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About the Orchestra Musical Arts Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Music Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Conductors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Roster of Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Guest Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Severance Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 The Cleveland Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

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Metamorphosen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 W. A. MOZART Mass in C minor, K427 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Sung text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Soloists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Cleveland Orchestra Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Future Concerts Concert Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 In the Season Spotlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Upcoming Concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

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The Musical Arts Association is grateful to the following organizations for their ongoing generous support of The Cleveland Orchestra: National Endowment for the Arts, the State of Ohio and Ohio Arts Council, and to the residents of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

The Cleveland Orchestra is proud of its long-term partnership with Kent State University, made possible in part through generous funding from the State of Ohio. The Cleveland Orchestra is proud to have its home, Severance Hall, located on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, with whom it has a long history of collaboration and partnership.

This program book is printed on paper that includes 10% recycled post-consumer content. All unused books are recycled as part of the Orchestra’s regular business recycling program.

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B O A R D O F T R U S T E E S as of Setember 2011

T H E M U S I C AL ARTS AS SOCIATION operating The Cleveland Orchestra, Severance Hall, and Blossom Festival O F F I C E R S A ND E X E C UT I VE C O MMIT T E E Dennis W. LaBarre, President Richard J. Bogomolny, Chairman The Honorable John D. Ong, Vice President

Norma Lerner, Honorary Chair Raymond T. Sawyer, Secretary Beth E. Mooney, Treasurer

Jeanette Grasselli Brown Matthew V. Crawford Michael J. Horvitz Douglas A. Kern

Virginia M. Lindseth Alex Machaskee Nancy W. McCann John C. Morley

Larry Pollock Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Audrey Gilbert Ratner Barbara S. Robinson

R E S I D E NT TR U S T E E S Gay Cull Addicott George N. Aronoff Dr. Ronald H. Bell Richard J. Bogomolny Charles P. Bolton Jeanette Grasselli Brown Helen Rankin Butler Scott Chaikin Paul G. Clark Owen M. Colligan Robert D. Conrad Matthew V. Crawford Alexander M. Cutler Bruce P. Dyer Terrance C. Z. Egger Hiroyuki Fujita Paul G. Greig Robert K. Gudbranson Jeffrey A. Healy Stephen H. Hoffman David J. Hooker Michael J. Horvitz Marguerite B. Humphrey

David P. Hunt Christopher Hyland James D. Ireland III Clifford J. Isroff Trevor O. Jones Jean C. Kalberer Nancy F. Keithley Douglas A. Kern John D. Koch S. Lee Kohrman Charlotte R. Kramer Dennis W. LaBarre Norma Lerner Virginia M. Lindseth Alex Machaskee Robert P. Madison Nancy W. McCann Thomas F. McKee Samuel H. Miller Beth E. Mooney John C. Morley Donald W. Morrison Meg Fulton Mueller

Gary A. Oatey Katherine T. O’Neill The Honorable John D. Ong Larry Pollock Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Clara T. Rankin Audrey Gilbert Ratner Charles A. Ratner James S. Reid, Jr. Barbara S. Robinson Paul Rose Steven M. Ross Raymond T. Sawyer Luci Schey Neil Sethi Hewitt B. Shaw, Jr. David L. Simon Richard K. Smucker R. Thomas Stanton Thomas A. Waltermire Geraldine B. Warner Paul E. Westlake Jr. David A. Wolfort

NO N- R E S I D E NT T RUS T E E S Virginia Nord Barbato (NY) Laurel Blossom (SC) Richard C. Gridley (SC)

George Gund III (CA) Loren W. Hershey (DC) Mrs. Gilbert W. Humphrey (FL)

Herbert Kloiber (Germany) Ludwig Scharinger (Austria)

TR U S TE E S E X- O FFI C I O Iris Harvie, President, Volunteer Council of The Cleveland Orchestra Beth Schreibman Gehring, President, Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra Phyllis Knauf, State Chair, Blossom Women’s Committee TR U S TE E S E M E RI T I David A. Ruckman Naomi G. Singer

H O N O RARY T RUS T EES FOR LIFE Robert W. Gillespie Francis J. Callahan Dorothy Humel Hovorka Mrs. Webb Chamberlain Robert F. Meyerson Oliver F. Emerson Allen H. Ford

PA S T PR E S I D E NT S D. Z. Norton 1915-21 John L. Severance 1921-36 Dudley S. Blossom 1936-38 Thomas L. Sidlo 1939-53

Percy W. Brown 1953-55 Frank E. Taplin, Jr. 1955-57 Frank E. Joseph 1957-68 Alfred M. Rankin 1968-83

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Gary Hanson, Executive Director

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Carolyn Dessin, Chair, Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Operating Committee Dr. Lester Lefton, President, Kent State University Barbara R. Snyder, President, Case Western Reserve University

Ward Smith 1983-95 Richard J. Bogomolny 1995-2002, 2008-09 James D. Ireland III 2002-08

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marks Franz Welser-Möst’s tenth year as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra, with a long-term commitment extending to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018. Under his direction, the Orchestra is acclaimed for its continuing artistic excellence, is enlarging and enhancing its community programming at home, is presented in a series of ongoing residencies in the United States and Europe, continues its historic championship of new composers through commissions and premieres, and has re-established itself as an important operatic ensemble. Concurrently with his post in Cleveland, Mr. Welser-Möst became General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera in September 2010. With a committed focus on music education in Northeast Ohio, Franz Welser-Möst has taken The Cleveland Orchestra back into public schools with performances in collaboration with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The initiative continues and expands upon Mr. Welser-Möst’s active participation in community concerts and educational programs, including the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra and partnerships with music conservatories and universities across Northeast Ohio. Under Mr. Welser-Möst’s leadership, The Cleveland Orchestra has established an ongoing biennial residency in Vienna at the famed Musikverein concert hall and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Together, they have appeared in residence at Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan, and at the Salzburg Festival, where a 2008 residency included five sold-out performances of a staged production of Dvořák’s opera Rusalka. In the United States, Mr. Welser-Möst has established an annual multi-week Cleveland Orchestra Miami Residency in Florida and launched a new biennial residency at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival in 2011. Under Franz Welser-Möst’s direction, The Cleveland Orchestra has performed thirteen world and fifteen United States premieres. Through the Roche Commissions project, he and the Orchestra have premiered works by Harrison Birtwistle, Chen Yi, Hanspeter Kyburz, George Benjamin, and Toshio Hosokawa in partnership with the Lucerne Festival and Carnegie Hall. In addition, the Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow program has brought new voices to the repertoire, including Marc-André Dalbavie, Matthias Pintscher, Susan Botti, Julian Anderson, Johannes Maria Staud, Jörg Widmann, and Sean Shepherd. Franz Welser-Möst has led opera performances each season during his P H OTO BY D O N S N Y D E R

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tenure in Cleveland, re-establishing the Orchestra as an important operatic ensemble. Following six opera-in-concert presentations, he brought fully staged opera back to Severance Hall with a three-season cycle of Zurich Opera productions of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas. He leads concert performances of Strauss’s Salome at Severance Hall and at Carnegie Hall during the 2011-12 season. Franz Welser-Möst became General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera with the 2010-11 season. His long partnership with the company has included acclaimed performances of Tristan and Isolde, a new production of Wagner’s Ring cycle with stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, and, in his first season in the post, critically praised new productions of Hindemith’s Cardillac and Janáček’s Katya Kabanova. During the 2011-12 season, he continues his survey of the operas of Janáček with a new production of From the House of the Dead and also leads a new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo. Mr. Welser-Möst also maintains an ongoing relationship with the Vienna Philharmonic. Recent performances with the Philharmonic include appearances at the Lucerne Festival and Salzburg Festival, in Tokyo, and in concert at La Scala Milan, as well as leading the Philharmonic’s 2011 New Year’s Day concert, viewed by telecast in seventy countries worldwide. Across a decade-long tenure with the Zurich Opera, culminating in three seasons as General Music Director (2005-08), Mr. Welser-Möst led the company in more than 40 new productions and numerous revivals. Franz Welser-Möst’s recordings and videos have won major awards, including the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Japanese Record Academy Award, and two Grammy nominations. With The Cleveland Orchestra, he has created DVD recordings of live performances of four Bruckner symphonies, presented in three accoustically distinctive venues: Symphony No. 5 in the Abbey of St. Florian in Austria, Symphony No. 9 in Vienna’s Musikverein, and Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 at Severance Hall. With Cleveland, he has also released a recording of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony as well as an all-Wagner album featuring soprano Measha Brueggergosman. DVD releases on the EMI label have included Mr. Welser-Möst leading Zurich Opera productions of The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Der Rosenkavalier, La Bohème, Fierrabras, and Peter Grimes. For his talents and dedication, Mr. Welser-Möst has received honors that include 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 Gold Medal from the Upper Austrian government for his work as a cultural ambassador, and the Kilenyi Medal from the Bruckner Society of America. He is the co-author of Cadences: Observations and Conversations, published in a German edition in 2007.

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THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

Franz Welser-Möst MUSIC DIREC TOR Kelvin Smith Family Chair

Christoph von Dohnányi MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE

Giancarlo Guerrero PRINCIPAL GUEST CONDUCTOR THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA MIAMI RESIDENCY

James Feddeck ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair

MUSIC DIRECTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH ORCHESTRA

Sasha Mäkilä ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair

Robert Porco DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair

Lisa Wong P H OTO BY R O G E R MA S T R O I A N N I

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES

Ann Usher DIRECTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHILDREN’S CHORUS

Frank Bianchi DIRECTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH CHORUS

Lisa Manning ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA YOUTH CHORUS


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FRANZ WELSER-MÖST M U S I C D I R E C TO R Kelvin Smith Family Chair

FIRST VIOLINS William Preucil CONCERTMASTER

Blossom-Lee Chair

Yoko Moore

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

Lev Polyakin

ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER

Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown 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 Dolan Katherine Bormann Ying Fu

SECOND VIOLINS Stephen Rose * Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair

Emilio Llinas

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Eli Matthews

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Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair

Elayna Duitman Ioana Missits Carolyn Gadiel Warner Stephen Warner Sae Shiragami Vladimir Deninzon Sonja Braaten Molloy Scott Weber Kathleen Collins Beth Woodside Emma Shook Jeffrey Zehngut 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

CELLOS Mark Kosower* Louis D. Beaumont Chair

Richard Weiss 1 The GAR Foundation Chair

Charles Bernard 2 Helen Weil Ross Chair

Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair

Tanya Ell Ralph Curry Brian Thornton David Alan Harrell Paul Kushious Martha Baldwin Thomas Mansbacher 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 HARP Trina Struble * Alice Chalifoux Chair

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

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PICCOLO Mary Kay Fink Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair

HORNS Richard King *

TIMPANI Paul Yancich *

George Szell Memorial Chair

Michael Mayhew §

Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair

Tom Freer 2

Knight Foundation Chair

OBOES Frank Rosenwein * Edith S. Taplin Chair

Jeffrey Rathbun 2 Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair

Robert Walters ENGLISH HORN Robert Walters Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair

CLARINETS Franklin Cohen * Robert Marcellus Chair

Robert Woolfrey Daniel McKelway 2 Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair

Linnea Nereim E-FLAT CLARINET Daniel McKelway Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair

Jesse McCormick Hans Clebsch Richard Solis Alan DeMattia TRUMPETS Michael Sachs * Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair

Jack Sutte Lyle Steelman2 James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair

CORNETS Michael Sachs * Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair

Michael Miller TROMBONES Massimo La Rosa* Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair

Richard Stout

BASSOONS John Clouser *

Shachar Israel 2

Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair Sandra L. Haslinger Chair

Jonathan Sherwin CONTRABASSOON Jonathan Sherwin

Margaret Allen Ireland Chair

Donald Miller Tom Freer Marc Damoulakis KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Joela Jones * Rudolf Serkin Chair

Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair

Michael Miller

BASS CLARINET Linnea Nereim

Barrick Stees 2

PERCUSSION Jacob Nissly *

Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair

BASS TROMBONE Thomas Klaber EUPHONIUM AND BASS TRUMPET Richard Stout TUBA Yasuhito Sugiyama*

LIBRARIANS Robert O’Brien Donald Miller ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL Carol Lee Iott DIRECTOR

Rebecca Vineyard MANAGER

ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL HARP

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Associate Principal First Assistant Principal Assistant Principal

Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair

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Perspectivesfrom the Executive Director Over the course of 2011, we’ve seen regular news reports about the challenges faced by orchestras in cities around the country. As Detroit, Denver, Honolulu, Louisville, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Syracuse, and others have struggled, many people have asked me about how we’re doing here in Cleveland. What’s going on? As entertainment, information, and cultural options proliferate, membership and subscription rates are in decline for many leisure pursuits, including orchestras. Endowment and pension funds are compromised by market downturns, and persistent economic uncertainty dampens philanthropy. To survive In America today, orchestras must change. For us in Cleveland, the regional economy, corporate landscape, and local population growth have been challenged for years. But The Cleveland Orchestra is one of very few symphony orchestras with the willingness and the proven ability to change. That’s why, in covering the story last spring, the Toronto Star reported “. . . Cleveland is giving fellow orchestras lessons in staying alive.” The Cleveland Orchestra began to change in earnest more than five years ago, with residency programs outside Cleveland, artistic initiatives such as ballet and opera, new audience development programs, accelerated community activities, frequent benefit events, and more aggressive fundraising. Our changes are driving revenue growth, especially philanthropy in Cleveland and operating revenues outside Cleveland. Yet even with record annual revenues, we still remain significantly under-endowed. On June 30, 2011, The Cleveland Orchestra endowment stood at $129 million, down from an all-time high of $157 million in the year 2000. For us to be financially healthy today would require a $300 million endowment, in keeping with other orchestras of our scope, scale, and quality. Without it, we have an unsustainable structural deficit that threatens the Orchestra’s survival. What must we do? We must stay true to our core purpose of serving the art of music at the highest levels of excellence. We must be even more innovative and relevant to the communities we serve. And, above all else, we must increase our Endowment Fund by successfully soliciting transformational philanthropy from everyone who cares about the community, loves The Cleveland Orchestra, and believes in the power of great music to change lives. As we launch Franz’s tenth season, we are grateful for our passionate concertgoers, for the generous annual gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations, and for ongoing support from our county and state arts agencies, all among the most supportive anywhere. We are blessed with worldwide recognition for artistic preeminence and innovation — a credit to a great music director, fantastic musicians, a dedicated staff, and inspiring Trustee leadership. I look forward to seeing you throughout the season and to discussing your participation in the effort to build our all-important Endowment Fund.

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OrchestraNews Franz Welser-Möst and Orchestra prepare for European Tour and Vienna Residency Music Director Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra embark on their eleventh international tour together later this month, including the Orchestra’s fifth biennial residency in Vienna’s historic Musikverein concert hall. The Orchestra will appear in thirteen performances in Europe from October 20 through November 5. In addition to the Vienna Musikverein Residency, the tour includes two concerts in Madrid, Paris, and Luxembourg, and single concerts in Valencia, Cologne, and Linz. During the four-concert Musikverein Residency, the Orchestra will give two performances of Mozart’s “Great” Mass in C minor, featuring soprano Malin Hartelius, soprano Juliane Banse, tenor Martin Mitterrutzner, baritone Ruben Drole, and the Vienna Singverein. Cellist Truls Mørk performs as soloist with the Orchestra in a concert in Luxembourg. The thirteenconcert, seven-city tour begins with performances in Madrid, Spain, on October 20 and 21 and ends with a concert at the Musikverein on November 5. Tour sponsors include Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich, Tele München Group, Jones Day, LNE Group / Lee Weingart, Miba AG, and SEMAG GmbH, with additional support from a group of generous individuals.

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The Cleveland Orchestra welcomes three new musicians who have joined the Orchestra in the past two months. Jacob Nissly joins The Cleveland Orchestra as principal percussion with the start of the 2011-12 season. Mr. Nissly previously served as principal percussion of the Detroit Symphony and has performed with ensembles including the New World Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He holds a bachelor of music and jazz studies degree from Northwestern University and a master of music degree from the Juilliard School, and was recently appointed to the faculty of the Eastman School of Music. Also joining the Orchestra at the start of the season is Ying Fu, as a member of the first violin section. A native of Shanghai, China, Mr. Fu has won prizes in competitions in Europe, China, and the United States. He holds a bachelor of music degree from the Shanghai Conservatory and a master of music degree from Rice University. He is currently a doctor of musical arts degree candidate at Rice University, studying with Cho-Liang Lin and Sergiu Luca. The Cleveland Orchestra welcomed Jeffrey Zehngut as a new member of the second violin section in August during this summer’s Blossom Festival concerts. Zehngut served as associate principal second violin of the San Diego Symphony 2005-11 and as principal second of the Canton Symphony Orchestra 2002-05. He holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with William Preucil and Paul Kantor.

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s Opening Night Gala at Severance Hall on October 1 featured a special surprise moment for Franz Welser-Möst, when Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson presented the Orchestra’s conductor with a ceremonial “key to the city” (above). The award was given to recognize the value of Franz’s work in extending and enhancing Cleveland’s reputation internationally. The gala evening, presented under the leadership of gala chair Norma Lerner and gala corporate chair Beth Mooney, marked the official start of Franz WelserMöst’s tenth season as music director. The event, which included an hour-long concert by The Cleveland Orchestra, raised $650,000. Proceeds from the evening will be used to create an education fund in Franz’s name, honoring his initiatives on behalf of music education. Of Ravel’s Boléro from the evening’s concert, The Plain Dealer wrote: “Proving he holds the key to Ravel as well as Cleveland, Welser-Möst offered a hardhitting performance, one that began with near-silent tapping . . . and ended with a cataclysmic punch.”

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s website is now available in a streamlined format as an application for cell phones. The “app” can be downloaded in versions for iPhone or Android phones, and many of its features also display on other webready mobile phones. The new app offers fans a convenient and streamlined way to purchase tickets, listen to Cleveland Orchestra radio broadcasts, and connect to the Orchestra’s social media. Created in partnership with InstantEncore.com, a leading performing arts digital platform, the app connects fans to The Cleveland Orchestra Blog, Facebook, YouTube, and information about the Orchestra (including musicians’ photos and biographies) and venues. The app also allows on-demand, streaming broadcasts from WCLV of performances by The Cleveland Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. This latest tech innovation is an addition to the Orchestra’s ongoing social media platforms and website, including The Cleveland Orchestra Blog (viewed by readers in all 50 states and more than 100 countries), Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and YouTube. The Cleveland Orchestra’s website offers convenient online seat selection and print-at-home ticketing. Additional features to the mobile app will be added in the coming months. The app can be downloaded free from the iTunes Stores or Android Marketplace. Links for downloading can also be found on the Orchestra’s homepage.


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Upcoming perofrmances by members of The Cleveland Orchestra in Northeast Ohio include: Cleveland Orchestra musicians Maximilian Dimoff, Trina Struble, Mark Dumm, and Henry Peyrebrune perform blues and bluegrass together as part of “Martinis & Moonshine” on Sunday evening, October 9. The benefit event for the Cleveland Institute of Music is being presented by the CIM Women’s Committee and takes place at Sammy’s Metropolitan Ballroom (925 Euclid Ave, Cleveland). Cocktails begin at 5 p.m., followed by a 6 p.m. performance. The evening concludes with dinner. Tickets are $85 and $125 for patrons. Reservations are required by calling 216-791-5000r. Members of The Cleveland Orchestra and guest Caroline Goulding perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and highlights from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons as a fundraiser for the Music Outreach Collaborative, which serves at-risk preschool-aged children. The event takes place on Sunday, October 9, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Cleveland Restoration Society’s Sarah Benedict House and Garden (3751 Prospect Avenue, Cleveland). To request an invitation by mail, write to: Music Outreach Collaborative, 1675 Crest Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH 44121, or send your email request to musicoutreachcollaborative@ gmail.com. Cleveland Orchestra musicians Daniel McKelway and Lembi Veskimets join with musical friends to perform at the 14th Annual Instrumental Evening for the Earth, held on Thursday evening, November 10. The event runs from 6:00 to 9:30 p.m. at West Shore Unitar-

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Guest artist Nicolaj Znaider presents masterclass for area students on October 11 Nicolaj Znaider, who performs as guest soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra on October 13, 14, and 15, presents a masterclass at Severance Hall on Tuesday, October 11, beginning at 4 p.m. During the class, which is open to the public, Znaider will work with students from the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Cleveland Institute of Music, and Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. The event is part of The Cleveland Orchestra’s Student Advantage Program. Attending the masterclass is free to the public, but tickets are required and can be obtained thru the Severance Hall Ticket Office or online at clevelandorchestra.com.

Orchestra violist has new CD release Following the success of her Grammy award-winning last album, Cleveland Orchestra violist Eliesha Nelson has a new album titled Russian Viola Sonatas, featuring the music of Varvara Gaigerova, Alexander Winkler, and Paul Juon and released in July on the Sono Luminus label. Music from the album is being featured when Eliesha is interviewed on Cleveland Orchestra showcase on WCLV on Friday evening, October 7, beginning at 9 p.m. The CD is available for purchase at the Cleveland Orchestra Store at Severance Hall.

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Cleveland Orchestra education programs discussed at White House conference Cleveland Orchestra Director of Education & Community Programs Joan Katz Napoli was included in a group of performing artists and leaders invited to the White House in July as part of a program titled Champions of Change. While there, she shared information about the ways The Cleveland Orchestra serves more than 70,000 people annually through programs including school fieldtrip concerts, youth performing ensembles, and Music Study Groups for adults, as well as Music Mentors and Music Masters programs to support instrumental music programs in local schools. As part of the one-day event, Katz Napoli (shown at right, at the White House with Minnie Driver and Patricia Arquette) discussed how The Cleveland Orchestra was among the first symphony orchestras in the country to implement an arts integration program, Learning Through Music, which is now in its fourteenth year. Learning Through Music supports learning across the K-5 curriculum utilizing music as a tool.

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s season of Celebrity Series was announced over the summer and is now on sale as series subscriptions or on an individual concert basis. The Celebrity Series features the Orchestra and guest artists performing popular, film, and jazz music. The season’s four programs are: Singer-songwriter Randy Newman (December 3), known for his scores for such films as Toy Story and hit singles such as “Short People,” performs with The Cleveland Orchestra. The Colors of Christmas (December 20), featuring vocalists Peabo Bryson, Jennifer Holliday, Lea Salonga, and Ben Vereen performing Christmas and holiday favorites with the Orchestra. Charlie Chaplin’s City Lights (March 31), a timeless romantic comedy, shown on a large screen with the film score performed live by The Cleveland Orchestra, with guest conductor William Eddins. John Pizzarelli (April 10), jazz guitarist and vocalist, joins the Orchestra to pay tribute to Nat “King” Cole with favorites from the Great American Songbook.

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Looking for the latest news about The Cleveland Orchestra? Or behindthe-scenes information about an upcoming artist or event? Photographs from a recent event? Learn more online at clevelandorchestrablog.com. Check out recent postings to: — Learn which Cleveland Orchestra musician previously performed in the orchestra at La Fenice Opera House, and about another who has been spending time at Marlboro Music; — Admire a local artist’s rendering of Severance Hall—number 93 in a series of 100 depictions of Cleveland sights; — Connect to a Plain Dealer preview

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Bruckner Society of America presents Franz Welser-Möst with special award The Bruckner Society of America chose Franz Welser-Möst to receive the Society’s Julio Kilenyi Medal of Honor for his “understanding, advocacy, and dedication to Bruckner’s music.” The award was first given in 1933 to Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitsky, and Bruno Walter. Since that time, the Society has continued to present it to conductors, scholars, and musicologists who have helped to further the understanding and appreciation of Anton Bruckner’s life and work. The award was presented on July 13 during a rehearsal at Avery Fisher Hall in New York. In addition to four DVD recordings of Bruckner symphonies made with The Cleveland Orchestra in the past four years, Welser-Möst has recorded Bruckner symphonies with the London Philharmonic and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra. He leads The Cleveland Orchestra in performances of Bruckner’s Fourth this season at Severance Hall, on April 26, 27, and 28, 2012.

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The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra held its annual overnight retreat in early September. The retreat at Hiram House Camp in Moreland Hills featured rehearsals, special clinic sessions, and a chance to get acquainted through social activities. The group’s first Severance Hall concert is on Sunday, November 20, with music director James Feddeck conducting.

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2011-12 Family Concert Series, for young people ages 7 and older, begins with a special Halloween Spooktacular! concert on Sunday afternoon, October 30. Families are invited to wear Halloween costumes and come to Severance Hall to be chilled, thrilled, and filled with the sounds of memorable mysterious mystical magical macabre music for this deliciously spooky concert. Carl Topilow leads the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra for this concert, stepping in for The Cleveland Orchestra (who will be on tour). In addition to the concert, each of the season’s four Family Concerts features free pre-concert activities and post-concert treats. The activities, starting one hour before each concert, include Instrument Discovery, where children can try various instruments. After each performance, families are invited to enjoy a free treat compliments of series sponsor Giant Eagle. The series features three more concerts after Halloween — Scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker (with Academy Trainees from The Joffrey Ballet) in December, Carnival of the Animals in April, and Beethoven Lives Upstairs (with Classical Kids Live!) in May. Family Concert Series subscriptions and individual tickets are now available at clevelandorchestra.com or thru the Severance Hall Ticket Office.

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New Cleveland Orchestra recording features live performance of “Rusalka” from Salzburg Festival The Cleveland Orchestra’s newest recording is a live audio recording of Dvořák’s opera Rusalka, performed under Franz Welser-Möst’s direction as part of the 2008 Salzburg Festival. The album on the Orfeo label was released at the end of September and New! comes in CD format or as a music download. The CD version is available from the Cleveland Orchestra Store at Severance Hall. The August 2008 performances of Rusalka marked the first time that The Cleveland Orchestra played from the orchestra pit for an opera production at the Salzburg Festival. The five soldout Rusalka performances were part of a Festival Residency that also included WelserMöst conducting the Orchestra in three different concert programs. Prior to the staged Salzburg performances, WelserMöst and the Orchestra presented in-concert performances of Rusalka in Cleveland in June 2008. The reviewer for London’s Sunday Times praised the Salzburg production, calling it “the most spellbinding account of Dvořák’s miraculous score I have ever heard, either in the theatre or on record. . . . I doubt this music can be better played than by the Clevelanders, the most ‘European’ of the American orchestras, with wind and brass soloists to die for and a string sound of superlative warmth and sensitivity.” The London Sunday Telegraph review said, “the playing of the Cleveland Orchestra under Franz WelserMöst is sumptuously beautiful and exquisitely detailed, allowing Dvořák’s operatic masterpiece to weave a strong spell at its first-ever Salzburg showing.”

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Cleveland Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award to be given to Richard Weiner at concert on October 13 The Cleveland Orchestra’s sixteeth annual Distinguished Service Award will be presented to former principal percussionist Richard Weiner on October 13, at the start of next week’s Thursday evening concert at Severance Hall. The award, created in 1997, honors a person or organization that has provided continuing exemplary service to the Musical Arts Association, the non-profit parent organization that operates The Cleveland Orchestra, Severance Hall, and Blossom Festival. Richard Weiner was appointed to The Cleveland Orchestra in 1963 by George Szell, who appointed him principal percussionist in 1968. Weiner served as principal percussionist of the Orchestra for 43 years up to his retirement in August this year, leading the section longer than anyone else in the Orchestra’s history. He also served on a variety of Cleveland Orchestra committees over the decades, including the Negotiation Committee (which he chaired for many years), Artistic Advisory Committee, Pension Committee, Travel Committee, and the Severance Hall Renovation Committee. In announcing Weiner’s selection in August, Executive Director Gary Hanson said, “Richard Weiner has served The Cleveland Orchestra with distinction over his 48-year tenure. As principal percussionist, Rich has exemplified the Orchestra’s devotion to the highest standards of artistic excellence. He has also played a vital role off-stage representing the musicians’ interests during more than four decades of institutional growth. Everyone in the Orchestra family owes Rich a debt of gratitude for his selfless and dedicated service.”

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October 2011 Greetings, On behalf of my fellow Ohioans, let me offer my warmest congratulations to Franz Welser-Möst on the auspicious beginning of his tenth season leading the great Cleveland Orchestra. Our citizens are rightly proud of Franz and the Orchestra, who carry the name of Ohio around the world with such distinction as the state’s most visible and active ambassadors. We are fortunate to benefit from an organization that contributes so richly to our quality of life, whether by lifting us up with transporting artistry or by engaging us as students at every educational level, from children through adults. As the Orchestra launches a new season and students everywhere begin a new school year, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity and determination of Franz Welser-Möst on behalf of outstanding educational programs that serve our communities and enhance our lives. The whole world looks up to The Cleveland Orchestra, and Ohioans are proud to claim it as our own. Sincerely,

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s inaugural residency with the Lincoln Center Festival July 13-17 received overwhelming critical acclaim. Franz Welser-Möst led the Orchestra in four concerts featuring four Bruckner symphonies (Nos. 5, 7, 8, and 9), with three of the symphonies paired with works by American composer John Adams. Critics and writers from the New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, New Yorker, and Time Magazine described the performances as “magnificent,” “exhilarating,” “beautifully played,” “breathtaking,” and “left me awestruck.” Writing about the Orchestra’s performance of Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony, Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times called it “a magnificent performance.” Time Magazine’s major online story by Craig Duff included a comparison of Welser-Möst’s championship of Bruckner symphonies to Leonard Bernstein bringing the world’s attention to Gustav Mahler. In his review of the Orchestra’s performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, Allan Kozinn of the New York Times called Franz’s reading “commanding.” Zachary Lewis of the Plain Dealer reported that “the performances . . . under music director Franz Welser-Möst were little short of magnificent.” New York Times critic Steve Smith concluded his review of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony with this description: “. . . a spellbinding account that showed Mr. Welser-Möst and the orchestra in their finest light.” Alex Ross from the New Yorker magazine tweeted: “The Cleveland Orchestra has been playing brilliantly all week, but today’s concert — Adams Doctor Atomic Symphony and Bruckner 9 — left me awestruck.”

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Women’s Committee celebrates ninety years with special fashion show The Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra celebrated their 90th anniversary with a fashion revue and luncheon at Severance Hall on July 18, attended by more than 300 members and guests. President Beth Schreibman Gehring welcomed the Ursuline College School of Fashion Design in a presentation of fashions from the past 90 years. The Women’s Committee is dedicated to providing support for The Cleveland Orchestra through volunteer service, education activities, and fundraising opportunities. For additional information on volunteering, please call 216-231-7557.

“Endless Summer” gala celebrates Blossom and The Cleveland Orchestra The State Blossom Women’s Committee staged an end-of-summer gala on Friday, September 9, in Twinsburg to benefit The Cleveland Orchestra and Blossom. Titled “Endless Summer,” the benefit commemorated the 2011 Blossom Festival season and all things musical. State Chairman Phyllis Knauf notes that the event was a collaboration of all chapters of BWC and was their most ambitious fundraising effort in the 43-year history of the organization. The “Endless Summer” gala evening featured a Strolling Supper prepared by nine Celebrity Chefs from Northeast Ohio. Among the evening’s fundraising items were six steamer trunks once belonging to Cleveland Orchestra musicians, which had been restored and decorated by local artists commissioned by the Blossom Women’s Committee.

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Concert Previews The Cleveland Orchestra offers a variety of options for learning more about the music before each concert begins. For each concert, the program book includes program notes commenting on and providing background about the composer and his or her work being performed that week, along with biographies of the guest artists and other information. You can read these before the concert, at intermission, or afterward. (Program notes are also posted ahead of time online at clevelandorchestra.com, usually by the Monday directly preceding the concert.) The Orchestra’s Music Study Groups also provide a way of exploring the music in more depth. These classes, professionally led by Dr. Rose Breckenridge, meet weekly in locations around Cleveland to explore the music being played each week and the stories behind the composers’ lives. Free Concert Previews are presented one hour before most subscription concerts throughout the season at Severance Hall. The previews (see listing at right) feature a variety of speakers and guest artists speaking or conversing about that weekend’s program, and often include the opportunity for audience members to ask questions.

Cleveland Orchestra Concert Previews are presented before every regular subscription concert, and are free to all ticketholders to that day’s performance. Previews are designed to enrich the concert-going experience for audience members of all levels of musical knowledge through a variety of interviews and through talks by local and national experts. Concert Previews are made possible by a generous endowment gift from Dorothy Humel Hovorka. October 6 and 9 “Serene Beauty in Troubled Times” with Rose Breckenridge, Cleveland Orchestra Music Study Groups administrator and lecturer

October 8 “Red and Blue, Black and White” with Rose Breckenridge, Cleveland Orchestra Music Study Groups administrator and lecturer

October 13 and 15 “Mendelssohn’s Travels, Tchaikovsky’s Travails” with Francesca Brittan, assistant professor of music, Case Western Reserve University

November 11, 12, and 13 “Being a Sorcerer’s Apprentice” with Michael Charry, author of George Szell: A Life of Music

November 17, 18, and 19 “Bach’s Music for Court and City” with David J. Rothenberg, professor of musicology, Case Western Reserve University For future Concert Preview details visit clevelandorchestra.com

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Mass in C minor (“The Great”), K427 1. Kyrie 2. Gloria Laudamus te Gratias Domine Deus Qui tollis Quoniam Cum sancto spiritu 3. Credo Et incarnatus est 4. Sanctus — Osanna in excelsis 5. Benedictus — Osanna in excelsis MALIN HARTELIUS, soprano JULIA LEZHNEVA, soprano MARTIN MITTERRUTZNER, tenor RUBEN DROLE, baritone CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA CHORUS Robert Porco, director

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Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos Dwight Oltman, conductor Mary Dobrea-Grindahl, piano Robert Mayerovitch, piano Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (excerpts) Dirk Garner, conductor Jane Eaglen, soprano Timothy Mussard, tenor Christine Fuoco, piano Anthony Fuoco, piano Jonathan Moyer, organ Orff’s Carmina Burana (excerpts) Dirk Garner, conductor Sungeun Kim, piano Zarina Melik-Stepanova, piano Josh Ryan, percussion Open House Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. including family-friendly activities, tours, concerts, open rehearsals and refreshments. All events are free and open to the public, Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Bldg., 96 Front St., Berea.

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composers pausing to contemplate the German musical tradition — one an old man looking backward, the other a young man looking to widen his musical horizon. In 1944, the 80-year-old Richard Strauss believed he was looking at the cataclysmic end — the Götterdämmerung — of German culture, between the corrupting effects of more than a decade of the Nazi regime and the ongoing wartime destruction effected by Allied bombers. He composed the string piece Metamorphosen as both tribute and elegy to that tradition, incorporating a particularly meaningful theme by Beethoven into his new work. In 1782, Wolfgang Mozart was a newlywed in Vienna, hoping to introduce his bride as a singer to his hometown of Salzburg while also boosting his composing skills. How better than to compose a setting of the Mass, using what he’d just learned from hearing and studying the music of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel, and to include soprano solos for his beloved Constanze? He had composed Masses before, for his former employer, the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg, but this one would be bigger and better. In the end, Mozart completed only a few movements of his plan, and left sketches and partial scores for others, which later scholars have turned into performable music. The completed movements were a success in Salzburg, and the original-and-reconstructed Mass in C minor, K427, though still not a complete setting of the Mass, is nevertheless a treasury of beautiful music in 18th-century German and Italian styles. —David Wright David Wright lives and writes in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He previously served as program annotator for the New York Philharmonic.

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Metamorphosen, A Study for 23 Solo Strings composed 1943-45 D U R I N G W O R L D WA R I I

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and its aftermath, the discomforts of age, the privations of war, and the loss of many dear people and things combined to test Richard Strauss’s usually buoyant attitude toward life. To save him from depression, Strauss’s friends and his son, Franz, urged him to resume composing. New works began to trickle from him again, including the Symphony for Winds, the Oboe Concerto, and the Duet-Concertino, all in a light, neoclassical vein. And also pieces in a more searching, Romantic style, including Metamorphosen and the Last Songs with orchestra. When Strauss wryly referred to these works as “wrist exercises,” his friends were gratified to hear a spark of the old Straussian ironic wit. In our present time, when the death of one innocent civilian in military action makes the front page of the New York Times, we may lose sight of the enormous dimensions of death and destruction in World War II. Between 1943 and 1945, millions of people died in war actions, and entire cultural institutions such as the Munich National Theater, the Dresden Opera House, and the Vienna State Opera House, were destroyed by bombs. These buildings meant to their people what Severance Hall and Carnegie Hall mean to music lovers today. Richard Strauss had heard the music of the past masters in these halls and had, in fact, made his own brilliant career in them. During the war, hearing news of this destruction at age 80, he wrote “I am beside myself. . . . There can be no consolation.” A few bars of music Strauss wrote in mourning for the bombing of Munich grew, a few months later, into the long elegy he titled Metamorphosen. He pointedly indicated that it was “for 23 solo strings,” not “for string orchestra” — in other words, a piece of chamber music, with the intimacy of expression which that implies. The Swiss conductor Paul Sacher, who commissioned so much important new music of the 1930s and 1940s, gave the premiere with his Zurich Chamber Orchestra in January 1946. Strauss himself conducted the final rehearsal. The work’s title has inspired much speculation. Metamorphosis means “changing shape,” and the work’s themes are certainly subjected to constant change and stirred together in counterpoint, producing ever-shifting harmonies that seem like a ray of sunlight one moment and deep gloom the next. About the Music

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One also thinks of W. B. Yeats’s poem “Easter 1916,” about the rebellion in Ireland: “All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born.” Yet it is hard to find anything “born” in Metamorphosen, which the critic Alan Jefferson called “possibly the saddest piece ever written.” In this piece, Strauss seems to be using the endlessly twisting, unfurling idiom of Wagner to mourn the death of Wagner and so much else in German culture in what he called “the most terrible period in human history . . . the 12-year reign of bestiality, ignorance, and anti-culture under the greatest animals.” Strauss’s metamorphosis seems to be in reverse: the butterfly turns itself into a destructive worm. Recent scholarship has traced the inspiration of Metamorphosen not to Yeats, but to Goethe’s poem “Niemand wird sich selber kennen” (“Nobody Will Ever Know Himself ”), a dark and prophetic meditation on civilized people’s capacity for evil. As for the themes of this piece, there are hints and allusions everywhere to masterpieces of German music, too fleeting and too many to describe here. One theme, however, stands out a little from the rest. This is a brief descending scale, in a dotted “snap” rhythm. It appears almost subliminally throughout this long adagio, but near the end Strauss quotes it outright. It is a phrase from the second-movement funeral march of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”), which that composer originally wrote to honor Napoleon Bonaparte, then famously tore up the title page when Napoleon declared himself Emperor. And then Beethoven dedicated it instead “to the memory of a great man.” It seems likely that Strauss felt he was composing this music in memory of a great musical culture. There is no escaping the deep sadness of it. —David Wright © 2011

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Mass in C minor (“The Great”), K427 composed 1782-83 performed from a score edition by H.C. Robbins Landon T H E Y E A R 17 8 2

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was full of life-changing events for Mozart. Just the year before, he had finally made the commitment (over his father Leopold’s objections) to leaving his hometown of Salzburg to seek his fortune in the imperial capital, Vienna. He was 25 then — pretty old for a musician trying to start a career. He had already spent 20 years either touring European cities in search of connections and recognition, or parked in Salzburg, performing odd musical jobs for the local ruler, the Prince-Archbishop, and he had little to show for it except a list of ever-more-superb compositions. But 1782 saw the highly successful premiere of Mozart’s opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, which put him on the musical map in Vienna. That August 4, Mozart married Constanze Weber, an affectionate young woman and a passable singer, who would be his loyal companion during the rest of his short life — and a tireless champion of his music thereafter. Also that year, Joseph Haydn’s six string quartets, Opus 33, were published, inspiring Mozart to begin composing six quartets himself, in which he explored Haydn’s stylistic advances over Mozart’s previous model, Johann Christian Bach. And last, but not least, Mozart had eye-opening experiences with the works of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel during Sunday concerts in the home of Baron Gottfried van Swieten, a former ambassador to Prussia and connoisseur of Baroque music. The young composer, who had done plenty of dry exercises in counterpoint under his father’s tutelage, now was having, as his biographer Alfred Einstein writes, “his first encounter with a living polyphonic style.” Authorities disagree about how lasting the effects of this encounter were on Mozart’s development. Surely the splendid fugue-style finale of the Symphony No. 41 of 1788 (“Jupiter”) would not have taken that form without a thorough understanding of J. S. Bach. And we know that Mozart composed, or at least began, many fugues during 1782, trying to master this musical language. Always anxious to polish his bride’s image with his family, Wolfgang wrote to his father that Constanze loved to hear him play fugues, and had even tried her hand at composing them. About the Music

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‘‘

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sound, for I am a musician.

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—W. A. Mozart, November 1777


Late in 1782, as Leopold and Wolfgang’s sister, Nannerl, grew impatient for him to bring Constanze to Salzburg, he wrote to them often, saying that teaching and performing obligations were keeping him in Vienna. On January 4, 1783, he reiterated, “I truly promised this to myself in my heart, and hope to fulfill it. . . . As you know, however, circumstances have frustrated our planned journey [to Salzburg]; but the score of half a mass, which is lying here with the highest hopes, is proof that I really made the promise.” The long-awaited visit finally began the following July 29, and ended with a performance of that “half a mass” — the still-fragmentary work we now know as the Mass in C minor, K427 — with Constanze as soprano soloist, in St. Peter’s Church on October 26. In a church liturgy (unlike this weekend’s concert performances), the Mass could not be celebrated incomplete, so presumably other music was found to fill in the sections that Mozart hadn’t composed. There is no evidence that anyone commissioned a mass from Mozart in 1782. Perhaps it’s true, as he implied in his letter, that he wished to commemorate his marriage by presenting a major new work in his hometown. More likely, the unfinished mass setting originated the same way as the unfinished fugues, as an exercise, an attempt by Mozart to get his arms around a past musical form that was valuable and meaningful to him. That form is the “cantata mass,” best known to audiences of today (but probably not to van Swieten or Mozart) from Bach’s Mass in B minor, that great compendium of all the ways then available to set sacred words for solo singers and chorus. The most obvious feature of a cantata mass is the way it splits the Mass’s longer texts (especially the Credo) into many short phrases, each set as a separate movement. Haydn and Beethoven later composed masses in a more symphonic style, setting whole texts into longer movements. Two sections of the Mass in C minor come down to us complete, in Mozart’s own handwriting. These are the opening Kyrie and the six brief movements of the Gloria. After that, questions about Mozart’s intentions multiply. He composed only two movements of the Credo, “Credo” and “Et incarnatus est,” and for these we have complete vocal parts but only some indications of instrumentation. There is also a score for wind band of the Sanctus in his hand. Other materials in Mozart’s hand are now lost, and to guess at them we have only a mistake-riddled copy score by Mozart’s contemporary P.M. Fischer, Severance Hall 2011-12

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In this fragmentary Mass, we hear a gifted Mozart dealing with an antique form and style which, it’s fair to say, he hadn’t yet fully made his own. We hear him brilliantly “doing” Bach and Handel. But also, especially in the vocal solos, Mozart the Italiantrained young genius steps forward as his mature self.

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A portrait of Mozart’s wife, Constanze, painted in 1802 by Hans Hansen. Constanze sang as soprano soloist in the original 1783 performance of his Mass in C minor at St. Peter’s Church in Salzburg.

choirmaster at a monastery in Augsburg. This was apparently done in haste from a set of performers’ parts. This poor copy is how we know anything about the Benedictus at all. Mozart did not set the concluding section of the Mass, Agnus Dei for this Mass; Constanze later suggested to a publisher that, following a custom of the time, the Kyrie be reprised, but with the words of the Agnus Dei. The performances this weekend, however, conclude with the Benedictus. Needless to say, the debate goes on over how to restore the movements Mozart composed or sketched (as well as the idea of composing more movements to complete the work, as Mozart’s pupil Süssmayr did for the unfinished Requiem of 1791.) The first systematic attempt was made by Alois Schmitt in 1901, followed by the distinguished Haydn and Mozart scholar H.C. Robbins Landon, who worked on the problem during the 1950s. Later editions include one by Franz Beyer in 1989 and another by Robert Levin in 2005. Landon’s reconstruction, published in 1956 and used for this weekend’s performances, works a light touch with the material, filling in instrumental and choral parts only as obviously necessary. Even so, as the ever-modest Landon writes in the preface, “The performer should never feel obliged to follow the editor’s choice if he thinks another reading preferable.” And so, in this fragmentary yet painstakingly restored work, we hear a brilliant, mature Mozart dealing with an antique form and style which, it’s fair to say, he hasn’t yet fully made his own. But hear how brilliantly he “does” Severance Hall 2011-12

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J.S. Bach in the chorus “Jesu Christe” and the great fugue that follows, “Cum Sancto Spiritu.” And also his Handelian mode in the sweeping style of choral writing, including echoes of the Hallelujah Chorus in the Gloria. Elsewhere, however, and especially in the vocal solos, Mozart the Italian-trained young genius steps forward as . . . himself. He is also present in the many felicities of scoring, for example the nativity scene of “Et incarnatus est,” so delicately scored for winds and double bass, and wisely left alone by later restorer-orchestrators. Mozart thought enough of this music to re-use portions of it in his oratorio Davidde penitente, K469, in 1785. Perhaps he left the Mass unfinished because he sensed that its various materials would never really hang together to form a coherent work. But thanks to his efforts, and to those of his wife, and a hasty friar in Augsburg, and several conscientious latter-day scholars, we have much music of disparate beauty to listen to and admire. —David Wright © 2011 At a Glance Mozart composed his Mass in C minor in 1782-83, apparently without completing all of its movements. This music is almost certainly the music that Mozart conducted at St. Peter’s Church in Salzburg on October 26, 1783, although he probably augmented these movements with other pieces in order to render the complete mass text for that occasion. Some of the vocal and instrumental parts were not fully written out by Mozart, and have had to be reconstructed by later editors. In its incomplete form, which is how it is most often presented in modern performance, the C-minor Mass runs almost 60 minutes. The score edited by H.C. Robbins Landon, used for

these performances, calls for an orchestra of flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, organ, and strings, plus a quartet of vocal soloists and double chorus. The Cleveland Orchestra first performed music from Mozart’s C-minor Mass in March 1956. The entire work was given at Severance Hall in November 1966, with Robert Shaw conducting The Cleveland Orchestra, Chorus, and soloists. The most recent Severance Hall performances were conducted by Franz Welser-Möst in November 2008. Following this weekend’s performances, the work will also be performed later this autumn as part of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2011 Vienna Musikverein Residency.

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Mass in C minor (“The Great”), K427 by Wolfgang Amadè Mozart

I. KYRIE — chorus and soprano Lord, have mercy upon us. Christ, have mercy upon us. Lord, have mercy upon us.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.

II. GLORIA 1. Gloria in excelsis — chorus Gloria in excelsis Deo. Et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis.

Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to people of good will.

2. Laudamus te — soprano Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoramus te, glorificamus te.

We praise you, we bless you, we worship you, we glorify you.

3. Gratias agimus tibi — chorus Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam gloriam tuam.

We give you thanks for your great glory.

4. Domine Deus — soprano, soprano Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus pater omnipotens. Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius Patris.

Lord God, heavenly King, God, Father omnipotent. Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father.

5. Qui tollis — chorus Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollis peccata mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris, miserere nobis.

You who take away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. You who take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. You who sit at the right hand of the Father, have mercy upon us. PLEASE TURN PAGE QUIETLY

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6. Quoniam — soprano, soprano, tenor Quoniam tu solus sanctus, tu solus Dominus, tu solus altissimus.

For you alone are holy, you alone are the Lord, you alone most high.

7. Cum Sancto Spiritu — chorus Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris, amen.

Jesus Christ. With the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.

III. CREDO 1. Credo in unum Deum — chorus Credo in unum Deum, patrem omnipotentem, factorem coeli et terrae, visibilium omnium et invisibilium. Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum, Filium Dei unigenitum, et ex Patre natum ante omnia saecula, Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine, Deum verum de Deo vero, genitum, non factum, consubstantialem Patri, per quem omnia facta sunt, qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem descendit de coelis.

I believe in one God, Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, born of the Father before all ages, God of God, light of light, true God of true God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made, who for all humanity, and for our salvation, came down from heaven.

2. Et incarnatus est — soprano Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine, et homo factus est.

And became incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary and was made a man.

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IV. SANCTUS — chorus Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth! Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua. Hosanna in excelsis!

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts! Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest!

V. BENEDICTUS — solo quartet and chorus Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest!

Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini. Hosanna in excelsis! F I N I

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Malin Hartelius Swedish soprano Malin Hartelius is known for her roles in the operas of Mozart, Johann Strauss, and Richard Strauss. She first collaborated with Franz Welser-Möst at the 1996 Salzburg Festival, and since her Cleveland Orchestra debut in 2002 has performed in many works under his direction. Her most recent Cleveland performances were in Mozart’s Don Giovanni in March 2011 and Rossini’s Stabat Mater in May 2011. After studies at the Vienna Conservatory with Margarethe Bence, Malin Hartelius became a member of the Vienna State Opera for three seasons. She then joined the Zurich Opera, where she sang in many operas under Franz Welser-Möst’s direction. Ms. Hartelius also performs on the opera stages of Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and Paris, as well as at the Salzburg Festival. In concert, she appears with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra, and the Vienna Philharmonic. Her discography includes works by Bach, Brahms, Handel, and Haydn, and operas at Salzburg and Zurich. In 2010, the King of Sweden awarded her the Litteris et Artibus medal.

Julia Lezhneva Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva is making her Cleveland Orchestra debut with this weekend’s concerts. She earned an honors degree in vocal studies and a piano diploma from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory’s Academic Music College, and has worked with Dennis O’Neill at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice. She currently studies at London’s Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Yvonne Kenny. Ms. Lezhneva was awarded grand prize in the Elena Obraztsova International Voice Competition, and first prizes at the 2009 Mirjam Helin International Singing Competition and 2010 Paris International Opera Competition. She has performed recitals across Europe, Japan, and Russia, and collaborates with the Trondheim Soloists. Recent and upcoming engagements include concerts with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center, a European tour with Les Musiciens du Louvre, and performances in Europe’s music capitals and at the Salzburg Mozart Festival. Her operatic repertoire includes Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots, Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol, and Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. Julia Lezhneva’s discography on the Naïve label includes Bach’s Mass in B minor, Vivaldi’s Ottone in villa, and a solo recording of Rossini arias. Severance Hall 2011-12

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Martin Mitterrutzner Austrian tenor Martin Mitterrutzner made his stage debut in Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the age of 10. He subsequently studied singing with Brigitte Fassbänder and Robert Holl. In 2004, he won first prize in Austria’s Prima la Musica contest and, in 2007, was awarded the Eberhard-Wächter-Medal by the Vienna State Opera. He appeared in Johann Strauss’s The Gypsy Baron at the Tiroler Landestheater in 2003, and became a company member there three years later. Martin Mitterrutzner’s recent debuts include singing in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Staatsoper Bukarest, The Magic Flute at Zurich Opera, and Britten’s Billy Budd with the Frankfurt Opera, where he became a member at the beginning of this season. He makes his debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2012 in Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos. In concert, Mr. Mitterrutzner has performed works by Bach, Bruckner, Haydn, and Mozart with orchestras in Germany, Spain, and Switzerland. As a Lied singer, he has appeared at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and Tiroler Landestheater. He made his Cleveland Orchestra debut in March 2010.

Ruben Drole Swiss baritone Ruben Drole was born to Spanish-Slovenian parents. He studied voice at the Musikhochschule Zurich with Jane Thorner Mengedoht, who continues as his current coach. Mr. Drole is a prizewinner of the CarlHeinrich-Ernst, Friedl Wald, and Pro Europa Foundation competitions. He spent a season with the International Opera Studio Zurich and has been engaged by Zurich Opera since 2005. Ruben Drole’s concert highlights include performances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam and Zurich Chamber Orchestra, a tour of Japan with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Vienna Concentus Musicus, and performances of Handel’s Israel in Egypt with Concerto Köln. Mr. Drole also sings many recitals under the auspices of Swiss Chamber Concerts. He can be seen on several opera DVDs, including Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers, and Schubert’s Fierrabras, all conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, as well as Schumann’s Genoveva. Mr. Drole first performed with The Cleveland Orchestra in the 2009 Severance Hall presentation of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, and returned for performances of Così fan tutte in 2010 and Don Giovanni in 2011. Severance Hall 2011-12

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Robert Porco

Director of Choruses Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Endowed Chair The Cleveland Orchestra

Robert Porco became director of choruses for The Cleveland Orchestra in 1998. In addition to overseeing choral activities and preparing the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for concert programs each year, he conducts the Orchestra’s series of Christmas concerts at Severance Hall as well as subscription concert programs at Severance Hall and at each summer’s Blossom Festival. Mr. Porco was recently honored by Chorus America with its annual Michael Korn Founders Award for “a lifetime of significant contributions to the professional choral art.” Throughout his career, he has been active as a conductor of opera and of choral-and-orchestral works. He is a regular guest conductor and the director of choruses for the Cincinnati May Festival, and has guest-conducted orchestras in the United States and Europe. He has prepared choruses for such prominent conductors as Pierre Boulez, James Conlon, Andrew Davis, Christoph von Dohnányi, Raymond Leppard, James Levine, Jesús López-Cobos, Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Kurt Sanderling, Robert Shaw, Leonard Slatkin, and Franz Welser-Möst, among others. Ohio native Robert Porco served as chairman of the choral department at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music (1980-98) and currently teaches doctoral-level conducting there. He has directed the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus since 1989. He previously served as artistic director and conductor of the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir (1989-98).

Lisa Wong

Assistant Director of Choruses

The 2011-12 season marks Lisa Wong’s second year as assistant director of choruses for The Cleveland Orchestra. In this capacity, she assists in preparing the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for performances throughout the season. In addition to her duties at Severance Hall, Ms. Wong is a faculty member at the College of Wooster, where she conducts the Wooster Chorus and the Wooster Singers and teaches courses in conducting and music education. She previously taught in public and private schools in New York, Pennsylvania, and Indiana, where she worked with the choral department of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (including directing the Chamber Choir of the Indiana University Children’s Choir). Active as a clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator, Ms. Wong holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from West Chester University and master’s and doctoral degrees in choral conducting from Indiana University.

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Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Robert Porco, Director

Lisa Wong, Assistant Director Joela Jones, Principal Accompanist The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus is one of the few professionally-trained, all-volunteer choruses sponsored by a major American orchestra. Founded at the request of George Szell in 1952 and following in the footsteps of a number of earlier community choruses, the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus has sung in hundreds of performances at home, at Carnegie Hall, and on tour, as well as in more than a dozen recordings. Its members hail from nearly fifty Cleveland-area communities and together contribute over 15,000 volunteer hours to the Orchestra’s music-making each year. SOPRANOS

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Alexandria L. Albainy Cathleen R. Bohn Julie A. Cajigas Myfanwy Callahan Mary Jane Carlin Susan Cucuzza Lisa Falkenberg Elyse R. Galizio Rosie Gellott Debbie Gutowski Rebecca S. Hall Lisa Hrusovsky Shannon R. Jakubczak Sarah Jones Hope Klassen-Kay Kate Macy Lisa Manning Clare Mitchell Julie Myers-Pruchenski Noreen Norka Jennifer Heinert O’Leary Sarah Osburn Joy M. Powell Roberta A. Privette Jennifer R. Sauer Monica Schie Laura Schupbach Sidney Storry Jane Timmons-Mitchell Sarah Tobias Melissa Vandergriff Sharilee Walker Marilyn Wilson Mary Wilson Constance Wolfe

Danielle Arndt Emily Austin Beth Bailey Katherine Brown Sara Burky Barbara J. Clugh Janet Crews Carolyn Dessin Amanda Evans Phyllis Fuchsman Nancy Gage Diana Weber Gardner Ann Marie Hardulak Betty Huber Karen Hunt Jenna Kirk Lucia Leszczuk Diana Martin Ginger Mateer Danielle S. McDonald Peggy Norman Marta Perez-Stable Cindy Pitera Ginny Roedig Becky A. Seredick Shari Singer Peggy Shumate Shelley B. Sobey Ina Stanek-Michaelis Sarah B. Turell Laure Wasserbauer Meredith S. Whitney Flo Worth Debra Yasinow

Nathan Bachofsky Paul C. Bryson Gerry C. Burdick Zachariah Camp Thomas Ginsburg Thomas Glynn Robert H. Hutson Daniel M. Katz Peter Kvidera Tod Lawrence Steve Lawson Jared Littleton Rohan Mandelia James Newby Tremaine Oatman Robert Poorman Michael D. Powell Joselín E. Ramírez Matthew Rizer John Sabol Lee Scantlebury James Storry Charles Tobias William Venable Chester F. Willey

Craig Astler John Baker Jack Blazey Nikola Budimir Charles Carr Peter B. Clausen Dwyer Conklyn Steve diLauro Jeffrey Duber Matthew Englehart Thomas E. Evans Richard Falkenberg Paul Guyer Robert Higgins Kurtis B. Hoffman Paul Hubbard Robert Judge Joel Kincannon Jason Levy Scott Markov Daniel May, Jr. Roger Mennell Robert Mitchell Tom Moormann Keith Norman John Riehl Richard Romoser Corey Rubin Michael Seredick David A. Welshhans S. David Worhatch Paul Zeit

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CONCERTOS

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In January 2012, The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst embark on a three-week program of presenting the three solo concertos of Johannes Brahms at Severance Hall, with violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Yefim Bronfman. The mini-festival — featuring the Violin Concerto and both Piano Concertos — reunites Welser-Möst and Bronfman, who performed together in Franz’s debut here as a guest conductor in 1993. More recently, they performed together last year in a special outdoor concert with the Vienna Philharmonic that was televised internationally and released on the Deutsche Grammophon label. “I’m really overwhelmed with excitement to play with Franz and The Cleveland Orchestra,” says Bronfman. “Franz has always been a great conductor, but he has also become such a great personality, with so much knowledge. He has grown into a major figure in music.” Playing the Brahms concertos is probably among “the greatest experiences I’ve ever had,” he continues. “Especially playing the second one, which is so majestic. There is Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto, but maybe Brahms Two is also an Emperor.” “From the very first note,” says Bronfman, “you can tell this is a journey, that this requires a collaboration between the soloist and the orchestra at all times. It’s always an exchange of ideas, back and forth. And the cello solo is arguably the most famous in the repertoire. I cannot think of a better orchestra than Cleveland to play with, for the chamber music character of the Second Concerto.’’ For tickets, visit clevelandorchestra.com. Severance Hall 2011-12

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The Cleveland Orchestra: Serving the Community The Cleveland Orchestra’s Education and Community programs provide shared musical experiences that engage, inspire, support, and deepen connections with audiences throughout Northeast Ohio

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THE C L E V E L A N D O RC H E S T R A has a long and proud history of sharing the value and joy of music with citizens throughout Northeast Ohio. Education and community programs date to the Orchestra’s founding in 1918 and have remained a central focus of the ensemble’s actitivities for over ninety years. Today, with the support of many generous individual, foundation, corporate, and governmental funding partners, the Orchestra’s educational and community programs reach more than 70,000 young people and adults annually, helping to foster a love of music and a lifetime of involvement with the musical arts. On these pages, we share photographs from a sampling of these many programs. For additional information about these and other programs, visit us at clevelandorchestra.com or contact the Education & Community Programs Office by calling (216) 231-7355.

School buses delivering students to Severance Hall. More than four million schoolchildren have been introduced to symphonic music in nine decades of Cleveland Orchestra weekday Education Concerts. Severance Hall 2011-12

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The Cleveland Orchestra helps celebrate the seasons and special events throughout the year. On October 30, the season’s first Family Concert features the second annual “Halloween Spookatcular!” including a special audience costume contest.

C L E V E L A N D

Music Study Groups provide a way of exploring the Orchestra’s music in depth. These professionally led classes meet weekly to explore the music being played each week and the stories behind the composers’ lives.

A Family Concert featuring Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite brought audiences up close for a thrilling performance by Academy Trainees of the Joffrey Ballet and performers from the Cleveland School of Dance. The Joffrey Academy returns in December to Severance Hall for the season’s second Family Concert, “Scenes from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.”

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The Cleveland Orchestra is creating “Musical Neighborhoods” in Cleveland preschools as part of PNC Grow Up Great, using music to support pre-literacy and school readiness skills.

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Cleveland Orchestra clarinetist Robert Woolfrey leads a Learning Through Music program at H. Barbara Booker School in Cleveland.

The Cleveland Orchestra’s Education programs are made possible by many generous individuals, foundations, and corporations, including: The Abington Foundation The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Cleveland Clinic The Cleveland Foundation Conn-Selmer, Inc. Dominion Foundation The Harry K. Fox and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation Giant Eagle Muna & Basem Hishmeh Foundation Martha Holden Jennings Foundation JPMorgan Chase Foundation The Laub Foundation The Lincoln Electric Foundation The Lubrizol Corporation The Nord Family Foundation Ohio Arts Council Ohio Savings Bank PNC The Reinberger Foundation Albert G. & Olive H. Schlink Foundation The Sherwin-Williams Foundation The South Waite Foundation Surdna Foundation Thomas H. White Foundation, a KeyBank Trust The Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra

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AT SE V E R A NC E H A LL CONCERT DINING AND CONCESSION SERVICE Severance Restaurant at Severance Hall is open for concert dining. For reservations, call (216) 231-7373, or click on the reservations link at clevelandorchestra.com Concert concession service of beverages and light refreshments is available before most concerts and at intermissions in the Smith Lobby on the street level, in the Bogomolny-Kozerefski Grand Foyer, and in the Dress Circle Lobby.

FREE PUBLIC TOURS Free public tours of Severance Hall are offered on select Sundays during the year. Free public tours of Severance Hall are being offered this fall on October 10 and November 28. For additional information or to book for one of these tours, please call the Cleveland Orchestra Ticket Office at (216) 231-1111. Private tours can be arranged for a fee by calling (216) 231-7421.

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA STORE A wide variety of items relating to The Cleveland Orchestra — including logo apparel, compact disc recordings, and gifts — are available for purchase at the Cleveland Orchestra Store before and after concerts and during intermission. The Store is also open Tuesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Cleveland Orchestra subscribers receive a 10% discount on most items purchased. Call (216) 231-7478 for more information, or visit the Store online at clevelandorchestra.com

RENTAL OPPORTUNITIES Severance Hall, a Cleveland landmark and home of the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra, is the perfect location for business meetings and conferences, pre- or post-concert dinners and receptions, weddings, and social events. Exclusive catering provided by Sammy’s. Premium dates are available. Call the Facility Sales Office at (216) 231-7420 or email to hallrental@clevelandorchestra.com

BE FO R E T H E CO NC E R T GARAGE PARKING AND PATRON ACCESS Parking can be purchased for $10 per vehicle when space in the Campus Center Garage permits. However, the garage often fills up well before concert time; only ticket holders who purchase prepaid parking passes are ensured a parking space. Overflow parking is available in CWRU Lot 1 off Euclid Avenue, across from Severance Hall; University Circle Lot 13A on Adelbert Road; and the Cleveland Botanical Garden. Pre-paid parking for the Campus Center Garage can be purchased in advance through the Ticket Office for $14 per concert. This pre-paid parking ensures you a parking space, but availability of prepaid parking passes is limited. To order pre-paid parking, call the Cleveland Orchestra Ticket Office at (216) 231-1111.

FRIDAY MATINEE PARKING

For our patrons’ convenience, an ATM is located in the Lerner Lobby of Severance Hall, on the ground floor across from the Cleveland Orchestra Store.

Due to limited parking availability for Friday Matinee performances, patrons are strongly encouraged to take advantage of convenient off-site parking and round-trip shuttle services available from the Cedar Hill Baptist Church (12601 Cedar Road). The fee for this service is $10.

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Concert Previews at Severance Hall are presented in Reinberger Chamber Hall on the ground floor, except when noted, beginning one hour before the start of most subscription concerts.

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AT T H E CO NC E R T COAT CHECK Complimentary coat check is available for concertgoers. The main coat check is located on the street level midway along each gallery on the ground floor.

PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO, AND AUDIO RECORDING For the safety of guests and performers, photography and videography are strictly prohibited during performances at Severance Hall.

REMINDERS Please disarm electronic watch alarms and turn off all pagers, cell phones, and mechanical devices before entering the concert hall. Patrons with hearing aids are asked to be attentive to the sound level of their hearing devices and adjust them accordingly. To ensure the listening pleasure of all patrons, please note that anyone creating a disturbance of any kind may be asked to leave the concert hall.

LATE SEATING Performances at Severance Hall start at the time designated on the ticket. In deference to the comfort and listening pleasure of the audience, late-arriving patrons will not be seated while music is being performed. Latecomers are asked to wait quietly until the first break in the program, when ushers will assist them to their seats. Please note that performances without intermission may not have a seating break. These arrangements are at the discretion of the House Manager in consultation with the conductor and performing artists.

SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Severance Hall staff are experienced in assisting patrons to find seats that meet their needs. Wheelchair seating is available on the Orchestra Level, Box Level, and Dress Circle, and in Reinberger Chamber Hall at a variety of prices. For patrons who prefer to transfer from a wheelchair, seats with removable arms are available on the Orchestra Level in the Concert Hall. ADA seats are held for those with special needs until 48 hours prior to the performance, unless sell-out conditions exist before that time. Severance Hall features seating locations for people with mobility impairments and offers wheelchair transport for all performances. To discuss your seating requirements, please call the Ticket Office at (216) 231-1111. TTY line access is available at the public pay telephone located in the Security Office. Infrared Assistive Listening Devices are available from a

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IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY Contact an usher or a member of the house staff if you require medical assistance. Emergency exits are clearly marked throughout the building. Ushers and house staff will provide instructions in the event of an emergency.

SECURITY For security reasons, backpacks, musical instrument cases, and large bags are prohibited in the concert halls. These items must be checked at coat check and may be subject to search. Severance Hall is a firearms-free facility. No person may possess a firearm on the premises.

CHILDREN Regardless of age, each person must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly in a seat throughout the performance. Season subscription concerts are not recommended for children under the age of eight. However, Family Concerts and Musical Rainbow programs are designed for families with young children. Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra performances are recommended for older children.

T IC K ET SE RV IC ES TICKET EXCHANGES Subscribers unable to attend on a particular concert date can exchange their tickets for a different performance of the same week’s program. Subscribers may exchange their subscription tickets for another subscription program up to five days prior to a performance. There will be no service charge for the five-day advance ticket exchanges. If a ticket exchange is requested within 5 days of the performance, there is a $10 service charge per concert. Visit clevelandorchestra.com for details and blackout dates.

UNABLE TO USE YOUR TICKETS? Ticket holders unable to use or exchange their tickets are encouraged to notify the Ticket Office so that those tickets can be resold. Because of the demand for tickets to Cleveland Orchestra performances, “turnbacks” make seats available to other music lovers and can provide additional income to the Orchestra. If you return your tickets at least 2 hours before the concert, the value of each ticket can be used as a tax-deductible contribution. Patrons who turn back tickets receive a cumulative donation acknowledgement at the end of each calendar year.

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Meet Robert Conrad Cleveland Orchestra Trustee, Heritage Society member, co-founder of classical radio station WCLV, and Heritage Society ambassador on WCLV How many years have you been attending Orchestra concerts? Jean and I have been attending since about 1962, the year C.K. “Pat” Patrick and I co-founded WCLV. Your favorite symphony? Sibelius Symphony No. 1 When did you start broadcasting The Cleveland Orchestra on WCLV? We’ve been broadcasting concerts since 1965. Now it’s 2011, and we’re still broadcasting Orchestra concerts as well as streaming them live over the internet. WCLV will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2012, and I’ve been commentator for what’s become the longest running continuous orchestra broadcast series in the history of American radio! And, in Bob’s own words, from his WCLV invitation to Orchestra lovers everywhere . . . “This is Robert Conrad. As a Cleveland Orchestra Trustee and member of the Orchestra’s Heritage Society, I’d like to invite you to join my wife, Jean, and me in support of this wonderful Cleveland treasure. The Orchestra provides all of us with world-class music right here in our hometown and represents Cleveland at its finest throughout the world. And one of the ways that we support the Orchestra is through a charitable gift annuity. A gift annuity allows us to make a generous gift and at the same time receive income for life. Please join Jean and me, and the many other Heritage Society members who have created a Cleveland Orchestra Gift Annuity.” To learn how you can become a member of the Heritage Society, contact Jim Kozel, Director of Legacy Giving, by calling 216-231-7549 or via email to jkozel@clevelandorchestra.com or visit clevelandorchestra.com and click on Support, then Heritage Society THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA

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funds established as of September 2011

The Cleveland Orchestra invites you to take a seat at Severance Hall or Blossom Music Center . . . The Cleveland Orchestra’s seat endowment program began in 1978 as a project of the Blossom Women’s Committee for the Blossom Pavilion. In conjunction with the Orchestra’s 60th Anniversary the following year, seat endowments for Severance Hall were inaugurated by the Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra. Endowing a seat is a unique and meaningful way to honor someone’s love for The Cleveland Orchestra and its role in our community. Seat endowments help ensure the Orchestra’s financial stability for future generations of school children and concertgoers. Each seat endowment gift is recognized by a nameplate affixed to the seat, associating the donor’s name with The Cleveland Orchestra. For information on how to endow a seat at Severance Hall, Reinberger Chamber Hall, or Blossom Music Center, please call Jim Kozel, Director of Legacy Giving, at 216-231-7549.

REINBERGER CHAMBER HALL ENDOWMENT PROGRAM Two or More Seats Endowed John P. Bergren Sarah S. Evans Betty Nolt Kilinski Mrs. Charles K. Kilroy Frederick E. and Julia G. Nonneman Mr. and Mrs. James A. Saks In Loving Tribute: Augusta Scheiber In Loving Tribute: I. B. Scheiber Mr. and Mrs. Leonard K. Tower Ruth Hirschman von Baeyer

One Seat Endowed Alyse d’Amico Dr. Michael F. d’Amico Ann J. and Daniel F. Austin Mrs. Louis W. Barany David and Robyn Barrie Mr. and Mrs. William S. Blau III Richard F. Brezic Ann and Hugh Calkins In Honor of Gary and Alan Cohen Leis Allen and Frances Greer Davies Ralph Drake In Honor of Beryl Stuart Eilers Mr. and Mrs. Ramon J. Elias In Honor of Torsten Esborn Margo and Aaron Feldman Mr. Peter M. Glovna, Jr. James J. Gruzosky Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hart In Memory of Henry W. Hopwood Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Izant, Jr.

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Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Kallock Drs. Benjamin and Barbara Kaufman Mrs. Hugh B. Kelly Winnetta and Mickey Kennedy In Memory of Elaine K. Klein The Family of Michael and June Korenko Dr. Chien and Kam Liao Leonard and Phyllis Martien Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Martt Judith Mittleman Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Moran Dr. Kamel R. and Rola Muakkassa In Honor of Marjorie Russel Edgar and Grace Shields In Honor of Steven, Michael, and Jason Sobol In Memory of William B. Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. Timothy L. Sullivan Mrs. Eleanor E. Visconsi Hazel Vogelsang In Memory of Carol Walker Dr. Charles Wellman and Dr. Ann Eckstein Malcolm S. Wightman Mrs. Marjorie A. Winslow

CONCERT HALL ENDOWMENT PROGRAM Two or More Seats Endowed Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Adams Stanley and Hope Adelstein Mr. James W. Akeroyd Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Q. Armington Mr. and Mrs. Elmer J. Babin Geraldine and Joseph Babin Mrs. Theodore L. Bailey Walter K. Bailey

Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Barany Jack and Alice Bares Harry J. Barnoff, Cleveland Orchestra Member In Memory of Ann Koblitz Bassett and Maurice J. Koblitz, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Bates Arthur W. Bayer, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Nejad Behzadi Dr. and Mrs. Ronald H. Bell Dr. and Mrs. Norman E. Berman Mr. and Mrs. George P. Bickford Mr. and Mrs. Leon W. Blazey, Jr. In Memory of Nancy Adams Bole Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bolton Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon C. Bolton William B. Bolton Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Bolwell Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Bowen Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bredenbeck Jenny and Glenn Brown Mr. and Mrs. Timothy F. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Willard Brown Mr. and Mrs. Clark E. Bruner John T. and Inez T. Budd Mr. and Mrs. Don Buehler Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Merritt Bumpass, Jr. Mrs. Irvin Bushman Mr. and Mrs. John B. Calfee Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Callahan Millie Carlson Dr. and Mrs. R. D. Carlson Mr. and Mrs. David D. Carr Mr. and Mrs. Lee A. Chilcote Mr. John C. Chipka and Dr. Kathleen S. Grieser Mr. and Mrs. M. Roger Clapp The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Clough Mr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Colbert Dr. and Mrs. Lester E. Coleman Mr. and Mrs. Webber I. Collart Mrs. Warren H. Corning Mr. and Mrs. Barring Coughlin Dr. and Mrs. Dale H. Cowan

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In Memory of Mary Childs Crease Miss Christine H. Crone Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Cull In Memory of Alice S. Cumming Mr. and Mrs. George F. Dalton John D. and Elizabeth G. Drinko Mr. and Mrs. John Drollinger, Jr. Dr. Horton Dunn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Dwyer Robert and Diana Barclay Edgerton Mrs. Howard P. Eells, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Emrick, Jr. Edith Virginia Enkler In Memory of Mrs. Edith Ann Masten Enkler William T. Ernst Ronald V. Estes Margaret S. Estill Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fallon Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Fennell Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Fishelson Patricia and Louis Fodor Mr. and Mrs. George W. Ford II Mrs. David Frankel Robert F. and Carol A. Frankel Dr. and Mrs. Sanford C. Frumker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Frutig Mr. and Mrs. Peter L. Galvin Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Geismer Dr. and Mrs. Saul Genuth Genevieve and Emil F. Gibian Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Ginn David J. Golden and The AAV Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Golden Mr. and Mrs. Zoltan Gombos Dr. and Mrs. Harry E. Goodman Dr. Ronald L. and Marcia C. Gould Mr. and Mrs. Jerome R. Gratry Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Griffith Mr. and Mrs. Jerome E. Grover Mr. and Mrs. Alvin N. Haas Mrs. John A. Hadden Dr. and Mrs. William R. Hallaran

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Legacy Giving Mr. and Mrs. Newman T. Halvorson Mrs. Dorothea Wright Hamilton William A. Hancock In Memory of Gordon E. Hann In Memory of Dr. Edward O. Harper Dr. and Mrs. Shattuck W. Hartwell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas Harvie William H. and Anita M. Heller In Memory of Russell C. Henry Dr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Heupler In Memory of Werner E. and Ruth Murphy Heyd In Memory of Eric Chambers Hill The Robert D. Hill Foundation Mrs. Lawrence Hitchcock Mr. and Mrs. Meacham Hitchcock In Memory of Thomas Glenn Holloway Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz Dorothy Humel Hovorka Dr. Frank Hovorka Dr. and Mrs. Randal N. Huff Mrs. Gilbert W. Humphrey Dr. Elias A. Husni Elizabeth Popely Husni Mrs. Howard L. Hyde Mr. and Mrs. James D. Ireland Thomas W. Irish June and Scott Isquick Judy and Don Jacobson Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Jaffe Dr. Marjorie Howard Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Theodore T. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Joseph Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Joseph, Jr. Junior Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra Mr. and Mrs. Julian Kahan Miss Margaret Kaltenbach The William and Betty Katz Family Dr. Richard and Roberta Katzman Mr. and Mrs. David A. Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. Parry Keller Patricia and Walter Kelley Thomas and James Kelley Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Kendrick Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Ketchum Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Kimball Mr. and Mrs. Dale B. King Lloyd E. and Patricia J. Kinnear George D. Kirkham Dr. and Mrs. William S. Kiser Mr. and Mrs. G. Robert Klein In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Klestadt Stuart F. and Theresia G. Kline Mr. and Mrs. F. Cleveland Knight Dr. Vilma Kohn Arthur E. Kozlow Muriel Kozlow Mr. and Mrs. Gregory G. Kruszka In Honor of Patrick M. Kulp Mr. and Mrs. S.E. Kulp Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Lampl, Jr. Elin L. and Irvin A. Leonard In Memory of Cyrille W. Levenson Mr. and Mrs. Morton Q. Levin Lewis Rail Service Company Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Little Mr. and Mrs. T. Dixon Long Mary Loud Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Lucas Chalmer and Ruth Lutz In Honor of Concertmaster Daniel Majeske Dr. and Mrs. Armand Mandel

In Honor of Susan M. Martin and Patricia M. Kulp Mrs. Walter A. Marting In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Parey Masten Marlene and Howard Mayers Agnes and Thomas Mazich Mr. and Mrs. William C. McCoy The John P. McWilliams Family Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Meisel Mr. Robert W. Mentall Mr. and Mrs. Severance A. Millikin Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. John B. Moore M. Thomas Moore Family In Honor of Ann J. Morgan and June M. Wirth In Honor of Eloise M. and Stanley L. Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Morrison Ivan H. and Anne V. Mowry Suzanne and Frank Murray Peter R. Musselman Mr. and Mrs. Leonard L. Narens Dr. and Mrs. Clyde L. Nash, Jr. Mrs. Lucia S. Nash Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Neary Mrs. Sterling Newell In Honor of J. Irene Nist In Memory of Robert Raymond Nist Mr. and Mrs. Errol S. Nozik Mrs. Patrick C. O’Brien Mr. and Mrs. Kevin O’Donnell Mr. and Mrs. John D. Ong Mr. and Mrs. Dean G. Ostrum Mr. and Mrs. Stanley C. Pace Mrs. Dudley Balslew Page Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Patchan Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company In Memory of Thorn Pendleton Carolyn K. Perry Dr. Julio Popovsky Mr. and Mrs. W. Hardy Prentice Robert D. and Kathleen M. Pritchard Mr. and Mrs. Stanley M. Proctor Mr. and Mrs. David C. Prugh Stephen and Charlotte Qua Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ratner In Memory of Faye Katz Ratner Peter Reed Family of Peter Reed Mr. and Mrs. James S. Reid, Jr. The Reinberger Foundation In Memory of Dr. Hyatt and Mrs. Clementine Reitman David and Gloria Richards Mr. and Mrs. Pierce T. Robson Amy and Ken Rogat Mr. and Mrs. Willard C. Rohrbaugh Carol Rolf and Steven Adler Mr. and Mrs. Dick Rose Mr. and Mrs. H. Chapman Rose In Memory of Joanna W. Rosenfeld Dr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ross In Memory of Rose S. Rousuck Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Rufe Mrs. Florence Brewster Rutter Mr. James L. Ryhal, Jr. C.B.S. J.P.S.

Susan and Vernon Sackman Harvey and Clarine Saks Mr. and Mrs. James A. Saks In Memory of Ruth G. and Sam H. Sampliner Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Schaffner Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Scher Dr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Schermer Marian Schluembach Mrs. Ralph S. Schmitt In Honor of Arnold and Barbara Schreibman Dr. and Mrs. Leland Schubert The Sears Family Foundation Anita R. and Robert S. Seidemann Dr. and Mrs. Gerard Seltzer Marla and Joseph Shafran Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Sharp Dr. and Mrs. William C. Sheldon Mrs. Francis Sherwin Mr. and Mrs. Asa Shiverick, Jr. Drs. Jerry M. and Linda W. Shuck Bert and Joan Siegel, Cleveland Orchestra Members In Honor of Jay G. Siegel Mimsy and Richard H. Siegel Norma and Ernest Siegler Mr. and Mrs. David L. Simon Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Z. Singer Mr. and Mrs. Everett Ware Smith Herbert C. and Rebecca R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Ward Smith In appreciation of Ward Smith from the Trustees of MFS Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tousley Smith Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Spahr Mr. and Mrs. Roger K. Steel Dr. and Mrs. William P. Steffee Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Stell Lawrence E. and Barbara M. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Stone Mr. and Mrs. Morton J. Stone Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Storey In Memory of Morton M. and Ruth B. Stotter Mr. and Mrs. Herbert E. Strawbridge Mr. and Mrs. James J. Strnad Dr. and Mrs. Bernard N. Stulberg In Memory of Julius and Esther L. Stulberg Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Sturman Mr. and Mrs. Nelson S. Talbott Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Taplin Mr. Thomas H. Taylor, Jr. Mrs. Thomas H. Taylor, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tomsich Mr. Christopher Tracy Mr. and Mrs. Lyman H. Treadway Mr. and Mrs. William C. Treuhaft Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Tullis Lawrence C. and Jane H. Turnock June and Dean Van Ostrand Mr. and Mrs. Jules Vinney Bobbe and Clark Waite Friends of Ralph E. Waldo Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Ward Mr. and Mrs. Hays T. Watkins, Jr. Kenneth D. Webster, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Allen Weigand Mrs. Richard S. Weiskopf Mrs. Robert C. Weiskopf Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. West Mr. and Mrs. Keith E. White In Memory of Mrs. Douglas Wick

Mr. and Mrs. J. Craig Williams Annette E. Willis Dave and Bonnie Wilson The Wuliger Foundation Mr. and Mrs. John W. Wursthorn Anthony and Josiane Yen In Memory of Jean R. Zajac Mr. and Mrs. Julius W. Zajac In Memory of Stanley and Sophie Zajac Harold O. and Elizabeth L. Ziegler Carmela Catalano Zoltoski Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Zook Anton and Rose Zverina Fund Anonymous (5)

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One Seat Endowed Gary S. and Constance Adams Dick and Joan Ainsworth The Akron Women’s Committee of Blossom Music Center Mr. and Mrs. J. Heywood Alexander Majorie Alge Katharine D. Allen In Honor of Dr. and Mrs. Morton L. Angell Ms. Susan Angell Arthur and Lois Armington Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Aspis Mrs. Albert A. Augustus Vincent T. and Joseph T. Aveni The Nikki and Harold Babbit Family In Memory of Dr. Eric von Baeyer Mr. and Mrs. John H. Baird Baker, Knapp & Tubbs Company Mrs. Newton D. Baker, III Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Baker Jeffrey and Karyn Badassari Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ballonoff Mr. and Mrs. Randall J. Barbato Alvin M. and C. Clair Barkley Geneva Telling Bateman Norma Battes Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Beam, Jr. Ralph M. and Lois G. Beattie James R. Bell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Bellowe Mr. and Mrs. Steven Belman Dr. Rodney Benjamin and Linda Angell Benjamin Martha Clough Benson Mr. and Mrs. Keith S. Benson Dr. Robert B. Benyo Mr. Eric Günter Berken Nicholas Besser, Jr. Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Bingham Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Bissell Mr. and Mrs. George Bissett, Jr. In Memory of William A. Bittenbender Dr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Blackstone Mrs. Dudley S. Blossom, Jr. The Lawrence Blumenthal Family Dr. and Mrs. Theodore M. Bobinsky and Family Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bodurtha Mr. and Mrs. George B. Bodwell Mr. and Mrs. Alfred C. Body LISTING CONTINUES

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Legacy Giving Seat Endowments LISTING CONTINUED

Dr. and Mrs. Henry Bohlman Mrs. Sevier Bonnie, Jr. Mary Thoburn Bopp The Reverend Catherine Glennan Borchert Mr. and Mrs. Terry L. Bork In Memory of Frank J. Boron Mr. and Mrs. Herbert M. Borstein Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Borstein Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Botti Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Braun Mr. and Mrs. Pierce Bray Mr. and Mrs. Paul S. Brentlinger Mr. and Mrs. Douglas D. Brien Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Broadbent Daniel and Eleanor Brody Gary and Lee Brookins Geraldine Walker Brown Family Mrs. Jack L. Brown Mrs. Percy W. Brown Stephen and Lesley Brown In Memory of Molly Brush In Memory of Ezra Bryan The Stanley G. Bryant, Jr. Family Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Buchanan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gene Buehler Janet K. Byles John and Lois Cain Alice and Donald Cairns In Memory of Elsa Camacho Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Campbell Harry and Marjorie Carlson Mr. and Mrs. John J. Carney Mrs. Robert K. Carr Ms. Marlene Castilyn In Memory of Frederick C. Chandler, Jr. Chapman Capital Management Group, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Charles, Jr. In Memory of Andrew K. Cherna Chessie System, Inc. Corning Chisholm Mr. and Mrs. Homer D. W. Chisholm Christian, Alexander, and Sarah In Loving Memory of Charles Henry “Harry” Christian Marcia Guillet Christian In Memory of Milton G. Christy Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Clark Mrs. Robert M. Clements Drs. John and Mary Clough Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Stuart Cohen Mrs. Harry Cole Dr. and Mrs. Monroe Cole John T. Collinson Dr. and Mrs. John Stanley Collis, Jr. In Memory of Barbara R. Connell In Memory of John Connell Mr. and Mrs. David A. Cook Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Cornell Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Corrado Mr. and Mrs. Matthew I. Cotabish Mr. and Mrs. Barton Z. Cowan Stanley M. and Sylvia F. Cowan In Memory of Christine Hess Crone In Memory of Henry S. Curtiss In Memory of Patricia Marie Cutson In Honor of George and Martha Dalton The Alton F. and Carrie S. Davis Fund Barbara Ann Davis

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Mr. and Mrs. D’Arnold Davis Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Davis Mrs. Rufus S. Day, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. deConingh, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. deConingh, Sr. Marilyn P. and Thomas P. Demeter Donald and Elizabeth J. Deucher Susie and Burt Deutsch Mr. and Mrs. Lester R. Dickard The Howard Dingle Family James A. Dingus, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Carl F. Doershuk In Memory of Hans von Dohnányi Henry and Mary Doll Marietta Telling Doller Alan M. and Carol C. Donley Edward J. Donnelly and Mary Kay DeGrandis Mr. and Mrs. Thurman Downing In Memory of Janet Cull Downs In Honor of Jane Seelbach Driver Mr. and Mrs. Zoltan Dudevszky Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Eaken Lynn E. Eckendorf Peter and Kathryn Eloff In Memory of Flora Morris Everett In Honor of Hilda Faigin Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Fairbank Fairfax Foundation Lee Ann Federanich Robert and Melinda Feiklowicz Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kevin Fenton Mrs. Lee Ferguson Mrs. Mildred Fiening Mrs. Ellwood H. Fisher The Ellwood H. and Marion S. Fisher Family In Memory of Michael G. Fletcher Mimi Fletcher Jules and Lena Flock Dr. John A. Flower Dr. and Mrs. William J. Flynn Mr. and Mrs. James C. Forbes Eileen Schuller Fox Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas E. Frank Mr. and Mrs. Morton S. Frankel Donald K. and Gerda K. Freedheim Mr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Freedheim In Memory of Bernhard and Sophie Freilich In Memory of Felix Freilich In Loving Memory of Sharon S. Freimuth Mrs. Paul R. Frohring Mrs. William O. Frohring Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Frost Mr. and Mrs. David C. Fulton Henry S. Fusner Frances White Gale Dr. and Mrs. John H. Gardner, III In Honor of Richard K. Gardner Mr. and Mrs. James P. Garner Jerry and Patricia Gaskins In Honor of Margaret Gorton Geckler Carl E. Gennett Nadine F. George Mr. and Mrs. Ralph H. Gibbon Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Gibson Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Glosser Mrs. Ben Gogolick Sidney and Janis Gold In Loving Memory of Bess S. Goldberg

Judith and Michael Goldman Mrs. Judith Golenberg Sally Miller Good Barbara H. and Randall J. Gordon Dr. Joseph R. and Eva F. Gould Richard A. and Dena S. Goulder Mr. and Mrs. Jerome M. Grdina Cari and Gary L. Gross Mr. and Mrs. Ray J. Groves Nicki and Robert N. Gudbranson Mr. and Mrs. William E. Gunton In Honor of Walter M. Halle Mr. and Mrs. Norman G. Halpern Mrs. Philip A. Hammond James B. Hancock In Loving Memory of Leona Hancock In Memory of Kaitlin Marie Hanson Judge Sara J. Harper Lillian F. Harris Margit and Dick Harris Robert and Beverly Harris Seth and Marilyn Harris William L. and Lucille L. Hassler In Memory of Elizabeth T. Hastings In Memory of Fred J. Hausser In Memory of Louise J. Hausser Mrs. Frank C. Heath In Memory of Joseph H. Heinen Hazel and Gary Helgesen Ray and Joy Hendershot Gaellen, Isabella and Esme Hendrickson Wayne and Prudence Heritage Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hermann Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Herring In Honor of Katherine Steinbacher Hershey The Hershey Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hickox Mr. and Mrs. John Hildt Morrie and Edith F. Hirsch In Memory of Elsie Hoehn Dr. and Mrs. Ralph F. Hollander Allen and Louise Holmes Mary and Thomas Holmes In Honor of S. Homans Dale W. Horn Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hornung Mr. and Mrs. Leonard C. Horvitz Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. McC. Howell In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Hubbard, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hudson In Honor of Adella Prentiss Hughes Jonathan Lee Husni Nicholas R. Husni Nancy and Norman Hyams Mr. and Mrs. Marcus A. Hyre Eleanor Mandala Iacobelli In Memory of Joseph W. Ink Miss Kate Ireland R. Livingston Ireland Judith and Clifford Isroff Mr. and Mrs. Conway G. Ivy Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Izant, Jr. Ruth and Paul Jacobowitz Ruth A. Jenks Paul E. Jerabek Mr. and Mrs. Allen E. Jordan Louis D. Kacalieff, M.D. George and Linda Kanoti Donna and Milton Katz Dr. and Mrs. Richard S. Kaufman Dr. and Mrs. Philip Kazdan Paul R. Keen and Denise Horstman

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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Keller Mr. and Mrs. Garen N. Kelley Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kendrick Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Kennedy Laura G. Kichler Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Kidder In Memory of Alice Kirby Mrs. Charles J. Kilroy Mr. and Mrs. Carter Kissell Natalie D. Kittredge Dr. and Mrs. David E. Klein Thea Klestadt In Memory of Elaine L. Klein Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Koch, Sr. Thomas J. and Sharon B. Konet Mrs. Ralph E. Kortepeter Dr. Ronald H. Krasney Mr. and Mrs. Alan M. Krause Leon and Donna Krulitz Peter A. and Cathryn T. Kuhn In Memory of Richard I. Kuhn Ginger and Alan Kuper Theodore E. and Georgia H. Kurz Mr. and Mrs. Dennis LaBarre Lorenzo S. Lalli, M.D. Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Lamm Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Lamport Lucille Lang Katherine R. LaPorte Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Larson Mrs. William Laub In Memory of Lorna Laughlin In Memory of Lyda White Laughlin In Memory of Victor C. Laughlin David and Marilyn Lavalette In Memory of Leon Lazarev Dennis and Ginny Lehman Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Leitch Dr. Edith Lerner Mr. and Mrs. William C. Lester Albert and Maxine Levin In Honor of Jacob Levine In Memory of Cmdr. and Mrs. B. R. Lewis Bracy E. Lewis In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Carl F. Lezius Dr. Joseph S. Lichty Mrs. James F. Lincoln, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jon A. Lindseth Mr. Robert Linton and Justice Deborah Cook The Liston Family In Memory of Rosa Lobe In Memory of Dr. Samuel Lobe Dr. E. B. Long Joan Carlson Long Mrs. Anna E. Lorenz Anne R. and Kenneth E. Love Bruce and Lia Lowrie The Donna B. Luby Family In Memory of Sarah Gibbons Lucas In Honor of Idarose S. Luntz Mr. and Mrs. Byron O. Lutman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Lynch Mr. and Mrs. William E. MacDonald Richard D. Major Alice D. Malone In Memory of Harry Mann Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Manuel Dr. and Mrs. Martin Markowitz Dr. and Mrs. James S. Marshall Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth D. Marshall Dr. and Mrs. E. Byran Marsolais Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Martin T. Richard and Elizabeth Martin

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Legacy Giving Miss Isabel Marting Judge Paul R. and Nancy Van Meter Matia Drs. Bernard and Florence Matthews Mrs. William A. McAfee Lois and Raymond McCall Dr. Jane P. McCollough Nancy B. McCormack June and Robert McInnes The Medusa Foundation Dr. and Mrs. E. Byran Mersolais Judith M. Meshorer In Honor of Stephen A. Messner In Memory of Carole Zaas Meyerson Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Milgram, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Miller Frank J. Miller Leo Minter, Jr. Dr. Floro and Nancy Miraldi Helen M. Moise Mr. and Mrs. Curtis E. Moll Beryl and Irv Moore Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Morgenstern Mr. and Mrs. David Morgenthaler Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Morris Mr. and Mrs. A. Reynolds Morse Mr. and Mrs. William J. Morse Mr. and Mrs. Dan S. Mortensen Drs. Joan R. and Edward A. Mortimer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Motch, III Paul and Jane Ann Mougey Jane M. Mueller Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Mulligan Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Murphy, Jr. Todd E. Neumann Mrs. Nina Nintcheff Hester G. Nixon Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Nock Mr. and Mrs. Forrest A. Norman Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Nowak Mr. and Mrs. Marshall I. Nurenberg Oatey Co. Dr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Ockner John O’Connor Dr. Nancy and Mr. Irving Oleinick Dr. and Mrs. Paul T. Omelsky William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Orlean In Memory of Francis M. Osborne III Mr. and Mrs. James M. Osborne In Memory of Jessie M. Osborne Mr. and Mrs. William M. Osborne, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ott-Hansen LaVahn M. Overmyer Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Padegimas In Honor of Robert Page Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Patterson Evelyn C. Pavish Mr. and Mrs. Melvin A. Peck In Honor of Marcine Pensiero Bob and Ginny Perkins Patricia and Phillip A. Peters Mrs. Thomas F. Peterson Mr. and Mrs. John R. Petrenchik In Memory of Louis and Elsa Pick Dr. and Mrs. Marc A. Pohl Virginia C. Poirier, M.D. Florence Z. Pollack Dr. Richard H. and Lauri Cowan Pollack

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In Memory of Lewis H. Polster In Memory of William A. Polster John D. Proctor In Memory of Barbara Pumphrey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Quigley Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Quintrell In Memory of Hazel and John Raleigh Dr. Pauline F. Ramig George B. Ramsayer In Memory of Mary Ellen Rander Dr. Conrad H. Rawski Andrew K. Rayburn Don and Connie Rebar Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Reeves In Memory of Rosalie G. Reeves Dr. Sandford Reichart Mr. and Mrs. Frederic W. Reuter, Jr. David and Gloria Richards James and Georgianna Roberts In Memory of Alexander C. Robinson, III Mr. Brad Roller and Mrs. Laura Pedersen In Memory of Joan Terr Ronis Elizabeth Hitchcock Rose In Memory of Sally P. Rosenberg Sandy and Jeremy Rosenthal Helen Weil Ross Mr. and Mrs. W. Neil Rossborough Mr. and Mrs. Martin Rosskamm Mr. and Mrs. Scott D. Roulston In Memory of Klaus George Roy Maurine and Richard L. Ruggles John P. Runyan Mr. and Mrs. John E. Rupert The Robert S. Rutledge Family Mr. and Mrs. John M. Saada Dick and Mary Lou Sanders Sam and Cindy SanFilipo In Honor of Stanford Sarlson Mr. and Mrs. John S. Sawvel, Jr. Robert and Margaret Scarr In Memory of Louis Scher Robert E. Scherrer Ralph and Luci Schey Mr. William J. Schray Cathy and Stuart Schreiber and Family In Memory of Gordon and Alma Schroedel Dr. Daniel and Nancy Schubert Kenneth William Schulze Friends of Frieda Schumacher In Memory of Dr. Harold M. Schwartz Marsha Schweitzer The Scott Fetzer Foundation Robert F. and Jean R. Seaton Jayne and Lee Seidman — The Motorcars Group Sandra F. Selby In Memory of Jerry J. Sentz Joseph J. Shanahan Rita K. Shanahan Dr. Harrison and Ellin Shapiro Mr. Robert L. Shelden Clifford D. and Betty Shields In Memory of Emil F. Sholle In Memory of Rose A. Sholle Carolyn Sidlo Alvin and Laura Siegal In Memory of Lou and Lillie Siegel Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Sihler, Jr. Dr. Marion C. Siney Dr. and Mrs. Michael V. Sivak, Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. G. Michael Skerritt John F. Smekal Mrs. Franklin G. Smith H. Doyle and Doloren Hill Smith Dr. and Mrs. Lynn A. Smith Mrs. Vincent K. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey H. Smythe Mrs. Alfred I. Soltz Robert and Virginia Sords Eileen Sotak and William J. Kessler Heidi and Pete Spencer In Memory of Ruth C. Starbuck Mr. and Mrs. William H. Steinbrink Mr. and Mrs. Arthur P. Steinmetz In Memory of Alice Menninger Stempel In Memory of Guido H. Stempel Hilda L. Stocker-Henkel Mr. and Mrs. Morris S. Stone Jana and Stanley Stone, Jr. In Memory of Ann Tipton Storer In Memory of Gertrude and Vernon Stouffer Dr. Ralph and Shirley Straffon Mr. and Mrs. Donald Strang Mr. and Mrs. James A. Strassman Dagnia and John Strautnieks Diana and Eugene Stromberg Mr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Stupay In Memory of Zenta Sulcs Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Sullivan In Memory of Marjory Swartzbaugh Dr. Elizabeth Swenson and Patricia Geldard Paul and Elizabeth Swenson Dr. and Mrs. Glenn F. Sykora Mrs. Esther Boyer Sylvester Rena W. Taslitt Philip and Joan Tener Mr. and Mrs. Albert M. Tepper Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Thomas In Honor of Charlotte B. Thompson In Memory of Mary M. D. Thomson In Honor of Bill and Jacky Thornton Brian Thornton and Jennifer Woda In Memory of Capt. John Murray Thornton, U.S.N. Samuel B. Tilles Mr. Michael J. Tomasik Edward and Hildred Tornberg Mr. and Mrs. Leonard K. Tower Nicholas and Dorothy Trivisonno Dr. Kirsten Trotter Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Trump Robert F. Tschinkel Mirjana and Branislav Ugrinov In Memory of Rob Urban Robert A. Valente Spiro Vamvakas Nicholas J. Velloney Sidney Z. and Ruth L. Vincent Mrs. Otto Voss Elizabeth O. Wagner In Memory of Paul G. Wagner In Honor of Judith Klinga Wallace Tom and Shirley Waltermire Merton H. and Carole Hershey Walters Nancy C. Wamsley Jennifer J. Ware The Raymond T. and Louisa V. Warner Family Mr. and Mrs. John C. Wasmer, Jr. Mrs. Richard H. Watt Mr. and Mrs. David G. Watterson

Seat Endowments

Dr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Weidenthal Mr. and Mrs. Jerome A. Weinberger Dr. and Mrs. William C. Weir Mort Weisberg In Memory of Allen, Celia and William Weisberger Miriam and Daniel Weiss Seymour and Muriel Weiss William Wendling and Lynne Woodman Michael C. Whelchel Miriam Norton White Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. White Dr. Richard and Jean Wiant Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Wick David and Nancy Wild Mr. and Mrs. Bruce D. Wiley Mrs. Edgar R. Wilkinson In Honor of The Rt. Rev. Arthur B. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Clyde E. Williams, Jr. In Honor of Katherine Biays Williams Meredith Williams In Memory of Helen Sue Williams Robert E. Williamson Carter and Genevieve Wilmot Mr. and Mrs. Willis J. Winn Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Wipper In Honor of June M. Wirth Mr. and Mrs. Joseph T. Wloszek Mr. and Mrs. Heinz K. Wolf Ambassador and Mrs. Milton A. Wolf Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Wolf The Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra George D. Wormley In Memory of Edmund Hood Worrill Mr. and Mrs. Cary F. Yelin Ann Marie Zaller David Zauder Paula and Ken Zeisler Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Zimmerman Anonymous (8)

For information on how you can endow a seat at Severance Hall, Reinberger Chamber Hall, or Blossom Music Center, please call the Orchestra’s Legacy Giving Office at (216) 231-7521.

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Corporate Honor Roll

gifts of $2,500 and more as of September 20, 2011

The Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association gratefully acknowledge and salute the members of the Corporate Honor Roll for their annual support of The Cleveland Orchestra. For further information about joining the Honor Roll, please contact Anizia Karmazyn, Director of Development, at 216-231-7551. PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE $300,000 AND MORE

KeyBank The Lubrizol Corporation NACCO Industries, Inc. PNC Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich (Europe) PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE $200,000 TO $299,999

Baker Hostetler Eaton Corporation Forest City Enterprises, Inc. The Plain Dealer PARTNERS IN EXCELLENCE $100,000 TO $199,999

The J. M. Smucker Company Medical Mutual of Ohio Recognizing those companies with annual contributions totaling $100,000 and more, Partners in Excellence exemplify leadership and commitment to artistic excellence at the highest level. We are very grateful for their commitment to the Orchestra and the northeast Ohio community.

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FirstMerit Bank The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Jones Day Parker Hannifin Corporation The Sage Cleveland Foundation Tele München Group (Europe) $25,000 TO $49,999

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Giant Eagle JPMorgan Chase Foundation Northern Trust Bank of Florida (Miami) Quality Electrodynamics (QED) Richard L. Bowen & Associates, Inc. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (US) LLP Thompson Hine LLP $2,500 TO $24,999 Akron Tool & Die Company American Fireworks, Inc. American Greetings Corporation Arnstein & Lehr LLP (Miami) Bank of America BDI Brouse McDowell Eileen M. Burkhart & Co. LLC Buyers Products Company Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP The Cliffs Foundation Community Behavioral Health Center Consolidated Graphics Group, Inc. Dealer Tire LLC Dollar Bank Dominion Foundation Ernst & Young LLP Evarts-Tremaine-Flicker Company Feldman Gale, P.A. (Miami) Ferro Corporation Fifth Third Bank Frantz Ward LLP Gallagher Benefit Services Genovese Vanderhoof & Associates

Institutional Support

Great Lakes Brewing Company Gross Builders Hahn Loeser + Parks LLP Higer Lichter & Givner LLP (Miami) Houck Anderson P.A. (Miami) Hyland Software, Inc. Keithley Foundation The Lincoln Electric Foundation C. A. Litzler Co., Inc. Live Publishing Company LNE Group / Lee Weingart (Europe) Macy’s Miba AG (Europe) MindCrafted Systems MTD Products, Inc. Nordson Corporation North Coast Container Corp. Northern Haserot Oatey Co. Octavia Press Ohio CAT Ohio Savings Bank, A Division of New York Community Bank Olympic Steel, Inc. Park-Ohio Holdings Corp. PolyOne Corporation The Prince & Izant Company Richey Industries, Inc. RPM International Inc. SEMAG GmbH (Europe) The Sherwin-Williams Company Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alha (Miami) Stern Advertising Agency Summa Health System Swagelok Company Towers Watson TriMark S.S. Kemp Trionix Research Laboratory, Inc. Tucker Ellis & West LLP Ulmer & Berne LLP Ver Ploeg & Lumpkin, P.A. Westlake Reed Leskosky Anonymous (3)

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Foundation and Government Honor Roll

gifts of $2,000 or more during the past year, as of September 20, 2011

The Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association gratefully acknowledge and salute the members of the Foundation and Government Honor Roll for their annual support of The Cleveland Orchestra. For further information about joining the Honor Roll, please contact Bridget Mundy, Grants Manager, at 216-231-8006. $1 MILLION AND MORE

The Cleveland Foundation Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture Maltz Family Foundation The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation $250,000 TO $500,000

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation David and Inez Myers Foundation Ohio Arts Council The Skirball Foundation $100,000 TO $249,999

Sidney E. Frank Foundation The GAR Foundation The George Gund Foundation Martha Holden Jennings Foundation Kulas Foundation The Mandel Foundation The Miami Foundation, from a fund established by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (Miami) John P. Murphy Foundation Surdna Foundation

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The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation The Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation Myra Tuteur Kahn Memorial Fund of The Cleveland Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Payne Fund The Reinberger Foundation $20,000

TO

$49,999

The Abington Foundation Akron Community Foundation The Helen C. Cole Charitable Trust The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation The Gerhard Foundation, Inc. Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Elizabeth Ring Mather and William Gwinn Mather Fund The Nonneman Family Foundation The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust The Sisler McFawn Foundation $2,000 TO $19,999 Ayco Charitable Foundation The Ruth and Elmer Babin Foundation Bicknell Fund The Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation The Collacott Foundation The Frances G. and Lewis Allen Davies Endowment Fund Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust Elisha-Bolton Foundation Fisher-Renkert Foundation The Harry K. Fox and Emma R. Fox Charitable Foundation Funding Arts Network (Miami)

Institutional Support

The Helen Wade Greene Charitable Trust The Hankins Foundation Muna & Basem Hishmeh Foundation Richard H. Holzer Memorial Foundation The Kangesser Foundation The Laub Foundation Victor C. Laughlin, M.D. Memorial Foundation Trust The G. R. Lincoln Family Foundation Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs (Miami) Laura R. & Lucian Q. Moffitt Foundation The Nord Family Foundation Paintstone Foundation The Charles E. & Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation The Leighton A. Rosenthal Family Foundation SCH Foundation Albert G. & Olive H. Schlink Foundation The Sherwick Fund Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Memorial Foundation The South Waite Foundation Jean C. Shroeder Foundation The Taylor-Winfield Foundation The George Garretson Wade Charitable Trust The S. K. Wellman Foundation The Wells Family Foundation, Inc. Thomas H. White Foundation, a KeyBank Trust The Edward & Ruth Wilkof Foundation Wright Foundation The Wuliger Foundation Anonymous (2)

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Generous Individual

Donors

gifts as of September 20, 2011

The Cleveland Orchestra and Musical Arts Association gratefully recognize the individuals listed here, who have provided generous gifts of cash or pledges of $2,500 or more in annual operating, endowment, special project, or benefit event support. INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $500,000 AND MORE

Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Cutler Daniel R. and Jan R. Lewis (Miami)

Crescendo

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $200,000 TO $499,999

Annual Fund Patrons Barbara Robinson, chair Robert Gudbranson, vice chair Gay Cull Addicott William W. Baker Ronald H. Bell Henry C. Doll Judy Ernest Nicki Gudbranson Jack Harley

Iris Harvie Brinton L. Hyde Randall N. Huff Elizabeth Kelley David C. Lamb Raymond T. Sawyer

Ongoing annual support gifts are a critical component toward sustaining The Cleveland Orchestra’s economic health. Ticket revenues provide only a small portion of the funding needed to support the Orchestra’s outstanding performances, educational activities, and community projects. The Crescendo Patron Program recognizes generous donors of $2,500 or more to the Orchestra’s Annual Fund. For more information on the benefits of playing a supporting role each year, please contact Hayden Howland, Manager of Leadership Giving, by calling (216) 231-7545.

Irma and Norman Braman (Miami) The Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Susan Miller (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Ratner James and Donna Reid INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $100,000 TO $199,999

Ben and Ingrid Bowman Francie and David Horvitz (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley Dr. and Mrs. Herbert Kloiber (Europe) Mrs. Norma Lerner Mr. and Mrs. Herbert McBride Sally S. and John C. Morley Ms. Ginger Warner (Cleveland, Miami) Janet and Richard Yulman (Miami) INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $75,000 TO $99,999

Robert and Jean Conrad Trevor and Jennie Jones Mr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Kern Mr. and Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre The Honorable and Mrs. John Doyle Ong Julia and Larry Pollock Barbara S. Robinson INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $50,000 TO $74,999

Leadership Council The Leadership Council salutes those extraordinary donors who have pledged to sustain their annual giving at the highest level for three years or more. Leadership Council donors are recognized in the Crescendo listings with the Leadership Council symbol next to their name:

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John P. Bergren* and Sarah M. Evans Mr. William P. Blair III Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny and Ms. Patricia M. Kozerefski Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Bolton Hector D. Fortun (Miami) James D. Ireland III R. Kirk Landon and Pamela Garrison (Miami) Peter B. Lewis and Janet Rosel (Miami) Toby Devan Lewis Ms. Nancy W. McCann

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Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker David A. and Barbara Wolfort Anonymous INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $30,000 TO $49,999

Dr. and Mrs. Wolfgang Berndt (Europe) Blossom Women’s Committee The Brown and Kunze Foundation Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Glenn R. Brown Mrs. Gerald N. Cannon Mr. and Mrs. Matthew V. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Gund George Gund Mrs. Marguerite B. Humphrey Giuliana C. and John D. Koch Foundation (Cleveland, Miami) Dr. Vilma L. Kohn Charlotte R. Kramer Mr. and Mrs. Jon A. Lindseth Ms. Beth E. Mooney Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Sr. Brian and Patricia Ratner Charles and Ilana Horowitz Ratner Luci and Ralph* Schey Mr. and Mrs. Franz Welser-Möst Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra Anonymous INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $25,000 TO $29,999

Sheldon and Florence Anderson (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Conway Tati and Ezra Katz (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. S. Lee Kohrman Dr. and Mrs. David Leshner Mr. and Mrs. Alex Machaskee Mrs. Jane B. Nord Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ratner Hewitt and Paula Shaw Richard and Nancy Sneed R. Thomas and Meg Harris Stanton Rick, Margarita and Steven Tonkinson (Miami) Judy and Sherwood Weiser (Miami)

Margaret Fulton-Mueller and Scott Mueller William J. and Katherine T. O’Neill Dr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ross Rennie and Marc Saltzberg Dr. and Mrs. Neil Sethi Paul and Suzanne Westlake Anonymous gift from Switzerland (Europe) Anonymous INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $15,000 TO $19,999

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Baker Randall and Virginia Barbato Jayusia and Alan Bernstein (Miami) Scott Chaikin and Mary Beth Cooper Do Unto Others Trust (Miami) Colleen and Richard Fain (Miami) Mr. Allen H. Ford Richard and Ann Gridley Mrs. John A Hadden Jr. Gary Hanson and Barbara Klante Jack Harley and Judy Ernest Iris and Tom Harvie Joan and Leonard Horvitz Richard and Erica Horvitz (Cleveland, Miami) Elizabeth B. Juliano Mr. Thomas F. McKee Mrs. Stanley L. Morgan* Lucia S. Nash Mr. Gary A. Oatey Mr. and Mrs. James A. Saks Raymond T. and Katherine S. Sawyer Nancy and Neil Schaffel (Miami) David and Harriet Simon Mary M. Spencer (Miami) Dr. and Mrs. William P. Steffee Dr. Kenneth F. Swanson Mr. Joseph F. Tetlak INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $12,500 TO $14,999

Mr. and Mrs. George M. Aronoff Mr. and Mrs. David J. Carpenter George* and Becky Dunn Robert M. Maloney and Laura Goyanes Mrs. David Seidenfeld Mrs. Jean H. Taber Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Umdasch (Europe)

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $20,000 TO $24,999

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $10,000 TO $12,499

Gay Cull Addicott Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Bell (Miami) Martha and Bruce Clinton (Miami) Bruce and Beth Dyer Albert I. and Norma C. Geller Dr. Edward S. Godleski Andrew and Judy Green

Fred G. and Mary W. Behm Marsha and Brian Bilzin (Miami) Dr. Christopher P. Brandt and Dr. Beth Sersig Mr. D. McGregor Brandt, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene A. Buehler J. C. and Helen Rankin Butler Augustine* and Grace Caliguire

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Richard J. and Joanne Clark Mr. Bruce Coppock (Miami) Judith and George W. Diehl Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Duvin Mike S. and Margaret Eidson (Miami) Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Ellis Jr. Mr. and Mrs.* David K. Ford Ms. Dawn M. Full Mr. Francisco A. Garcia (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Richard T. Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Gillespie Sondra and Steve Hardis Henry R. Hatch and Robin Hitchcock Hatch Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Healy Mary and Jon Heider (Cleveland, Miami) David and Nancy Hooker Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Janus Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Jereb Janet and Gerald Kelfer (Miami) Jonathan and Tina Kislak (Miami) Mrs. Elizabeth R. Koch Tim and Linda Koelz Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Lozick Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Manuel Mrs. Robert H. Martindale Mr. and Mrs. Arch J. McCartney William and Eleanor McCoy Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A. Meisel Mr. Walter N. Mirapaul Elisabeth and Karlheinz Muhr (Europe) Brian and Cindy Murphy Claudia and Steven Perles (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. George M. Rose Mr. and Mrs. David A. Ruckman David M. and Betty Schneider Rachel R. Schneider, PhD Mr. and Mrs. Oliver E. Seikel Kim Sherwin Lois and Tom Stauffer Mrs. Blythe Sundberg Dr. Russell A. Trusso Clara and David Williams INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $7,500 TO $9,999

Mr. William Berger Laurel Blossom Dr. and Mrs. Jerald S. Brodkey Dr. Ben H. and Julia Brouhard Dr. Thomas Brugger and Dr. Sandra Russ Ellen E. & Victor J. Cohn Supporting Foundation Mr. Owen Colligan Mr. and Mrs. William E. Conway Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Davis Henry and Mary Doll Nancy and Richard Dotson Mr. and Mrs. Terry C. Z. Egger Mr. David J. Golden Robert K. Gudbranson and Joon-Li Kim Kathleen E. Hancock

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Dr.* and Mrs. Shattuck W. Hartwell, Jr. Mrs. Sandra L. Haslinger In memory of Philip J. Hastings Pamela and Scott Isquick Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Jack, Jr. Allan V. Johnson Joela Jones and Richard Weiss Judith and Morton Q. Levin Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. McGowan Mr. Donald W. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Stephen E. Myers Mr. and Mrs. William M. Osborne, Jr. Pannonius Foundation Rosskamm Family Trust Mr. Larry J. Santon Patricia J. Sawvel Carol and Albert Schupp Naomi G. and Edwin Z. Singer Family Fund Mrs. Gretchen D. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Donald W. Strang, Jr. Bruce and Virginia Taylor Sandy and Ted Wiese Anonymous (2) INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $5,000 TO $7,499

Dr. Jacqueline Acho and Mr. John LeMay Mr. and Mrs. Monte Ahuja Susan S. Angell Agnes Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Augustus Ms. Jody Bacon Mr. and Mrs. Dean Barry Mr. Jon Batchelor (Miami) James and Reita Bayman Dr. and Mrs. Nathan A. Berger Dr. and Mrs. Eugene H. Blackstone In memory of Claude M. Blair Mrs. Flora Blumenthal Brennan Family Foundation Mr. Robert W. Briggs Mr. and Mrs. William C. Butler Mr. and Mrs. R. Bruce Campbell Ms. Maria Cashy Drs. Wuu-Shung and Amy Chuang Dr. William & Dottie Clark Mrs. Lester E. Coleman Corinne L. Dodero Trust for the Arts and Sciences Mr. and Mrs. Evan R. Corns Mr. Peter and Mrs. Julie Cummings (Miami) Mrs. Barbara Ann Davis Peter and Kathryn Eloff Dr. and Mrs. Robert Elston Mary and Oliver Emerson Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Emrick, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Randall J. Gordon Harry and Joyce Graham Mr. Paul Greig Mr. and Mrs. David E. Griffiths

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CONTINUED

David and Robin Gunning Clark Harvey and Holly Selvaggi T. K. and Faye A. Heston Mr. Clifford Hill Amy and Stephen Hoffman Mr. and Mrs. Brinton L. Hyde Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hyland Ms. Martha Ingram (Miami) Judith* and Clifford Isroff Rudolf D. and Joan T. Kamper Andrew and Katherine Kartalis Milton and Donna* Katz Dr. and Mrs. William S. Kiser Cynthia Knight (Miami) Julius and Doris Kramer Mrs. Justin Krent Mr. and Mrs. Peter A. Kuhn Mr. and Mrs. Arthur J. Lafave, Jr. Robert and Judie Lasser Judy and Donald Lefton (Miami) Shirley and William Lehman (Miami) Mr.* and Mrs. Leo Leiden Mr. Jeff Litwiller Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Madison Ms. Jennifer R. Malkin Mr. and Mrs. Morton L. Mandel Alan Markowitz M.D. and Cathy Pollard Mrs. Kay Marshall Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Claudia Metz and Thomas Woodworth Edith and Ted* Miller Mr. and Mrs. William A. Mitchell Robert Moss (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Newman Richard and Kathleen Nord John and Margi O’Brien Mr. Michael G. Oravecz Mr. Henry Ott-Hansen Mr. J. William and Dr. Suzanne Palmer Nancy and Robert Pfeifer Dr. and Mrs. John N. Posch Douglas and Noreen Powers Lois S.* and Stanley M. Proctor

Drs. Raymond R. Rackley and Carmen M. Fonseca Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Rankin Mrs. Nancy L. Reymann Mr. and Mrs. James E. Rohr Carol Rolf and Steven Adler Dr. Tom D. Rose Steven and Ellen Ross Mr. Christopher Roy Mr. Klaus G. Roy and Mrs. Gene J. Roy Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Ruhl Drs. Michael and Judith Samuels (Miami) Larry and Sally Sears Dr. and Mrs. James L. Sechler Mr. Eric Sellen and Mr. Ron Seidman Dr. Gerard and Phyllis Seltzer Mrs. Frances G. Shoolroy Mrs. William I. Shorrock Laura and Alvin A. Siegal David Kane Smith Jim and Myrna Spira George and Mary Stark Mrs. Marie S. Strawbridge Charles B. and Rosalyn Stuzin (Miami) Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Teel, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Thornton Mr. Brian Thornton Mr. and Mrs. Lyman H. Treadway Mr.* and Mrs. Robert N. Trombly Robert A. Valente Don and Mary Louise Van Dyke Bill Appert and Chris Wallace (Miami) Tom and Shirley Waltermire Dr. Edward L. and Mrs. Susan Westbrook Tom and Betsy Wheeler Mr. Roy Woda Mrs. Janet A. Wright Mr. David Zauder Anonymous (5) member of the Leadership Council (see page 80)

* deceased

INDIVIDUAL GIFTS OF $3,500 TO $4,999

Dr. and Mrs. D. P. Agamanolis Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Baker Ms. Delphine Barrett Mr.* and Mrs. Russell Bearss Mr. and Mrs. Jules Belkin Dr. Ronald and Diane Bell Dr. Robert Benyo Suzanne and Jim Blaser Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Block Paul and Marilyn* Brentlinger Ms. Elizabeth E. Brumbaugh Frank and Leslie Buck Dr. and Mrs. William E. Cappaert Mrs. Millie L. Carlson

Ms. Mary E. Chilcote Drs. Mark Cohen and Miriam Vishny Diane Lynn Collier Marjorie Dickard Comella Mr. and Mrs. David J. Cook Pete and Margaret Dobbins Mr.* and Mrs. Sidney Dworkin Mr. Brian L. Ewart and Mr. William McHenry Mr. J. Gilbert and Mrs. Eleanor Frey Mrs. Cora C. Gigax Robert N. and Nicki N. Gudbranson John and Virginia Hansen Mr. Robert D. Hart Barbara Hawley and David Goodman

Matthew D. Healy and Richard S. Agnes Ms. Mary Beth Hedlund Hazel Helgesen and Gary D. Helgesen Anita and William Heller Bob and Edith Hudson (Miami) Mr. James J. Hummer Dr. and Mrs. Scott R. Inkley Donna L. and Robert H. Jackson Mrs. Rita G. Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Koch Ronald and Barbara Leirvik Mr. and Mrs. Irvin A. Leonard listings continue

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CONTINUED

Mrs. Emma S. Lincoln Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Loesch Anne R. and Kenneth E. Love Robert and LaVerne Lugibihl Elsie and Byron Lutman Joel and Mary Ann Makee Martin and Lois Marcus Dr. Susan M. Merzweiler Drs. Terry E. and Sara S. Miller Ann Jones Morgan Dr. Joan R. Mortimer Mr. and Mrs. Peter R. Osenar Mrs. Ingrid Petrus Mr. and Mrs. John S. Piety In memory of Henry Pollak

Dr. Laurine Purola Dr. Robert W. Reynolds Amy and Ken Rogat Bob and Ellie Scheuer Ms. Freda Seavert Ginger and Larry Shane Dr. Marvin and Mimi Sobel Mr. and Mrs. William E. Spatz Dr. Elizabeth Swenson Ms. Lorraine S. Szabo Mr. and Mrs. Leonard K. Tower Robert J. and Marti J. Vagi Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Mark Allen Weigand Mr. Peter and Mrs. Laurie Weinberger

Robert C. Weppler Nancy V. and Robert L. Wilcox Ms. Judith H. Wright Anonymous (3)

Dr. and Mrs. Richard C. Distad Ms. Maureen A. Doerner and Mr. Geoffrey T. White Mr. George and Mrs. Beth Downes David Jack and Elaine Drage Mrs. Mary S. Eaton Esther L. and Alfred M. Eich, Jr. Erich Eichhorn and Ursel Dougherty Mrs. Margaret Estill David and Margaret Ewart Harry and Ann Farmer Scott Foerster, Forester and Bohnert Joan Alice Ford Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ford Mr. Randall and Mrs. Patrice Fortin Mr. Monte Friedkin (Miami) Marvin Ross Friedman and Adrienne bon Haes (Miami) Peggy and David* Fullmer Richard L. Furry Marilee L. Gallagher Barbara and Peter Galvin Joy E. Garapic Mrs. Georgia T. Garner Mr. Wilbert C. Geiss, Sr. Mrs. Joan Getz (Miami) Mr. Herman Gilbert Anne and Walter Ginn Joyce and Ab* Glickman Mr. and Mrs. David A. Goldfinger Dr. and Mrs. Ronald L. Gould Cynthia and David Greenberg Mr. and Mrs. Brent R. Grover The Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber Charitable Foundation Nancy and James Grunzweig Dr. Phillip M. and Mrs. Mary Hall Ronald M. and Sallie M. Hall (Miami) Mr. Holsey G. Handyside Mr. George P. Haskell Virginia and George Havens Oliver and Sally Henkel Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Herschman Mr. Robert T. Hexter Dr. and Mrs. John D. Hines Dr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hinnes

Dr. Feite F. Hofman Mr. and Mrs. Edmond H. Hohertz Peter A. and Judith Holmes Thomas and Mary Holmes Dr. Keith A. and Mrs. Kathleen M. Hoover Xavier-Nichols Foundation Robert and Karen Hostoffer Mr. and Mrs. Mark Houck Dr. Randal N. Huff and Ms. Paulette Beech Ms. Charlotte L. Hughes Ms. Luan K. Hutchinson Mr. and Ms. Charles S. Hyle Ruth F. Ihde Carol Lee and James Iott Helen and Erik Jensen Mr. Peter and Mrs. Mary Joyce Mr. Daniel Kamionkowski Mr. William and Mrs. Mary Jo Kannen Barbara and Michael J. Kaplan Rev. William C. Keene Elizabeth Kelley Ms. Angela Kelsey (Miami) The Kendis Family Trust: Hilary & Robert Kendis and Susan & James Kendis Bruce and Eleanor Kendrick Mr. James Kish Fred and Judith Klotzman Jacqueline and Irwin Kott (Miami) Dr. Ronald H. Krasney and Ms. Sherry Latimer* Dr. James and Mrs. Margaret Kreiner Mr. James and Mrs. Patricia Krohngold Mr. Donald N. Krosin David C. Lamb Mrs. Carolyn Lampl Kenneth M. Lapine Anthony T. and Patricia A. Lauria Mr. and Mrs. Leon Lazarev Jeffrey and Ellen Leavitt Dr. Hasoon Lee Dr. and Mrs. Jai H. Lee Michael and Lois A. Lemr

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Stanley I. and Hope S. Adelstein Norman and Rosalyn Adler Family Philanthropic Fund Mr. Gerald O. Allen Norman and Helen Allison Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Amsdell Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey R. Appelbaum Mr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Arkin (Miami) Geraldine and Joseph Babin Mr. William Baldwin Reverend Thomas and Dr. Joan Baumgardner Mr. and Mrs. Mike Belkin Ms. Pamela D. Belknap Mr. Roger G. Berk Kerrin and Peter Bermont (Miami) Barbara and Sheldon Berns Julia & David Bianchi (Cleveland, Miami) John A. Biek and Christina J. Norton Carmen and Karl Bishopric (Miami) Bill and Zeda Blau Mr. Doug Bletcher Mrs. Mary Wick Bole John and Anne Bourassa Ms. Barbara E. Boyle Betty Madigan Brandt David M. and Carol M. Briggs Ms. Mary R. Bynum and Mr. J. Philip Calabrese Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Carpenter Leigh and Mary Carter Mr. and Mrs. James B. Chaney Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Chapnick Dr. Christopher and Mrs. Maryann Chengelis Mr. and Mrs. Homer D. W. Chisholm Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Clark Dr. Dale and Susan Cowan Mrs. Frederick F. Dannemiller Charles and Fanny Dascal (Miami) Jeffrey and Eileen Davis Mrs. Lois Joan Davis Ms. Nancy J. Davis (Miami) Scott and Laura Desmond

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The Cleveland Orchestra’s catalog of recordings continues to grow. The newest DVD features Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony recorded live at Severance Hall under the direction of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst in 2010 and released in May 2011. And, just released, Dvořák’s opera Rusalka on CD, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival. Writing of the Rusalka performances, the reviewer for London’s Sunday Times praised the performance as “the most spellbinding account of Dvořák’s miraculous score I have ever heard, either in the theatre or on record. . . . I doubt this music can be better played than by the Clevelanders, the most ‘European’ of the American orchestras, with wind and brass soloists to die for and a string sound of superlative warmth and sensitivity.” Other recordings released in the past year include two under the baton of Pierre Boulez and a second album of Mozart piano concertos with Mitsuko Uchida, whose first Cleveland Orchestra Mozart album won a Grammy Award this past year. Visit the Cleveland Orchestra Store for the latest and best Cleveland Orchestra recordings and DVDs. New!


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of the world’s most beautiful concert halls, Severance Hall has been home to The Cleveland Orchestra since its opening on February 5, 1931. After that first concert, a Cleveland newspaper editorial stated: “We believe that Mr. Severance intended to build a temple to music, and not a temple to wealth; and we believe it is his intention that all music lovers should be welcome there.” John Long Severance (president of the Musical Arts Association, 1921-1936) and his wife, Elisabeth, donated most of the funds necessary to erect this magnificent building. Designed by Walker & Weeks, its elegant HAILED AS ONE

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Georgian exterior was constructed to harmonize with the classical architecture of other prominent buildings in the University Circle area. The interior of the building reflects a combination of design styles, including Art Deco, Egyptian Revival, Classicism, and Modernism. An extensive renovation, restoration, and expansion of the facility was completed in January 2000. In addition to serving as the home of The Cleveland Orchestra for concerts and rehearsals, the building is rented by a wide variety of local organizations and private citizens for performances, meetings, and gala events each year.

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of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, The Cleveland Orchestra has become one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world. In concerts at its winter home at Severance Hall and at each summer’s Blossom Festival, in residencies from Miami to Vienna, and on tour around the world, The Cleveland Orchestra sets standards of artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement. The partnership with Franz Welser-Möst, now in its tenth season, and with a commitment to the Orchestra’s centennial in 2018, has moved the ensemble forward with a series of new and ongoing initiatives, including: UNDER THE LEADERSHIP

the establishment of residencies around the world, fostering creative artistic growth and an expanded financial base, including an ongoing residency at the Vienna Musikverein (the first of its kind by an American orchestra); an annual Miami Residency involving three weeks of concerts, community activities, and educational presentations and collaborations; concert tours from coast to coast in the United States, including regular appearances at Carnegie Hall; regular concert tours to Europe (including biennial residencies at the Lucerne Festival) and Asia (including a residency at Tokyo’s Suntory Hall in the autumn 2010); ongoing recording activities, including new releases under the direction of Franz Welser-Möst and Pierre Boulez as well as a series of DVD concert presentations of four of Bruckner’s symphonies; additional new residencies at Indiana University and at New York’s Lincoln Center Festival; an expanded offering of education and community programs with a comprehensive approach designed to make music an integral and regular part of everyday life in Northeast Ohio; continuing and expanded educational partnerships with schools, colleges, and universities from across Northeast Ohio and in the Miami-Dade community; creative new artistic collaborations, including staged works and chamber music performances, with arts institutions in Northeast Ohio and across the Miami-Dade community; the return of staged opera to Severance Hall with the presentation of acclaimed Zurich Opera productions of the three Mozart/Da Ponte operas;

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an array of new concert offerings (including Fridays@7 and Celebrity Series at Severance Hall as well as movie, themed, and family presentations at Blossom) to make a wider variety of concerts more available and affordable; the return of ballet to Blossom, with performances by The Joffrey Ballet. The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in 1918 by a group of local citizens intent on creating an ensemble worthy of joining America’s ranks of major symphony orchestras. Over the ensuing decades, the Orchestra quickly grew from a fine regional organization to being one of the most admired symphony orchestras in the world. The opening of Severance Hall as the Orchestra’s home in 1931 brought a special pride to the ensemble and its hometown, as well as providing an enviable and intimate acoustic environment in which to develop and refine the Orchestra’s artistry. Year-round performances became a reality in 1968 with the opening of Blossom Music Center, one of the most beautiful and acoustically admired outdoor concert facilities in the United States.

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Franz Welser-Möst first conducted The Cleveland Orchestra in 1993 and became music director with the 2002-03 season (above). His longterm commitment with the Orchestra continues to the ensemble’s centennial in 2018.

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Next Month . . .

ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS Friday November 11 at 8:00 p.m. Saturday November 12 at 8:00 p.m. Sunday November 13 at 3:00 p.m. THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Alan Gilbert, conductor William Preucil, violin

Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic and former assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, returns to Severance Hall with a homecoming program featuring concertmaster William Preucil as soloist. From the sparkling fireworks of Beethoven’s Second Romance for violin through Webern’s lushly romantic Summer Winds to the expansive sounds of Schoenberg’s grand orchestral tone poem Pelleas and Melisande, this concert bristles with vigor, virtuosity, and vitality. Concert Sponsor: The Lubrizol Foundation

LUISI LEADS MOZART AND STRAUSS Friday November 25 at 8:00 p.m. Saturday November 26 at 8:00 p.m. Sunday November 27 at 3:00 p.m. THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Fabio Luisi, conductor Jonathan Biss, piano

Fabio Luisi, recently appointed principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, makes his much-anticipated Cleveland Orchestra debut with a program pairing favorite orchestral works by two all-star operatic composers. American pianist Jonathan Biss returns to Cleveland for one of Mozart’s most alluring piano concertos, while Luisi leads the Orchestra in two of Richard Strauss’s most endearing tone poems, Till Eulenspiegel and Aus Italien. Concert Sponsor: PNC

See also the concert calendar listing on pages 48-49, or visit The Cleveland Orchestra online for a complete schedule of future events and performances, or to purchase tickets online 24/ 7 for Severance Hall concerts.

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