Detroit Neighborhood Initiative: The DSO & Perfecting Church

A COMMUNITY-SUPPORTE D ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI, Music Director JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR A COMMUNITY-SUPPORTE D ORCHESTRA Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

JEFF TYZIK

TERENCE BLANCHARD

NA’ZIR MCFADDEN

LEONARD SLATKIN

NEEME JÄRVI

Principal Pops Conductor

Fred A. Erb Jazz Creative Director Chair

Assistant Conductor Phillip and Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador

Music Director Laureate

Music Director Emeritus

FIRST VIOLIN Robyn Bollinger

CONCERTMASTER Katherine Tuck Chair

Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy

ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER Schwartz and Shapero Family Chair

Hai-Xin Wu

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER Walker L. Cisler/Detroit Edison Foundation Chair

Jennifer Wey Fang ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Marguerite Deslippe* Laurie Goldman* Rachel Harding Klaus* Eun Park Lee* Adrienne Rönmark* Alexandros Sakarellos*

Drs. Doris Tong and Teck Soo Chair

Laura Soto* Greg Staples* Jiamin Wang* Mingzhao Zhou*

SECOND VIOLIN Adam Stepniewski ACTING PRINCIPAL The Devereaux Family Chair

Elizabeth Furuta* Will Haapaniemi*

David and Valerie McCammon Chairs

Hae Jeong Heidi Han*

David and Valerie McCammon Chairs

Sheryl Hwangbo Yu* Daniel Kim* Sujin Lim* Hong-Yi Mo* Marian Tanau* Alexander Volkov* Jing Zhang*

VIOLA Eric Nowlin PRINCIPAL Julie and Ed Levy, Jr. Chair

James VanValkenburg ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Caroline Coade Henry and Patricia Nickol Chair

Glenn Mellow Hang Su Shanda Lowery-Sachs Hart Hollman Han Zheng Mike Chen

CELLO Wei Yu PRINCIPAL

Abraham Feder

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Dorothy and Herbert Graebner Chair

Robert Bergman* Jeremy Crosmer*

Victor and Gale Girolami Cello Chair

David LeDoux* Peter McCaffrey*

Joanne Deanto and Arnold Weingarden Chair

Una O’Riordan*

Mary Ann & Robert Gorlin Chair

Cole Randolph*

BASS Kevin Brown PRINCIPAL Van Dusen Family Chair

Stephen Molina ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Christopher Hamlen Brandon Mason Nicholas Myers^

HARP OPEN

PRINCIPAL Winifred E. Polk Chair

FLUTE Hannah Hammel Maser PRINCIPAL Alan J. and Sue Kaufman and Family Chair

Amanda Blaikie Morton and Brigitte Harris Chair

Sharon Sparrow ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL Bernard and Eleanor Robertson Chair

Jeffery Zook Shantanique Moore§

PICCOLO Jeffery Zook

Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

CLARINET Ralph Skiano

TIMPANI Jeremy Epp

Jack Walters

James Ritchie

PRINCIPAL Robert B. Semple Chair

PVS Chemicals Inc./ Jim and Ann Nicholson Chair

Shannon Orme

E-FLAT CLARINET OPEN BASS CLARINET Shannon Orme Barbara Frankel and Ronald Michalak Chair

BASSOON Conrad Cornelison

PRINCIPAL Byron and Dorothy Gerson Chair

Michael Ke Ma ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Marcus Schoon Jaquain Sloan §

HORN Karl Pituch PRINCIPAL

Johanna Yarbrough Scott Strong

Ric and Carola Huttenlocher Chair

David Everson ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Mark Abbott

TRUMPET

Shari and Craig Morgan Chair

Andrés Pichardo-Rosenthal ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL William Cody Knicely Chair

James Ritchie

LIBRARIANS Robert Stiles PRINCIPAL

Ethan Allen

LEGACY CHAIRS Principal Flute James C. Gordon

Personnel Managers Patrick Peterson DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER OF ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Nolan Cardenas

AUDITION AND OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

Stage Personnel Dennis Rottell DEPARTMENT HEAD DEPARTMENT HEAD

Kurt Henry

TROMBONE Kenneth Thompkins

Steven Kemp

TUBA Dennis Nulty PRINCIPAL

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR A COMMUNITY-SUPPORTE ORCHESTRA JADER DBIGNAMINI, Music Director Music Directorship endowed by the Kresge Foundation

DETROIT NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE: THE DSO & PERFECTING CHURCH Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 7 p.m. at Perfecting Church NA’ZIR McFADDEN, conductor PASTOR MARVIN L. WINANS PERFECTED PRAISE CHOIR – DAVID BUFORD, director Jessie Montgomery Starburst arr. Jannina Norpoth Gioachino Rossini

Overture to Guillaume Tell (William Tell)

William Grant Still

Summerland

Pastor Marvin L. Winans Even Me, Lord arr. Rebecca Pellett with Pastor Marvin L. Winans and Lisa Scott-Bailey Hezekiah Walker

Lift Him Up

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington The River orch. by Ron Collier Village of the Virgins (Twin Cities) Giggling Rapids

STAGE MANAGER

William Lucas

PRINCIPAL

JADER BIGNAMINI MUSIC DIRECTOR

Benjamin Tisherman

Ryan DeMarco

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

A COMMUNITY-SUPPORTE D ORCHESTRA

Women’s Association for the DSO

Stephen Anderson

BASS TROMBONE Adam Rainey

ENGLISH HORN Monica Fosnaugh

PRINCIPAL Ruth Roby and Alfred R. Glancy III Chair

William Dailing

Sarah Lewis ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

PERCUSSION Joseph Becker

Hunter Eberly PRINCIPAL Lee and Floy Barthel Chair

David Binder Adam Rainey

Monica Fosnaugh

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

Principal Cello

CONTRABASSOON Marcus Schoon

OBOE Alexander Kinmonth

PRINCIPAL Jack A. and Aviva Robinson Chair

PRINCIPAL Richard and Mona Alonzo Chair

DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

DEPARTMENT HEAD DEPARTMENT HEAD

Matthew Pons

DEPARTMENT HEAD

LEGEND * These members may voluntarily revolve seating within the section on a regular basis ^ Extended Leave § African American Orchestra Fellow

Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier I Hear a Symphony & Eddie Holland arr. Richard Hayman

Pastor Marvin L. Winans Influence My Heart arr. Alvin Waddles with Pastor Marvin L. Winans and Norma Saunders

Thank you to GM Corporation for their generous sponsorship of this event.

DETROIT NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE

THE DSO IN YOUR COMMUNITY The DSO’s Detroit Strategy is currently centered around two initiatives: Detroit Neighborhood Initiative is a community-driven process of dialogue and planning, resulting in cultural partnerships that enrich the community and musical experiences that align with the priorities of Detroit residents; Detroit Harmony is a scalable and sustainable citywide collaboration to improve child development through music education and arts-based learning, and to grow economic opportunity by engaging Detroiters in the provision of instruments and music education. Detroit Harmony aims to put an instrument in the hand of every K-12 student in the city of Detroit who wants to learn to play.

Thus far, the DSO has met with more than 125 community-serving organizations in Detroit, held 20 listening sessions with Detroit residents, and co-designed and co-implemented 22 Neighborhood Musical Experiences in Chandler Park, Southwest Detroit, Dexter-Linwood, Northwest Goldberg, and Northwest Detroit, engaging with nearly 6,000 community members since March of 2021. The DSO has sought out new relationships and engaged both organizations and residents in designing and implementing respectful, responsive Musical Experiences in Detroit neighborhoods.

This work is made possible through the support of the General Motors Corporation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

PROFILES NA’ZIR MCFADDEN

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merican conductor Na’Zir McFadden is the newly appointed Assistant Conductor and Phillip & Lauren Fisher Community Ambassador of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

In this position, he works closely with Music Director Jader Bignamini and guest conductors on both the PVS Classical Series and William Davidson Neighborhood Concert Series. Additionally, he leads pre-concert lectures at Orchestra Hall, and conducts a variety of programs on the Educational Concert Series, Young People’s Family Concert Series, PNC Pops Series, and DTE Community Concerts.

Commencing with the 2022-23 season, Na’Zir will serve as Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra.

Together, they’ll present three programs—exploring the symphonies of

Dvořák, Tchaikovsky, and Florence Price, respectively.

An advocate for arts education, McFadden strives to provide access to the arts for students in underserved communities. This season, McFadden will make appearances with youth ensembles in Salt Lake City and with the Philadelphia All-City Music Festival. In the past, he’s worked with youth ensembles in Chicago, New York City, St. Louis, and Los Angeles.

Recent engagements include a recording project with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s ‘Notes for Peace’ initiative— which featured Hilary Hahn as guest soloist.

McFadden was the inaugural Apprentice Conductor of the Philadelphia Ballet Orchestra from 2020 to 2022, working with Music Director Beatrice Jona Affron.

He also served as the Robert L. Poster Conducting Apprentice of the New York Youth Symphony from 2020 to 2021.

Na’Zir conducted his hometown orchestra—the Philadelphia Orchestra— in their “Pop-Up” series in 2017, meeting their Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who has been a mentor ever since. The Philadelphia Inquirer praised his “great stick [baton] technique and energetic presence on the podium” in their review of the concert.

Upcoming engagements include a series of commissions with Orchestra 2001 and appearances with the Utah Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Philadelphia Ballet.

PASTOR MARVIN L. WINANS “Whom we preach, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus.” (Colossians 1:28).

Pastor Marvin L. Winans is the founder and pastor of Perfecting Church, one of Detroit, Michigan’s foremost congregations and a growing ministry family that extends far beyond its active local campus.

Raised in a household of faith by his parents, David and Delores Winans, Pastor Winans received the Gospel message at an early age and preached his first sermon at the age of 18; the first fruit of a ministry calling he accepted in 1970 during a 150-day revival led by Mother Estella Boyd, whom God used to lay hands on him and give him a vision for a future life in ministry.

Since heeding the call, Pastor Winans’s ministry has grown exponentially, from a humble gathering of eight in his own basement on May 28, 1989 to a membership of more than of 4,500 faithful who congregate weekly in Perfecting’s expansive, 165,000 square foot site facility.

With Colossians 1:28 and the principle “Ministry Means People” as guiding posts, Winans has taken a holistic approach to

the pastorate; following Christ’s model of meeting humanity’s needs prior to addressing their spiritual condition through the life-changing power of the Gospel. This approach has led to the creation of various outreach and educational programs, all under the umbrella of the Perfecting Community Development Corporation, including the Marvin L. Winans Academy of Performing Arts, the Perfecting Community Care Center, the Amelia Agnes Transitional Home for Women, and the Jenesta McCraw Youth Activity Center.

Serving as Bishop-Elect of Perfecting Fellowship International, Winans oversees a sisterhood of churches both stateside and abroad that encompasses congregations from various states including New York, Texas, Florida, Alabama, London, and South Africa; all of which meet annually for church growth, leadership training, community outreach and convocations packed with teaching, preaching, and worship.

In addition to his ministry achievements, Winans serves as a gospel entertainer.

He is a multiple Grammy, Stellar, and Dove award-winning recording artist, as well as one-fourth of the legendary gospel quartet, The Winans, with whom he recorded hits such as Tomorrow, Ain’t No Need to Worry, and It’s Time, just to name a few.

His background in music has been put to good use at Perfecting Church, where his songs are sung weekly and have appeared in various recording projects featuring the church’s praise band and choir, including the church’s 2012’s The Praise & Worship Experience, which Pastor Winans produced.

Of his milestones and legacy in ministry, Pastor Winans says, “I hope that as a church we’ve established a precedent that never changes even centuries after I’m gone; my prayer is that Perfecting would stand on the truth of the Word of God as revealed on Jesus Christ; upon this rock I will build my church.”