Houston Symphony Magazine — April 2016

APRIL 2016

Ravel’s Bolero | April 8-10

PROGRAM GUIDE April 8, 9, 10 p.20 | April 14, 16, 17 p.24 | April 15 p.30 | April 28, 30, May 1 p.34

Contents April | 2016

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PROGRAMS

0 April 8, 9, 10 2 24 April 14, 16, 17 30 April 15 34 April 28, 30, May 1

FEATURES

6 Letter to Patrons 8 2016 Ima Hogg Competition 14 Houston Symphony Musicians in the Community 52 Backstage Pass—Meet the Musicians

Chair, offers a glimpse of Symphony musicians 14 Houston 8 JothisDeeyear’sWright, Ima Hogg Competition. venture into the community for greater impact.

EVENTS

12 Donors and Patrons Rise to the Occasion 16 2016-17 Family Series Preview 19 2016 Houston Symphony Ball 26 Upcoming Performances and Broadcasts

YOUR HOUSTON SYMPHONY

10 Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Music Director 18 Orchestra and Staff 33 Houston Symphony Chorus

OUR SUPPORTERS

7 New Century Society 11 New Music Director Fund 15 Education and Community Engagement Donors 38 Symphony Society Board 39 Sustainability Fund 40 Leadership Council 41 Houston Symphony Donors 47 Houston Symphony Endowment 48 Vintage Virtuoso

love of music begins with us 16 Aonlifelong Saturday mornings! Join us for the

2016-17 Family Series of concerts, including “Dr. Seuss at the Symphony.”

The Houston Symphony currently records under its own label, Houston Symphony Media Productions, and for Naxos. Houston Symphony recordings also are available on the Telarc, RCA Red Seal, Virgin Classics and Koch International Classics labels.

Acknowledgements

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CREDITS

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LATE SEATING In consideration of audience members, the Houston Symphony makes every effort to begin concerts on time. Ushers will assist with late seating at pre-designated intervals. You may be asked to sit in a location other than your ticketed seat until the end of that portion of the concert. You will be able to move to your ticketed seat at the concert break.

CHILDREN AT CONCERTS In consideration of our patrons, we ask that children be 6 years and older to attend Houston Symphony concerts.

Children of all ages, including infants, are admitted to Family Concerts. Any child over age 1 must have a ticket for those performances.

CAMERAS, RECORDERS, CELL PHONES & PAGERS Cameras and recorders are not permitted in the hall. Patrons may not use any device to record or photograph performances. Please silence cell phones, pagers and alarm watches and refrain from texting during performances.

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LETTER TO PATRONS

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Steven P. Mach President

Mark C. Hanson Executive Director/CEO Margaret Alkek WIlliams Chair

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This year marks the 41st anniversary of the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition, and the competitive selection process is already underway. The only orchestra-run, multi-instrument competition in the country, this prestigious event provides young instrumentalists both a prominent performance opportunity and a chance to be judged by a panel of distinguished music experts. We are thrilled that this year’s competitors hail from 13 countries in addition to the United States. Chaired by Jo Dee Wright (please see page 8), the 2016 Ima Hogg Competition takes place at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music on June 4.

And while all of the Ima Hogg Competition instrumentalists earn superhero status by virtue of their exceptional achievements in music, this month we recognize superheroes of a different sort in our upcoming “Superheroes at the Symphony” Family Series concert. Join Associate Conductor Robert Franz, the orchestra and students from TUTS’ Humphreys School of Musical Theatre as they take flight on some awesome adventures and perilous journeys, including music by one of our modern-day superhero composers, John Williams. Needless to say, superhero costumes are encouraged! For highlights of next season’s Family Series concerts, please flip to page 16.

Next month, we hope you will join Andrés and the orchestra for the 2015-16 season-closing performances at Jones Hall. Houston favorite Gabriela Montero returns to perform Grieg’s virtuosic Piano Concerto, and Andrés revisits Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz’ fever dream of unrequited love, glittering ballrooms and opium-induced hallucinations of guillotines and graveyards. Ever since Andrés’ Houston Symphony debut with this piece, our musicians and audiences alike have fallen in love with his unique and masterful interpretation.

And this year’s season finale is out of this world, as we present the world premiere of The Cosmos—An HD Odyssey. The final installment of the Houston Symphony’s innovative film trilogy that began with The Planets and The Earth, The Cosmos is set to the score of Dvorˇák’s Symphony No. 9, From the New World.

Filmmaker Duncan Copp works his magic once again to awe us with breathtaking images of far distant galaxies, nebulae and other astronomical wonders from the Hubble Space Telescope. Also on the program is Lutoslawski’s virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra, one of the most exciting showpieces of the 20th century.

To close out the season on another high note, we hope you will join us at the Houston Symphony Ball on May 14 right here in Jones Hall. Read more about our signature annual event, chaired by Jana & Scotty Arnoldy, on page 19.

Thank you for your support and patronage, and enjoy the concert!

NEW CENTURY SOCIETY FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION The New Century Society for Artistic Excellence and Innovation recognizes the Houston Symphony’s most committed and loyal supporters who have pledged their leadership support over a three-year period to help secure the orchestra’s financial future.

For more information or to pledge your support, please contact Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO, at (713) 238-1411 or David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, at (713) 337-8525.

Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Margaret Alkek Williams Janice Barrow Rochelle & Max Levit Cora Sue & Harry Mach Mr. George P. Mitchell Bobby & Phoebe Tudor The Honorable David H. Dewhurst Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Mike Stude Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Robin Angly & Miles Smith The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Houston Methodist Ron Franklin & Janet Gurwitch

Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Nancy & Robert Peiser Rand Group Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. / The Robbins Foundation Laura & Michael Shannon Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan Jr. / Houston Baptist University Steven & Nancy Williams Baker Botts L.L.P. Beauchamp Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III / WoodRock & Co. Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Barbara & Pat McCelvey John B. Onstott / Geo. H. Lewis & Sons Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Wells Fargo

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FEATURE

Ima Hogg Competition: A Glimpse of Classical Music’s Future “If you have not experienced the Ima Hogg competition, you must be there this year! If you come once, I promise you’ll return again and again.”

So says Jo Dee Wright, Chair of the 2016 competition for young musicians. Her passion for sharing the heart and soul of this event will help make this year’s multi-instrument competition, on June 2-4 at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, one to remember.

With her husband Cliff, Jo Dee has been attending the competition for the last 11 years—which she calls “a great date night with champagne and dessert.” A volunteer for the last six years, she has helped with musician hospitality and the post-concert reception. She especially appreciates the camaraderie with fellow music-loving volunteers and the chance to meet the fascinating competitors.

Although the highest-placing competitors will win prizes and opportunities to perform with the Houston Symphony, Jo Dee doesn’t believe the most important thing about the Ima Hogg Competition is winning. Because it’s so selective, musicians who emerge from the hundreds of applicants to make it to the competition have already won. It’s an opportunity for young artists, who spend so much of their time in practice rooms, to meet their peers and future colleagues Jo Dee Wright, Chair and to build relationships.

Jo Dee says, “the Chair is the ambassador for the competition,” and she’s very keen to create awareness of the competition and encourage people to attend. She wants people to know that “it’s a great first-time experience for those who have never been to a concert.” For that reason, competition volunteers are working especially hard this year to attract young students from around Houston, to see musicians close to their own age—and to dream.

“Every year’s competition is different,” she notes. It’s always adapting and improving. For instance, this year, all musicians must be between ages 16 and 26, which will attract both students just going into conservatory as well as those embarking upon their professional careers. In addition, the number of judges has been increased from three to five.

The competition is an important investment in tomorrow’s finest musicians.

Esther Liao performs with the Houston Symphony in It has been the Symphony’s first point of contact with many, many great musithe 2015 Ima Hogg Competition Finals Concert cians, including Frank Huang (violin), Megan Conley (harp) and Lin Ma (clarinet). When you experience the thrill of this year’s Ima Hogg Competition, you’re getting a special glimpse of the future of classical music—and of your city’s Symphony.

For more information and to donate to the Ima Hogg Competition, contact Molly Simpson at (713) 337-8526.

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ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADA, MUSIC DIRECTOR

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Houston Symphony Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada began his tenure in the 2014-15 season. He immediately established a dynamic presence on the podium and a deep bond with the musicians of the orchestra. Andrés carefully curates his programs to feature engaging combinations of classical masterworks paired with the music of today, significant artistic collaborations with composers and guest artists, and innovative use of multimedia and visual effects, all in order to make meaningful connections with the audience.

A natural communicator, Andrés expands on this foundation in the 2015-16 season and engages even more with the audience in direct conversation about music. Among his new initiatives is “On-Stage Insights with Andrés,” which features casual commentary by Andrés and soloists from the stage. On the recording front, Andrés and the Symphony are recording the last four great symphonies of Antonín Dvorˇák. Andrés has also spearheaded a cultural exchange and partnership with the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia.

Born in Medellín, Colombia, Andrés began his musical studies on the violin and started conducting at age 15. At 19, he entered

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the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied with Uroš Lajovic (pupil of the legendary Hans Swarowsky), and completed his degree with distinction conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein. Andrés burst on the international scene with two substitutions with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: the first, his debut in 2010, standing in for Esa-Pekka Salonen, and then in 2012, substituting for Riccardo Muti at the Musikverein. He has worked with the most prominent European orchestras, most recently the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Orchestre National de France and Oslo Philharmonic. In addition to his post in Houston, Andrés is chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. In the 2015-16 season, he makes his official subscription series debut with the Vienna Philharmonic, as well as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

THE NEW MUSIC DIRECTOR FUND The New Music Director Fund supports the concert activities of Andrés Orozco-Estrada in his year as Music Director Designate (201314 Centennial Season) and his first years as Music Director of the Houston Symphony (2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons). Andrés, appointed in January 2013, is a young, dynamic conductor who radiates charm and energy both on and off the podium. He is the orchestra’s first Hispanic music director.

PHOTO BY JULIE SOEFER

For information on how to become involved, please contact Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO at (713) 238-1411 or David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, at (713) 337-8525.

CHIEF CONDUCTORS AND MUSIC DIRECTORS Julien Paul Blitz (1913-16)

Sir John Barbirolli (1961-67)

Paul Bergé (1916-18)

André Previn (1967-69)

Uriel Nespoli (1931-32)

Lawrence Foster (1971-78)

Frank St. Leger (1932-35)

Sergiu Comissiona (1980-88)

Ernst Hoffmann (1936-47)

Christoph Eschenbach (1988-99)

Efrem Kurtz (1948-54) Ferenc Fricsay (1954)

The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Margaret Alkek Williams

Janice Barrow Gary & Marian Beauchamp Barbara & Pat McCelvey Nancy & Robert Peiser Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Mike Stude Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

Leopold Stokowski (1955-61)

Hans Graf (2001-13) Andrés Orozco-Estrada (2014-)

EVENTS

Donors and Patrons Rise to the Occasion Making Their Legacy: The Houston Symphony Annual Legacy Society Luncheon

PHOTOS BY DANIEL ORTIZ

Betty & Jesse Tutor, Co-Chairs of the Legacy Society

Donna & George Abdo

On February 13, more than 100 guests gathered at River Oaks Country Club for the Houston Symphony’s Legacy Society Luncheon, celebrating a group of committed donors who have included the Houston Symphony Endowment in their estate plans. Hosted by Co-Chairs Jesse Tutor, President, Houston Symphony Endowment, and his wife Betty Tutor, President, Houston Symphony League, guests enjoyed a performance

by Principal Double Bassist Robin Kesselman and Principal Harpist Megan Conley. Megan dazzled the audience with (seated, left to right) Dean Walker, Debussy’s Arabesque No. 1, Elba Villareal, Janet Rinehart, Ed Rinehart originally composed for piano, (standing) Bill McCullough, Karinna McCullough, Pam Blaine but beautifully arranged for harp, while Robin injected some South American flavor into the program with Piazzolla’s Tango Etude No. 3.

We extend our sincerest thanks to this special group of donors for their vision, foresight and commitment to the Legacy Society. For information about Planned Giving at the Houston Symphony, please contact Patrick T. Quinn, Director, Planned Giving, at patrick.quinn@houstonsymphony.org.

Children’s Fashion Show Guests Roar with Delight Chairs Lindley Arnoldy and Rachael Volz and honorary chairs Courtney and Bill Toomey were joined by more than 300 guests in the River Oaks Country Club ballroom on Sunday, March 6, for “The Jungle Book” Children’s Fashion Show hosted by the Houston Symphony League and the Houston Symphony Society. Bamboo centerpieces by The Events Company overflowed with orchids Rachael Volz, Lindley Arnoldy and lush plants making everyone feel like they were in the midst of a party in the jungle.

Fifty-five children modeled more than the “Bare Necessities” of spring fashions from Itsy Bitsy Boutique and Macy’s with commentary provided by Susan Watt of Itsy Bitsy.

Following the runway show, entertainment for the young models included balloon animals, crafts and an Instrument Petting Zoo. To everyone’s delight, a giraffe stilt-walker roamed the ballroom, adding to the jungle theme.

The Houston Symphony appreciates the generous presenting sponsorship of BB&T, made possible by Bill & Courtney Toomey. Additional supporters include Lindy & Jason Arnoldy, Rachel & Jason Volz, Susan & Dick Hansen, Burberry, Mandy & Rafael Diaz, Melissa & Brad Juneau, Christie & Billy McCartney, Mansour Taghdisi & Henry Richardson, Carolyn & Garry Tanner and Brian & Candace Thomas. Models received a complimentary sitting provided by Gittings, and the photos will be included in a memory book.

This year’s Children’s Fashion Show and Luncheon raised more than $60,000, benefitting the Houston Symphony’s Education and Community Programming.

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EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Houston Symphony Musicians in the Community: Building Relationships while Educating

Beyond giving passionate performances on stage as a full orchestra, Houston Symphony musicians serve a much larger role within our city. By helping others to hear music more intelligently, Symphony musicians spread the joy and culture of classical music.

Associate Director of Education Allison Conlan recalls a pivotal moment at the end of a recent presentation by double bassist Eric Larson for Chavez High School’s orchestra students. She witnessed the students learn how to achieve a coordinated, collective performance after Eric taught them how instruments should interact with each other, as well as how necessary it is for musicians to listen to other instruments across the orchestra. During the course of a few exercises, Eric noticed that the students were so focused on playing their parts to technical perfection that they forgot they were a part of an ensemble, and consequently, they lost sight of the art of music as a whole. The breakthrough moment for the students came when Eric played alongside one of the violin students to demonstrate how the bass line can follow and support the violin’s melodic line. In response to Eric’s support, the student realized how effortlessly and musically she could play just by listening and reacting. “I never thought I could sound like that. I was so nervous, but it was so cool!” exclaimed the student violinist. Interactions such as this demonstrate the profound impact Symphony musicians have when they work harmoniously with young musicians in the community.

Similarly, each year, one of our partnering youth orchestras performs side-by-side with Symphony musicians at Jones Hall during the Spec’s Charitable Foundation Salute to Educators concert. This year, members of Virtuosi of Houston Youth Orchestra expressed their gratitude not just for what they learned about the music, but also for the Symphony’s role as a supportive member of 14

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the music community. “During the breaks that Maestro Franz would give us,” recalled one student, “my stand partner and I would just sit and crack jokes about the music and the whole experience.

This made it a lot easier to feel at home during the whole process and made me feel very comfortable.” The value of these teaching opportunities, however, is not limited to the students; Symphony musicians also benefit. Violist Sheldon Person created a memorable bond with his youth orchestra stand partner during rehearsals for their side-by-side performance: “I got the nicest card from my stand partner. It was really sincere and sweet, and kind of made my month, to be honest.”

Outside of Jones Hall, Symphony musicians actively participate in the diverse communities of Greater Houston, having meaningful impacts on audiences and on the education of our youth. For example, musicians propel the classical music tradition, as well as mentor and inspire audiences, by participating in GDF Suez Community Connections. This program gives Houston Symphony musicians opportunities to visit, perform or teach at a wide variety of venues throughout our city. The musicians create their own musical presentations, form their own performance groups and choose their own repertoire. In this program, each musician gives five performances or instructional sessions throughout the year, either as a soloist or in a small ensemble. During the 2014-15 concert season, Houston Symphony musicians reached more than 3,000 individuals in 64 different venues, ranging from nursing homes and community centers to schools and hospitals.

In these performances, often held in informal and intimate settings, Houstonians experience how musicians interact with each other and the music they play. Musicians also interact with their audiences, answering questions about the music, their instruments and life in the orchestra. This wholehearted commitment by Houston Symphony musicians is a natural outgrowth of their dedication to art and community service, and it underscores the value of introducing listeners, both old and new, to the universal joys of music. Through these community performances, Symphony musicians create meaning in the music they perform for attendees, ultimately helping them becoming better, active listeners of music. After all, listening to music is a skill that is acquired through experience and learning, and knowledge enhances the enjoyment of listening.

To learn more about these initiatives or how you can become involved, please contact our Education and Community Programming team at education.community@houstonsymphony. org. The Houston Symphony thanks our generous donors for the support that allows programs such as these to be accessible at no cost or reduced cost to our schools.

EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT The Houston Symphony acknowledges those individuals, corporations and foundations that support our education and community engagement activities. Each year, these activities impact the lives of more than 97,000 children and students and provide access to our world-class orchestra for more than 150,000 Houstonians free of charge.

GUARANTOR - $100,000+ BBVA Compass Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts The Honorable David H. Dewhurst City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Houston Endowment Houston Symphony Endowment John & Lindy Rydman / Spec’s Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods UNDERWRITER - $50,000+ Cameron International Corporation The Elkins Foundation ExxonMobil Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan / Houston Baptist University GDF SUEZ Energy North America The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo The John P. McGovern Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. / The Robbins Foundation Shell Oil Company The Robert & Janice McNair Foundation SPONSOR - $25,000+ The Boeing Company Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III Sterling-Turner Foundation

PARTNER - $15,000+ Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation The Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation Wells Fargo Mr. Jay Steinfeld & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop SUPPORTER - $10,000+ CenterPoint Energy East West Bank Enbridge Energy Company George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Houston Symphony League Marathon Oil Corporation The Powell Foundation Vivian L. Smith Foundation BENEFACTOR - $5,000+ Houston Symphony League Bay Area LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation Macy’s Randalls Food Markets Strake Foundation DONOR - $1,000+ Lilly & Thurmon Andress Diane & Harry Gendel Kinder Morgan Foundation Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Cora Sue & Harry Mach Karinne & Bill McCullough Nancy & Robert Peiser Chester Pitts Foundation Tricia & Mark Rauch Texas Commission on the Arts

Support by Endowed Funds

Education and Community programs are also supported by the following endowed funds, which are part of the Houston Symphony Endowment: Margarett & Alice Brown Endowment Fund for Education Lawrence E. Carlton M.D. Endowment Fund for Youth Programs Richard P. Garmany Fund for the Houston Symphony League Concerto Competition The William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs Selma S. Neumann Fund Spec’s Charitable Foundation Salute to Educators Concert Fund Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition Endowed Fund

Support for Symphony Scouts

Symphony Scouts is supported by Cora Sue and Harry Mach in honor of Roger Daily’s 13 years of service as Director of the Houston Symphony’s Education and Community Programs.

Support for the Community-Embedded Musician Program

The Houston Symphony residency at Crespo Elementary is presented by BBVA Compass and the BBVA Compass Foundation. We are also thankful to HISD and these lead supporters of the Community-Embedded Musician program: Robert and Janice McNair Foundation, Medistar, Spec’s Charitable Foundation, Nancy and Robert Peiser, Mr. Jay Seinfeld and Mrs. Barbara Winthrop, and the LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation.

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ORCHESTRA AND STAFF Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Music Director Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair Michael Krajewski, Principal POPS Conductor Robert Franz, Associate Conductor Sponsor, Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge FIRST VIOLIN Frank Huang, Concertmaster Max Levine Chair Eric Halen, Co-Concertmaster Ellen E. Kelley Chair Qi Ming, Assistant Concertmaster Fondren Foundation Chair Marina Brubaker Tong Yan MiHee Chung Rodica Gonzalez Ferenc Illenyi Si-Yang Lao Kurt Johnson Christopher Neal Sergei Galperin Anastasia Sukhopara* Evgenia Zharzhavskaya* SECOND VIOLIN Sophia Silivos, Acting Principal Hitai Lee, Acting Associate Principal Kiju Joh** Mihaela Frusina Annie Kuan-Yu Chen Jing Zheng Martha Chapman Tianjie Lu Tina Zhang Amy Teare** Oleg Chelpanov* Michelle Black* VIOLA Wayne Brooks, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Legacy Society Chair Joan DerHovsepian, Associate Principal George Pascal, Assistant Principal Wei Jiang Linda Goldstein Sheldon Person Fay Shapiro Daniel Strba Jarita Ng Phyllis Herdliska CELLO Brinton Averil Smith, Principal Janice and Thomas Barrow Chair Christopher French, Associate Principal Anthony Kitai Jeffrey Butler Kevin Dvorak Xiao Wong Myung Soon Lee James R. Denton Louis-Marie Fardet

Steven Reineke, Principal POPS Conductor Designate Betsy Cook Weber, Director, Houston Symphony Chorus

DOUBLE BASS Robin Kesselman, Principal David Malone, Associate Principal Mark Shapiro Eric Larson Burke Shaw Donald Howey Michael McMurray FLUTE Aralee Dorough, Principal General Maurice Hirsch Chair Matthew Roitstein, Associate Principal Judy Dines Rebecca Powell Garfield* PICCOLO Rebecca Powell Garfield* OBOE Jonathan Fischer, Principal Lucy Binyon Stude Chair Anne Leek, Associate Principal Colin Gatwood Adam Dinitz ENGLISH HORN Adam Dinitz CLARINET Mark Nuccio, Principal Thomas LeGrand, Associate Principal Christian Schubert Alexander Potiomkin E-FLAT CLARINET Christian Schubert BASS CLARINET Alexander Potiomkin Tassie and Constantine S. Nicandros Chair BASSOON Rian Craypo, Principal Eric Arbiter, Associate Principal Elise Wagner Micah Doherty* CONTRABASSOON Micah Doherty* HORN William VerMeulen, Principal Robert Johnson, Associate Principal Jesse Clevenger*, Assistant Principal Brian Thomas Nancy Goodearl Ian Mayton

TRUMPET Mark Hughes, Principal George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Chair Robert Walp, Assistant Principal Caroline Schafer TROMBONE Allen Barnhill, Principal Bradley White, Associate Principal Phillip Freeman BASS TROMBONE Phillip Freeman TUBA Dave Kirk, Principal TIMPANI Ronald Holdman, Principal Brian Del Signore, Associate Principal PERCUSSION Brian Del Signore, Principal Mark Griffith Matthew Strauss HARP Megan Conley, Principal KEYBOARD Scott Holshouser, Principal ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Michael Gorman ASSISTANT ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER Shana Bey LIBRARIAN Thomas Takaro ASSISTANT LIBRARIANS Erik Gronfor Michael McMurray STAGE MANAGER Kelly Morgan STAGE TECHNICIANS Cory Grant Jose Rios *Contracted Substitute ** On Leave

COMMUNITY-EMBEDDED MUSICIANS Jenna Barghouti, violin David Connor, double bass Tony Parce, viola Hellen Weberpal, cello

Steinway is the official piano of the Houston Symphony and James B. Kozak serves as Piano Technician.

The Houston Symphony has two Steinway concert grand pianos. One is a gift of Mrs. Helen B. Rosenbaum in 2001. The other is a Centennial gift from the Houston Symphony Central and Bay Area Leagues in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Houston Symphony League which was celebrated during the 2012-13 season.

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Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Pam Blaine, Chief of Education and Community Programming David Chambers, Chief Development Officer Aurelie Desmarais, Chief of Artistic Planning Amanda Dinitz, Chief of Strategic Initiatives Vicky Dominguez, General Manager Danny Granados, Chief Financial Officer Carlos Andrés Botero, Musical Ambassador/Assistant Conductor Christine Kelly-Weaver, Executive Assistant/Board Liaison Meg Philpot, Director, Human Resources Joann Tamayo, Human Resources Assistant Artistic Anna Diemer, Chorus Manager Erik Gronfor, Assistant Librarian Michael McMurray, Assistant Librarian Lesley Sabol, Director, Popular Programming Thomas Takaro, Librarian Roxanna Tehrani, Artistic Assistant Rebecca Zabinski, Manager, Artistic Administration Development Liam Bonner, Development Officer, Individual Giving Tiffany Bourgeois, Development Associate, Annual Fund Julie Busch, Development Executive Assistant/ Office Services Coordinator Irma M. Carrillo, Development Associate, Gifts and Records Darryl de Mello, Director, Annual Fund Noureen Faizullah, Development Director, Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects Denise Furlough, Manager, Special Events Vickie Hamley, Director, Volunteer Services Sydnee E. Houlette, Development Assistant, Institutional Giving Kendall Kessel, Associate Director, Foundation and Government Grants Rachel Klaassen, Development Assistant, Gifts, Records and Planned Giving Leticia Konigsberg, Director, Corporate Relations Mary Beth Mosley, Director, Institutional Giving and Stewardship Amber Winsor Mullins, Senior Director, Development Tyler Murphy, Associate, Special Events Laura Neiman, Associate Director, League Relations Patrick Quinn, Director, Planned Giving Martin Schleuse, Development Communications Manager Monica Simon, Director, Special Events Molly Simpson, Director, Major Gifts Sarah Slemmons, Patron Donor Relations Manager Rhemé Sloan, Manager, Research and Prospect Management Education and Community Programming Keisha Cassel. Manager of Education Allison Conlan, Associate Director, Education Melissa Fuller, Education and Community Programming Assistant Emily Nelson, Education and Community Programming Manager Ragan Rhodes, Education and Community Programming Associate Finance/Administration/IT Heather Fails, Manager, Ticketing Database Janis Pease LaRocque, Manager, Patron Database Kay Middleton, Receptionist Desmond Robinson, Director, IT Maria Ross, Payroll Manager Armin (A.J.) Salge, Network Systems Engineer Brandon VanWaeyenberghe, Director, Business Analytics Chris Westerfelt, Manager, Accounts Payable and Special Projects Karen Whitlock, Director of Finance Marketing/Communications Vanessa Astros-Young, Senior Director, Communications Kristen Bennett, PR Coordinator Jeffrey Block, Marketing Manager Sara Carr, Graphic Designer Lorena Cozzari, Publicist Leonard DiFranza, Digital Marketing and Design Assistant Calvin Dotsey, Digital Marketing Coordinator Elizabeth Faulkinberry, Front of House Coordinator Brian Glass, Patron Services Coordinator Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee, Senior Director, Marketing and Sales Jason Landry, Senior Manager, Patron Services Melissa H. Lopez, Director, Single Tickets & Special Projects Keith Nickerson, Managing Editor, Publications Sarah Rendón, Assistant Manager, Patron Services Jacqueline Shumate, Marketing Manager Jenny Zuniga, Director, Patron Services Operations Shana Bey, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Becky Brown, Director, Operations Michael Gorman, Orchestra Personnel Manager Lauren Moore, Operations Assistant Kelly Morgan, Stage Manager Meredith Williams, Associate Director, Operations

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APRIL 8, 9, 10, 2016

Ravel’s Boléro Fabien Gabel, conductor Caroline Goulding, violin Friday, April 8, 2016 8pm Saturday, April 9, 2016 8pm Sunday, April 10, 2016 2:30pm

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This concert is being recorded for future broadcasts on Houston Public Media News 88.7 airing on Sundays at 8pm and again on Classical 91.7 on Wednesdays at 8pm.

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BIOGRAPHIES

R A N D G R O U P G R E AT P E R F O R M E R S S E R I E S

FABIEN GABEL, conductor These performances are generously supported in part by: Supporter Kirkland & Ellis, LLP Martha and Marvin McMurrey

The Classical Season is endowed by The Wortham Foundation, Inc. in memory of Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham.

Part of the Margaret Alkek Williams Sound + Vision Series, which is also supported by The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Endowed Fund for Creative Initiatives.

Recent enhancements to the Jones Hall recording suite are generously provided by Silver Circle Audio.

Recognized internationally as one of the stars of the new generation, Fabien Gabel is a regular guest of major orchestras in Europe, North America and Asia and has been music director of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra since September 2013.

This season and last, Gabel has enjoyed return engagements with the Houston Symphony and with the Oslo Philharmonic, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre National de France, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Brussels Philharmonic, Bremer

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NOTES | RAVEL’S BOLÉRO | APRIL 8, 9, 10 Philharmoniker and Real Filharmonica de Galicia. Debuts include the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, The North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, National Orchestra of Belgium, Auckland Symphony Orchestra and Queensland Symphony Orchestra. He will also conduct Carmen at the Norwegian Opera in Oslo.

Gabel has worked with exciting soloists, including Emanuel Ax, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Alina Pogostkina, Julian Steckel, Johannes Moser, Antônio Meneses, Marc-André Hamelin, Beatrice Rana, Gautier Capuçon, Simone Lamsma, Xavier de Maistre, and singers Jennifer Larmore, Measha Brueggergosman, Danielle de Niese, Natalie Dessay and Marie-Nicole Lemieux.

Fabien Gabel first attracted international attention in 2004 when he won the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London. The award subsequently led to his appointment as the London Symphony Orchestra’s assistant conductor for two seasons. Since then, the LSO has engaged him regularly as a guest conductor.

CAROLINE GOULDING, violin Named “precociously gifted” by Gramophone magazine, violinist Caroline Goulding has appeared as a soloist with many of the world’s premier orchestras, including the Houston, Nashville and Colorado Symphonies; The Cleveland Orchestra; Frankfurt Radio, Toronto, National, Milwaukee, Dallas and Detroit Symphony Orchestras; Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; Deutsche Radio Philharmonie; Berlin’s ensemble mini; and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

She has appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, the Tonhalle-Zürich, the Louvre Museum and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

The 2015-2016 season includes engagements in Asia, Europe and North America. Her upcoming recital CD release with pianist Danae Dörken includes works by Schumann, Enescu and Dvorˇák.

Goulding is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Grammy nomination for her debut album on the Telarc label.

She has appeared on NBC’s Today, MARTHA hosted by Martha Stewart, Germany’s Stars von morgen hosted by Rolando Villazón, and she can be heard on NPR’s Performance Today and SiriusXM Satellite Radio.

Currently studying with Christian Tetzlaff at the Kronberg Academy, Goulding splits her time between Kronberg, Germany and Boston. Other musical mentors have included Donald Weilerstein, Paul Kantor, Joel Smirnoff and Julia Kurtyka.

A past member of the Stradivari Society, Caroline Goulding currently plays the General Kyd Stradivarius (c 1720), courtesy of Jonathan Moulds.

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NOTES L’APPRENTI SORCIER (THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE) Paul Dukas (1865-1935) In a Tweet. Inspired by a tale of magic going awry, this gem of musical storytelling gained movie immortality in Disney’s Fantasia.

The Back Story. During a break from crafting Faust and other literary landmarks, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote a whimsical little poem set in a sorcerer’s lab. It’s the tale of an apprentice who attempts some labor-saving hocus-pocus while his master is away.

Using spells he has overheard, he commands a broom to fetch a bucket and bring water for the bathtub. His half-understood incantations go haywire, and the broom delivers a deluge. In 1896-97, 100 years after Goethe wrote the poem, it inspired France’s Paul Dukas to tell the story in sound. The showpiece became Dukas’ best-known work—even more so after Walt Disney used it for one of the vignettes in his 1940 film Fantasia.

The Instruments. 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion, harp and strings What to Listen For. Follow the story with your mind’s ear. Amid the introduction’s hushed strings, listen for the woodwind solos.

Hinting at the tune that will describe the bustling broom, they may represent the apprentice uttering the spells. The orchestra then launches into the jig that conjures up the broom in action. As the music builds, swirling winds and glittering percussion suggest the splash and crash of water. Suddenly, everything stops—corresponding to the spot in the poem where the desperate apprentice chops the broom in two. But the orchestra rumbles back into action as each fragment sprouts into a fully armed broom. The dance grows fiercer than ever until the sorcerer, heralded by pealing brasses, saves the day.

The Houston Symphony performs an even wilder piece of storytelling, Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie fantastique, May 19-22.

VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 1 IN G MINOR, OPUS 26 Max Bruch (1838-1920) In a Tweet. Germany’s Max Bruch revels in the violin’s passion, tenderness and fireworks.

The Back Story. Even though Bruch had a virtuoso’s command of the keyboard, he dismissed the piano as a “rattle-trap.” He preferred the violin, saying it “can sing a melody better than a piano can, and melody is the soul of music.” When Bruch was 28, he treated violinists to melodies galore in his lush Concerto No. 1. It became so popular that it eclipsed his two subsequent concertos, and Bruch came to resent its success—complaining about the “laziness, stupidity and dullness” of violinists who kept wanting to coach it with him. “I have now become rude,” he said, “and have told them: ‘I cannot listen to this concerto any more. …

Go away once and for all and play the other concertos.’” It must

NOTES | RAVEL’S BOLÉRO | APRIL 8, 9, 10 have galled him that he had sold the concerto to a publisher for a flat fee, losing out on decades of royalties.

The Instruments. 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings What to Listen For. The Concerto No. 1 is one of the finest examples of the 19th-century concerto as a vehicle for glorifying a virtuoso. Rather than let the orchestra have the first say, as Mozart and Beethoven did in their violin concertos, Bruch brings in the soloist right away. The violin is the concerto’s heart-on-its-sleeve protagonist, savoring the soulfulness of Bruch’s melodies as it sings, broods and rhapsodizes. The orchestra supplies rich backgrounds, interweaves with the violin and takes climaxes over the top. Ardent lyricism wells up in each movement, and the violin’s flourishes magnify the music’s passions rather than simply supplying glitter.

The Houston Symphony performs another great 19th-century showpiece, Edvard Grieg’s PIano Concerto, May 19-22 with Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero.

The printed music for this work was donated by the friends of Rabbi Stephen Stein, in his honor.

SUITE FROM LES ANIMAUX MODÈLES Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) In a Tweet. 17th-century fables drive a ballet score blending frivolity, weightiness and suave lyricism.

The Back Story. World War II raged, the Nazis occupied France, and Francis Poulenc had to compose a ballet for the Paris Opera. Basing it on fables by 17th-century author Jean de la Fontaine, he set it during the reign of King Louis XIV. Why look back more than 200 years?

Poulenc felt “an imperious desire to rediscover in this most characteristic period of French history a reason for belief in the destiny of our country,” he said. Fearsome real-world events must have lent extra resonance to Fontaine’s “Death and the Woodcutter,” the tale of a man beset by work and worry. He calls on death not to take him, but to load wood onto his back so he can persevere. The ballet, premiered in 1942, unfolded on a farm where six fables played out as vignettes. Poulenc’s concert suite includes four fables and the framing scenes of dawn and lunchtime on the farm.

The Instruments. 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps, celesta, piano and strings What to Listen For. Frivolity, seductiveness and gravitas coexist in Poulenc’s musical personality, and The Model Animals draws on them all. Blossoming lyricism conjures up a gentle dawn. Ringing tones and surging melody depict the protagonist of “The Lion in Love.”

Boisterousness takes over in “The Middle-Aged Man and His Two Loves,” in which women compete for a man’s favor. “Death and the Woodsman” opens seriously, but an eloquent melody launched by the oboe warms it up. In “The Two Roosters,” the orchestra’s staccato attacks and flashing colors evoke the flutter of a fight over a hen. Lyricism wells up more richly than ever in the finale, but Poulenc punctuates it with sober moments that may symbolize his real-world fears.

The Houston Symphony returns to ballet next season through Igor Stravinsky’s Petrouchka.

BOLÉRO Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) In a Tweet: Feel the hypnotic power of a slinky melody pumped up by a 14-minute crescendo.

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These performances are generously supported in part by: Guarantor Fayez Sarofim Guest Violinist Fund, through The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Underwriter Medistar Corporation/ Mr. Monzer Hourani

The Classical Season is endowed by The Wortham Foundation, Inc. in memory of Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham.

Video enhancement of Houston Symphony concerts is made possible by the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation through a special gift celebrating the Foundation’s 50th anniversary in 2015.

Recent enhancements to the Jones Hall recording suite are generously provided by Silver Circle Audio.

THOMAS SØNDERGÅRD, conductor Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård is principal conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales (BBCNOW) and principal guest conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. He was principal conductor and musical advisor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra (2009-2012).

This season includes debuts with Leipzig Gewandhaus, Toronto Symphony and Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestras; Norske Oper; the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Berlin Philharmonie in celebration of Carl Nielsen’s 150th anniversary; and many return engagements. He is planning an international tour with BBCNOW. CONTINUED ON PAGE 28

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BIOGRAPHIES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 25 | MOZART AND BRUCKNER | APRIL 14, 16, 17 As part of the 2015 anniversary celebrations of Sibelius and Nielsen, he conducted a wide variety of works by the two composers with many leading orchestras. Søndergård and BBCNOW released their first commercial recording of Sibelius Symphonies 2 and 7 (LINN records).

An experienced opera conductor, last season Søndergård conducted Les dialogues des Carmélites at Royal Stockholm Opera. In the 2012-2013 season, he appeared at the Royal Danish Opera (The Cunning Little Vixen) and Royal Swedish Opera (Turandot with Nina Stemme), following his success there with Tosca in 2011.

Noteworthy recordings include Vilde Frang’s celebrated first recording (EMI) and Poul Ruder’s Second Piano Concerto (Bridge Records), which was nominated for a Gramophone Award in 2011. Admired for his interpretations of Scandinavian contemporary repertoire, his discography reflects that interest. In 2011, he was awarded the prestigious Queen Ingrid Foundation Prize for services to Music in Denmark.

KAREN GOMYO, violin Recipient of the 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Karen Gomyo has established herself as an internationally in-demand soloist, performing with leading orchestras throughout the world.

In February 2015, she performed the North American premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., the composer conducting. The season included many important return engagements and debuts with the Melbourne, Tasmanian, New Zealand and Teipei Symphony Orchestras; Staatsoper Hannover; Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra; Aalborg Symfoniorkester and Argovia Philharmonic.

In recital and chamber music, Gomyo has performed in festivals throughout the United States and Europe. Her chamber music partners have included Leif Ove Andsnes, Olli Mustonen, Kathryn Stott, Juho Pohjonen, Heinrich Schiff, Christian Poltéra, Alisa Weilerstein, Lynn Harrell, Jörg Widmann, Isabelle van Keulen and Benjamin Schmid.

Deeply interested in the nuevo tango music of Astor Piazzolla, Gomyo has an ongoing project with Paizzolla’s longtime pianist and tango legend Pablo Ziegler and his partners Héctor del Curto (bandoneon), Claudio Ragazzi (electric guitar) and Pedro Giraudo (double bass). She also performs regularly with the Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen in a unique duo program.

Gomyo was violinist, guide and narrator for a documentary film about Stradivarius, produced by Japan’s NHK, Mysteries of the Supreme Violin. She plays the “Aurora, ex-Foulis” Stradivarius violin of 1703 that was bought for her exclusive use by a private sponsor.

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NOTES VIOLIN CONCERTO NO. 3 IN G MAJOR, K.216 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) In a Tweet. Sunshine radiates from a concerto the teenaged Mozart composed to show off his talent for the violin.

The Back Story. Mozart’s gifts as a composer and pianist have almost eclipsed another of his talents: playing the violin. When he was about 6 years old, he learned it on his own, even though his father—Leopold Mozart, who handled his musical training—had written a landmark treatise on violin technique.

The young Mozart capitalized on his violin skills as he labored to establish his career. Several of his chamber-orchestra works from his late teens contain violin solos he used as showcases. “I played as though I were the greatest fiddler in all of Europe,” Mozart reported, perhaps jokingly, after a concert in Germany. Yet his ever-demanding father still prodded him: “You yourself do not know how well you play,” Leopold replied. “If only you would do justice to yourself and play with assurance, courage and spirit—yes, in effect, as if you were you were Europe’s first violinist.”

When Mozart was 19, he wrote five violin concertos within a year—in addition to six piano sonatas, a few masses, an opera and other works. The Concerto No. 3 was probably one of the works he played to entertain the guests at a dinner soiree two years later. “It went like oil,” Mozart wrote his father. “Everyone praised my pure, beautiful tone.”

The Instruments. 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 horns and strings What to Listen For. The cheerful theme that opens the concerto appears almost verbatim in Mozart’s Il re pastore, or The Shepherd King, the opera he wrote the same year. “Tranquil air and serene days, fresh springs and green fields are the happy desires of the shepherd and his flock,” the title character sings. That aura surrounds the entire concerto.

The first movement is brisk and bright. The slow movement brings serenity. The solo violin spins out a graceful melody against a harmonious backdrop of murmuring strings. And in the finale, the violin and orchestra dance a jig—with a couple of surprises along the way. For a few moments, the music turns into a serenade as guitar-like plucked strings accompany the soloist’s song. A little march takes over from that. Then everyone resumes the jig.

The Houston Symphony has more Mozart concertos in store for November, when pianist-conductor Jeffrey Kahane leads an allMozart program, including the beloved Piano Concerto No. 21.

SYMPHONY NO. 7 IN E MAJOR Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) In a Tweet. In this majestic, soulful symphony, Bruckner gives his own spin to Beethoven’s grand scale and Richard Wagner’s sumptuous tones.

The Back Story. Anton Bruckner admired Richard Wagner’s music

NOTES | MOZART AND BRUCKNER | APRIL 14, 16, 17 so fervently that he made pilgrimages to the premieres of The Ring of the Nibelung and Parsifal. The majestic tones and complex harmonies of Wagner’s works influenced his younger colleague’s symphonies, and after examining some of them, Wagner purportedly declared: “I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.” In the late 1800s’ bitterly polarized music world, Bruckner paid a price for his Wagnerian bent— especially in Vienna, Bruckner’s home, where Wagner’s opponents attacked him, too.

Yet Bruckner’s devotion held fast. His Symphony No. 7 was his first to employ the Wagner tuba, a hybrid of French horn and tuba.

Bruckner’s fear that the ailing Wagner would soon die led him to conceive the Adagio as a memorial, and he called on four Wagner tubas to intone its somber main theme. By the time Bruckner finished the movement, Wagner was gone.

Premiered in Germany in 1884, the symphony won such acclaim that the Vienna Philharmonic braved anti-Bruckner sentiment to perform it—even though Bruckner, fearing the critics, asked the orchestra not to. Despite his trepidation, the concert brought Bruckner his first success at home.

of his symphonies that hark back to the Ninth’s opening: Hushed strings pave the way for the main theme.

But Bruckner then takes his own path. Whereas Beethoven soon roars, Bruckner unveils a sonorous, long-breathed cello melody that sets the first movement’s majestic but meditative tone.

The Adagio’s elegy for Wagner builds up to climaxes whose blazing sonorities recall Siegfried’s funeral march from Wagner’s Ring.

But the lyrical sections sometimes look forward to the ardent melodies of Gustav Mahler—who, as a Vienna Conservatory student, was friendly with Bruckner while the Symphony No. 7 was in the works. The scherzo’s pounding energy recalls that of the scherzo of Beethoven’s Ninth. And the last movement strides to a confident, ringing finish.

Bruckner’s full-throated tones will ring out again when former Houston Symphony music director Christoph Eschenbach returns next season to lead the Symphony No. 1. ©Steven Brown The printed scores for this work were donated by Mr. John L. Sutterby.

The Instruments. 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, 4 Wagner tubas, timpani, percussion and strings What to Listen For. If Bruckner’s symphonies draw on Wagner’s sounds and harmonies, they also emulate the grand scale of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Bruckner’s No. 7 is one of several

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DISNEY IN CONCERT Tale as Old as Time is produced

by Symphony Pops Music Sherilyn Draper, director and writer Ted Ricketts, musical director Additional Casting by Alison Franck, CSA This concert is authorized by Disney Concerts © Disney Disney Memories Overture © 2014 Walt Disney Music Co. and Wonderland Music Co., Inc. Selections from Disney’s Tangled © 2014 Walt Disney Music Co. and Wonderland Music Co., Inc. Reflection © 1998 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. Enchanted Helpers Medley © 2014 Walt Disney Music Co. and Wonderland Music Co., Inc. Villains Medley © 2009 Walt Disney Music Co. and Wonderland Music Co., Inc. Hercules Gospel Medley © 1996 Walt Disney Music Co. and Wonderland Music Co., Inc. The Princess and the Frog Medley © 2009 Walt Disney Music Co. They Finally Meet © 2014 Walt Disney Music Co. and Wonderland Music Co., Inc. Battle With the Forces of Evil © 1952 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. Frozen Medley © 2013 Wonderland Music Co., Inc.

Lucas Waldin is a dynamic and versatile conductor whose flare for audience engagement and passion for performance have delighted audiences across North America.

He is currently the artist-in-residence and community ambassador of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Now in his fifth season with the ESO, he was first appointed as resident conductor in 2009 and has since appeared with the orchestra more than 100 times. He has collaborated with some of North America’s finest musicians, including Jens Lindemann, Angela Cheng and Sergei Babayan and conducted in Carnegie Hall during the ESO’s participation in the 2012 Spring for Music festival. In recognition of his accomplishments, he was awarded the Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestra Conducting by the Canada Council for the Arts.

With the ability to slide easily between styles and genres, Waldin has worked with a range of artists such as Ben Folds, Chantal Kreviazuk and the Barenaked Ladies, in addition to conducting numerous multimedia presentations, including Disney in Concert and Blue Planet Live. He has performed with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the KitchenerWaterloo Symphony, Orchestra London and the Modesto Symphony Orchestra.

DEIDRE DONOVAN, vocalist Deidre Donovan began her relationship with Disney at the age of five when she performed the opening number from Beauty and the Beast for her kindergarten class during show and tell. Awed by Deidre’s passion, her teacher told her mom she should do musical theatre and now she gets to April 2016 31

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A San Diego native, she graduated from UC Irvine with Honors in Musical Theatre.

Shortly thereafter, she moved to New York City where she has had the privilege of performing in The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Hairspray at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Fingers and Toes at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse, S’Wonderful at Westchester Broadway Theatre and as Jo in Little Women at Sierra Rep. Deidre has also traveled extensively as a performer with the USO Show Troupe, making appearances everywhere from military bases to national television. Other highlights include tap dancing with the Honey Taps ensemble located in the tri-state area and a handful of commercials appearances. She resides in New York City with her husband Mike and their two children.

STEPHANIE GERSON, vocalist Stephanie Burkett Gerson has a wide range of credits to her name; from theater and theme parks to cruise ships and a favorite National Anthem vocalist. As a proud member of Actor’s Equity, Stephanie has been seen as a lead vocalist and Mrs. Claus in the Rockette’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular National Tour and appeared in I Love A Piano as Ginger at Moonlight Stage Productions in Vista California.

Regional Theatre credits: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator), Smokey Joe’s Café (Delee), Nine (Carla), Cats (Jellylorum), Beauty and the Beast (Babette), The Full Monty (Estelle), The Buddy Holly Story (Vi, Mary Lou), Meet Me in St. Louis (Lucille), Sweeny Todd, Richard Sherman’s Pazzazz. Other theatre credits include: You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Lucy), Grease (Sandy), The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy). Stephanie is an active member of New York City’s most well know gospel choir, Michael McElroy’s Broadway Inspirational Voices. She also regularly lifts the spirits of America’s troops and their families with the USO Show Troupe.

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Other work includes resident actor/educator with the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre where he performed in Les Miserables and the world premiere of The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley (Arthur).

As a featured actor at The Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival John was seen in Legally Blonde (Emmit), Boeing Boeing (Bernard), and As you Like It (Oliver). Most recently John premiered as a featured vocalist with Viking Ocean Cruises inaugural liner The Viking Star. John is thrilled to be part of the Disney in Concert team.

ANDREW JOHNSON, vocalist Andrew Johnson is a Disney kid at heart and is humbled to share the music and magic from the stage! He has toured all over the United States, Europe, and Asia, as a lead vocalist and dancer, and his performances have been broadcasted on national and international television. Andrew has performed on FOX’s The X-Factor, The Conan O’Brien Show, and the MTV Video Music Awards. He has sung background for artists such as Demi Lovato, Fifth Harmony, LeAnn Rimes, and Florence and the Machine. His theatrical credits include Rent (Benny), Five Guys Named Moe (Four-Eyed Moe), and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph, Asher) Andrew has shared the stage with singers/actresses Shirley Jones and Bernadette Peters and has performed live duets with recording artists Patti LaBelle and Erykah Badu and singer/actress Jodi Benson (the original voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid). He is a singer/songwriter and recording artist and his music is available worldwide on iTunes, under his artist name Drew Michael. He would like to thank his family for their love and support and Ted Ricketts for the opportunity of being part of this show.

HOUSTON SYMPHONY CHORUS The Houston Symphony Chorus, the official choral unit of the Houston Symphony, consists of highly skilled and talented volunteer singers. Over the years, singers in this historic ensemble have learned and performed the world’s great choral-orchestral masterworks under the batons of Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Michael Krajewski, Hans Graf, Robert Shaw, Mitch Miller, Peter Schrier, Helmut Rilling and Nicholas McGegan, among many others. Under the leadership of Director Emeritus Charles Hausmann, the Chorus made several European concert tours performing with orchestras in Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, England and Mexico. The Houston Symphony Chorus holds auditions by appointment and welcomes inquiries from interested singers.

AUDITION FOR THE CHORUS For information about auditioning for the Houston Symphony Chorus, please email Anna Diemer, Chorus Manager, at anna.diemer@houstonsymphony.org.

Betsy Cook Weber, Director Anna Diemer Chorus Manager Keith Dixon Janet Menzie Rehearsal Conductors

BETSY COOK WEBER, director Dr. Betsy Cook Weber is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music and is also internationally active as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator and lecturer. In 2013, Betsy became the 13th person and first woman to receive the Texas Choral Director Association’s coveted Texas Choirmaster Award. She is editor of the Betsy Cook Weber choral series with Alliance Music Publishing.

Choirs under Betsy’s direction, including the Moores School Concert Chorale, have been featured at multiple state and national conventions. Internationally, Chorale has won prizes and received acclaim at prestigious competitions in Wales, France and Germany.

Betsy has prepared singers for Da Camera of Houston and for early music orchestras ARS Lyrica Houston and Mercury. She prepares singers for touring shows, including Josh Groban, NBC’s Clash of the Choirs, Telemundo’s Latin Grammy, Star Wars: In Concert and Andrea Bocelli.

Before joining the University of Houston, Betsy taught vocal music, K-12, in public schools. Prior to her appointment as Houston Symphony Chorus Director, she served from 1990 to 1997 as Assistant and, later, Associate Director of the Chorus. She holds degrees from the University of North Texas, Westminster Choir College (Princeton, NJ) and the University of Houston.

Sharon Abada Steve Abercia Wilton Adams Jennifer Agbu Bob Alban Ramona Alms Joe Anzaldua Stuart Aron R. Ellis Bardin Justin Becker Eldo Bergman Nicholas Berkley Chelsea Berner Claude Bitner Randy Boatright Cris Bocanegra Ryan Bogner John Bond Harvey Bongers Jonathan Bordelon Janene Ordener Bostwick Bruce Boyle Nancy Shelton Bratic Rebekah Bridges Mischa Brinkmeyer Patricia Bumpus James R. Carazola Beth Casey Susan Casper Thea Chapman William K. Cheadle Elizabeth Chrisman Peter Christian Nancy Christopherson Holly Johnson Churman Sarah Wilson Clark Nicole Colby Jessica G. Colmenares John Colson Caitlin Cready Andrea Creath Roger Cutler Henry Dang Melissa Darragh Kevin Di Filippo Anna Diemer Keith Dixon Donn Dubois Steve Dukes Dana Dupont Randy Eckman Paul Ehrsam Chris Fair Brianna Fernandez

Scott Holshouser Accompanist Ian Fetterley Joseph S. Frybert Chase Gaines Thyago Galvão Michael Gilbert Robert Gomez Adam Gonzalez Heather Goodwin Hannah Gronseth Will Hailey Susan Hall Julia Hall Jennifer Harris Jen Hart Austin Hart L. Scott Hassett Terry Henderson Matthew Henderson Megan Henry Walter Mark “Chip” Hinkel, Jr. Blythe Hopson Catherine Howard George Howe Donald Howie Jillian Hughes Sylvia Hysong Francisco Izaguirre Sean Jackson Stephen James Timothy Joya Christopher Kersten Michael Kessler Nobuhide Kobori Karen Lach Wilcox Lance Brian K. Lassinger Joyce Lewis Shelby Lollar Jay Lopez Frank Lopez Pamela Magnuson Sarah Malin Jacqueline Maricelli Lisa Marut-Shriver Ken Mathews Melissa Medina Janet Menzie Scott Mermelstein Margaret Winchell Miller Bill Mize Jim Moore Takashi Nishimura Theresa Olin Janwin Overstreet-Goode Marie Parisot Bill Parker Corita Parker-Du Bose Jennifer Paulson Lauren Price

Tony Sessions Librarian/Stage Manager Greg Railsback Karen Ramirez Jessica Rangel Natalia Rawle John Richardson Gabriel Rio Douglas Rodenberger Carolyn Rogan Tyson Ruhmann Doug Sander Alex Schaaf David Schoen Sybil Scott Gary Scullin Tony Sessions Jeffrey Short Jeff Simmons Andrea Slack Brian Smith Lauren Smith Holly Soehnge Howard Solis Christopher Song Karla Sosa Katie Spanos Dewell Springer Miriam Stafford Mark Standridge Sam Stengler Cecilia Sun Julia Swindle Suzanne Thacker Carol Ostlind Thornburg Charles Thornburg Alisa Tobin Sara Torrey Lisa Rai Trewin Tommie Trinh Yen-Kuei (Peter) Tu Paul Van Dorn Jeanna Villanueva Mary Voigt Amanda A. Wade Lori Wagner Heidi Walton Jenny Warkentin Adavion Wayne Beth Weidler Brady Weldon Eric West Kat White Lance Wilcox Lee Williams Kaye Windel-Garza Vanessa Winslow As of March 21, 2016

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Fauré Requiem David Zinman, conductor *Kiera Duffy, soprano Stephen Powell, baritone Houston Symphony Chorus—Betsy Cook Weber, director Thursday, April 28, 2016 8pm Saturday, April 30, 2016 8pm Sunday, May 1, 2016 2:30pm

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This concert is being recorded for future broadcasts on Houston Public Media News 88.7 airing on Sundays at 8pm and again on Classical 91.7 on Wednesdays at 8pm.

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R A N D G R O U P G R E AT P E R F O R M E R S S E R I E S

These performances are generously supported in part by: Underwriter Houston Methodist Partner Angel and Craig Fox The Classical Season is endowed by The Wortham Foundation, Inc. in memory of Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham.

Recent enhancements to the Jones Hall recording suite are generously provided by Silver Circle Audio.

DAVID ZINMAN, conductor New York-born David Zinman’s career has been distinguished by a wide-ranging repertoire and his commitment to contemporary music. He has held positions as music director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras; principal conductor of the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and music director of the Aspen Music Festival and School. He is conductor lau-

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BIOGRAPHIES | FAURÉ REQUIEM | APRIL 28, 30, MAY 1 reate of the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, having completed 19 years as music director, and is the current music director of the Orchestre Français des Jeunes. He regularly conducts the world’s leading orchestras.

Zinman’s discography of more than 100 recordings has earned numerous international honors, including five Grammy awards, two Grand Prix du Disque, two Edison Prizes, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, a Gramophone Award and the 2015 ECHO Klassik (Conductor of the Year) award.

Recent releases include a 50-CD box set, David Zinman: Great Symphonies – The Zurich Years, commemorating his TonhalleOrchester legacy.

The French Ministry of Culture awarded Zinman the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2000); and he received the Zürich Art Prize for outstanding artistic efforts (2002), the award’s first conductor and first non-Swiss recipient. More recently, he accepted the prestigious Theodore Thomas Award for outstanding achievement and extraordinary service to one’s colleagues in advancing conducting. He won the 2008 Midem Classical Artist of the Year award. Columbia’s 1997 Ditson Conductor’s Award recognized his exceptional commitment to performing works by American composers.

KIERA DUFFY, soprano American soprano Kiera Duffy is recognized for her gleaming high soprano and insightful musicianship in repertoire that encompasses Handel, Bach and Mozart and the modern sounds of Berg, Glass and Zorn.

Highlights of recent seasons include debuts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and MET Chamber Ensemble in Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Ginastera’s Quartet No. 3 with the Miró Quartet, St. Louis Symphony in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and as Le feu/La princesse in the Laurent Pelly production of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges in Japan. She was heard with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 (“Symphony of a Thousand”) for performances simulcast in movie theaters across North America, in David Del Tredici’s Syzygy with the New World Symphony and Carmina Burana with the Atlanta and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut as a Flower Maiden in the new production of Parsifal, which was an HD broadcast and released on DVD. Her first commercial recording, Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs, Volume 5 with pianist Roger Vignoles, was released by Hyperion Records.

Kiera Duffy, a finalist in the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, is featured in the film The Audition which is available on DVD (Decca). She holds bachelors and master’s degrees in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College.

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At Houston Methodist, we strive to provide high-quality health care in a spiritual environment to all patients. Houston Methodist includes seven hospitals in the Houston area, delivering care closer to home. Our flagship Houston Methodist Hospital in the Texas Medical Center is ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the No. 1 hospital in Texas and Houston.

Houston Methodist is proud to be the official health care provider for the Houston Symphony, and we offer unique benefits to artists through our Center for Performing Arts Medicine (CPAM). As the only center of its kind in the country, CPAM is comprised of a specialized group of more than 100 elite physicians working collaboratively to address the specific demands placed on performing artists.

STEPHEN POWELL, baritone The dynamic American baritone Stephen Powell brings his “rich, lyric baritone, commanding presence, and thoughtful musicianship” (Wall Street Journal) to a wide range of music.

This season, he returns to Opera Philadelphia as Germont in La traviata, to New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as soloist in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, to Detroit Symphony Orchestra in Messiah, to Minnesota Opera as Scarpia in Tosca and to Michigan Opera Theatre in his debut performances as the title role in Macbeth. Powell made his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra in Messiah at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and with the Kansas City Symphony as soloist in the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s Symphony No. 3.

This summer, he returns to Tanglewood as soloist in Carmina Burana with Boston Symphony Orchestra and to Minnesota Orchestra as Iago in Otello. Powell’s engagements in the 2016-17 season will include returns to Philadelphia Orchestra as soloist in Carmina Burana, to San Francisco Opera as Prus in The Makropulos Case, to North Carolina Symphony and Kansas City Symphony in Britten’s War Requiem, and his debut with Seattle Opera as Germont in La traviata. His recent concert engagements include Britten’s War Requiem with Atlanta Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, his debut with Cleveland Orchestra in Carmina Burana and Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast with Houston Symphony.

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REQUIEM, OPUS 48 Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

SYMPHONY NO. 4 IN A MAJOR, OPUS 90 (ITALIAN) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) In a Tweet. The young Mendelssohn turned his love of Italy into a symphony full of melody, charm and exuberance.

The Back Story. “Italy at last! What I have all my life considered as the greatest possible felicity is now begun, and I am basking in it,” Felix Mendelssohn wrote his family back in Germany. The 21-year-old had just arrived in Venice and begun his first trip to Italy. For eight months, he immersed himself in its art, antiquities, lifestyle and natural beauty.

Mendelssohn devoted most of his time to Rome, where his apartment near the Spanish Steps offered him copious sunshine and a Viennese piano. Each day began with a few hours of composing. Then Mendelssohn picked from Rome’s splendors— majestic ancient landmarks, ornate churches, elegant gardens, picturesque hills—and devoted the afternoon to one. “Rome’s past seems to me like history itself,” Mendelssohn wrote. “Its monuments inspire, whether they make one feel serious or gay.

It is satisfying to think that human beings can accomplish something which continues to refresh them and strengthen them after a thousand years.”

Mendelssohn joined in with the carnival season’s revelries, then heard venerable church music during Holy Week services.

Pope Pius VIII’s death enabled him to witness the solemnities of the Vatican funeral and the hullaballoo of the next pope’s election. By the time Mendelssohn left Italy in summer 1831, he had begun transforming his experiences into his Italian Symphony.

The Instruments. 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings What to Listen For. Mendelssohn interrupted a day in Florence’s art galleries to hike through the vineyards that blanketed nearby hills. “It was one of the most delightful walks I ever remember,” he wrote. “Everyone must feel revived and refreshed at the sight of nature in such a garb as this, and a thousand happy thoughts passed through my mind.”

That happiness radiates from the Italian Symphony’s opening. The first movement exudes excitement through its vaulting melodies, brilliant colors and headlong energy. The second movement’s staccato bass line and dignified tune have the air of a processional, leading some listeners to think one of Mendelssohn’s church experiences may have inspired it. Cheerfulness returns in the lilting third movement. And the finale springs from dynamic Italian folk music: first the saltarello, a dance full of leaps, then the tarantella, a whirling dance that legends link to spider bites and hysteria.

The Houston Symphony next season will play another work inspired by Mendelssohn’s travels, The Hebrides.

In a Tweet. Tired of the fire and brimstone unleashed by many settings of the mass for the dead? Fauré’s lyrical Requiem is for you.

The Back Story. Gabriel Fauré once described his conception of death: “a joyful deliverance, an aspiration towards a happiness beyond the grave, rather than a painful experience.” That helps explain the consoling aura of Fauré’s Requiem.

There’s almost nothing like it among settings of the Catholic mass for the dead. Mozart, in his Requiem, harks back to stark baroque counterpoint. Giuseppe Verdi and Hector Berlioz unleash sonic fire and brimstone to conjure up Judgment Day’s terrors. Yet Fauré almost never raises his voice. He even skips most of the text that invokes Judgment Day. The Mass for the dead was part of Fauré’s life, so to speak.

He created his Requiem during his decades-long stint as organist at La Madeleine, one of Paris’ most prominent churches.

Experience turned him against the typical gloomy Requiem.

“Perhaps my instinct led me to stray from the established path after all those years accompanying funerals! I’d had them up to here,” Fauré said. “I wanted to do something different.”

So he did, emphasizing lyricism and warmth. Fauré premiered the Requiem with a chamber ensemble during a parishioner’s funeral. He returned to the score later and, possibly with help, created a full-orchestra version for the concert hall.

The Instruments. 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, harp, organ and strings What to Listen For. With its flowing melodies, subtle harmonies and rich sonorities, Fauré’s Requiem exudes consolation and hope.

To be sure, it has gravity at times. The choir intones the opening words—praying for peace for the departed—in simple, sober chords. When the baritone soloist asks for deliverance from death in the “Libera me” section, the yearning melody and pulsing accompaniment convey both dignity and urgency.

Judgment Day’s tumult erupts briefly but potently, making its impact through incisiveness and churning energy.

That make the prevailing lyricism all the more compelling. A soaring violin line punctuates the mellifluous “Sanctus.”

The soprano soloist’s lilting melody carries the plea for Christ’s mercy in the “Pie Jesu.” And to entrust the departed to the angels, the chorus’ sopranos carry the music aloft in the luminous final “In Paradisum.” Listen for the choir to blossom into multi-part harmony when it invokes the holy city of Jerusalem.

It’s a magical moment.

Another meditative work, Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum, is in store next season from the Houston Symphony and Chorus. ©2016 Steven Brown The printed orchestral and chorus scores for this work were purchased

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SYMPHONY SOCIETY BOARD President Steven P. Mach*

Chairman Robert B. Tudor III*

General Counsel Paul R. Morico*

Immediate Past President Robert A. Peiser*

Chairman Emeritus Mike S. Stude*

Secretary Barbara McCelvey*

Chair, Board Governance and Leadership Gene Dewhurst*

Chair, Finance Barbara Burger*

Chair, Strategic Planning Janet F. Clark*

Chair, Artistic & Orchestra Affairs Justice Brett Busby

Chair, Audience Development & Marketing Gloria G. Pryzant

Chair, Audit Anthony Bohnert

Chair, Community Partnerships Donna Shen

Chair, Development Jerry Simon

Chair, Education Billy McCartney

Chair, Pension Gene Dewhurst

Chair, Popular Programming Danielle Batchelor

Chair, Volunteers & Special Events Mary Lynn Marks

Immediate Past Chairman Jesse B. Tutor*^

President, Houston Symphony Endowment Jesse B. Tutor*^

President, Houston Symphony League Betty Tutor*^

Executive Director/CEO Mark C. Hanson*^

Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada*^

Musician Representative Adam Dinitz*^

Musician Representative Sergei Galperin*^

Musician Representative Mark Hughes*^

Assistant Secretary Open *Executive Committee ^Ex-Officio

Governing Directors Jan Barrow** Danielle Batchelor Gary Beauchamp Darlene Bisso Anthony Bohnert Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Ralph Burch Barbara Burger Justice Brett Busby Andrew Calder Donna Josey Chapman Janet F. Clark Michael H. Clark Ryan Colburn

Brad W. Corson Viviana Denechaud Gene Dewhurst Michael Doherty David Frankfort Julia Frankel Ronald G. Franklin Mauro Gimenez Stephen Glenn Susan Hansen Joan Kaplan Rochelle Levit, Ph.D. Michael C. Linn Cora Sue Mach **

Steven P. Mach Paul M. Mann, M.D. Rodney Margolis ** Jay Marks ** Mary Lynn Marks David Massin Billy McCartney Barbara McCelvey Alexander K. McLanahan ** Paul R. Morico Kevin O’Gorman John Onstott Robert A. Peiser David Pruner

Ron Rand John Rydman Manolo Sanchez Helen Shaffer ** Jerry Simon Jim R. Smith Miles O. Smith James Stein Mike S. Stude ** William J. Toomey II Robert B. Tudor III ** Betty Tutor ** Jesse B. Tutor ** Judith Vincent

Fredric Weber Mrs. S. Conrad Weil Vicki West Margaret Alkek Williams ** Scott Wulfe David Wuthrich

Ex-Officio James Moore Gloria G. Pryzant Donna Shen

Samuel Abraham Philip Bahr Devinder Bhatia, M.D. Meherwan Boyce Nancy Shelton Bratic Terry Ann Brown Prentiss Burt Cheryl Byington Dougal Cameron John T. Cater ** Evan Collins, M.D., MBA Andrew Davis Cindy Deere Azar Delpassand Ronald DePinho, M.D. Tracy Dieterich

Susanna Dokupil Kelli Cohen Fein, M.D. Craig Fox Allen Gelwick Evan Glick Julianne K. Gorte Stanley Haas Eric Haufrect, M.D. Gary L. Hollingsworth, M.D. Marianne Ivany Brian James Rita Justice I. Ray Kirk, M.D. Ulyesse LeGrange ** Carlos J. Lopez Carolyn Mann

Michael Mann, M.D. John Matzer III Jackie Wolens Mazow Gene McDavid ** Gary Mercer Marilyn Miles Janet Moore Bobbie Newman Tassie Nicandros Scott Nyquist Dana Ondrias Edward Osterberg Jr. Chester M. Pitts II Greg Powers, Ph.D. Gloria G. Pryzant Richard A. Rabinow

Roman F. Reed Gabriel Rio Richard Robbins, M.D. J. Hugh Roff Jr. ** Michael E. Shannon ** Donna Shen Robert Sloan Tad Smith David Stanard David Tai Brian J. Thomas L. Proctor (Terry) Thomas Andrew Truscott Art Vivar Margaret Waisman, M.D. Robert Weiner

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PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY Mrs. Edwin B. Parker Miss Ima Hogg Mrs. H. M. Garwood Joseph A. Mullen, M.D. Joseph S. Smith Walter H. Walne H. R. Cullen Gen. Maurice Hirsch Charles F. Jones Fayez Sarofim John T. Cater Richard G. Merrill Ellen Elizardi Kelley John D. Platt E. C. Vandagrift Jr. J. Hugh Roff Jr. Robert M. Hermance Gene McDavid Janice H. Barrow Barry C. Burkholder Rodney H. Margolis Jeffrey B. Early

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Ex-Officio Ting Bresnahan Audrey Chang John Esquivel Dr. A. Jan Taylor Lifetime Trustee **

THE SUSTAINABILITY FUND

The Houston Symphony Pays Special Tribute to 137 Donors Who Made Transformational Gifts to Complete The Sustainability Fund On December 31, 2015, the Houston Symphony celebrated an extraordinary achievement: the completion of a five-year $15 million Sustainability Fund which has transformed the orchestra’s financial position.

Five years ago, under the leadership of Board President Bobby Tudor and Executive Director/CEO Mark C. Hanson, the Houston Symphony began a journey to strengthen its core business through a five-year financial plan. This plan set a path for the orchestra to strengthen both contributed and earned revenue, in order to invest in its core artistic endeavors and deepen its engagement with the Greater Houston community.

The Symphony was able to close out the campaign thanks to challenge grant funds totaling $1,050,000 provided by Bobby and Phoebe Tudor, Cora Sue and Harry Mach, Janice Barrow, Steve and Joella Mach and Robert and Jane Cizik. The Ciziks provided the final $500,000 to allow the Symphony to reach its $15 million Sustainability goal and to close out the fund.

The Houston Symphony thanks the 137 donors who made this important investment in our orchestra’s future, positioning the Symphony for success as we pursue the ambitions outlined in our Strategic Plan, Vision 2025: to be an orchestra for all Houstonians, and to become America’s most relevant and accessible top-ten orchestra by 2025.

Houston Endowment Estate of Jean R. Sides Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Janice Barrow Margaret Alkek Williams Jane & Robert Cizik Mrs. Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Mrs. Kitty King Powell The Cullen Foundation

The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts The Brown Foundation, Inc. Cora Sue & Harry Mach The Wortham Foundation, Inc. John & Lindy Rydman / Spec’s Charitable Foundation / Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods M.D. Anderson Foundation Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

Ms. Barbara Burger Ron Franklin & Janet Gurwitch The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Barbara & Pat McCelvey Estate of Mary Ann Holloway Phillips

Sybil F. Roos Steven & Nancy Williams Robin Angly & Miles Smith Gary & Marian Beauchamp Laura & Michael Shannon Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Bahr Nancy & Walter Bratic Janet F. Clark Linda & Gene Dewhurst Bert & Joan Golding

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Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Billy & Christie McCartney Dr. Rita Justice Mr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Bohnert Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks John & Cynthia Onstott / Geo. H. Lewis & Sons

Ms. Judith Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. Ralph Burch Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Evan D. Collins Erika & S. David Frankfort Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange

Mrs. Carolyn & Dr. Michael Mann Jay & Shirley Marks James D. Stein Mr. & Mrs. Clive Runnells BB&T / Courtney & Bill Toomey Scott & Lori Wulfe Anonymous (1)

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THE SUSTAINABILITY FUND Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Manolo Sรกnchez Robert G. Weiner & Toni Blankmann Tyler & Kat Murphy Justice Brett & Erin Busby Laurie & Ryan Colburn Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Corson Susan & Dick Hansen Christina & Mark Hanson Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Ann & Hugh Roff Vicky & Michael Richker Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Gloria & Joe Pryzant Margot & John Cater Virginia A. Clark Mr. Andrew Davis & Ms. Corey Tu Viviana & David Denechaud Amanda & Adam Dinitz David & Heidi Massin Bobbie Newman Lisa & Jerry Simon Vicki West The Brodsky Foundation David Chambers & Alex Steffler Vicky Dominguez Mr. Colin C. Gatwood & Ms. Aralee Dorough

Mr. Jonathan Fischer Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Dr. Gregory & Mrs. Catherine Powers Mrs. Lila Rauch Julianne & David Gorte Mr. & Mrs. Frank Yonish Dr. Ronald DePinho & Dr. Lynda Chin Mr. & Mrs. Allen Barnhill Pam & Chad Blaine Mr. Wayne Brooks Terry Ann Brown Aurelie Desmarais & Ed Struzynski Mr. & Mrs. Michael Doherty Martin & Kelli Cohen Fein Shawn & Megan Conley Rian & Sean Craypo Brian & Leah Del Signore Eric & Angelea Halen Mark & Marilyn Hughes Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Mr. Robert E. Johnson & Ms. Ariella Perlman Mary Beth Mosley Scott & Judy Nyquist Mr. Matthew D. Roitstein Mr. Brinton Averil Smith & Ms. Evelyn Chen Ramon & Chula Sanchez Mr. & Mrs. Eric A. Arbiter Mrs. Shirley Burgher

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Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis The Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation Mr. John N. Neighbors Susan and Edward Osterberg Gloria & Joe Pryzant Ken and Carol Lee Robertson Donna and Tim Shen Lisa & Jerry Simon Nancy and David Tai Stephen and Kristine Wallace Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr.

HOUSTON SYMPHONY DONORS Annual Support The Houston Symphony gratefully acknowledges those who support our artistic, educational and community engagement programs through their generosity to our Annual Fund and our Special Events. For more information, please contact Mark Hanson, Executive Director/CEO, at (713) 337-8540, David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, at (713) 337-8525 or Amber Winsor Mullins, Senior Director, Development, at (713) 337-8538..

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The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Beth Madison Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Janice & Robert McNair John & Cynthia Onstott

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Carolyn & Mike Mann Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Mrs. Mary Catherine Miller John & Bobbie Nau Mr. & Mrs. Odis Peavy Dave & Alie Pruner Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Lisa & Jerry Simon Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Springob, Laredo Construction, Inc. James D. Stein / Independent Bank Mr. Jay Steinfeld & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop

Nancy & David Tai Mr. Brian Teichman & Mr. Andrew Cordes Ms. Susan L. Thompson Shirley W. Toomim Janet & Tom Walker Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Vicki West Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. Scott & Lori Wulfe

Conductor’s Circle, Platinum Baton $15,000 - $24,999 Graham & Janet Baker Danielle & Josh Batchelor James M. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Bohnert Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Justice Brett & Erin Busby Mr. Richard Danforth Viviana & David Denechaud Mrs. William Estrada Martin & Kelli Cohen Fein Angel & Craig Fox Erika & S. David Frankfort Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Franklin Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Ms. Nancey G. Lobb

Jay & Shirley Marks Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Betty & Gene McDavid Mr. & Mrs. Connelly T. McGreevy Stephen & Marilyn Miles/Steven Warren Miles & Marilyn Ross Miles Foundation Stewart Morris & Kay Shoppa The Estate of Terence Murphree Susan & Edward Osterberg Gary Petersen Gloria & Joe Pryzant Ken & Carol Lee Robertson Ann & Hugh Roff William J. Rovere & Kathi F. Rovere Mr. & Mrs. Clive Runnells Donna & Tim Shen

Conductor’s Circle, Gold Baton $10,000 - $14,999 Frances & Ira Anderson Lilly & Thurmon Andress Edward H. Andrews III Nina Andrews & David Karohl Sr. Judge Mary Bacon Mr. & Mrs. Giorgio Borlenghi Mr. & Mrs. George Boss Terry Ann Brown John & Candace Caley Mr. & Mrs. Bernard F. Clark Jr. Virginia A. Clark Dr. & Mrs. Evan D. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Bert Cornelison Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Corson Roger & Debby Cutler Dr. Scott Cutler Leslie Barry Davidson & W. Robins Brice David & Cindy Deere Dr. & Mrs. Ebrahim S. Delpassand, Excel Diagnostics & Nuclear Oncology Valerie Palmquist Dieterich & Tracy Dieterich Jennifer & Steve Dolman Archie & Linda Dunham Mr. Robert Durst Scott Ensell & Family John & Minerva Esquivel

Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Mr. & Mrs. Marvy A. Finger Michael B. George Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Evan B. Glick Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves Christina & Mark Hanson Mr. & Mrs. James E. Hooks Dr. & Mrs. Robert Ivany / University of St. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Jacek Jaminski Beverly Johnson Janice & Allan King Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Michael & Kelley Lang Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Leighton Drs. Robert & Golda Anne Leonard Marilyn G. Lummis Dr. & Mrs. E. K. Massin Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Mr. Keith McFarland Martha & Marvin McMurrey Mr. Gary Mercer Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Mischer Jr. Nancy Morrison Bobbie Newman Scott & Judy Nyquist

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Tate Paul Strand Thomas Ms. Hallie A. Vanderhider Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Stephen & Kristine Wallace Dede & Connie Weil Robert G. Weiner & Toni Blankmann Nancy B. Willerson Jeanie Kilroy Wilson & Wallace S. Wilson Ralph Wyman & Jim Foti Thane & Nicole Wyman Nina & Michael Zilkha

Dr. Gregory & Mrs. Catherine Powers Ron & Demi Rand Lila Rauch Roman & Sally Reed Gabriel & Mona Rio Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Susan D. & Fayez Sarofim Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scherr Mr. & Ms. Shalin Shah Tad & Suzanne Smith Alana R. Spiwak & Sam L. Stolbun Mr. & Mrs. Trent Tellepsen Mr. Aaron J. Thomas & Mrs. Jennifer Chang Pamalah & Stephen Tipps Courtney & Bill Toomey John G. Turner & Jerry G. Fischer Birgitt van Wijk Mr. & Ms. Frank Verducci Mr. & Mrs. Sean Waggoner Shirley & Joel Wahlberg Mr. & Mrs. Randolph Wands David M. Wax* & Elaine Arden Cali Dr. Jim T. Willerson Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Daisy S. Wong / JCorp Lorraine & Ed Wulfe

Conductor’s Circle, Silver Baton $7,500 - $9,999 Mr. William L. Ackerman, Kero-Jet Corporation Mrs. Bonnie Bauer Mr. & Mrs. David J. Beck Mr. & Dr. Karl-Heinz Becker 42

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Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Black III Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Ruth White Brodsky Lilia Khakimova & C. Robert Bunch

Dr. M.K. Campion David Chambers & Alex Steffler Audrey & Brandon Cochran Laurie & Ryan Colburn

HOUSTON SYMPHONY DONORS Andrew Davis & Corey Tu J.R. & Aline Deming Judge & Mrs. Harold R. DeMoss Jr. Ms. Darlene Clark & Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs Jennifer & Joshua Gravenor Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herzog Mr. Jackson Hicks Brian & Catherine James

Dr. & Mrs. Paul M. Mann David & Heidi Massin Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Dr. Cameron Mitchell Rita & Paul Morico Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Parker Radoff Family Mr. & Mrs. Perry Radoff

Mr. Glen A. Rosenbaum Mr. & Mrs. Manolo Sanchez Carol & Michael Stamatedes Dr. John R. Stroehlein & Miwa Sakashita Mr. & Mrs. Antonio M. Szabo Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Truscott

Conductor’s Circle, Bronze Baton $5,000 - $7,499 Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Abraham Mrs. Nancy C. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Adam Altsuler Christine Smith & Ben Andrews Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron Mr. & Mrs. Ed Banner Anne Morgan Barrett Beth & Jim Barton Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Basinski Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Consurgo Sunshine Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Boesel Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman Todd & JoAnna Brooks Mr. Ken D. Brownlee & Ms. Caroline Deetjen Dr. & Mrs. William T. Butler Dougal & Cathy Cameron Marilyn Caplovitz Rhona & Bruce Caress Mrs. Lily Carrigan Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Carter IV Mr. & Mrs. Thierry Caruso Albert & Anne Chao Mr. & Mrs. Donald Childress William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Mr. William E. Colburn Coneway Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Byron Cooley Mr. & Mrs. Larry Corbin Lois & David Coyle Mr. & Mrs. James W. Crownover Dr. Ronald DePinho & Dr. Lynda Chin Janie & Carr Dishroon Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Dupre’ II Connie & Byron Dyer Mr. William P. Elbel & Ms. Mary J. Schroeder Mr. Stephen Elison Mr. Parrish N. Erwin Jr. Ms. Carolyn Faulk Mr. & Mrs. Tom Fitzpatrick Mr. & Mrs. Henry S. Florsheim Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fluor Mr. & Mrs. Trent Foltz Eugene Fong Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Francisco Mr. Shane T. Frank Mr. & Mrs. C. K. Garland Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gendel Wm. David George Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Gibson Dorothy & Bill Grieves Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Haas Dr. & Mrs. Carlos R. Hamilton Jr. Mr. & Mrs. R. O. Hunton Mr. & Mrs. Matt Hurley Stephen Jeu & Susanna Calvo Mr. & Mrs. John F. Joity Debbie & Frank Jones Catherine & Andrew Kaldis

Mr. & Ms. Dan Kellogg Mary Louis Kister Dr. Milton & Gail Danziger Klein, in memory of Renée & Benjamin Danziger William & Cynthia Koch Mr. & Mrs. John P. Kotts Willy Kuehn Mr. & Mrs. Marc Laird Ms. Lynne Lipsitz Mr. William McDugald Terry & Kandee McGill Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglas McMurrey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William B. McNamara Alice McPherson, M.D. Ginni & Richard Mithoff Mr. & Mrs. William Monteleone Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Montz Mr. & Mrs. Harvin Moore IV Sidney & Ione Moran Sami & Jud Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Moynier Richard & Juliet Moynihan Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Murphy David G. Nussman Rochelle & Sheldon Oster Shirley & Michael P. Pearson Mr. Doug D. Perley & Ms. Eileen M. Campbell Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Tim & Katherine Pownell Jean & Allan Quiat Mr. & Mrs. T.R. Reckling III Vicky & Michael Richker Mr. & Mrs. Claud D. Riddles Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Mr. Robert T. Sakowitz Dr. & Mrs. Barry Samuels Carol & Kamal Sandarusi Mrs. Richard P. Schissler Jr. Mr. Wolfgang Schmidt & Ms. Angelika Schmidt-Lange Dr. Susan Gardner & Dr. Philip Scott Mr. & Mrs. Rufus S. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. Shidler Mr. & Mrs. William T. Slick Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Smith Mr. David Stanard & Ms. Beth Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Hans Strohmer Ann Trammell Jeanine Van Wagenen Ms. Maria Cecilia Vasconcellos Mr. Thomas Warden & Ms. Becky Cottrell Ms. Barbara Williams Ms. Jennifer R. Wittman Woodell Family Foundation Sally & Denney Wright Mr. & Mrs. David Wynne Robert & Michele Yekovich Edith & Robert Zinn Erla & Harry Zuber Anonymous (3)

Capital Investments The Houston Symphony thanks the generous donors, who since 2012, have made possible infrastructure additions to further enhance the sound and quality of our orchestral performances: Beauchamp Foundation Miller Outdoor Theatre Sound Shell Ceiling and Portativ Organ The Fondren Foundation Miller Outdoor Theatre Sound Shell Ceiling Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Enhancements to Jones Hall Video System Houston Symphony League Steinway Concert Grand Piano and Instrument Petting Zoo Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Piccolo Timpano Vicky and Michael Richker Family Adolfo Sayago, Orquestas Sybil F. Roos Rotary Trumpets Silver Circle Audio Enhancements to Jones Hall Recording Suite Beverly Johnson, Ralph Wyman and Jim Foti, and Thane & Nicole Wyman in memory of Winthrop Wyman Basset Horns and Rotary Trumpets Mr. and Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Conductor’s Podium

Grand Patron’s Circle $2,500 - $4,999

Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Gerhard & Birgit Adenacker Mr. & Mrs. Roy Allice Dr. Angela R. Apollo John Arnsparger & Susan Weingarten Ganesh H. Betanabhatia Drs. Henry & Louise Bethea Mrs. Pat Biddle & Mr. Ron Kahl Mrs. Ann M. Bixby Mr. John Blaisdell Mr. & Mrs. Myron G. Blalock III Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bookout III Mr. & Mrs. Murry Bowden James & Judy Bozeman Ting & John Bresnahan Mrs. Catherine Campbell Brock & Dr. Gary Brock Mr. Chester Brooke & Dr. Nancy Poindexter Pamela Brylski Dr. & Mrs. Fred Buckwold Mr. & Mrs. Bruce G. Buhler Nicole & Rueben Cásarez Margot & John Cater Dr. Robert N. Chanon Mr. & Mrs. Allen Clamen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Cleary Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Gary M. Coleman Ms. Miquel A. Correll Mr. & Mrs. Joffre J. Cross II Mr. & Mrs. John Crum

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HOUSTON SYMPHONY DONORS Mandy & Rafael Diaz Mr. & Mrs. Mark Diehl Amanda & Adam Dinitz Mr. & Mrs. Michael Doherty Ms. Susanna Dokupil David & Carolyn Edgar Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank Christine Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Kimberly Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Nijad I. Fares Carolyn Grant Fay Ms. Ursula H. Felmet Jerry E. & Nanette B. Finger Mrs. Ronald Fischer Katie Flaherty Courtney Fretz Mr. & Mrs. Neil Gaynor Thomas & Patricia Geddy Robert Lee Gomez Mr. & Mrs. Herb Goodman Mr. Danny A. Granados Dr. & Mrs. Eric J. Haufrect Ms. Christine Heggeseth Mark & Ragna Henrichs Miss Maureen Y. Higdon Ann & Joe Hightower Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hildebrandt Mr. Ronald Holley & Dr. Natasha Holley Mr. & Mrs. Rocky Holmes Mr. & Mrs. John Hrncir Mark & Marilyn Hughes Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Jankovic Mrs. Ann B. Jennings Jessica Q. Johnston Mr. & Mrs. John Juneau Mr. & Mrs. Jason T. Klein Jane & Kevin Kremer Mr. & Mrs. Chris Laporte Mr. Edward T. Lee Ms. Sylvia Lohkamp Kimberly Lucas Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGuire Will L. McLendon Mr. & Mrs. Arnold M. Miller Julia & Chris Morton Newman/Strug/Wadler families in honor of Ida & Irving Wadler Mr. & Mrs. Travis Nichols Mr. Kevin O’Gorman Mr. & Mrs. Patrick W. Olfers Toni Oplt & Ed Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Robert Page Mr. David Peavy & Mr. Stephen McCauley Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Pryor Darla & Chip Purchase Mr. & Mrs. Cris Pye Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Rawson Ed & Janet Rinehart Allyn & Jill Risley Alexander Robart Katelyn Bracksieck & Christopher Robart Mr. & Mrs. James L. Robertson Doug Williams & Janice Robertson Ms. Regina J. Rogers Drs. Alex & Lynn Rosas Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Ruez Mr. & Mrs. Yasuhiko Saitoh Mr. & Mrs. Saib Saour Lori & Phillip Sarofim Paulina Sergot & Theo Shybut Hinda Simon Mr. Brinton Averil Smith & Ms. Evelyn Chen Ellie & Eric Smith Mr. & Mrs. Richard Spies Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Standish Dr. Walter Stanford Georgiana Stanley Mrs. Jeaneen Stastny Kimberly & David Sterling Ishwaria & Vivek Subbiah Mrs. Mary Swafford Mr. & Mrs. Garry Tanner Dr. & Mrs. Van W. Teeters Candace & Brian Thomas Jean & Doug Thomas Dan C. & Kimberly Tutcher Ms. Jana Vander Lee

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Dean B. Walker Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Walt Mr. Danny Ward & Ms. Nancy Ames Ms. Joann E. Welton Mr. Clinton Wetmore Dr. Robert Wilkins & Dr. Mary Ann Reynolds Wilkins Mr. Jim P. Wise Ms. Beth Wolff Gerlind & Jerry S. Wolinksy David & Tara Wuthrich Ms. Ellen A. Yarrell Mr. & Mrs. Frank Yonish Anonymous (3)

Patron

$1,500-$2,499

Ms. Sofia Adrogue & Mr. Sten Gustafson Mr. & Mrs. Truett B. Akin Joan & Stanford Alexander Dr. Genevera Allen Pat & John Anderson Carol Ann & Bill Anderson Lindley & Jason Arnoldy Mr. & Mrs. Sandy P. Aron Dr. & Mrs. Roy Aruffo Mr. Jeff Autor Ann & Jonathan Ayre Cristina & Tanner Bailey Mr. & Mrs. E. William Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Allen Barnhill Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Bast Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd M. Bentsen III Ms. Nancy H. Bihlmaier Jeb & Cynthia Blackwell Mr. & Mrs. Chad Blaine Mr. Jay Blinderman George & Florence Boerger Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Bolam Meg Boulware & Hartley Hampton / Boulware & Valoir Mrs. Linda K. Brahaney Joe Brazzatti Katherine M. Briggs Divya & Chris Brown Hon. Peter H. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Brownlee Cheryl & Sam Byington Mr. & Mrs. Raul Caffesse Jeff Caley Mrs. Charles Callery Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Campbell Jr. Louise Carlson & Richard Larrabee Mrs. Mary Ann Carrico Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Clarke Jim R. & Lynn Coe Mr. John P. Cogan Jr. Mr. Mark C. Conrad Crystal & Mike Cox Mr. & Mrs. Rene Degreve Dr. & Ms. Peter J. Dempsey Ms. Aurelie Desmarais & Mr. Ed Struzynski Ms. Elisabeth DeWitts Mike & Debra Dishberger Ms. Victoria E. Dominguez Robert J. Doyle Drs. Rosalind & Gary Dworkin Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Earle Evin Ashley Erdowdu Annette & Knut Eriksen Terry Everett & Eric Cheyney Paula & Louis Faillace Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ference Mr. Jonathan Fischer Mr. & Mrs. Harvey O. Fleisher Elizabeth & Ralph Frankowski Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Fusillo Rauli & Danna Garcia Mr. Colin C. Gatwood & Ms. Aralee Dorough Ms. Lucy Gebhart Mr. & Mrs. John Gee Joan M. Giese Michael A. Gonser Dr. & Mrs. Bradford S. Goodwin Jr. Kathy & Martyn Goossen Alexandra & Daniel Gottschalk Timothy & Janet Graham

Young Associates Council Young Associate, Premium $2,500 or more James M. Bell David Chambers & Alex Steffler Ganesh Betanabhatia Valerie Palmquist Dieterich & Tracy Dieterich Jennifer & Steve Dolman Jennifer & Joshua Gravenor Will Hailey - Norton Rose Fulbright Sami & Jud Morrison Melissa L. Nance Toni Oplt & Ed Schneider Alexander Robart Christopher Robart & Katelyn Bracksieck Seth Williams Young Associate $1,500 - $2,499 Dr. Genevera Allen Lindley & Jason Arnoldy Ann & Jonathan Ayre Cristina & Tanner Bailey William & Laura Black Ting & John Bresnahan Divya & Chris Brown Pamela Brylski Jeff Caley Audrey & Brandon Cochran Mike Cox Mandy & Rafael Diaz Amanda & Adam Dinitz Evin Ashley Erdowdu Terry Everett & Eric Cheyney Christine Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Kimberly Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc.

Mark Folkes & Christopher Johnston Courtney Fretz Rauli & Danna Garcia Michael A. Gonser Alexandra & Daniel Gottschalk Claudio Gutierrez Monica & Burdette Huffman Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Kathleen & James Jennings / BeautyNow Kurt Johnson & Colleen Matheu Stacy & Jason Johnson Mackenzie Kemp Mr. Kendall Kessel & Mr. Harlan Johnson Gerrit Leeftink Catherine & Matt Matthews Brian McCulloch & Jeremy Garcia Kristen & Steve McDaniel Cara & Tanner Moran Amanda & Justin Morton Ms. Amber Winsor Mullins Brooke & Nathaniel Richards Ahmed Saleh Paulina Sergot & Theo Shybut Justin & Caroline Simons Steve & Judy Sohn Molly Simpson & Jeffrey Miles Erin & James Stewart Ishwaria & Vivek Subbiah Carol Tai Glenn Taylor Candace & Brian Thomas Rachael & Jason Volz A Fare Extraordinaire The Young Associates Council is supported in part by Bank of America.

For more information, please contact Molly Simpson, Director, Major Gifts, at (713) 337-8526.

Joyce Z. Greenberg Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Gregory Mr. & Mrs. Steve K. Grimsley Claudio Gutierrez Eric & Angelea Halen Mrs. Thalia Halen Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Hasler Mr. & Mrs. Houston Haymon John Heiny Mr. & Mrs. William T. Heller IV Jeannette & Brodrick Hill Dr. Volker Hirsinger Dr. Suzanne M. Hite Mr. Robert Hoff Mr. Stanley Hoffberger Mr. & Mrs. John Homier Dr. Matthew Horsfield & Dr. Michael Kauth Mr. Frank Huang Mr. Burdette Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Humphries Jay Jackson & Barbara Waugh Kathleen & James Jennings / BeautyNow Stacy & Jason Johnson Kurt Johnson & Colleen Matheu Mr. Robert E. Johnson & Ms. Ariella Perlman Mr. & Mrs. Steve Johnson Ms. Sheila K. Johnstone Mr. & Mrs. Thorro Jones Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kades Mr. Kendall R. Kessel & Mr. Harlan Johnson Ms. Carla Knobloch Lucy & Victor Kormeier Ann & Sam Koster Mrs. Samantha Kramr Mr. Marc E. Laborde

Ms. Joni Hartgraves Latimer John & Suzy Lattin Dr. & Mrs. Morton Leonard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leonard Seth & Karen Lerner Mr. William W. Lindley James C. Lindsey Mr. & Mrs. H. Arthur Littell Dr. & Mrs. James R. Lloyd Mr. Paul F. Longstreth & Ms. Marilyn Maloney Mr. & Mrs. Bob J. Lunn Ms. Sue Ann Lurcott Kathleen & Tom Mach Barbara J. Manering Mr. & Mrs. Frank Marx Catherine & Matt Matthews Mr. William L. Maynard Georgia Braun McBride Linda & Jim McCartney Brian McCulloch & Jeremy Garcia Kristen & Steve McDaniel Mr. & Mrs. Lance McKnight Mr. & Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Mr. Ronald A. Mikita & Mr. Rex Spikes Mr. & Mrs. John C. Molloy Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Molloy Cara & Tanner Moran Mrs. Alette K. Morch Amanda & Justin Morton Mary Beth Mosley Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Mueller Ms. Amber W. Mullins Melissa L. Nance Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey B. Newton Ms. Khanh Nguyen Mr. Reymundo Ocanas & Mr. Orlando Manzo-Ocanas

HOUSTON SYMPHONY DONORS Mr. & Mrs. John Oehler Steve & Sue Olson Jane & Kenneth Owen Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Palmer Ms. Martha Palmer Christine & Robert Pastorek Mr. & Mrs. Raul Pavon Mr. & Mrs. Walter Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Bob G. Phillips Ms. Linda Posey Mr. & Mrs. David Pursell Dr. & Mrs. Henry H. Rachford Jr. Clinton & Leigh Rappole Ms. Natalia Rawle Brooke & Nathaniel Richards Beth Robertson Mr. Floyd W. Robinson Kent Rutter & David Baumann Mr. & Mrs. John Ryder Ahmed Saleh Dr. & Mrs. David Sapire Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Sawaya Mr. Lawrence Schanzmeyer H. Irving Schweppe Jr., M.D. Mr. Victor E. Serrato Art & Ellen Shelton Justin & Caroline Simons Mr. Geoff Simpson Molly Simpson & Jeffrey Miles Mr. David Siverling Louis H. Skidmore Jr. Barbara & Louis Sklar Dr. & Mrs. John Slater Mr. Hilary Smith & Ms. Lijda Vellekoop Steve & Judy Sohn Ms. Kelly Somoza Mark Stadnyk Mr. & Mrs. John Steen Karen & Bruce Steffler Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stelling Mr. & Mrs. James R. Stevens Erin & James Stewart Cassie B. Stinson & Dr. R. Barry Holtz Jack & Karen Stopnicki Skipper & Betsy Strong Dr. Navin Subramanian & Dr. Melissa Dupree Dr. & Mrs. David Sufian Mr. Clifford A. Swanlund Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Adam Szczepanski Mr. & Mrs. Alan Taghdisi Carol Tai Glenn Taylor Stephen A. Tew, M.D. Eric & Carol Timmreck Mr. & Mrs. Dale M. Tingleaf Mrs. Glenda C. Toole Mr. & Mrs. Duane Utecht Susan J. & Gary W. Valka Mr. & Mrs. Donn K. Van Arsdall Dr. & Mrs. Gage Van Horn Mr. & Mrs. William A. Van Wie Rachael & Jason Volz / A Fare Extraordinaire Mr. H. Richard Walton Mr. & Mrs. Brad Wander Mr. & Mrs. Peter S. Wareing General & Mrs. Jasper Welch Mr. & Mrs. Eden N. Wenig Mrs. Deanne White Gene & Sandra Williams Loretta & Lawrence Williams Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Anonymous (5)

Director $1,000 - $1,499

Tara Maria Amavi Marcia & Ed Ambs Dr. Hesham M. Amin & Dr. Lara Ferrario Mr. & Mrs. Greg Anderson Mr. William J. Anderson Ms. Anna Arispe & Mr. John Reger Paul H. & Maida M. Asofsky Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Axelrod Dr. Saul & Ursula Balagura Mr. & Mrs. David M. Balderston Trace Trahan Bannerman Ms. Deborah S. Bautch & Ms. Mary Lavender Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Beaudet

Eldo Bergman, Family Literacy Network Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Berteaud Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bickel Dr. Joan Hacken Bitar Mr. & Mrs. Peter Bowden Bob Frank Boydston James & Dale Brannon Mr. Wayne A. Brooks Anne H. Bushman Mr. & Mrs. Brady F. Carruth Mr. & Mrs. Kent Chenevert Mrs. Victoria Chin Dr. & Mrs. Gary Clark Ms. Kay Hanson-Clerc Dr. & Mrs. Alfred C. Coats Dr. & Mrs. Martin Cohen Donna M. Collins Mrs. Megan Conley Mr. & Mrs. Ray Cook Joe & Nancy Crabb The Honorable & Mrs. William C. Crassas Mr. & Mrs. John F. Crawford Ms. Marsha K. Crawford Mr. & Mrs. T. N. Crook Mr. & Mrs. David Crowley Mr. & Mrs. James D. Dannenbaum Brian & Leah Del Signore James R. Denton Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Deschner Charles Dishman Mr. Michael Dooley Mr. & Mrs. James P. Dorn Mr. John F. Dorn Mr. & Mrs. Larry Dundee Egon & Elisa Durban Mrs. William H. Dwyer III Mr. Paul Ehrsam Mrs. Fredell Lack Eichhorn Mr. & Mrs. Jack Ellis Hon. & Mrs. John D. Ellis Jenny & Wendell Erwin, M.D. Ms. Caroline Fant Mr. & Mrs. Tilman J. Fertitta Dale & Anne Fitz Michelle & Deane Foss Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Frautschi Mr. & Mrs. James E. Furr L. Rusty Goetz Helen B. Wils & Leonard Goldstein Dr. John Gomez & Dr. Cora Mihu Ms. Shelley Gorson Kendall & Pauline Gray Mrs. Adriana Greene Dennis Griffith & Louise Richman Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hanson Dr. & Mrs. William S. Harwell Mr. & Mrs. Roy Haun Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Heard Jr. Mr. John Heghinian & Ms. Isabelle Bedrosian Dr. & Mrs. William C. Heird Terry L. & Karen G. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Matt Hennessy Mr. & Mrs. Donald Herron Dr. Holly Holmes & Mr. Paul Otremba Mr. John Horstman Mr. & Mrs. John Horstman George E. Howe Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Janicke Arlene J. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Steve Jones Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Jordon Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Katz Ms. Carolyn C. Keeble Lynda & Frank Kelly Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Kathryn & James Ketelsen Mr. & Mrs. David Key Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Kneale Deborah Kosich Ms. Dawn Krieg Dr. Daniel Lemke Mr. & Mrs. Earl L. Lester Jr. Velva G. & H. Fred Levine Priscilla L. List Dr. & Mrs. Kelly B. Lobley Mr. & Mrs. Alberto Lozano Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Lubanko Mr. & Mrs. David K. Martin Laurence McCullough &

Linda Jean Quintanilla Dr. A. McDermott & Dr. A. Glasser Mr. Andrew McKinney Dr. & Mrs. G. Walter McReynolds Ernie & Martha McWilliams Dr. Gabriel E. Mena Ms. Susan D. Menke Ellen Ochoa & Coe Miles Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Mireles Mr. & Mrs. James Moore Mr. & Mrs. William Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Keith Mosing Mr. & Mrs. Richard Murphy Daniel & Karol Musher Musicians of the Houston Symphony Inc. Ms. Jennifer Naae Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Neumann Leslie & John Niemand Mr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Nocella Ms. Kathryn O’Brien Mr. Edgar J. Ortiz Valerie J. Sherlock Mr. & Mrs. James D. Penny Peter & Nina Peropoulos Grace & Carroll Phillips Ms. Debra Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Sam Philpot Mrs. Dana Puddy Patrick T. Quinn Mr. & Mrs. William B. Rawl Mr. Cameron Ray Mr. & Mrs. Clayton Reasor Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Reeves Mr. & Mrs. Hank & Karen Rennar Ms. Ann Rhoads Mr. James L. Robertson Mr. Brian Rodgers Mr. Matthew D. Roitstein Mrs. Evie Ronald Jill & Milt Rose Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Ross Brenda & Mansel Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Gregory M. Ruffing Harold H. Sandstead, M.D. Mrs. Holly Sansing Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scheurich Mr. & Mrs. Gary Schiefelbein Beth & Lee D. Schlanger Ms. Sally Schott Donna Scott Marcia & Victor Shainock Mr. & Mrs. Steve B. Sims Mr. & Mrs. Lance Smith Dean & Kay Snider Mr. Charles E. Soderstrom Dr. & Mrs. C. Richard Stasney Richard P. Steele & Mary J. McKerall Joyce Steensrud Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Streett Ms. Jeanine Swift Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Tabor Jr. Mr. Monsour Taghdisi Mr. Jim Teague & Ms. Jane DiPaolo Mr. & Mrs. Gary Teletzke Jacob & Elizabeth Thomas Mr. Jim Thompson Mr. Gerard Trione Dr. & Mrs. Michael Underbrink Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Unger Dr. & Mrs. Brad Urquhart Milton L. Wagner Betty & Bill Walker Mr. & Mrs. James A. Watt Mark Wawro & Melanie Gray Beth Weidler & Stephen James Dr. & Mrs. Richard T. Weiss Ms. Bryony Jane Welsh Mr. Brian K. Westfall Ms. Sara E. White Ms. Tracy Wilkerson Charline & Bill Wilkins Dr. Wayne Wilner Mr. & Mrs. Haresh Yalamanchili Jenny & Chris Yarrow Ms. Alexandra Yates Mrs. Mary. V. Young Katherine & Mark Yzaguirre Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Zarrow Mr. & Mrs. Edward R. Ziegler Anonymous (8)

Principal $500-$999

Mr. & Mrs. W. Kendall Adam William & Nancy Akers Mr. & Mrs. Michael Alexander Mr. Robert J. Alexander & Ms. Becky A. Stemper Mrs. Ramona Alms Ms. Joan Ambrogi Ms. Sally S. Andrews & Mr. James Nelson Les & Barbara Antalffy Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Armes Mr. & Mrs. R. Corbin Aslakson Mr. & Mrs. Carlos Barbieri Mr. A. Greer Barriault & Ms. Clarruth A. Seaton Mr. Walter F. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Benton Mrs. Robert L. Berge Anne & Edward Bornet Sally & Carl Brassow Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Brougher Sally & Laurence Brown Mr. Eric Brueggeman Mrs. Shirley Burgher Ms. Valeria Burguieres Dr. Maria Calcina Virginia & William Camfield Mr. & Mrs. J. Scott Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Rod Canion Marjorie H. Capshaw Dorothy E.F. Caram, Ed.D Phil & Michele Carey Mr. & Mrs. Manny Chana Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Chaney Ms. Irene Chang Honorable Theresa Chang & Dr. Peter Chang Mr. & Mrs. John Clarke Ms. Carrie Colbert Mr. & Mrs. Clayton A. Compton Otis & Sherida Coney Mr. George Connelly P.C. Mr. & Mrs. Bob Cook Mr. H. Talbot Cooley Mr. & Mrs. Sam Cooper Mr. Calvin Crossley Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Crull Mr. Larry Cullen Mrs. Rochelle Cyprus Dr. Lida S. Dahm Mr. Musa Dakri Mr. & Mrs. Steven Dalicandro Mr. Arthur Davies Mr. Darryl de Mello Ms. Susan S. De Courcy Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Devany Mr. Jeff Dodson Mr. & Mrs. Jack N. Doherty Leland A. Dolan Karen M. Doolittle Ms. Emma Dunch & Ms. Elizabeth Scott Mrs. Deborah Dunkum Ruth W. Ereli Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Erwin Robert & Susan Estill Lee & Christie Eubanks Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Eury Kay & Sam Feldt Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Fertitta Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Fong Mr. & Mrs. David Fortner Ms. Diane L. Freeman Mr. Phillip Freeman & Ms. Brandy Skillern Bill & Diana Freeman Ms. Lee Friedman Mr. Donn C. Fullenweider Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Fussell Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Garner Mr. & Mrs. Monty Garner Mr. Bernardo Garza Mr. & Mrs. Gibson Gayle Jr. Ms. Margaret Wendy Germani Gary & Marion Glober Mr. & Mrs. David Glodt Mrs. Barbara Goedecke Mr. Irving L. Gold, M.D.P.A. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gonzalez Mr. Bert & Patricia Gordon

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HOUSTON SYMPHONY DONORS Dr. Harvey L. Gordon Mr. Garrett Graham Mr. David M. Gray Jr. & Ms. Mary A. Pearce Mr. Gerald Greiner Mr. Erik T. Gronfor & Ms. Joan DerHovsepian Ms. Eileen Gu Mr. & Mrs. David Guenther Mr. & Mrs. Jay Guerrero Mr. & Mrs. Brent W. Gwaltney Dr. Teruhiko Hagiwara Gaye & Dennis Halpin Mr. & Mrs. Ron Hammonds Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Harbachick Michael D. Hardin Bruce Harkness & Alice Brown Thomas F. & Catherine Mary Hastings Sheila & Isaac Heimbinder Mr. & Mrs. James P. Hennessy Dean & Beth Hennings Ms. Leslie Herald Mr. & Mrs. David Hergert Hope Hernandez Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Herrmann Mr. & Mrs. W. Grady Hicks Susan Hodge Hoffman Insurance Group Mr. Robert Hogan Mr. Todd Holowisky Patricia P. Hubbard Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Huebsch Dr.Vicki Huff & Dr. Eric Boerwinkle Mr. & Mrs. Dean Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hull Mr. Craig Ignacio Mr. & Mrs. M. R. Isak Mr. & Mrs. George C. John Ms. Karen Jones Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Kent Mr. & Mrs. Craig M. Kercho Louise & Sherwin Kershman Mr. Robin Kesselman Mr. Bill Kiker Dr. & Mrs. James Killian Nora J. Klein, M.D. Mr. Curtis Knobbe Mr. & Mrs. William H. Knull III Steve Dukes & Nobuhide Kobori Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. Koehl Ms. Leticia Konigsberg & Mr. Michael Olson Dr. & Mrs. James H. Krause Mr. Dennis Kroeger Suzanne A. & Dan D. Kubin Mr. Vijay Kusnoor Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Lack Mr. & Mrs. Randall B. Lake Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth M. Landgren

Mr. & Mrs. Joel J. Landis Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Laraway Mr. & Mrs. Ryan LaRue Mr. Alfred Lasher III Ms. Mary Leba Mr. Robert Leech Mr. & Mrs. Thomas LeGrand Mr. & Mrs. William C. Lemmer Charles H. (Eric) & Lucy Lewis Ms. Megan Light Ms. Joyce Lindler Mr. Daniel J. Linscomb Cynthia & Richard Loewenstern Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lucas Mr. & Mrs. Peter MacGregor Mr. Patrick Manning Mrs. Mariquita Masterson Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Matiuk Mr. & Mrs. Mark Matovich Mr. R. Scott McCay Ms. Judi A. McGee Mr. George McKee Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence McManus Mr. Thomas J. McNulty Mr. & Mrs. R. Talley Melton Ms. Maria Carolina Mendoza Mr. Russell J. Miller & Mrs. Charlotte M. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Herbert G. Mills Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mitchum Jr. Melissa & Michael Mithoff Ms. Marsha L. Montemayor Mr. & Mrs. Walker N. Moody Ms. Joan B. Murphy Alan & Elaine Mut Mr. Dick Nagaki & Ms. Leah Patterson Mr. Cliff Nash & Dr. Lee Bar-Eli Ms. Sheila Neylon Ms. Amy Ng Ms. Charlene B. Nix Mary & Don North Mr. & Mrs. Ralph S. O’Connor Mr. C. Odom Mr. & Mrs. Albert Ong Drs. M. & V. Orocofsky Mr. & Mrs. Robert Orr Mr. & Mrs. Enrique Ospina Julie & Chip Oudin Ms. Dianne Padgett Mr. & Mrs. Marc C. Paige Linda Popkin-Paine & Stephen Paine Paul E. Pardaen Dr. Corita B. Parker-Dubose & Dr. Ralph Dubose Prof. & Mrs. Jordan Paust Mr. & Mrs. Philip Peacock Mr. Miguel A. Pedroza Dr. & Mrs. Joseph V. Penn Ed & Heidi Perkins

Mr. James D. Pitcock Jr. Ronald & Carol Poole Mr. & Mrs. Ben H. Powell Kim & Ted A. Powell Mr. Thomas Power Mr. Mike Prichard Mr. & Mrs. David Pustka Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Pybus Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Elias Qumsieh Mr. Randy Ramdass Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ramirez Mr. Eric Rechlin Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Reeves Lynne & Allan Reich Mr. Manuel Rodriguez Ms. Emily L. Rogacion Ms. Carolyn Rogan Mr. & Mrs. Keith A. Rogers Mr. Autry W. Ross Mr. & Mrs. Scott Rothwell Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ruisard John & Zhanna Russo Ramon & Chula Sanchez Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Sandlin Mr. & Mrs. Ross Saunders Ms. Cindy Scanland Ms. Janet Schaumburg Mr. & Mrs. W. Russell Scheirman Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Scheliga Mr. Martin Schleuse Mr. & Mrs. Charles Schneider III Jurgen Schroder Drs. Helene & Robert Schwartz Charles & Andrea Seay Mr. & Mrs. Dylan Seff Mr. Blake Segura Vance & Jane Senter Ms. Elizabeth Shack Mr. & Mrs. Paul Shack Becky Shaw Mrs. Lorie Sheffey Dr. Lynne F. Shepard Mr. & Mrs. David K. Smith John L. Snyder Sherry Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Alan Stein Mr. & Mrs. Donald K. Steinman Mr. & Mrs. Gary Stenerson Mr. Paul Stewart Mr. Roger Suter & Ms. Lakessia Fry Amy Sutton & Gary Chiles Mr. & Mrs. Eric Swanson Dr. Jeffrey Sweterlitsch Dr. & Mrs. James Tang Dr. Shahin Tavackoli Mr. Kerry Taylor Mr. & Mrs. David K. Terry Ms. Betsy Mims & Mr. Howard D. Thames

Mrs. Alisa Thomads Mr. & Mrs. Garrett Thompson Mrs. Roy A. Thornock Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Thornton Ann & Gerald Thurmond Richard V. Tobin Linda Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Trainer Jr. Mr. James Trippett Ms. Janae Tsai Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Tsuchida Ms. Patricia Van Allan Mr. & Mrs. David Vannauker Mr. Chief Veith Mrs. Mary Voigt Pieter & Janet Vrancken Ms. Elise Wagner Mr. & Mrs. John B. Wallace Sandria Ward Alton & Carolyn Warren Terence & Kathryn Washington Mr. Frank Watson Ms. Virginia S. Watt Mr. & Mrs. Larry Weis Buford & Julia Wells Ms. Amy E. Whitaker Mr. & Mrs. Bradley White Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. White Carlton Wilde Grace Picton Wise Shelley Wisner Dr. Dorothy Wong Ms. Susan G. Wood Marvin & Terry Woskow Family Fund Drs. Randall & Crystal Wright Mr. Michael Wynhoff Mrs. Traci Young Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Zerke Ms. Susan Zollers Mr. Ausonio Zubiani & Ms. Joan Straub Mr. & Mrs. John Zuklic Anonymous (16)) The Houston Symphony would like to thank the 4381 donors who gave up to $499 over the past year.

As of March 1, 2016 To note any errors or omissions, please call Darryl de Mello, Director, Annual Fund at (713) 337-8529.

HOUSTON SYMPHONY POPS DONORS Ima Hogg Society $150,000 or More Mr. George P. Mitchell Sybil F. Roos Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Founder’s Society $75,000 - $99,000 Darlene & Cappy Bisso Maestro’s Society $50,000 -$74,999 Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. / The Robbins Foundation Ms. Judith Vincent Concertmaster’s Society $25,000 - $49,999 Mr. Ralph Burch Jo Lynn & Gregg Falgout / Island Operating Company Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies Susan & Dick Hansen Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange John & Bobbie Nau Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr.

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Conductor’s Circle, Platinum $15,000 - $24,999 Graham & Janet Baker Danielle & Josh Batchelor Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Ken & Carol Lee Robertson Conductor’s Circle, Gold $10,000 - $14,999 Mr. & Mrs. George Boss John & Candace Caley Mr. & Mrs. Bert Cornelison David & Cindy Deere Jennifer & Steve Dolman Scott Ensell & Family John & Minerva Esquivel Evan B. Glick Dr. & Mrs. Robert Ivany / University of St. Thomas Janice & Allan King Michael & Kelley Lang Martha & Marvin McMurrey Roman & Sally Reed Linda & Jerry Rubenstein

Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scherr Shirley & Joel Wahlberg Conductor’s Circle, Silver $7,500 - $9,999 Lilia Khakimova & C. Robert Bunch Ms. Darlene Clark & Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Rita & Paul Morico Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Radoff Family Mr. & Mrs. Perry Radoff Conductor’s Circle, Bronze $5,000 - $7,499 Beth & Jim Barton Consurgo Sunshine Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman Rhona & Bruce Caress Mr. & Mrs. Thierry Caruso William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Janie & Carr Dishroon Connie & Byron Dyer Mrs. Jane Egner Ms. Carolyn Faulk Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fluor Kathleen & Dick Hayes

Mr. & Mrs. Edd C. Hendee Mr. & Ms. Dan Kellogg Mary Louis Kister Mr. & Mrs. John P. Kotts Terry & Kandee McGill Alice McPherson, M.D. Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Jean & Allan Quiat Vicky & Michael Richker Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Jeanine Van Wagenen Sally & Denney Wright Grand Patron $2,500 - $4,999 Mr. & Mrs. J. Emery Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Banks John S. Beury Robert & Gwen Bray Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Cook Becky & Joe Demeter Mr. & Mrs. James E. Dorsett Mr. & Mrs. Mike Ezzell Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Hall William D. & Karinne McCullough Edward Lee McIntosh, C.P.M. Dr. & Mrs. Raghu Narayan

HOUSTON SYMPHONY DONORS Joy & Gary Noble Shirley & Marvin Rich Richard & Anne Robbins Douglas & Alicia Rodenberger Rosemarie & Jeff Roth Mr. Morris Rubin Mr. & Mrs. James Schulz Mr. & Mrs. Nick Stratigakis Seth Williams Anonymous Patron $1,500 - $2,499 Suan Angelo Sue Sue & Don Aron Dr. & Mrs. William S. Banks III Donald & Dottie Bates Mr. Allen J. Becker Mr. & Mrs. Ron Bertus William & Laura Black Mr. & Mrs. W. Carter Bliss Ms. Barbara A. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. William V. Conover II Cynthia & Robert Creager Mr. & Mrs. David Dybell Mr. J. Richard Espinosa Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fanning Mark Folkes & Christopher Johnston Carol & Larry Fradkin Mr. & Mrs. John Geigel Dr. & Mrs. Jack Gill Julius & Suzan Glickman Ms. Melissa Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Franklin J. Harberg Jr. Michael & Darcy Krajewski Gerrit Leeftink Mr. & Mrs. Barry I. Levine Mr. Jeff H. Lippold Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Mason Steve & Linda Massie Terri & Bert Neece The Hon. Stella G. & Richard C. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Kim Parker Margaret & V. Scott Pignolet Mr. & Mrs. Gary Prentice Judy & Bill Pursell Venu & Elsie Rao Mr. & Mrs. John T. Riordan

Soren & Annetta Rose Mrs. Lynda G. Seaman Dr. & Mr. Adrian D. Shelley Ms. Angela Sherman Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Symko Ms. Jody Verwers Larry & Connie Wallace Dr. & Mrs. Brad Wertman Anonymous (3) Director $1,000 - $1,499 Martha & Stanley* Bair Martha & Stanley* Bair Michael & Diana Bonin Ellen Box Ms. Patricia K. Boyd Dr. & Mrs. R. L. Brenner Mr. Thomas N. Britton & Ms. Debra A. Ewing Ms. Julie Conner Marilyn & Tucker Coughlen Ms. Ann Currens Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Dauber Barbara Dokell & Larry Finger Betsy Garlinger Ann & Bill Heim Gary T. Leach Ms. Doris S. Magee Ms. Nancy Mann Mr. & Mrs. Alan May Jr. Mrs. Kay Onstead Dr. Jonathan Penchas Ms. Darla P. Phillips Roland & Linda Pringle Dr. & Mrs. Michael C. Rasmussen Chris & Don Sanders Mr. Michael Shawiak Jerry Siemers Mr. Ralph Tamper Mr. & Mrs. Carl N. Tongberg Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Bob Wolin Anonymous Principal $500 - $999 Mr. & Mrs. David Archibald Mr. & Mrs. David Archibald

Mr. & Mrs. John P. Beall Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Beard Mr. Jay T. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Rick A. Burris Ms. Deborah Butler Mr. & Mrs. Ray Butler Vicki P. Buxton Bill & Marion Calvert Mrs. Anne Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Cantrell Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jim Chandler Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Chapman Richard & Marcia Churns Mr. & Mrs. Marion Collins Mrs. Midge Colton Carlo & Vicki Corso Mr. Warren Dean Joyce & Jack Eagle Evelyn Earlougher Mildred & Richard Ellis Dr. & Mrs. Charles Ericsson Mr. John Eymann Mr. & Mrs. John R. Farina Ms. Marilyn Farrell Sandra & Steven Finkelman Jessica Ford Dr. Truett Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Angelo Giardino Mr. Joseph J. Gugenheim Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George A. Helland Richard & Beverly Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill Jess Hines Jr. Elizabeth Kaufman & David Goeken Dave & Laura Kirk Dr. George S. Knapp MD Mr. & Mrs. Joe D. Koshkin Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred M. Krenek Dr. & Mrs. James Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. David R. McKeithan Jr. Mr. Robert McNamara & Dr. Tracey Samuels Ms. Dinah Mei Mr. William Mendel Margaret & Elmer Milz Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Moen Ms. Wynona Montgomery

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Mosbacher Paul & Molly Mugnier Mr. & Mrs. Dan Neskora Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Nilson Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Noland Joe & Ann Palm Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Parkey Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Reid Mr. O. M. Rogers Mr. Don W. Shackelford Claudette & Tim Shaunty Mr. William Siegel Mr. James Slaughter Mr. & Mrs. Bruce S. Smith Mr. Lawrence C. Smith Jerilyn Stanka Dr. Joan Stoerner Mr. & Mrs. Karl Strobl Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Stuart Mr. Alan Stuckert Dr. & Mrs. Frank C. Sung Mr. Roger Trandell Mr. & Mrs. Michael Villarreal Mrs. Elizabeth White Erwin & Ann Wilbanks Mr. Eric Wooten Maxine & Emil Wulfe Mr. & Mrs. Alan Young Anonymous (4) The Houston Symphony would like to thank the 4381 donors who gave up to $499 over the past year.

As of March 1, 2016 To note any errors or omissions, please call Darryl de Mello, Director, Annual Fund, at (713) 337-8529. *Deceased

CHORUS ENDOWMENT DONORS Janice Barrow Mr. Eldo Bergman, Family Literacy Network, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Paul Davis Steve Dukes Joyce & David Fox Robert Lee Gomez

Christina & Mark Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Henderson Nobuhide Kobori Alan L. McAdams & Vicki L. Colvin Dr. William McCallum Bryan & Vickie McMicken David G. Nussman

Mr. & Mrs. Peter C. Peropoulos Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Rio Ms. Carolyn Rogan Ms. Susan E. Scarrow Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Sommer Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. James R. Wilhite

HOUSTON SYMPHONY ENDOWMENT The Houston Symphony Endowment is a separate nonprofit organization that invests contributions to earn income for the benefit of the Houston Symphony Society.

Trustees Jesse B. Tutor, President Gene Dewhurst Alexandra Pruner James Lee Fredric A. Weber Michael Mithoff

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VINTAGE VIRTUOSO Every year, Spec’s Charitable Foundation invites members of the wine and liquor industry to come together for an event to benefit the Houston Symphony’s Education and Community Programming.

The event has grown from dozens of people to dozens of companies coming together to support the Symphony with representatives bringing products for all to taste and share. This year’s event was held on Wednesday, December 9, 2015.

The Houston Symphony and Spec’s Charitable Foundation thank all of the donors to this event.

Platinum Glazers Republic National Distributing Company Gold Beam Suntory Bacardi USA Brown Forman Diageo Pernod Ricard Proximo Silver E&J Gallo Winery The Wine Group William Grant & Sons Zonin USA

Bronze Anchor Distilling Co. Anheuser-Busch/Silver Eagle Banfi Bank of America Merrill Lynch Campari Classified Wines/Blue Ventures Constellation Brands Deutsch Family Wine & Spirits Excelsior Favorite Brands Freixenet USA Ben E. Keith Mexcor Moët Hennessy USA Serralles USA Ste Michelle Wine Estates Terlato Wines International

Tito’s Handmade Vodka The Patron Spirits Company Truno Villa San-Juliette Underwriters Alexander Valley Vineyards Cline Cellars & Jacuzzi Family Vineyards Freixenet USA Harco Insurance Services Luxco McCormick Distilling Never Too Hungover Pernod Ricard US Foods

NOTES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 | RAVEL’S BOLÉRO | APRIL 8, 9, 10 The Back Story. Maurice Ravel began 1928 with a U.S. tour that included two concerts in Houston. On his return home to France, a Spanish-themed ballet demanded fast work. Before going for a swim with a friend, Ravel played the future Boléro’s theme on the piano—using one finger—and asked, “Don’t you think this tune has something insistent about it?” He then revealed his plan to repeat the melody “a good few times” with practically no change other than increasingly powerful instrumentation. That was unheard-of, and the premiere sent some listeners into a tizzy. Told that a woman had shouted, “A madman! A madman!” Ravel wryly responded: “She’s right!”

The Instruments. 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), piccolo, 2 oboes (1 doubling oboe d’amore), English horn, 2 clarinets (1 doubling E-flat clarinet), bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, sopranino saxophone, soprano saxophone (doubling tenor saxophone), 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings

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What to Listen For. The melody repeats insistently. So does the drumbeat. But Boléro’s galvanizing impact comes ultimately from this: its one big crescendo. A flute introduces the now-famous tune, which moves on to other woodwinds, then draws in larger and larger phalanxes of instruments. Ravel adds the exotic colors of instruments such as the oboe d’amore, a deeper-sounding relative of the oboe, and the extra-high sopranino saxophone. As the melody gains fire and force, so do the lusty chords that accompany it. Then Boléro unleashes one of music’s greatest surprises by vaulting to a higher key. Then it falls just a suddenly, and within moments comes the smashing final cadence.

Ravel’s scintillating orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition comes next season from the Houston Symphony. ©2016 Steven Brown The printed music for this work was donated by Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth and Dr. Ken Hyde.

LEGACY SOCIETY The Legacy Society honors those who have included the Houston Symphony Endowment in their long-term estate plans through bequests, life-income gifts or other deferred-giving arrangements. Members of the Legacy Society enjoy a variety of benefits, including an annual musical event. The Houston Symphony Endowment would like to extend its deepest thanks to the members of the Legacy Society, and with their permission, we are pleased to acknowledge them below. If you would like to learn more about ways to provide for the Houston Symphony Endowment in your estate plans, please contact Patrick Quinn, Director, Planned Giving, at (713) 337-8532 or patrick.quinn@houstonsymphony.org.

Daniel B. Barnum George & Betty Bashen Dorothy B. Black Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield Zu Broadwater Joan K. Bruchas & H. Philip Cowdin Mr. Christopher & Mrs. Erin Brunner Eugene R. Bruns Sylvia J. Carroll Dr. Robert N. Chanon William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes The Honorable & Mrs. William Crassas Patricia Cunningham Dr. Lida S. Dahm Leslie Barry Davidson Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Ginny Garrett Lila-Gene George Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Randolph Lee Groninger Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mrs. Gloria Herman Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Timothy Hogan & Elaine Anthony Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Dr. Edward J. & Mrs. Patti Hurwitz Dr. Kenneth Hyde Brian & Catherine James Dr. & Mrs. Ira Kaufman, M.D.

John S. W. Kellett Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mrs. Frances E. Leland Mrs. Lucy Lewis E. W. Long Jr. Sandra Magers Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Jay & Shirley Marks James G. Matthews Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Charles E. McKerley Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Dr. Tracey Samuels & Mr. Robert McNamara Mr. & Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Catherine Jane Merchant Dr. Georgette M. Michko Katherine Taylor Mize Richard & Juliet Moynihan Gretchen Ann Myers Patience Myers John Neighbors, in memory of Jean Marie Neighbors Bobbie Newman John & Leslie Niemand Dave G. Nussmann John & Cynthia Onstott Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Imogen “Immy� Papadopoulos Christine & Red Pastorek

Sara M. Peterson Darla Powell Phillips Geraldine Smith Priest Dana Puddy Patrick T. Quinn Lila Rauch Evie Ronald Walter Ross Dr. & Mrs. Kazuo Shimada Lisa & Jerry Simon Sherry Snyder Marie Speziale Emily H. & David K. Terry Stephen G. Tipps Steve Tostengard in memory of Ardyce Tostengard Dr. Carlos Vallbona & Children Jana Vander Lee Dean B. Walker David M. Wax* & Elaine Arden Cali Geoffrey Westergaard Nancy B. Willerson Jennifer R. Wittman Daisy S. Wong / JCorp Susan Gail Wood Lorraine & Ed Wulfe David & Tara Wuthrich Katherine & Mark Yzaguirre Edith & Robert Zinn Anonymous (7)

Dr. Rita Justice Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Joella & Steven P. Mach Bill & Karinne McCullough Betty & Gene McDavid Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Mr. Ronald Mikita and Mr. Rex Spikes Ione Moran Sidney Moran Sue A. Morrison & Children in memory of Walter J. Morrison Robert A. Peiser Gloria G. Pryzant Mr. and Mrs. Clive Runnells Mr. Charles K. Sanders

Donna Scott Charles & Andrea Seay Mr. and Mrs. James A. Shaffer Jule* and Albert Smith Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mike & Anita* Stude Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Elba L. Villarreal Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Mr. and Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Robert G. Weiner Vicki West, in honor of Hans Graf Jo Dee Wright Ellen A. Yarell Anonymous (2)

Crescendo Circle $100,000+ Dr. and Mrs. George J. Abdo Janice Barrow Dr. Joan Hacken Bitar Joe Brazzatti Terry Ann Brown Drs. Dennis & Susan Carlyle Janet F. Clark Mr. William E. Colburn Harrison R.T. Davis Jean & Jack* Ellis The Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Family Eugene Fong Michael B. George Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Evan B. Glick Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves

IN MEMORIAM We honor the memory or those who in life included the Houston Symphony Endowment in their estate plans. Their thoughtfulness and generosity will continue to inspire and enrich lives for generations to come!

Mr. Thomas D. Barrow W. P. Beard Ronald C. Borschow Mrs. H. Raymond Brannon Anthony Brigandi Lawrence E. Carlton, M.D. Mrs. Albert V. Caselli Lee Allen Clark Jack Ellis Mrs. Robin A. Elverson Frank R. Eyler Dr. & Mrs. Larry L. Fedder Helen Bess Fariss Foster Christine E. George Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Gott

John Wesley Graham Mrs. Marcella Levine Harris Gen. & Mrs. Maurice Hirsch Miss Ima Hogg Burke & Octavia Holman David L. Hyde Dr. Blair Justice Dr. Mary R. Lewis Mrs. L. F. McCollum Joan B. McKerley Doretha Melvin Monroe L. Mendelsohn Jr. Mrs. Janet Moynihan Terrence Murphree Arthur Newman

Constantine S. Nicandros Hanni Orton Stewart Orton, Legacy Society co-founder Dr. Michael Papadopoulos Miss Louise Pearl Mary Anne H. Phillips Mr. Howard Pieper Walter W. Sapp, Legacy Society co-founder J. Fred & Alma Laws Lunsford Schultz Ms. Jean R. Sides Blanche Stasny John K. & Fanny W. Stone Dorothy Barton Thomas Mrs. Harry C. Weiss Mrs. Edward Wilkerson April 2016 49

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERS The Houston Symphony is proud to recognize the leadership support of our corporate, foundation and government partners that allow the orchestra to reach new heights in musical performance, education and community engagement for Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast Region. For more information on becoming a foundation or government partner, please contact Mary Beth Mosley, Director, Institutional Giving and Stewardship, at (713) 337-8521 or marybeth.mosley@houstonsymphony.org. For further information on becoming a corporate donor to the Houston Symphony, please contact Leticia Konigsberg at (713) 337-8522 or leticia.konigsberg@houstonsymphony.org.

HOUSTON SYMPHONY BUSINESS COUNCIL Co-Chairs Ralph Burch, ConocoPhillips David Wuthrich, Cadence Bank Business Council Host Committee: Prentiss Burt, J.P. Morgan Chase Brett Busby, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District Janet F. Clark, Marathon Oil Corporation (retired) Ryan Colburn, Regions Bank Bradley Corson, ExxonMobil Chemical Co. Cindy Deere, Shell Oil Company Gene Dewhurst, Falcon Seaboard Diversified Mike Doherty, Frost Bank David Frankfort, Deutsche Bank Ron Franklin, McGuireWoods, LLP Allen Gelwick, Lockton Companies, LLC Mauro Gimenez, Russell Reynolds Associates

Steven P. Mach, Mach Industrial Group, LP Michael Mann, Mann Eye Institute Paul Mann, Mann Eye Institute David Massin, Wells Fargo Billy McCartney, Flat Rock Development, LLC Paul Morico, Baker Botts L.L.P. Dana Ondrias, Mann Eye Institute Ed Osterberg, Mayer Brown, LLP Robert A. Peiser, Parkton Group Greg Powers, Halliburton David Pruner, Wood Mackenzie Ltd. Ron Rand, Rand Group, LLC John Rydman, Spec’s Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods

Manolo Sanchez, BBVA Compass Jerry Simon, Northern Trust L. Proctor Thomas, Baker Botts L.L.P. (retired) William J. Toomey, BB&T Bobby Tudor, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Company Jesse B. Tutor, Accenture (retired) Margaret Waisman, Affiliated Dermatologists of Houston Fredric Weber, Norton Rose Fulbright Beth Wolff, Beth Wolff Realtors Ed Wulfe, Wulfe & Co. Frank Yonish, Bank of Texas

CORPORATE PARTNERS As of February 1, 2016

Grand Guarantor, $150,000 and above BBVA Compass ConocoPhillips * Houston First Corporation * Houston Public Media – Classical 91.7 FM; News 88.7 FM; Channel 8 PBS * KTRK ABC-13 * Oliver Wyman * Spec’s Charitable Foundation/ Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Guarantor, $100,000 and above Chevron * Houston Methodist Medistar Corporation * PaperCity Phillips 66 * Telemundo * United Airlines Underwriter, $50,000 and above * Baker Botts L.L.P. * BB&T Cameron International Corporation * Cameron Management * The Events Company ExxonMobil Frost Bank GDF SUEZ Energy North America * Geo. H. Lewis & Sons Houston Baptist University Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo * Jackson and Company Kalsi Engineering Kirkland & Ellis LLP Palmetto Partners Ltd./The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation * Rand Group, LLC Shell Oil Company Vinson & Elkins LLP 50

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Sponsor, $25,000 and above Andrews Kurth LLP Bank of America Bank of Texas The Boeing Company * Bright Star Enterprise Product Partners L.P. * Gittings * Houston Chronicle JPMorgan Chase KPMG LLP Mann Eye Institute and Laser Center Marathon Oil Corporation McGuireWoods, LLP * Neiman Marcus Northern Trust Norton Rose Fulbright Regions Bank Sidley Austin LLP * Silver Circle Audio The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center SPIR STAR, Ltd. Wells Fargo WoodRock & Co. Partner, $15,000 and above * City Kitchen East West Bank Ernst & Young LLP Gorman’s Uniform Service Halliburton H-E-B Independent Bank Laredo Construction, Inc. Locke Lord LLP Lockton Companies of Houston Marine Foods Express, LTD. USI Southwest

Supporter, $10,000 and above * Abrahams Oriental Rugs * Agua Hispanic Marketing Anadarko Petroleum Corporation CenterPoint Energy * Crown Castle International Corp.

Emerson Enbridge Energy Company Excel Diagnostics & Nuclear Oncology Center Goldman, Sachs & Co. Macy’s Star Furniture Union Pacific Foundation * Zenfilm Benefactor, $5,000 and above Barclay’s Wealth and Investment Management Beck Redden LLP Louis Vuitton Nordstrom Plains All American * Randalls Food Markets Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. Spectra Energy University of St. Thomas Wortham Insurance and Risk Management Patron, Gifts below $5,000 Adolph Locklar, Intellectual Property Law Firm Beth Wolff Realtors Boulware & Valoir Intertek Marsh & McLennan SEI, Global Institutional Group Smith, Graham & Company Stewart Title Company TAM International, Inc. * Includes in-kind support

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERS CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS As of February 1, 2016 Aetna Aon Apache Corporation Bank of America BBVA Compass The Boeing Company BP Foundation

Caterpillar Chevron Chubb Group Coca-Cola ConocoPhillips Eli Lilly and Company EOG Resources ExxonMobil

Freeport - McMoRan Oil & Gas General Electric General Mills Goldman, Sachs & Company Halliburton Hewlett-Packard Houston Endowment IBM

ING Financial Services Corporation KBR Merrill Lynch NAACO Industries, Inc. Neiman Marcus Northern Trust Occidental Petroleum

Phillips 66 Shell Oil Company Spectra Energy Williams Companies, Inc.

IN-KIND DONORS As of February 1, 2016 A Fare Extraordinaire Aker Imaging Alexander’s Fine Portrait Design Alpha-Lee Enterprises, Inc. Aspire Executive Coaching, LLC Bergner & Johnson Design Bering’s BKD, LLP Boat Ranch Burberry Classical 91.7 FM Cognetic Culinaire Carl R. Cunningham DLG Research & Marketing Solutions

Elaine Turner Designs Elegant Events by Michael Elsie Smith Design Festari Foster Quan LLP Gucci Hermann Park Conservancy Hilton Americas – Houston Hotel Granduca Hotel Icon Houston Astros Houston Grand Opera Houston Texans Intercontinental Hotel Houston JOHANNUS Organs of Texas John L. Wortham & Son, L.P. John Wright/Textprint

JW Marriott Houston Downtown Kuhl-Linscomb The Lancaster Hotel LG Entertainers Limb Design Martha Turner Properties Meera Buck & Associates Michael’s Cookie Jar Minuteman Press – Post Oak Momentum Jaguar Music & Arts New Leaf Publishing, Inc. Nos Caves Vin Pax Americana Pro/Sound Randalls Rice University

Richard Brown Orchestra Saint Arnold’s Brewery Saks Fifth Avenue Shecky’s Media, Inc. Singapore Airlines Staging Solutions Stewart Title The Events Company Tony’s Tootsies Valobra Jewelry & Antiques Versace Village Greenery Vision Production Group Yahama

FOUNDATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES As of February 1, 2016

Diamond Guarantor, $1,000,000 and above Houston Symphony Endowment Houston Symphony League The Wortham Foundation, Inc. Premier Guarantor, $500,000 and above The Brown Foundation, Inc. City of Houston and Theater District Improvement, Inc. Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Principal Guarantor, $250,000 and above The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Grand Guarantor, $150,000 and above City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board The Cullen Foundation Guarantor, $100,000 and above Houston Endowment MD Anderson Foundation

Underwriter, $50,000 and above The Elkins Foundation The Fondren Foundation The Hearst Foundations The Humphreys Foundation The John P. McGovern Foundation The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation/Palmetto Partners Ltd. The Robbins Foundation Sponsor, $25,000 and above Beauchamp Foundation Ray C. Fish Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation The C. Howard Pieper Foundation Sterling-Turner Foundation Partner, $15,000 and above Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation The Cockrell Foundation The Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation The Hood-Barrow Foundation Houston Symphony Chorus Endowment Houston Symphony League Bay Area William S. and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation National Endowment for the Arts Radoff Family Foundation Strake Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts The Vaughn Foundation

Supporter, $10,000 and above The Carleen & Alde Fridge Foundation Petrello Family Foundation The Powell Foundation The Schissler Foundation The Vivian L. Smith Foundation Anonymous Benefactor, $5,000 and above LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation William E. and Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable Foundation The Scurlock Foundation Keith and Mattie Stevenson Foundation Patron, Gifts below $5,000 Diamond Family Foundation First Junior Woman’s Club of Houston The Helmle-Shaw Foundation Huffington Foundation Leon Jaworski Foundation Kinder Morgan Foundation Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation The Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation The Lubrizol Foundation The Oshman Foundation Chester Pitts Foundation State Employee Charitable Campaign

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BACKSTAGE PASS

Tony Sessions, chorus member Tony Sessions joined the Houston Symphony Chorus in 1985 under Virginia Babikian and has served as the Chorus Music Librarian for the past 25 years. A native Texan, Tony was born and raised in the Dallas area.

Beginnings: I began playing the clarinet in fifth grade band, pursuing that for several years when, rather late in high school, I boldly decided to switch to voice.

Immediately, I made All-State choir, had scholarship offers, was cast in shows, etc., and have never looked back.

Memorable conductors: There have been so many, and I feel I have learned from each one. However, I might just mention two: Robert Shaw, the dean of choral conductors. Here was a man who, early in his career, prepared choruses for Toscanini. I’m still dumbfounded he knew my name. As did Mitch Miller. A gifted oboist, for many years he ran A&R at Columbia Records, launching the careers of Tony Bennett, Patti Page, Frankie Laine and so many others. People always laugh when his name is mentioned, but he was a dear, kind man.

Next season’s highlights: Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Michael Krajewski’s final concerts and, of course, performing again with Andrea Bocelli. What a gifted and charismatic artist! I am also excited about our world premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Requiem.

What’s it like singing in the Symphony Chorus?: We are a very close group of friends; in some ways, a family really. But first and foremost, we’re there to do a job, albeit a job we love. What a sensational group of singers—such fine readers and sensitive musicians. Our director, Betsy Cook Weber, keeps the bar raised very high!

Crazy passion: Though always looking to the future, I am endlessly fascinated by and love reading about the performing arts of the past, be it music, movies, classic radio, television or theater. Ask anyone who knows me—I am a “walking encyclopedia” of this stuff.

When not singing with the Chorus: I work for Alliance Music Publications, Inc., a local choral music publisher, as well as being a long-time church musician. Oh, and I sing with at least two other ensembles.

Advice on auditioning for the Chorus: It’s a big commitment, but with huge rewards. It might change your life; it certainly has changed mine.

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