratt Ina W. Richter Mr. and Mrs. Raymond A. Ross, Jr. Ms. Ruth Schwarzmann Ed and Whitney Selover Stephen and Joan Shewbrooks Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Sisisky Hal and Ana Skinner Ms. Linda L. Smith Marianne and Ben Stein Margaret and Travis Storey Gwynne and Bob Tonsfeldt Mr. and Mrs. Rolf Towe Rev. W. Glenn Turner Dr. and Mrs. H. Warner Webb Ms. Barbara W. Webster Norma and Jack Williams Wilson’s Ltd Dr. and Mrs. Charles N. Winton Arlen and Doris Yokley Charitable Foundation CONDUCTOR’S CLUB SILVER $2,250 - $3,499 AB Distributors Mr. and Mrs. Conrad F. Ahrens Teri and Jim Babcock BBVA Compass Bank Borkowski Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Boushie John and Cletia Bowron Rod and Pat Brock Mark and Beth Brockelman Mary Ann and Shepard Bryan Carol and Jim Bryce Ms. Kathryn Captain Sandra and Andrew Clarke Mr. and Mrs. George Clegg Meade and Alvin Coplan Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Joe C. Ebbinghouse, M. D. Mrs. George C. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Euston Mr. and Mrs. David Foerster Friend of the Symphony Judy and George Gabel Mr. and Mrs. George W. Gibbs, III Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence S. Goldberg Rabbi Robert and Marilyn Goodman Claudia B. Gordon Steve and Diane Halverson Mrs. Joan F. Heller Bondy and Tom Hodgkins Dr. Anne H. Hopkins Michael and Maryann Imbriani Dr. and Mrs. Andrew Keaveny David and Sally Ketcham Mrs. Anne Kufeldt Janine Leland and Tom Larson Annette Laubscher and Ken Mattiace Harriet LeMaster Mrs. John R. Mackroth Bill and Barbara Maletz Susan and Ron Masucci Ann and Bob Maxwell Ms. Sally McCue Donald McCurry and Suzanne Keith Charles and Diane Newman Bob and Flo Anne O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. John O’Neil, Jr. Mrs. John G. Pflugfelder Mrs. Elsa Troeh and Mr. Thomas M. Pope Ted and Jane Preston Riverside Liquors & Village Wine Shop ∆ Herb and Ann Rowe Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Sherin Mr. and Mrs. Mark J. Shorstein Helen Morse and Fritz Skeen The Stellar Group Mrs. C. Gray Strum Encore! 51

Mr. and Mrs. John Tancredi Mrs. Luke Thornton Mireille and Robert Threlkel Emily Van Vliet Carol and Manuel Wallace Michael and Kim Ward Barbara C. West Dr. Mary Ellen Young and Mr. Donald Owen CONDUCTOR’S CLUB PRELUDE $1,250 - $2,249 Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ronald Adams Judith and Robert P. Adelman Harold E. Aken, Jr. Linda R. Alexander Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Amato Mr. and Mrs. Barry B. Ansbacher Eleanor Ashby Shirley and Dave Bailey Mr. Don Baldwin Claudette and Richard Barker, Jr. Berman Family Foundation Drs. Roger and Marsha Bertholf Mrs. Joyce R. Blackburn Mr. and Mrs. James C. Blanton Sandy and Jack Borntraeger Otis and Joan Bowden Mr. and Mrs. David B. Boyer Michael and Susan Boylan John and Hillary Breen Col. and Mrs. E. M. Brisach Dr. and Mrs. William Bullock Sandra and Phillip Burnaman Shelia McLenaghan and Duke Butler Mr. Stanley W. Cairns Mr. and Mrs. Norman L. Cannon Joseph and Susan Castellano Christine Clarke and Kathryn McGehee Mary Lou Coate Alice Mach Coughlin Peter and Lois Dalmares Harvey and Lois Dann Foundation Mr. John A. Darby and Dr. Barbara Darby Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Henry D’Hulst Marcus E. Drewa In Memory of Shirley Collupy Bettye M. DuPree in memory of Jane Munnerlyn Carter Dr. and Mrs. James W. Dyer Most Rev. F. J. Estevez Mr. David Ferner Sally and Tom Fernley Mr. and Mrs. David M. Foster Reed and Nancy Freeman Friend of the Symphony (2) Maj. Gen. and Mrs. John Fryer Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Gartner Clark and Lauretta Gaylord Jeanne M. Gibbs Nathaniel Glover, President - Edward Waters College Wayne Greenberg and Elizabeth Shahan O. C. and Mae Jean Gregg Jim and Pat Griffiths Becky and Tommy Grimes Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Grubbs, Jr. Jean Haines Terree and Bob Hays Mrs. William G. Holyfield Robert L. and La Rue G. Hunter Pam and Mike Jackson Jacksonville University Mrs. Hobart H. Joost Mr. and Mrs. Peter E. Kaplan Dr. and Mrs. John R. Kelley Bill and Barbara Ketchum Donald R. Knab Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Lafer Hal Latimer Norman and Mary Ellen Ledwin Gene H. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Lennart Lindegren Mary Ann and Ronald Lindsey Phil and Rose Littlefield Pat and Mike Manko

Alison McCallum Mr. and Mrs. Harold F. McCart, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Davis McCarty Mr. and Mrs. Frederick McNabb Marcia Mederos Brett and Susan Merrill Mary J. Miller Jeanne and David Moomaw Chuck and Nicki Moorer Linda Crank Moseley Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Henry C. Newcomer USAF Ret. John and Dorothy Nutant Mrs. Daniel C. O’Leary, Jr. Gloria and Martin Olsen David and Kathryn Olson MR. VAL PALMER Dr. Mark Parkulo and Dr. Marie DeRuyter Mr. John S. Peyton and Dr. Kathryn Pearson Peyton Patricia J. Pillmore The Plantation Foundation Ronald and Antonia Porterfield Jack and Patti Quaritius Mr. and Mrs. Robert Quinby Lynne Radcliffe Rayonier Donald Albert James Robinson Ron and Dorothy Rogginger Bruce Rosborough Dr. and Mrs. Lowell Salter Sawcross Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Sawyer Scheidel Foundation Gert and Becky Schumann Samuel Shorstein Steve and Judy Silverman Marlene and Harry Skilton Martine and John Slemp Mr. and Mrs. Brian Smith Mrs. Harold K. Smith Joseph and Nancy Spadaro George and Shirley Spaniel Dr. Mandell and Rita Diamond Stearman Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Thompson John and Roz Toshach John and Alice Trainer Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Triano Gabriele van Zon Mrs. Georgia Wahl Mary and Frank Watson Mrs. Elaine Weistock Arlene and Phil Wiesner Mr. and Mrs. John P. Wilchek Linda F. Wilkinson Mr. and Mrs. David Wohlfarth Jacob and Karen Worner Hon. Gwen Yates and Lt. Col. Alton Yates, Ret. Mary Jean Zimmerman Carolyn and Elliot Zisser HARMONY CLUB CONCERTO $750 - $1,249 American Electrical Contracting Americare Home Health Dr. William and Linda Ann Bainbridge Dr. and Mrs. Dwight S. Bayley Lisa and Earl Benton The Bretcher Family Foundation Karen and Mark Brown Sarah Hill Buck, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Shermon Burgess Luther and Blanche Coggin George M. Cohen Foundation Imogene and Neal Coleman Comcast Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Couch Mr. and Mrs. Bruce R. Darnall Deborah Jump Dawson Deutsche Bank Mark R. Evans Mrs. George Fipp Friend of the Symphony Yves Genre Mel and Debbie Gottlieb Oscar R. Gunther, M.D.

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Suna Hall Jack and Grace Hand Dr. Ann Harwood-Nuss and Dr. Robert Nuss Marion Haynes Dr. George Hochreiter Diane and Thomas Jacobsen Foundation Johnson, Lambert & Company in honor of their employees Ruth and Jack Kelly Richard and Nancy Kennedy Brad and Cindy King Ted M. Klein and Barbara Levoy The E. J. Kovarik Philanthropic Fund Mr. John Leinhauser Mark and Mary Lemmenes Alison R. Leonard Hal and Frances Lynch Mr. and Mrs. Ray A. Mantle Lee and Bobbie Mercier Mr. and Mrs. Willis N. Mills, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Minch Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nadgorny Tom and Harriet Nesbitt Barbara Nettles Christian and Sarah Oldenburg Dr. and Mrs. Matthew C. Patterson Joseph K. and Maria G. Pinnell Pizza Hut ∆ Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Poniatowski Mike and Julia Suddath Ranne Judy and Jere Ratcliffe Rev. and Mrs. John S. Rogers Claudia and Steve Russey Dr. and Mrs. Wilbur C. Rust Mrs. Patricia M. Sams Tom and Jane Schmidt Mr. and Mrs. Tino Schuler Mr. and Mrs. Chris Seubert Mr. and Mrs. Ross Singletary John and Suzanne Spanier Mr. and Mrs. Dale C. Sweeney Yvonne B. West Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Whittemore Dr. and Mrs. John D. Wilcox Jr Mr. Brad Williams Mr. and Mrs. Dick Workman HARMONY CLUB SONATA $550 - $749 Agility Press ∆ Mr. and Mrs. Michael Akel Capt. Marvin G. Alexander Anne and Billy Allen Lorrimer and Judith Armstrong Mayes Barnett Dr. and Mrs. Donald A. Barnhorst Sr. Mary Ann Beckwith Richard Borzilleri Teri and Zim Boulos Caren and Dennis Buchman Dr. and Mrs. Robert Buelow Ian M. Charlton Ann and Richard Conway Tom and Pat Conway Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Cowden Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Davis Margie and Bud Dorsey Charles and Virginia Dunn Mrs. Kenneth W. Eilermann Friend of the Symphony Bill and Judy Franson Friend of the Symphony Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Fuller Jr Judge and Mrs. Marvin Gillman Gisela Haemmerle Bill and Kent Hamb Karen Harris Howard and Janet Hogshead Dr. Lawrence and Kathy Kanter Charles and Christine Keyser Janet and Ron Kolar James and Karen Larsen Richard and Marjorie Lasko Mr. and Mrs. David Lovett

Sarah and Bill Mallory Dr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Marasco Jr Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. McCauley Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth McNamara Mr. P. L. McWhorter Marian S. Meyer John and Lorraine Orr Charles Parker and Diane Hale Audrey B. Patterson Sam Perkovich, Park Side Realty Group Roger and Phyllis Platte Mr. Neil Rose and Dr. Jeannie Rose Dr. and Mrs. Paul Ross Anne and John Ruvane Mrs. Bryan Simpson Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Sisler Dr. and Mrs. Gregory E. Smith Allyn and Tomoko Strickland Bev and James Stuck Dorcas G. Tanner Mr. Michael Tierney Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Torres Cornelia and Olin Watts Endowment Fund Dr. and Mrs. Peter B. Wright Jr HARMONY CLUB OVERTURE $300 - $549 Cynthia Akre Mr. David Albert Dr. and Mrs. George F. Armstrong Jr David and Beth Arnold Mrs. Barbara Arnold Mr. and Mrs. Al Atkins Mr. and Mrs. David Bahn Laura Bailey Marvin and Elaine Bailey Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bailey Janean C. Baker Ms. Jennifer Barton and Mr. Brad Behr Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Beattie David and Gloria Beeman Joe Begley Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Bender Jr Mrs. Gertrude R. Bengtson Barbara and Carl Bloesing Ingrid Boettcher Bonnie Booth David and Eleanor Bows Mr. and Mrs. William Braddock Richard and Paula Brand Tim and Lucy Brannon Judge Alban and Mary Grace Brooke Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brown Sandra Bay Bryant Paul and Sandy Bue David and Lynne Campbell Ms. Olivia Campbell Mrs. Ruth G. Carden Mrs. Anita Carlson Richard T. and Susan M. Clark Col. and Mrs. Robert B. Clarke Bob and Nan Claypoole Jeff and Lee Ann Clements Friend of the Symphony Fred Cohrs Elizabeth Schell Colyer John and Muffet Corse Sharon and Brant Cotterman James and Suzanne Crankshaw Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crowley Mary Crumpton Mims Cushing Ms. Annabel Custer Chet and Andrea Davis Elise S. Day George and Sachi Deriso Marian Dickson in memory of Steve Dickson George and Joan Dismore Kevin and Cathy Driscoll Mr. and Mrs. James F. Duffy Robert Duss Dykes Everett and Co. in memory of Catharine Snead Julia M. Edgerton Roger and Skye Elsas

Ms. Barbara F. Endriss Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ezequelle Ed Fennell Andrew and Claire Fioriti Forster Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Allan B. Freed Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Fribourg Friend of the Symphony (3) Rick and Sally Giles Mr. and Mrs. David Gillespie Betsy and Charles Goodyear Gabrielle Graham Michael Greene Paul and Phyllis Greenfield Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Greenslet Elinor M. Gregory Michelle and Bob Grobman Mrs. Brenda Gross Bob and Sandy Gryb Drs. Dan and Alice Rietman-Hadwin Malcolm and Joyce Hanson Drs. Alfred D. and Katherine A. Harding A. Sherburne Hart Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel H. Hawver Anne Marks Hayhurst Michael and Rosa Heard Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hegarty

MaryAnne Dokler Helffrich Mr. and Mrs. Philip R. Henrici Al Herndon Carol L. Hicks Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Holderfield Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Horn Ingrid and Ron Hughes Mr. J. Paul Humphrey Bob and Jean Hurner Dawn and Michael Huskey Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Hyde Jr Mr. and Mrs. Scott Inboden, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. James C. Jamison Lorene and Bob Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Terrence D. Jones Rev. and Mrs. Nathaniel N. Jones Shelley and Burt Kagen Mr. Stanley Kantor James Karr William Kastelz, Jr. in loving memory of Sandra Cindy and Bob Kastner Deborah and Alan Katz Stephen and Susan Kaye Janet and Frank Killackey Mr. and Mrs. Richard Killian Mr. Evan Klippel Patricia D. Knowles

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Dr. and Mrs. Alan Krantz Sunny and Harold Krivan Rebecca and James Langer Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Leventhal Mr. Daniel and Dr. D’Anne Lombardo Eleanor L. Lotz Mr. and Mrs. Donald Maley Dr. and Mrs. Rodney A. Marcom Dave and Linda Martinak Allan and Rosemary McCorkle Mr. David L. McCullough Carolyn K. McLean Dr. and Mrs. William McLear Mrs. Walter A. McRae, Jr. Joe and Nancy McTighe Bill and Becky Mentz Mr. and Mrs. Gordon B. Middleton Mr. and Mrs. Archie Miiller Douglass and Jane Miller Martin and Leni Mittelacher Peggy Moore Lance and Barbara Mora Regis P. and Elaine E. Murtha Mr. John Myers Monica and Robert Mylod Judge and Mrs. Bernard Nachman John and Kathie Nevin Jennifer Sawyer New and Kent New Nicolitz Eye Consultants Robert and Thelma Nied Mr. and Mrs. J. Kenneth E. Noon Earl and Susan Oehler Sandy and Fred Owen Roger and Edie Palmer John and Joanne Patrick Sue Patton Joel and Alice Payne Dr. and Mrs. W. Lanier Pearce John and Sharon Peavy Penney Retirement Community Travel Program Robin Pesek Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peters Barbara Pieper Barbara Porter Joseph and Phyllis Power Capt. Victor S. Radlinski USN Ret. Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Ras, D.D.S. Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Reichow Mel and Kay Ridgway Katrina Rmiglietta Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roberts Mrs. John G. Rogers Walter F. Rogers, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Howard N. Rose George and Jeri Ross Harold S. Salzman Rosemary Savage Jeanne and Arthur Schilling Mr. Bruce Schwartz Joy Scott Mrs. Lorraine Scruby Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Seay Richard and Patricia Seiter Dr. John J. Shaw Mr. Roger Sheets Dr. and Mrs. Arne Sippens Robin Smathers Dr. Carolyn H. Smith Rod and Ellen Sullivan Linda and Jim Sylvester Crew of Tievoli Patricia Teems Fred and Janice Teich Elissa Tommasi Dr. Theodore P. Townsend in memory of Rosemary Townsend Dorothy and Michael Travers Mrs. John P. Traylor Marcie Turner, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Turner Mr. Rudolf E. Urban Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Van Cleve Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Van Zon Jimmy and Susan Verbeck

Grace Voyles and Mary Voyles Billy J. and Nettie T. Walker Drs. Marty and Ben Walker Silvana and Bob Wall Mrs. Edna B. Wallace Col (Ret) and Mrs. Burton J. Walrath Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Weidenmier Mr. and Mrs. Neil J. Wickersty Mr. and Mrs. Nolan R. Wilkes Jr Stephen Williams Mr. and Mrs. George R. Wilson Mary Ann and Woody Witczak Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Wohl Dr. Daniel S. Yip and Teresa Rodriguez-Yip HARMONY CLUB INTERMEZZO $150 - $299 Capt. and Mrs. H. C. Abelein, USN Ms. Carol Abraham Portia S. Ackerman Mr. and Mrs. John M. Adler Dolores Alderman Rev. and Mrs. David Allen Robin Allen Mr. and Mrs. William J. Alznauer Barbara Ames Grace Andersen Layton and Viola Anderson Ms. Roberta Armstrong Ms. Elaine P. Atkins Phyllis and Mark Atkins David Avery Howard and Ginny Baldwin Ms. and Ms. Carole Banks Mr. Arthur W. Barker James C. and Pauline P. Barnes Ms. Martha E. Barrett Eleanor Beaty Mr. and Mrs. Edmond Beckenbach Dale and Peggy Beerbower Martha and Eli Bekkum Mr. and Mrs. James V. Bent Allen and Sue Berry Ed and Cathi Blair Jeff and Terese Boas Wiatt Bowers Doris B. Branch Teresa Brewer Marilyn and Robert Bridgers Don and Cheri Briggs Mr. Michael R. Britten-Kelly and Ms. Janet L. Markham Mr. and Mrs. C. Clayton Bromberg Mr. and Mrs. Grover Burgan Mrs. Harry J. Burke Audrey Canarina Tom and Helen Carmichael Ethel R. Carrie Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Charron Gary and Barbara Christensen Molly Rinehart and Charles Christian Ms. Roberta T. Cirocco Ivan and Delorese Clare Perry C. and Shirley Cohen Dr. Cecilia A. Collins Karen and David Conover Mr. and Mrs. Herbert G. Conradi Ted and Marg Copeland Rev. and Mrs. Robert C. Corbett Sr. Bill and Kathy Cosnotti Mrs. Donald M. Cox Carl and Sue Crist Donald and Judith Crist Nancy J. Crookshank Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Crowder Jack and Mary Cusick Becky and Donald Custis Barnwell and Anis Daley Harriett L. Dame Noel and Mildred Dana Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Datz Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Datz Wilma David Nan and Gordon Davis Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Deary

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Ms. Anne B. Delegal Ms. Genevieve Deloach Mr. Dimitri Demopoulos Jan DeMuynk Florence E. Dexter Robert and Evelyn Douty Katherine and Dan Doulet John and Joan Duncan Allan and Roni Dye Edge City Friend of the Symphony Thomas and Marian Edwards Barbara Elgin Mrs. Sandra S. Elliott Tommy and Jane Entenza Dalton and Carolyn Epting Ruth and Emmett Evans Susan and Francis Evans Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Steven Patricia Ezell Renee and Michael Favo Jackie and George Fetherston Edward Fitzgerald Mrs. and Mr. Barbara P. Folmar George and Allie Franke Mr. and Ms. Jack Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Michael S. French Friend of the Symphony (6) Brian Galbraith Jeff and Jolee Gardner Chuck and Sheryl Gates Edward S. Gebert Mr. Sherrick Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gildenhorn Friend of the Symphony Ms. Karen Goldstein Friend of the Symphony Ed and Donna Goossen Charles and Sherra Grabill Dr. and Mrs. Louis F. Gregory Mr. Robert Gremp Ms. Gloria Griffin Janet and Scott Griswold Barbara A. Gubbin Mr. John R. Hall Dr. John Harrington Mrs. Charles T. Harther Jr. In Memory of Milliam (Bill) Hecht Kathleen and John Hedge Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Heekin Molly Hendrickson Catherine Henry Richard Hickok and Andrea Ashley Dr. Joan A. Hill Mr. and Mrs. Buford Hill Friend of the Symphony Nadia and Chris Hionides Elaine and Phil Hiscock Mrs. Beverly W. Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Alva A. Hollon Jr Dorothy B. Hollwarth Derek and Debbie Holmes Joan and Darryl Houseman Alan Howard and Gwen Gallagher Howard Mary Jeanette J. Howle Mr. Robert C. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Thomas McCleery Friend of the Symphony Connie Hutton Mr. and Mrs. Clemente Inclan Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Jacobs Walter and Joan Jacoby Hansell T. Jeffers Jr Samuel and Carlotta Jennings Mardee S. Jenrette Capt. and Mrs. Charles E. Johnson USN Ret. Donna and Gil Johnson Dr. Edward and Mrs. Beryl Johnson Mrs. Jacqueline C. Jones Charles and Anne Joseph Mr. Roderick C. Jungbauer and Mrs. Priscilla Jungbauer Mr. and Mrs. C. Ronald Kalapp Joseph and Barbara Kaplan Luke and Sandy Karlovec

Mrs. George M. Katibah Paul and Maxine Kaufman Cathy and Dave Keener Barbara Keltz Susan R. Knapp Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Kraemer Shelley and Martin Kulchin Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kunzweiler RADM Ronald and Charlene Kurth Mrs. William L. Kyle, Jr. Janet LaFrance Laura Lake and Steve Norton In Memory of Edie Lambert R. Ward Lariscy Mr. and Mrs. Jack Larkins Betty and Dan Lee Barbara A. Leis Drs. Jeffrey and Ilene Levenson Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Lindeman Jr Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lindner Leonard Lipkin Hiram and Joan Lomanto James and Mary Longanbach Mrs. Muriel J. Lordan Joanne and Lew Lubarsky Mr. Donald V. Luebke Dr. and Mrs. Donald Macleod Jr Janet W. MacLure Jerry and Janet Mallot Mr. Anthony Marini Mary Alice Massey Linda R. Matthews Bernard Mazie Rufus and Mariam McClure Dennis and Laurie McDonagh Phillip and Jan McDowell Mr. and Mrs. Philip K. McEnery William and Brenda McNeiland Myron and Ellen Mensh Jo Ann S. Miller Jack Montgomery and Julian Farris Mr. James Montgomery Dr. Daniel Moses Howard and Ann Moss Ms. Margaret L. Murphy Mr. Luther Nelson Mrs. Elizabeth Neville William and Arlene Newman Mr. David R. Noble Irv and Roseanne Norwood Susan and Jim Noyes Ms. Page Oberlin Anne Olsen Mr. Richard L. Ouellette Eugenia and Paul Pappas Howard N. Parks Mr. and Mrs. John Parrish Diane and John Pasieka Jack and Marilyn Perkins Mr. and Mrs. Marvin A. Perlis Thomas H. Petersen Walter and Nancy Petersen Mary Alice Phelan Lamar and Lucy Pitts Friend of the Symphony Mr. and Mrs. John Pugh Carolyn Rankin Mr. and Mrs. Craig Reamsnyder Ms. Caitlin Regan Peter and Barbara Reiman Friend of the Symphony Mrs. Myrna Riddell Friend of the Symphony Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rivera Cathryn Robbins Robert C. Roberts Sylvia Roberts Dr. Sarah Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. Rogers Patricia Roloff Carolyn and Terrone Rosenberry Dr. and Mrs. Myron E. Rosenfeld Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Rowland Peter M. and Sandra J. Ryan

Mr. and Mrs. John Ryder AdLib Luxury Tours and Transportation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Schaller Dr. Ed and Mary Schelonka Mr. and Mrs. David Schreck Cynthia Segraves Martha T. Shannon Walter and Sharon Shepherd A. Joyce Shirley Michael and Sandra Shore Mr. John Sievers Dr. and Mrs. Rodrigo R. Sievert Mary and Greg Sikora Mr. Mark Silver Mr. and Mrs. Bert C. Simon Mr. and Mrs. John R. Slattery Eliasberg Family Foundation, Inc. Gwen C. Smith Ken and Sue Smith Laurel and Ken Smith Mr. Richard A. Smith Ms. Eleanor Snite Charles and Pamela Sorenson Raul Soto-Acosta, MD Dr. and Mrs. Gary G. Soud Dewey Sparks Michael Spino and Susan Henderson Tom and Sharon Sprott James Stacy Jay and Deanie Stein Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stoudemire H. Lamar Strother Sharon L. Sullivan Mable Tan Honorable Sharon H. Tanner Art and Jolna Thomas Elsie Thompson Jon and Cindy Thompson Mr. Winfred L. Thornton Barry and Susan Thors Carol Tibbetts Tyler and Paula Tibbetts

George and Norma Tobi Friend of the Symphony Drs. Karen and Cyril Toker Jackie Tomassetti Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Toussant Ms. Denise Trager Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Trkula Dr. and Mrs. George Trotter Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Tunnicliffe III Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tygart Dr. Marinus Van Ooyen Sheri Van Orden Jack and Carole Varney Dr. and Mrs. Brian H. Vitsky Alan and Ruth Voss Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Walker Marvel S. Wallace Norbert and Lois Wann Robert and Carolyn Warren Don and Brenda Waters Alan and Sherry Watt Anne Topping Weed Ms. Joanna Weinberger Mr. and Mrs. Lowell B. Weiner Ph.D. Mr. John Weitzel William and Elizabeth Weitzel Drs. A. Quinton and Susan H. White Melinda Whitlock Kate and Don Wiest Dana Williams Myra Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wingo Renee Winkler Doris Wiseman Clair and Irwin Witt Marjie Wood Altamese Henry and Polk Woolford Elizabeth Woolley Sylvia G. Cotner and Mary Wysong Mr. John W. Zimmerman Sr

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SHOW HOURS & LOCATION

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 11 am - 3 pm SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 11 am - 6 pm SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 11 am - 5 pm Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center • Jacksonville, Florida

symphony association board

staff

OFFICERS

Administration David L. Pierson, President Sally Pettegrew, Vice President of Administration & Assistant Board Secretary Laurie Saisselin, Office Manager

Martin F. Connor, III, Chair and CEO Matthew McAfee, Vice Chair Rick Moyer, Treasurer Frederick W. Schantz, Secretary Richard H. Pierpont, Immediate Past Chair

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Lynn Alligood

Brad King

Don Baldwin

Ross T. Krueger, M.D.

Martha E. Barrett

Anne Lufrano, Ph.D.

Candice Bobeck

John Malone

J.F. Bryan, IV Elizabeth Lovett Colledge, Ph.D. Barbara Darby, Ed.D. R. Chris Doerr Margaret Gomez H. W. “Buzz” Goodall Allene Groote Andrew Harold Anne Hopkins, Ph.D. Michael Imbriani Randolph Johnson Kristin “Kiki” Karpen Gurmeet Keaveny

Claudia Minch Kay Nichols Thomas Pippin Mary Ellen Smith Mark Spatola, M.D. David Strickland Randall Tinnin Clay B. “Chip” Tousey, Jr. Lowell Weiner Terry R. West Peter B. Wright Gwen Yates Wayne Young

Allison Keller

HONORARY DIRECTORS Carl N. Cannon Ruth Conley Isabelle T. Davis

Frances Bartlett Kinne, Ph.D. Arthur W. Milam Mary Carr Patton

David W. Foerster

Jay Stein

Preston H. Haskell

James Van Vleck

Robert E. Jacoby

James H. Winston

Artistic Operations Richard Naylor, Vice President of Artistic Planning & Operations Kevin Roberts, Director of Orchestral Operations Robert Chambers, Orchestra Personnel Manager Kenneth Every, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Carol Whitman, Librarian Deborah Heller, Assistant Librarian Annie Morris, Assistant Librarian Ray Klaase, Stage Manager Shamus McConney, Technical Director James Pitts, Stage Associate Jill Weisblatt, Jacksonville Symphony Chorus Manager Education Tony Kamnikar, Vice President of Education Scott C. Gregg, Music Director, JSYO Winston Family Endowed Chair Peggy Toussant, Jump Start Strings Coordinator Development Toni S. Paz, CFRE, Vice President of Development Lorraine Roettges, Director of Institutional Giving Jennifer Barton, Individual Giving Manager Catherine Grossholz, Individual Giving Coordinator Iris Simmons, Institutional Giving Coordinator Lorie Harlow, Volunteer Coordinator Marketing Peter Gladstone, Vice President of Marketing Paul Witkowski, Director of Communications Christie Helton, Marketing Manager Kenneth Shade, Graphic Designer Linda W. Chaney, Account Executive R. Hugh Patterson, House Manager Box Office Scott Hawkins, Patron Services Manager Betty Byrne, Patron Services Agent Tara Paige, Patron Services Agent Nadia Della Penta, Patron Services Agent Pam Smith, Patron Services Agent Finance Holly Bryan, Vice President of Finance Nancy Ferdman, Staff Accountant Cindy Weaver, Payroll & Accounts Payable Specialist

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MEET THE MUSICIANS

STEPHANIE LINDSAY VIOLIN From Broadway to gourmet chef to music teacher to the Jacksonville Symphony – those are all stops along the way for Stephanie Lindsay. Raised in Southern Illinois, Stephanie studied classical music and played both the violin and the flute. After a year at University of Miami, where here she met her future husband, she completed her undergraduate studies at Boston University under legendary violin instructor Roman Totenberg.

She took her musical talents on the road with national Broadway tours and eventually to the big lights of Broadway. She has also performed with artists such as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Stevie Wonder.

Stephanie now calls the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra home where she performs across the stage from her husband, bassist Jason Lindsay, D.M.A. A strong believer in the importance of music education, Stephanie has been a teacher with the Jacksonville Symphony’s Jump Start Strings program, Jacksonville Symphony Youth Orchestra (JSYO) and Prelude Chamber Music Camp, in addition to teaching privately. At home, music is a central part of her family. Daughter Audrey plays violin in the JSYO while younger son James studies piano.

When she’s not performing or teaching, Stephanie uses her culinary skills as a trained chef with The Natural Gourmet Institute, for fundraising efforts benefiting the Prelude Chamber Music Camp and spoiling her friends and family.

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JULIAN KAPLAN TRUMPET You might not think of music as a career path when your dad worked with the NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace and owned a NASCAR memorabilia store. Yet Julian Kaplan of Charlotte, N.C., decided to follow in his sister’s footsteps. She plays flute and went on to a degree in music education. His mom managed a music store and sold musical instruments.

The Lincoln County public schools offered a great music program. Growing up he joined his sister playing in the marching band and concert band, and now they play together in the Coastal Symphony of Georgia.

Julian attended the University of Kentucky.

Upon graduation he has served as principal trumpet of the Lexington Philharmonic and has performed with the Atlanta Symphony and Asheville Symphony. Though he loves Strauss and Mahler, he’s a big jazz aficionado and has recorded a jazz album.

His life’s goal, other than becoming a scratch golfer, is to play with the Zac Brown Band.

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