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Official Program Magazine of the Houston Symphony 615 Louisiana, Suite 102, Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 224-4240 | houstonsymphony.org For advertising contact New Leaf Publishing at (713) 523-5323 info@newleafinc.com | www.newleafinc.com | 2006 Huldy, Houston, Texas 77019

PROGRAMS

12 June 13 14 June 18 18 June 20 23 June 26 26 June 27 28 July 4

FEATURES

4 Letter to Patrons 9 Music Blends at Miller Outdoor Theatre 10 Education and Community Engagement 44 Backstage Pass—Meet the Musicians

us on July 4 at Miller Don’t miss Carmina Burana on July 17 28 Join Outdoor Theatre for our annual 10 and 18 at Jones Hall, featuring the FREE Star-Spangled Salute, complete with booming cannons and fireworks!

Houston Symphony side-by-side with the Colombian Youth Philharmonic!

EVENTS

7 Opening Night—Save the Date! 22 Summer Concerts at Jones Hall

YOUR HOUSTON SYMPHONY

6 Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Music Director 6 Chief Conductors and Music Directors 8 Orchestra and Staff

OUR SUPPORTERS

4 New Century Society 6 New Music Director Fund 21 Symphony Society Board 32 Musician Sponsorship 33 Houston Symphony Donors 40 Chorus Endowment Donors 40 Houston Symphony Endowment 40 Leadership Council

July 25 and 26, Pokémon— 22 On Symphonic Evolutions will take you

on a powerful musical retrospective through this video game franchise’s most memorable melodies.

On the cover Photo by Michelle Watson / CatchLight Group 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.

Festive and patriotic Houstonians fill the hill at Miller Outdoor Theatre for last year’s Star-Spangled Salute concert!

Acknowledgements

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LETTER TO PATRONS June is a particularly exciting month for the Houston Symphony, as our musicians pack up their instruments from Jones Hall and head out to a variety of venues across Greater Houston. By connecting with our city’s diverse communities through our many free performances, including this season’s ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights at Miller Outdoor Theatre and our Summer Community Concerts, we strive to make the joy of orchestral music accessible to all Houstonians. The next time you attend a Houston Symphony concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre, we hope you will join us in thanking the Beauchamp Foundation and Marian and Gary Beauchamp for their generous contribution that helped us purchase a new sound shell ceiling for our performances at the Theatre. The sound shell, which you will see at the back of the performance stage, blends and amplifies the sound of the orchestra for much higher-quality acoustics. Please read more about this fantastic new sound shell ceiling on page 9. We hope you will also join us at Miller Outdoor Theatre on July 4 for our annual StarSpangled Salute, led by Houston Symphony Pops Conductor Designate Steven Reineke. But if we don’t see you at Miller this month, we look forward to connecting with you at one of our 10 free Summer Community Concerts throughout the city. For dates and locations, please see page 10. Also on that page, please read about our upcoming dual residency with the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia (FJC), culminating in two very special performances at Jones Hall on July 17 and 18. The FJC will join its Artistic Advisor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, the musicians of the Houston Symphony, the Houston Symphony Chorus and the Houston Children’s Chorus for a spectacular side-by-side performance of Carl Orff’s epic Carmina Burana featuring nearly 400 musicians on an extended Jones Hall stage. In closing, we extend our sincerest appreciation to Bob Peiser and Jesse Tutor for their inspiring and dedicated leadership on the Houston Symphony Board for the past three years. As President and Chairman of the Board, respectively, Bob and Jesse have left an enduring legacy that will continue to propel the Houston Symphony to our goal of being America’s most relevant and accessible top-ten orchestra by 2025.

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Steven P. Mach President

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

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 H. Barrow Cora Sue & Harry Mach Mr. George P. Mitchell Mrs. Kitty King Powell Bobby & Phoebe Tudor The Honorable & Mrs. David H. Dewhurst Rochelle & Max Levit 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

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Houston Methodist Nancy & Robert Peiser Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. / The Robbins Foundation Laura & Michael Shannon Baker Botts L.L.P. Beauchamp Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Barbara & Pat McCelvey John B. Onstott / Geo. H. Lewis & Sons Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan Jr. / Houston Baptist University Wells Fargo

CREDITS

Mark C. Hanson Executive Director/CEO Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Keith Nickerson Publications Editor Elaine Reeder Mayo Editorial Consultant

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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. June 2015

ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADA

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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 will expand on this foundation in the 2015-16 season and plans to engage even more in direct conversation about music with the audience. Among his new initiatives will be “On Stage Insights with Andrés,” which will feature 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, the first of which will be released in fall 2015. Andrés has also spearheaded a cultural exchange and partnership with the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia. Expanding the orchestra’s international reach, Andrés will lead the Symphony on its first Latin American tour in May/June 2016. Born in Medellín, Colombia, Andrés began his musical stud-

ies on the violin and started conducting at age 15. At 19, he entered 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. In the 2015-16 season, he will make 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, and he will become principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic 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.

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

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

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) Leopold Stokowski (1955-61)

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

opening night—save the date!

Houston Symphony Opening Night Concert and Gala— A Celebration of Joshua Bell and Andrés Orozco-Estrada in honor of Margaret Alkek Williams’ 80th Birthday Saturday, September 12, 2015 The Corinthian & Jones Hall Janet F. Clark, Chair Vicki West, Honorary Chair David Wuthrich, Underwriting Chair

Concert Sponsor Lead Corporate Gala Underwriter

Prepare for the dazzling opening of the Houston Symphony’s 2015-16 season! Enjoy a champagne reception at The Corinthian prior to being transported to Jones Hall for the Opening Night Concert conducted by Andrés Orozco-Estrada, featuring world-famous violinist Joshua Bell and the Houston Symphony. Bell will perform an arrangement written especially for him, William David Brohn’s tuneful and virtuosic West Side Story Suite. Continue the evening with elegance and festive fun at a black tie gala at The Corinthian, featuring a multicourse dinner by Jackson and Company. After dinner, stay to dance the night away!

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Benefitting the Houston Symphony’s Education and Community Programming

Margaret Alkek Williams

Tables: $50,000; $25,000; $15,000; $10,000; $7,500 and $5,000 (Balcony Seating) Tickets: $5,000; $2,500; $1,000 and $500 (Balcony Seating) Please note: All tables and tickets include a ticket to the concert. For more information or to purchase tables and tickets, please contact the Houston Symphony Special Events Team at (713) 238-1485 or specialevents@houstonsymphony.org.

Andrés Orozco-Estrada

Joshua Bell

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ORCHESTRA AND STAFF Andr茅s 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, Associate 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* Evenia Zharzhavskaya* SECOND VIOLIN Jennifer Owen, Principal** Sophia Silivos, Acting Principal Hitai Lee, Acting Associate Principal Kiju Joh** Mihaela Frusina Ruth Zeger Martha Chapman Tina Zhang Jing Zheng Amy Teare** Oleg Chelpanov* Michelle Black* Maxine Kuo* Lindsey Baggett* 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 Phyllis Herdliska Suzanne LeFevre* 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, D irector, 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 Thomas LeGrand, Acting Principal Christian Schubert, Acting Associate Principal Lin Ma* 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 CONTRABASSOON position open HORN William VerMeulen, Principal Robert Johnson, Associate Principal Brian Thomas Nancy Goodearl Ian Mayton

TRUMPET Mark Hughes, Principal George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Chair John DeWitt, Associate Principal Robert Walp, Assistant Principal 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 ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Position Open STAGE TECHNICIANS Toby Blunt Zoltan Fabry Cory Grant *Contracted Substitute ** On Leave

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 Rauli Garcia, Chief Financial Officer Glenn Taylor, Chief Marketing Officer Meg Philpot, Director, Human Resources Stacey Spears, Executive Assistant and Board Liaison 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 Darryl de Mello, Associate Director, Annual Fund Noureen Faizullah, Development Operations Manager Mark Folkes, Senior Director, Development Vickie Hamley, Director, Volunteer Services Sydnee E. Houlette, Development Assistant, Institutional Giving Irma Molina, Development Associate, Gifts and Records Tyler Murphy, Assistant, Special Events Laura Neiman, Manager, Special Events Patrick Quinn, Director, Planned Giving Agnieszka Rakhmatullaev, Development Officer Martin Schleuse, Development Communications Manager Sarah Slemmons, Patron Donor Relations Manager Alexandra Yates, Director, Special Events Education/Community Partnerships Allison Conlan, Associate Director, Education Melissa Fuller, Education & Community Programming Assistant Steve Wenig, Director, Community Partnerships Finance/Administration/IT Sally Brassow, Controller Heather Fails, Manager, Ticketing Database Desmond Robinson, Director, IT Janis Pease LaRocque, Manager, Patron Database Kay Middleton, Receptionist Maria Ross, Payroll Manager Armin (A.J.) Salge, Network Systems Engineer Brandon VanWaeyenberghe, Director, Business Analytics Chris Westerfelt, Manager, Accounts Payable and Special Projects Marketing/Communications Sara Alvarado, Graphic Designer Vanessa Astros-Young, Senior Director, Communications Kristen Bennett, PR Coordinator Jeffrey Block, Assistant Marketing Manager Calvin Dotsey, Digital Marketing Coordinator Jeff Gilmer, Assistant Manager, Patron Services Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee, Senior Director, Marketing and Sales Jason Landry, Senior Manager, Patron Services Melissa H. Lopez, Director, Single Tickets & Special Projects Keith Nickerson, Publications Editor Sarah Rend贸n, Patron Services Coordinator Jacqueline Shumate, Marketing Manager Jenny Zuniga, Director, Patron Services Operations Shana Bey, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Michael Gorman, Orchestra Personnel Manager Kelly Morgan, Stage Manager Kathryn Wene, Operations Assistant Meredith Williams, Associate Director of Operations

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The Houston Symphony’s new sound shell ceiling for concerts at Miller Outdoor Theatre made its debut last summer and was in place for the ¡Bienvenido, Andrés! concert on September 12, 2014. Pictured here, KTRK-TV’s Gina Gaston welcomes Andrés to Houston.

Music Blends at Miller Outdoor Theatre Miller Outdoor Theatre’s partnership with the Houston Symphony, which dates back more than 70 years, allows the orchestra to engage and inspire Houston’s large and diverse population through free performances. Last year, the Symphony reached more than 44,000 people at Miller Outdoor Theatre. This summer, these concerts will sound better than ever thanks to the wonderful generosity of the Beauchamp Foundation and Marian and Gary Beauchamp, longtime members of the Houston Symphony family. Gary is a member of the Symphony’s Board of Trustees. Last year, the Beauchamps made a contribution to help the Houston Symphony purchase a new sound shell ceiling for performances at Miller Theatre, including this month’s ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights. This structure blends and amplifies Andrés Orozco-Estrada the sound of the orchestra for much higher-quality acoustics. The orchestra had been without a sound shell since the theater was renovated in 2010. The absence meant the musicians on stage couldn’t effectively hear what other sections were playing at a given moment. Principal Cello Brinton Averil Smith—holder of the Janice and Thomas Barrow Endowed Chair—explains that without the shell, “the musicians really could not play together fully, and playing together is what gives a symphony its unique and powerful sound.” Recognizing that Miller Outdoor Theatre concerts are a wonderful introduction to the orchestra for so many Houstonians, Marian and Gary helped remedy this situation. The new sound shell ceiling produces a blended sound and promotes ensemble playing. Brinton calls it “a tremendous relief for the musicians, and a significant acoustical improvement. Our audiences can hear the difference, too.” Brinton continues, “With the shell in place, Miller Outdoor Theatre is again a destination where we happily look forward to sharing our music with tens of thousands of Houstonians, and where audiences have a chance to catch tomorrow’s stars finding their first breaks. Because the atmosphere is very casual, it’s a great experience for the regular concertgoer and the uninitiated. The musicians are grateful for the support that made all of this possible.” June 2015

Education and Community engagement

Dual Residency with Young Colombian Musicians Extends Our Educational Reach

Filarmónica Joven de Colombia Day of Music, July 12, Jones Hall, FREE Carmina Burana, July 17 and 18, Jones Hall, together with the Houston Symphony For more information, please visit houstonsymphony.org or call Patron Services at (713) 224-7575.

Summer Community Concerts Principal cello Brinton Smith visits with cellists of the FJC in Bogotá.

The Houston Symphony is proud to impact communities at home and abroad. Through a deep partnership with the Filarmónica Joven de Colombia (FJC)—a pre-professional training orchestra from Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s home country—the Houston Symphony, in partnership with the University of Houston (UH) Moores School of Music, will host the entire FJC in Houston, and musicians of the Houston Symphony will travel to Bogotá to work with these aspiring and gifted musicians. During their 10-day visit to Houston, FJC musicians will stay on campus at UH, and they will rehearse and perform side-by-side with Houston Symphony musicians for two performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana on July 17 and 18. The FJC will also perform Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring as part of the third annual FREE Day of Music on the afternoon of July 12. On July 13, they perform a free chamber music concert at the UH Moores Opera House. In addition, musicians of the FJC will engage with students and seniors in the Houston community. In June, prior to the FJC’s visit to Houston, 14 Houston Symphony musicians will travel to Colombia to provide coaching and professional development. Such a partnership offers the young FJC musicians access to a professional orchestral environment and personal attention from our musicians. Additionally, it extends the Houston Symphony’s educational mission internationally, while building bridges to the Colombian community in Houston. With the partnership, Andrés seeks to help FJC’s young musicians realize their full musical potential, grow the appreciation for classical music in his home country and expand the Houston Symphony’s educational reach internationally. “I’m very proud and inspired,” said Andrés, “by the Houston Symphony’s commitment to the development and training of young musicians. It underscores the importance of music in the developmental years of our youth.” “Giving young musicians the opportunity to share the stage with our talented musicians is a hallmark of the Houston Symphony’s commitment to transformational education programs,” said Mark Hanson, Executive Director and CEO of the Houston Symphony. “With the dual residency, we have the unique opportunity to foster a mutually beneficial relationship between our organizations and countries that will also engage and inspire diverse audiences throughout Greater Houston through the power of classical music.” The culminating event of the residency is a pair of concerts on an extended stage at Jones Hall during which the FJC will play sideby-side with the Houston Symphony, Houston Symphony Chorus and Houston Children’s Chorus in performances of Orff’s epic Carmina Burana. The Day of Music and Carmina Burana concerts will all be conducted by Andrés, who is also an artistic advisor for the FJC. 10

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FREE in your neighborhood! Robert Franz, conductor Mirron Willis, narrator Each summer, we pack up our instruments and equipment from Jones Hall, and hit the road to perform concerts just for you! This year, our orchestra is joined by an array of guest artists from the community, including the CityWide Grassroots Chorus, Mariachi Los Gallitos and pipa virtuoso Changlu Wu. Visit houstonsymphony.org for more information. June 2, 7:30pm

Fallbrook Church Houston 77014

June 3, 7:30pm

The Fountain of Praise Houston 77085

June 9, 7:30pm

Morton Ranch High School Katy 77449

June 10, 8pm

Clear Falls High School League City 77573

June 11, 7:30pm

The Centrum Spring 77379

June 23, 11am

Miller Outdoor Theatre Houston 77030

June 30, 7:30pm

North Shore Senior High School Houston 77049 (Galena Park)

July 1, 7:30pm

Dulles High School Sugar Land 77478

July 2, 7:30pm

Chinese Community Center Houston 77036

July 7, 7:30pm

Dobie High School Houston 77089 (Pasadena)

3rd Annual FREE Day of Music Jones Hall Sunday, July 12 starting at 12pm 18,000 Houstonians have joined us the last two years to celebrate the diverse musical landscape of our great city. Join us for the third annual Day of Music and hear some of the area’s best Mariachi, blues, Tejano, chamber, jazz ensembles and more. Plus, sample some of Houston’s ﬁnest food truck fare next door on Jones Plaza. Sponsored in part by The Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation. FREE

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 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

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 Macy’s Wells Fargo

BENEFACTOR - $5,000+ Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Houston Symphony League Bay Area Randalls Food Markets Strake Foundation DONOR - $1,000+ Lilly and Thurmon Andress Diane and Harry Gendel Kinder Morgan Foundation Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Cora Sue and Harry Mach Karine & Bill McCullough Nancy and Robert Peiser Chester Pitts Foundation Tricia and Mark Rauch Texas Commission on the Arts

SUPPORTER - $10,000+ CenterPoint Energy East West Bank Enbridge Energy Company George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Houston Symphony League Marathon Oil Corporation Symphony Scouts is supported by Cora Sue and The Powell Foundation Harry Mach in honor of Roger Daily’s 13 years of Vivian L. Smith Foundation service as Director of the Houston Symphony’s Education and Community Programs.

These 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

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june 13, 2015

Broadway Sing-Along Robert Franz, conductor Debbie Gravitte, mezzo-soprano Doug LaBrecque, tenor Saturday, June 13, 2015 7:30pm

Jones Hall

J. Styne/R. Wendel Overture to Gypsy J. Kander/P. McKibbins Introduction and All That Jazz from Chicago

lyrics by Fred Ebb

Rodgers/J. Tatgenhorst Selections from The Sound of Music

lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Berlin/R. R. Bennett Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) from Annie Get Your Gun N. H. Brown/B. Holcombe Singin’ in the Rain from Hollywood Revue of 1929

lyrics by Arthur Freed

Lloyd Webber/D. Cullen Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina from Evita

M. Willson/L. Anderson Seventy-Six Trombones from The Music Man K. Anderson-Lopez-R. Lopez/ Let It Go from Frozen* D. Metzger-T. Ricketts Rodgers/Bennett Oklahoma from Oklahoma!†

lyrics by Tim Rice

lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Bernstein/M. Peress Overture to West Side Story B. Gaudio/R. C. Fleischer Medley from Jersey Boys

lyrics by Bob Crewe

A. Menken/D. Troob-E. Kunzel Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast**

lyrics by Howard Ashman

E. John/C. Beck Circle of Life from The Lion King††

lyrics by Tim Rice

Lloyd Webber/Cullen Memory from Cats

lyrics by Trevor Nunn, after T. S. Eliot

Gershwin/L. Blank-C. Salinger Medley from An American In Paris S. Schwartz/Fleischer Defying Gravity from Wicked

lyrics by Stephen Schwartz

Lloyd Webber/Cullen The Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera

lyrics by Charles Hart-Richard Stilgoe

B. Andersson-S. Anderson-B. Ulvaeus/Fleisher Medley from Mamma Mia

lyrics by Benny Andersson-Stig Anderson-Bjorn Ulvaeus * ©2013 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI) ** ©1991 Walt Disney Music Co. (ASCAP) & Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI) † “Oklahoma” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. ©1943 Williamson Music (ASCAP), an Imagem Company, owner of publication and allied rights throughout the world. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission. †† ©1994 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)

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biographies

Appearances by Robert Franz are sponsored by Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge.

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ROBERT FRANZ, conductor As Associate Conductor of the Houston Symphony, Robert Franz leads the Symphony in a broad range of creative educational and family concerts. Winner of two “Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational Programming” accolades presented by ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), Robert galvanizes young audiences with programming celebrating the diverse cultural make up of Greater Houston. Highlights include the world premiere of music from the iconic TV series Schoolhouse Rock for orchestra. During his tenure, attendance at educational concerts has almost doubled. Reaching out to the community, Robert led highly successful side-byside events giving musicians from the Texas Medical Center Orchestra and the Houston Civic Symphony the opportunity to perform with the Houston Symphony. Robert also serves as music director of the Boise Philharmonic, Windsor Symphony Orchestra and The Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Orchestra. In increasing demand as a guest conductor, his upcoming and recent guest conducting engagements include The Cleveland Orchestra; Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; St. Louis, Phoenix and Victoria Symphonies; Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina in Italy. Robert received his master’s degree in conducting and his bachelor’s degree in oboe performance, both from the North Carolina School of the Arts. When he’s not on the podium, Franz is an avid runner, and he is a proponent of the Alexander Technique as a way to move mindfully through life. For more information, please visit www.robertfranz.com.

Debbie Gravitte, vocalist One of Broadway’s biggest personalities, Debbie Gravitte received the Tony Award for her critically acclaimed performance in Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, along with the New York Showstopper Award and a Drama Desk Award nomination. She made her Broadway debut in the original cast of They’re Playing Our Song and appeared in Blues in the Night, Perfectly Frank (Drama Desk Award Nomination), Zorba, Ain’t Broadway Grand, Chicago and Les Misérables. She appeared in London in Jerry Herman’s Mack and Mabel. She was in New York City Encores! productions of The Boys From Syracuse, Tenderloin and Carnival and has performed her nightclub act worldwide. In Atlantic City, she had the honor to open for George Burns and Jay Leno. CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 June 2015 13

JUNE 18, 2015

ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Mendelssohn and Dvorˇák *Gergely Madaras, conductor *Eduardo Rios, violin Thursday, June 18, 2015 8:30pm

Miller Outdoor Theatre

Kodály Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (The Peacock) X Molto vivo— I Con brio— XI Andante expressivo— II XII Adagio— III Più mosso— XIII Tempo di marcia funebre— IV Poco calmato— XIV Andante, tempo rubato— V Appassionato— XV Allegro giocoso— VI Tempo (calmato)— XVI Maestoso— VII Vivo— Finale VIII Più vivo— IX

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Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, Opus 64 I Allegro molto appassionato—Presto— II Andante— III Allegretto non troppo—Allegro molto vivace

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Dvorˇák Symphony No. 8 in G major, Opus 88 I Allegro con brio II Adagio III Allegretto grazioso—Molto vivace IV Allegro, ma non troppo *Houston Symphony debut

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june 18 The Houston Symphony’s sound shell ceiling is made possible through the generosity of Beauchamp Foundation and The Fondren Foundation. The Houston Symphony’s Miller Outdoor Theatre concerts are supported in part by an endowed fund from The Brown Foundation, Inc. in memory of Stewart and Hanni Orton. Houston Public Media and the Houston Chronicle are the media sponsors of the Miller Outdoor Theatre series. Guarantor City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Underwriter ExxonMobil

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VARIATIONS ON A HUNGARIAN FOLK SONG (THE PEACOCK) Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) In a Tweet. Kodály seized the passionate heart of Hungary in his Peacock Variations, which explores the implications of a folksong of political protest. The Back Story. The best known of Kodály’s works, outside his native Hungary, are such shimmering displays of melody and orchestral color as the Dances of Galánta and Peacock Variations. Although he shared Bartók’s fascination with the metric complexity of Hungarian and Balkan folk music, Kodály developed a recognizable style that, even in strictly instrumental pieces, emphasizes the songlike contours of melodies and the influence of speech inflection on the shaping of phrases. Many of his works are infused with a sense of introspection. He wrote his Peacock Variations for the 50th anniversary of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, whose music director, Willem Mengelberg, was an ardent champion of Kodály’s music. The Instruments. 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2

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notes | Mendelssohn and Dvorˇ ák | june 18 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion, harp and strings What to Listen For. The folksong “Fly, Peacock, Fly” was collected only in 1935 in the form in which Kodály uses it in his Peacock Variations. The composer called it “a classic example of musical concision, from which everything superfluous has been excluded.” The text, about impoverished prisoners being set free by a dazzling peacock, resonated in 1930s Hungary, which was swept up in anti-fascist resistance. “Variation is the only form which leaves the folksong and its kernel untouched,” Kodály wrote, “which does not develop it any further, but rather reinforces it through all its variations. … Variation is the most natural development of folk music, for folk music itself is nothing but an endless series of melodies developing from each other and changing from one to the other in unnoticeable transitions.” In the course of the introduction, 16 variations and a finale, Kodály allows himself considerable freedom in adapting the melody. ©2015 James M. Keller

VIOLIN CONCERTO IN E MINOR, OPUS 64 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) In a Tweet. Comparing the finest violin concertos, the famous virtuoso Joseph Joachim wrote that “the most inward, the heart’s jewel, is Mendelssohn’s.” The Back Story. Mendelssohn first met violinist Ferdinand David, who would premiere this concerto, in 1825. The composer was a 16year-old prodigy, the violinist a year younger. Through a curious coincidence, they had been born in the very same house in Hamburg. In 1835, Mendelssohn settled in Leipzig to become conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and he promptly appointed David concertmaster. When Mendelssohn founded the Leipzig Conservatory, David was one of the first musicians appointed to the faculty. Shortly thereafter, in 1845, David played the premiere of Mendelssohn’s enduringly popular E minor Violin Concerto. Mendelssohn consulted closely with his soloist while composing it, mostly about technical issues, but also about more general concerns of structure and balance, and he took David’s suggestions to heart. They remained close friends until Mendelssohn’s passing in 1847; David was among the small group attending the composer’s deathbed. The Instruments. 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings What to Listen For. Mendelssohn grew fond of dovetailing the separate movements of his large-scale pieces, a device he used to great effect in the two piano concertos of his maturity and in several of his symphonies. He maintains that preference in this last of his orchestral works, such that the three movements connect into a single overarching span. Subtle mirroring of tonal architecture and fleeting reminiscences of earlier themes at key moments of transition help invest a sense of the organic and inevitable in this most Classical of the great Romantic violin concertos. In 1921, commentator Donald Francis Tovey cited these connecting passages as the most remarkable flashes of genius in the entire piece, but he complained that he had never actually heard them in concert as they were always drowned out by applause. ©2015 James M. Keller The printed music was to this work was donated by Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kaplan. 16

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SYMPHONY NO. 8 IN G MAJOR, OPUS 88 Antonín Dvorˇák (1841-1904) In a Tweet. The sunniest of Dvorˇák’s symphonies, the Eighth brims with birdsong and proceeds through a charming succession of Czech musical landscapes. The Back Story. A late bloomer among composers, Dvorˇák remained little played outside his native Bohemia until practically the middle of the 20th century. In the Czech lands, however, Dvorˇák had earned considerable respect by the time he got around to his Eighth Symphony, and in 1890, he dedicated it “for my installation as a member of the Czech Academy of the Emperor Franz Joseph for Sciences, Literature, and Arts.” When Dvorˇák finished this work, his publisher, Fritz Simrock, offered him only 1,000 marks, a third of the fee for his preceding symphony. Insulted, Dvorˇák had the piece published instead by the London firm of Novello—a flagrant breach of his contract with Simrock, although eventually they reconciled. You may still stumble across a dusty volume that refers to this symphony as the “English,” bizarrely inappropriate for a work so audibly drenched in what, thanks in large part to Dvorˇák, we hear as unmistakably Czech. The Instruments. 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo, 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani and strings What to Listen For. Compared to Dvorˇák’s somber Seventh Symphony (in D minor), the Eighth (in G major) is decidedly genial and upbeat. And yet, if we listen carefully, we may be surprised by how much minor-key music actually inhabits this major-key symphony, beginning with the richly scored, rather mournful introduction in G minor, added as an afterthought. But even here, joyful premonitions intrude, thanks to the birdcall of the solo flute. This develops into the ebullient principal theme of the movement; and yet, the mournful music of the introduction keeps returning as the movement progresses. ©2015 James M. Keller Portions of these notes appeared in an earlier form in the programs of the New York Philharmonic and are used with permission. The printed music to this work was donated by the Musicians of the Houston Symphony.

Biographies GERGELY MADARAS, conductor Gergely Madaras is music director of the Dijon Orchestra in Burgundy and chief conductor of the Savaria Symphony Orchestra. In addition to this debut with the Houston Symphony, others include the Munich Chamber Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Janácˇek Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academy of Ancient Music. Madaras is establishing a fine reputation as an opera conductor. In 2012, he was appointed the inaugural recipient of the Mackerras Fellowship at the English National Opera (ENO). During his twoyear appointment there, he worked on productions of The Barber of Seville, Benvenuto Cellini, The Pilgrim’s Progress, Rigoletto and

biographies | Mendelssohn and Dvorˇ ák | june 18 Wozzeck. In 2013, he was invited by ENO to conduct Simon McBurney’s new production of The Magic Flute. Madaras held the coveted Junior Fellowship in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, has been a conducting fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center (2009 Seiji Ozawa Fellowship) and the American Academy of Conducting at Aspen. In 2011, he was a finalist at the 52nd Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors, won the ARTE Live Web prize and received the Junior Prima Prize, Hungary’s most prestigious award given to outstanding young artists. Born in 1984 in Budapest, Gergely Madaras began his musical education studying the flute, violin and composition. He holds master’s degrees in conducting from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and in flute from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.

EDUARDO RIOS, violin Senior Division First Place Laureate of the 2015 Annual Sphinx Competition, Eduardo Rios was born in Lima, Peru. The 19-year-old began playing the violin at age 10. He made his solo debut with Peru’s National Symphony Orchestra at age 14 and was invited to return. He first came to the United States at 15 under the auspices of the cultural exchange program, Traveling Notes. For the next several years, he continued his musical studies at Peru’s National Conservatory of Music and served as concertmaster of the National Youth Orchestra for four years. During this time, he attended the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Camp and participated in tours and festivals around the globe. Also with Traveling Notes, Rios traveled to Armenia where he performed alongside American and Armenian young musicians and participated in educational outreach. In 2013, he received a scholarship to the Aspen Music Festival and School and participated in Brazil’s Santa Catarina Music Festival. Later that year, he attended the New York String Orchestra Seminar and performed at Carnegie Hall. Rios is currently a Bachelor of Music candidate at the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles where he studies with Robert Lipsett. He is concertmaster of the American Youth Symphony and co-concertmaster of the Colburn Orchestra. The committed chamber musician is first violinist of the Alma String Quartet, which attended the 2014 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival as the student fellowship quartet.

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Gershwin’s Piano Concerto *Teddy Abrams, conductor *Charlie Albright, piano Saturday, June 20, 2015 8:30pm

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Abrams Kentucky Royal Fanfare

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Gershwin Piano Concerto in F I Allegro II Adagio—Andante con moto III Allegro agitato I

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Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Opus 45 I Non allegro II Andante con moto (Tempo di valse) III Lento assai—Allegro vivace

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Gershwin’s Piano Concerto | june 20 KENTUCKY ROYAL FANFARE Teddy Abrams In a Tweet. In Kentucky Royal Fanfare, Teddy Abrams celebrated British Royals visiting Louisville by fusing military splendor with American populism. The Back Story. During a whirlwind March 2015 American tour, the British royals Charles, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, visited Louisville, to check out that city’s emphasis on environmental sustainability and attend a “Harmony and Health” summit that drew participants from around the world. Their stop was invigorated by this fanfare, written for the occasion by Teddy Abrams. He had recently assumed the music directorship of the Louisville Symphony, whose members he conducted in the premiere performance. The Instruments. 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani and percussion

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What to Listen For. When invited to conduct a piece for Louisville’s royal visitors, Abrams at first thought of leading Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man. “But,” he says, “it would be just too ironic to play a piece for the ‘common man’ when it was in fact being played for the Prince of Wales. Instead, I built on Copland’s idea for his piece, which was that there is a true nobility, a kind of royalty, in everyone regardless of their background.” He used essentially the same instrumentation Copland’s Fanfare had, though expanding the percussion section and having the first trumpeter play a high-pitched piccolo trumpet, which fit more comfortably in the range Abrams envisioned. “A fanfare tends to be an ‘occasional’ piece by nature,” he says, “but I thought I could craft its content to represent us. Listeners will hear a fusion of big band and funk, the whole thing being colored by a military band sound that is classic in fanfares.” ©2015 James M. Keller

PIANO CONCERTO IN F George Gershwin (1898-1937) In a Tweet. Intent to show that Rhapsody in Blue was not a one-off trick, Gershwin scored a further classical success in his full-scale piano concerto. The Back Story. Among the musicians in the audience at the fabled 1924 premiere of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was conductor Walter Damrosch, who directed the New York Symphony Orchestra from 1885 until its merger with the New York Philharmonic in 1928. He immediately commissioned a concerto for his orchestra. Obligations on Broadway prevented Gershwin from buckling down on the project until 1925. That November, nervous about his skill as an orchestrator, he hired a 60-piece freelance orchestra for a run-through, after which Damrosch offered well-chosen advice that led the composer to tighten the piece considerably. “Many persons had thought that the Rhapsody was only a happy accident,” Gershwin remarked later. “Well, I went out, for one thing, to show them that there was plenty more where that had come from. The Rhapsody, as its title implies, was a blues impression. The concerto would be unrelated to any program. And that is exactly how I wrote it.” The Instruments. 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings

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What to Listen For. Gershwin provided a description of his new Concerto for the New York Herald Tribune to print prior to its premiere. “The first movement,” he stated, “employs the Charleston rhythm. It is quick and pulsating, representing the young enthusiastic spirit of American life. It begins with a rhythmic motif given out by the kettledrums, supported by other percussion instruments, and with a Charleston motif introduced by…horns, clarinets and violas. The principal theme is announced by the bassoon. Later, a second theme is introduced by the piano.” © 2015 James M. Keller The scores to this work were donated by Mr. & Mrs. M. H. Schimmel. June 2015 19

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Francisco Symphony, where he conducted the orchestra’s summer classical series. From 2008 to 2011, Abrams was the conducting fellow and assistant conductor of the New World Symphony and conducted many performances, including subscription concerts and numerous full and chamber orchestra events. An accomplished pianist and clarinetist, Abrams has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras—including playing and conducting the Ravel Piano Concerto with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in Fall 2013—and has performed chamber music with the St. Petersburg String Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Time for Three and John Adams, in addition to annual appearances at the Olympic Music Festival.

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) In a Tweet. The last work in Rachmaninoff’s splendid career as composer and pianist, Symphonic Dances is a feast of lush textures and sweeping melodies. The Back Story. Sergei Rachmaninoff initially planned to name the piece Fantastic Dances, which would have underscored their vibrant personality. He also pondered titling the three movements “Noon,” “Twilight” and “Midnight”—or, as his biographer Victor Seroff recounted, “Morning,” “Noon” and “Evening,” meant as a metaphor for the three stages of life. The composer scrapped those ideas in favor of the more objective name Symphonic Dances. The spirit of the dance does indeed inhabit this work, if in a sometimes mysterious or mournful way. As Rachmaninoff was completing the piece, he played it privately for his old friend Michel Fokine, the one-time choreographer of the Ballets Russes, who immediately signaled his interest in using it for a ballet; regrettably, Fokine died in 1942 before he could make good on his intention. The Instruments. 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano and strings

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Biographies TEDDY ABRAMS, conductor Music director of the Louisville Orchestra and the Britt Classical Festival, Teddy Abrams is a widely acclaimed conductor, as well as an established pianist, clarinetist and composer. He also serves as resident conductor of the MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest, which he first conducted in 2011. He recently concluded his appointment as assistant conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Active as a guest conductor, the 2014-15 season included debuts with the Louisiana and New Mexico Philharmonic orchestras and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, as well as returns to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and New World Symphony on subscription with Joshua Bell as soloist. Other recent performances include a debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and returns to The Florida and the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras and the San 20

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What to Listen For. The saxophone, though not a standard member of the symphony orchestra, had occasionally been used during the 19th and early-20th centuries as an “extra” instrument to inject special color. Writing for saxophone was a new experience for Rachmaninoff, so he turned to an expert, the composer-arranger Robert Russell Bennett, remembered today as the orchestrator for such Broadway hits as Show Boat, Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. The instrument appears only in the first movement, for one fleeting but sensuous passage of three spacious phrases. ©2015 James M. Keller. Portions of these notes appeared in an earlier form in the programs of the New York Philharmonic and are used with permission.

CHARLIE ALBRIGHT, piano Official Steinway Artist, 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant Recipient, 2010 Gilmore Young Artist and 2009 Young Concert Artist, Charlie Albright is a critically acclaimed pianist. Having performed duets and chamber music on multiple occasions with such artists as cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project, Albright has performed or competed across the United States, France, Australia, Norway and Portugal. Albright is the first prize winner of the the 2006 Eastman International, 2006 New York International and 2005 IIYM International Piano Competitions. He has won awards at the 2007 Hilton Head International, 2008 Sydney International, 2009 Top of the World International Piano Competitions and the 2009 Vendome Prize Competition. He was recently named the Harvard University Leverett House Artist-inResidence for 2012. He received Harvard’s 2011 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts and Germany’s 2014 Ruhr Klavier-Festival Young Artist Scholarship Award, including a debut concert in the 2014 Ruhr Festival. Albright completed his associate of science degree at Centralia College during high school and is the first classical pianist in the Harvard/New England Conservatory B.A./M.M. five-year joint program, where he received his B.A. in economics at Harvard as a premedical student and a masters of music in piano performance in 2012. He graduated with the prestigious artist diploma from The Juilliard School. He is under management with Bill Capone of Arts Management Group. VisitCharlieAlbright.com.

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East Meets West Robert Franz, conductor Changlu Wu, pipa Friday, June 26, 2015 8:30pm

Liu Tieshan-Mao Yuan Dance of the Yao People

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Griffes The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, Opus 8

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Smetana Vltava (The Moldau) from Má vlast (My Fatherland) I

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Han Lan Kui Qilian Rhapsody for Pipa and Orchestra

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Debussy La mer ca. 23 I De l’aube à midi sur la mer: Très lent II Jeux des vagues: Allegro III Dialogue du vent et de la mer: Animé et tumultueux

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notes | east meets west | june 26 Dance of the Yao People Liu Tieshan / Mao Yuan (b.1926) In a Tweet. A collaborative composition from 1952, Dance of the Yao People is really a suite of dances that draws on authentic Chinese folk melodies. The Back Story. Collecting and arranging folk music of ethnic minorities was long deemed an important enterprise in the People’s Republic of China. During the 1950s and ’60s, numerous Chinese song and dance anthologies were produced collaboratively by regional arts collectives and cultural authorities from Beijing. The Han composer Liu Tieshan was sent to collect minority folk pieces in southwest China and then transform them into songs in praise of Communist Party leaders. Mao Yuan, born in Jinan in 1926, was an important figure among Chinese composers who emerged during the Second Wave of modern Chinese composition, which ended when the Cultural Revolution was established. In 1952, the two jointly composed Dance of the Yao People. The Instruments. 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings Guarantor City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Underwriter ExxonMobil Appearances by Robert Franz are sponsored by Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge. The Houston Symphony’s sound shell ceiling is made possible through the generosity of Beauchamp Foundation and The Fondren Foundation. The Houston Symphony’s Miller Outdoor Theatre concerts are supported in part by an endowed fund from The Brown Foundation, Inc. in memory of Stewart and Hanni Orton. Houston Public Media and the Houston Chronicle are the media sponsors of the Miller Outdoor Theatre series.

What to Listen For. The Dance of the Yao Peole (Yaozu wuqu) celebrates a minority consisting of some two and a half million people in southern and southwestern China. It was originally composed for Western instruments, but was inspired by a long-drum dance. The drum, wide at the ends and narrow at the waist, was traditionally associated with King Pangu, forefather of the Yao People. One can imagine the pizzicato strings of the opening suggesting light drum strokes introducing the elegant, melancholy melody. ©2015 James M. Keller

THE PLEASURE DOME OF KUBLA KHAN, OPUS 8 Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884-1920) In a Tweet. Compared to Smetana’s sunny The Moldau, Griffes’ The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan depicts the more mysterious river described in Coleridge’s poem. The Back Story. “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree” So begins the excerpt of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s beloved poem that Charles Tomlinson Griffes printed at the top of his tone poem. Griffes studied in Berlin before spending his career teaching at a boarding school in Tarrytown, New York. His style owed something to then-modern music of Germany, France and Russia, but he fused those strands into a distinct voice marked by concise, detailed evocativeness. The Instruments. 3 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes and English horn, 2 clarinets and bass clarinet, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps, piano, celesta and strings What to Listen For. Following its dark-hued opening (sketched by solemn tones of trombones and tuba against quiet piano chords), Coleridge’s poem follows the river Alph as it flows through sunnier climes, passing through “gardens bright with sinuous rills,” “sunny spots of greenery” and “caves of ice.” “As to argument,” wrote the composer, “I have given my imagination free rein in the description of this strange palace as well as of the purely imaginary revelry which might take place there.” In a couple of places, solo oboe pronounces exotic, modal melodies. ©2015 James M. Keller The printed music to this work was donated by Mrs. Lila-Gene George.

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VLTAVA (THE MOLDAU) FROM MÁ VLAST (MY FATHERLAND) Bedrˇich Smetana (1824-84) Symphony in a Tweet. Smetana’s tone poem The Moldau precisely evokes the sounds of Bohemia’s iconic river, even though he was entirely deaf when he composed it.

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notes | east meets west | june 26 The Back Story. Bedrˇich Smetana, an essential figure of Czech nationalism, grew deaf in 1874 over the course of a few months. Claiming that he appreciated the silence, he immediately plunged into composing My Fatherland, a cycle of six symphonic poems describing Czech landmarks and historical incidents. The second of the six would become the most acclaimed: The Moldau, which depicts the Bohemian river that flows north through Prague on its way to join the Elbe, and then the North Sea.

The Back Story. Claude Debussy was ensconced inland, in Burgundy, when he began composing the three “sea pictures” that would make up La Mer, although before he was finished he also took his project along during a stay overlooking the English Channel, where “the sea unfurls itself with an utterly British correctness.” He also was inspired by the much-reproduced Hokusai woodblock print “The Hollow of the Wave off Kanagawa,” widely known as simply “The Wave.”

The Instruments. 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion, harp and strings

The Instruments. 2 flutes and piccolo, 2 oboes and English horn, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons and contrabassoon, 4 horns, 5 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, 2 harps and strings

What to Listen For. In Smetana’s tone poem, we witness the incipient gurgling of the streams from which the Moldau emerges and its flow through various Czech landscapes until it becomes an impressive river as it passes through Prague. Headings within the score clarify every stage of this musical travelogue: “The two sources of the Moldau,” “Forest hunt,” “Peasant wedding,” “Moonlight: Nymph’s Dance,” “St. John’s Rapids,” “The Moldau in its greatest breadth” and “Vyšehrad motif.” The final section revisits a motif Smetana had used in the cycle’s opening tone poem, titled Vyšehrad. ©2015 James M. Keller

What to Listen For. After a performance of “From Dawn till Noon on the Sea,” composer Erik Satie exclaimed to Debussy, “Ah, my dear friend, there’s one particular moment that I found stunning, between half past ten and a quarter to eleven!” Those of us who are not quite so witty may settle for simply admiring how that whole movement develops almost in toto from the ascending short-long motif the cellos play at the outset, which is then echoed by solo oboe, solo clarinet and the whole bassoon section. ©2015 James M. Keller. Portions of these notes appeared in an earlier form in the programs of the New York Philharmonic and are used with permission.

QILIAN RHAPSODY FOR PIPA AND ORCHESTRA

The printed music to this work was donated by Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Griswold.

Han Lan Kui (b. 1959) In a Tweet. The pipa, a Chinese lute, is featured in music inspired by the spiritual life and vivid traditions of the Qilian people of southern China. The Back Story. Han Lan Kui is associate director and composition professor of the Xi’an Conservatory in the central province of Shaanxi, where he also heads the creative committee of the Shaanxi Musicians Association. The Qilian Rhapsody, a concerto for pipa with an orchestra of Western instruments, is inspired by a region of mountains in southern China. The score describes the work as portraying the spiritual world of the Qilian people, including their cheerful confidence, their celebration of love and the vivid color of traditional Qilian life. The Instruments. solo pipa, 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion, harp and strings What to Listen For. The pipa is a four-stringed plucked instrument, a kind of lute, with a pear-shaped body and frets. Its ancestry reaches back about 2,000 years and may have descended from instruments of India or Central Asia. Its name presumably describes the two directions of plucking the strings, “pi” meaning to strike outward with the right hand, “pa” meaning to strike inward toward the palm. ©2015 James M. Keller

LA MER Claude Debussy (1862-1918) In a Tweet. Billowing waves, sea spray whipped by wind, sun glimmering on the horizon or blazing overhead: Debussy’s La Mer captures all this and more.

Biography CHANGLU WU, pipa Changlu Wu began pipa training at age 6 and entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music at 9. She won numerous awards during her training and represented China in many diplomatic occasions. She was seen in Isaac Stern’s film From Mao to Mozart, the Oscar’s best documentary in 1980. Upon earning a bachelor’s degree in 1990, she came to the U.S. to study piano at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. Her skills and knowledge in music of the West and East dazzle audiences as she expertly combines the best elements in each. In 2003, she was invited by President George Bush to play at the Bush Library at College Station for the China-U.S. Relations Conference. As a teacher, Wu instills in her students the value of hard work and the joy of giving. After graduating from the University of Houston, she established the Changlu Wu School of Music and also teaches pipa, zheng and piano at the Chinese Culture Center. Through the grace and beauty of her music, she demonstrates to her young students the dignity and splendor of the Chinese culture. She has been a member of the Young Audiences of Houston since 1996 and founded the North America Youth Chinese Orchestra in 2012. You can email her atchanglu@yahoo.com. June 2015 25

JUNE 27, 2015

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Elgar’s Enigma Variations *Anu Tali, conductor TBA, soloist—Silver medal winner, 2015 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition Saturday, June 27, 2015 8:30pm

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Shostakovich/ L. Atovmyan Suite from The Gadfly, Opus 97a 3 Folk Feast 8 Romance: Allegro moderato—Andante con moto 12 Finale: Allegro non troppo—Allegro vivace TBA Concerto TBA

Elgar Enigma Variations, Opus 36 Theme: Andante— Variation I (C.A.E.): L’istesso tempo Variation II (H.D.S.-P.): Allegro Variation III (R.B.T.): Allegretto Variation IV (W.M.B.): Allegro di molto Variation V (R.P.A.): Moderato— Variation VI (Ysobel): Andantino Variation VII (Troyte): Presto Variation VIII (W.N.): Allegretto— Variation IX (Nimrod): Adagio Variation X (Dorabella): Intermezzo: Allegretto Variation XI (G.R.S.): Allegro di molto Variation XII (B.G.N.): Andante— Variation XIII (* * *): Romanza: Moderato Variation XIV (E.D.U.): Finale: Allegro *Houston Symphony debut

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Elgar’s enigma variations | june 27 SUITE FROM THE GADFLY, OPUS 97A Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-75) In a Tweet. Among Shostakovich’s most ingratiating pieces are the film scores he penned, such as these movements from the 1955 swashbuckler The Gadfly.

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The Back Story. As a conservatory student, Shostakovich earned pocket cash by playing piano in cinemas, a task he did not like although he apparently acquitted himself expertly. He went on to write 37 film scores (some refashioned from music that had originated in other genres), beginning with The New Babylon (1928-29), the first Russian film for which a professional composer would pen an original score for a specific movie. The idea was that the theatre orchestras would play the score live, synchronized carefully to the onscreen action; but with the imminent development of “talkies,” practically all film scores became enshrined in recording studios. In 1955, Shostakovich provided music for the film The Gadfly, directed by Alexandr Fajntsimmer. It was based on an 1897 novel by the Anglo-Irish author Ethel Lilian Boole Voynich, the daughter of the mathematician George Boole (inventor of the “Boolean logic” dear to computer scientists) and the feminist philosopher Mary Everest. The Gadfly, a combination of historical novel and swashbuckling melodrama, was a tale of political revolutionaries in 1840s Italy. It scored international success, but Voynich had no idea how wildly popular it had become in Russian translation until 1955, when a Russian diplomat informed her of its classic status in his country. The American politician Adlai Stevenson arranged for her to collect much-deserved royalty payments when she visited Russia. Shostakovich’s approachable music for the film was so admired that it was arranged into a 12-movement orchestral suite by the Turkmen composer Levon Atovmyan. The Instruments. 2 flutes, piccolo, 3 oboes, 3 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano and strings What to Listen For. We hear the third, eighth and twelfth of the 12 movements Atovmyan included in his suite from Shostakovich’s score. The Romance, which accompanies a portrayal of the dashing young hero in the movie, proved especially popular, and some listeners may recognize it as the theme song from the BBC/PBS mini-series Reilly, Ace of Spies. The movement would show up again in the score to The Lady and the Hooligan, a ballet Atovmyan later arranged from various Shostakovich sources. Even in The Gadfly Suite, Atovmyan transformed the Romance somewhat from how Shostakovich had written that movement for use in the film. Whether he did so with Shostakovich’s input or approval remains unclear. ©2015 James M. Keller. Portions of these notes appeared in an earlier form in the programs of the New York Philharmonic and are used with permission.

ENIGMA VARIATIONS, OPUS 36 Edward Elgar (1857-1934) In a Tweet. The most popular of Elgar’s orchestral works, the Enigma Variations is made up of encoded portraits of, or tributes to, 14 of his friends. The Back Story. Edward Elgar was just claiming his position as England’s leading composer when, in 1899, he unveiled his Variations on an Original Theme (Opus 36), popularly known as the Enigma Variations. The program note explained that Elgar had crafted each of the variations to describe some friend or acquaintance, but that he would not reveal their identities. The connection of music to subject was suggested by initials attached to each section, but it was understood that these might not always be simplistic renderings of the initials of the names of the “portraits” but rather more complicated codes (perhaps alluding to a nickname, for example). And then the composer suggested that something deeper might be going on: “The enigma I will not explain—its ‘dark saying’ must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the CONTINUED ON PAGE 31 June 2015 27

JULY 4, 2015

ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights at Miller Outdoor Theatre

Star-Spangled Salute Steven Reineke, conductor Christopher Johnstone, vocalist The Honorable David H. Dewhurst III, guest conductor *Chester Pitts, narrator Saturday, July 4, 2015 8:30pm

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J. S. Smith/J. Kessler The Star-Spangled Banner Reineke Celebration Fanfare V. Morrison/S. Shoup Moondance

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M. Leigh/M. Naughtin The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha

lyrics by Joe Darion

Arr. Reineke Sousa Reineke N. Diamond/V. Vanacore

River Medley The National Game Casey at the Bat Sweet Caroline

lyrics by Neil Diamond

J. Williams Liberty Fanfare Rodgers/R. R. Bennett Overture to South Pacific Rodgers/D. Walker Younger Than Springtime from South Pacific

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B. Mann-C. Weil-J. Leiber- On Broadway M. Stoller/Reineke C.-M. Schönberg Bring Him Home from Les Misérables

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Arr. R. Hayman Service Medley Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture, Opus 49 *Houston Symphony debut

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biographies | Star-Spangled Salute | july 4

Biographies

CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTONE, vocalist

Steven Reineke’s boundless enthusiasm and exceptional artistry have made him one of the nation’s most sought-after pops conductors, composers and arrangers. In addition to being Principal Pops Conductor Designate of the Houston Symphony, he is music director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall and principal pops conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He previously held the posts of principal pops conductor of the Long Beach and Modesto Symphony Orchestras and associate conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Steven is a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on the podium with the Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia, among other leading orchestras. As the creator of more than 100 orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, his works have been performed worldwide and can be heard on numerous CPO recordings (Telarc). His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are frequently performed. His Sun Valley Festival Fanfare commemorated the Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s pavilion. This season, the National Symphony Orchestra will premiere his The True Story of The Three Little Pigs. A native of Ohio, Steven is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor of music degrees with honors in trumpet performance and music composition. He currently lives in New York City with his husband Eric Gabbard.

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STEVEN REINEKE, conductor

Christopher Johnstone is known on Broadway for his unparalleled vocal versatility. He is equally at home in contemporary and classic music theater, opera and classical music. He recently played the role of Magaldi on the first National Broadway Tour of Evita, which played at Houston’s Hobby Center last year. Johnstone trained as an actor and opera singer at the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, Tanglewood Music Center, The Glimmerglass Festival Young American Artist Program and The Oberlin in Italy Program. He was part of the seven-time, Tony Award-winning Lincoln Center production of South Pacific that toured the United States and Canada. Reprising the role of Lt. Cable at Ogunquit Playhouse landed him a Best Actor nomination for Broadway World Boston. His concerts span from Carnegie Hall to Capitol Hill. A guest soloist with some of the nation’s top orchestras, opera companies and dance groups, he was last heard with the Houston Symphony alongside Rachel York and Christiane Noll in 100 Years of Broadway. This summer, he plays the role of Enjolras in Les Misérables at the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theater. While the stage is his first love, Johnstone has also appeared on television, including: The Young and the Restless, All My Children, Watch What Happens Live and Personal Justice. He has modeled for clients such as Katy Perry, Ralph Lauren, DETAILS magazine, Chanel and Hart Schaffner Marx.

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contined from page 27 | Elgar’s enigma variations | june 27 apparent connection between the Variations and the Theme is often of the slightest texture; further, through and over the whole set another and larger theme ‘goes,’ but is not played— so the principal Theme never appears, even as in some late dramas—e.g. Maeterlinck’s L’Intruse and Les Sept Princesses—the chief character is never on the stage.” This made everyone terribly curious, and a flurry of hypothesizing ensued. Elgar fanned the flames of speculation by dropping elusive comments such as “the theme is so well known that it is extraordinary that no one has spotted it.” Part of Elgar’s enigma was solved quickly: the identities of the subjects portrayed leave not much room for doubt, ranging through a circle of acquaintances. Many believe that the larger enigma of these variations, the “dark saying” to which Elgar alluded, may be mere subterfuge—that the enigma cannot be guessed with certainty because no enigma exists.

Gravitte has sung with more than 100 orchestras, including this return with the Houston Symphony. A highlight was a special performance in Beijing with Lang Lang and the Chinese Philharmonic. She is featured on many recordings, including her three solo CDs: Defying Gravity, The Alan Menken Album and The MGM Album. Her films include Isn’t She Great and The Little Mermaid. Television appearances include Trial and Error (CBS), Pursuit of Happiness (NBC), numerous PBS specials (Broadway Plays Washington, Ira Gershwin’s 100th Birthday Live from Carnegie Hall and In Concert with the Boston Pops). She was featured in the Peter Martin’s ballet Thou Swell with the NYC Ballet.

The Instruments. 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, organ and strings What to Listen For. The most famous of Elgar’s variations is the ninth, a five-minute Adagio titled Nimrod. Nimrod was an Old Testament character whose name meant “Mighty Hunter Before God.” Elgar extended the hunter allusion to identify Augustus Jaeger, his closest musical confidant and an editor at the publishing firm that published Elgar’s works. Jaeger is the German word for “hunter.” Here the theme builds from deepest contemplation to overflowing emotion, yielding a movement whose gravity has made it a piece of choice for performance at solemn occasions. ©2015 James M. Keller. Portions of these notes appeared in an earlier form in the programs of the New York Philharmonic and are used with permission.

DOUG LABRECQUE, vocalist

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Biography ANU TALI, conductor

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Doug LaBrecque thrilled theatre audiences as The Phantom and Raoul in the Harold Prince production of The Phantom of the Opera. He has starred on Broadway as Ravenal in Showboat, a role he also performed in Canada and Chicago. He was featured in Oscar Hammerstein’s 100th Birthday Celebration on Broadway and toured nationally with Les Misérables. Regionally, he has performed leading roles in Candide, A Chorus Line and Man of LaMancha, among others. The University of Michigan graduate was also featured in the world premiere of A Wonderful Life and starred in the premiere revival of Love Life. A prolific concert performer, LaBrecque has been a soloist with some of the world’s finest symphony orchestras. In a tribute to Richard Rodgers, he recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist with the New York Pops, the same season he debuted with The Boston Pops. With Peter Nero, he was featured in Broadway Showstoppers a live recording with the Philly Pops. Diverse special engagements have included singing with Carole Bayer Sager at Feinsteins’ in Manhattan and appearing onstage with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch (singing together!) at Hickory Hill, the legendary home of Ethel Kennedy. International engagements have taken Doug LaBrecque from Korea to Shanghai, from Canada to Brazil. He recently appeared in Alba, Italy, as guest soloist in an all-Bernstein concert and returned to the International Music Festival in The Czech Republic.

Described by the Herald Tribune as “charismatic, brilliant, energetic,” Anu Tali is one of today’s most intriguing young conductors. In 2013, Tali became music director of Florida’s Sarasota Orchestra. Highlights of the current season include this debut with the Houston Symphony and others with the Manhattan School of Music Orchestra and the Finnish National Opera as well as re-engagements with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Bochum Symphony and Duisburg Philharmonic. She continues in her role as chief conductor of the Nordic Symphony Orchestra, which she founded in 1997 with her twin sister Kadri Tali, to unite musicians from around the world. The orchestra has members from 15 countries. Following a major success with a production of Carmen at Magdeburg Opera, she was invited to conduct the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra in a production of Gluck’s Telemaco at the Schwetzingen Festival and Theater Basel. She recently conducted acclaimed semistaged performances of Goebbels’ Songs of Wars I Have Seen on two continents. Her debut recording, Swan Flight, (Finlandia/Warner Classics) earned her the 2003 ECHO Klassik Young Artist of the Year Award. Her most recent CD, featuring Tüür’s Strata and Noe¯sis (ECM) met with significant critical acclaim. Born in Estonia, Anu Tali began her musical career as a pianist, graduating at the Tallinn Conservatory in 1991. She trained as a conductor at the Estonian Academy of Music and St. Petersburg State Conservatory. June 2015 31

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Concertmaster’s Society, $25,000 - $49,999 Dr. & Mrs. Devinder Bhatia Todd & JoAnna Brooks Mr. Ralph Burch Ms. Barbara Burger Drs. Dennis & Susan Carlyle Janet F. Clark Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Dr. Alex Dell Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III Gene & Linda Dewhurst Diane Lokey Farb Mr. & Mrs. Donald Faust Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Russell M. Frankel Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies

Mr. & Mrs. Melbern G. Glasscock Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Bert & Joan Golding Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Griswold Susan & Dick Hansen Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Ken Hyde The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Cornelia & Meredith Long Dr. & Mrs. Michael Mann Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan John & Bobbie Nau John & Cynthia Onstott Dave & Alie Pruner

Lisa & Jerry Simon Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan Jr. / Houston Baptist University Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Springob, Laredo Construction, Inc. Nancy & David Tai Stephen & Kristine Wallace Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Vicki West Steven & Nancy Williams Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. Anonymous

Conductor’s Circle, Platinum Baton $15,000 - $24,999 Rolaine & Morrie Abramson Graham & Janet Baker Mr. & Mrs. Ken Barrow Danielle & Josh Batchelor James Bell Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Justice Brett & Erin Busby Mr. & Mrs. James Chao Jane & Robert Cizik Mr. Richard Danforth Mrs. William Estrada Martin & Kelli Cohen Fein Angel & Craig Fox Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Franklin Jr. Janet Gurwitch & Ron Franklin Lila-Gene George Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman

Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Jay & Shirley Marks Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Mr. Keith McFarland Mr. & Mrs. Connelly T. McGreevy Stephen & Marilyn Miles Melissa & Michael Mithoff Mr. Stewart Morris Terence Murphree Susan & Edward Osterberg Gloria & Joe Pryzant Radoff Family Foundation Ken & Carol Lee Robertson Ann & Hugh Roff William J. Rovere & Kathi F. Rovere Donna & Tim Shen

The Julia & Albert Smith Foundation Ellie & Eric Smith Ms. Kelly Somoza James Stein / Independent Bank Mr. & Mrs. Charles Tate Paul Strand Thomas Ms. Hallie A. Vanderhider Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Mrs. Diana Wander 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

Conductor’s Circle, Gold Baton $10,000 - $14,999 Frances & Ira Anderson Lilly & Thurmon Andress Edward H. Andrews III Mr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Bohnert Mr. & Mrs. Giorgio Borlenghi Nancy & Walter Bratic Cheryl & Sam Byington John & Candace Caley Albert & Anne Chao Mr. & Mrs. Bert Cornelison 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 Ms. Susanna Dokupil 34

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Jennifer & Steve Dolman Archie & Linda Dunham Scott Ensell & Family John & Minerva Esquivel Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Mr. & Mrs. Marvy A. Finger Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Fusillo Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves Christina & Mark Hanson Mr. & Mrs. James E. Hooks Marianne & Robert Ivany, University of St. Thomas Beverly Johnson Dr. Rita Justice Janice & Allan King Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Michael & Kelley Lang Mr. & Mrs. James H. Lee

Carol & Michael Linn Marilyn Lummis Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Betty & Gene McDavid Martha & Marvin McMurrey Mr. & Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Mr. Gary Mercer Catherine Jane Merchant Mr. & Mrs. Walter M. Mischer Jr. Ginni & Richard Mithoff Nancy Morrison The Estate of C. Howard Pieper Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Ron & Demi Rand Lila Rauch Mr. & Mrs. T.R. Reckling III Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Rio Beth Robertson

Houston Symphony Donors Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Clive Runnells Susan D. & Fayez Sarofim Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scherr Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan Jr. / Houston Baptist University Mr. & Mrs. Tad Smith

Alana R. Spiwak & Sam L. Stolbun David & Paula Steakley Pamalah & Stephen Tipps Birgitt van Wijk Shirley & Joel Wahlberg Janet & Tom Walker Charlotte & Randolph Wands

David M. Wax & Elaine Arden Cali Dr. Jim T. Willerson Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Lorraine & Ed Wulfe Mr. & Mrs. Scott Wulfe Anonymous (2)

Conductor’s Circle, Silver Baton $7,500 - $9,999 Mr. William L. Ackerman, Kero-Jet Corporation Josie & Joe Amador Mrs. Bonnie Bauer Mr. & Mrs. David J. Beck Mr. & Dr. Karl-Heinz Becker Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Black III Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bookout III Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Ruth White Brodsky Terry Ann Brown Lilia Khakimova & C. Robert Bunch Dr. M.K. Campion David Chambers & Alex Steffler Audrey & Brandon Cochran Laurie & Ryan Colburn Mr. Andrew Davis & Ms. Corey Tu

J.R. & Aline Deming Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Viviana & David Denechaud Mr. Robert Durst S. David Frankfort & Erika Bermeo Ms. Darlene Clark & Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Evan B. Glick Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herzog Brian James Mr. & Mrs. Jacek Jaminski Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Leighton April & Tom Lykos Dr. & Mrs. Paul M. Mann Mr. & Mrs. David Massin

Bryan & Vickie McMicken Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Dr. Cameron Mitchell Rita & Paul Morico Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Bobbie Newman Scott & Judy Nyquist Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Parker Roman & Sally Reed Mr. Glen A. Rosenbaum Carol & Michael Stamatedes Mr. Stephen C. Tarry Shirley Toomim Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Truscott Mr. Art Vivar Daisy S. Wong / JCorp

Conductor’s Circle, Bronze Baton $5,000 - $7,499 Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Abraham Mrs. Nancy C. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Ben Andrews Nina Andrews & David Karohl Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron Anne Morgan Barrett Beth & Jim Barton Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Michelle H. Belco Peter & Minnette Boesel Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman 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 Mr. & Mrs. Donald Childress William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Mr. William E. Colburn Coneway Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Larry Corbin Lois & David Coyle Mr. & Mrs. Carr P. Dishroon Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius Dupre’ II Connie & Byron Dyer Mrs. Jane Egner Mr. Roger Eichhorn Mr. William Elbel & Ms. Mary J. Schroeder Mr. Stephen Elison Mr. Parrish N. Erwin Jr. Maestro Christoph Eschenbach Ms. Carolyn Faulk Mr. & Mrs. Tom Fitzpatrick Mr. & Mrs. Henry S. Florsheim Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fluor Eugene Fong Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Francisco Mr. Shane T. Frank Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gendel Michael B. George

Kathy & Martyn Goossen The Estate of Aileen Gordon Jennifer & Joshua Gravenor Dorothy & Bill Grieves Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Haas Kathleen & Dick Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Edd C. Hendee Marilyn & Bob Hermance Mr. Jackson Hicks Mr. Ronald Holley & Dr. Natasha Holley Mr. & Mrs. R.O. Hunton Maria & Matt Hurley Mrs. Ann B. Jennings Stephen Jeu & Susanna Calvo Mr. & Mrs. John F. Joity Debbie & Frank Jones Catherine & Andrew Kaldis 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. & Mrs. Stevens Mafrige Mr. & Mrs. Bruce March Mr. William McDugald Terry & Kandee McGill Mr. & Mrs. J. Douglas McMurrey Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William B. McNamara Mr. & Mrs. Harvin Moore IV Sidney & Ione Moran Sami & Jud Morrison Gerald & Barbara Moynier Richard & Juliet Moynihan Dr. Thomas D. Nichols David G. Nussman Rochelle & Sheldon Oster Michael & Shirley Pearson Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Dr. Gregory & Mrs. Catherine Powers

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

Tim & Katherine Pownell Jean & Allan Quiat Vicky & Michael Richker Mr. & Mrs. Claud D. Riddles Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Drs. Alex & Lynn Rosas Mr. Robert T. Sakowitz Mr. & Mrs. Manolo Sánchez Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Schissler Jr. June 2015 35

Houston Symphony Donors Young Associates Council Young Associate, Premium $2,500 or more James M. Bell David Chambers & Alex Steffler Audrey & Brandon Cochran Valerie Palmquist Dieterich & Tracy Dieterich Jennifer & Steve Dolman Katie Flaherty Jennifer & Joshua Gravenor Sami & Jud Morrison Juliet Moths - Louis Vuitton Melissa L. Nance Toni Oplt & Ed Schneider Emily Paull - Louis Vuitton Alexander Robart Christopher Robart & Katelyn Bracksieck Ahmed Saleh Seth Williams Young Associate $1,500 - $2,499 Lindley & Jason Arnoldy Ann & Jonathan Ayre Cristina & Tanner Bailey William & Laura Black Ting & John Bresnahan Divya & Chris Brown Pamela Brylski Jeff Caley 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 Danna & Rauli Garcia Rebecca Gentry Michael A. Gonser Alexandra & Daniel Gottschalk Claudio J. Gutierrez Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Kathleen & James Jennings - BeautyNow Kurt Johnson & Colleen Matheu Jessica Q. Johnston Mackenzie Kemp Gerrit Leeftink Catherine & Matt Matthews Georgia Braun McBride Kristen & Steve McDaniel Cara & Tanner Moran Amanda & Justin Morton Brooke & Nathaniel Richards Amanda Russell & Matt Calhoun Paulina Sergot & Theo Shybut Justin & Caroline Simons Steve & Judy Sohn Mark Stadnyk Norton Rose Fulbright 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 Agnieszka Rakhmatullaev, Development Officer, (713) 337-8522.

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 Dr. John R. Stroehlein & Miwa Sakashita Mr. & Mrs. Hans Strohmer Mr. & Mrs. Antonio M. Szabo Mr. Jim Teague & Ms. Jane DiPaolo Ms. Maria Cecilia Vasconcellos Sue Trammell Whitfield Ms. Barbara Williams Ms. Jennifer R. Wittman Woodell Family Foundation Sally & Denney Wright Robert & Michele Yekovich Edith & Robert Zinn Erla & Harry Zuber Anonymous (5)

Grand Patron’s Circle $2,500 - $4,999 Gerhard & Birgit Adenacker Mr. & Mrs. Roy Allice John & Pat Anderson

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Dr. Angela R. Apollo Mr. & Mrs. John S. Arnoldy John Arnsparger & Susan Weingarten Mrs. John Bace Benchmark Engineering, Inc. Drs. Henry & Louise Bethea Mrs. Pat Biddle & Mr. Ron Kahl Dr. Joan Hacken Bitar Mrs. Ann M. Bixby Mr. & Mrs. John Blaisdell Mr. & Mrs. Murry Bowden James & Judy Bozeman Ting & John Bresnahan Mrs. Catherine Campbell Brock & Dr. Gary Brock Divya & Chris Brown Hon. Peter H. Brown Pamela Brylski Nicole & Rueben Casarez Dr. Robert N. Chanon Mr. & Mrs. Allen Clamen Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Cleary Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Gary M. Coleman Dr. & Mrs. Evan D. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Byron Cooley Mike Cox Mr. & Mrs. Joffre J. Cross II Mr. & Mrs. James W. Crownover Mr. & Mrs. John Crum Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Cullen Mr. & Mrs. Mark P. Day Ms. Niki DeMaio Mandy & Rafael Diaz Mr. & Mrs. Mark Diehl Amanda & Adam Dinitz Mr. & Mrs. Jack N. Doherty Mr. & Mrs. Michael Doherty

David & Carolyn Edgar Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank Mr. & Mrs. Mike Ezzell Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan B. Fairbanks Christine Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Kimberly Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Fant Mr. & Mrs. Nijad I. Fares Mary Ann & Larry Faulkner Carolyn Grant Fay Ms. Ursula H. Felmet Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ference Jerry E. & Nanette B. Finger Katie Flaherty Courtney Fretz Rauli & Danna Garcia Ms. Lucy Gebhart Thomas & Patricia Geddy Robert Lee Gomez Mr. & Mrs. Herbert I. Goodman Maestro Hans Graf & Mrs. Graf Dr. & Mrs. Carlos R. Hamilton Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Eric J. Haufrect Ms. Michele Hebl Ms. Christine Heggeseth Mark & Ragna Henrichs Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Hevrdejs Miss Maureen Y. Higdon Ann & Joe Hightower Mr. & Mrs. Scott Hildebrandt Dr. Volker Hirsinger Mr. & Mrs. Rocky Holmes Mr. & Mrs. John Hrncir Mark & Marilyn Hughes Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Jankovic Kathleen & James Jennings / BeautyNow Jessica Q. Johnston Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Keeton Mr. & Mrs. Jason T. Klein Mr. & Mrs. Chris Laporte Mr. Edward T. Lee Mr. & Mrs. H. Arthur Littell Mr. & Mrs. Carlos J. López Kimberly Lucas Mr. & Mrs. Bob Lunn Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mattix Mr. Derek Maxwell Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGuire Will L. McLendon Mr. Russell J. Miller & Mrs. Charlotte M. Meyer Julia & Chris Morton Juliet Moths, Louis Vuitton Melissa L. Nance Newman/Strug/Wadler families in honor of Ida & Irving Wadler Bree & Travis Nichols Mr. & Mrs. Ralph S. O’Connor Mr. & Mrs. Patrick W. Olfers Toni Oplt & Ed Schneider Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth F. Owen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pacini Emily Paull, Louis Vuitton Mr. & Mrs. James D. Penny Mr. & Mrs. Stephen D. Pryor Darla & Chip Purchase Mr. & Mrs. Cris Pye Allyn & Jill Risley Alexander Robart Katelyn Bracksieck & Christopher Robart Mr. & Mrs. James L. Robertson Ms. Regina J. Rogers Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Ruez Yasuhiko & Akemi Saitoh Ahmed Saleh Dr. & Mrs. Barry Samuels Lori & Phillip Sarofim Paulina Sergot & Theo Shybut Hinda Simon Barbara & Louis Sklar Mr. & Mrs. Alan L. Smith Mr. Brinton Averil Smith & Ms. Evelyn Chen

Mr. & Mrs. Richard Spies Mark Stadnyk, Norton Rose Fulbright Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Standish Georgiana Stanley Ishwaria & Vivek Subbiah Susman Family Foundation/ Ellen & Steve Susman Mrs. Mary Swafford Ms. Carolyn Tanner Dr. & Mrs. Van W. Teeters Candace & Brian Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Thurmond Mr. & Mrs. William Toomey II Ann G. Trammell Mr. & Mrs. Tyson Voelkel Dean B. Walker Mr. Danny Ward & Ms. Nancy Ames Mr. & Mrs. James L. Ware General & Mrs. Jasper Welch Ms. Joann E. Welton Mr. & Mrs. Clint Wetmore Dr. David A. White Dr. Robert Wilkins & Dr. Mary Ann Reynolds Wilkins Mr. Jim P. Wise Ms. Beth Wolff Ms. Ellen A. Yarrell Mr. & Mrs. Dan Yates Mr. & Mrs. Frank Yonish Anonymous (3)

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$1,000 - $2,499

Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Mrs. Suzon Adam Ms. Sofia Adrogue & Mr. Sten Gustafson Joan & Stanford Alexander Marcia & Ed Ambs Dr. Hesham M. Amin & Dr. Lara Ferrario Mr. & Mrs. William L. Anderson Jr. Mr. William J. Anderson Ms. Anna Arispe & Mr. John Reger Lindley & Jason Arnoldy Mr. & Mrs. Sandy P. Aron Dr. & Mrs. Roy Aruffo Paul H. & Maida M. Asofsky Mr. Jeff Autor Ms. Mary S. Axelrad Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Axelrod Ann & Jonathan Ayre Dr. & Mrs. Jamil Azzam Cristina & Tanner Bailey Ms. Regina Balderas Mr. & Mrs. David M. Balderston Trace Trahan Bannerman Mr. & Mrs. Bill Barnett Mr. & Mrs. E. William Barnett Mr. & Mrs. J. Kirby Barry II Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Basinski Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Bast Jr. Ms. Margaret Basu Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Beaudet Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd M. Bentsen III Eldo Bergman/Family Literacy Network Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Berteaud Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bickel Ms. Nancy H. Bihlmaier Mr. & Mrs. Chris Birdsall Jeb & Cynthia Blackwell Mr. Jay Blinderman Mr. & Mrs. George Boerger Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bolam Meg Boulware & Hartley Hampton / Boulware & Valoir Mr. & Mrs. Peter Bowden Bob Frank Boydston Mrs. Linda K. Brahaney Mr. & Mrs. A.J. Brass Margaret & Brian Bravo Joe Brazzatti Katherine M. Briggs Mr. Chester Brooke & Dr. Nancy Poindexter Mr. & Mrs. Steven Brosvik

Houston Symphony Donors Dr. & Mrs. Fred Buckwold Mrs. Anne H. Bushman Ms. Vicki P. Buxton Mr. & Mrs. Raul Caffesse Dr. Maria Calcina Mr. Jeff Caley Mrs. Charles Callery Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Campbell Louise Carlson & Richard Larrabee Mrs. Mary Ann Carrico Margot & John Cater Mrs. Ann Cavanaugh Honorable Theresa Chang & Dr. Peter Chang Mr. & Mrs. Kent Chenevert Dr. & Mrs. Gary Clark Virginia A. Clark Mr. Robert L. Clarke Dr. & Mrs. Alfred C. Coats Mr. & Mrs. Ernest D. Cockrell II Jim R. & Lynn Coe Dr. & Mrs. Martin Cohen Ms. Ellen T. Cokinos Donna M. Collins Mr. Mark C. Conrad Mr. & Mrs. Ray Cook Ms. Miquel A. Correll James D. Cox & Ritsuko Komaki-Cox 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 Katie & Harry Cullen Mr. & Mrs. James D. Dannenbaum Mr. Blakke Davis Mr. & Mrs. Paul Davis Mr. & Mrs. Antoine de Gramont Caroline Deetjen Mr. & Mrs. Rene Degreve Brian & Leah Del Signore Dr. & Ms. Peter Dempsey James R. Denton Dr. Ronald DePinho & Dr. Lynda Chin Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Deschner Ms. Aurelie Desmarais & Mr. Ed Struzynski Mr. & Mrs. Ralph DeVore Bruce B. Dice Ms. Cynthia Diller Mike & Debra Dishberger Charles Dishman Mr. Michael Dooley Mr. & Mrs. James P. Dorn Robert J. Doyle Dr. Burdett S. & Mrs. Kathleen C.E. Dunbar Mrs. Dan L. Duncan Patricia & Larry Dundee Mrs. Deborah Dunkum Egon & Elisa Durban Drs. Rosalind & Gary Dworkin Mrs. William H. Dwyer III Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Earle Mrs. Fredell Lack Eichhorn Mr. Michael Eichhorn Mr. & Mrs. Jack Ellis Hon. & Mrs. John D. Ellis Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Elsenbrook Evin Ashley Erdowdu Annette & Knut Eriksen Jenny & Wendell Erwin, M.D. Terry Everett & Eric Cheyney Paula & Louis Faillace Mrs. Fran Fawcett Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Tilman J. Fertitta Mrs. Ronald Fischer Mr. Dale Fitz Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Fleisher Dean & Michelle Foss Joyce & David Fox Elizabeth & Ralph Frankowski Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Frautschi Mr. Colin Gatwood & Ms. Aralee Dorough Mr. & Mrs. Neil Gaynor Mr. & Mrs. John Gee

Mr. & Mrs. Joe Genitempo Mrs. Rosanne Hudson & Mr. Jim Gensheimer Rebecca Gentry Mr. & Dr. David K. Gibbs Joan M. Giese Walter Gilmore Drs. Nancy Glass & John Belmont Mr. Morris Glesby Mrs. Barbara Goedecke L. Rusty Goetz Helen B. Wils & Leonard Goldstein Dr. John Gomez & Dr. Cora Mihu Michael A. Gonser Dr. & Mrs. Bradford S. Goodwin Jr. Ms. Shelley Gorson Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Gossett Alexandra & Daniel Gottschalk Mr. & Mrs. Tim Graham Kendall & Pauline Gray Joyce Z. Greenberg Mrs. Adriana Greene Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Gregory Dennis Griffith & Louise Richman Mr. & Mrs. Steve K. Grimsley Melinda & Doug Groves Mr. & Mrs. Jay Guerrero Claudio Gutierrez Eric & Angelea Halen Mrs. Thalia Halen Mr. & Mrs. Don H. Haley Ms. Liz Hampton Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hanson Dr. & Mrs. William S. Harwell Mr. & Mrs. Roy Haun Mr. & Mrs. John Havens Mr. & Mrs. Houston Haymon Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Heard Jr. Mr. John Heghinian & Ms. Isabelle Bedrosian John Heiny Mr. & Mrs. William T. Heller IV Mr. & Mrs. David J. Hemenway Mr. & Mrs. Matt Hennessy Mr. & Mrs. Donald Herron Jeannette & Brodrick Hill Dr. Suzanne M. Hite Mr. Robert Hoff Mr. Stanley Hoffberger Mr. Tim Hogan Mr. & Mrs. John Homier Dr. Matthew Horsfield & Dr. Michael Kauth Mr. John Horstman Mr. & Mrs. George Hricik Mr. Frank Huang Mr. & Mrs. Robert Humphries Jay Jackson & Barbara Waugh Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Janicke Arlene J. Johnson Mr. Eric S. Johnson & Dr. Ronada Davis Kurt Johnson & Colleen Matheu Mr. Robert E. Johnson & Ms. Ariella Perlman Mr. & Mrs. Steve Johnson Ms. Sheila K. Johnstone Ms. Alisha Jones Mr. & Mrs. Carl Jones Mr. & Mrs. Steve Jones Mr. & Mrs. Thorro Jones Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Jordon Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kades Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Katz Ms. Carolyn C. Keeble Lynda & Frank Kelly Louise & Sherwin Kershman Yvette & David Key Nora J. Klein, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. J.C. Kneale Jimmy & Kaelyn Koch Lucy & Victor Kormeier Deborah Kosich Ann & Sam Koster Jane & Kevin Kremer Mr. Marc E. Laborde Mrs. Deanna Lamoreux Mr. William H. Lane Jr. Mr. Richard Lang Ms. Joni Hartgraves Latimer

Mr. David Leebron & Mrs. Y. Ping Sun Dr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Lehane Ms. Joyce Lehrfeld Dr. & Mrs. Morton Leonard Jr. Golda Anne & Bob Leonard Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leonard Seth & Karen Lerner Velva G. & H. Fred Levine Ms. Cindy Levit Mr. & Mrs. Bob Licato Mr. William W. Lindley James C. Lindsey Mr. Jeff Lippold Priscilla L. List Dr. & Mrs. James R. Lloyd Dr. & Mrs. Kelly B. Lobley Renee & Michael Locklar Ms. Sylvia Lohkamp Robert & Gayle Longmire Mr. Paul F. Longstreth & Ms. Marilyn Maloney Mr. & Mrs. Alberto Lozano Kelly & Steve Lubanko Ms. Sue Ann Lurcott Mr. & Mrs. Frederic V. Malek Ms. Barbara Manering Mr. Michael Mankins Stephanie & Frank Marx Mr. & Mrs. Mark Matovich Catherine & Matt Matthews Mr. William L. Maynard Georgia Braun McBride Dr. William McCallum Linda & Jim McCartney Laurence McCullough & Linda Jean Quintanilla Kristen & Steve McDaniel Dr. A. McDermott & Dr. A. Glasser Ms. Judi A. McGee Mr. & Mrs. Martin McIntyre Mr. & Mrs. Lance McKnight Dr. & Mrs. Jack G. McNeill Dr. & Mrs. G. Walter McReynolds Ernie & Martha McWilliams Dr. Gabriel E. Mena Ms. Susan D. Menke Mr. & Mrs. Prasad Menon Mr. Ronald A. Mikita & Mr. Rex Spikes Ellen Ochoa & Coe F. Miles Mr. & Mrs. Arnold M. Miller C. Wayne & Patricia J. Miller Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Mireles Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. R. S. Moen Mr. & Mrs. John C. Molloy Mr. & Mrs. David M. Monk Mr. & Mrs. James Moore Cara & Tanner Moran Mr. & Mrs. William Morgan Sue A. Morrison Amanda & Justin Morton Mr. & Mrs. Keith Mosing Mr. William R. Mowlam Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Mueller Mr. & Mrs. Paul B. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Richard Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Joe Murray Daniel & Karol Musher Musicians of the Houston Symphony The Hon. Stella G. & Richard C. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. William J. Napier Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mo & Heli Nashef Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey B. Newton Ms. Sheila Neylon Ms. Dorothy Nicholson Mr. Stephen Nicol Leslie & John Niemand Mr. & Mrs. Lipscomb Norvell OCTG, LLP Marie-Theres F. Odermatt Mariloli & Marvin Odum Mr. & Mrs. John Oehler Steve & Sue Olson Mr. Edgar J. Ortiz Valerie J. Sherlock Dr. Holly Holmes & Mr. Paul Otremba Ms. Jennifer Owen & Mr. Ed Benyon Jane & Kenneth Owen

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Page Mr. Jonathan Palmer Ms. Martha Palmer Christine & Robert Pastorek Mr. & Mrs. Raul Pavon Mr. David Peavy & Mr. Stephen McCauley Peter & Nina Peropoulos Mr. & Mrs. Walter Peterson JoAnn & John Petzold Mr. & Mrs. Bob G. Phillips Grace & Carroll Phillips Ms. Debra Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Sam Philpot Mr. James D. Pitcock Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Chester M. Pitts II Ms. Linda Posey Mr. & Mrs. James Postl Kim & Ted A. Powell Mr. Thomas Power Mrs. Dana Puddy Mr. & Mrs. David Pursell Mr. Patrick Quinn Dr. & Mrs. Henry H. Rachford Jr. Ms. Ranelle Randles Clinton & Leigh Rappole Dr. & Mrs. Michael Rasmussen Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Rauch Ms. Natalia Rawle Mr. Cameron Ray Jan & Clayton Reasor Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Reeves Lynne & Allan Reich Mrs. Laura L. Jones & Dr. David W. Reininger Mr. & Mrs. Hank & Karen Rennar Mrs. Linda Rhodes Brooke & Nathaniel Richards Ed & Janet Rinehart Ms. Lillie Robertson Mr. Floyd W. Robinson Mrs. Evie Ronald Dr. & Mrs. Franklin Rose Milton & Jill Rose Mr. & Mrs. Edward Ross Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Ross Mr. Chadwick Royston Amanda Russell & Matt Calhoun Ms. Robin Russell Kent Rutter & David Baumann John & Mary Ryder Harold H. Sandstead, M.D. Mrs. Holly Sansing Dr. & Mrs. David Sapire Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Sawaya Mr. & Mrs. Eric Schaeffer Mr. Lawrence Schanzmeyer Caitlin & Michael Scheurich Beth & Lee Schlanger Dr. & Mrs. H. Irving Schweppe Jr. Donna Scott Mr. Joe L. Scott Charles & Andrea Seay Mr. Victor E. Serrato Marcia & Victor Shainock Arthur & Ellen Shelton Ms. Angela Sherman Jo A. Simmons Mr. & Mrs. Justin Simons Mr. Geoff Simpson Mr. Ryan T. Sims Mr. & Mrs. Steve B. Sims Louis H. Skidmore Jr. Mr. Hilary Smith & Ms. Lijda Vellekoop Mr. & Mrs. Tom Smith Dean & Kay Snider Mr. Charles E. Soderstrom Steve & Judy Sohn Dr. & Mrs. C. Richard Stasney Mrs. Jeaneen Stastny Joyce Steensrud Karen & Bruce Steffler Mr. & Mrs. Alan Stein Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stelling Mr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Stephens Mr. & Mrs. James R. Stevens Erin & James Stewart Cassie B. Stinson & Dr. R. Barry Holtz Jack & Karen Stopnicki

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Houston Symphony Donors Skipper & Betsy Strong Dr. Navin Subramanian & Dr. Melissa Dupree Dr. & Mrs. David Sufian Mr. Mark Sullivan Mr. Clifford A. Swanlund Jr. Barb Swartz Mr. & Mrs. Gregory D. Sweet Ms. Jeanine Swift Mr. & Mrs. Adam Szczepanski Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Tabor Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Taghdisi Carol Tai Mr. Garry Tanner Glenn Taylor Stephen A. Tew, M.D. Jean & Doug Thomas Jacob & Elizabeth Thomas Sharla & Jim Thompson Eric & Carol Timmreck Mr. & Mrs. Dale M. Tingleaf Mrs. Glenda C. Toole Mr. Gerard Trione Ms. Beverly Turner McDonald Mr. Eddie Turner John G. Turner & Jerry G. Fischer Mr. & Mrs. David M. Underwood Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Unger Mr. & Mrs. Duane Utecht Mr. & Mrs. Paolo Valente Mr. & Mrs. Donn K. Van Arsdall Dr. & Mrs. Gage Van Horn Mr. & Mrs. William A. Van Wie Matthew VanBesien & Rosanne Jowitt Ms. Jana Vander Lee Rachael & Jason Volz / A Fare Extraordinaire Dr. & Mrs. Edward C. Wade Betty & Bill Walker Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Walt Mr. H. Richard Walton Mr. & Mrs. Brad Wander Alton & Carolyn Warren Mr. & Mrs. James A. Watt Mr. Chien-Wey Wei Ms. Bryony Jane Welsh Mr. & Mrs. Andrew White Mr. & Mrs. Bradley White Mrs. Deanne White Ms. Sara E. White James & Pamela Wilhite Charline & Bill Wilkins Gene & Sandra Williams Loretta & Lawrence Williams Mr. & Mrs. Sidney B. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Neil A. Wizel Dr. & Mrs. Jerry S. Wolinsky Ms. Susan Wood Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Woodard Jr. Drs. Randall & Crystal Wright David & Tara Wuthrich Mr. & Mrs. Haresh Yalamanchili Jenny & Chris Yarrow Ms. Alexandra Yates Mrs. Mary. V. Young Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Zarrow Anonymous (15)

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Mr. & Mrs. W. Kendall Adam Donalee & Noel T. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Dan Ahuero William & Nancy Akers Mr. & Mrs. Michael Alexander Mr. Robert J. Alexander & Ms. Becky A. Stemper Dr. Genevera Allen Ms. Joan Ambrogi Ms. Sally S. Andrews & Mr. James Nelson Mrs. Roya Arfa Corbin & Char Aslakson Mr. & Mrs. John C. Averett Mr. Henry Bair Mr. Bobby A. Baiza Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Baizan Dr. Saul & Ursula Balagura

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Mr. & Mrs. Allen Barnhill Dan Barnum & Marilyn Lewis Mr. A. Greer Barriault & Ms. Clarruth A. Seaton Mr. & Mrs. David Barringer Dr. & Mrs. David Barry Ms. Bernice L. Beckerman Mr. Walter F. Bell Ms. Roberta Benson Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Benton Mrs. Robert L. Berge Mr. Benedict Bertrand Mr. & Mrs. Alan L. Bigman Mr. Philip Booth Chris & Ruth Borman Anne & Edward Bornet Mr. & Mrs. Walter E. Bozeman Ms. Margaret Bragg James & Dale Brannon Sally & Carl Brassow Maurice & Karey Bresenhan Mr. Thomas N. Britton & Ms. Debra A. Ewing Mr. Kevin P. Brophy Mr. J. W. Brougher Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Brougher Sally & Laurence Brown Mr. Eric Brueggeman Mr. Kurt Brungardt Mr. & Mrs. Larry W. Buck Mrs. Karen Buckwold Virginia & William Camfield Mr. & Mrs. J. Scott Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Rod Canion Dr. Dorothy Caram Phil & Michele Carey Mr. Richard N. Carrell Mr. Steven E. Chancellor Mr. & Mrs. Jim Chandler Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Chaney Ms. Irene Chang Mr. Michael Chang / Directron.com Mr. & Mrs. Alan R. Christensen Mr. & Mrs. David A. Cockrell Mr. & Mrs. Tulio Colmenares Mr. & Mrs. Clayton A. Compton Otis & Sherida Coney Mr. H. Talbot Cooley Mr. & Mrs. Sam Cooper Sarah & Ben Cotting Mr. & Mrs. Hugo Coumont Mr. Calvin Crossley Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Crull Mr. Larry Cullen Mrs. Deborah Culp Mr. Carl R. Cunningham Nigel Curtlet Dr. & Mrs. Joel Cyprus Dr. Lida S. Dahm Mr. Arthur Davies Masden & Lupita Davis Mr. Darryl de Mello Mr. Joseph A. Dellinger Ms. Joan DerHovsepian Mr. & Mrs. Paul Destephano Ms. Elisabeth DeWitts Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Dokell Leland A. Dolan Col. & Mrs. John Jay Douglass Elizabeth H. Duerr Mr. Jean-Claude Dulac & Mrs. Nathalie Dulac-Forestier Ms. Emma Dunch & Ms. Elizabeth Scott Mr. & Mrs. Bill Edgmon Mr. Paul Ehrsam Mr. Ramsay M. Elder Mr. & Mrs. Billie Ellis Ruth W. Ereli Robert & Susan Estill Mr. & Mrs. James Etherton Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Eury Robert H. Fain Jr., M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Fertitta Mr. Jonathan Fischer Mr. & Mrs. Trent Foltz Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Fong Ms. Eleanor Fontenot Mr. & Mrs. David Fortner

Ms. Diane L. Freeman Bill & Diana Freeman Ms. Lee Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Fussell Ms. Sharon Garner Mr. Bernardo Garza Mr. & Mrs. Gibson Gayle Jr. Ms. Margaret Wendy Germani Ms. Josephine Gilmore Nancy Glanville Jewell Gary & Marion Glober Mr. & Mrs. David Glodt Mrs. Cathy Goettee Mr. Irving L. Gold, M.D.P.A. Robert & Rodica Gonzalez Mr. Bert & Patricia Gordon Dr. Harvey L. Gordon Mr. Mark Gordon & Mrs. Ilona C. Pall Dr. & Mrs. David Gorenstein Ms. Adelma Graham Mr. Garrett Graham Mr. David M. Gray Jr. & Ms. Mary A. Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Steve Greenberg Mr. Gerald Greiner Mr. & Mrs. Weilai Gu Mr. & Mrs. Brent W. Gwaltney Dr. Teruhiko Hagiwara Mr. & Mrs. Uzi Halevy Gaye & Dennis Halpin Mr. Brett L. Hamilton Mrs. Vickie Hamley Mr. & Mrs. Ron Hammonds Rita & John Hannah Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Harbachick Michael D. Hardin Mr. & Mrs. Tod P. Harding Bruce Harkness & Alice Brown W. Russel Harp & Maarit K. Savola-Harp Mr. Christopher K. Harris Thomas F. & Catherine Mary Hastings Mr. Michael Heath Mr. David T. Hedges Jr. Sheila & Isaac Heimbinder Mr. & Mrs. Jared N. Heindel Dr. & Mrs. William Heird Terry L. & Karen G. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. James P. Hennessy Ms. Leslie Herald Mr. & Mrs. David Hergert Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Herrmann Mr. & Mrs. W. Grady Hicks Susan Hodge Mr. Robert Hogan Mr. Todd Holowisky Mr. Scott Holshouser Patricia P. Hubbard Eric Boerwinkle & Vicki Huff Mr. & Mrs. Dean Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Mark Hull Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Mr. Craig Ignacio Ms. Kimberly Isaac Mr. & Mrs. M. R. Isak Ms. Kathy Jackson Mr. Mark Johansson Ms. Karen Jones Mr. & Mrs. Randal E. Jones Mr. & Mrs. Arnold M. Kaestner Dr. Richard A. Kasschau Mr. & Mrs. Yoshi Kawashima Mr. & Mrs. Craig M. Kercho Mr. Robin Kesselman Mr. & Mrs. James L. Ketelsen Bill Kiker Dr. & Mrs. James Killian Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon M. Kindall Dr. Carolyn Kneese Mr. Curtis Knobbe Mr. & Mrs. William H. Knull III Steve Dukes & Nobuhide Kobori Dr. & Mrs. James H. Krause Mr. Dennis Kroeger Suzanne A. & Dan D. Kubin Mr. Vijay Kusnoor Mr. & Mrs. Todd Lachenmyer Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Lack Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth M. Landgren Mr. & Mrs. Joel J. Landis

Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Laraway Mr. Bryan LeBlanc Mr. Robert Leech Mr. Manuel Lemelle Dr. Daniel Lemke Mr. & Mrs. William C. Lemmer Mr. & Mrs. Earl L. Lester Jr. Ms. Megan Light Mr. Scott Link Mr. Daniel J. Linscomb Mr. & Mrs. Richard Lucas Ms. Nina K. Lynn Mr. & Mrs. Peter MacGregor Mr. Rocky Mafrige Ms. Barbara Manna Mr. Patrick Manning Ms. Renee Margolin Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Marion Mr. & Mrs. David Martin Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Matiuk James G. Matthews Mr. R. Scott McCay Mr. & Mrs. Scott McCool Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGinity Dr. & Mrs. Robert McGlashan Ms. L. Dianne McGreevy Mr. George McKee Mr. & Mrs. Theron McLaren Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence McManus Mr. & Mrs. James L. McNett Mr. Thomas J. McNulty Ms. Maria Carolina Mendoza Mr. & Mrs. Herbert G. Mills Jennifer & David Mire Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mitchum Jr. Ms. Marsha L. Montemayor Mr. & Mrs. Jim K. Moore Mr. & Mrs. James T. Murphy Ms. Joan B. Murphy Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Murphy Alan & Elaine Mut Ms. Dorothy Sharp Myers Patience Myers & Murray Herbert Ms. Jennifer Naae Mr. & Mrs. David S. Neuberger Roxann & Tim Neuman Ms. Amy Ng Ms. Khanh Nguyen Ms. Kathryn Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien Mr. Reymundo Ocanas & Mr. Orlando Manzo-Ocanas Mr. & Mrs. Rufus W. Oliver III Mr. Roel Olson Mr. Michael Ondrias & Dr. Dana Ondrias Ms. Judith Oppenheim Drs. M. & V. Orocofsky Mr. & Mrs. Enrique Ospina Ms. Dianne Padgett Mr. & Mrs. Marc C. Paige Linda Popkin-Paine & Stephen Paine John E. (Sandy) Parkerson Prof. & Mrs. Jordan Paust Jim & Arlene Payne Mr. & Mrs. Philip Peacock Mr. Miguel A. Pedroza Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Penn Ed & Heidi Perkins Mr. & Mrs. William Phelps Mr. Robert W. Powell Mr. Mike Prichard Mr. & Mrs. David Pustka Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Pybus Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Manuel E. Quintana Elias & Carole Qumsieh Agnieszka & Marat Rakhmatullaev Shirlanne & Randy Ramdass Ramille Law Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ramirez Mr. & Mrs. William B. Rawl Mr. Frederic Rechlin Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Reeves Ms. Louisa B. Reid Margaret & Walter Rhodes Ms. Amy Richards Mr. & Mrs. Guy Ridout Ms. Ellen Rienstra J. Jeff Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Robinson

Houston Symphony Donors Mr. & Mrs. Charles Rockwell Mr. & Mrs. Douglas C. Rodenberger Mr. & Mrs. Keith A. Rogers Kelly & David Rose Mr. Autry W. Ross Mr. & Mrs. Alan Rossiter Mr. & Mrs. Scott Rothwell Mr. & Mrs. Gregory M. Ruffing Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ruisard Ms. Kimberly Ruona John W. Russo Mr. & Mrs. John E. Ryall Mr. Robert Ryan Ramon & Chula Sanchez Mr. Charles King Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Sandlin Mr. & Mrs. Ross Saunders Ms. Cynthia Scanland Ms. Susan E. Scarrow Mrs. Myrna Schaffer Ms. Janet Schaumburg Mr. & Mrs. W. Russell Scheirman Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Scheliga Jennifer & Ross Schoppe Jurgen Schroder Drs. Helene & Robert Schwartz Amanda & John Seaberg Mr. Blake Segura

Vance & Jane Senter Ms. Elizabeth Shack Mr. & Mrs. Paul Shack Ms. Becky V. Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Richard Shell Dr. Lynne F. Shepard Mr. Jason Smith John L. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Sommer Mary Louise Spencer Richard P. Steele & Mary J. McKerall Mr. & Mrs. Donald K. Steinman Mr. & Mrs. Gary Stenerson Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Jim Stoa Ms. Kathy Suave Mr. Roger Suter & Ms. Lakessia Fry Mr. John L. Sutterby Amy Sutton & Gary Chiles Mr. & Mrs. Eric Swanson Dr. Jeffrey Sweterlitsch Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Symon Mr. Monsour Taghdisi Dr. Shahin Tavackoli Mr. Kerry Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Gary Teletzke Mr. & Mrs. David K. Terry Mr. & Mrs. Troy Thacker

Ms. Betsy Mims & Mr. Howard D. Thames Mrs. Marjorie Therrell Mr. & Mrs. Garrett Thompson Nancy & Peter Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Thornton Mr. & Mrs. Roger Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Trainer Jr. Mr. Roger Trandell Mr. James Trippett Dr. Robert Ulrich & Ms. June R. Russell Dr. & Mrs. Brad Urquhart Ms. Patricia Van Allan Mr. & Mrs. David Vannauker Mr. Zachary Vazquez Mr. & Mrs. Chief Veith Ms. Laurette Veres Pieter & Janet Vrancken Ms. Elise Wagner Milton L. Wagner Mr. William Walker Mr. Thomas Warden & Mrs. Becky Cottrell Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. Warren Terence & Kathryn Washington Mr. Frank Watson Mr. & Mrs. K.C. Weiner

Don & Linda Weinmann Dr. & Mrs. Richard T. Weiss Mr. & Mrs. Eden N. Wenig Ms. Amy E. Whitaker Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. White Ms. Shelley Wisner Mr. Gerhard R. Wittich Dr. Dorothy Wong Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Wootton Marvin & Terry Woskow Family Fund Mr. Michael Wynhoff Mrs. Traci Young Mr. & Mrs. Mark Yzaguirre Mr. & Mrs. Frederick C. Zerke Mr. Dave Zinni Ms. Susan Zollers Anonymous (19)

Robert & Gwen Bray Dr. Christopher Buehler & Ms. Jill Hutchison Mr. & Mrs. Bruce G. Buhler Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Cook Becky & Joe Demeter Mr. & Mrs. James E. Dorsett Mr. & Mrs. Mike Ezzell Alice R. McPherson, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. Raghu Narayan Joy & Gary Noble Jeff & Pat Ponthier Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Reid Shirley & Marvin Rich Richard & Anne Robbins Rosemarie & Jeff Roth Mr. Morris Rubin Mr. & Mrs. James Schulz Dr. & Mr. Adrian D. Shelley Mr. & Mrs. Charles Stewart Mr. & Mrs. Nick Stratigakis Ms. Jeanine M. Van Wagenen Seth Williams Anonymous

Ms. Ann Currens Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Dauber Mr. & Mrs. David Dybell Mr. & Mrs. Richard Fanning Barbara Dokell & Larry Finger Mark Folkes & Christopher Johnston Carol & Larry Fradkin Friends of Houston Symphony Betsy Garlinger Mr. & Mrs. James K. Garner Mr. & Mrs. John Geigel Mr. & Mrs. Angelo Giardino Dr. & Mrs. Jack Gill Julius & Suzan Glickman Ms. Shari Glover & Mr. James King Ms. Melissa Goodman Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Hansen Ms. Kay Hanson-Clerc Mr. & Mrs. Franklin J. Harberg Jr. Ann & Bill Heim Mr. & Mrs. George A. Helland Ms. Margy Keaton Rex & Marillyn King Michael & Darcy Krajewski Gerrit Leeftink Mr. & Mrs. Barry I. Levine Kathleen & Tom Mach Ms. Doris M. Magee Ms. Nancy Mann Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Mason Steve & Linda Massie Mr. & Mrs. Alan May Jr. Pinet & Jim McBride Mr. & Mrs. David R. McKeithan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Molloy Mr. & Mrs. Bert Neece The Hon. Stella G. & Richard C. Nelson Mrs. Kay Onstead Capt. & Mrs. Kim Parker Dr. Jonathan Penchas Margaret & V. Scott Pignolet Mr. & Mrs. Gary Prentice W. R. Purifoy Judy & Bill Pursell Dr. & Mrs. Albert E. Raizner Venu & Elsie Rao Mr. & Mrs. John T. Riordan Mr. James L. Robertson Soren & Annetta Rose Brenda & Mansel Rubenstein

The Houston Symphony would like to thank the 5,563 donors who gave up to $499 over the past year. As of April 1, 2015 To note any errors or omissions, please call Darryl de Mello at (713) 337-8529.

Houston Symphony POPS Donors Ima Hogg Society $150,000 or More Mr. George P. Mitchell Sybil F. Roos Centennial Society $100,000 - $149,000 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 Mr. Brian Teichman & Mr. Andrew Cordes Ms. Judith Vincent Concertmaster’s Society $25,000 - $49,999 Mr. Ralph Burch Jo Lynn & Gregg Falgout / Island Operating Company, Inc. Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies Susan & Dick Hansen Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Ken Hyde Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Dr. & Mrs. Michael Mann John & Bobbie Nau Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. Conductor’s Circle, Platinum $15,000 - $24,999 Graham & Janet Baker Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Ken & Carol Lee Robertson Jeanie Kilroy Wilson & Wallace S. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Scott Wulfe Conductor’s Circle, Gold $10,000 - $14,999 Danielle & Josh Batchelor John & Candace Caley Mr. & Mrs. Bert Cornelison David & Cindy Deere

Jennifer & Steve Dolman Scott Ensell & Family John & Minerva Esquivel Marianne & Robert Ivany, University of St. Thomas Janice & Allan King Michael & Kelley Lang Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Martha & Marvin McMurrey 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 Evan B. Glick Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Bryan & Vickie McMicken Rita & Paul Morico Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Roman & Sally Reed Conductor’s Circle, Bronze $5,000 - $7,499 Beth & Jim Barton Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman Rhona & Bruce Caress Mr. & Mrs. Thierry Caruso William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Connie & Byron Dyer Mrs. Jane Egner Ms. Carolyn Faulk Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fluor Kathleen & Dick Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Edd C. Hendee Mary Louis Kister Mr. & Mrs. John P. Kotts Ms. Lynne Lipsitz Terry & Kandee McGill Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Jean & Allan Quiat Vicky & Michael Richker Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Sally & Denney Wright Grand Patron $2,500 - $4,999 Mr. & Mrs. J. Emery Anderson Mr. John S. Beury

Patron $1,000 - $2,499 Mr. & Mrs. Kingsley Agbor Mrs. Sally Alcorn Suan Angelo Sue Sue & Don Aron Martha & Stanley Bair Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Banks Dr. & Mrs. William S. Banks III Donald & Dottie Bates Ms. Deborah S. Bautch & Ms. Mary Lavender Mr. Allen J. Becker Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bixler William & Laura Black Mr. & Mrs. W. Carter Bliss Mr. & Mrs. George Boss Ellen Box Ms. Patricia K. Boyd Dr. & Mrs. R. L. Brenner Ms. Barbara A. Brooks Richard & Marcia Churns Mrs. Midge Colton Ms. Julie Conner Mr. & Mrs. William V. Conover II Marilyn & Tucker Coughlen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Creager

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Houston Symphony POPS Donors Ms. Cinda Schaffer Mrs. Lynda G. Seaman Mr. Terry Seitz Mr. Don W. Shackelford Charlotte Stafford Mr. & Mrs. Karl Strobl Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Symko Mr. Ralph Tamper Mr. & Mrs. Carl N. Tongberg Mr. & Mrs. Charles Trinh Susan J. & Gary W. Valka Ms. Jody Verwers Larry & Connie Wallace Dr. & Mrs. Brad Wertman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Bob Wolin Nancy & Scott Wynant Anonymous (5) Director $500 - $999 Mr. & Mrs. William R. Allen Mr. & Mrs. T. Michael Andrews Mr. & Mrs. David Archibald Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Beard Ms. Dorothy G. Blackwell Mr. Jay T. Brown Ms. Deborah Butler Mr. & Mrs. Ray Butler

Mrs. Anne Campbell Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Cantrell Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Chapman Dr. Cecil Christensen Mr. & Mrs. Marion Collins Carlo & Vicki Corso Mr. Warren Dean Mr. & Mrs. George Dobbin John & Joyce Eagle Evelyn Earlougher Carolyn & Russell Egan 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. Stephen Grafton Mr. Joseph J. Gugenheim Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Dale Hardy Ms. Hope Hernandez Richard & Beverly Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill Jess Hines Jr. Elizabeth & Bob Houston Dave & Laura Kirk

Dr. George S. Knapp, MD Mr. & Mrs. Joe D. Koshkin Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred M. Krenek Mr. Kent Lacy Gary T. Leach Dr. Monica Lett Mr. & Mrs. Roger Lindgren Ms. Karen E. Manyak Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Margolis Mr. Robert McNamara & Dr. Tracey Samuels Ms. Dinah Mei Mr. William Mendel Margaret & Elmer Milz Ms. Wynona Montgomery Paul & Molly Mugnier Mr. & Mrs. Dan Neskora Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Nilson Joe & Ann Palm Esther & Gary Polland Mr. & Mrs. Roland W. Pringle Mr. O. M. Rogers Ms. Stacey Saunders & Mr. Jeff Smith Claudette & Tim Shaunty Mr. Michael Shawiak Mr. Jerry Siemers Mr. James Slaughter

Mr. & Mrs. Bruce S. Smith Mr. Lawrence C. Smith Jerilyn Stanka Ms. Judith Starr Dr. Joan Stoerner Mr. & Mrs. Edward Stuart Mr. Alan Stuckert Dr. & Mrs. Frank C. Sung Mr. & Mrs. Michael Villarreal Erwin & Ann Wilbanks Mr. & Mrs. Don Wilton Maxine & Emil Wulfe Anonymous (7) The Houston Symphony would like to thank the 5,563 donors who gave up to $499 over the past year. As of April 1, 2015 To note any errors or omissions, please call Darryl de Mello at (713) 337-8529.

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Leadership Council donors have committed $45,000 or more in support of the Annual Fund, special projects and fundraising events over a three-year period ($15,000+ annually). For more information or to pledge your support, please contact David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, at (713) 337-8525 or Mark Folkes, Senior Director, Development, at (713) 337-8521. Graham & Janet Baker Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Danielle & Josh Batchelor Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Terence Murphree Justice Brett & Erin Busby Mr. John N. Neighbors Janet F. Clark Susan & Edward Osterberg Mr. Richard Danforth Gloria & Joe Pryzant Gene & Linda Dewhurst Donna & Tim Shen The Elkins Foundation Lisa & Jerry Simon Angel & Craig Fox Nancy & David Tai Allen & Almira Gelwick â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Lockton Companies Stephen & Kristine Wallace The Melbern G. & Susan M. Glasscock Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange

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 An endowed fund can be permanently established within the Houston Symphony Endowment through a direct contribution or via a planned gift such as a bequest. The fund can be designated for general purposes or specific interests. For further information, please contact Patrick Quinn, Director, Planned Giving, at (713) 337-8532 or patrick.quinn@houstonsymphony.org.

CHORUS ENDOWMENT DONORS $500 or more

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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. Susan E. Scarrow Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Sommer Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. James R. Wilhite

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 Terry Ann Brown 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 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. and Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mrs. Gloria Herman Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Dr. Edward J. & Mrs. Patti Hurwitz Kenneth Hyde Crescendo Circle $100,000+ Dr. and Mrs. George J. Abdo Janice H. Barrow Dr. Joan Hacken Bitar Joe Brazzatti Drs. Dennis & Susan Caryle 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 Dr. Rita Justice

Brian James Dr. and Mrs. Ira Kaufman, M.D. John S. W. Kellett Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mrs. Frances E. Leland E. W. Long Jr. Sandra Magers Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Jay & Shirley Marks James G. Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Charles E. McKerley Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Mr. and Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Catherine Jane Merchant 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 Mr. and Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Joella & Steven P. Mach Betty & Gene McDavid Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Ron Mikita 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

Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Imogen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Immyâ&#x20AC;? Papadopoulos Sara M. Peterson Geraldine Smith Priest Evie Ronald Walter Ross Dr. & Mrs. Kazuo Shimada Lisa & Jerry Simon 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 Lorraine & Ed Wulfe David & Tara Wuthrich Katherine & Mark Yzaguierre Edith & Robert Zinn Anonymous (5)

Mr. and Mrs. James A. Shaffer Jule & Albert Smith Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mike & *Anita Stude Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Elba L. Villarreal Mr. and Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Robert G. Weiner Vicki West in honor of Hans Graf Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Stevem S. Callahan, Ph.D. Jo Dee Wright Anonymous (2) As of April 1, 2015 *Deceased

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 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

General & 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 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 John K. & Fanny W. Stone Dorothy Barton Thomas Mrs. Harry C. Weiss Mrs. Edward Wilkerson

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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 further information on becoming a corporate donor to the Houston Symphony, please contact Martin Schleuse at (713) 337-8537 or martin.schleuse@houstonsymphony.org. For more information on becoming a foundation or government partner, please contact David Chambers at (713) 337-8525 or david.chambers@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 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 Kathleen Hayes, Merrill Lynch

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. Stephen Pryor, ExxonMobil Chemical Co. 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 April 1, 2015

Grand Guarantor, $150,000 and above BBVA Compass * Houston First Corporation * KTRK ABC-13 * Oliver Wyman * Spec’s Charitable Foundation/ Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Guarantor, $100,000 and above Chevron ConocoPhillips * Houston Methodist * Houston Public Media – Classical 91.7 FM; News 88.7 FM; Channel 8 PBS Palmetto Partners Ltd./The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation * 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 Livestock Show and Rodeo * Jackson and Company Kalsi Engineering Medistar Corporation * Rand Group, LLC Shell Oil Company

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Sponsor, $25,000 and above Andrews Kurth LLP Bank of America The Boeing Company * Bright Star Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Enterprise Product Partners L.P. * Gittings Houston Baptist University * 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 * Silver Circle Audio SPIR STAR, Ltd. Vinson & Elkins LLP Wells Fargo

Supporter, $10,000 and above * Abrahams Oriental Rugs * Agua Hispanic Marketing CenterPoint Energy * Crown Castle International Corp. Emerson Enbridge Energy Company Excel Diagnostics & Nuclear Oncology Center Nordstrom Schlumberger, Ltd. Star Furniture * Zenfilm

Partner, $15,000 and above Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Bank of Texas * 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 Macy’s Marine Foods Express, LTD. Sidley Austin LLP USI Insurance Services LLC

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.

Benefactor, $5,000 and above Barclay’s Wealth and Investment Management Beck Redden LLP Goldman Sachs Louis Vuitton Plains All American * Randalls Food Markets Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. Spectra Energy University of St. Thomas Wortham Insurance and Risk Management

* Includes in-kind support

CORPORATE, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERS CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS As of April 1, 2015 Aetna Aon Apache Corporation Bank of America BBVA Compass Boeing

BP Foundation Caterpillar Chevron Chubb Group Coca-Cola ConocoPhillips Eli Lilly and Company

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 April 1, 2015 A Fare Extraordinaire Alexander’s Fine Portrait Design Alpha-Lee Enterprises, Inc. Aspire Executive Coaching, LLC Bergner & Johnson Bering’s BKD, LLP Boat Ranch Classical 91.7 FM Cognetic Culinaire Carl R. Cunningham DLG Research & Marketing Solutions

Elaine Turner Designs Elegant Events by Michael Elsie Smith Design The Events Company Festari Foster Quan LLP Gucci 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 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 Pro/Sound

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 Yahama

FOUNDATIONS AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES As of April 1, 2015

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. The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Principal Guarantor, $250,000 and above Albert and Margaret Alkek Foundation City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board The Cullen Foundation Grand Guarantor, $150,000 and above M. D. Anderson Foundation Guarantor, $100,000 and above Houston Endowment The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation/Palmetto Partners Ltd.

Underwriter, $50,000 and above The Elkins Foundation The Fondren Foundation The Hearst Foundation, Inc. The Humphreys Foundation The John P. McGovern Foundation The Robbins Foundation Sponsor, $25,000 and above Beauchamp Foundation Ray C. Fish Foundation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation National Endowment for the Arts 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 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 Vivian L. Smith Foundation Anonymous Benefactor, $5,000 and above LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation William E. and Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable Foundation William S. and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation The Schissler 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

Louis-Marie Fardet, cello Louis-Marie Fardet was appointed cellist of the Houston Symphony in January 2015. Previously, he served since 2006 as assistant principal cellist for the Houston Grand Opera and Ballet; and prior to moving to Houston, he was a tenured member of L’Opéra de Paris Orchestra for five years. Born in Rochefort, on the southwest coast of France, Louis-Marie moved to Paris to pursue his cello studies at the prestigious Paris Conservatory. He came to Houston in 1999 to study with Paul Katz at Rice University. In May 2015, Louis-Marie became an American citizen. He has won top prizes in several international competitions, including the Antonio Janigro International Cello Competition and the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition. He also has participated in numerous music festivals such as Ravinia Festival, the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall and Jerusalem International Chamber Music Encounters. Beginnings: I started learning cello at about 9 years old, when I went to a concert with my solfège class and saw a cellist perform live for the first time. The sound of the cello resonated with me. [Editor’s note: Solfège is a music education method used to teach pitch and sight singing.] Around the time I started to learn cello, I was hired to sing in the children’s chorus for Bizet’s opera Carmen. About a year later, and in a different city, I sang in Massenet’s opera Werther. The whole process—from being coached in a small classroom with piano to the final rehearsals and performances with full orchestra and staging—imprinted me with unforgettable musical and theatrical experiences. Also, having the opportunity to watch the entire opera performances once we were done singing our parts was absolutely thrilling at my young age. My head was just full of music, and it created happiness in me. Importance of community engagement: It is important to me to reach out to the members of our diverse communities to bring them, personally, the joy of classical music, especially if they are not able or cannot afford to come hear us at the concert halls and music schools. I have had the pleasure of working with students through YES Prep Public Schools, in which musicians provide orchestra and chamber music lessons to underprivileged children in Houston public schools. I also have enjoyed offering coaching sessions and workshops to orchestra and cello students in The Woodlands (which is where I live), through The Ethos School of Music. I have performed concerts at various community spaces, including the Houston Methodist Hospital for dialysis patients, as well as at MD Anderson Cancer Center for a campaign to support cancer research. I enjoy performing with local Houston groups, beginning with many early music ensembles such as Mercury, the Bach Society Houston and Ars Lyrica Houston (where I sometimes perform on a baroque cello), as well as the River Oaks Chamber

Orchestra. I’ve had the honor of premiering works by several Houston composers, including Pierre Jalbert, Eric L. McEntyre and Anthony Brandt. Because I would like to share more chamber music and enrich the Houston community, I am currently working on a project to create my own Chamber Music Society in Houston, Francœur. Enjoy performing: Although extremely challenging for string players, I do enjoy performing the orchestral and operatic music of Richard Wagner (such as Tristan und Isolde), Richard Strauss (such as Ein Heldenleben and Elektra), and the German repertoire, in general. I also love to perform César Franck’s chamber music (including his Violin Sonata and Piano Quintet) and the six Bach suites for solo cello. Looking forward to this season: I am especially looking forward to getting to know and work with Houston Symphony Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada. I have heard so many great things from numerous musicians. There will also be Mahler and Bruckner symphonies, and of course Beethoven’s 9th Symphony that I can’t wait to perform with Andrés and the Symphony. I am looking forward to collaborating again with conductor Fabien Gabel when the Symphony performs Ravel’s Bolero next April. I’ve known Fabien a long time; we went to the same music high school, Lycée Racine, in Paris in the early ’90s. We also performed together with the Paris Opera orchestra more than 12 years ago, where Fabien was a trumpet player.

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