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NOVEMBER 2016

TRIFONOV PLUS RACHMANINOFF 24

I LOVE A PIANO 28

November 3, 5, 6

November 11, 12, 13

A MOZART THANKSGIVING 32

November 25, 26, 27

HELLO LETTER TO PATRONS

NOVEMBER 2016

Welcome to the Houston Symphony! We have an exciting mix of classical and pops guest artists on hand this month, topped off with an all-Mozart Thanksgiving program. Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov returns to Houston to perform one of audiences’ most beloved Schumann works, Piano Concerto in A minor. We congratulate Daniil on recently being named Gramophone Artist of the Year for 2016. The Artist of the Year award is the only Gramophone prize decided by international public vote, and recent winners have included violinist Leonidas Kavakos, whose inspirational visit to the Houston Symphony last month as both conductor and violin soloist left us spellbound. After Daniil turns his artistry to the Schumann Concerto, Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada leads the orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s lushly scored Symphony No. 2. We also congratulate Andrés, who was recently honored by the Colombia-Texas Chamber of Commerce (CTCC) during its first Recognition and Charity Gala which paid tribute to prominent area leaders and organizations. The Houston Symphony is proud to partner with the CTTC to assist low-income and underserved youth in Colombia with mentorship in music by Musical Ambassador/Assistant Conductor Carlos Andrés Botero. Funds raised by the CTCC in support of this partnership will supplement Carlos’ work and efforts in Colombia over the course of the Symphony’s current season. We are proud of the contributions of both Carlos and Andrés, and we are honored by the recognition of the CTCC. On the POPS front, our performance this month brings back Houston favorite Tony DeSare, who joins Principal POPS Conductor Mike Krajewski in a program of classic piano pop repertoire featuring Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Tony, a celebrated pianist and modern-day crooner, will also salute songs from great piano composers such as Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, as well as Billy Joel and Elton John. Tony and Mike reunite in this performance that promises to truly be a “Best of Mike” moment as we continue to revel in the fun and excitement of his Farewell Season with the Houston Symphony. And on that note, we’d like your help raising $297,000 in support of Mike’s final concert weekend as our Principal POPS Conductor on May 26–28, 2017, when he wraps up his 17-year reign in grand fashion with “Classic Broadway,” a concert celebrating his favorite composers from the golden age of Broadway. All $100 or more in-hall donors during the 2016-17 BBVA Compass POPS Season will have the opportunity to “Be Like Mike” with a limited edition Mike Krajewski cut-out. If you can’t make it to the concert, but want to join in the fun, just text BELIKEMIKE to 41444 or donate online at houstonsymphony.org/donate. A must for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday is appreciation of family and friends, copious quantities of homemade food, and—Mozart! We hope you will include your Symphony family in your holiday plans when veteran soloist and conductor Jeffrey Kahane leads an all-Mozart program on Thanksgiving weekend, November 25–27. This is just the start of the holiday season, though, and we have many more festive and jubilant programs in store, including those featured on the inside back cover, so start making plans for the whole family now. We’ll see you at Jones Hall!

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2016 Opening Night Gala Retrospective

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Trifonov Plus Rachmaninoff November 3, 5, 6 ��24 I Love a Piano November 11, 12, 13 ��28 A Mozart Thanksgiving November 25, 26, 27 ��32

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Letter to Patrons �� 1 Listening Actively to Classical Music �� 18 Meet Bradley White, trombone ��52

News & Events

Vintage Virtuoso: Celebrating 20 Years �� 14 2016 Opening Night Gala Retrospective �� 16 Upcoming Performances and Broadcasts ��27

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Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Music Director ��6 Orchestra Roster ��8 Staff Listing �� 14

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Musician Sponsorship �� 10 New Century Society �� 12 Leadership Council �� 12 Vision 2025 Implementation Fund �� 13 Board of Directors ��36 Houston Symphony Endowment ��37 Sustainability Fund ��38 Legacy Society and In Memoriam �� 40 Education and Community Engagement Donors �� 41 Houston Symphony Donors ��42 Corporate, Foundation and Government Partners ��49

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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. In the 2016–17 season, Andrés will continue to engage with audiences both with casual commentary from the stage and discussions with guests in “Behind the Scenes with Andrés” videos. On the recording front, Andrés and the Symphony will release the third disc in their critically acclaimed Dvořák Symphony series. Additional projects with Dutch recording label Pentatone are recordings of the Music of the Americas, which will include Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Revueltas’ Sensemayá; Rachmaninoff’s complete orchestral piano works with Denis Kozhukhin; and Haydn’s The Creation. Born in Medellín, Colombia, Andrés began his musical studies 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. Orozco-Estrada now regularly appears with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome and the Orchestre National de France. Recent debuts have included the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic in New York. In the summer of 2014, he also made his debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera conducting Don Giovanni, which immediately led to an invitation to conduct La traviata in 2017. The 2016–17 season includes debuts with the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. In addition to his post in Houston, Andrés is chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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ORCHESTRA AndrÃ©s Orozco-Estrada Music Director Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair FIRST VIOLIN Eric Halen, Co-Concertmaster Ellen E. Kelley Chair Qi Ming, Assistant Concertmaster Fondren Foundation Chair Marina Brubaker Tong Yan MiHee Chung Sophia Silivos Rodica Gonzalez Ferenc Illenyi Si-Yang Lao Kurt Johnson Christopher Neal Sergei Galperin Anastasia Sukhopara*

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 Kathryn Ladner PICCOLO Kathryn Ladner

SECOND VIOLIN Rebecca Reale, Associate Principal Hitai Lee Kiju Joh** Mihaela Frusina Annie Kuan-Yu Chen Jing Zheng Martha Chapman Tianjie Lu Lisa Ji Eun Kim Tina Zhang Amy Teare** Evgenia Zharzhavskaya* Jenna Barghouti* Jordan Koransky*

OBOE Jonathan Fischer, Principal Lucy Binyon Stude Chair Anne Leek, Associate Principal Colin Gatwood Adam Dinitz

Community-Embedded Musicians David Connor, double bass Rainel Joubert, violin Anthony Parce, viola Hellen Weberpal, cello 8 | Houston Symphony

HORN William VerMeulen, Principal Robert Johnson, Associate Principal Jesse Clevenger*, Assistant Principal Brian Thomas Nancy Goodearl Ian Mayton TRUMPET Mark Hughes, Principal George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Chair John Parker, Associate Principal Robert Walp, Assistant Principal Caroline Schafer TROMBONE Allen Barnhill, Principal Bradley White, Associate Principal Phillip Freeman BASS TROMBONE Phillip Freeman TUBA Dave Kirk, Principal

ENGLISH HORN Adam Dinitz

VIOLA Wayne Brooks, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Legacy Society Chair Joan DerHovsepian, Associate Principal George Pascal, Assistant Principal Wei Jiang Linda Goldstein Sheldon Person Fay Shapiro Daniel Strba Jarita Ng Phyllis Herdliska CELLO Brinton Averil Smith, Principal Janice and Thomas Barrow Chair Christopher French, Associate Principal Anthony Kitai Jeffrey Butler Kevin Dvorak Xiao Wong Myung Soon Lee James R. Denton** Louis-Marie Fardet

Michael Krajewski Principal POPS Conductor Steven Reineke Principal POPS Conductor Designate Robert Franz Associate Conductor, Sponsor, Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Betsy Cook Weber Director, Houston Symphony Chorus

CLARINET Mark Nuccio, Principal Thomas LeGrand, Associate Principal Christian Schubert Alexander Potiomkin

TIMPANI Ronald Holdman, Principal Brian Del Signore, Associate Principal PERCUSSION Brian Del Signore, Principal Mark Griffith Matthew Strauss

E-FLAT CLARINET Thomas LeGrand

HARP Megan Conley, Principal

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BASSOON Rian Craypo, Principal Eric Arbiter, Associate Principal Elise Wagner Micah Doherty*

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MUSICIAN SPONSORSHIPS Donors at the Conductorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Circle Silver Baton level and above are provided the opportunity to be recognized as sponsoring a Houston Symphony Musician. For more information, please contact Molly Simpson, Director, Individual Giving and Major Gifts, at 713.337.8526 or molly.simpson@houstonsymphony.org. Mr. William L. Ackerman Megan Conley, Harp, Principal Janice Barrow Sophia S. Silivos, First Violin Mrs. Bonnie Bauer Fay L. Shapiro, Viola Mr. Gary V. Beauchamp & Ms. Marian Wilfert Beauchamp Martha Chapman, Second Violin Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Sergei Galperin, First Violin Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Brinton A. Smith, Cello, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Walter Bratic Christopher Neal, First Violin Ms. Terry A. Brown James R. Denton, Cello Mr. Ralph Burch Robin Kesselman, Double Bass, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Dougal A. Cameron Brian E. Thomas, Horn Dr. Mary Kathryn Campion & Mr. Stephen Liston Rodica Gonzalez, First Violin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Cizik Qi Ming, First Violin, Assistant Concertmaster Ms. Janet F. Clark Kevin F. Dvorak, Cello Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian George W. Pascal, Viola, Assistant Principal Mr. & Mrs. Bert Cornelison Judy Dine, Flute Mr. & Mrs. Roger Cutler Tong Yan, First Violin Dr. Scott Cutler Scott Holshouser, Keyboard, Principal Mr. Richard L. Danforth Jeffrey Butler, Cello Ms. Leslie B. Davidson & Mr. W. Robins Brice Colin Gatwood, Oboe Mr. & Mrs. Eugene H. Dewhurst Phillip Freeman, Trombone Mr. Duke Ensell Donald E. Howey III, Double Bass Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein & Mr. Martin J. Fein Ferenc Illenyi, First Violin

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Mr. & Mrs. Craig A. Fox David R. Malone, Double Bass, Associate Principal Mr. & Mrs. Russell M. Frankel Aralee Dorough, Flute, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Stephen W. Glenn Christian Schubert, Clarinet, Acting Associate Principal Mr. Evan B. Glick Tong Yan, First Violin Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Christopher French, Cello, Associate Principal Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Ken Hyde Robert M. Walp, Trumpet, Assistant Principal Drs. M.S. & Marie-Luise Kalsi Eric Halen, First Violin, Co-Concertmaster

Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Brian E. Thomas, Horn Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Morico Elise Wagner, Bassoon Mrs. Nancy Morrison Wayne A. Brooks, Viola, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Mihaela Frusina, Second Violin Mrs. Bobbie Newman Rodica Gonzalez, First Violin Mr. & Mrs. Scott S. Nyquist Sheldon Person, Viola Mr. John Onstott Rodica Gonzalez, First Violin Mr. Edward C. Osterberg Jr. & Dr. Susan Osterberg MiHee Chung, First Violin Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Parker Nancy Goodearl, Horn

Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kaplan Mark Nuccio, Clarinet, Principal

Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Peiser Jonathan Fischer, Oboe, Principal

Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Linda A. Goldstein, Viola

Mr. & Mrs. David R. Pruner Matthew Strauss, Percussion

Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse J. LeGrange Thomas LeGrand, Clarinet, Acting Principal

Mr. & Mrs. Joe Pryzant Matthew Strauss, Percussion

Rochelle & Max Levit Sergei Galperin, First Violin Mr. & Mrs. Harry Mach Joan DerHovsepian, Viola, Associate Principal Mr. & Mrs. Steven P. Mach Eric Larson, Double Bass Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Eric Halen, First Violin, Co-Concertmaster Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Brian Del Signore, Percussion, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Jay Marks Sergei Galperin, First Violin Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Kurt Johnson, First Violin Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Rodica Gonzalez, First Violin Mr. & Mrs. Pat McCelvey Adam Dinitz, English Horn Mr. & Mrs. Gene McDavid Linda A. Goldstein, Viola Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan William K. VerMeulen, Horn, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Marvin McMurrey Rodica Gonzalez, First Violin

Mr. & Mrs. Ron R. Rand Myung Soon Lee, Cello Mrs. Lila Rauch Christopher French, Cello, Associate Principal Mrs. Sybil F. Roos Mark Hughes, Trumpet, Principal Mr. Glen A. Rosenbaum Aralee Dorough, Flute, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Rubenstein Brian Del Signore, Percussion, Principal

Dr. Alana R. Spiwak & Mr. Sam Stolbun Wei Jiang, Viola Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Springob Mihaela Frusina, Second Violin Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stamatedes Eric Larson, Double Bass Mr. Mike S. Stude Ruth E. Zeger, Second Violin Mr. & Mrs. L. Proctor Thomas III John A. DeWitt, Trumpet, Associate Principal Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Thomas Robert E. Johnson, Horn, Associate Principal Ms. Susan L. Thompson George W. Pascal, Viola, Assitant Principal Mr. & Mrs. Stephen G. Tipps Allen Barnhill, Trombone, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Tudor III Bradley White, Trombone, Associate Principal Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Daniel S. Strba, Viola Ms. Judith Vincent Matthew D. Roitstein, Flute, Associate Principal Mr. & Mrs. Joel Wahlberg Alexander Potiomkin, Clarinet Dr. Margaret Waisman & Dr. Steven S. Callahan Mark Griffith, Percussion Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Wallace Ronald Holdman, Timpani, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Megan Conley, Harp, Principal

Mr. & Mrs. John Rydman Anthony Kitai, Cello

Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Weil Jr. Amy E. Teare, Second Violin

Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scherr Phyllis Herdliska, Viola

Ms. Vicki West Rodica Gonzalez, First Violin

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Eric Halen, First Violin, Co-Concertmaster

Dr. James T. Willerson Anne C. Leek, Oboe, Associate Principal

Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Shannon Rian Craypo, Bassoon, Principal

Mrs. Margaret Alkek Williams Concertmaster

Mr. & Mrs. Tim Shen Tina Zhang, Second Violin

Steven & Nancy Williams MiHee Chung, First Violin

Mr. Albert J. Smith Jr. Eric Arbiter, Bassoon, Associate Principal

Mr. Wallace S. Wilson & Mrs. Jeanie Kilroy Wilson Xiao Wong, Cello

Mr. & Mrs. Tad Smith Marina Brubaker, First Violin

Mr. & Mrs. Ed Wulfe David E. Kirk, Tuba, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Michael Zilkha Kurt Johnson, First Violin

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New CenturyforSArtistic ociety 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. Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Margaret Alkek Williams Janice Barrow Rochelle & Max Levit Cora Sue & Harry Mach Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Mike Stude Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

Robin Angly & Miles Smith Gary & Marian Beauchamp Barbara J. Burger The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Houston Methodist Ron Franklin & Janet Gurwitch Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Nancy & Robert Peiser Rand Group Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. / The Robbins Foundation Steven & Nancy Williams

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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). Graham & Janet Baker Danielle & Josh Batchelor Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Justice Brett & Erin Busby Janet F. Clark Billy & Christie McCartney The Estate of Terence Murphree Mr. Richard Danforth Gene & Linda Dewhurst The Elkins Foundation Angel & Craig Fox Allen & Almira Gelwick – Lockton Companies Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Christina & Mark C. Hanson The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation

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

For more information or to pledge your support, please contact: David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, 713.337.8525 Molly Simpson, Director, Individual Giving and Major Gifts, 713.337.8526

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EARLY ADOPTERS Vision 2025 Implementation Fund Vision 2025, the Houston Symphony’s ten-year Strategic Plan, will allow the Houston Symphony to be America’s most relevant and accessible top-ten orchestra by 2025. Vision 2025 was kick-started by early adopters in 2015. The Houston Symphony recognizes and thanks the following Early Adopters for their initial investments in support of our ambitious vision.

Vision 2025 Implementation Fund The Vision 2025 Implementation Fund will catalyze the transformative growth outlined within Vision 2025. The Houston Symphony recognizes and thanks the following supporters of the Vision 2025 Implementation Fund. OPERATING SUPPORT

Barbara J. Burger

C. Howard Pieper Foundation Janet F. Clark Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. John Neighbors Lisa & Jerry Simon Robin Angly & Miles Smith BBVA Compass The Boeing Company Ellen A. Yarrell in memory of Virginia S. Anderson and in honor of Cora Sue Mach

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Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Christina & Mark C. Hanson Debbie & Frank Jones Cora Sue & Harry Mach Mr. Stewart Morris

EARLY ADOPTERS

Margaret Alkek Williams Janice Barrow The Brown Foundation, Inc. Cora Sue & Harry Mach Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Joella & Steven P. Mach Rochelle & Max Levit Steven & Nancy Williams Robin Angly & Miles Smith Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Bobby & Phoebe Tudor

Baker Botts L.L.P. Nancy & Robert Peiser Barbara & Pat McCelvey The Robert & Janice McNair Foundation / Palmetto Partners, Ltd. John & Lindy Rydman / Spec’s Charitable Foundation / Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Billy & Christie McCartney Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Danielle & Josh Batchelor BBVA Compass Dave & Alie Pruner

Barbara & Pat McCelvey Sybil F. Roos

For more information or to pledge your support for Vision 2025, please contact: Mark C. Hanson Executive Director/CEO 713.337.8540 David Chambers Chief Development Officer 713.337.8525 InTUNE — November 2016 | 13

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Vintage Virtuoso C E L E B R AT I N G 2 0 Y E A R S

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Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO, Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Pam Blaine, Chief of Education and Community Programming David Chambers, Chief Development Officer Amanda Dinitz, Chief of Strategic Initiatives Vicky Dominguez, Chief Operating Officer Danny Granados, Chief Financial Officer Trazanna Moreno, Chief Marketing Officer

John & Lindy Rydman salute Vintage Virtuoso

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In the 1990s, Lindy and John Rydman, the owners of Spec’s and founders of the Spec’s Charitable Foundation, looked for innovative ways to support the Houston Symphony. They chose to play to their strengths by creating a fundraiser for the wine industry to support the Symphony’s Education and Community programs. Over the past two decades, Vintage Virtuoso has raised almost $2.5 million. Vintage Virtuoso is a truly collaborative event. Spec’s closely works with its suppliers and distributors to make sure the evening’s guests experience a glamorous, exciting tasting and seated dinner. The event is part of the reason Spec’s is the Houston Symphony’s largest corporate donor. For its dedication to music education for Houston-area students, Spec’s was recognized with the 2015 BCA 10 award from Americans for the Arts. This year’s Vintage Virtuoso takes place at the Royal Sonesta Hotel on December 7, 2016. If you’re a fan of delicious food, great wine or the Houston Symphony, don’t miss it! For more information, please contact: Kylie Boaz, 832.660.0250, kylieb@specsonline.com Monica Simon, Director, Special Events, 713.337.8549, monica.simon@houstonsymphony.org

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The Houston Symphony’s Opening Night Concert and Gala celebrated the 30th anniversary of ConocoPhillips’ support as the Opening Night Concert Sponsor and Opening Night Gala Lead Corporate Underwriter. Chaired by Ralph Burch with Honorary Chairs Lisa and Ryan Lance and Underwriting Chairs Robin Angly and Miles Smith, the gala raised more than $730,000 for the Houston Symphony’s Education and Community Programming, making it the second most successful Opening Night Concert and Gala in the history of the event. The evening featured Academy Awardwinning actor Sir Ben Kingsley narrating Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada led the musicians of the Houston Symphony in a concert program that, in addition to Peter and the Wolf, featured Rossini’s thrilling Overture to The Thieving Magpie and Richard Strauss’ extraordinary Suite from Der Rosenkavalier.

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Following dinner, the Richard Brown Orchestra took the stage, commencing the late-night party that had guests dancing into the wee hours of the morning.

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17. A warm welcome from AndrĂŠs OrozcoEstrada and the Houston Symphony to Sir Ben Kingsley Photos by Jenny Antill, Wilson Parish and Anthony Rathbun

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LISTENING Since the beginning of my conducting career, I have created education programs that integrate music into school curriculum and focus on active listening skills. Why active listening, as opposed to, say, passive listening? Active listening differs from passive listening, or simply hearing something, in that it is an intentional act that is learned and can be improved with practice. A large body of research suggests that through intentionally listening, children develop skills of comprehension, categorization, recall, recognition, description, identification and evaluation. Is all of my work purely for the development of certain academic skills? I wouldn’t be honest if I said that’s all it’s about for me. Helping students unlock the mysteries of classical music is exhilarating and a complete joy to observe. Students experiencing something so complex for the first time and really understanding it is nothing short of awesome. I strongly believe the arts should be a part of everyone’s life. Actively listening to music positively contributes to social interaction, level of functioning and, perhaps, overall success in life (see the research of Weiss and Lillywhite, 1981).

unlock the mysteries of classical music

So, how does a person go about actively listening to music? In my education programs, I provide students with something specific to listen for, such as melody or rhythm. This suggestion is just the beginning of the process, as the students are encouraged to

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Melody / Tune

Rhythm

In a church hymn, the tune is always in the soprano or top part with all of the other voices providing the accompaniment. We often equate a melody with a tune that can be sung. This is true, but limited. In classical music, composers often have the melody being played by low or middle range instruments. Sometimes you have to “hunt” for the melody when it’s not clearly on the top. Composers of the 20th century and beyond have broken through the traditional definition of a melody and written melodies that can be angular, disjunct and sometimes not “vocal” in nature— they are still melodies!

Have you ever stopped at a red light and heard something pulsating? After making sure it isn’t your car, you notice next to you a young person whose car stereo is louder than you imagine possible. The bass line is pulsating, vibrating with every beat. Rhythm is the most natural, primordial musical sense we have. It all begins with a heartbeat. Now, here’s the rub—sometimes a composer writes music that aligns with our own natural rhythms. This can seem very calming or exciting. Sometimes, though, a composer writes music in which the rhythm is in direct conflict with our natural rhythm and will feel disjunct or jarring.

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build upon that initial bit of information by asking questions and interacting with me, the musicians and their fellow students. Students leave our concerts feeling smarter (having recognized some of the concert content), engaged and often curious to discover more about the world of music. In the end, this is what it is all about: giving students the tools they need to open their minds to classical music. But active listening isn’t just for kids, and along with my colleagues at the Houston Symphony, Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, we regularly encourage our adult audiences to move beyond a simply pleasant, passive experience of classical music to a potentially transformative, active experience. While Andrés regularly provides insights and perspective from the podium during his concerts, Carlos provides context and connections in both his pre-concert Prelude talks in Jones Hall and his Houston Symphony podcasts, On the Music.

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Even without having something specific to listen for in a particular piece of music, I suggest there are several things to listen for in any classical performance. With anywhere from 70 to 100 musicians onstage and many sounds happening at the same time, it is sometimes hard to know where to focus. A number of years ago, my father asked me what to listen for in a world premiere I was about to conduct. The four tools below help not only demystify the classical music experience, but provide a more meaningful experience through active listening.

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Texture / Harmony

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Musicians have a tendency to become very technical when it comes to describing how the sounds go together to form the harmony. My suggestion is that you imagine the ensemble (a duet up through a full symphony orchestra) as a textured blanket of sounds. Imagine the different colors (timbre) of the instruments being different threads. By themselves they are one thing, and combined they form something totally different. Quite often a composer will not focus on melody or rhythm, but will instead create a “soundscape” or “blanket of sound.” Be at one with that, and enjoy the plethora of sounds that an ensemble can create.

Often when we go to a concert hall, we are told that because musicians make sound it is somehow not okay to enjoy or try to understand the visual aspects of a piece. It is always more fulfilling to hear and see a piece performed live, particularly with music written during the 20th century and beyond. The choreography of the percussion section, the physical endurance of the strings and the aerobic intensity of playing a woodwind or brass instrument are very important parts of experiencing some of the greatest music ever written. It’s the living part that makes it so exciting. InTUNE — November 2016 | 19

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TRANSCENDENTAL TRIFONOV plus RACHMANINOFF Thursday November 3, 2016 8pm Saturday November 5, 2016 8pm Sunday November 6, 2016 2:30pm

Jones Hall

Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Daniil Trifonov, piano

Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54 I Allegro affettuoso II Intermezzo: Andantino grazioso— III Allegro vivace

Did you know? • Just this past September,

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Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Opus 27 I Largo—Allegro moderato II Allegro molto III Adagio IV Allegro vivace

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Daniil was named Artist of the Year in the 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Awards.

• Daniil gave his first performance with an orchestra at age 8, an occasion etched in his memory by the loss of one of his baby teeth midway through the concert. “It was quite an experience!"

Trifonov Plus Rachmaninoff | Program Biographies

Program BIOGRAPHIES FROST BANK GOLD CLASSICS

These performances are generously supported in part by:

Andrés Orozco-Estrada | conductor Please see Andrés Orozco-Estrada's biography on page 6.

Guarantor Rochelle & Max Levit

Daniil Trifonov | piano Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov has made a spectacular ascent in the world of classical music since winning the Tchaikovsky and Rubinstein competitions at age 20. Combining consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth, his performances are a perpetual source of awe.

Video enhancement of Houston Symphony concerts is made possible by the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation through a special gift celebrating the foundation’s 50th anniversary in 2015. Enhancements to the Jones Hall recording suite are generously provided by Silver Circle Audio. This concert is being recorded for future broadcasts on Houston Public Media News 88.7 airing on Sundays at 8pm and streaming online at houstonpublicmedia.org.

OUR THANKS

ROCHELLE AND MAX LEVIT

Trifonov Plus Rachmaninoff is generously underwritten by Rochelle and Max Levit, members of the Houston Symphony family for more than 30 years and current members of the New Century Society for Artistic Excellence and Innovation. Rochelle serves as a Governing Director of the Symphony’s Board of Trustees and is a member of the Artistic and Orchestra Affairs Committee. In recent seasons, Max and Rochelle have supported the orchestra’s concerts with Itzhak Perlman and last season’s Emanuel Ax Plays Brahms. They also sponsor First Violinist Sergei Galperin, support the Symphony’s special events, and, in 2015, they generously helped to complete the Five-Year Financial Plan which has strengthened the Houston Symphony’s fiscal position. The Levits are especially excited by the Symphony’s artistic direction under the leadership of Andrés Orozco-Estrada. The Houston Symphony thanks the Levits for making possible these performances by Daniil Trifonov and the orchestra.

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

This season brings the release of Transcendental. The double album is his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist and the first time Liszt’s complete concert etudes have been recorded in full for the label. He was recently awarded Gramophone’s 2016 Artist of the Year award and has received his second Grammy Award nomination with Rachmaninoff Variations. He performs Rachmaninoff for his debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic, Melbourne and Sydney Symphony Orchestras, in addition to the Munich Philharmonic’s “Rachmaninoff Cycle” tour. An accomplished composer, Daniil reprises his own acclaimed concerto in Kansas City; and he maintains a busy recital schedule, including duo recitals with his former teacher, pianist Sergei Babayan. Last season, in addition to headlining the prestigious Nobel Prize Concert and performing with some of the world’s leading orchestras, he undertook residencies in Lugano, Switzerland, and at London’s Wigmore Hall. In 2013–14, he released Trifonov: The Carnegie Recital, the pianist’s first recording as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. Recorded at his sold-out Carnegie Hall recital debut, the album scored both an ECHO Klassik Award and a Grammy nomination. Besides the similarly Grammy-nominated Rachmaninoff Variations, recorded with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, his discography features a Chopin album for Decca and a recording of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. During the 2010–11 season, Daniil won medals at three of the music world’s most prestigious competitions: Third Prize in Warsaw’s Chopin Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv’s Rubinstein Competition, and First Prize and Grand Prix in Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Competition. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Franco Abbiati Prize for Best Instrumental Soloist by Italy’s foremost music critics. Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Daniil began his musical training at age 5. He attended Moscow’s Gnessin School of Music and Cleveland Institute of Music. He also has studied composition and continues to write for piano, chamber ensemble and orchestra.

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Program NOTES Piano Concerto in A minor, Opus 54

Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Opus 27

Dashing and colorful solo-piano works practically poured from Robert Schumann when he was in his 20s. But combining piano and orchestra stumped him: Schumann started three concertos, only to give up. The glittery style cultivated by many mid-19thcentury pianists didn’t click with him. “I realize I cannot write a concerto for a virtuoso, so I must think up something else,” Schumann wrote.

By the time Sergei Rachmaninoff turned 30, he had gone from the devastating failure of his Symphony No. 1 to the smashing success of his Piano Concerto No. 2. Now, the Moscow Philharmonic’s conductor was so eager for a new Rachmaninoff symphony that he twice announced its premiere before it was even complete. The young composer described the holdup to a friend, “A month or so ago I did indeed finish a symphony, but to this must be added the crucial words, ‘in rough.’ … While I was planning to put it in a tidy state, it became terribly boring and repulsive to me. So I cast it on one side and took up something else.” Nevertheless, Rachmaninoff vowed, “I shall have a symphony.”

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

In his early 30s, after composing his first symphony, Schumann found his way. A Fantasy for piano and orchestra, in one multifaceted movement, was his first step. The music world had little interest in a single-movement concerto, though, so it never had a performance. Four years later, Schumann added two new movements to the Fantasy. The result was the ardent and poetic Piano Concerto in A minor, one of audiences’ most-beloved Schumann works. It blends the free spirit of his solo-piano pieces, many of which are collections of vignettes, with his forebears’ concerto tradition. Whereas the opening movements of Mozart and Beethoven concertos typically unfold in an unbroken flow, this concerto’s first movement—born as the Fantasy—embraces more contrast. A single, staccato orchestral chord starts the concerto with a bang, and the piano flings out ringing chords of its own. Then the woodwinds sing out the ardent theme that, in changing guises, will tie the movement together. Schumann first brings out the theme’s passions, marshaling the piano’s agility and the orchestra’s heft. The tempo slows, and the piano and solo winds turn the theme into a reverie. A reprise of the piano’s opening flourishes heralds the return of the theme’s more-passionate incarnation, and a dramatic, sonorous piano solo builds it to a climax. Then an impetuous new version of the theme sweeps the movement to its close. The second movement, labeled Intermezzo, offers a short, sweet break from the excitement. It begins and ends with a graceful mix of tiptoeing chords and sinuous melody; the centerpiece is a lyrical reverie led by the cellos. After the orchestra gently echoes the first movement theme, the piano launches into the exuberant finale. Not only does the music exude sunshine and vitality, but Schumann makes portions of it even more buoyant by breaking free from the main rhythmic flow. The Houston Symphony turns to the rousing Piano Concerto No. 1 by Schumann’s friend, Felix Mendelssohn, in March. The Instruments: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings

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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Fulfilling that promise took another year. The Symphony No. 2 finally premiered in January 1907, offering even headier doses of the lyricism and opulence that audiences adore in the Concerto No. 2. The cellos and basses begin the symphony, intoning a dark-hued melody that establishes the introduction’s brooding. The violins respond with a plaintive theme with a distinctive contour: two steps upward, then a steady descent. That theme’s evolution animates the first movement. Rachmaninoff stresses the theme’s first segment, with its taut up-and-down contour, to build the introduction’s tension. A surging new incarnation of that same motif then launches the first movement proper, where agitation builds quickly. A burst of sleek, silky lyricism—the first of many in the symphony—offers a respite before turbulence flares anew, propelled by an even fierier version of that main theme. The second movement’s driving rhythms and jagged themes give the intensity a new form. But it dies away at the end of the movement, and in the Adagio, Rachmaninoff’s big-heartedness takes over. Stillness reigns at first, thanks to a tender, long-breathed clarinet solo. Then emotions well up. The violins launch into a broad, glowing melody accompanied richly by the other strings. After the first movement’s theme reappears, injecting a touch of pensiveness, Rachmaninoff’s lyricism grows even more fervent. A splash of orchestral color opens the dashing, jubilant finale, and the symphony’s most charismatic tune of all ratchets up the excitement. The Instruments: 3 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (1 doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings —Steven Brown

HOUSTON SYMPHONY

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Tune in for a month of new music, timeless masterpieces and popular movie music! November’s Houston Symphony Broadcasts include performances of Mahler’s First Symphony and Haydn’s oratorio, The Creation, both recorded this season. Alongside the Mahler, hear pieces by Victor Agudelo and Benjamin Krause, winners of the Houston Symphony’s inaugural Young Composer Competition. From this past spring, the dazzling violinist Karen Gomyo and Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård bring you Mozart and Bruckner. Then round out the month with a special 2013 concert featuring two iconic artists: Oscar-winning composer/ conductor John Williams and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, for whom Williams wrote his Cello Concerto.

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DECEMBER 2, 3, 4, 2016

VERY MERRY POPS

November 6 News 88.7 November 9 Classical

Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Agudelo: El Sombrerón* Krause: Pathways* Mahler: Symphony No. 1

Steven Reineke, conductor Santino Fontana, vocalist Jessica Hershberg Fontana, vocalist Houston Symphony Chorus—Betsy Cook Weber, director

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*Winning work of the Houston Symphony Young Composer Competition

DECEMBER 9, 2016

September 23–25, 2016

November 13 News 88.7 November 16 Classical RECORDED:

September 29, October 1 & 2, 2016

November 20 News 88.7 November 23 Classical RECORDED:

Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Nicole Heaston, soprano Toby Spence, tenor Peter Rose, bass Houston Symphony Chorus— Betsy Cook Weber, director Haydn: The Creation Thomas Søndergård, conductor Karen Gomyo, vioin Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K.216 Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major

April 14, 16 & 17, 2016

November 27 News 88.7 November 30 Classical RECORDED:

December 5, 2013

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Justin Freer, conductor Members of the Houston Symphony Chorus— Betsy Cook Weber, director DECEMBER 15*, 16, 17, 18, 2016

HANDEL’S MESSIAH

Stephen Stubbs, conductor Houston Symphony Chorus—Betsy Cook Weber, director Handel: Messiah

*The December 15 performance is part of the Sugar Land Series at Sugar Land Baptist Church.

John Williams, composer & conductor Yo-Yo Ma, cello Williams: Excerpts from Close Encounters of the Third Kind Williams: Cello Concerto Williams: Sound the Bells! Williams: Suite from Far and Away Williams: Suite from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Williams: “With Malice Toward None” from Lincoln Williams: “Adventures on Earth” from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

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I LOVE A PIANO Featuring TONY DeSARE Friday November 11, 2016 8pm Saturday November 12, 2016 8pm Sunday November 13, 2016 7:30pm

Jones Hall

Michael Krajewski, conductor Tony DeSare, piano and vocalist Ed Decker, guitar Steve Doyle, bass Michael Klopp, drums FEATURED PROGRAM

Evolution of Piano Pop Overture Hallelujah, I Love Her So

Did you know?

Clair de lune from Suite bergamasque

• Tony DeSare made his debut

New Orleans Tango She’s Always a Woman Philadelphia Freedom I N T E R M I S S I O N

Lennon/DeSare Berlin/DeSare-Firth DeSare/F. Barton Joel/DeSare Gershwin/F. Grofé

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Imagine I Love a Piano How Will I Say I Love You?

at the Houston Symphony in January 2014, performing a program of late 20th-century contemporary music, including Prince's "Kiss." • Mike Krajewski also conducted the orchestra at Tony's debut with the Symphony, and the two have since worked together on multiple occasions.

Root Beer Rag Rhapsody in Blue BILL WESTMORELAND

Arr. DeSare R. Charles/T. Firth Debussy/A. Caplet DeSare/Firth B. Joel/DeSare-E. Decker E. John-B. Taupin/G. Prechel

I Love a Piano | Program Biographies

Program BIOGRAPHIES These performances are generously supported in part by:

Michael Krajewski | conductor

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Known for his entertaining programs and clever humor, Michael Krajewski is a much sought after conductor of symphonic pops. In addition to his role as Principal Pops Conductor of the Houston Symphony, he is music director of The Philly Pops and principal pops conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Jacksonville Symphony.

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As a guest conductor, Michael has performed with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras; the Boston and Cincinnati Pops; the San Francisco, Seattle and St. Louis Symphonies; the Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Dallas, Pittsburgh and National Symphony Orchestras and numerous other orchestras across the nation. In Canada, he has led Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra; the Toronto, Edmonton and Winnipeg Symphony Orchestras; Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Other international appearances include Dublin and Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra and performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Spain’s Bilbao Symphony Orchestra. Michael is the conductor of the video Silver Screen Serenade with violinist Jenny Oaks Baker that aired worldwide on BYU Broadcasting. He has led the Houston Symphony on two holiday albums: Glad Tidings and Christmas Festival. In 2016, he's conducting his original Carole King Songbook across North America featuring Broadway's Liz Callaway, Allison Blackwell and Bryce Ryness. Michael’s other collaborative programs have included flutist James Galway, mezzo Marilyn Horne, pianist Alicia de Larrocha, guitarist Angel Romero and pop artists Jason Alexander, Roberta Flack, Judy Collins, Art Garfunkel, Wynonna Judd, Kenny Loggins, Ben Folds, Doc Severinsen, Patti Austin, Sandi Patty, Ann Hampton Callaway, Chicago, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Chieftains, Pink Martini, Rockapella, Cirque de la Symphonie, Classical Mystery Tour, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and The Midtown Men. With degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Michael furthered his training at the Pierre Monteux Domaine School for Conductors. He was a Dorati Fellowship Conductor with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and later served as that orchestra’s assistant conductor. He was resident conductor of the Florida Orchestra and, for 11 years, served as music director of the Modesto Symphony Orchestra. Michael lives in Orlando, Florida, with his wife, Darcy. When not conducting, he enjoys travel, photography and solving crossword puzzles.

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Program BIOGRAPHIES , continued

OUR THANKS

BILL WESTMORELAND

Tony DeSare | piano and vocalist Tony DeSare performs with infectious joy, wry playfulness and robust musicality. Named a Rising Star Male Vocalist in Downbeat magazine, Tony has lived up to this distinction by winning critical and popular acclaim for his concert performances throughout North America and abroad. From jazz clubs to Carnegie Hall to Las Vegas, headlining with Don Rickles and major symphony orchestras, he has brought his fresh take on old school class around the globe. Tony has three top ten Billboard jazz albums under his belt and has been featured on CBS’ The Early Show, NPR, A Prairie Home Companion and NBC’s Today. His music has been posted by social media celebrity juggernaut, George Takei.  Notwithstanding his critically acclaimed turns as a singer/pianist, Tony is also an accomplished and award-winning composer. He not only won first place in the USA Songwriting Competition, but has written the theme song for the motion picture, My Date with Drew, several broadcast commercials and the full soundtrack for the December 2016 film Love Always, Santa. His sound is romantic, swinging and sensual, but what sets him apart is his ability to write original material that sounds fresh and contemporary, yet pays homage to the Great American Songbook. His compositions include a wide-range of romantic, funny and soulful sounds that can be found on his top-selling recordings. In addition to these appearances with the Houston Symphony, other forthcoming appearances include The Philly POPS, Minnesota Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Manship Theatre in Baton Rouge, Napa Valley Performing Arts Center and the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts in Malibu. Tony releases new recordings, videos of standards and originals every few weeks on his YouTube channel, iTunes and Spotify. Follow him on Facebook, Twitter and subscribe on YouTube to stay connected.  Tony DeSare is a Yamaha Artist.

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OUR THANKS Houston’s historic Lancaster Hotel, located in the heart of Downtown Houston’s Theater and Business Districts, celebrates its landmark 90th anniversary, having opened on 701 Texas Avenue on November 21, 1926. The awardwinning 93-room boutique property, elegantly poised across from Jones Hall and the Alley Theatre, has served as an ideal aerie for scores of visiting arts luminaries and their patrons over its nine decades. Guests appreciate the hotel’s unscripted personal touch, warmth and charm that give a nod to “Old World” sensibilities, yet with 21st-century amenities. Its restaurant, Bistro Lancaster, is a favorite for power breakfasts, business lunches and pre- and postconcert dinners. Owned and operated by descendants of the original founder, Michele DeGeorge, The Lancaster earned a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark designation in 1984 and, more recently, was accepted into the prestigious Historic Hotels of America. To plan your next cultural arts getaway, go to thelancaster.com.

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FEATURED PROGRAM

A MOZART THANKSGIVING KAHANE PLAYS AND CONDUCTS Friday November 25, 2016 8pm Saturday November 26, 2016 8pm Sunday November 27, 2016 2:30pm

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Jeffrey Kahane, conductor and piano Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491 I Allegro II Larghetto III Allegretto

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Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D major, K.504 (Prague) I Adagio—Allegro II Andante III Presto

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Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467 I Allegro maestoso II Andante III Allegro vivace assai

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with your Thankgiving feast? Charles Spence, a behavioral psychologist, has "found that people can experience 15% more pleasure if music matches the wine.” He suggests a nice Pouilly-Fumé to go with Mozart.

A Mozart Thanksgiving | Program Biography

Program BIOGRAPHY SHELL FAVORITE MASTERS SERIES

The Classical Season is endowed by The Wortham Foundation, Inc. in memory of Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham. Part of the Margaret Alkek Williams Sound + Vision Series, which is also supported by The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Endowed Fund for Creative Initiatives. Video enhancement of Houston Symphony concerts is made possible by the Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation through a special gift celebrating the foundation’s 50th anniversary in 2015. Enhancements to the Jones Hall recording suite are generously provided by Silver Circle Audio. This concert is being recorded for future broadcasts on Houston Public Media News 88.7 airing on Sundays at 8pm and streaming online at houstonpublicmedia.org.

Jeffrey Kahane | conductor and piano Equally at home at the keyboard or on the podium, Jeffrey Kahane has established an international reputation as a versatile artist. He is recognized by audiences around the world for his mastery of a diverse repertoire ranging from Bach to John Adams. Since his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983, Jeffrey has given recitals in major music centers and has appeared as soloist with the world’s major orchestras and festivals. After making his conducting debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1988, he has guest conducted many U.S. orchestras. In this, his 20th and final season as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, he oversees a January 2017 festival that honors composer Kurt Weill and civil rights activist Rabbi Joachim Prinz. It culminates in a production of Weill’s final Broadway opera, Lost in the Stars. Jeffrey is artistic director of the new Green Music Center Chamberfest in Sonoma, CA, which had its inaugural season in June 2015. He has served as music director of the Colorado Symphony, as well as the Santa Rosa Symphony where he is now conductor laureate. He has been recognized for his innovative programming, commitment to education and community involvement; and he received ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming for his work in Los Angeles and Denver. Jeffrey has recorded for several labels in collaboration with the New World, Cincinnati, Bournemouth and Oregon Bach Festival symphonies, as well as works by Gershwin and Bernstein with Yo-Yo Ma, the complete works for violin and piano by Schubert with Joseph Swensen, and Bach concertos with LACO and Hilary Hahn. A native of Los Angeles and a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Jeffrey won First Prize at the 1983 Rubinstein Competition and was a finalist at the 1981 Van Cliburn Competition. He received the 1983 Avery Fisher Career Grant. An avid linguist, he is now on faculty at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. Jeffrey Kahane lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Martha, a clinical psychologist in private practice. They have two children—Gabriel, a composer, pianist and singer/songwriter, and Annie, a dancer and poet.

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Program NOTES Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491

Symphony No. 38 in D major, K.504 (Prague)

During his last few years, Mozart created a series of stormy works in minor keys, such as his Requiem and Symphony No. 40. Some researchers suspect a psychological cause: a mood-swing disorder. Periods when he was energized and creative would have alternated with depressive phases. If there’s something to that, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 is a vivid example. H.C. Robbins Landon, an authority on music from 18th-century Vienna, cited the concerto’s manuscript. Whereas the neatness of most Mozart manuscripts reveals how easily music flowed from him, Landon thought the messiness of this one revealed a fitful gestation. “The existence of many erasures and ... widespread changes may suggest a state of violent inner tension, which is reflected in this, the most impetuous and aggressive of all the piano concertos,” Landon wrote.

Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro created such a sensation in Prague, the Bohemian capital, that the city’s musicians and connoisseurs invited the composer to come from Vienna and enjoy the acclaim. Arriving in January 1787, Mozart found that Figaro tunes had even been turned into dance music for Prague’s highsociety balls. “Here they talk of nothing but Figaro; play, blow, sing or whistle nothing but Figaro; go to no opera but Figaro and always Figaro,” Mozart reported. “A great compliment to me, to be sure.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

The work’s drama comes across regardless of any psychological backstory, though. With its extremes of ferocity and tenderness, the concerto ranks among Mozart’s most arresting works. The opening is quiet but unsettled. The strings, in unison, intone the jagged theme that will dominate the first movement. As the winds enter and flesh out the harmony, the tension builds until that main theme suddenly thunders from the entire orchestra. The music remains restless even as it grows quieter, and only the piano’s pensive entrance brings a real change of tone. Though the keyboard soon gets drawn into the orchestra’s turbulence, it also contributes lyricism and brightness, expanding the conflict of moods that drives the movement. In the spot near the end that Mozart left open for the soloist’s improvisation—in musical parlance, the cadenza— conductor-pianist Jeffrey Kahane will play his own creation with the Houston Symphony. The second movement sets aside the emotional crossplay. The piano sings out a melody whose grace and sweetness exude serenity, all the more so when the orchestra adds its warmth. The woodwinds twice step to the fore—first to introduce a more plaintive note, later to make the movement even more mellifluous than at the outset. The finale, a theme and variations, starts quietly but grows more and more fiery as the piano adds its vehemence. A couple of gentler variations offer only momentary respite, and the concerto surges to a fierce close. The Houston Symphony will perform another dramatic piano concerto, Beethoven’s Emperor, in January. The Instruments: flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In response to popular demand, Mozart presented a concert of his works, and he took the opportunity to unveil a work he had finished shortly before leaving home. Thanks to the setting, the Symphony No. 38 eventually became known as the Prague Symphony. Alone among the mature Mozart’s symphonies, it has only three movements. No explanation has come down to us for Mozart’s omitting the typical minuet, but one thing is certain—it couldn’t have been because he meant the work to be diminutive. The symphony opens with one of the grandest-scale first movements Mozart ever devised. It begins with an imposing slow introduction. After a sonorous opening, the music soon grows dark and biting, as if it’s leading to a scene of despair. But the symphony has a different story to tell. As the Allegro begins, the strings’ mellowness brings a more genial tone. Then the winds jump in, and their jauntiness confirms that Mozart is brushing away the gloom. The rest of the movement is crisp, snappy and sonorous, and the climactic chords almost explode with excitement. Mellow strings set the mood in the second movement, too. Warm, melodious and flowing, the Andante offers a repose after the first movement’s excitement. Even when a more biting tone intrudes, it soon gives way to softness. And the music sometimes moves with the lilt of a dance. Did Mozart think of this as a slow movement and minuet rolled into one? The finale is a romp. As it begins, notice the violins’ first four notes: That vaulting motif rings out from the orchestra—sometimes lightly, sometimes lustily—in a jubilant crossplay that propels the symphony to a rousing close. Another spirited symphony is in store for March, when the Houston Symphony plays Beethoven’s Seventh. The Instruments: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings The printed music for this work were donated by Charles and Naomi Black, in memory of Alan Ryder and Charles & Althea Black.

A Mozart Thanksgiving | Program Notes

Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K.467 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart left his hometown of Salzburg, Austria, in the summer of 1781 and set up housekeeping in Vienna. Concerts featuring his music became one of the young composer’s main sources of income; he naturally doubled as piano soloist, since keyboard virtuosity had been one of his claims to fame since childhood. During Mozart’s first five years in Vienna, he created 15 piano concertos—including the two in this Houston Symphony program—as showcases. The Concerto No. 21 has been the best-known ever since its seductive Andante accompanied a love scene in Elvira Madigan, a Swedish film that became an international hit in 1967. The complete work sandwiches that bittersweet lyricism between two flights of exuberance and brightness. Like the Concerto No. 24, this one begins with strings playing quietly and in unison. But the music here is crisp and catchy, and it gains a festive-occasion brilliance as the rest of the orchestra joins in. The soloist’s entrance brings another contrast with No. 24. Rather than changing the mood, the piano adds its own flourish to the excitement, then plays a glistening trill as the orchestra repeats the striding first theme. The piano adds cozier moments as well as restless ones, but those are sidelights to the prevailing jubilation. After the cadenza—again by pianist Jeffrey Kahane in this weekend’s concerts—the excitement simmers down, and the movement ends as quietly as it began.

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Now comes the iconic Andante. Its yearning melody, sung out by orchestra and piano in turn, floats virtually uninterrupted through the entire movement. But the music’s heart really is the harmony. In the first few phrases, note how it goes from sweetly serene to subtly dissonant and back again. The more that happens as the movement unfolds, the more poignant the music becomes. Mozart conveys intense emotion without ever raising his voice. High spirits return with the finale. Though the orchestra launches it, the keyboard soon takes the lead, allowing the soloist to revel in breezy virtuosity as the piano part runs rings around everything else. The music proves that Mozart, when he was crafting his warhorses, knew how to show off with style. Another dashing showpiece, Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1, brings Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter back to the Houston Symphony in March. The Instruments: flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings —Steven Brown

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Board of DIRECTORS

(2016-17 SEASON)

Steven P. Mach*

Bobby Tudor*

Janet F. Clark*

Mike S. Stude*

President, Houston Symphony Endowment

Mark C. Hanson*^

Music Director

President

Alexandra Pruner

Chairman

Chairman Emeritus

Andrés Orozco-Estrada*^

Executive Director/CEO

Sergei Galperin*^

Chair, Finance

Mark Hughes*^

Chair, Artistic & Orchestra Affairs

Chair, Audience Development & Marketing

Paul R. Morico*

Chair, Community Partnerships

Chair, Development

Secretary

President-Elect

Robert A. Peiser*

Immediate Past President

Gene Dewhurst*

Musician Representative

Barbara J. Burger*

Chair, Board Governance & Leadership

Musician Representative

Gloria G. Pryzant

Justice Brett Busby Donna Shen

Gene Dewhurst Chair, Pension

Jerry Simon*

Viviana Denechaud

Immediate Past Chairman

Barbara McCelvey* Chair, Strategic Planning

Danielle Batchelor

Chair, Popular Programming

Chair, Education

Mary Lynn Marks Chair, Volunteers & Special Events

Darlene Clark

President, Houston Symphony League

Adam Dinitz*^

Musician Representative

Christine Kelly-Weaver

General Counsel

David Pruner*

Co-Chair, Development

Jesse B. Tutor*^

Billy McCartney

Assistant Secretary

*Executive Committee ^Ex-Officio

Anthony Bohnert Chair, Audit

GOVERNING DIRECTORS Janice Barrow** Danielle Batchelor Gary Beauchamp Anthony Bohnert Marie Taylor Bosarge Ralph Burch Barbara J. Burger Justice Brett Busby Andrew Calder Donna Josey Chapman Janet F. Clark Brad W. Corson Viviana Denechaud

Gene Dewhurst Michael Doherty Julia Anderson Frankel David Frankfort Ronald G. Franklin Stephen Glenn Susan Hansen Joan Kaplan Rochelle Levit, Ph.D. Michael C. Linn Cora Sue Mach ** Steven P. Mach Paul M. Mann, M.D.

Jay Marks ** Mary Lynn Marks David Massin Billy McCartney Barbara McCelvey Alexander K. McLanahan ** Paul R. Morico Kevin O’Gorman John Onstott Robert A. Peiser David Pruner Ron Rand John Rydman

Manolo Sánchez Helen Shaffer ** Jerry Simon Jim R. Smith Miles O. Smith James Stein Mike S. Stude ** William J. Toomey II Bobby Tudor ** Betty Tutor ** Jesse B. Tutor ** Judith Vincent Mrs. S. Conrad Weil

Vicki West Margaret Alkek Williams ** Scott Wulfe David Wuthrich

Tracy Dieterich Terry Elizabeth Everett Kelli Cohen Fein, M.D. Craig Fox Allen Gelwick Evan Glick Julianne K. Gorte Eric Haufrect, M.D. Gary L. Hollingsworth, M.D. Marianne Ivany Brian James Rita Justice I. Ray Kirk, M.D. Ulyesse LeGrange ** Carlos J. Lopez

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

Richard Robbins, M.D. J. Hugh Roff Jr. ** Ed Schneider Michael E. Shannon ** Donna Shen Robert Sloan, Ph.D. Tad Smith David Stanard David Tai Brian J. Thomas L. Proctor (Terry) Thomas Shirley W. Toomim Andrew Truscott Margaret Waisman, M.D. Robert Weiner

James T. Willerson, M.D. Fredric Weber Steven J. Williams Ed Wulfe ** Robert Yekovich Frank Yonish

Ex-Officio Darlene Clark Rodney Margolis Mary Voigt **Lifetime Trustee

TRUSTEES Samuel Abraham William L. Ackerman Philip Bahr Devinder Bhatia, M.D. Meherwan Boyce Nancy Shelton Bratic Terry Ann Brown** Prentiss Burt Cheryl Byington Dougal Cameron John T. Cater ** Michael H. Clark Evan Collins, M.D., MBA Andrew Davis Ronald DePinho, M.D.

FRIENDS OF JONES HALL REPRESENTATIVES Justice Brett Busby

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Janet Clark

Barbara McCelvey

Ex-Officio Audrey Chang Alexandra Gottschalk Alexandra Pruner Ishwaria Subbiah Brodrick W. Hill Art Vivar **Lifetime Trustee

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 Alexandra Pruner, President Gene Dewhurst

James Lee Michael Mithoff

Fredric A. Weber

An endowed fund can be permanently established within the Houston Symphony Society 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 more information, please contact: Patrick T. Quinn, Director, Planned Giving 713.337.8532, patrick.quinn@houstonsymphony.org

CHORUS ENDOWMENT DONORS Janice Barrow Eldo Bergman, Family Literacy Network, Inc. Roger & Debby Cutler Steve Dukes Mr. Paul Ehrsam

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$500 or more

Robert Lee Gomez Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Henderson Beth Weidler & Stephen James Nobuhide Kobori Natalia Rawle Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Rio

Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rodenberger Ms. Carolyn Rogan Michael J. Shawiak Susan L. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Frederic A. Weber Anonymous (2)

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

Vicky & Michael Richker Family Adolfo Sayago, Orquestas Sybil F. Roos Rotary Trumpets Silver Circle Audio Enhancements to Jones Hall Recording Suite

Houston Symphony League Steinway Concert Grand Piano and Instrument Petting Zoo

Beverly Johnson, Ralph Wyman and Jim Foti, and Thane & Nicole Wyman in memory of Winthrop Wyman Basset Horns and Rotary Trumpets

Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Piccolo Timpano

Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Conductor’s Podium

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Sustainability

FUND

SUS

The Houston Symphony pays special tribute to the 137 donors who made transformational gifts to complete the Sustainability Fund. On December 31, 2015, the Houston Symphony celebrated an extraordinary achievement: the completion of a five-year $15 million Sustainability Fund, which has transformed the orchestra’s financial position. The Symphony was able to close out the campaign thanks to challenge grant funds totaling $1,050,000 provided by Bobby & Phoebe Tudor, Cora Sue & Harry Mach, Janice Barrow, Steve & Joella Mach and Robert & Jane Cizik. The Ciziks provided the final $500,000 to allow the Symphony to reach its $15 million Sustainability Fund goal.

The Houston Symphony pays special tribute to the donors who made a significant investment in our orchestra’s future, positioning the Symphony for success as we continue to pursue the ambitions outlined in our strategic plan, Vision 2025, to be an orchestra for all Houstonians, and to become America’s most relevant and accessible top-ten orchestra by 2025.

John & Lindy Rydman / Spec's Charitable Foundation / Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods MD Anderson Foundation Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

Houston Endowment Estate of Jean R. Sides Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Janice Barrow Margaret Alkek Williams Jane & Robert Cizik

Mrs. Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Mrs. Kitty King Powell The Cullen Foundation The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts The Brown Foundation, Inc. Cora Sue & Harry Mach The Wortham Foundation, Inc.

Barbara J. Burger Ron Franklin & Janet Gurwitch The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Barbara & Pat McCelvey Estate of Mary Ann Holloway Phillips Sybil F. Roos Steven & Nancy Williams

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

Marilyn & Robert Hermance C. Howard Pieper Foundation Tad & Suzanne Smith Alice & Terry Thomas Shirley W. Toomim Janet & Tom Walker

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

Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. Ralph Burch Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Evan D. Collins Erika & S. David Frankfort Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Mrs. Carolyn & Dr. Michael Mann Jay & Shirley Marks

James D. Stein Mr. & Mrs.* Clive Runnells BB&T / Courtney & Bill Toomey Scott & Lori Wulfe Anonymous (1)

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

The Brodsky Foundation David Chambers & Alex Steffler Vicky Dominguez Mr. Colin C. Gatwood & Ms. Aralee Dorough Mr. Jonathan Fischer Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Julianne & David Gorte Mr. & Mrs. Frank Yonish Dr. Ronald DePinho & Dr. Lynda Chin Mr. & Mrs. Allen Barnhill Pam & Chad Blaine Mr. Wayne Brooks Terry Ann Brown Aurelie Desmarais & Ed Struzynski Mr. & Mrs. Michael Doherty Martin & Kelli Cohen Fein Ms. Megan Conley Rian & Sean Craypo Brian & Leah Del Signore Eric & Angelea Halen Mark & Marilyn Hughes Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Mr. Robert E. Johnson & Ms. Ariella Perlman

Mary Beth Mosley Scott & Judy Nyquist Mr. Matthew D. Roitstein Mr. Brinton Averil Smith & Ms. Evelyn Chen Mr. & Mrs. Eric A. Arbiter Mrs. Shirley Burgher Mr. Erik T. Gronfor & Ms. Joan DerHovsepian Mr. & Mrs. Thomas LeGrand Mr. & Mrs. Harvin Moore IV Mr. & Mrs. Scott Holshouser Mr. Robin Kesselman Dr. & Mrs. Robert Ivany Ms. Anne C. Leek Mr. & Mrs. William K. VerMeulen Martha & Stanley* Bair Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Brewer Ms. Joyce Perkins David & Tara Wuthrich Anonymous (3) *Deceased

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Legacy SOCIETY The Legacy Society honors those who have included the Houston Symphony Endowment in their long-term estate plans through bequests, lifeincome gifts or other deferred-giving arrangements. If you would like to learn more about ways to provide for the Houston Symphony Endowment in your estate plans, please contact Patrick T. Quinn, Director, Planned Giving, at 713.337.8532 or patrick.quinn@houstonsymphony.org. Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron Daniel B. Barnum George & Betty Bashen Dorothy B. Black Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield Zu Broadwater Joan K. Bruchas & H. Philip Cowdin Mr. Christopher & Mrs. Erin Brunner Eugene R. Bruns Sylvia J. Carroll Dr. Robert N. Chanon William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes The Honorable & Mrs. William Crassas Patricia Cunningham Dr. Lida S. Dahm Leslie Barry Davidson Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Ginny Garrett Lila-Gene George Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Randolph Lee Groninger

Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mrs. Gloria Herman Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Timothy Hogan & Elaine Anthony Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Dr. Edward J. & Mrs. Patti Hurwitz Dr. Kenneth Hyde Brian & Catherine James Dr. & Mrs. Ira Kaufman, M.D. John S. W. Kellett Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mrs. Frances E. Leland Mrs. Lucy Lewis E. W. Long Jr. Sandra Magers Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Jay & Shirley Marks James G. Matthews Mr. & Mrs. John H. Matzer III Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Dr. Tracey Samuels & Mr. Robert McNamara

Mr. & Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Catherine Jane Merchant Dr. Georgette M. Michko Katherine Taylor Mize Richard & Juliet Moynihan Gretchen Ann Myers Patience Myers Mr. John N. Neighbors, in memory of Jean Marie Neighbors Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Nelson Bobbie Newman John & Leslie Niemand Dave G. Nussmann John Onstott Macky Osorio Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Imogen "Immy" Papadopoulos Christine & Red Pastorek Sara M. Peterson Darla Powell Phillips Geraldine Smith Priest Dana Puddy Patrick T. Quinn Lila Rauch Evie Ronald

Walter Ross Dr. & Mrs. Kazuo Shimada Lisa & Jerry Simon Tad & Suzanne Smith Sherry Snyder Marie Speziale Emily H. & David K. Terry Stephen G. Tipps Steve Tostengard, in memory of Ardyce Tostengard Dr. Carlos Vallbona & children Jana Vander Lee Dean B. Walker David M. Wax* & Elaine Arden Cali Geoffrey Westergaard Nancy B. Willerson Jennifer R. Wittman Daisy S. Wong / JCorp Susan Gail Wood Lorraine & Ed Wulfe David & Tara Wuthrich Katherine & Mark Yzaguirre Edith & Robert Zinn Anonymous (7)

Sidney Moran Sue A. Morrison & children in memory of Walter J. Morrison Robert A. Peiser Gloria G. Pryzant Mr. & Mrs.* Clive Runnells Mr. Charles K. Sanders Donna Scott Charles & Andrea Seay Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Michael J. Shawiak Jule* & Albert Smith Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mike & Anita* Stude

Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Elba L. Villarreal Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Robert G. Weiner Vicki West, in honor of Hans Graf Jo Dee Wright Ellen A. Yarrell Anonymous (2)

CRESCENDO CIRCLE $100,000+ Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Priscilla R. Angly Janice Barrow James Barton Dr. Joan Hacken Bitar Joe Brazzatti Terry Ann Brown Drs. Dennis & Susan Carlyle Janet F. Clark Mr. William E. Colburn Harrison R.T. Davis Jean & Jack* Ellis The Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Family Eugene Fong

Michael B. George Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Evan B. Glick Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves Dr. Rita Justice Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Joella & Steven P. Mach Bill & Karinne McCullough Betty & Gene McDavid Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Mr. Ronald Mikita & Mr. Rex Spikes Ione Moran

*Deceased

In MEMORIAM We honor the memory of those who in life included the Houston Symphony Endowment in their estate plans. Their thoughtfulness and generosity will continue to inspire and enrich lives for generations to come! Mr. Thomas D. Barrow W. P. Beard Ronald C. Borschow Mrs. H. Raymond Brannon Anthony Brigandi Lawrence E. Carlton, M.D. Mrs. Albert V. Caselli Lee Allen Clark Jack Ellis Mrs. Robin A. Elverson Frank R. Eyler Dr. & Mrs. Larry L. Fedder 40 | Houston Symphony

Helen Bess Fariss Foster Christine E. George Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Gott John Wesley Graham Mrs. Marcella Levine Harris Gen. & Mrs. Maurice Hirsch Miss Ima Hogg Burke & Octavia Holman David L. Hyde Dr. Blair Justice Dr. Mary R. Lewis Mrs. L. F. McCollum

Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. McKerley Doretha Melvin Monroe L. Mendelsohn Jr. Mrs. Janet Moynihan Terrence Murphree Arthur Newman Constantine S. Nicandros Hanni Orton Stewart Orton, Legacy Society co-founder Dr. Michael Papadopoulos Miss Louise Pearl

Mary Anne H. Phillips Mr. Howard Pieper Walter W. Sapp, Legacy Society co-founder J. Fred & Alma Laws Lunsford Schultz Ms. Jean R. Sides Blanche Stasny John K. & Fanny W. Stone Dorothy Barton Thomas Mrs. Harry C. Weiss Mrs. Edward Wilkerson

Education & Community Engagement DONORS The Houston Symphony acknowledges those individuals, corporations and foundations that support our education and community engagement initiatives. 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

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$100,000+

BBVA Compass Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Houston Endowment Houston Symphony Endowment Mr. John N. Neighbors John & Lindy Rydman / Spec’s Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods

Underwriter

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$50,000+

Cameron International Corporation Chevron The Elkins Foundation ENGIE Exxon Mobil Corporation Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan/ Houston Baptist University The Hearst Foundations, Inc. Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo The John P. McGovern Foundation Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr./ The Robbins Foundation Shell Oil Company The Robert & Janice McNair Foundation

Sponsor

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$25,000+

The Boeing Company Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III/ WoodRock & Co. Sterling-Turner Foundation Wells Fargo

Partner

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$15,000+

Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation The Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation H-E-B Mr. Jay Steinfeld & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop Texas Commission on the Arts Ellen A. Yarrell in memory of Virginia S. Anderson and in honor of Cora Sue Mach

Supporter

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$10,000+

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation CenterPoint Energy East West Bank George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Houston Symphony League Nancy & Robert Peiser The Powell Foundation Vivian L. Smith Foundation Union Pacific Foundation

Benefactor

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$5,000+

Houston Symphony League Bay Area Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation Macy’s Marathon Oil Corporation Nordstrom Randalls Food Markets Strake Foundation

Donor

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$1,000+

Lilly & Thurmon Andress Diane & Harry Gendel Kinder Morgan Foundation Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Cora Sue & Harry Mach Karinne & Bill McCullough Tricia & March Rauch Texas Commission on the Arts

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

Support for Symphony Scouts Cora Sue & Harry Mach in honor of Roger Daily’s 13 years of service as Director of the Houston Symphony’s Education and Community Programs

Support for the CommunityEmbedded Musician Program The Houston Symphony residency at Crespo Elementary is presented by BBVA Compass and the BBVA Compass Foundation. We are also thankful to HISD and these lead supporters of the Community-Embedded Musician program: Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Medistar Spec’s Charitable Foundation Nancy & Robert Peiser Mr. Jay Steinfeld & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop H-E-B Union Pacific Foundation LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation

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Our DONORS ANNUAL SUPPORT The Houston Symphony gratefully acknowledges those who support our artistic, educational and community engagement programs through their generosity to our Annual Fund and our Special Events.

For more information, please contact: Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO, 713.337.8540 David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, 713.337.8525 Molly Simpson, Director, Individual Giving and Major Gifts, 713.337.8526

Ima Hogg Society $150,000 or more 

Janice Barrow Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Barbara J. Burger Jane & Robert Cizik Janet F. Clark

Estate of Dr. Mary R. Lewis Cora Sue & Harry Mach Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. John N. Neighbors Sybil F. Roos

Centennial Society Mr. Monzer Hourani Rochelle & Max Levit

Founder’s Society

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Maestro’s Society

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$100,000-$149,999

Barbara & Pat McCelvey Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

$75,000-$99,999

Robin Angly & Miles Smith Darlene & Cappy* Bisso Ron Franklin & Janet Gurwitch

Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation

Billy & Christie McCartney Steven & Nancy Williams

$50,000-$74,999

Jana & Scotty Arnoldy Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Bahr Gary & Marian Beauchamp Lila-Gene George Mrs. Alfred C. Glassell Jr. Mr. Jackson Hicks / Jackson and Company

Concertmaster’s Society Mr. John Barlow Dr. & Mrs. Devinder Bhatia Mr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Bohnert Nancy & Walter Bratic Ralph Burch Drs. Dennis & Susan Carlyle Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Viviana & David Denechaud Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III / WoodRock & Co. Linda & Gene Dewhurst Mr. & Mrs. Donald Faust Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Russell M. Frankel Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies Mr. & Mrs. M. G. Glasscock Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Bert & Joan Golding Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Griswold Susan & Dick Hansen 42 | Houston Symphony

John & Lindy Rydman / Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Mike Stude Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Margaret Alkek Williams

The Estate of Miss Ima Hogg The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Beth Madison Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Janice & Robert McNair John Onstott Nancy & Robert Peiser 

Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. / The Robbins Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Alice & Terry Thomas Ms. Judith Vincent

$25,000-$49,999

Christina & Mark C. Hanson Marilyn & Bob Hermance Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Ken Hyde Dr. Rita Justice Drs. M.S. & Marie-Luise Kalsi Mr. & Mrs. James H. Lee Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Mrs. Carolyn & Dr. Michael Mann Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Mrs. Mary Catherine Miller John & Bobbie Nau Mr. & Mrs. Odis Peavy Mr. Jason Poon / Marine Foods Express, Ltd. Dave & Alie Pruner Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Louisa Stude Sarofim Laura & Michael Shannon

Lisa & Jerry Simon Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan Jr. / Houston Baptist University Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Springob, Laredo Construction, Inc. James D. Stein Mr. Jay Steinfeld & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop Nancy & David Tai Shirley Wolff Toomim Janet & Tom Walker Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. Scott & Lori Wulfe Ms. Ellen A. Yarrell

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Platinum Baton

Graham & Janet Baker Danielle & Josh Batchelor James M. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Justice Brett & Erin Busby Donna & Max Chapman Mr. Richard Danforth Dr. Alex Dell Mrs. William Estrada Kelli Cohen Fein & Martin Fein Angel & Craig Fox Erika & S. David Frankfort Evan B. Glick

Conductor’s Circle

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Conductor’s Circle

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Conductor’s Circle

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Leslie Barry Davidson & W. Robins Brice Valerie Palmquist Dieterich & Tracy Dieterich Archie & Linda Dunham John & Minerva Esquivel Terry Everett & Eric Cheyney Mr. & Mrs. Marvy A. Finger Michael B. George Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves Mrs. James E. Hooks Catherine & Brian James Mr. & Mrs. Jacek Jaminski Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Leighton Drs. Robert & Golda Anne Leonard Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Martin

Ms. Farida Abjani Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Abraham Mrs. Nancy C. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Adam Altsuler Lilly & Thurmon Andress Christine Smith & Ben Andrews Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron Mr. & Mrs. Ed Banner Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Basinski Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman Ruth White Brodsky Mr. Ken D. Brownlee & Ms. Caroline Deetjen Dr. & Mrs. William T. Butler Dougal & Cathy Cameron Marilyn Caplovitz Mrs. Lily Carrigan Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Carter IV

Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Stephen & Kristine Wallace Dede & Connie Weil Robert G. Weiner & Toni Blankmann Vicki West Jeanie Kilroy Wilson & Wallace S. Wilson Ralph Wyman & Jim Foti Thane & Nicole Wyman

Dr. & Mrs. E. K. Massin Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Betty & Gene McDavid Martha & Marvin McMurrey Mr. Gary Mercer Mrs. Nancy Morrison Scott & Judy Nyquist Toni Oplt & Ed Schneider Rochelle & Sheldon Oster Lila Rauch Kathy & Wayne Richards Vicky & Michael Richker Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Manolo Sanchez Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scherr Mr. Wolfgang Schmidt & Mrs. Angelika Schmidt-Lange Mr. & Mrs. Shalin Shah Tad & Suzanne Smith

Alana R. Spiwak & Sam L. Stolbun Mr. & Mrs. Trent Tellepsen Ms. Laura Codman & Mr. John F. Terwilliger Mrs. Jennifer Chang & Mr. Aaron J. Thomas Pamalah & Stephen Tipps Courtney & Bill Toomey Susan & Andrew Truscott Birgitt van Wijk Mr. & Ms. Frank Verducci Mr. & Mrs. Sean Waggoner Shirley & Joel Wahlberg Dr. Jim T. Willerson Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Daisy S. Wong / JCorp Lorraine & Ed Wulfe Nina & Michael Zilkha

April Lykos David & Heidi Massin Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Dr. Cameron Mitchell Rita & Paul Morico Sami & Jud Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Parker Jean & Allan Quiat Radoff Family Ed & Janet Rinehart Mr. Glen A. Rosenbaum Mr. & Mrs. Rufus S. Scott Michael J. Shawiak

Mr. & Mrs. Lee H. Staley Carol & Michael Stamatedes Kimberly & David Sterling Dr. John R. Stroehlein & Miwa Sakashita Candace & Brian Thomas Ms. Hallie A. Vanderhider Anonymous (1)

Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Francisco Mr. Shane T. Frank Kevin & Sherrill Garland Ms. Nan Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gendel Wm. David George Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Gibson Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Gongre Mr. Alan Goodrich Dorothy & Bill Grieves Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Haas Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hardison Stephen Jeu & Susanna Calvo Beverly Johnson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Joity Mr. & Mrs. Steve Jones Catherine & Andrew Kaldis Mr. & Mrs. Dan Kellogg Mary Louis Kister

Mr. & Mrs. Jason T. Klein Dr. Milton & Gail Danziger Klein William & Cynthia Koch Mr. & Mrs. John P. Kotts Willy Kuehn Michael & Kelley Lang Mrs. Nancy Lease Ms. Lynne Lipsitz Marilyn G. Lummis Mr. William McDugald Terry & Kandee McGill Mr. & Mrs. William B. McNamara Alice McPherson, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. William Monteleone Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Montz Mr. & Mrs. Harvin Moore IV Sidney & Ione Moran Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Moynier Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Murphy

$7,500-$9,999

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Roger & Debby Cutler J.R. & Aline Deming Judge & Mrs. Harold R. DeMoss Jr. Dr. Ronald DePinho & Dr. Lynda Chin Scott Ensell & Family Mr. & Mrs. Henry S. Florsheim Eugene Fong Ms. Darlene Clark & Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs Jennifer & Joshua Gravenor Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herzog

Bronze Baton

Gary Petersen Gloria & Joe Pryzant Ron & Demi Rand Gabriel & Mona Rio Ken & Carol Lee Robertson Hugh & Ann Roff William J. Rovere & Kathi F. Rovere Mr. & Mrs.* Clive Runnells Carol & Kamal Sandarusi Donna & Tim Shen Mr. & Mrs. Charles Tate Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Thomas

$10,000-$14,999

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Silver Baton

Anne Morgan Barrett Mrs. Bonnie Bauer Mr. & Mrs. David J. Beck Mr. & Dr. Karl-Heinz Becker Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Black Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bookout III Lilia Khakimova & C. Robert Bunch Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Calder Dr. M.K. Campion David Chambers & Alex Steffler Albert & Anne Chao Audrey & Brandon Cochran Molly & Jim Crownover

$15,000-$24,999

Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Debbie & Frank Jones Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Jay & Shirley Marks Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Stephen & Marilyn Miles/ Steven Warren Miles & Marilyn Ross Miles Foundation The Estate of Terence Murphree Bobbie Newman Susan & Edward Osterberg

Gold Baton

Mr. William L. Ackerman Kero-Jet Corporation Frances & Ira Anderson Edward H. Andrews III Nina Andrews & David Karohl Sr. Judge Mary Bacon Consurgo Sunshine Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Astley Blair Anne & George Boss Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Terry Ann Brown Cheryl & Sam Byington Mr. & Mrs. Bernard F. Clark Jr. Virginia A. Clark Laurie & Ryan Colburn Dr. & Mrs. Evan D. Collins Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Corson Dr. Scott Cutler

THANK 

you

Conductor’s Circle

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$5,000-$7,499

William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Mr. William E. Colburn Coneway Family Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Byron Cooley Mr. & Mrs. Larry Corbin Lois & David Coyle Andrew Davis & Corey Tu Janie & Carr Dishroon Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Dupre' II Connie & Byron Dyer Mr. William P. Elbel & Ms. Mary J. Schroeder Mr. Parrish N. Erwin Jr. Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Diane Lokey Farb Ms. Carolyn Faulk Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fluor Mr. & Mrs. Trent Foltz

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Our DONORS continued Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson David G. Nussman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Parker Mr. Doug D. Perley & Ms. Eileen M. Campbell Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Tim & Katherine Pownell Mr. & Mrs. Claud D. Riddles Allyn & Jill Risley Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Mr. Robert T. Sakowitz Dr. & Mrs. Todd Scheyer

Grand Patron’s Circle

Mrs. Richard P. Schissler Jr. Ms. Sue Schwartz Ms. Angela Sherman Mr. & Mrs. William T. Slick Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Reginald Smith Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Somerville Mr. David Stanard & Ms. Beth Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Hans Strohmer Mr. & Mrs. Antonio M. Szabo Tellepsen Family 

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Ms. Barbara Williams Mr. & Mrs. Neil A. Wizel Woodell Family Foundation Sally & Denney Wright Mr. & Mrs. David Wynne Edith & Robert Zinn Erla & Harry Zuber Anonymous (3)

Mr. Darrin Davis & Mr. Mario Gudmundsson Mandy & Rafael Diaz Mr. & Mrs. Mark Diehl Amanda & Adam Dinitz Mr. & Mrs. Michael Doherty Ms. Victoria E. Dominguez Robert J. Doyle David & Carolyn Edgar Mr. Stephen Elison Annette & Knut Eriksen Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank Carolyn Grant Fay Ms. Ursula H. Felmet Jerry E. & Nanette B. Finger Mrs. Ronald Fischer Mr. & Mrs. Neil Gaynor Thomas & Patricia Geddy Robert Lee Gomez Mr. & Mrs. Herb Goodman Mr. Danny A. Granados Eric & Angelea Halen Dr. & Mrs. Carlos R. Hamilton Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Eric J. Haufrect Ms. Christine Heggeseth Mark & Ragna Henrichs Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Hoffer Mr. Ronald Holley & Dr. Natasha Holley Mr. & Mrs. Rocky Holmes Dr. Matthew Horsfield & Dr. Michael Kauth Mr. & Mrs. John Hrncir Mark & Marilyn Hughes Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Jankovic

Mrs. Ann B. Jennings Jessica Q. Johnston Mr. & Mrs. John Juneau Jane & Kevin Kremer Mr. Alfred Lasher III Ms. Sylvia Lohkamp Ms. Brenda Love Dr. & Mrs. Paul M. Mann Brian McCulloch & Jeremy Garcia Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGuire Will L. McLendon Ms. Trazanna Moreno Julia & Chris Morton Mary Beth Mosley Richard & Juliet Moynihan Franci Neely Dr. Thomas D. Nichols Mr. & Mrs. Travis Nichols Mr. Kevin O'Gorman Mr. & Mrs. Patrick W. Olfers Mr. & Mrs. Steven Owsley Mr. & Mrs. Robert Page Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Palmer Christine & Robert Pastorek Mr. & Mrs. Raul Pavon Shirley & Michael P. Pearson Mr. David Peavy & Mr. Stephen McCauley Darla & Chip Purchase Mr. & Mrs. Cris Pye Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Rawson Brooke & Nathaniel Richards Alexander Robart Doug Williams & Janice Robertson Drs. Alex & Lynn Rosas Mr. & Mrs. Bryan Ruez

Mr. & Mrs. Yasuhiko Saitoh Dr. & Mrs. Barry Samuels Mr. & Mrs. Saib Saour Susan D. & Fayez Sarofim Dr. Susan Gardner & Dr. Philip Scott Hinda Simon Dr. & Mrs. John Slater Steve & Judy Sohn Richard & Mary Spies Dr. Walter Stanford Mrs. Jeaneen Stastny Ishwaria & Vivek Subbiah Mr. & Mrs. Garry Tanner Dr. & Mrs. Van W. Teeters Ms. Georgeta Teodorescu Dan C. & Kimberly Tutcher Mr. & Mrs. Gene Van Dyke Ms. Jana Vander Lee Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Walt Mr. Clinton Wetmore Ms. Karen M. Whitlock Dr. & Mrs. Rudy C. Wildenstein Ms. Jennifer R. Wittman Ms. Beth Wolff Gerlind & Jerry S. Wolinksy Mr. & Mrs. David J. Wuthrich Robert & Michele Yekovich Mr. & Mrs. Frank Yonish Mr. & Mrs. Edward R. Ziegler Anonymous (4)

Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Brownlee Mr. & Mrs. Cezary Brylski Mr. & Mrs. Raul Caffesse Mrs. Charles Callery Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Campbell Jr. Louise Carlson & Richard Larrabee Mrs. Mary Ann Carrico Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Clarke Dr. & Mrs. Alfred C. Coats Jimmy & Lynn Coe Mr. John P. Cogan Jr. Mr. Mark C. Conrad Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Coronado Crystal & Mike Cox Brian & Leah Del Signore Ms. Catherine Delano Dr. & Ms. Peter J. Dempsey Ms. Elisabeth DeWitts Mike & Debra Dishberger Jennifer & Steve Dolman Mr. & Mrs. James P. Dorn

Drs. Rosalind & Gary Dworkin Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Earle Mr. & Mrs. Gary Edwards Sally Evans & Brian Rodgers Dr. Louis & Mrs. Paula Faillace Christine Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Kimberly Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ference Ms. Marcia Fiman Mr. Jonathan Fischer Mr. & Mrs. Harvey O. Fleisher Mark Folkes & Christopher Johnston Michelle & Deane Foss Mr. & Mrs. Phil Frederickson Mr. & Mrs. James E. Furr Rauli & Danna Garcia Ms. Aralee Dorough & Mr. Colin C. Gatwood

Ms. Lucy Gebhart Mr. & Mrs. John Gee Joan M. Giese Mr. & Ms. Robert W. Goldman Dr. John Gomez & Dr. Cora Mihu Dr. & Mrs. Bradford S. Goodwin Jr. Alexandra & Daniel Gottschalk Timothy & Janet Graham Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Gregory Dennis Griffith & Louise Richman Claudio Gutierrez Mrs. Thalia Halen Mr. & Mrs. William R. Hamm Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hampton Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Hasler Mr. & Mrs. Houston Haymon John Heiny Dr. & Mrs. William C. Heird Mr. & Mrs. David J. Hemenway Miss Maureen Y. Higdon Ann & Joe Hightower

$2,500-$4,999

Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Mr. & Mrs. Roy Allice Dr. Angela R. Apollo Lindley & Jason Arnoldy John Arnsparger & Susan Weingarten Ann & Jonathan Ayre Mr. & Mrs. Carlos Barbieri Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd M. Bentsen III Ganesh H. Betanabhatla Drs. Henry & Louise Bethea Mrs. Pat Biddle & Mr. Ron Kahl Mrs. Ann M. Bixby Mr. John Blaisdell Mr. & Mrs. Myron G. Blalock III Drs. Desmond & Tiffany Bourgeois James & Judy Bozeman Ting & John Bresnahan Mrs. Catherine Campbell Brock & Dr. Gary Brock Mr. Chester Brooke & Dr. Nancy Poindexter Divya & Chris Brown Mr. Eric Brueggeman Dr. & Mrs. Fred Buckwold Mr. & Mrs. Bruce G. Buhler Nicole & Rueben Cásarez Margot & John Cater Dr. Robert N. Chanon Mr. & Mrs. Allen Clamen Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Clark Dr. & Mrs. Gary M. Coleman Mr. & Mrs. Ray Cook Ms. Miquel A. Correll Mr. & Mrs. Joffre J. Cross II Mr. & Mrs. John Crum

Patron

Ann Trammell Mr. John G. Turner & Mr. Jerry G. Fischer Jeanine Van Wagenen Ms. Maria Cecilia Vasconcellos Ms. Becky Cottrell & Mr. Thomas Warden Ms. Joann E. Welton Mr. & Mrs. Clint S. Wetmore Dr. Robert Wilkins & Dr. Mary Ann Reynolds Wilkins Nancy B. Willerson

$1,500-$2,499

Ms. Sofia Adrogue & Mr. Sten Gustafson Mr. & Mrs. Truett B. Akin Dr. Genevera Allen Dr. & Mrs. Scott Allison Dr. Hesham M. Amin & Dr. Lara Ferrario Pat & John Anderson Carol Ann & Bill Anderson Dr. & Mrs. Roy Aruffo Mr. Jeff Autor Cristina & Tanner Bailey Mr. & Mrs. E. William Barnett Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Bast Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bickel Jeb & Cynthia Blackwell Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Bolam Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bookout Mr. & Mrs. Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl Joe Brazzatti Katherine M. Briggs 44 | Houston Symphony

Jeannette & Brodrick Hill Dr. Suzanne M. Hite Mr. Robert Hoff Mr. & Mrs. John Homier George E. Howe Mr. Frank Huang Mickie & Ron Huebsch Mr. & Mrs. Burdette Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Humphries Dr. & Mrs. Robert Ivany / University of St. Thomas Jay Jackson & Barbara Waugh Kathleen & James Jennings / BeautyNow Arlene J. Johnson Stacy & Jason Johnson Kurt Johnson & Colleen Matheu Ms. Sheila K. Johnstone Mr. & Mrs. Thorro Jones Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Jordon Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kades Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kelly Mr. David O. Kem & Mrs. Judith L. Raines Kendall R. Kessel & Harlan Johnson Ms. Carla Knobloch Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Knudson Ann & Sam Koster

Michael & Darcy Krajewski Mrs. Samantha Kramr Mr. Marc E. Laborde Mr. Thomas Lane Ms. Joni Hartgraves Latimer John & Suzy Lattin Dr. Daniel Lemke Dr. & Mrs. Morton Leonard Jr. Mr. William W. Lindley Ms. Leslie Siller & Mr. Jeff H. Lippold Mr. & Mrs. H. Arthur Littell Dr. & Mrs. James R. Lloyd Ms. Marilyn Maloney & Mr. Paul F. Longstreth Mr. & Mrs. Bob J. Lunn Ms. Sue Ann Lurcott Kathleen & Tom Mach Mr. & Mrs. Frank Marx Catherine & Matt Matthews Georgia Braun McBride Kristen & Steve McDaniel Mr. & Mrs. Rob McKee Mr. Andrew McKinney Mr. & Mrs. Lance McKnight Ms. Jennifer McLaughlin Doug & Sarah McMurrey

Mr. Ronald A. Mikita & Mr. Rex Spikes Mr. Adam Miller & Ms. Michelina Cairo Mr. & Mrs. Arnold M. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Molloy Mr. & Mrs. James Moore Mrs. Alette K. Morch Mr. & Mrs. Marvin H. Mueller Amber Winsor Mullins The Hon. Stella G. & Richard C. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey B. Newton Ms. Khanh Nguyen Ms. Kathryn O'Brien Mr. Reymundo Ocanas & Mr. Orlando Manzo-Ocanas Mr. & Mrs. John Oehler Mr. & Mrs. John Ogren Steve & Sue Olson Jane & Kenneth Owen Ms. Martha Palmer Mrs. Linda K. Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Alex Popp Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Porter Ms. Linda Posey Ms. Penny Prater Rosemin Premji

Mr. & Mrs. David Pursell Dr. & Mrs. Henry H. Rachford Jr. Clinton & Leigh Rappole Mr. & Mrs. T.R. Reckling III Kate & Christopher Robart Beth Robertson Mr. James L. Robertson Mr. Floyd W. Robinson Ms. Regina J. Rogers Kent Rutter & David Baumann Mr. & Mrs. John Ryder Ramon & Chula Sanchez Dr. & Mrs. David Sapire Mr. Lawrence Schanzmeyer Ms. Sally Schott Donna Scott & Mitch Glassman Mr. Victor E. Serrato Art & Ellen Shelton Paulina Sergot & Theo Shybut Justin & Caroline Simons Molly Simpson & Jeffrey Miles Louis H. Skidmore Jr. Barbara & Louis Sklar Mr. Brinton Averil Smith & Ms. Evelyn Chen Mr. Hilary Smith & Ms. Lijda Vellekoop Mark Stadnyk

YOUNG ASSOCIATES COUNCIL

YOUNG ASSOCIATES COUNCIL Young Associate Premium Ann & Jonathan Ayre James M. Bell Ganesh Betanabhatla Eric Brueggeman David Chambers & Alex Steffler Darrin Davis & Mario Gudmundsson

Young Associate

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The Houston Symphony’s Young Associates Council is a philanthropic membership group for young professionals, music aficionados and performing arts supporters interested in exploring symphonic music within the confines of Houston’s flourishing artistic landscape. YAC members are afforded exclusive opportunities to participate in musically focused events that take place not only in Jones Hall, but also in the city’s most sought-after venues, private homes and friendly neighborhood hangouts. From behind-the-scenes interactions with the musicians of the Houston Symphony to jaw-dropping private performances by world-class virtuosos, the Houston Symphony’s Young Associates Council offers incomparable insight and accessibility to the music and musicians that are shaping the next era of orchestral music. 

$2,500 or more

Valerie Palmquist Dieterich & Tracy Dieterich Vicky Dominguez Terry Everett & Eric Cheyney Jennifer & Joshua Gravenor Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee

Brian McCulloch & Jeremy Garcia Sami & Jud Morrison Melissa L. Nance Toni Oplt & Ed Schneider Tony Shih – Norton Rose Fulbright

Judy & Steve Sohn Drs. Ishwaria & Vivek Subbiah Georgeta Teodorescu Candace & Brian Thomas

Monica & Burdette Huffman Kurt Johnson & Colleen Matheu Stacy & Jason Johnson Mr. Kendall Kessel & Mr. Harlan Johnson Gerrit Leeftink Catherine & Matt Matthews Ashley McPhail Shane Miller Amber Winsor Mullins Rosemin Premji

Brooke & Nathaniel Richards Kate & Christopher Robart Dr. Paulina Sergot & Dr. Theo Shybut Justin & Caroline Simons Molly Simpson & Jeffrey Miles Carol Tai Joel Towner Elise Wagner

$1,500 - $2,499

Farida Abjani Dr. Genevera Allen Drs. Laura & William Black Ryan Boehner Drs. Tiffany & Desmond Bourgeois Sverre & Carrie Brandsberg-Dahl Ting & John Bresnahan Divya & Chris Brown Pamela & Cezary Brylski Jacquelyn & Kevin Coronado Crystal & Mike Cox

Nina Delano & Wirt Blaffer Amanda & Adam Dinitz Jennifer & Steve Dolman Christine Falgout – Island Operating Co., Inc. Kimberly Falgout – Island Operating Co., Inc. Mark Folkes & Christopher Johnston Alexandra & Daniel Gottschalk Claudio Gutierrez

The Young Associates Council is supported in part by BB&T. For more information, please contact: Molly Simpson, Director, Individual Giving and Major Gifts, 713.337.8526 Liam Bonner, Development Officer, Individual Giving, 713.337.8536. InTUNE — November 2016 | 45

Our DONORS continued Georgiana Stanley Mr. & Mrs. John Steen Karen & Bruce Steffler Dr. & Mrs. Michael Stelling Mr. & Dr. J. Michael Stinson Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Stone Jack & Karen Stopnicki Skipper & Betsy Strong Dr. Navin Subramanian & Dr. Melissa Dupree Dr. & Mrs. David Sufian Mrs. Mary Swafford

Director

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Mr. & Mrs. Donn K. Van Arsdall Dr. & Mrs. Gage Van Horn Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Van Veldhoven Mr. & Mrs. William A. Van Wie Ms. Elise Wagner Dean B. Walker H. Richard Walton Ms. Nancy Ames & Mr. Danny Ward Mr. & Mrs. Peter S. Wareing Dr. & Mrs. Richard T. Weiss Hon. & Mrs. Bill White Mrs. Deanne White

Gene & Sandra Williams Loretta & Lawrence Williams Mr. & Mrs. Arthur A. Williford Dr. Wayne Wilner Ms. Charlene Wright Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Mr. & Mrs. Bret Zorich Anonymous (7)

$1,000-$1,499

Joan & Stanford Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Hugh D. Allen Tara Maria Amavi Mr. & Mrs. Greg Anderson Ms. Anna Arispe & Mr. John Reger Paul H. & Maida M. Asofsky Mr. Matthew Assiff Jerry Axelrod Dr. Saul & Ursula Balagura Mr. & Mrs. David M. Balderston Trace Trahan Bannerman Mr. & Mrs. Allen Barnhill Mr. A. Greer Barriault & Ms. Clarruth A. Seaton Ms. Deborah S. Bautch Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Beaudet Carole Shivers Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Benton Eldo Bergman, Family Literacy Network Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Berteaud Ms. Nancy H. Bihlmaier Dr. Joan Hacken Bitar Mr. & Mrs. Chad Blaine Mr. Jay Blinderman James & Dale Brannon Breland Law Firm Mr. Wayne A. Brooks Sally & Laurence Brown Anne H. Bushman Mrs. Ann Cavanaugh Mr. & Mrs. Chris Chandler Mrs. Victoria Chin Dr. & Mrs. Gary Clark Dr. & Mrs. Martin Cohen Donna M. Collins Shawn & Megan Conley George W. Connelly Mr. & Mrs. Sam Cooper The Honorable & Mrs. William C. Crassas

Principal

Mr. Clifford A. Swanlund Jr. Carol Tai Glenn Taylor Stephen A. Tew, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Steven M. Theede Jean & Doug Thomas Ms. Susan L. Thompson Eric & Carol Timmreck Mr. & Mrs. Dale M. Tingleaf Mr. Joel Towner Mr. & Mrs. Duane Utecht Susan J. & Gary W. Valka

Mr. & Mrs. David Crowley Mr. Michael Curry Mr. & Mrs. James D. Dannenbaum Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Dauber Mr. Darryl de Mello Mr. & Mrs. Rene Degreve James R. Denton Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Deschner Ms. Aurelie Desmarais & Mr. Ed Struzynski Ms. Jane DiPaolo Charles Dishman Mr. Michael Dooley Mr. John F. Dorn Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. Larry Dundee Mrs. William H. Dwyer III Hon. & Mrs. John D. Ellis Ms. Caroline Fant Mr. & Mrs. Tilman J. Fertitta Dale & Anne Fitz Elizabeth & Ralph Frankowski Bill & Diana Freeman Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Fusillo Mr. & Mrs. David B. Garten L. Rusty Goetz Kathy & Marty Goossen Ms. Shelley Gorson Kendall & Pauline Gray Joyce Z. Greenberg Mrs. Adriana Greene Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hanson Mr. & Mrs. Roy Haun Mr. John Heghinian & Ms. Isabelle Bedrosian Terry L. & Karen G. Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Matt Hennessy Dean & Beth Hennings Mr. & Mrs. Donald Herron Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hickey Dr. Volker Hirsinger Mr. Stanley Hoffberger

Mr. & Mrs. John Horstman Mr. John Horstman Patricia P. Hubbard Mrs. Kerry Incavo Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Janicke Mr. Robert E. Johnson & Ms. Ariella Perlman Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Katz Lynda & Frank Kelly Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Kathryn & James Ketelsen Mr. & Mrs. David Key Lucy & Victor Kormeier Deborah Kosich Dr. & Mrs. James H. Krause Ms. Dawn Krieg Ms. Mary Leba Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leonard Velva G. & H. Fred Levine James C. Lindsey Priscilla L. List Dr. & Mrs. Kelly B. Lobley Mr. & Mrs. Paul Loyd Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Lubanko Barbara J. Manering Ms. Barbara Manna Mr. & Mrs. David Martin Mr. & Mrs. Mark Matovich Linda & Jim McCartney Dr. A. McDermott & Dr. A. Glasser Mr. & Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Ernie & Martha McWilliams Ms. Susan D. Menke Ellen Ochoa & Coe Miles Mr. Russell J. Miller & Mrs. Charlotte M. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Mireles Mr. & Mrs. William Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Murphy

Daniel & Karol Musher Musicians of the Houston Symphony Inc. Ms. Jennifer Naae Melissa L. Nance Mr. Cliff Nash & Dr. Lee Bar-Eli Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Neumann Leslie & John Niemand Mr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Nocella Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy W. Nokes Mr. & Mrs. Eric L. Oshlo Valerie J. Sherlock Linda Popkin-Paine & Stephen Paine Pamela & James Penny Grace & Carroll Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Phillips Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sam Philpot Mrs. Dana Puddy Patrick T. Quinn Mr. & Mrs. William B. Rawl Mr. Cameron Ray Mr. & Mrs. Clayton Reasor Mr. Vince Reina Ms. Ann Rhoads H. John & Diane Riley Robertson Wealth Management Mr. Matthew D. Roitstein Mrs. Evie Ronald Jill & Milt Rose Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Ross Brenda & Mansel Rubenstein John & Zhanna Russo Harold H. Sandstead, M.D. Mrs. Holly Sansing Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Sawaya Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scheurich Mr. & Mrs. Gary Schiefelbein Beth & Lee D. Schlanger

Charles & Andrea Seay Ms. Monica Simon Mr. & Mrs. Lance Smith Dean & Kay Snider Sherry Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Standish Richard P. Steele & Mary J. McKerall Mr. & Mrs. James R. Stevens Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Streett Mr. & Mrs. John F. Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Donald Sweeney Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Tabor Jr. Mr. Monsour Taghdisi Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Tallerine Mr. & Mrs. Gary Teletzke Mr. Jim Thompson Mrs. Glenda C. Toole Ms. Chung-Nan N. Tsai Dr. & Mrs. Michael Underbrink Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Unger Dr. & Mrs. Brad Urquhart Dr. & Mrs. Carl V. Vartian Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Veith Betty & Bill Walker Mr. & Mrs. David Walstad Mr. & Mrs. James A. Watt Mark Wawro & Melanie Gray Beth Weidler & Stephen James General & Mrs. Jasper Welch Ms. Bryony Jane Welsh Mr. & Mrs. Brian K. Westfall Ms. Sara E. White Ms. Tracy Wilkerson Charline & Bill Wilkins Ms. Susan G. Wood Ms. Alexandra Yates Anonymous (7)

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Bradshaw Sally & Carl Brassow Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Brougher Hon. Peter H. Brown Mrs. Shirley E. Burgher Ms. Valeria Burguieres Mrs. Olga F. Bush Kathy & Emile Bussemey Vicki P. Buxton Mr. & Mrs. George Cairnes Dr. Maria Calcina Virginia & William Camfield Mr. & Mrs. J. Scott Campbell Marjorie H. Capshaw Dorothy E.F. Caram, Ed.D

Phil & Michele Carey Mr. & Mrs. Manny Chana Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Chaney Ms. Audrey Chang Ms. Irene Chang Honorable Theresa Chang & Dr. Peter Chang Ms. Donna J. Charleson Mr. & Mrs. Kent Chenevert Mr. & Mrs. John Clarke Ms. Carrie Colbert Mr. & Mrs. Clayton A. Compton Mr. H. Talbot Cooley Mr. & Mrs. John F. Crawford Ms. Marsha K. Crawford

Mr. & Mrs. T. N. Crook Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Crull Mr. Larry Cullen Dr. Lida S. Dahm Mr. Musa Dakri Mr. & Mrs. Steven Dalicandro Mr. Arthur Davies Ms. Susan S. De Courcy Mr. & Mrs. Paul Destephano Dr. & Mrs. Russell L. Deter II Mr. & Mrs. W. Scott Deyerle Mr. Jeff Dodson Mr. & Mrs. Jack N. Doherty Ms. Rachel Dolbier Karen M. Doolittle T. Michael Dossey

$500-$999

Mr. & Mrs. W. Kendall Adam Mr. & Mrs. Michael Alexander Mr. Robert J. Alexander & Ms. Becky A. Stemper Mrs. Ramona Alms Ms. Joan Ambrogi Mr. & Mrs. Tom Amonett Ms. Sally S. Andrews & Mr. James Nelson Les & Barbara Antalffy Mr. & Mrs. Eric A. Arbiter Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Armes Mr. & Mrs. R. Corbin Aslakson Ms. Mary S. Axelrad Robert E. Ayers Mr. & Mrs. Bill Barnett 46 | Houston Symphony

Don & Katharine Droge Barnhill Mr. Greg P. Barra Mr. & Mrs. Max Barrett Dr. & Mrs. David Barry Susan & Bob Beeley Mr. Walter F. Bell Dr. & Mrs. Philip S. Bentlif Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Blum George & Florence Boerger Mr. & Mrs. Peter M. Boesel Ms. Adrienne R. Bond Chris & Ruth Borman Anne & Edward Bornet Bob Frank Boydston

Ms. Emma Dunch & Ms. Elizabeth Scott Mrs. Deborah Dunkum Mr. & Mrs. Tom Elliott Mrs. Priscilla Ennis Ruth W. Ereli Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Erwin Robert & Susan Estill Mr. & Mrs. Chris Estrada Lee & Christie Eubanks Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Eury Mr. & Mrs. Mike Farley Kay & Sam Feldt Sandra & Steven Finkelman Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Fong Ms. Diane L. Freeman Mr. Phillip Freeman & Ms. Brandy Skillern Ms. Lee Friedman Mr. & Mrs. Javier Fuentes Mr. Donn C. Fullenweider Mr. & Mrs. Terry W. Fussell Mr. & Mrs. Lynn Garner Mr. & Mrs. Monty Garner Mr.* & Mrs. Gibson Gayle Jr. Ms. Margaret Wendy Germani Mrs. & Mr. Stephen Gill Gary & Marion Glober Barbara C. Goedecke Albrecht & Kathy Goethe Mr. Irving L. Gold, M.D.P.A. Helen B. Wils & Leonard Goldstein Ms. Paula Goldstein Mr. & Mrs. Enrique Gonzalez Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gonzalez Mr. Bert & Patricia Gordon Dr. Harvey L. Gordon Mr. Garrett Graham Mr. David M. Gray Jr. & Ms. Mary A. Pearce Mr. Gerald Greiner Mr. Dane C. Grenoble Mr. & Mrs. Steve K. Grimsley Joan DerHovsepian & Erik Gronfor Ms. Eileen Gu Mr. & Mrs. David Guenther Mr. & Mrs. Jay Guerrero Mr. & Mrs. Brent W. Gwaltney Dr. Teruhiko Hagiwara Gaye & Dennis Halpin Mr. Brett L. Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Harbachick Michael D. Hardin Bruce Harkness & Alice Brown Mr. Michael J. Harling Mr. & Mrs. David Harris Sheila & Isaac Heimbinder Mr. & Mrs. William T. Heller IV Dr. & Mrs. Wendell W. Mendell Mr. & Mrs. James P. Hennessy

Ms. Leslie Herald Mr. & Mrs. David D. Hergert Hope L. Hernandez Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Herrmann Mr. & Mrs. W. Grady Hicks Susan Hodge Hoffman Insurance Group Mr. Jeffery Hoffman Dr. Holly Holmes & Mr. Paul Otremba Mr. Todd Holowisky Mr. Scott Holshouser Mr. & Mrs. Allen R. Houk Dr. Wilbur & Jane Howard Dr. Vicki Huff & Dr. Eric Boerwinkle Mr. & Mrs. Matt Hurley Mr. Craig Ignacio Mr. Francisco J. Izaguirre Mr. & Mrs. George C. John Ms. Karen Jones Dr. & Mrs. Andrew Kent Mr. & Mrs. John R. Kemp Mr. & Mrs. Craig M. Kercho Mr. Robin Kesselman Mr. Bill Kiker Dr. & Mrs. James Killian Mr. Steven J. Killworth Mr. & Mrs. William H. Knull III Steve Dukes & Nobuhide Kobori Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. Koehl Ms. Leticia Konigsberg & Mr. Michael Olson Mr. Dennis Kroeger Mr. Vijay Kusnoor Ms. Karen Labat Mr. & Mrs. Randall B. Lake Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth M. Landgren Mr. & Mrs. Joel J. Landis Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Laraway Mr. & Mrs. Ryan LaRue Mr. Robert Leech Mr. & Mrs. Thomas LeGrand Mr. & Mrs. William C. Lemmer Mr. James Leonard & Ms. Delores Dunham Charles H. (Eric) & Lucy Lewis Mr. Daniel J. Linscomb Cynthia & Richard Loewenstern Mr. & Ms. David Lopez Mr. Wesley Lotz Kimberly Lucas Mr. & Mrs. Oliver F. Luck Ms. Nina K. Lynn Mr. & Mrs. Peter MacGregor Ms. Faerie Marston Mrs. Mariquita Masterson Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Matiuk Mr. & Mrs. Walter Mayer Mr. Albert McIntyre

Mr. R. Scott McCay Ms. Judi A. McGee Mr. W. George McKee Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence McManus Mr. & Mrs. R. Talley Melton Ms. Maria Carolina Mendoza Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mitchum Jr. Melissa & Michael Mithoff Ginni & Richard Mithoff Ms. Marsha L. Montemayor Mr. & Mrs. Walker N. Moody Ms. T.L. Morton Ms. Joan B. Murphy Alan & Elaine Mut Mr. Dick Nagaki & Ms. Leah Patterson Ms. Amy Ng Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth O. Nilsson Ms. Charlene B. Nix Mary & Don North Mr. & Mrs. Ralph S. O'Connor Mr. Charles Odom Mr. & Mrs. Albert Ong Drs. M. & V. Orocofsky Mr. & Mrs. Robert Orr Mr. George L. Otis Jr. Julie & Chip Oudin Mr. & Mrs. Matthew R. Pacey Ms. Dianne Padgett Mr. & Mrs. Marc C. Paige Paul E. Pardaen Dr. Cora B. Parker-Dubose & Dr. Ralph Dubose Prof. & Mrs. Jordan Paust Mr. Miguel A. Pedroza Dr. & Mrs. Joseph V. Penn Ed & Heidi Perkins Peter & Nina Peropoulos Mr. James D. Pitcock Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lowell Pless Ronald & Carol Poole Ms. Antoinette Post Mr. & Mrs. Ben H. Powell Kim & Ted A. Powell Mr. Thomas Power Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Pratt Mr. Mike Prichard Mr. & Mrs. David Pustka Mr. & Mrs. J. E. Pybus Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Elias Qumsieh Mr. Randy Ramdass Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ramirez Natalia Rawle Mr. Eric Rechlin Mr. & Mrs. Dwain Reeves Lynne & Allan Reich Mr. Serge G. Ribot Mr. & Mrs. Phil Rice Mr. Lake Robertson Mr. Manuel Rodriguez Ramille Law

Ms. Carolyn Rogan Dr. & Mrs. Alan Rosen Mr. Autry W. Ross Mr. & Mrs. Scott Rothwell Mr. Grant Rowe Mr. & Mrs. Gregory M. Ruffing Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ruisard Mr. Charles K. Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Sandlin Mr. & Mrs. Ross Saunders Ms. Janet Schaumburg Mr. & Mrs. W. Russell Scheirman Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Scheliga Mr. Martin Schleuse Charles & Dora Schneider Jurgen Schroder Drs. Helene & Robert Schwartz H. Irving Schweppe Jr., M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Dylan Seff Mr. Blake Segura Vance & Jane Senter Ms. Elizabeth Shack Mr. & Mrs. Paul Shack Mr. Don W. Shackelford Marcia & Victor Shainock Becky Shaw Mrs. Lorie Sheffey Dr. Lynne F. Shepard Mr. & Mrs. Paul Siegele Eugene & Aaryn Silva Mr. Steve Smetana Lois & David K. Smith John L. Snyder Ms. Kelly Somoza Mr. Anthony Speier Mr. Robert L. Stark Mr. & Mrs. Alan Stein Mr. & Mrs. Gary Stenerson Mr. Robert M. Stephens Mr. Paul Stewart Mr. Alan Stuckert Ms. Margaret M. Sullivan Mr. Roger Suter & Ms. Lakessia Fry Amy Sutton & Gary Chiles Dr. Jeffrey Sweterlitsch Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Symon Mr. & Mrs. Alan Taghdisi Drs. James & Elizabeth Tang Ms. Joy Taylor Mr. Kerry Taylor Mr. & Mrs. David K. Terry Ms. Betsy Mims & Mr. Howard D. Thames Mrs. Alisa C. Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Thorburn Mrs. Roy A. Thornock Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Thornton Ann & Gerald Thurmond Richard V. Tobin Linda Townsend Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Trainer Jr.

Mr. James F. Trippett Ms. Janae Tsai Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Tsuchida Mr. & Mrs. David M. Underwood Jr. Ms. Patricia Van Allan Mr. & Mrs. David Vannauker Mr. Chief Veith Mr. & Mrs. Robert Vermillion Mrs. Mary Voigt Pieter & Janet Vrancken Mrs. Vera Vujicic Milton L. Wagner Mr. & Mrs. John B. Wallace Sandria Ward Alton & Carolyn Warren Mr. Frank Watson Ms. Virginia S. Watt Leone Buyse & Michael Webster Ms. Susan Wedelich Mr. & Mrs. Larry Weis Buford & Julia Wells Mr. & Mrs. Eden N. Wenig Ms. Amy E. Whitaker Mr. & Mrs. Bradley White Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. White Carlton Wilde Daniel Willett Mr. & Ms. B. T. Williamson Mr. & Mrs. Jim Winget Grace Picton Wise Shelley Wisner Dr. Dorothy Wong Marvin & Terry Woskow Family Fund Maxine & Emil Wulfe Mr. Michael Wynoff & Lauren Wynhoff Mr. & Mrs. Haresh Yalamanchili Katherine & Mark Yzaguirre Mr. & Mrs. Stuart Zarrow Ms. Susan Zollers Mr. Ausonio Zubiani & Ms. Joan Straub Mr. & Mrs. John Zuklic Anonymous (18) *Deceased The Houston Symphony thanks the 2,832 donors who gave up to $499 over the past year. To note any errors or omissions, please contact Tiffany Bourgeois, Development Associate, Annual Fund at 713.337.8559.

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POPS DONORS Ima Hogg Society

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$150,000 or More

Sybil F. Roos

Founder’s Society

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$75,000-$99,99

Darlene & Cappy* Bisso

Concertmaster’s Society

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$25,000-$49,999

Allen & Almira Gelwick - Lockton Companies Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange John & Bobbie Nau Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. Conductor’s Circle Platinum Baton  $15,000-$24,999 Graham & Janet Baker Evan B. Glick Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Ken & Carol Lee Robertson

Conductor’s Circle Gold Baton  $10,000-$14,999 Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Anne & George Boss John & Minerva Esquivel Martha & Marvin McMurrey Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scherr Shirley & Joel Wahlberg

Conductor’s Circle Silver Baton  $7,500-$9,999 Lilia Khakimova & C. Robert Bunch Scott Ensell & Family Ms. Darlene Clark & Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Rita & Paul Morico Jean & Allan Quiat Radoff Family Michael J. Shawiak

Conductor’s Circle Bronze Baton  $5,000-$7,499 Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman Janie & Carr Dishroon Connie & Byron Dyer Mrs. Jane Egner Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fluor Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Gongre Mr. & Mrs. Edd C. Hendee Mr. & Mrs. Dan Kellogg Mr. & Mrs. John P. Kotts Michael & Kelley Lang Mrs. Nancy Lease Terry & Kandee McGill 48 | Houston Symphony

Alice McPherson, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Ms. Angela Sherman Jeanine Van Wagenen Sally & Denney Wright Anonymous

Grand Patron’s Circle  $2,500-$4,999

Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Franklin J. Harberg Jr. Rex & Marillyn King Gerrit Leeftink Mr. & Mrs. Barry I. Levine Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Mason Steve & Linda Massie Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Nilson Joy & Gary Noble Mrs. Kay Onstead Mr. & Mrs. Kim Parker Ms. Darla P. Phillips Margaret & V. Scott Pignolet Mr. & Mrs. Gary Prentice Judy & Bill Pursell Venu & Elsie Rao Mr. & Mrs. John T. Riordan Rosemarie & Jeff Roth Mrs. Lynda G. Seaman Mr. & Mrs. Nick Stratigakis Mr. & Mrs. Karl Strobl Jonathan & Susan Symko Dr. & Mrs. Brad Wertman Anonymous (3)

Director  $1,000-$1,499

Mr. & Mrs. J. Emery Anderson Beth & Jim Barton Donald & Dottie Bates John S. Beury Drs. Laura & William Black Robert & Gwen Bray Mr. & Mrs. Brady F. Carruth Becky & Joe Demeter Mr. & Mrs. James E. Dorsett Mr. & Mrs. Mike Ezzell Jo Lynn & Gregg Falgout / Island Operating Company Julius & Suzan Glickman William D. & Karinne McCullough Edward Lee McIntosh, C.P.M. Mr. & Mrs. David R. McKeithan Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Raghu Narayan Shirley & Marvin Rich Richard & Anne Robbins Douglas & Alicia Rodenberger Mr. Morris Rubin Mr. & Mrs. James Schulz Seth Williams

Martha & Stanley* Bair Dr. & Mrs. William S. Banks III Mr. Jim Barton Ms. Patricia K. Boyd Kelly & Julie Conner Marilyn & Tucker Coughlen Ms. Ann Currens Barbara Dokell & Larry Finger Paula & Alfred Friedlander Gary T. Leach Ms. Doris S. Magee Ms. Nancy Mann Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Alan May Jr. Mr. William Mendel Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Mosbacher Dr. & Mrs. Michael C. Rasmussen Chris & Don Sanders Jerry Siemers Mr. Ralph Tamper Mr. & Mrs. Carl N. Tongberg Ms. Jody Verwers Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Bob Wolin Anonymous

Patron’s Circle  $1,500-$2,499

Principal  $500-$999

Suan Angelo Sue Sue & Don Aron Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Banks Mr. Allen J. Becker Mr. & Mrs. Ron Bertus Mr. & Mrs. W. Carter Bliss Michael & Diana Bonin Mr. Thomas N. Britton & Ms. Debra A. Ewing Ms. Barbara A. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. William V. Conover II Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Cook Cynthia & Robert Creager Mr. & Mrs. David Dybell Mr. J. Richard Espinosa Carol & Larry Fradkin Dr. & Mrs. Jack Gill

Mr. & Mrs. David Archibald Ms. Stephanie Ayala Mr. & Mrs. John P. Beall Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Beard Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Beathard Dr. & Mrs. R. L. Brenner Mr. Jay T. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Rick A. Burris Ms. Deborah Butler Mr. & Mrs. Ray Butler Bill & Marion Calvert Mr. & Mrs. Jim Chandler Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Chapman Richard & Marcia Churns Carlo & Vicki Corso Joyce & Jack Eagle Evelyn Earlougher

Mr. Ramsay M. Elder Mildred & Richard Ellis Dr. & Mrs. Charles Ericsson Mr. John Eymann Mr. & Mrs. John R. Farina Ms. Marilyn Farrell Ms. Dawn Folsom Jessica Ford Betsy Garlinger Dr. Truett Garrett Mr. & Mrs. Angelo Giardino Mr. & Mrs. Dale Hardy Ann & Bill Heim Richard & Beverly Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hill Jess Hines Jr. Elizabeth Kaufman & David Goeken Mr. & Mrs. John Kemper Dave & Laura Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Joe D. Koshkin Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred M. Krenek Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Levinson Dr. & Mrs. James Lewis Ms. Joyce Lindler Mr. Robert McNamara & Dr. Tracey Samuels Ms. Dinah Mei Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Moen Ms. Wynona Montgomery Paul & Molly Mugnier Terri & Bert Neece Mr. & Mrs. Dan Neskora Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Noland Joe & Ann Palm Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Parkey Roland & Linda Pringle Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Reid Mr. O. M. Rogers Ms. Roc'C Semmelbeck Claudette & Tim Shaunty Mr. William Siegel Mr. & Mrs. Bruce S. Smith Mr. Lawrence C. Smith Thomas W. Snodgrass Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Stuart Dr. & Mrs. Frank C. Sung Mr. Roger Trandell Mr. & Mrs. Michael Villarreal Wear Family Mrs. Elizabeth White Erwin & Ann Wilbanks Mr. & Mrs. George R. Williams Roland & Charlene Wise Mr. Eric Wooten Mr. & Mrs. Alan Young Anonymous (3) *Deceased The Houston Symphony thanks the 730 donors who gave up to $499 over the past year. To note any errors or omissions, please contact Tiffany Bourgeois, Development Associate, Annual Fund, at 713.337.8559.

Corporate, Foundation & Government PARTNERS

The Houston Symphony is proud to recognize the leadership support of our corporate, foundation and government partners that allow the orchestra to reach new heights in musical performance, education and community engagement for Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast Region. For more information on becoming a foundation or government partner, please contact Mary Beth Mosley, Director, Institutional Giving and Stewardship, at 713.337.8521 or marybeth.mosley@houstonsymphony.org. For more information on becoming a Houston Symphony corporate donor, please contact Leticia Konigsberg, Director, Corporate Relations, at 713.337.8522 or leticia.konigsberg@houstonsymphony.org.

HOUSTON SYMPHONY BUSINESS COUNCIL The Houston Symphony is grateful for the philanthropic support of its Corporate Partners. With the foresight of Houston’s business community, our organization will fulfill its vision of becoming America’s most relevant and accessible topten orchestra by 2025. If your company is interested in deepening its connection with the Houston Symphony, consider our 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) Bradley Corson, Exxon Mobil Corporation Gene Dewhurst, Falcon Seaboard Diversified Mike Doherty, Frost Bank David Frankfort, Deutsche Bank Ron Franklin, McGuireWoods, LLP Allen Gelwick, Lockton Companies, LLC Steven P. Mach, Mach Industrial Group, LP Michael Mann, Mann Eye Institute Paul Mann, Mann Eye Institute David Massin, Wells Fargo

Open to current subscribers, donors and Board members affiliated with a business, the council provides opportunities to increase corporate participation by offering networking and special behind-the-scenes events. To learn more about how to get involved, please contact Leticia Konigsberg, Director, Corporate Relations, at 713.337.8522 or leticia.konigsberg@houstonsymphony.org. Billy McCartney, Flat Rock Development, LLC Paul Morico, Baker Botts L.L.P. Ed Osterberg, Mayer Brown, LLP Robert A. Peiser, Parkton Group Greg Powers, Halliburton David Pruner, Heidrick & Struggles Ron Rand, Rand Group, LLC John Rydman, Spec’s Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods Manolo Sánchez, 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 A. Weber, Norton Rose Fulbright Beth Wolff, Beth Wolff Realtors Ed Wulfe, Wulfe & Co. Frank Yonish, Bank of Texas

Corporate, Foundation & Government PARTNERS continued

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CORPORATE PARTNERS

(as of October 1, 2016)

Grand Guarantor  $150,000 and above BBVA Compass ConocoPhillips *Houston Public Media— News 88.7 FM; Channel 8 PBS *KTRK ABC-13 *Oliver Wyman *Spec’s Charitable Foundation/ Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Guarantor  $100,000 and above Bank of America Chevron *Houston Methodist Medistar Corporation PaperCity Phillips 66 *Telemundo *United Airlines Underwriter  $50,000 and above *Baker Botts L.L.P. *BB&T Cameron International Corporation *Cameron Management ENGIE *The Events Company Exxon Mobil Corporation Frost Bank *Dignity Memorial Funeral Homes and Cemetaries/John Onstott Houston Baptist University Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo *Jackson and Company Kirkland & Ellis LLP Palmetto Partners Ltd./The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation *Rand Group, LLC Shell Oil Company Vinson & Elkins LLP

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

Republic National Distributing Company, LLP USI Southwest Supporter  $10,000 and above *Abraham’s Oriental Rugs *Agua Hispanic Marketing Anadarko Petroleum Corporation CenterPoint Energy Emerson Enbridge Energy Company Goldman, Sachs & Co. Marathon Oil Corporation *Silver Eagle Distributors Star Furniture Union Pacific Foundation *Zenfilm Benefactor  $5,000 and above Barclay’s Wealth and Investment Management Beck Redden LLP Louis Vuitton Macy's Nordstrom Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, L.L.P. Plains All American *Randalls Food Markets Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. Spectra Energy *University of St. Thomas Wortham Insurance and Risk Management Patron  Gifts below $5,000 Adolph Locklar, Intellectual Property Law Firm Beth Wolff Realtors Intertek SEI, Global Institutional Group Smith, Graham & Company Stewart Title Company TAM International, Inc. * Includes in-kind support

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS Aetna Aon Apache Corporation Bank of America BBVA Compass The Boeing Company BP Foundation Caterpillar Chevron Chubb Group Coca-Cola ConocoPhillips

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Eli Lilly and Company EOG Resources Exxon Mobil Corporation 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.

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

IN-KIND DONORS

(as of October 1, 2016)

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

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

(as of October 1, 2016)

A Fare Extraordinaire Aker Imaging Alexander’s Fine Portrait Design Alpha-Lee Enterprises, Inc. Aspire Executive Coaching, LLC Bergner & Johnson Design Bering’s BKD, LLP Boat Ranch Burberry Classical 91.7 FM Cognetic Cullnaire Carl R. Cunningham DLG Research & Marketing Solutions Elaine Turner Designs Elegant Events by Michael Elsie Smith Design Festari Foster Quan LLP Grotto in the Woodlands Gucci Hermann Park Conservancy

Hilton Americas – Houston Hotel Granduca Hotel Icon Houston Astros Houston Grand Opera Houston Texans InterContinental Hotel Houston JOHANNUS Organs of Texas John L. Worthan & Son, L.P. John Wright/Textprint JW Marriott Houston Downtown Kuhl-Linscomb The Lancaster Hotel LG Entertainers Limb Design Martha Turner Properties Meera Buck & Associates Michael’s Cookie Jar Minuteman Press – Post Oak Momentum Jaguar Music & Arts New Leaf Publishing, Inc. Nos Caves Vin

Pax Americana Pro/Sound Randalls Food Markets 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 The Parson Family, in memory of Dorothy Anne Parson Tony’s Tootsies Valobra Jewelry & Antiques Versace Village Greenway Vision Production Group Yahama

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Backstage PASS Meet

Bradley White, trombone

Working with young students: I used to teach private lessons at the high school and middle school level. There was a sixth grader, a beginner, and I was there from the very start of his playing. The boy was the most profoundly gifted trombonist I ever heard. I think he may have been a prodigy. This 11-year-old, who had played trombone for only six months, was picking up concepts college students sometimes miss. I was stunned by his talent. At the end of his first year on the instrument, his parents decided to take him out of band and put him in soccer. I pleaded with them not to pull him out, but my pleas fell on deaf ears. I sometimes wonder what prodigies are walking around out there, and no one knows they’re there. Looking forward to this season: I’m particularly excited about the all-Bruckner program with former Music Director Eschenbach. Bruckner’s Te Deum is one of the most hauntingly beautiful works I’ve ever heard. When I first heard it, I played it on an endless loop for a week. On another program, we are featuring Principal Bass Robin Kesselman playing the Koussevitzky Concerto. I’ve never heard a bass concerto performed with our orchestra, and I’m excited that I’ll finally get the chance. Plus, I’m very proud when the soloist is a Houston Symphony musician and the audience gets to hear how phenomenal he or she is. Outside of Jones Hall: I have twin daughters who are 10. You can imagine that I spend most of my time running them around to various activities, such as gymnastics, 52 | Houston Symphony

Irish dance and robotics club. I’m fortunate in that they still love doing lots of silly things with me. One daughter loves to build things, and we just finished building four small cat trees that will go to our local animal shelter. We delivered some custom cat trees six months ago, and the animal shelter asked if we could build more. My other daughter loves watching classic movies. She becomes giddy with excitement when I make popcorn, and we snuggle together to watch a movie. When we finished The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings series of movies, she started reading the books and loves them.

ERIC ARBITER

Bradley White has been a member of the Houston Symphony’s brass section since 2001, when he was appointed by Music Director Hans Graf as Associate Principal and Second Trombone. Bradley received a bachelor’s degree in music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music in 1993 and a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music in 1997. Along with his principal instructors David Waters and Per Brevig, he has also been heavily influenced by Allen Barnhill, Dave Kirk, Dave Finlayson, Ko-ichiro Yamamoto, Joe Alessi and John McCroskey. Bradley has performed with many ensembles, including the Ambient Brass, Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, San Antonio Symphony, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, and the Hawaii and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras. Bradley taught at the University of Houston in 2009–12. While he enjoyed teaching at the university level, he ultimately chose to spend more time with his family, including twin daughters.

In the family: There are a lot of amateur musicians on my mother’s side—mostly blue grass and gospel. My aunt’s entire family each has a guitar that’s as precious to them as a loved one. Their song books are as thick as dictionaries. There was even a musical traveling show in there somewhere, but I don’t have a lot of those details. My mother used to sing in her church and wrote a lot of her own songs. Inspiration: To willfully choose to become a professional musician, you almost have to feel you have no other choice. It becomes an obsession both with the pursuit of perfection of your instrument and with the music you love. The specific piece that caused me to make the decision was Mozart’s Requiem. I first heard it when I was 14. During the Confutatis movement, something clicked in my head, and I knew I wanted to play this piece till the end of my days.

Top: With wife, Maura, and twin daughters, Ana & Keira, at Houston Zoo Lights Middle: Houston Symphony portrait Bottom: Helping teach a full brass class in Colombia two summers ago

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