SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2O16
Tenth Anniversary Gala
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 2O16
A Gala Evening with
The Cleveland Orchestra and RenĂŠe Fleming
A Gala evening to celebrate ten seasons of partnering with The Cleveland Orchestra to harness the power of music for Miami-Dade through world-class concerts, engaging education programs, and vibrant community presentations. Susan and Jeffrey D. Feldman
Gala Chairs Florence and Sheldon T. Anderson, Hector D. Fortun, Jan R. Lewis, and Sue Miller
Honorary Chairs
PRESENTING SPONSOR
Patrick Park / Park Foundation PLATINUM SPONSORS
Jan R. Lewis Sue Miller
GOLD SPONSOR
BRONZE SPONSORS Nancy and Jon Batchelor Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP CBRE, Inc. Mike S. and Margaret Eidson Feldman Gale, P.A. Jeffrey and Susan Feldman Hector D. Fortun Adam Foslid / Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Genovese Joblove & Battista / Michael and Cherie Joblove Jones Day Kluger, Kaplan, Silverman, Katzen & Levine, P.L. Harri and Eeva Kulovaara Shirley and William Lehman Mrs. Milly Nyman Drs. Judith and Michael Samuels / Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Samuels Rick, Margarita, and Steven Tonkinson Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A. Florence and Bob Werner Anonymous DISTINGUISHED PATRONS
. Sheldon and Florence Anderson . William Appert and Christopher Wallace . . Jayusia and Alan Bernstein . Teresa Buoniconti and Chris Pedersen . . Marsden and Roxanne Cason . Christopher D. Damian . Mrs. Gabriele Fiorentino . . Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust . Linda and Lawrence D. Goodman . . David Hollander . Bob* and Edith Hudson . Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre . . Amy and Tom Lehman . Sandi M. A. Macdonald and Henry J. Grzes . . Georgia and Carlos Noble . Dr. and Mrs. Michael Rosenberg . Shelley and Donald Rubin . . Chandra and Michael Rudd . Joseph and Gail Serota . Dr. and Mrs. Gregory Sharp . . Harvey Chaplin - Southern Wine and Spirits . Drs. Paul Sugrue and Linda Neider Sugrue . . Howard Stark and Rene Rodriguez . Sidney Taurel . TotalBank . . Raymond and Gracelyn Tuoti . United Automobile Insurance Company . . Mr. Gary L. Wasserman and Mr. Charles A. Kashner and Shirley Wiss . Mrs. Ducy Zabner . PATRONS
. Donald and Jackie Bercu . Helen and Jack Berne . Bennett and Kathy Feldman . . Pamela Garrison . Ivonete Leite . Emilio and Gloria Llinas . Mrs. Eckhard Podack . . Dr. and Mrs. Ernesto Scerpella . Lily and David Serviansky . Helenann and Jeffrey Shapiro . . Amal Solh . Henry J. Smek . Lori V. Thomas . Robert and Jacqueline Traurig . listings as of January 18, 2016
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Cleveland Orchestra Miami
Tenth Anniversary Gala Sponsors and Patrons
Ms. Ginger B. Warner
THANK YOU
January 23, 2016
Dear Friends, Welcome to this very special evening in celebration of the tenth anni versary season of Cleveland Orchestra Miami! What started as a dream has become reality — and the power of music is changing lives here in South Florida. We are delighted you are here for this evening’s concert — featuring superstar soprano Renée Fleming with The Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of music director Franz Welser-Möst. This evening’s celebration marks a special milestone in Cleveland Orchestra Miami’s history. And we extend our our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has made this evening such a wonderful success, beginning with this organization’s Founders, who had the vision to dream big. Much hard work and collaboration has helped The Cleveland Orchestra become a beloved part of Miami’s cultural season. Through the generosity and passion of many, Cleveland Orchestra Miami — for a decade now! — has been adding to the vitality of our great city. Please join us in extending special thanks to the musicians and staff of The Cleveland Orchestra, who have become such wonderful partners toward our shared vision of great concerts, engaging education programs, and an ongoing and vibrant presence in the community. We are so pleased to be sharing this joyous anniversary with you. Your interest and enthusiasm, your attendance and support make Cleveland Orchestra Miami — and our unique-in-the-world relationship with one of the world’s best orchestras — possible. With growing support from across MiamiDade, we will continue to change lives in South Florida through the power of great music. Ten years is just the beginning. With best wishes,
Susan and Jeffrey D. Feldman Gala Chairs
Florence and Sheldon T. Anderson, Hector D. Fortun, Jan R. Lewis, and Sue Miller Honorary Chairs
From the Gala Chairs
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A Grand Partnership We extend special gratitude and thanks to the musicians and staff of The Cleveland Orchestra for partnering so perfectly with Cleveland Orchestra Miami and the great Miami-Dade community and for their tireless dedication to this grand musical adventure.
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Thank you to . . .
TO N I G HT ’ S P R E S E NTI N G S P O N S O R
Patrick Park
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Congratulations! Hooray! and best wishes to Cleveland Orchestra Miami for a decade of success. I know that ten years is just the beginning! —Sue Miller
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Gala Sponsor
Bravo! I am so proud that Cleveland Orchestra Miami has become part of this community, to inspire and uplift young and old alike with great music and great music-making. —Jan R. Lewis
Gala Sponsor
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From Dream to Reality Honoring the Founders
More than a decade ago, a group of Miami citizens joined together around a remarkable shared dream — of bringing to Miami one of the best orchestras in the world, not just once, but on a regular basis. To build an ongoing relationship between the community and that orchestra, and to present a series of concerts in the city’s brand-new world-class concert hall at the Adrienne Arsht Center. To harness the power of music to engage school children, and to present community presentations of the highest caliber. Today, as we celebrate our Tenth Anniversary, that dream is a reality, and we list here the names of the founders of Cleveland Orcherstra Miami in gratitude to their vision, perseverance, and dedication . . . to a dream . . . for all of South Florida.
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Founders
Cleveland Orchestra Miami Michael and Judy Adler Cesar Alvarez Florence and Sheldon T. Anderson J. Ricky Arriola Jayusia and Alan Bernstein Marsha and Brian Bilzin Irma and Norman Braman Martha and Bruce Clinton Colleen and Richard Fain Hector D. Fortun Francie and David Horvitz Tati and Ezra Katz Shulamit* and Chaim Katzman Janet and Gerald Kelfer Pamela Garrison and R. Kirk Landon* Judy and Donald Lefton Shirley and William Lehman Daniel R. Lewis Jan R. Lewis The Miami Foundation,   from a fund established by the   John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Sue Miller Northern Trust Muriel Rosen* Dr. James Schwade Karyn Schwade Judy and Sherwood* Weiser Jody Wolfe Janet* and E. Richard Yulman
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Miami Music Association Officers and Board of Directors Jeffrey Feldman, President Mary Jo Eaton, Secretary David Hollander, Treasurer Jon Batchelor Brian Bilzin Marsha Bilzin Alicia Celorio Mike S. Eidson Miguel G. Farra Susan Feldman Isaac K. Fisher Adam M. Foslid
Lawrence D. Goodman Pedro Jimenez Michael Joblove Gerald Kelfer Tina Kislak Thomas E Lauria Shirley Lehman William Lehman Jan R. Lewis
Sue Miller Patrick Park Andrés Rivero Joseph Serota Mary M. Spencer Howard A. Stark Richard P. Tonkinson Gary L. Wasserman E. Richard Yulman
Cleveland Orchestra Miami Advisory Council 2015-16 Created in 2015, the Advisory Council promotes Cleveland Orchestra Miami and its programs with individuals, academic and cultural institutions, businesses, and foundations throughout South Florida, encouraging broad participation and advising on growth strategies and future projects.
Michael Samuels, Chair Carlos Noble, Vice Chair Kevin Russell, Secretary Bill Appert Jaime Bianchi Betty Fleming Joseph Fleming Alfredo Gutierrez Luz Maria Gutierrez Douglas Halsey
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Amy Halsey Paige A. Harper Ivonete Leite Ron Morgan Georgia Noble Claudia Perles Steven Perles Diane Rosenberg Michael Rosenberg Judy Samuels
Brenton Ver Ploeg Joaquin Viñas Teresa Galang-Viñas Chris Wallace Steven Weirich Adam M. Foslid, Liaison, Board of Directors
Cleveland Orchestra Miami presented by the Miami Music Association
The Miami Music Association (MMA) is a not-for-profit corporation, comprised of leading Miamians motivated by the idea that as a world-class city Miami’s cultural life should always include orchestral performances at the very highest international level. No orchestra in America — indeed, perhaps no other orchestra in the world — is more ideally suited to partner with MMA in achieving these goals than The Cleveland Orchestra. Securing and building support for Cleveland Orchestra Miami will ensure that we succeed in creating a culture of passionate and dedicated concert-going in South Florida among the broadest constituency. Thank you for your support and commitment.
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Cleveland Orchestra Miami was created with the vision of serving Miami-Dade through an annual season of musical presentations by The Cleveland Orch estra, featuring great orchestral concerts with world-renowned soloists, vibrant education programs for students from pre-school to college, and engaging community presentations for diverse populations throughout the region. Today, these programs touch the lives of over 20,000 children, students, and adults each year.    Under the leadership of a Miami-based not-for-profit board of directors, Cleveland Orchestra Miami is supported through the generosity of music-lovers from across South Florida, who believe in the power of great orchestral music to engage, motivate, and enthrall.
Each season of Cleveland
Orchestra Miami concerts is presented in partnership with the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County.
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WELCOME
January 23, 2016 Dear Friends, Welcome to this special concert celebrating Cleveland Orchestra Miami’s tenth season of extraordinary musical experiences here in Miami-Dade! In the decade since I first became a part of this incredible venture, I have had the pleasure of watching this organization grow and flourish with the support of my fellow Miamians, bringing great musical performances and exceptional educational experiences to our hometown each season. Under the enthusiastic and inspiring leadership of tonight’s Gala Chairs, and with the support of tonight’s sponsors and patrons, this evening marks a milestone in our continuing path to build Miami’s future as an international center for classical music. Thank you! Each season, Cleveland Orchestra Miami delivers a comprehensive schedule of concerts, community presentations, and educational programs to engage community members of all ages — made possible through the strong financial support and interest of this community. These activities are all driven by Cleveland Orchestra Miami’s goal to be a meaningful and long-term cultural partner here in Miami-Dade County. Tonight, we are truly excited to deliver yet another extraordinary evening . . . of world-class music for our world-class city. I am especially grateful to share this night with you, because your participation in what we do makes it possible for Cleveland Orchestra Miami to touch the lives of young and old alike through the power of music. Your endorsement has made it possible for Cleveland Orchestra Miami to make a difference. I look forward to celebrating many more years of the Magic of Music here in Miami, sharing and building an ever greater connection between the arts and living life to the fullest. Thank you, and enjoy the concert.
Montserrat Balseiro Managing Director Cleveland Orchestra Miami
From the Managing Director
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BY THE NUMBERS
65,000 In ten years, Cleveland Orchestra Miami has presented music programs for more than 65,000 young people across the county.
A decade of success — and ten years is just the beginning!
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Cleveland Orchestra Miami, in its first decade, has partnered with over 300 schools and partner organizations to showcase the power of great music and great music-making.
a quarter million In ten years, Cleveland Orchestra Miami has touched the lives of more than a quarter million Miamians — through the power of music to engage, uplift, and inspire.
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Cleveland Orchestra Miami has delivered over 400 concerts and musical presentations — to music-lovers from 3 to 93.
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The Cleveland Orchestra first played in the Adrienne Arsht Center in August 2006, performing a series of acoustic rehearsals to test the sound of Knight Concert Hall for the architects and engineers. Cleveland Orchestra Miami launched its annual series of concerts with the 2006-07 season.
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Over 40,000 students from over 200 Miami-Dade County public schools have attended Cleveland Orchestra Miami daytime Education Concerts at Knight Concert Hall.
C L E V E L A N D
O R C H E S T R A
M I A M I
John S. and James L. Knight Concert Hall Sherwood M. and Judy Weiser Auditorium
Miami Music Association and the Adrienne Arsht Center present
The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Franz Welser-Möst with Renée Fleming, soprano
TENTH ANNIVERSARY GALA
Saturday evening, January 23, 2016, at 7:00 p.m.
wolfgang amadè mozart
(1756-1791)
Symphony No. 35 (“Haffner”) 1. Allegro con spirito
2. [Andante] 3. Menuetto 4. Presto
“Willow Song” and Ave Maria from Otello
giuseppe verdi
(1813-1901)
verdi
Overture to La Forza del destino
giacomo puccini
“Mi chiamano Mimi”
francesco paolo tosti
“April”
from La Bohème (1858-1924)
(1858-1924)
francesco cilea
“Io son l’umile ancella”
from Adriana Lecouvreur (1866-1950)
maurice ravel
(1875-1937)
La Valse
Arias and songs in original language, with projected English supertitles.
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T H E
C L E V E L A N D
FRANZ WELSER-MÖST
MUSIC
DIRECTOR
Kelvin Smith Family Chair
SECOND VIOLINS Stephen Rose *
FIRST VIOLINS William Preucil
Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair
CONCERTMASTER
Blossom-Lee Chair
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair
Peter Otto
FIRST ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Jung-Min Amy Lee
ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair
Takako Masame
Paul and Lucille Jones Chair
Wei-Fang Gu
Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair
Kim Gomez
Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair
Chul-In Park
Harriet T. and David L. Simon Chair
Miho Hashizume
Theodore Rautenberg Chair
Jeanne Preucil Rose
Dr. Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair
Alicia Koelz
Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair
Yu Yuan
Patty and John Collinson Chair
Isabel Trautwein
Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair
Mark Dumm
Gladys B. Goetz Chair
Alexandra Preucil Katherine Bormann Analisé Denise Kukelhan
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Louis D. Beaumont Chair
Richard Weiss 1
The GAR Foundation Chair
Emilio Llinas 2
Charles Bernard 2
Eli Matthews 1
Bryan Dumm
James and Donna Reid Chair
Yoko Moore
CELLOS Mark Kosower*
Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair
Sonja Braaten Molloy Carolyn Gadiel Warner Stephen Warner Ioana Missits Jeffrey Zehngut Vladimir Deninzon Sae Shiragami Scott Weber Kathleen Collins Beth Woodside Emma Shook Elayna Duitman Yun-Ting Lee VIOLAS Robert Vernon *
Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair
Lynne Ramsey 1
Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair
Stanley Konopka 2 Mark Jackobs
Jean Wall Bennett Chair
Arthur Klima Richard Waugh Lisa Boyko Lembi Veskimets Eliesha Nelson Joanna Patterson Zakany Patrick Connolly
The Orchestra
Helen Weil Ross Chair Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair
Tanya Ell
Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber Chair
Ralph Curry Brian Thornton
William P. Blair III Chair
David Alan Harrell Paul Kushious Martha Baldwin BASSES Maximilian Dimoff *
Clarence T. Reinberger Chair
Kevin Switalski 2 Scott Haigh 1
Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair
Mark Atherton Thomas Sperl Henry Peyrebrune
Charles Barr Memorial Chair
Charles Carleton Scott Dixon Derek Zadinsky HARP Trina Struble *
Alice Chalifoux Chair
This roster lists the fulltime members of The Cleveland Orchestra. The number and seating of musicians onstage varies depending on the piece being performed.
O R C H E S T R A FLUTES Joshua Smith *
Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Chair
Saeran St. Christopher Marisela Sager 2
Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair
Mary Kay Fink PICCOLO Mary Kay Fink
Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair
OBOES Frank Rosenwein * Edith S. Taplin Chair
HORNS Michael Mayhew §
PERCUSSION Marc Damoulakis*
Jesse McCormick
Donald Miller Tom Freer Thomas Sherwood
Knight Foundation Chair Robert B. Benyo Chair
Hans Clebsch Richard King Alan DeMattia TRUMPETS Michael Sachs *
Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair
Jack Sutte Lyle Steelman2
James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair
Michael Miller
Robert Walters
CORNETS Michael Sachs *
ENGLISH HORN Robert Walters
Michael Miller
Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair
CLARINETS Robert Woolfrey Daniel McKelway 2
Margaret Allen Ireland Chair
KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Joela Jones *
Corbin Stair Jeffrey Rathbun 2
Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair
2015-16 SE ASON
Rudolf Serkin Chair
Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair
LIBRARIANS Robert O’Brien
Joe and Marlene Toot Chair
Donald Miller
Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair
TROMBONES Massimo La Rosa*
Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair
ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair Sunshine Chair Robert Marcellus Chair George Szell Memorial Chair
Richard Stout
Linnea Nereim
Shachar Israel 2
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E-FLAT CLARINET Daniel McKelway
BASS TROMBONE Thomas Klaber
Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair
Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair
BASS CLARINET Linnea Nereim BASSOONS John Clouser *
Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair
Gareth Thomas Barrick Stees 2 *
Sandra L. Haslinger Chair
Jonathan Sherwin CONTRABASSOON Jonathan Sherwin
Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair
EUPHONIUM AND BASS TRUMPET Richard Stout TUBA Yasuhito Sugiyama* Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair
* Principal § Associate Principal First Assistant Principal Assistant Principal on sabbatical leave
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CONDUCTORS Christoph von Dohnányi MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE
Giancarlo Guerrero
PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA MIAMI
Brett Mitchell
ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair
TIMPANI Paul Yancich *
Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair
Tom Freer 2
Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Chair
The Orchestra
Robert Porco
DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES
Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair
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The Cleveland Orchestra Under the leadership of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world, setting standards of artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement. In July 2015, the New York Times declared it “the best in America.” The strong and ongoing financial support of the ensemble’s home region is driving the Orchestra forward with renewed energy and focus, increasing the number of young people attending concerts, and bringing fresh attention to the Orchestra’s legendary sound and committed programming. The Cleveland Orchestra has a long and distinguished recording and broadcast history. A series of DVD and CD recordings under the direction of Mr. Welser- Möst continues to add to an extensive and widely praised catalog of audio recordings made during the tenures of the ensemble’s earlier music directors. In addition, Cleveland Orchestra concerts are heard in syndication each season on radio stations throughout North America and Europe. The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by a group of local citizens intent on creating an ensemble worthy of joining America’s top rank of symphony orchestras. Over the next decades, the Orchestra grew from a fine regional organization to one of the most admired symphonic ensembles in the world. Seven music directors (Nikolai Sokoloff, 1918– 1933; Artur Rodzinski, 1933–1943; Erich Leinsdorf, 1943–1946; George Szell, 1946–1970; Lorin Maazel, 1972–1982; Christoph von Dohnányi, 1984–2002; and Franz Welser-Möst, since 2002) have guided and shaped the ensemble’s growth and sound. Touring performances throughout the United States and, beginning in 1957, to Europe and across the globe have confirmed Cleveland’s place among the world’s top orchestras. Today, touring, residencies, radio broadcasts, and recordings provide access to the Orchestra’s music-making to a broad and loyal constituency around the world. Visit ClevelandOrchestraMiami.com for more information.
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About the Orchestra
P H OTO: D E CC A / A N D R E W W E CC L E S
Soloist
Renée Fleming Soprano Renée Fleming is one of the most acclaimed singers of our time. In 2013, President Obama awarded her America’s highest honor for an individual artist, the National Medal of Arts. She has sung at momentous occasions around the world, from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to performances in Beijing during the 2008 Olympic Games. She was winner of the 2013 Best Classical Vocal Grammy Award. And in 2014, she became the first classical singer ever to perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the Super Bowl. In 2012, in another historic first, she sang on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in the Diamond Jubilee Concert for Queen Elizabeth II. Ms. Fleming was featured in 2009 in the televised We Are One: The Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial concert for President Obama. She has also performed for the United States Supreme Court, and in 2014 she celebrated the
25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in a televised concert at the Brandenburg Gate. Another distinction was bestowed in 2008 when, breaking a precedent, Renée Fleming became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline an opening night gala. This past winter, on New Year’s Eve, Renée appeared in the title role in a new production of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera. She made her Broadway theater debut in 2015 in Living on Love, for which she was nominated for a Drama League Award. She has appeared in virtually all of the world’s greatest opera houses and concert halls. Ms. Fleming’s recital schedule in recent years has spanned the globe, including performances in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Quito, Bogota, Paris, Geneva, London, Vienna, Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, and Taipei. Renée Fleming won her fourth Grammy Award for her album Poèmes. Recipient of 14 Grammy nominations to date, she has recorded all manner of genres and works, from complete operas and song recitals to an album of indie rock covers called Dark Hope, a jazz album titled Haunted Heart, and the movie soundtrack of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Her latest recording, Berg’s Lyric Suite and Wellesz’s Sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with the Emerson String Quartet, was released by Decca in August 2015. Known for bringing new audiences to classical music and opera, Ms. Flem-
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ing has sung not only with Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo but also with Elton John, Sting, Lou Reed, Josh Groban, Joan Baez, and even the Muppets. Her recent opera DVDs include Strauss’s Arabella and Ariadne auf Naxos, and Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia. Other recent DVD releases include Handel’s Rodelinda, Massenet’s Thaïs, and Rossini’s Armida, all three in the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series, and Verdi’s La Traviata filmed at London’s Royal Opera House. With a multimedia profile rare among contemporary opera singers, Renée Fleming has hosted a wide variety of television and radio broadcasts, including the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series for movie theaters and television, and Live from Lincoln Center on PBS. She was the subject of an HBO Masterclass documentary, and has been a frequent guest on Prairie Home Companion on National Public Radio. In 2013, she joined with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to present American Voices, a concert and three-day festival celebrating the best American singing in all genres. The festival was the subject of a Great Performances documentary on PBS in January 2015. This summer, she was the keynote speaker for the Tessitura Network’s 2015 Community & Learning conference, speaking of her passion for arts and education before the gathering of 1,700 performing arts professionals and software developers. Her book The Inner Voice was published by Viking Penguin in 2004, and released in paperback by Penguin the following year. An intimate account of
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her career and creative process, the book is now in its twelfth US printing, and it is also published in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Russia. A Polish edition is being released this autumn. Renée Fleming is a champion of new music and has performed works by a wide range of contemporary composers, including recent compositions by Anders Hillborg, Henri Dutilleux, Brad Mehldau, André Previn, and Wayne Shorter. In 2010, Ms. Fleming was named the first-ever creative consultant at Lyric Opera of Chicago. This past year, she curated the creation of a world-premiere opera based on the best-selling book Bel Canto, which opened Lyric Opera’s 2015-16 season in December. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Hall Corporation, the Board of Sing for Hope, and the Artistic Advisory Board of the Polyphony Foundation. Among her awards are the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, Honorary Membership in the Royal Academy of Music, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, and honorary doctorates from Duke University, Harvard University, Carnegie Mellon University, the Eastman School of Music, and the Juilliard School. For more information, please visit www.reneefleming.com. Renée Fleming appears by arrangement with IMG Artists / www.imgartists.com. Ms. Fleming is an exclusive recording artist for Decca and Mercury Records (UK). Ms. Fleming’s jewelry is by Ann Ziff for Tamsen Z.
Guest Soloist
Conductor Franz Welser-Möst Music Director Kelvin Smith Family Endowed Chair The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst is among today’s most distinguished conductors. The 2015-16 season marks his fourteenth year as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra, with the future of this acclaimed partnership now extending into the next decade. In 2015, the New York Times declared Cleveland to be the “best American orchestra“ due to its virtuosity, elegance of sound, variety of color, and chamber-like musical cohesion. The Cleveland Orchestra has been repeatedly praised for its innovative programming, support for new musical works, and for its recent success in semistaged and staged opera productions. In addition to an unprecedented annual residency in Miami, Franz WelserMöst and The Cleveland Orchestra are frequent guests at many prestigious concert halls and festivals, including the Salzburg Festival and the Lucerne Festival. The Cleveland Orchestra has been hugely successful in building up a new and, notably, a young audience through its groundbreaking programs involving students and by working closely with universities. As a guest conductor, Mr. WelserMöst enjoys a close and productive relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic. Recent performances with the Philharmonic include critically-acclaimed opera productions at the Salzburg Festival (Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier in 2014 and Beethoven’s Fidelio in 2015) and a tour of Scandinavia, as well as appearances at New York’s Carnegie Hall, at the Lucerne
Festival, and in concert at La Scala Milan. He has conducted the Philharmonic’s celebrated annual New Year’s Day concert twice, viewed by millions worldwide. This season, he leads the Vienna Philharmonic in two weeks of subscription concerts, and will conduct a new production of Strauss’s Die Liebe der Danae with them at the 2016 Salzburg Festival. Mr. Welser-Möst also maintains relationships with a number of other European orchestras, and the 2015-16 season includes return engagements to Munich’s Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Zurich’s Tonhalle Orchestra. In December, he led the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in the Nobel Prize concert in Stockholm and conducted the Filarmonica of La Scala Milan in a televised Christmas concert. This season, he also makes his long-anticipated debut with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra for two weeks of concerts. From 2010 to 2014, Franz WelserMöst served as general music director of the Vienna State Opera. His partnership with the company included an acclaimed new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle and a series of critically-praised new productions, as well as performances of a
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wide range of other operas, particularly works by Wagner and Richard Strauss. Prior to his years with the Vienna State Opera, Mr. Welser-Möst led the Zurich Opera across a decade-long tenure, conducting more than forty new productions and culminating in three seasons as general music director (2005-08). Franz Welser-Möst’s recordings and videos have won major awards, including a Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Japanese Record Academy Award, and two Grammy nominations. The Salzburg Festival production he conducted of Der Rosenkavalier was awarded with the Echo Klassik 2015 for “best opera recording.“ With The Cleveland Orchestra, his recordings include DVD recordings of live perfor-
mances of five of Bruckner’s symphonies and a recently-released multi-DVD set of major works by Brahms, featuring Yefim Bronfman and Julia Fischer as soloists. For his talents and dedication, Mr. Welser-Möst has received honors that include the Vienna Philharmonic’s “Ring of Honor” for his longstanding personal and artistic relationship with the ensemble, as well as recognition from the Western Law Center for Disability Rights, honorary membership in the Vienna Singverein, appointment as an Academician of the European Academy of Yuste, a Decoration of Honor from the Republic of Austria for his artistic achievements, and the Kilenyi Medal from the Bruckner Society of America.
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Franz Welser-Möst was invited to lead the prestigious Nobel Prize Concert with the Stockholm Philharmonic in December 2015. Other recent accolades include being singled out in a year-end review of notable performers and performances in 2015 by Deutschland Radio.
“Right now The Cleveland Orchestra may be, as some have argued, the finest in America. . . . The ovations for Mr. Welser-Möst and this remarkable orchestra were ecstatic.” —New York Times “Franz Welser-Möst has managed something radical with The Cleveland Orchestra — making them play as one seamless unit. . . . The music flickered with a very delicate beauty that makes the Clevelanders sound like no other orchestra.” —London Times
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About the Music Symphony No. 35 (“Haffner”) by Wolfgang Amadè Mozart (1756-1791)
By reasons of happenstance, we know more about why and when and how Mozart wrote his “Haffner” Symphony than any of his other symphonies. In July 1782, his father Leopold wrote to Mozart saying that the Haffner family of Salzburg was requesting a new musical work to celebrate the ennoblement of the composer’s childhood friend Sigmund Haffner. Wolfgang was in the midst of a very busy, almost chaotic summer, completing his opera The Abduction from the Seraglio and also finalizing plans for his marriage to Constanze Weber in early August. He complained back to his father that he had no time except by “staying up all night to do it,” but did just that and movement by movement sent Leopold the new work. We have much of the relevant correspondence, but don’t actually know if the parts arrived in time or exactly when the symphony was performed at the time of the Haffner ceremony. Some months later, Mozart asked his father to send the new symphony back to him, so that he could perform it in Vienna. At this point, Mozart decided to toss out a fifth-movement march, and added clarinets and flutes to the opening and closing movements. It was in this finalized form that Mozart conducted the work in Vienna in March 1783 as part of a concert that also featured two of his own new piano concertos with himself as soloist. The Emperor attended and, according to Mozart, was extraordinarily pleased — but not pleased enough to send the composer an extra tip. Audiences ever since have enjoyed the work for its pleasing melodies and craftful art. Performance Length: just over 15 minutes
Opera Selections
by Verdi, Puccini, Tosti, and Cilea Opera was first created in Italy, and although other countries and cultures — from France to Germany, from Spain to Russia, from Mexico to England and the United States — have created their own variations on the idea of staged plays where the action is carried as much by the music as the acting, Italy may still lay claim to an extraordinary flowering of talent throughout the 19th century. Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini created dozens of masterpieces, opening the way to the genius of Giuseppe Verdi, whose sense of drama helped pave the way for even more emotional angst in the music of Giacomo Puccini and other verismo composers. Our soloist this evening, Renée Fleming, offers us exacting samples from the latter half of the 19th century, filled with powerful emotion and deft characterizations in musical form. First up is a brilliant scene from Verdi’s Otello, based on Shakespeare’s tragic play Othello. In the final act, Desdemona tries to calm herself from the foreboding she senses in Otello’s jealousy, evincing a nostalgic longing and then praying to God — and establishing incredible tension prior to her husband’s About the Music
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violent entrance to murder his innocent wife. Following the surging music of Verdi’s Overture to La Forza del destino [The Power of Destiny], we continue on to the young love of Puccini’s La Bohème, as Mimi introduces herself to the poet Rodolfo. After which we enjoy Tosti’s “April,” a song filled with joy and sunshine. And then, to close the announced portion of the evening’s singing, we venture to an apt aria from Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. In this, the title character, a famous actress (who dies by mistaken poisoning at the end of the opera) comments on her art and its fleeting nature — created in the moment of performance and then vanishing into nothing.
La Valse [The Waltz]
by Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) This gala concert concludes without tonight’s heroine, with a purely orchestral work — a vibrant musical homage to the Germanic waltz, here written by a Frenchman. Ravel was greatly inspired by dance forms throughout his career. He began sketching what would become The Waltz [La Valse] in 1905, imagining that he would create a pleasant and uplifting tribute to the power of the 19th century’s greatest dance form as perfected by Johann Strauss Jr. At the time, he planned to call the new work “Vienna.” Other projects intervened, however, and Ravel found himself writing other music instead. And when World War I came along, the French composer could not bring himself to continue with “music of the enemy.” Ravel finally completed La Valse in 1920, writing into it a sense not just of the waltz at the height of its popularity, but a larger view of the great Germanic society that had created it and that had been smashed by the forces of World War I — death and destruction, diversity and democracy. In the score, Ravel had the following text printed: “An Imperial court about 1855. At first the scene is dimmed by a kind of swirling mist, through which one discerns, vaguely and intermittently, the waltzing couples. Little by little the vapors disperse, the illumination grows brighter, revealing an immense ballroom filled with dancers; the blaze of the chandeliers comes to full splendor.” The music begins softly, almost imperceptibly. Slowly, a waltz forms. Like the great Strauss waltzes, this “waltz” is really a set of several waltz-tunes, alternated and developed together. The music builds and builds, with ever greater energy, but also with a sense of foreboding, of a distant storm on the horizon, of unwanted dissonances lurking deep in the music. Dance now, for you cannot know what tomorrow shall bring. But the dance goes on, and on. At last there is a great climax, and then the three-quarter beat of the waltz shatters and is smashed, finished, suddenly over. Exhilarating while it lasted, in history and in Ravel’s epic musical storytelling! Performance Length: not quite 15 minutes —program notes by Eric Sellen © 2016
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About the Music
“Willow Song” and Ave Maria from Otello music by Giuseppe Verdi, words by Arrigo Boito
Mi parea. M’ingiungse di coricarmi e d’attenderlo. Emilia, te ne prego, Distendi sul mio letto la mia candida veste nuziale. Senti! Se pria di te morire dovessi Mi seppellisci con un di quei veli.
He seemed calmer to me. He commanded me to go to bed and await him there. Emilia, I pray you, lay upon my bed my white wedding nightgown. Listen. If I should die before you, lay me to rest in one of those veils.
Son mesta tanto, tanto. Mia madre aveva una povera ancella Innamorate w bella; Era il suo nome Barbara; Amava un uom che poi l’abbandonò, cantava una canzone; La canzone del Salice.
I am so sad, so sad. My mother had a poor maidservant; she was in love and pretty; Her name was Barbara; she loved a man who abandoned her. She used to sing a song, the song of “The Willow.”
Mi disciogli le chiome. Io questa sera ho la memoria plena di quella cantilena. “Piangea cantando nell’erma landa, piangea la mesta. O Salce! Salce! Salce! Sedea chinando sul sen la testa! Salce! Salce! Salce! Cantiamo! Cantiamo! Il salce funebre sarà la mia ghirlanda.”
Unbind my hair. This evening my memory is haunted by that old refrain: “She wept as she sang on the lonely heath, the poor girl wept, O Willow, Willow, Willow! She sat with her head upon her breast, Willow, Willow, Willow! Come sing! Come sing! The green willow shall be my garland.”
Affrettati; fra poco giunge Otello.
Make haste; Othello will soon be here.
“Scorea noi rivi fra le zolle in fior, gemea quel core affranto, e dal le coglia le sgorgava il cor, l’amare onda del pianto, Salce! Salce! Salce! Cantiamo! Cantiamo! Il salce funebre sarà la mia ghirlanda.”
“Fresh streams ran between flowery banks, she moaned in her grief, in bitter tears springing from her eyelids her poor heart sought relief. Willow! Willow! Willow! Come sing! Come sing! The green willow shall be my garland.”
“Scendean l’augellia voldai rami cupi verso quel dolce canto. E gli occhi suoi piangean tanto, tanto, Da impietosir le rupi.”
“Down from dark branches flew the birds towards the sweet singing. Sufficient were the tears that she did weep that stones her sorrow shared.” Sung Texts
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Riponi quest’anello. Povera Barbara! Solea la storia conquesto semplice suono finir: “E gli era nato per la sua gloria, io per amar.”
Lay this ring by. Poor Barbara! The story used to end with this simple phrase: “He was born for glory, I to love . . .”
Ascolta. Odo un lamento. Taci. Qui batte a quella porta?
Hark! I heard a moan. Hush . . . Who knocks upon that door?
“Io per amarlo e per morire Cantiamo! Cantiamo! Salce! Salce! Salce!
“I to love him and to die. Come sing! Come sing! Willow! Willow! Willow!”
Emilia, addio. Come m’ardon le cigia! È presagio di pianto. Buona notte. Ah! Emilia, Emilia, addio, Emilia, addio!
Emilia, farewell. How mine eyes do itch! That bodes weeping. Good night. Ah! Emilia, Emilia, farewell! Emilia, farewell!
Ave Maria, piena di grazia, eletta Fra le spose e le vergini sei tu, Sia benedetto il frutto, o benedetta, Di tue materne viscere, Gesù.
Hail Mary, full of grace, blessed amongst wives and maids art thou. and blessed is the fruit, O blessed one, of thy maternal womb, Jesu.
Prega per chi adorando a te si prostra, Prega nel peccator, per l’innocente, E pel debole oppresso e pel possente, Misero anch’esso, tua pietà dimostra. Prega per chi sotto l’oltraggio piega La fronte e sotto la malvagia sorte; Per noi, per noi tu prega, prega Sempre e nell’ora della morte nostra, Prega per noi, prega per noi, prega. Ave Maria . . . Nell’ora della morte. Ave! . . .Amen!
Pray for those who kneeling adore thee, pray for the sinner, pray for the innocent and for the weak oppressed; and to the powerful man, who also grieves, thy sweet compassion show. Pray for him who bows beneath injustice and ‘neath the blows of cruel destiny. for us, pray thou for us, pray for us always, and at the hour of our death pray for us, pray for us, pray! Hail Mary … and at the hour of our death. Hail! Amen!
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“Yes, they call me Mimi” from La Bohème music by Giacomo Puccini, words by Arrigo Boito
Mi chiamano Mimì, ma il mio nome è Lucia.
Yes, they call me Mimi, but my name is Lucia.
La storia mia è breve. A tela o a seta ricamo in casa e fuori... Son tranquilla e lieta ed è mio svago far gigli e rose.
My story is brief: I embroider linen or silk at home or outside. I am peaceful and happy and I enjoy embroidering lilies and roses.
Mi piaccion quelle cose che han sì dolce malìa, che parlano d’amor, di primavere, di sogni e di chimere, quelle cose che han nome poesia... Lei m’intende?
I love those things which possess such sweet enchantment, That speak of love, of spring, Of dreams and visions, Those things that people call poetic. Do you understand?
Mi chiamano Mimì, il perché non so. Sola, mi fo il pranzo da me stessa. Non vado sempre a messa, ma prego assai il Signore. Vivo sola, soletta là in una bianca cameretta: guardo sui tetti e in cielo; ma quando vien lo sgelo il primo sole è mio il primo bacio dell’aprile è mio! Germoglia in un vaso una rosa...
They call me Mimi. Why, I don’t know. All alone I make my own supper. I do not always go to Mass, but I pray to God often. I live alone, quite alone there in a little white room. I look upon the roofs and heaven; by when the thaw comes, the first sunshine is mine! April’s first kiss is mine! A rose is coming into bloom;
Foglia a foglia la spio! Cosi gentile il profumo d’un fiore! Ma i fior ch’io faccio, Ahimè! non hanno odore. Altro di me non le saprei narrare. Sono la sua vicina che la vien fuori d’ora a importunare.
Leaf and leaf I watch it! That gentle perfume of a flower! But the flowers that I make alas, have no smell! There’s no more I can tell you about myself. I am your neighbor who comes unexpectedly to bother you.
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“April”
music by Francesco Paolo Tosti, words by Francesco Cimmino
Non senti tu ne l’aria il profumo che spande Primavera? Non senti tu ne l’anima il suon de nova voce lusinghiera?
Do you not smell on the air the wafting perfume of Spring? Do you not hear in your soul the tunes of a new coaxing voice?
È l’April! È la stagion d’amore! Deh! vieni, o mia gentil su’ prati’n fiore!
It is April — the season of love! Come! Come, my love, into the blooming fields!
Il piè trarrai fra mammole, avrai su’l petto rose e cilestrine, e le farfalle candide t’aleggeranno intorno al nero crine.
Your paths are strewn with violets, you will dress with roses and bluebells, and pure white butterflies will dance lightly around your hair.
È l’April! È la stagion d’amore! Deh! vieni, o mia gentil su’ prati’n fiore!
It is April — the season of love! Come! Come, my love, into the blooming fields!
“I am the Humble Maidservant”
music by Francesco Francesco Cilea, words by Arturo Colautti
See, I can scarcely breathe… I am the humble maidservant of the creative spirit; He offers me the words and I make them known to people’s hearts. I give the verses their stress and echo the human drama, I am the delicate instrument that serves the hand. Quiet, happy, terrible; my name is Fidelity. My voice is but a breath, which, with the new day, will die.
Ecco, respiro appena . . . Io son l’umile ancella del genio creator; Ei m’offre la favella Io la diffondo ai cor… Del verso io son l’accento, l’eco del dramma uman il fragile strumento vassallo della man… Mite, gioconda, atroce, Mi chiamo Fedeltà; Un soffio è la mia voce, Che al novo dì morrà.
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LOST AND FOUND Patrons should chec Members Chairman matter at the Adrienne Arsht Center. Your philanthropy makes prior to leaving the th our world-class possible, and helps to provide arts James M. performances Herron, J. Ricky Arriola, free Center main security education Secretary and meaningful community engagement for thousands of Immediate Past Chairheld for 30 days. Miami-Dade County young people and their families. When you join the Penny Thurer, you give the gift of culture Parker D. Thomson, Center as a member, to Miami – now, and for MEMBERS FIRST! Assistant Founding Chair generations to Secretary come. The Culturist membership program is designed As a member of the to enhance your experience at the Arsht Center with special benefits have exclusive acce ranging fromofadvance notice of performances to invitations to exclusive Board Directors much more! To join, receptions. Membership begins at just $75, with giving levels through Ronald A. Silver Beverly A. Parker The Honorable Donald L. Graham “Become a Mem Culturist movement, please call 786-468-2040,click email: The Honorable A. Plasencia Evelyn Greer $5,000. To join theJorge Michelle Spence-Jones Abigail Pollak or visit www.arshtmembers.org. Mitchell Kaplan membership@arshtcenter.org Alexander I. Tachmes PAGERS, CELL PHONES AND O Jesus “Jay� Pons Hank Klein Carole Ann Taylor The Honorable Raquel Regalado Nathan Leight LOST AND FOUND All electronic and m Raul G. Larry Ricewith the House Manager Florene Litthcut Patrons Nichols should check inValdes-Fauli the theatercellular lobby telephones, Adriana Sabinootherwise pleaseJudy Carlos C. Lopez-Cantera prior to leaving the theater, callWeiser the Adriennewhile Arshtin the auditoriu Miles C. Wilkin Mario Ernesto Sanchez Richard C. Milstein number 468-2081. Lost articles will be The Honorable Marc(786) D. Sarnoff Gilberto Neves Center main security held for 30 days. PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEOGRAPH Photo by Mitchell Zachs
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The taking of photog inside As a member of the Adrienne Arsht Center–a Culturist–you have ex- the auditorium Officers of to themembers-only Board clusive access ticket pre-sales and so much more! Join today, online at www.arshtmembers.org Adrienne Arsht Richard E. Schatz or by calling 786-468-
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Founding Chairman TICKETS Chairman Patrons may purchase tickets PAGERS, CELL PHONES AND OTHER LISTENING DEVICES Ronald Esserman David Rocker Sherwood M. Weiser* Jason Williams ‡2QOLQH ZZZ DUVKWFHQWHU RUJ All electronic and mechanical devices—including pagers, PDAs, cellular telephones, and wristwatch ‡%\ 3KRQH RU D P S alarms—must be turned off while in the auditoriums. RESIDENT COMPANIES ALLIANCE beginning at noon on weekend perfomance days. PHOTOGRAPHY, Aaron S. Podhurst, Esq. Robert F.‡$W WKH %R[ 2IÂżFH WKH $GULHQQH $UVKW &HQWHU %R[ 2IÂżFH Hudson, Jr. Jerome J. Cohen Sheldon AndersonVIDEOGRAPHY, AND RECORDING The taking theCohen use of audio or video recording inside the auditoriums arePorter strictly prohibited. Charles Daryl L. Jones Stanley Adrienne Arsht of photographs and (main entrance on NE 13th between Biscayne Blvd. and Jane A. Robinson Edie Laquer Susan T. Danis Diane de Vries Ashley TICKETS 2IÂżFH LV RSHQ D P S P 0RQGD\ )ULGD\ QRRQ WR FXUW Richard E. Schatz Donald E. Lefton Nancy J. Davis Robert T. Barlick, Jr. Patrons and two hours beforeSherry every performance. Spalding-Fardie Rhoda Levitt Ronald Esserman Fred Berens may purchase tickets •Online: Robert H. Traurig, Esq. George L.‡*URXSV RI RU PRUH SHRSOH Lindemann Oscar Feldenkreis Sia Bozorgi www.arshtcenter.org Sherwood M. Weiser* C. Lopez-Cantera Gardiner Norman Braman (305) 949-6722Pamela •By Phone: or (866) 949-6722 10 a.m.-Carlos 6 p.m. weekdays; Lynn Wolfson Pedro A. Martin, Esq. Jerroldperfomance F. Goodman days. Sheila Broser at noon on weekend beginning TOURS Arlene Mendelson Rose Ellen Greene Robert S. Brunn •At the Box Office: the Adrienne Arsht Center Box Office is located in the Ziff Ballet Opera House lobby Arsht Center c Free behind-the-scene tours of the Adrienne *deceased Nedra Oren Arthur J. Halleran, Jr. M. Anthony Burns (mainCarlin entrance on NE 13thHoward between NEPeĂąa, the Adrienne J. David Esq.Ave.) HerringBiscayne Blvd. and Donald at2nd noon, starting in the ZiffArsht BalletCenter Opera Box House Lobby. No Office is open 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday-Friday; noon to curtain on weekends when there is a performance, and two hours before every performance. VOLUNTEERS Carlos A. Gimenez •Groups of 15 or more people: (786) 468-2326. Volunteers play a central role at the Adrienne Arsht Cente Mayor email volunteers@arshtcenter.org. TOURS MIAMI-DADE BOARD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Free behind-the-scene tours of the Adrienne Arsht CenterOF complex are given every Monday and Saturday WEBSITE at noon, starting in the Ziff Ballet Opera House Lobby. No reservations necessary. Joe A. Martinez Audrey M. Edmonson Visit www.arshtcenter.org for the most up-to-date performa VOLUNTEERS will send performance notices directly to you. When you jo Chairman Vice Chairwoman Volunteers play a central role at the Adrienne Arsht Center. For more information, call (786) 468-2285 or ZKLFK \RX ZDQW WR EH QRWLÂżHG DQG XSGDWH WKRVH FKRLFHV D email volunteers@arshtcenter.org. Bruno A. Barreiro sure you add email@arshtcenter.org to your address book District 5 Visit www.arshtcenter.org Javier D.today. Souto WEBSITE Barbara J. Jordan District 1 for the most up-to-date 10 list and we Rebeca Sosa schedule. Also, joinDistrict Visit www.arshtcenter.org performance our mailing will send Jean performance notices directly to you. When you6join,6WHLQZD\ 6RQV 7KH 2IÂżFLDO 3LDQR RI WKH $GULHQQH $UVKW you may chooseJoe the A. types of shows about District Monestime Martinez which you want to be 2notified, and update those at any time. If you’ve already District Districtsigned 11 up, make Xavierchoices L. Suarez sure you add email@arshtcenter.org to your address book safeArsht list. Center Uniforms, an EcoArtFashion project b Adrienne District 7 and/or Audrey M. Edmonson JosĂŠ “Pepeâ€? Diaz Visit www.arshtcenter.org today.
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Lynda Bell
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Dennis C. Moss
District 8 Center. A. The Heyman SteinwaySally & Sons, Official Piano of the Adrienne Arsht
District 12 Esteban Bovo, Jr. District 13
Adrienne Arsht Center Uniforms, an EcoArtFashion project9by Luis Valenzuela, www.luisvalenzuelausa.com District
Harvey Ruvin Clerk of Courts 10
Pedro J. Garcia Property Appraiser
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Each Cleveland Orchestra Miami season features great orchestral concerts with world-renowned soloists, vibrant education programs for students from pre-school to college, and engaging community presentations for diverse populations throughout the region — touching the lives of over 20,000 children, students, and adults each year.
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Season Sponsor White & Case
Concert Sponsors Carlton Fields Feldman Gale, P.A. Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A.
Concert & Presenting Partners The Cleveland Orchestra Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Tenth Anniversary Gala With special thanks to . . .
InterContinental Hotel Miami Abbey Chase / Chase Marketing Group All-In-One Mail Shop, Inc. Marlon Johnson / The Johnson Administration
and to the musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra
Jazz Trio from University of Miami Frost School of Music: Diego Melgar, guitar Christopher Thompson-Taylor, saxophone Bob Bruya, bass Reception Music by John Wilson, piano Julia Coronelli, harp Masha Popova, flute
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