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YOSA musicians number more than 1,800 and come from more than 158 schools in 21 school districts.

YOSA musicians are ethnically diverse — 53% Hispanic, 33% Caucasian, 3% AfricanAmerican, 8% Asian-American. More than one-third of YOSA musicians receive tuition assistance; more than 65% receive free programs through community partnerships.

The Orchestras

More than 450 musicians are arranged into 8 orchestras with weekly rehearsals and 10 concerts annually.

Musicians with one to two years of playing experience begin in YOSA Prelude Strings. As their music skills progress and improve, they may graduate into Capriccio Strings, Sinfonietta Strings, and Concertino Strings. YOSA Flute Choir, Symphony, and Symphonic Winds offer opportunities for string, woodwind, brass, and percussion musicians.

The most experienced young musicians in the region perform with the YOSA Philharmonic, playing professional-level repertoire in premier venues here and abroad, collaborating regularly with internationally renowned soloists and composers.

The YOSA Philharmonic has represented San Antonio on 10 international tours, most recently London in 2012 and Québec in 2014.

Summer Symphony Camp

In July each summer, more than 200 students convene for a two-week day camp hosted at Saint Mary’s Hall with some of San Antonio’s finest music teachers and professional musicians as faculty. YOSA has been offering summer camp since 1985; the program has expanded to include woodwinds, brass, and percussion.

YOSA MÁS:Music at School

YOSA is committed to working with public and private schools throughout greater San Antonio. Some school partnerships involve classroom and school visits by YOSA faculty and staff. YOSA’s most comprehensive school partnerships are with the Roosevelt High School Compact in NEISD and the Edgewood Fine Arts Academy in EISD. The seven schools of the Roosevelt Compact, a project involving NEISD’s Roosevelt High School and the two middle schools and four elementary schools that feed Roosevelt High, is funded by Rackspace. This school partnership includes extensive interaction between YOSA staff, teachers, and young musicians.

The Edgewood Independent School District partnership includes an after-school program at two elementary schools, and additional teaching resources at the middle school orchestra with plans to expand to high school.

Our History

YOSA is a successor to the city’s first community-wide youth orchestra, which was created

by SAISD in 1949.

In recent years, YOSA has expanded its reach from 483 musicians in 2008 to more than 1,800 in 2014.

YOSA is a resident company of the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts.

The mission of Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, the premier orchestral experience for youth citywide, is to enhance education, enrich the community, and transform lives by pursuing excellence in classical music in a stimulating, nurturing, and fun environment that is equally accessible to all youth.

Take a break from the outside world! Please turn off your cell phones, pagers, and all other audible electronic devices before the concert begins. Children of all ages are welcome at all YOSA concerts. We suggest that you sit near an exit so you can discreetly exit the auditorium in the event that your child is unable to maintain a sub-whisper level volume. Thank you.

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Letter from the Board Chair Happy New Year! All of us at YOSA hope your 2015 will be filled with music and accomplishment.

On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to congratulate YOSA musicians on their great concerts last fall. A highlight for me was the first ever YOSApalooza concert. Showcasing all YOSA orchestra musicians in a single performance at the new Tobin Center for the Performing Arts was a moving experience enjoyed by thousands. I look forward to next year’s YOSApalooza concert as we continue this new tradition.

Another YOSA tradition involves bringing in a variety of guest artists who are masters of their instruments to work and perform with YOSA musicians.

The interaction of world-class guest artists with our musicians provides a deep educational experience that will be relived for years to come. This year certainly continues this tradition. We are proud to welcome guest artist Branford Marsalis during our inaugural year at the Tobin Center.

YOSA offers students from every neighborhood in our community the experience to develop their creative skills, mature into young adults, and discover achievement and success that allows this growth to continue.

However, we cannot do this without your support. Supporting YOSA is more than an investment in young musicians. It is an investment in the future of our city.

There are several ways for you to make a gift in support of YOSA, including our annual YOSA Beethoven 5k/10k on April 4. This fun run/walk is in a new location this year, Mission County Park, with the course along the River Walk. It is a great way to support the young musicians and participate in a healthy event in our beautiful city. Please visit yosa.org/yosa-run for more information on participating or becoming a sponsor.

Thank you for joining us at a YOSA concert. And, more importantly, thank you for supporting YOSA as we work to change kids’ lives through music.

Yours sincerely, John Frederick Ph.D. YOSA Board of Directors

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YOSA City Series 2 Sunday, February 8, 2015 3 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Winter Lights” Sinfonietta Strings

Brenda Johnson, conductor Johann Ernst Galliard

(arranged by Kathy Fishburn & Virginia Luman)

Tanzun (Dancing)

Norman Leyden Serenade for String Orchestra Prelude Cakewalk Soon Hee Newbold

The Odyssey (Journey of Odysseus)

Flute Choir

Martha Long, conductor Gabriel Fauré (arranged by Eric Ledeuil)

Sicilienne from Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 80

Christopher Steel Suite, Op. 69 Allegro Lento Allegro vivace Molto moderato Allegro vivace

Symphony

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor Gioachino Rossini

Overture to Il Signor Bruschino

Frederick Delius

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 I. Allegro molto

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Troy Peters Although quite successful in his lifetime, German baroque composer Johann Ernst Galliard is overshadowed today by his famous contemporaries Bach, Handel, and Telemann. Born and trained in Germany, he spent most of his career in London, where he was known not only as a composer, but also as an oboist. Tanzun is an energetic allegro drawn from one of Galliard’s many instrumental sonatas.

Norman Leyden was a remarkably versatile musician, clarinetist, and conductor equally at home with big band jazz, film and television scoring, or symphony orchestras. He was also a great educator, who founded the Westchester Youth Symphony and later conducted the Portland Youth Philharmonic. His Serenade for String Orchestra is a classic work for student orchestras, popular since its publication in 1971.

Born in Korea in 1974, Soon Hee Newbold grew up in Maryland and has a thriving career as a violinist, conductor, and actress. However, she is best known as a composer of orchestral works for students. The Odyssey follows the legendary journey of Odysseus and his encounters with the lotus-eaters, the monstrous Cyclops, the sorceress Circe, and the beguiling sirens.

One of the foremost French composers of his time, Gabriel Fauré greatly influenced the next generation of French composers (including Debussy and Ravel) with his sophisticated sense of instrumental color. The Sicilienne, a lovely melody for flute, is the most popular selection from Fauré’s incidental music which the composer wrote for an 1898 production in London of Maurice Maeterlinck’s play Pelléas and Mélisande.

Christopher Steel spent most of his working life in English colleges and universities, producing a large body of accessible, neoromantic music. His Suite, Op. 69, was written for six-part flute choir. It was composed for the flute students of Hilary Finzi, sister of cellist Jacqueline du Pré and one of the title characters in the Academy Award nominated 1998 film, Hilary and Jackie.

Il Signor Bruschino, one of Gioachino Rossini’s silliest operas, relied heavily on visual comedy and repeated catch phrases, not unlike a Saturday Night Live sketch might today. The overture, performed much more frequently than the opera itself, includes an unusual musical effect: after the slow introduction, the strings rhythmically tap their bows on their music stands. While Rossini left no clue as to the meaning of this tapping, it becomes the main musical idea, repeated several times throughout the five-minute overture.

The best-known work by English composer Frederick Delius, On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, is a nostalgic look back at Delius’s travels in Norway, where he visited the great Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. Delius creates a lush fantasia on a Norwegian folksong, over which the clarinets repeatedly sound the springtime call of the cuckoo.

Opening with one of the most famous melodies that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ever wrote, the Symphony No. 40 is among his most beloved works. Written in 1788, the symphony stands at the center of the magnificent trilogy of Mozart’s last three symphonies. Although we do not know for sure when this music was first performed or even whether Mozart ever heard it played, it has been a cherished classic for more than two centuries.

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YOSA City Series 2 Sunday, February 8, 2015 7 p.m.

Trinity University’s Laurie Auditorium “Winter Lights” Capriccio Strings

Jonathan Raveneau, conductor Soon Hee Newbold

Hiawatha

Dmitri Kabalevsky

Kabalevsky Suite

(arranged by Grant Hull) Escapade

Rondo Song of the Cavalry Soon Hee Newbold

The Wild Western Frontier

Concertino Strings

Kenneth Freudigman, conductor William Boyce Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major Allegro Moderato e dolce Allegro Benjamin Britten “Sentimental Sarabande” from Simple Symphony, Op. 4 Gustav Holst Brook Green Suite Prelude Air Dance

Symphonic Winds

John Zarco, conductor Ron Nelson

Allemande from Courtly Airs and Dances

Dana Wilson

Odysseus and the Sirens

Ronald Lo Presti

Elegy for a Young American

W. Francis McBeth Of Sailors and Whales Ishmael Queequeg Father Mapple Ahab The White Whale 13

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PROGRAM NOTES

compiled by Troy Peters & John Zarco Born in Korea in 1974, Soon Hee Newbold grew up in Maryland and has a thriving career as a violinist, conductor, and actress. However, she is best known as a composer of orchestral works for students. Inspired by the legendary Native American chief and founder of the Iroquois confederacy, Hiawatha uses modal and drum-like rhythms to evoke Native American music.

Dmitri Kabalevsky, was very popular in his native Russia in the mid-twentieth century and wrote many simple piano pieces for young students. Grant Hull’s Kabalevsky Suite transforms three of these pedagogical piano works into a charming triptych for orchestra.

In The Wild Western Frontier, Soon Hee Newbold skillfully evokes cowboys and cattle ranches with string melodies influenced by the film music of Elmer Bernstein and Dmitri Tiomkin, as well as the cowboy ballets of Aaron Copland.

By the time William Boyce published his eight symphonies in 1760, their style was considered old-fashioned. Nevertheless, their melodic invention and optimistic energy made them popular. The Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major began its life as the overture to his 1756 New Year’s ode, Hail, hail, Auspicious Day. Like many overtures of this time period, it is cast in three movements, arranged fast-slow-fast.

Shortly after his twentieth birthday, Benjamin Britten began to compose his Simple Symphony, a new work for string orchestra that took its melodies from pieces Britten had written years earlier as a prodigious child. The “Sentimental Sarabande” is a heartfelt slow movement that begins with material from the Suite No. 3 for Piano, originally written when he was twelve; the middle section uses a Waltz by the nine-year-old Britten of 1923.

Gustav Holst was hospitalized when he wrote his sunny Brook Green Suite in 1933. It was intended for his students at St. Paul’s Girls School where he had taught for two decades. Holst was in a nostalgic mood when he wrote this music, taking the title from the location of his 1901 wedding. He heard the world premiere in March 1934—the final concert he attended before he died in May of the same year.

Ron Nelson’s Courtly Airs and Dances is a suite of Renaissance dances, which were characteristic to five European countries during the sixteenth century. The Allemande, a German dance, is one of three movements in the suite meant to emulate the music of Claude Gervaise.

Homer’s Odyssey, written about 2,700 years ago, tells of the return to Ithaca of Greek hero Odysseus after being away for twenty years. Odysseus and the Sirens depicts one of the epic’s most dramatic episodes: Odysseus is aware that he is about to encounter the sirens, famous for luring sailors to their death with their beguiling wind-like song. Intensely curious to hear them, he has all his sailors plug their ears and tie him to the mast, with instructions not to untie him, no matter what he says. As they approach, the sirens begin singing and Odysseus screams to be untied, but because the sailors can’t hear him they are all saved. After Odysseus’s ship passes by, the sirens fling themselves into the sea and are drowned.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Elegy For a Young American, written in 1964, is dedicated to the memory of President John F. Kennedy. The stages of mourning can be felt as the work unfolds.

A quiet adagio sets a tone of respect and solemnity in the beginning. Feelings of shock and denial are reflected through dynamics and expressive melodic leaps of an octave. Anger and remorse express themselves throughout the work, but they are replaced with a more dignified resolution as the work draws to a close.

Of Sailors and Whales is a five-movement work based on five scenes from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. Commissioned by the California Band Directors Association, it was premiered in February 1990 by the California All-State Band, conducted by the composer, W. Francis McBeth. The work is sub-dedicated to Robert Lanon White, Commander USN (Ret.), who went to sea simply as a sailor.

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TROY PETERS, Music Director

Troy Peters has been Music Director of YOSA (Youth Orchestras of San Antonio) since 2009. He has guest conducted many orchestras, including the Oregon Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and Vermont Mozart Festival. He was previously Music Director of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, and conducted college orchestras at Texas State University and Middlebury College. He has also gained international attention for his orchestral collaborations with rock musicians, including Blind Pilot, Jon Anderson (of the band Yes), and Trey Anastasio (of the band Phish), with whom he worked on two albums on Elektra Records.

Peters conducted the world premiere recording of Daron Hagen’s Masquerade with violinist Jaime Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson, and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, on Bridge Records. Among the other soloists with whom he has collaborated are Midori, Edgar Meyer, Christopher O’Riley, and Richard Stoltzman. His work has been the subject of national media attention from CBS Sunday Morning, National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, Symphony, and The New Yorker.

Awarded a Vermont Arts Council Citation of Merit in 2009, he has also been honored with eight ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music and has conducted more than three-dozen world premieres. A popular lecturer, he has presented pre-concert talks for the Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and San Antonio Symphony.

Peters is also active as a composer, where his honors include the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from Meet the Composer and the Rockefeller Foundation. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of Pennsylvania, where his primary compositional mentors were Ned Rorem and George Crumb. Born in 1969 in Greenock, Scotland (of American parents), Peters grew up in Tacoma, Washington, and lives in San Antonio with his wife and two children.

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YOSA Gold Series 2 Sunday, February 22, 2015 7 p.m.

The Tobin Center for the Performing Arts H-E-B Performance Hall Philharmonic Troy Peters, Music Director Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone Kenji Bunch

Supermaximum

Alexander Glazunov

Concerto in E-flat major for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra, Op. 109

Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone Jazz Concerto (Hot Sonata) for Alto Saxophone and Chamber Ensemble Moderato Vivo Andante

Molto vivo Erwin Schulhoff

(orchestrated by Richard Rodney Bennett)

Branford Marsalis, alto saxophone John Zarco, conductor INTERMISSION Richard Strauss

Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 7 John Zarco, conductor

Edward Elgar

Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 “Enigma”

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BRANFORD MARSALIS, Guest Artist

NEA Jazz Master, renowned Grammy Award®-winning saxophonist and Tony Award® nominee composer Branford Marsalis is one of the most revered instrumentalists of his time. The three-time Grammy Award® winner has continued to exercise and expand his skills as an instrumentalist, a composer, and the head of Marsalis Music, the label he founded in 2002 that has allowed him to produce both his own projects and those of the jazz world’s most promising new and established artists.

Marsalis made his Broadway debut as the composer of original music for the Tony Award® winning Broadway revival of August Wilson’s play “Fences”. Marsalis received a Tony nomination in the category of category of “Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre” and a 2010 Drama Desk Award® for “Outstanding Music in a Play” for his participation. Following these successes, Marsalis was asked to score the 2011 Broadway premiere of “The Mountaintop” starting Samuel Jackson and Angela Bassett.

Leader of one of the finest jazz Quartets today, and a frequent soloist with classical ensembles, Branford has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with such acclaimed orchestras as the Chicago, Detroit, Düsseldorf, and North Carolina Symphonies and the Boston Pops, with a growing repertoire that includes compositions by Copland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Milhaud, Rorem and Vaughn Williams. His propensity for innovative and forward-thinking compels him to seek new and challenging works by modern classical composers such as modern Scottish composer Sally Beamish who, after hearing Branford perform her composition “The Imagined Sound of Sun on Stone” at the 2006 North Sea Jazz Festival, was inspired to re-conceive a piece in progress, “Under the Wing of the Rock,” which he premiered as part of the Celtic Connections festival Beamish’s home country of Scotland in January 2009.

Making his first appearance with the New York Philharmonic in the summer of 2010, Marsalis was again invited to join them as soloist in their 2010-2011 concert series where he unequivocally demonstrated his versatility and prowess, bringing “a gracious poise and supple tone… and an insouciant swagger” (New York Times) to the repertoire.

In 2011, the National Endowment for the Arts conferred the prestigious Jazz Masters Fellowship on the Marsalis Family, a celebration and acknowledgement of a family described by the New York Times as “jazz’s 18

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS most storied living dynasty”, who have made an indelible mark, collectively and individually, on the history and the future of jazz, America’s art form.

The Branford Marsalis Quartet explores the limits of musical adventure and band cohesiveness on Four MFs Playin’ Tunes available August 2012.

This is the first recording of the tight-knit working band with an electrifying young drummer that joined the band three years ago and the results are a nimble and sparkling album, featuring ambitious original compositions by members of the band, a Thelonious Monk classic, and one standard dating to 1930. The record blends the beautiful and subtle ballad sounds of 2004 release Eternal with the ecstatic contrasts of critically-acclaimed Braggtown. In other words, this just might be the Branford Marsalis Quartet’s most sublime musical achievement yet.

Having gained initial acclaim through his work with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and his brother Wynton’s quintet in the early 1980s, Marsalis also performed and recorded with a who’s-who of jazz giants including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and Sonny Rollins. He has also collaborated with such diverse artists as Sting, the Grateful Dead and Bruce Hornsby. His expansive interests are further reflected in his explorations in film, radio and television, including his role as the musical director of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for two years in the early 1990s.

Marsalis has also acted in such popular movies such as Throw Mama from the Train and School Daze, provided music for Mo’ Better Blues and other films and hosted National Public Radio’s syndicated program Jazz Set. Dedicated to changing the future of jazz in the classroom, Marsalis has shared his knowledge at such universities as Michigan State, San Francisco State, Stanford and North Carolina Central, with his full Quartet participating in an innovative extended residency at the NCCU campus. Beyond these efforts, he is also bringing a new approach to jazz education to student musicians and listeners in colleges and high schools through Marsalis Jams, an interactive program designed by Marsalis in which leading jazz ensembles present concert/jam sessions in mini-residencies. Marsalis Jams has visited campuses in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest, and later established an ongoing Marsalis Berklee Jams series with the Berklee College of Music.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans native joined forces with friend Harry Connick, Jr. to conceive the New Orleans Habitat Musicians’ Village, the newly constructed community in the city’s historic Upper Ninth Ward that provides new homes for displaced residents, including displaced musicians and their families. At the heart of the Village stands the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, a magnificent facility with performance, instructional and practice spaces and a recording studio.

Whether on the stage, in the recording studio, in the classroom or in the community, Branford Marsalis embodies a commitment to musical excellence and a determination to keep music at the forefront.

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PROGAM NOTES

by Troy Peters

Bunch: Supermaximum

Kenji Bunch (born 1970) is one of the most widely performed American composers of his generation, recognized for blending exquisite craftsmanship with a broad stylistic palette.

An accomplished violist, he also enjoys an active performing career. The Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music commissioned the original version of his Supermaximum for the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, which premiered the piece in 2011; Bunch expanded the instrumentation to create a full orchestra version in 2013. The composer writes: Supermaximum is inspired by the rich tradition of “chain gang” songs from the prison camps of the Depression-era South. With roots in West African folk song through generations of slavery and Jim Crow laws, this body of work serves as an example of an unlikely group of people resorting to art for spiritual and physical survival under the most hellish circumstances. The work begins with the unpitched rhythm of chain gang work—the swinging and clanging of axes and hammers—before the violas lead the call and response “singing.”

Gradually, the music transcends the conditions of this harsh reality into an elevated, spiritual state of grace. The work comes full circle with a reiteration of the chain gang elements—but with a galvanized, hopeful resolve.

Glazunov: Saxophone Concerto in E-flat major, Op. 109

Alexander Glazunov (1865-1936) was an important Russian composer between the death of Tchaikovsky and the rise of the modern school of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich. He composed prolifically, conducted widely, and taught for many years at the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Glazunov wrote his Saxophone Concerto, his last composition of note, for the German virtuoso Sigurd Rascher, who gave the premiere in 1934 in Sweden. Glazunov combines three contrasting movements (fast-slow-fast) into a single span of music, culminating in a spirited fugue in the style of a tarantella.

Schulhoff (orch. Bennett): Jazz Concerto (Hot Sonata)

Czech composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942) unsuccessfully petitioned for Soviet citizenship in 1939 when the Nazis overran Czechoslovakia; Russia could not protect him. Because of Schulhoff’s Jewish heritage and his Communist politics, the Nazis interned him at a concentration camp at Wülzburg, Bavaria, where he died of tuberculosis. Two decades earlier, the influence of jazz had enlivened Schulhoff’s music throughout the 1920s. This culminated in his Hot Sonata of 1930, composed for saxophone and dance band, and later published for saxophone and piano. Because the composer’s original dance band score was lost, the English composer Richard Rodney Bennett created a new orchestration in 2002-2004. Like many of his contemporaries—Hindemith, Weill, Stravinsky, Ravel, and others—Schulhoff filtered the rhythms, harmonies, and phrasing of American jazz through the angular sensibility of European modernism to create a distinctive musical style.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Strauss: Serenade in E-flat major, Op. 7

Richard Strauss (1864-1949) had just turned seventeen when he composed his Serenade for 13 wind instruments in 1881. The son of one of Germany’s best horn players, Strauss was a prodigious talent who had already published a string quartet, a piano sonata, several shorter piano pieces, and an orchestral march. He would go on to become one of the most important composers of his generation, and many commentators consider this serenade his first mature work.

The influence of Mozart and Mendelssohn is audible in this music, but it represents the young composer’s distillation of these influences into something remarkably original. The contour of the melodies is already characteristically “Straussian,” with moments of achingly beautiful lyricism that foreshadow his later works.

Elgar: “Enigma” Variations, Op. 36

On an October evening in 1898, after an exhausting day of teaching, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) relaxed by improvising at the piano. When his wife especially enjoyed one of his melodies, Elgar improvised variations on the tune, creating (mostly amusing) musical portraits of various friends. Over the next few months, one evening’s parlor game grew into an orchestral masterpiece, as the composer expanded and orchestrated the variations. Elgar later described the work that would make him famous as having been “commenced in a spirit of humor and continued in deep seriousness.”

Elgar was in his forties when he finished the “Enigma” Variations, scraping together a living with long hours of teaching and hackwork for his publisher. On a lark, he sent the new score to the world-famous conductor Hans Richter, who surprised the composer by agreeing to introduce the work in London just a few months later.

The premiere was a huge success, and Elgar was widely hailed as the greatest English composer in history. The “Enigma” Variations quickly became standard orchestral repertoire around the world, and Elgar was knighted by King Edward VII within five years.

Elgar dedicated his “Enigma” Variations “to my friends pictured within,” and begins with the theme, followed by fourteen variations: Variation I (C.A.E.) is a loving portrait of his wife, Caroline Alice Elgar.

Variation II (H.D.S-P.) depicts the rapid scales with which amateur pianist Hew David Steuart-Powell would warm up at the piano.

Variation III (R.B.T.) imitates the bicycle bell and comic theatrical voice of Oxford professor Richard Baxter Townshend.

Variation IV (W.M.B.) presents William Meath Baker making gruff announcements to his houseguests before slamming the door on his way out.

Variation V (R.P.A.) is a portrait of Richard Penrose Arnold, whose regular juxtaposition of serious, thoughtful conversation with wit and jokes is audible.

Variation VI (Ysobel) features the viola, the instrument played by Isabel Fitton.

Variation VII (Troyte) good-naturedly mimics Arthur Troyte Griffith’s enthusiastic incompetence on the piano and might also depict a thunderstorm in which the friends were once caught.

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PROGAM NOTES (continued) Variation VIII (W.N.) evokes the stately home of Winifred Norbury, but also contains references to her charming laugh.

Variation IX (Nimrod) salutes Elgar’s best friend, August Jaeger, remembering a time when Jaeger cheered up a depressed Elgar with a conversation about Beethoven. (“Nimrod” was not the insult it would come to be in the Bugs Bunny cartoons of later decades, but merely a reference to the Old Testament hunter and king; Jaeger is the German word for hunter.)

Variation X (Dorabella) uses faltering woodwind rhythms to portray the slight stutter of Dora Penny.

Variation XI (G.R.S.) describes the pet bulldog of George Robertson Sinclair, tumbling into the river and emerging, barking happily.

Variation XII (B.G.N.) features the cello, the instrument played by Basil G. Nevinson.

Elgar said that Variation XIII (* * *) depicted Lady Mary Lygon, whose journey by sea to Australia is depicted in timpani rolls that imitate the ship’s engine.

Finally, Variation XIV (E.D.U.) is Elgar’s self-portrait, a heroic finale that also includes references to earlier variations.

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YOSA CONDUCTOR BIOS

Kenneth Freudigman, YOSA Symphony & YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor Kenneth Freudigman is the co-founder and artistic director of Camerata San Antonio, principal cello of the San Antonio Symphony, adjunct professor of cello at the University of Texas at San Antonio, former Education Director of the Cactus Pear Music Festival, and a highly respected cello pedagogue. Ken began his work as YOSA Symphony conductor in 2012.

Dr. John Zarco, YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor John Zarco is the Associate Director of Bands at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he conducts the UTSA Symphonic Band and Chamber Winds, in addition to assisting with the UTSA “Spirit of San Antonio” Marching Band. His responsibilities also include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting, wind literature, and music education.

Martha Long, YOSA Flute Choir Conductor Martha Long joined the San Antonio Symphony as principal flute in October 2012. Martha received her Bachelor’s degree from the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where she studied with Jim Walker, and continued her studies at the New England Conservatory as a student of Elizabeth Rowe. She was a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center in 2010 and 2011 and returned in 2012 as a New Fromm Player, focusing on the performance of new compositions. Martha has also performed with the Colorado, Fort Collins (CO), New World, and North Carolina Symphonies. Martha began her work with YOSA Flute Choir in 2013.

Brenda Johnson, YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor Brenda Johnson is orchestra director at Hector Garcia Middle School (Northside ISD), where she opened the school as founding conductor of the Gladiator Orchestra program. Originally from McAllen, Texas, Mrs. Johnson received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baylor University and a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of North Texas. In 2004, Mrs. Johnson was one of four teachers in Texas to receive the Majorie Keller Young Music Educator’s Award from the American String Teacher Association and is a member of Texas Music Educator’s Association, Texas Orchestra Directors Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, and the American String Teacher Association with National School Orchestra Association.

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Jonathan Raveneau, YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor Jonathan Raveneau is a versatile and eclectic musician with specialties ranging from classical to jazz in both instrumental and vocal genres. Jonathan joined YOSA as conductor in 2010. Jonathan also conducts the Cavatina Orchestra for the Hill Country Youth Orchestras.

Jacobi Caldwell, YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor of YOSA Prelude Strings, earned her bachelor of Music, String Emphasis, from the University of South Carolina. She studied conducting with David Rudge and participated in the USC Conductor’s Institute. She worked with the South Carolina Phiharmonic Youth Orchestra and the USC String Project. Following that, she taught in public schools, then spent years performing commercially. One of the highlights of her journey was moving to Texas and working with the Hill Country Youth Orchestra. She has gone on to teach at Kerrville ISD and Alamo Heights ISD winning UIL Sweepstakes at every competition. She is currently teaching in Boerne ISD.

Eugene Dowdy, Resident Conductor Eugene Dowdy is an associate professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he is Director of Orchestral Studies, conductor of the UTSA Orchestra and Lyric Theatre, and head of instrumental conducting. Dr. Dowdy conducted YOSA’s Symphony Orchestra from 1984 to 1992 and was Interim Philharmonic Conductor in 2000.

He researched and wrote YOSA’s history for his doctoral essay at the University of Iowa in 1995. He also serves as associate conductor for the Symphony of the Hills (Kerrville), and is the founding director of the UTSA String Project. He is a past president of TODA and TexASTA.

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

VIOLIN

Joseph Guzek

Sophia Sanchez

Winston Churchill High School

Arianna Jefferson

Harrison Schumann

Brian Kang

Claire Thornton

Victoria Klaunig

Wesley Tiong

Mika Kochheiser

Corry Tu

Benita Lee

Isaac Villaroya

Dora Cheng concertmaster

Kathleen Ran assistant concertmaster Health Careers High School

Emily Averyt principal second violin Saint Mary’s Hall

Victoria Acuña

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Sebastian Alderete John Jay High School

Anne Archer

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Jessie Atkins

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Abigail Boyer

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Elisa Bravo

University of Texas at San Antonio

Alex Brehm

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Andrea Brun

Ronald Reagan High School

Ronald Reagan High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Burbank High School

Alamo Heights High School

Lydia Matteson

Incarnate Word High School

Daniel Meloni

William H. Taft High School

David Menchaca

Antonian College Preparatory

Sandra Moon

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Daniel Nix

Miranda Cole

Topiltzin Perez

John Marshall High School

Luis Gutierrez Fonseca

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

John Marshall High School

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Peiyang Wang

Basis Charter School

Emily Ye

Keystone School

Taegyun Yoon

Thomas C. Clark High School

VIOLA

Christopher Gokelman principal

John Marshall High School

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Dominik Peña

Alyse Gonzalez

Health Careers High School

Deborah Olivier

Ryan Cao

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

John Marshall High School

St. Anthony Catholic High School

Daniel Brun

Health Careers High School

San Antonio Christian Schools

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Isabelle Pacheco

San Antonio College

Saint Mary’s Hall

John Marshall High School

John Marshall High School

Home School

Kathleen Ran

Health Careers High School

Emilienne Riopel

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Wilmer Rodriguez Judson High School

Cristian Aguirre Bailey Boyen

Health Careers High School

Juliet DeNapoli

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

David Irizarry Home School

Rachel Jones Home School

Alyssa Peña

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Andrew Piña

Thomas C. Clark High School

Emma Reynolds

Winston Churchill High School

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

Isaac Schutz

BASS

Natalie Morales

Kevin Valdez

University of Texas at San Antonio

Hampton Rattan

STEM Academy -- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Academy

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Jesus Zendejo

Douglas MacArthur High School

Christopher Osborn principal Albert Coleman

Thomas C. Clark High School

Quynten Grove

Byron P. Steele II High School

CELLO

Alejandro Juul

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Alexandra Krick

Isabel Tweraser principal

Andrew Arkhipov

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Julianna Bray

Northwest Vista College

Parker Candland Home School

Federico Chavez-Torres Health Careers High School

Emily Dunn

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Gwendolyn Hollida

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Minji Kim

Health Careers High School

Prisca Lafuente

Earl Warren High School

Mary Nerio

Seton Home Study

Tricia Park

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Marc Rodriguez

Samuel V. Champion High School

Astrid Topletz

Ronald Reagan High School

Victoria Valdez

Grace Christian School

Saint Mary’s Hall

Alamo Heights High School

Kyle Krieger

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Hannah McCullough

Smithson Valley High School

Byron P. Steele II High School

BASSOON

Nicholas Fitch Tivy High School

Kaan Kumru

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

Andy Thomas

Smithson Valley High School

Elaina Walzel

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Tivy High School

HORN

Michael Sagor

Ronald Reagan High School

William J. Brennan High School

Niklas Siebert

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

FLUTE

Alaina Blue

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Nnamdi Odita-Honnah

Eric Bassett

Benjamin Hanysz

Robert E. Lee High School

Derek Timmons

Medina Valley High School

Kevin Yang

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Louis D. Brandeis High School

TRUMPET

Paula Wilson

Judson High School

Judson High School

OBOE

Kailey Lopez

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Reagan Merrill

James Madison High School

Michael Tijerina

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

CLARINET

Jenna Gaulden

Dylan Frazier

Jonathan Fritzlen

Ronald Reagan High School

Bradley Kent

Ronald Reagan High School

TROMBONE Nat Hsu

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Nicholas Moppin Canyon High School

Winston Churchill High School

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Philharmonic

Troy Peters, Music Director

BASS TROMBONE

PERCUSSION

Robert E. Lee High School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Antonio Morales

Gabriela Barrera Jacob Bissell

TUBA

Ricardo Gandarilla

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Judson High School

Keve Bordas Keystone School

Scott Rogers

Judson High School

Dominic Walsh

Central Catholic High School

ORGAN

Cheryl Cellon Lindquist

Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Audria Fogarty-Ramirez

Abigail Slaughter

Anne Gao

Enoch Szeto

McKenna Mosely assistant concertmaster

Hannah Garcia

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

Laura Tapley

William P. Hobby Middle School

Abigail Dickson principal second violin

Erica Gonzalez

VIOLIN

Dylan Fernandez de lara concertmaster Frank Tejeda Middle School

Home School

Gabriel Akessler

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Daniel Arkhipov

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Chandler Baker

Central Catholic High School

Matthew Christman

Business Careers High School

Aaliyah Crawford

James Madison High School

Giselle De La Torre Pinedo Health Careers High School

Olivia Deahl

Ronald Reagan High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Douglas MacArthur High School

Ana Hernandez Quiros Ronald Reagan High School

Rebekah Jones Home School

Victoria Juarez

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Natalie Meissler Home School

Savanna Moore

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Nicole Perez

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Avery Robinson

Home School

STEM Academy -- Science Technology Engineering Mathematics Academy

Deja Dorrough

Abiud Rodriguez

Karen Wagner High School

Zoe Espinoza-Kochheiser Theodore Roosevelt High School

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

David Saucedo

Earl Warren High School

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Thomas C. Clark High School

Home School

Victoria Villarreal

Samuel Clemens High School

VIOLA

Jalie-Ann Cummings principal

Judson Early College Academy

Imaya Farrell

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Jodei Pasasadaba

Ronald Reagan High School

Natalie Perez

Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson High School

Michelle Richardson

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Joshua Rodriguez Judson High School

Kiana Williamson

James Madison High School

CELLO

Katelyn Petersen principal

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

Symphony Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor Millie Camp

BASS

Bailey Nicolson

Sophie Deahl

Ronald Reagan High School

CLARINET

Samuel Becvar

Health Careers High School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Home School

Maximilian Klaunig

Samuel V. Champion High School

Catherine Kline

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Erik Martilla

Alamo Heights High School

Michael Djabarov principal

Alamo Heights High School

Adrian Iniguez

Travis Early College High School

Anaelli Rodriguez

John Jay Science and Engineering Academy (Jay H.S.)

HARP

Nicholas Slaughter

St. Anthony Catholic High School

Samuel Clemens High School

Elisabeth Wang

Providence High School

David Zamarripa

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Blanka Bordas

Pearl Fernandes

Judson Early College Academy

BASSOON

Michael Chapa Wagner High School

Jared Worman

Jacob Resendez

Winston Churchill High School

Walter Krueger Middle School

Rhiannon Villarreal

James Madison High School

HORN

Ethan Gurwitz

FLUTE

Rebekah Taylor Home School

Winston Churchill High School

Hailey Schmidt

Randolph Middle School

OBOE

Sara Morales

William H. Taft High School

Symphonic Winds

Dr. John Zarco, Conductor

FLUTE

OBOE

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Christina Cardenas

Jasmine Perez

Eunice Chung

Joshua Roper

Gail Fernandes

Nathalie Vela Karen Wagner High School

Zia Kim

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

CLARINET

Ashley Ventrella

Canyon Lake High School

Smithson Valley Middle School

Judson Early College Academy

William J. Brennan High School

Kierstin Wilkins

First Baptist Academy of Universal City

Dustin Gonzales Simon Gonzales

Garrett Snowden

Smithson Valley High School

Mandy Whitaker

George West High School

Alejandro Yanez

Theodore Roosevelt High School

BASSOON

Emmali Ouderkirk

Byron P. Steele II High School

Austin Perry

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

John Paul Stevens High School

Communication Arts High School (Taft H.S.)

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Symphonic Winds

Dr. John Zarco, Conductor

ALTO SAXOPHONE

TRUMPET

TUBA

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Aldo Aguilar

Ian Aigner-Varoz

Torda Bordas

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

Brennen Bishop

Xavier Alexander

Maxwell Harrison

Zachary Gilbertson

University of Texas at San Antonio

TENOR SAXOPHONE

Katherine Stinson Middle School

Cody Myre

Joshua Jalomo

Byron P. Steele II High School

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

BARITONE SAXOPHONE Eric Moeller James King

Engineering and Technologies Academy (Roosevelt H.S.)

Isaiah Aguilar Aidan Alcocer

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Caleb Keller

Harlandale High School

Miranda Nydegger

Antonian College Preparatory

PERCUSSION Anna Ayres

Providence College Preparatory School for Girls

Chukwudi Odita-Honnah

Ty Gonzales-Graves

Donovan Soza

Danielle Morales

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Roy D. Corbett Junior High School

Judson High School

Geneva School of Boerne

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

HORN

Shukria Al-Araibi

TROMBONE

Marco Alvarado

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Smithson Valley High School

Colton Noles

William J. Brennan High School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Angel Rivera-Hernandez Briscoe Middle School

Home School

Flute Choir FLUTE

Antonio Jasiczek

Louis D. Brandeis High School

Quentin Johnston Home School

Emily Kuppers

St. Pius X Catholic School

Martha Long, Conductor Emily Lawitz

Tonda Turner

Eliana Olivier

Samantha Villarreal

Julia Roensch

Tyrece Williams

Home School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Alamo Heights Junior School

Rebekah Taylor Home School

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Alamo Heights Junior School

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Robert E. Lee High School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

Concertino Strings

Kenneth Freudigman, Conductor

VIOLIN

Seva Joshi

Parker Baillon

Woodlake Hills Middle School

Victoria Kim

Lindee Fiedler

Linda Liu assistant concertmaster

Julia Lavergne

CELLO

Elijah Gonzalez concertmaster

Keystone School Basis Charter School

Dolph Briscoe Middle School Boerne High School

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Earl Warren High School

Eve Poindexter principal second violin

Tara Mosely

Simon Phoa principal

William P. Hobby Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Mariana Navarro

Giuliano Bucheli

James Madison High School

Barbara Bush Middle School

Adam Nix

Victoria Day

Great Hearts San Antonio

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Brianna Pendry

Britney Ericson

Jose M. Lopez Middle School

Douglas MacArthur High School

Ethan Poidevin

Mia Flowers

Basis Charter School

Smithson Valley Middle School

Rahul Rajesh

Noah Hernandez

Health Careers High School

Elanor Kolitz Hebrew Language Academy

Natalie Rodriguez

Serena Kallead

Health Careers High School

William J. Brennan High School

Miaoyin Rojas

Rachel Taylor

Judson High School

William J. Brennan High School

Emily Seddighzadeh

Alejandra Wagnon

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Gregory Luna Middle School

Everardo Sifuentes

Avery Wilson

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

William H. Taft High School

Sankya Srinivasan

Elaine Zhang

Ruth Toth

BASS

North East School of the Arts (Lee H.S.)

Matthew Anderson

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Anna Claire Beasley Medina Valley High School

Benjamin Bendele Home School

Samuel Bentz Home School

Rema Bhat

Basis Charter School

Samantha Geri Cirineo Earl Rudder Middle School

Josie Decherd

Basis Charter School

Sofia Follman

Providence High School

Paulina Garcia

The Atonement Academy

Natalie Gifford

Winston Churchill High School

Camilla Guel

Basis Charter School

Sofia Hernandez

Incarnate Word High School

Angelina Hinojosa

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Georgeanna Hoey

Smithson Valley High School

Diana Hubbard

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Keystone School

Cornerstone Christian School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Samantha Woods

Javier Hernandez principal

Calvary Baptist Academy

Saint Mary’s Hall

Wentao Yang

Blaine Bryan

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Winston Churchill High School

Taylor (Taein) Yoon

Andrew Butts

Blattman Elementary School

VIOLA

Andrew Kang principal

Alamo Heights High School

Avery Rogers

Boerne High School

Monroe May Elementary

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Sinfonietta Strings VIOLIN

Donnel Zhu concertmaster

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Katie Chong assistant concertmaster San Antonio Christian Schools

Andrea Reyes principal second violin

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Leo Arreguin

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Julia Cervantes

Judson Middle School

Lawrence Corsini

Katherine Stinson Middle School

Josiah Damiano

Cornerstone Christian School

Isabel Dickinson Basis Charter School

Alessandra Finol

Hardy Oak Elementary School

Sophia Flores

Judson Early College Academy

Jillian Griffis

Leon Valley Christian Academy

Grace Hende

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Anirudha Reddy Karla Keystone School

Kaitlyn Kelly

Woodlake Hills Middle School

Christina Marie Martinez

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Joseph Albert Martinez

Sandra Day O’Connor High School

Alicia McNulty

Providence High School

Hunter Messick

Katherine Stinson Middle School

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

David Miller

Jashea Hollis

Alex Navarro

Marissa Howard

Rebecca Neely

Amy Wang

Andrea Negro

CELLO

Jack C. Jordan Middle School

St. Pius X Catholic School

Barbara Bush Middle School

School of Science and Technology – Discovery

Carlos Nieto

Theodore Roosevelt High School

Samantha Olvera Judson Middle School

Natasha Pfeiffer

John B. Connally Middle School

Phillippe Riopel

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Emiliano Zendejo principal

John Garner Middle School

Katia Amori

Barbara Bush Middle School

Bianca Castillo

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Sydni-Simone Dukes

Valley Hi Elementary School

Virginia Allred Stacey Junior Senior High

Zakary Rodriguez

Julia Gutierrez

Jackson Rogler

Gayle Hende

Marciano Ross

Madeline Hoyle

Alec Sanchez

Madelyn Jarvis Johnston

Kelsey Smith

Valerie Jones

Alex Sobotker

Darius Keeffe

Willa White

Alexander Lomeli-Azoubel

Nathan Winfrey

Randy Resendez

Home School

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Gregory Luna Middle School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School

Great Hearts Monte Vista

VIOLA

Ruben Andrade principal

Robert L. Vale Middle School

Mikayla Acosta

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Sophia Choe

Basis Charter School

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J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Byron P. Steele II High School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

St. George Episcopal School

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Home School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Frank Tejeda Middle School

Ronald Reagan High School

Aubrie Rettmann

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Tony Rodriguez

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Lillian Roe

Seguin High School

Lulu Whitmore

Alamo Heights Junior School

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

Sinfonietta Strings BASS

Zachary Zimmerman principal Bradley Middle School

Clayton Boyer

Currington Elementary

Raine Esparza

Basis Charter School

Capriccio Strings VIOLIN

Sara Bassiri

James Bonham Academy

Chloe Bayani

Judson Middle School

Luke Brehm

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Sarah Bush

Providence College Preparatory School for Girls

Emily Ann Castilleja

John B. Connally Middle School

Nicole Detiveaux

San Antonio Christian Schools

Christian Diaz

Coker Elementary School

Cameron Dunbar Oak Run Middle School

Felicia Early Home School

Ian Fernandes

Judson Middle School

Francesca Finol

Hardy Oak Elementary School

Elizabeth Fowler

Walter Krueger Middle School

Gillian Fritz

Bernal Middle School

Itzel Galan

Basis Charter School

Robyn Gerry

Basis Charter School

Samuel Godoy

Earl Rudder Middle School

Brenda Johnson, Conductor

Jonathan Raveneau, Conductor

Jaime Gonzalez

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Trier Hodge

Roy D. Corbett Junior High School

Sarah Hubbard

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Sophia Irizarry Home School

Alexia Johnson

J. Frank Dobie Junior High School

Colin Johnson

Wallace B. Jefferson Middle School

Victoria Jones Home School

Caitlin Kuhlman

Zoe Reyna

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Jolie Richmond

Barbara Bush Middle School

Nathanael Slaughter

Our Lady of Perpetual Help School

Emily Voeller Home School

Stephanie Woods

Trinity Christian Academy

Ronald Zhu

Bob Beard Elementary School

VIOLA

Kristine Gonzalez

Robert G. Cole Middle School

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Eva Lizarraga

Nicholas Langston-Keathley

Great Hearts San Antonio

Ed Rawlinson Middle School

Diego Manrique

Gabriella Rodriguez Sanchez

Texas Virtual Academy

Edward H. White Middle School

Faith Mueller

CELLO

Home School

Carly Munoz

William P. Hobby Middle School

Isabel Oxford Keystone School

Alyson Park

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

Odelia Pena-Pathan

Robert L. Vale Middle School

Andrew Perez Keystone School

Viviana Peters Home School

Victoria Abascal

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Evan Aranda

Walter Krueger Middle School

Kevin Black

St. George Episcopal School

Mary Candland Basis Charter School

Karina De La Torre

Krueger School of Applied Technologies (Krueger M.S.)

Amber Guerra

Judson Middle School

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Capriccio Strings

Jonathan Raveneau, Conductor

Basis Charter School

William P. Hobby Middle School

Connor Sparks

BASS

Rebeka Jones

Timothy Watkins

Barbara Bush Middle School

Conner Lindley

Derek Xu

Dr. Hector P. Garcia Middle School

William Huang

Home School

Dr. Bernard Harris Middle School

Great Hearts San Antonio

Alexandra Balfour Austin Campos

The Atonement Academy

Angelina Miller

Jack C. Jordan Middle School

Prelude Strings VIOLIN

Camille Aljibe

Shepherd of the Hills

Oasis Allinger

John A. Sippel Elementary School

Madeline Dickinson

Dr. Winn Murnin Elementary School

Julianna Jaramillo

STEM Academy - Nimitz Middle School

Emily Kitayama

Huebner Elementary School

Kaitlyn Lien

Encino Park Elementary School

Crystal Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Minh Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Van Nguyen

St. Luke’s Catholic School

Mayala Peña

Roosevelt Elementary School

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Jacobi Caldwell, Conductor

Erik Peterson

San Antonio Academy of Texas

Jayleen Rangel

Sarah King Elementary School

Adrian Reyes

Carlos Coon Elementary

Daniel Robelo

Cambridge Elementary School

Christi Toth

Cornerstone Christian School

Natalie Zepeda

N. Winston Elementary School

VIOLA

Sofia Abascal

Clara Driscoll Middle School

Arlette Lomeli-Azoubel

Roan Forest Elementary School

Catherine Martinez

Alfonso S. Perales Elementary School

Madison Perez

Coke R. Stevenson Middle School

CELLO

Kyle Chong

San Antonio Christian Schools

Caroline Cordts

Woodridge Elementary School

Caroline Krugle

Dolph Briscoe Middle School

Elijah Owens

Ann Frank Inspire Academy

Daniella Silva

Henry B. Gonzales Elementary School

Kayla Wood

Laura Ingalls Wilder Intermediate School

BASS

Ben Roe

Weinert Elementary

BOARD OF DIRECTORS FACULTY

ADMINISTRATION

John Frederick, Ph.D.

Troy Peters

Brandon Henson

Carl Leafstedt, Ph.D.

Kenneth Freudigman

Brittany Sharnsky

Chair

Vice Chair, Development and Chair Elect

Thomas Sanders

Vice Chair, Governance

Lee Hipp

Vice Chair, Music Programs

Kathleen Doria Treasurer

Shari Mao Secretary

Music Director

YOSA Symphony Conductor YOSA Concertino Strings Conductor

John Zarco

YOSA Symphonic Winds Conductor

Martha Long

YOSA Flute Choir Conductor

Brenda Johnson

YOSA Sinfonietta Strings Conductor

Jonathan Raveneau

Kenneth Bloom, M.D.

YOSA Capriccio Strings Conductor

Tony Campbell

Jacobi Caldwell

Magaly Chocano Nancy Halvorson Katie DeBauche John Lewis, Ph.D. Paul Oroian Karen Perretta Jeffrey Walsh Benjamin Westney

YOSA Prelude Strings Conductor

Eugene Dowdy

Resident Conductor

Executive Director

Development Assistant

Ben Hackett

Operations Director

Aurelia Rocha

Operations Coordinator

Jackson Hocott

Operations Assistant

Emily Weir

Operations Assistant

Alfonso Gonzales Bookkeeper

Kathleen Messina Office Coordinator

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

THANK YOU, COACHES Through sectional coaching and mentoring by professional musicians, YOSA offers its musicians the highest level of music education. The following musicians have assisted our orchestras during the 2014/15 season. The musical education that our young musicians receive would not be possible without your support.

Strings

Marisa Bushman, viola Allyson Dawkins, viola David Dawson, bass Sixto Elizondo, violin Emily Freudigman, viola Ignacio Gallego, cello Jill Van Gee, viola Karen George, violin Mary Ellen Goree, violin Morgen Johnson, cello Ryan Murphy, cello Bassam Nashawati, violin Mark Nugent, cello Teresa Nguyen, viola Dr. Kristen Pellegrino, violin Julie Post, violin Mylyn Grace Ramos, violin

Zlatan Redzic, bass Martin Sanchez, bass Sarah Silver, violin Eric Siu, violin Stacey Storer, violin Darryl Tolliver, viola Aimee Toomes, violin Christina Trongone, violin Steve Zeserman, bass

Woodwinds

Mark Ackerman, oboe Jennifer Berg, oboe Dr. Rita Linard, flute Martha Long, flute Sharon Kuster, bassoon Jean Robinson, flute

Brass

Lee Hipp, tuba Martin McCain, trombone Molly Norcross, horn Brian Santero, trumpet Matthew Vangjel, trumpet

Percussion

Riely Francis Genaro Gonzalez Bill Patterson

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS

THANK YOU, DONORS

YOSA is honored to recognize the many businesses, foundations, governmental organizations and friends who have made it possible for 1,800 young musicians in our community to be part of YOSA’s continuing tradition of music and learning, friends and fun. Listed here are the generous donors who have made this experience possible through gifts made August 1, 2014 through January 15, 2015. Please contact YOSA if your name is not included.

Great Composers Composers Star Performers Maestros Concertmasters Principal Chairs Section Sponsors Friends of YOSA

$100,000 and above $50,000 to $99,999 $20,000 to $49,999 $5,000 to $19,999 $1,000 to $4,999 $500 to $999 $100 to $499 Less than $100

Great Composers City of San Antonio, Department of Culture and Creative Development Kronkosky Charitable Foundation Composers Anonymous Rackspace Foundation/RSF Endowment Star Performers H-E-B Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust Valero Energy Foundation Maestros A.C.F.E.A. Tour Consultants H-E-B Mr. & Mrs. Paul Oroian The Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts Shield-Ayres Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts The USAA Foundation, Inc. Zachry Foundation

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YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Concertmasters

Rev. John Lewis & Ms. Pat Bridwell The Columbus Foundation John H. Frederick and Mimi W. Yu Marcia and Otto Koehler Foundation Ms. Elizabeth M. Lorenz and Mr. Rick Ramos Mr. & Mrs. John McCullough The Mirza Trust The Harris K. & Lois G. Oppenheimer Foundation Donald Oroian Oroian, Guest & Little, P.C. Anne and Troy Peters Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Sanders St. Mark’s Episcopal Church theFund Mr. Bruce I Topletz and Ms. Cristina Chial Traveling Blender, Llc University of North Texas Via Metropolitan Transit Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Waller Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Walsh

Principal Chairs

Mr. Steven Bankler, CPA Ms. Kris Brehm Mr. Edward E. (Sonny) Collins III Ms. Kathleen Doria & Mr. Ruben Silva Mr. and Mrs. Paul Halvorson Mr. Reid Hartson iHeart Realty Mr. John S. Jockusch Mr. Woodson Jones Dr. and Mrs. Carl Leafstedt Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Timothy Owens Mr. and Mrs. Rob Rodriguez Ms. Louise Shaw Mr. & Mrs. Marshall T. Steves, Jr. Mollie Steves Zachry Fund of YOSA Endowment Fund Woodson Jones

Section Sponsors

Ace Mart Restaurant Supply Robert Albright Lisa Marie Anderson Mrs. Ann Griffith Ash William Atlas Dr. & Mrs. George Bannayan Laura Barberena Evelyn Berg Fund of the YOSA Endowment Fund of The San Antonio Area Foundation Ms. Kris Brehm Martha Bryant, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Calvert Mr. & Mrs. James Cavender Richard H. Cavender Mrs. Magaly Chocano Mr. Garry Cole Core Research Mrs. Josephine Cormack Ms. Molly Cox Louise and Tom Davis Katie DeBauche Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Dowdy Eisenberg Group Kathy and Steven Feinsten Joanna Foster James Garner Julius and Kathleen Gribou Klaus Guenther Mr. & Mrs. Ryan A. Guest Jacqueline Halcomb Marc Harrison Mr. Brandon Henson Ms. Sandra Henson Mr. Don Hessenflow & Ms. Cathy Dawson Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Johnson Anajali and Ajeya Joshi Mr. Ronald Keller Antje and Norman Klaunig Louis J. and Millie M. Kocurek Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Brian Komorek Barbara Kyse Mary and James Lancaster Mrs. Muriel J. Leafstedt Ms. Eileen Lentz Elizabeth Lutz Mr. Tim Maher Shari Mao Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur L. Matthews, Jr. Douglas McNeel Mr. & Mrs. James McNeel Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Vachel McNeel Mr. & Mrs. Alex Menchaca Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Mielke Mr. & Mrs. Tom Mikesell National Association of Women Business OwnersSan Antonio Julie and George Parker Andrea Pichler Jeanette Pierce Mr. and Mrs. P.J. Riopel Col. (Ret.) William T. Rogerson San Antonio Area Foundation Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson Mr. & Mrs. Roscoe B. Smith Mrs. Elsie G. Steg Mr. Patrick H. Swearingen, Jr. David Viera Ms. Sandra Wheatley

YOUTH ORCHESTRAS OF SAN ANTONIO | WINTER CONCERTS Friends of YOSA

Linda Akin-Cook and Werk Cook Peggy and Tom Alspaugh Roger Andrade Anonymous Larry and Vicki Baillon Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Baldridge Mr. & Mrs. Keith Becvar Mrs. Barbara A. Bentley Ms. Mary Black Mr. James L. Blackwood and Dr. Susan Blackwood Paula Boston Mr. & Mrs. Ricardo A. Bunge James Cardenas Stacy Castillo Mary Ann Compton Ms. Kate Crone Carolyn Ellis and Richard Keith Mayumi Fernandez De Lara Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Forland Rick Frazier Dr. & Mrs. J. Howard Frederick Mr. Elmer Freed Anna Garcia-Bewley Mr. & Mrs. John Gokelman Luis Gutierrez Mr. Steve Guzek Mr. & Mrs Rich Hartwick Sandy and Rey Hinojosa Alane Honigblum Mrs. Mary Jane Howe San Antonio Botanical Gardens Kenneth A. Kist, M.D. Elizabeth Knowlton Peter Kohrs Mr. and Mrs. Weir Labatt Linda Lancaster Mr. Alexander C. Lasater Margaret Leff Mr. & Mrs. Arnoldo Lopez Joann Lowry Mrs. Marguerite McCormick Ms. Joan Meloni Joseph Murgo Mr. Gerald L O’Donnell Marian Osborn Erick Paulino Dr. William B. Perry and Mrs. Holly Perry Ms. Toni Peters Rekha Rajesh Ms. Mylyn Ramos Judy Rath Mr. & Mrs. Bill Reynolds Ms. Jill Rips Jan Rivera Erin Robbins Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rogers Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence and Martha Rogler Laura Salazar Chom and James Seagraves Michael Sepeda Colette Singh Mrs. Reeves Smith William Sparks Priya Srinivasan Cnaushua Stebbins Michelle Swisher Steve Toth Mr. Felix Tweraser Dr. Ana Valadez Mr. Gregory Vaught

Richard D. Wheatley, Sr., Ph.D. Amy Wise Clinton Wood Ms. Patricia L. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Keying Ye Rev. & Mrs. Louis Zbinden Ariel and Eleazar Zendejo Tina and Todd Zimmerman

Gifts in Kind

Alamo Draft House Al’s Gourmet Nuts Americus Diamond Ms. Nancy Bryant Big Bob’s Burgers Briscoe Western Art Musuem Camp Gladiator Carrabba’s Italian Grill Lisa Compton Mr. Thomas Denapoli Joanna Chao and Paul Detiveaux Dominion Dental Spa Drury Hotels Earth Burger Eastern Retail Services Fleet Feet Sports San Antonio Fresh Urban Flowers Green Vegetarian Cuisine Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Grenier Ms. Amy Harwell Hospitality Parking Hotel Contessa James Avery Joe’s Crab Shack Kiddie Park La Tuna Grill La Vida Art Gallery Laser Quest Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club Liberty Bar Lucy Activewear McNay Art Museum Kathleen Messina Mo-Ranch Conference Center Outback Steakhouse Outerwall Inc. (DbaRedbox) P.F. Chang’s Paesano’s Italian Restaurant The Popcorn Place Radius Center Luis Gutierrez Ramirez Rudy’s Bar-B San Antonio B-Cycle San Antonio Botanical Garden San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio Symphony Southwest School of Art Spa Black Stone Werks Big Rock Grille Mr. and Mrs. Ross Taylor The Thinkery Twin Sisters Restaurant The Union, Yoga and Strength University of Texas at San Antonio Valero Texas Open The Wash Tub Westin Hotels and Resorts Kendra Scott Jewelry Witte Museum Wyndham Garden

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An intermezzo in one act Music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Libretto by Enrico Golisciani Sung in Italian with projected English translations

Libretto by Jean Cocteau, based on his play of the same name Music by Francis Poulenc Sung in French with projected English translations

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