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elcome to Prelude! and Tuesday Musical’s celebration of our 130th year as an anchor arts organization for Akron and as one of the oldest and most respected organizations of our kind in the United States.

Tonight and throughout this anniversary season, we are showcasing Tuesday Musical’s dynamic programs and collaborations.

MAINSTAGE concerts will continue our tradition of presenting performances by world-acclaimed and beloved classical musicians.

FUZE concerts will engage you in unexpectedly delightful ways.

Up next are these stellar artists: the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis on Thursday, September 28, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble on Thursday, October 19.

More to enjoy this season: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with pianist Augustin Hadelich, Brentano String Quartet and flutist Marina Piccinini, Vienna Boys Choir, pianist Andreas Haefliger, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra conducted by Jeff Lindberg with fabulous vocalists René Marie, Dee Alexander and Ann Hampton Callaway.

We also invite you to discover the reach and relevance of Tuesday Musical’s Education and Community Engagement programs. Sharing the power of excellent classical music with thousands of children and adults every year, these programs include our new Decompression Chamber, Quartetin-Residence, and participation in the Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program. They also include long-established offerings such as Tuesday Musical’s Brahms Allegro Junior Music Club and Annual Scholarship Competition.

On stage and throughout the community, Tuesday Musical is enticing and engaging generations of music lovers by bringing the world’s best music to Northeast Ohio.

During this 130th anniversary season, experience the energy and excellence of Tuesday Musical.

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EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall — The University of Akron Saturday, September 16, 2017 7:30 p.m.

Prelude!

Celebrating Tuesday Musical’s 130th Anniversary Escher String Quartet—TM Quartet-in-Residence Adam Barnett-Hartt, violin • Aaron Boyd, violin Pierre Lapointe, viola • Brook Speltz, cello Nikita Mndoyants, piano—2016 International Cleveland Piano Competition Winner Olivia Boen, soprano—2017 TM Scholarship Winner • Javier Gonzalez, piano Grace Brown, violin—TM Brahms Allegro Member • Jin Yu, piano James Wilding Homeland Portraits b. 1973 People Gathering

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Escher String Quartet Charles Gounod 1818-1893

Je veux vivre from Romeo and Juliette

Sergei Rachmaninoff 1873-1943

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Richard Strauss 1864-1949

Mädchenblumen Olivia Boen, soprano Javier Gonzalez, piano

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Max Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op. 26 1838-1920 Vorspiel: Allegro moderato

Grace Brown, violin

Jin Yu, piano Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 1810-1856 Allegro brillante

In modo d’una marcia. Un poco largamente

Scherzo. Molto vivace

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Cheers!

Earlier this evening, friends of Tuesday Musical gathered for the Prelude Party in EJ Thomas Hall’s soaring Goodrich Lobby. Together, we celebrated Tuesday Musical’s 130th anniversary as an anchor arts organization for our community. Heartfelt thanks to: Prelude Party Sponsor

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Craig Taylor, InfoCision With additional thanks to these generous supporters: Akron Community Foundation’s Arts and Culture Fund for helping to sponsor this performance.

Beatrice K. McDowell Family Fund of Akron Community Foundation and Mary Schiller Myers Lecture Series for enabling the Escher musicians to work closely with string students in The University of Akron’s School of Music throughout this season.

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The Artists

Escher String Quartet Tuesday Musical’s inaugural Quartet-in-Residence

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he Escher String Quartet has received acclaim for its profound musical insight and rare tonal beauty. A former BBC New Generation Artist, the quartet has performed at the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall and is a regular guest at Wigmore Hall.

In its home town of New York, the ensemble serves as Season Artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where it presented the complete Zemlinsky Quartets Cycle in a concert streamed live from the Rose Studio and also was one of five quartets chosen to collaborate in a complete presentation of Beethoven’s string quartets. Recently, the quartet toured with the Chamber Music Society to China.

Within months of its inception in 2005, the ensemble came to the attention of key musical figures worldwide. Championed by the Emerson Quartet, the Escher Quartet was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be Quartet-in-Residence at each artist’s summer festival: the Young Artists Programme at Canada’s National Arts Centre and the Perlman Chamber Music Programme on Shelter Island, NY. The quartet has since collaborated with artists including David Finckel, Leon Fleischer, Wu Han, Lynn Harrell, Cho Liang Lin, Joshua Bell, Paul Watkins, and David Shifrin, and In 2013, the quartet became one of the very few chamber ensembles to be awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Known for wide stylistic interests, the Escher

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Quartet has collaborated with jazz saxophonist Joshua Redman, vocalist Kurt Elling, legendary Latin artist Paquito D’Rivera, and tours regularly with Grammy award winning guitarist Jason Vieaux.

The Escher Quartet has made a distinctive impression throughout Europe, with recent debuts including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, London’s Kings Place, Slovenian Philharmonic Hall, and Auditorium du Louvre.

It also has appeared at the Heidelberg Spring Festival, Dublin’s Great Music in Irish Houses, Risør Chamber Music Festival in Norway, Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival and Perth International Arts Festival in Australia.

Recent seasons have seen a return to the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and a subsequent tour of Israel, a return to Les Grands Interprètes series in Geneva, and three United Kingdom tours that included Wigmore Hall.

Alongside its growing European profile, the Escher Quartet continues to flourish in its home country, performing at Alice Tully Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and the Ravinia and Caramoor festivals. In 2014 the quartet gave a highly praised debut at Chamber Music San Francisco and in 2015 presented a Schubert quartets focus at Music@Menlo in California.

In 2016, Tuesday Musical named Escher as its inaugural String Quartet-in-Residence.

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in residence at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and has given master classes at the Royal Academy of Music in London and Campos do Jordão Music Festival in Brazil, among others.

The quartet’s Volumes I and II of the complete Mendelssohn Quartets, released on the BIS label in 2015, were received with the highest critical acclaim, with comments such as “…eloquent, full-blooded playing... The four players offer a beautiful blend of individuality and accord” (BBC Music Magazine). The Mendelssohn series concluded in 2016 with the release of Volume III. Escher has also recorded the complete Zemlinsky String Quartets in two volumes, released on the Naxos label in 2013 and 2014, respectively, to accolades including five stars in the Guardian with “Classical CD of the Year,” a recommendation in The Strad, “Recording of the Month” on MusicWeb International, and a nomination for a BBC Music Magazine Award.

The quartet takes its name from Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired by Escher’s method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole.

Nikita Mndoyants, pianist and composer First-prize winner of the 2016 Cleveland International Piano Competition

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ikita Mndoyants comes from a family of professional musicians. He gave his first public recital at age 8, and recorded his first CD (of a live performance in Helsinki) at age 10.

He made his Carnegie Hall debut in June 2017.

In addition to his Cleveland honors, Mr. Mndoyants won first prize at the 2007 Paderewsky International Piano Competition and was a finalist at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

As a composer, he received first prizes at the 2014 Myaskovsky International Competition of Composers (Moscow, Russia) and 2016 Prokofiev International Competition of Composers (Sochi, Russia).

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and piano with Nikolay Petrov and Alexander Mndoyants. Since 2013 he has taught orchestration, also at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory.

He has toured throughout China, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. Most recently he performed at the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels) and the Luxembourg Philharmonie. He also made his debut recital in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and performed in the Salle Cortot and Auditorium du Louvre in Paris. He appeared as a guest artist with the Gangnam Symphony Orchestra at the new Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, Korea.

He has worked with renowned conductors Bramwell Tovey, Leonard Slatkin, Eri Klas, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Charles Ansbacher and Alexander Sladkovsky, and performed with the Svetlanov State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra and more.

He has performed in the International Keyboard Institute and Festival (New York) and Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdroj (Poland) and has been artist in residence at the International Music Festival in Wissembourg (France) since 2012, where he has overseen the performance of his own compositions and performed solo works, chamber music, and concerti.

Giving his first chamber performance with the Borodin Quartet in 2004, he has continued to cultivate his passion for chamber music, working with such ensembles as the Brentano, Eben, Zemlinsky, and Szymanowsky Quartets.

His piano and chamber works are available from publishing houses Composers, Muzyka, and Jurgenson, and have been performed by Alexander Vinnitsky, Alexander Rudin, Daniel Hope, Nicolas Stavy, the Szymanowski and Zemlinsky Quartets, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, and others.

Mr. Mndoyants has released solo and chamber recordings on the Classical Records, Melodiya and Praga Digitals labels. A new recording on the Steinway & Sons label—featuring works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Schumann—was released in June 2017.

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The Artists

James Wilding, composer and pianist Faculty member in The University of Akron School of Music

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uesday Musical is pleased to have been able to commission University of Akron faculty member James Wilding to compose Homeland Portraits for this evening’s 130th anniversary concert.

Originally from South Africa and praised as “highly original” by Beverly Brommert of Cape Times, Mr. Wilding creates a unique bond between music and society. His mastery of structure and lyricism, and his use of ethnic instruments and folk tunes, captivates audiences in the United States and abroad.

Recently, his music has been described as “tumultuous, immersing itself in detail” (Werner Rossmanith, Fürther Nachrichten).

Critics have been impressed by his “gripping” compositions (Thys Odendaal, Beeld) and his ability to weave a “conclusive musical web” (Jan-Barra Hentschel, Harburger Nachrichten).

As a pianist, Dr. Wilding is known for his “sensitive and engaging manner” (Gudrun Szczepanek, Landsberger Tagblatt). He thrills audiences with heartfelt performances of his own work and of the standard repertoire, with a tone that has been described as “by turns crisp and robust, and gentle and soothing” (David Kruger, Argus).

This past year, Dr. Wilding toured South Africa with his concept show Crumb Kaleidoscope, commissioned by the Bayerischer Rundfunk. His work has been enthusiastically championed in Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Senegal, Germany, Holland, France, Switzerland, Britain, Canada, South

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Africa, and the United States.

His Etude for solo piano was prescribed for the UNISA-Transnet International Piano Competition. His Poem for piano was prescribed for the Hennie Joubert National Competition in South Africa. He won the Oude Meester Prize for South African composers and Potchefstroom University’s Chancellor’s Trust Prize.

He studied at the University of Cape Town, Youngstown State University, and Kent State University. His musical mentors were Neil Solomon, Stewart Young, Peter Klatzow, and Thomas Janson.

Dr. Wilding is Professor of Instruction in Composition and Theory at The University of Akron School of Music.

Olivia Boen, soprano First-place winner of Tuesday Musical’s 2017 Scholarship Competition

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levelandClassical.com has heralded soprano Olivia Boen as “someone to watch.”

She was a 2016 Gerdine Young Artist at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, the youngest singer of the season. Other recent accolades include being a finalist in Oberlin’s Senior Concerto Competition and winning second place in the Art Song Division of The American Prize.

Ms. Boen has been seen on the Oberlin Opera Theater stage in the title roles in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias and Händel’s Alcina, as well as the leading ladies in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, Händel’s Serse, and Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with the Oberlin in Italy program in Tuscany.

In January 2016 she had the distinct honor of performing the North American premiere of Jesse Jones’ One Bright Morning with the Contemporary Music Ensemble on Oberlin’s 150th Anniversary Tour to her hometown, Chicago. The piece will be released on the Oberlin Music record label in late 2017.

An avid pursuer of new music, she participated in the 2017 season of soundSCAPE, a performercomposer collaborative exchange in the Italian Alps. She also has participated in master classes with such renowned artists as Renee Fleming, Eric Owens and Marilyn Horne.

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the tutelage of Daune Mahy. She is moving to Berlin this fall to pursue opera and contemporary music abroad.

Javier Gonzalez, pianist

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uban-born pianist Javier Gonzalez began his music studies in Havana at age 7 and made his debut with the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra at 14. He has been acclaimed by audiences in Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Barbados, Jamaica, and the United States, and he has collaborated as a soloist with orchestras including the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra in California; the Simón Bolívar Orchestra in Caracas, Venezuela; various orchestras in Cuba; San Francisco Conservatory Orchestra; Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra; and Cleveland State University Orchestra.

Gonzalez has earned awards in the Amadeo Roldan Piano Competition, Ernesto Lecuona International Competition, Ignacio Cervantes International Competition, Missouri Southern International Competition, and the San Francisco Conservatory Piano Concerto Competition. He has been part of important festivals and music events such as Music@Menlo, Verbier Festival, a concert in honor of UNESCO and former Director-General Federico Mayor Zaragoza, and a performance at the Organization of American States in Washington, DC.

Grace Brown, violinist Member of Tuesday Musical’s Brahms Allegro Junior Music Club

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s an active member of Tuesday Musical’s Brahms Allegro Junior Music Club, Grace Brown has consistently earned unanimous superior ratings in the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs’ festivals. She has been the district winner of the Ohio Music Teachers Association’s 2015, 2016 and 2017 Buckeye Auditions and the 2016 Ohio State winner.

Ms. Brown, age 17, attended the Miller South School for Visual and Performing Arts and was

concertmaster of the Miller South Orchestra during her eighth-grade year. Also as Concertmaster, she performed with the Akron Youth Philharmonic for two years, and is a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra.

Ms. Brown was selected to be first violinist in the Honors Quartet at the Western Reserve Chamber Festival (WRCF) and participated in a master class with Annie Fullard of the Cavani Quartet during summer 2015. She attended the Meadowmount School of Music in Westport, New York, during summer 2016, studying with Ann Setzer. She returned to WRCF this summer as first violinist of the Honors Quartet.

She began studying the violin at age 8 with Sherilyn Leas. At age 11, she began her violin studies with Amy Barlowe.

In addition to being an honors student, Ms. Brown is a visual artist, student photographer and animal enthusiast. This fall she is auditioning for music conservatories to study violin performance.

Jin Yu, pianist

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orn in China, Jin Yu graduated from Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Beijing Central Conservatory of Music, and The University of Akron.

As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed at the Grand Teton Music Festival, Elkhorn Music Festival and Shenyang International Music Festival in China, and with the Akron, Canton, New Orleans, Sun Valley Summer, and Wheeling symphonies. He was selected as a Young Artist to play in the Si-Yo Music Society Concert Series in New York City. He has also served as piano judge for music competitions.

Since 1993, he has been the piano judge for the America Federation Music Club Junior Festival.

He became an American citizen in 2001 and resides in Hudson, Ohio.

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Program Notes James Wilding (b. 1973) Homeland Portraits (2017)

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emories of home are like etchings that live in the mind. Whether we think of our childhood home, or whether we travel and think back to the home of our present life, we can be quite nostalgic about these pictures inside ourselves.

When I wrote Homeland Portraits, I reflected on the South Africa of my upbringing and the America where I live, two homes that are continents apart, yet bound together by my thoughts and experiences. I have always been struck by how people are more alike than unalike.

No matter how often we see contrasts, our similarities are greater than our differences.

People Gathering, the first movement, is an image of a busy colorful market, or a family reunion, or a religious ceremony. It takes place anywhere in the world, in any place that any person calls home. The people I visualize in this movement are related to all of us, are one family.

Open Plain, the second movement, depicts the stillness of a broad landscape, a calm beauty stretching to the horizon, and clouds always changing shape. It is a tribute to the magnificent places on our planet, places reflected by the awe and wonder in the eyes of every person speaking of his or her home.

Fire, the final movement, is inspired by the homely warmth of the living-room fireside, or the adventure of the summer campfire, or the frightening rage of a bush fire. But most of all, it is a portrait of the fire within: the creative spirit that lifts all of us. — James Wilding

Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 (1842)

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chumann’s piano quintet is his most frequently performed chamber composition; it is also the pioneering quintet for piano and string quartet and the inspiration for a line of great works for the combination, including those

by Brahms, Franck, and Dvořák.

Schumann wrote this seminal work in September 1842, taking five days to prepare the sketches and two weeks to complete the score.

He dedicated it to his wife, Clara, and scheduled the premiere for December 6 of the same year at the Leipzig home of Carl and Henriette Voigt.

Clara, who was to participate, fell ill on the day of 16

the performance, and Felix Mendelssohn stepped in, playing the difficult piano part at sight.

Mendelssohn’s participation at the premiere left a lasting impact on the work; he found the second trio in the Scherzo movement lacking, and it was at his suggestion that Schumann wrote a livelier replacement.

The bold, assertive first theme, played in a forceful tutti, opens the quintet, followed immediately by its miraculous transformation into a wonderfully warm, cantilena melody. The cello and viola present the sensitive second theme as a conversational dialogue. A heavily accented third theme, an obvious outgrowth of the first, brings the exposition to its conclusion.

Schumann ignores the second theme in the development section, which includes long strings of virtuosic piano runs against sustained string chords. The recapitulation brings back the exposition slightly modified, and the movement ends without a coda.

The second movement, In Modo d’una Marcia (“In the Style of a March”), clearly refers to a funeral march, not in any personal mournful sense but as an objective musical experience.

Schumann structures the movement as a cross between rondo and sonata form. The first theme has the cadence of a solemn march. A tenuous, sustained first violin line over a busy, anxious accompaniment functions as a contrasting second theme and precedes the return of the opening. The faster-moving next section works over both the first and second ideas before the movement concludes with a final statement of the first theme.

The Scherzo is the glorification of the scale.

Whether a single instrument or in combination, going up or down, loud or soft, in even notes or trochees, the subject is always scales. The lyrical, legato first trio with the first violin and viola in canon, offers a welcome respite from the relentlessly scalic Scherzo. The return of the Scherzo is followed by the second trio, a highpowered, heavily accented, perpetual motion.

Schumann ends the movement with a final review of the Scherzo and a summarizing coda.

The crowning last movement contains all the virility and sturdiness of the first movement. The pianist flings out the muscular principal theme with an accent on every note, backed up by the strings playing a tempestuous repeated note accompaniment. A contrasting quiet and songlike subsidiary melody acts as a foil to the first theme. tuesdaymusical.org n 330.761.3460

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Program Notes The short, subdued development is mostly concerned with the second theme, building up at the end to an exultant return of the first to start the recapitulation, which proceeds regularly through both themes. In the vary spacious and remarkable coda, Schumann introduces two major fugal sections, the first based on the movement’s principal theme, the second combining that melody with the same theme.

At which one cries, The heart surrenders to love And the happiness flies without returning Far from a morose winter, Let me slumber Before it dies.

—Melvin Berger, Guide to Chamber Music

Richard Strauss Mädchenblumen

Translations Charles Gounod Je veux vivre, Juliette’s aria from Romeo et Juliette I want to live In the dream that exhilarates me This day again!

Sweet flame, I guard you in my soul Like a treasure!

This rapture of youthfulness Ne dure hélas! qu’un jour, Doesn’t last, alas! but a day, Then comes the hour

2017-18 Concert Season Samuel Gordon, Artistic Director

Hear the chamber choir everyone raves about!

Echoes of Ireland October 14, 7:30 PM, Hudson Shout the Glad Tidings! Christmas with Singers Companye December 10, 4pm, Fairlawn • December 13, 7:30 PM, St. Sebastian Church, Akron • December 16, 7:30 PM, Hudson Broadway Cabaret December 30, 8pm, BLU Jazz+ Ohio premiere of Samuel Gordon’s Voice of My Song March 18, 4 PM, St. Sebastian Church, Akron Unclouded Day! World and American premieres!

April 20, 7:30 PM, Canton • April 21, 7:30 PM, Hudson April 22, 4 PM, Faith Lutheran Church, Akron

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—Translation into English by Robert Glaubitz from aria-database.com

Kornblumen (cornflower) Cornflowers I call these figures That gently, with blue eyes, Preside quietly and modestly, Placidly drinking the dew of peace From their own pure souls, Communicating with everything that is near, Unconscious of the precious sensitivity That they have received from the hand of God. You feel so good among them, As if you were going through a field of crops Through which the breath of evening blew, Full of pious quietude and full of mildness.

Mohnblumen (poppy) They are poppies, those round, Red-blooming, healthy ones That bloom and bake in the summer And are always in a cheery mood, Good and happy as a king, Their souls never tired of dancing; They weep beneath their smiles And seem born only To tease the cornflowers; Yet nevertheless, The softest, best hearts often hide Among those climbing ivy of jests; God knows one would wish to Suffocate them with kisses Were one not so afraid That, embracing the boisterous girl, She would spring up into a full blaze And go up in flames.

Epheu (ivy) But ivy is what I call that maiden, With soft words, With simple, bright hair, Gently waving brown about her, With brown, soulful doe’s eyes, Who so often stands in tears, In her tears simply irresistible; tuesdaymusical.org n 330.761.3460

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NOV 1-5 Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro MAR 7-11 Britten's The Turn of the Screw Individual tickets and subscriptions available: 800-371-0178 or oberlin.edu/artsguide

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ARTIST RECITAL SERIES 2017-18 FEB 16 ROOMFUL OF TEETH FEB 23 & 25 MARILYN HORNE MASTER CLASSES MAR 30 BRENTANO STRING QUARTET APR 17 GERALD FINLEY, BASS-BARITONE

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SEP 28 PUNCH BROTHERS (PICTURED) OCT 3 THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA NOV 12 BENJAMIN GROSVENOR, PIANO NOV 19 LAWRENCE POWER, VIOLA

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Without strength and self-consciousness, Unadorned with secret blossoms, Yet with an inexhaustible, deep True inner sentience That under her own power she can Never yank herself up by the roots; Such are born to twine Lovingly about another life: Upon her first love She rests her entire life’s fate, For she is counted among those rare flowers, Those that only blossom once.

Wasserrose (water lily) Do you know the flower, the fantastic, Celebrated-in-myth water lily?

On a slim, ethereal stem bobs Its translucent, colorless head; It blooms by reedy pools in groves, Protected by the swan, who circles it in solitary vigil; It opens only in the moonlight With which it shares its silver glimmer: Thus does it bloom, the magical sister of the star, Idolized for its dreamy, dark tendrils Which by the edge of the pool can be seen from afar, Never reaching for what it yearns for.

Water lily, so do I call the slim Maiden with dark-as-night locks and alabaster cheeks, With deep foreboding thoughts showing in her eyes As if they were ghosts imprisoned on Earth.

When she speaks, it is like the silvery rushing of water; When she is silent, it is the pregnant silence of the moonlit night.

She seems to have exchanged radiant expressions with the stars, Whose language, of the same nature, she has grown accustomed to.

You can never grow weary of gazing in those eyes Fringed with silky, long lashes, And you believe, as if blessedly, terrifyingly bewitched, Whatever the Romantics have dreamed about elves.

—Translation copyright © 2003 by Emily Ezust from lieder.net

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Our programs create music lovers – in their immediate and relevant environments.

Annual Scholarship Competition Hailed as the best of its kind in Ohio, the competition awards $25,000 each year to help college and university students prepare for careers as music educators and performers.

Decompression Chamber As an antidote to workplace stress, our new Decompression Chamber brings free concerts to hospitals, factories, government offices, social service agencies, and other high-pressure sites throughout Akron.

We appreciate support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation through its Knight Arts Challenge.

“We experience excellent live music within the concert hall, and now we are sharing it throughout our community.”

- Jarrod Hartzler Tuesday Musical Executive and Artistic Director

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Tuesday Musical expands access to world-class musicians throughout Northeast Ohio

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Innovative partnerships bring great music into our daily lives.

Education and Community Engagement Every season, TM’s guest artists also teach, perform and inspire during multi-day visits to K-12 schools, universities, libraries, retirement communities, workplace venues, and more.

Quartet-in-Residence The acclaimed Escher String Quartet visits 3-4 times each season to work closely with students, perform, and share the gift of music throughout our region.

Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program Recognizing our commitment to arts education, TM has been chosen to join this prestigious and powerful program. Together with schools and teachers, we work to increase the artistic literacy of young people.

Free Student Tickets and Transportation Thousands of students attend TM concerts every year for free. Plus, schools and organizations receive bus stipends for student groups.

Brahms Allegro TM’s junior music club encourages its young members to develop their skills, perform for their peers, and compete in regional competitions.

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Director $5,000+ Stephen T. and Mary Ann Griebling Cynthia Knight Dr. Kenneth E. Shafer “Three Graces Piano”— Anonymous Linda and Jim Venner Benefactor $1,500 to $4,999 Anne Alexander Family of Jeanette Bertsch Diana and John Gayer Dr. DuWayne and Dorothy Hansen David and Margaret Hunter Peter and Dorothy Lepp Natalie, Paul and Stephen Miahky George Pope Donald and Corrinne Rohrbacher Lola Rothmann Dr. Pamela Rupert Tim and Jenny Smucker Tom and Meg Stanton Sustainer $700 to $1,499 Ron and Ann Allan Eleanor and Richard Aron Ann and David Brennan Denis and Barbara Feld Robert and Beverley Fischer Laurie and Mark Gilles Sue Jeppesen Gillman Howard Greene Jarrod Hartzler Bruce and Joy Hagelin Dr. Tom and Mary Ann Jackson James and Maureen Kovach Paul and Linda Liesem Charles and Elizabeth Nelson Dianne and Herb Newman Dr. Pat Sargent

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Richard Shirey Dr. Larry and Cyndee Snider John P. Vander Kooi Lucinda Weiss Janet Wright Patron $400 to $699 Drs. Mark and Sandra Auburn Lee and Floy Barthel Rebecca D. and William H. Considine John and Betty Dalton Jane Davenport Mary Davenport Nichole Depew Paul Filon Lois and Harvey Flanders Patricia Hartzler Lawrence B. Levey Mary Jo Lockshin Thomas and Cheryl Lyon Paul and JoAnn Marcinkoski Anita Meeker Natalie Miahky Russ and Marianne Miller Earla Patterson Ed and Maureen Russell Peter and Nan Ryerson Rachel R. Schneider Jean Schooley Sandra and Richey Smith Annaliese Soros Drs. Frederick and Elizabeth Specht Jennifer Stenroos Elizabeth and Michael Taipale Donor $200 to $399 Anonymous Jack and Bonnie Barber Anna Maria Barnum Cheryl Boigegrain Dr. Guy and Debra Bordo Frances Buchholzer Alan and Sara Burky

Dr. Herb and Jill Croft Jane Delcamp William and Barbara Eaton Jon A. Fiume Eleanor Freeman Paul and Michele Friday Deanna Friedman Jean F. Gadd Sharon Gandee Ted and Teresa Good Louise and James Harvey Michael T. Hayes John and Suzanne Hetrick Loren Hoch John and Sheila Hutzler Mark and Karla Jenkins Susan and Allen Kallor Kathleen Lambacher Magdalena McClure John and Kristine Mogen Nathan J. and Karen L. Mortimer Bob Neidert Al and Judy Nicely Paula Rabinowitz and Greer Kabb-Langkamp E. G. Sue Reitz Ben and Sandra Rexroad Drs. Betty L. Rider and W. Mike Sherman Gloria J. Rodgers Donald E. Schmid and Rosemary Reymann Betty and Joel Siegfried Margo Snider Mike and Sandy Soful Nathan and Cecilia Speelman Charlotte Staiger Ann Tainer Bob and Colleen Tigelman Dina and Brooks Toliver Susan D. Van Vorst Reid and Susan Smucker Wagstaff Jorene F. Whitney Christopher Wilkins

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In Memory of Natalie Altieri

In Memory of Elizabeth Hagelin

In Memory of Zenon Miahky

Paul and JoAnn Marcinkoski Thomas and Sue Tuxill

William and Barbara Eaton

In Memory of Eugene Mancini

Betty Dalton Denis and Barbara Feld Robert and Beverley Fischer Laura Lee Garfinkel Bruce and Joy Hagelin DuWayne and Dottie Hansen Jarrod Hartzler Dorothy and Peter Lepp Anita Meeker Natalie, Paul and Stephen Miahky Walter Pechenuk

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In Memory of David Meeker

William and Barbara Eaton

In Memory of Alfred Anderson Denis and Barbara Feld Dr. DuWayne and Dorothy Hansen Zenon and Natalie Miahky In Memory of Jeanette Bertsch Brian and Judith Allen Judith Bertsch and Family Linda Carr Denis and Barbara Feld Robert and Beverley Fischer Eleanor Freeman Tom and Mikki Green Bruce and Joy Hagelin Jarrod Hartzler DuWayne and Dorothy Hansen Marcianne Herr Jon and Martha Kelly Dorothy and Peter Lepp Anita Meeker In Memory of Wanda Brechbuhler Kittie Clarke In Honor of Mary Ann and Stephen Griebling’s 60th Anniversary Bob and Beverley Fischer Bruce and Joy Hagelin In Memory of Craig Hagelin Denis and Barbara Feld William and Barbara Eaton

In Honor of Joy Hagelin, Barbara Eaton and Anita Meeker Barbara Feld In Memory of Eileen “Tootie” Hawk Barbara Feld

Drs. Mark and Sandra Auburn Susan Bailey Floy and Lee Barthel Patricia Basile William P. Blair III Maryanne Buchanan Elizabeth Butler Betty Dalton William and Barbara Eaton Roger and Ann Edwards Denis and Barbara Feld Chuck and Judy Gerdes Carol Goodall Joy and Bruce Hagelin Larue Hall Jarrod Hartzler Dr. Tom and Mary Ann Jackson Jon and Martha Kelly Francis and Earline Lenkowski Peter and Dorothy Lepp Barbara MacGregor Natalie Miahky Elizabeth Sandwick Virginia Scott Ken and Pat Suchan Mary Yeager

In Memory of Frank Reid William and Barbara Eaton In Memory of Cynthia J. Stefanik Robert and Cynthia Donel Robert and Beverley Fischer Bruce and Joy Hagelin Phyllis Hall Jarrod Hartzler Peter and Dorothy Lepp Anita Meeker Natalie Miahky In Memory of Jean Swinehart Joan Beach In Memory of Gerry Vieten Joy and Bruce Hagelin

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Support: Foundations, Corporations & Government Agencies Tuesday Musical thanks these foundations, corporations and government agencies for their support. $25,000+

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In-kind Services

GAR Foundation

Akron/Summit Convention & Visitors Bureau

Akron Beacon Journal

Arts Midwest Touring Fund

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation Louis S. & Mary Myers Foundation Ohio Arts Council $10,000 to $24,999 Community Fund – Arts & Culture of the Akron Community Foundation C. Colmery Gibson Polsky Fund of Akron Community Foundation

The Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank, Trustee

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R. C. Musson and Katharine M. Musson Charitable Foundation

The University of Akron School of Music

OMNOVA Solutions Foundation

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KeyBank Foundation Community Leadership Fund

Charles E. & Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation Lloyd L. & Louise K. Smith Foundation

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Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust

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Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation

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John A. McAlonan Fund of Akron Community Foundation

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2017-2018 Board of Directors

Executive Committee President Laurie Gilles

Vice President/President Elect Paul Filon

Treasurer Cheryl Lyon

Secretary Marianne Miller Governance Committee Chair Bob Fischer

Committee Chairs

Brahms Allegro Chair Cheryl Boigegrain

Development Chair Charles Nelson

Education/Student Voucher Chair Natalie Miahky Finance Chair Cheryl Lyon

Hospitality Co-Chairs Barbara Eaton & Joy Hagelin

Membership Chair JoAnn Marcinkoski

Member Program Chair Daniel Velasco

Scholarship Chair George Pope

At-large Members Linda Liesem, Teresa Good, & Mary Jo Lockshin Staff

Executive & Artistic Director Jarrod Hartzler

Director of Development & Communications Cyndee Snider Artistic Administrator Karla Jenkins

Finance Administrator Gail Wild

Programs Assistant Moneeb Iqbal

Intern Patrick Fields

Program art direction by Live Publishing Co.

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House Notes Parking Beginning at 5 p.m. for evening concerts and 12:30 p.m. for Sunday concerts, special event parking is available at $5 per vehicle in the EJ Thomas Hall parking deck or in surrounding campus lots.

Late Seating Out of consideration for other audience members and the performers, latecomers will be seated at a suitable pause in the program.

Emergency Numbers Physicians and others expecting calls are requested to leave their name and seating location with the Head Usher upon arrival. Please leave your seat location with the person(s) who may need to reach you in case of an emergency and ask them to call EJ Thomas Hall at 330.972.6828.

Pre-concert Talks Free Pre-concert Talks, designed to enrich the concert-going experience, are presented one hour before most Tuesday Musical concerts and last 30 minutes.

Intermission Intermissions are 20 minutes in length. The flashing of the lobby lights is your signal to return to your seat for the start of the performance.

Special Accommodations If you have special seating requirements, please inform the Ticket Office when you place your ticket order. EJ Thomas Hall has wheelchair accommodations and other seating services for the physically challenged in both the Orchestra and Grand Tier sections. Handicapped parking is available in the EJ Thomas Hall deck and the North parking deck accessed from both Forge St. and Buchtel Ave.; a valid parking permit must be displayed. A special sound system for the hearing impaired and large print program notes are available, free of charge, with advance notice. Please see the Head Usher for the sound system device and call the Tuesday Musical office to request the program notes.

Restrooms Public restrooms are located in the Robertson Lobby of EJ Thomas Hall. The ladies’ room can be accessed from the odd-numbered entry doors and the men’s room access is from the even-numbered entry doors. The center stairs in the Robertson Lobby lead to both restrooms. Accessible restrooms are located at the bottom of each ramp.

Cameras, Audio Recorders & Video Equipment Cameras, video and audio recording devices of any kind are prohibited at all performances. Our ushers are instructed to retrieve these prohibited items from patrons in the auditorium.

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Patrons with hearing aids are asked to be attentive to the sound level of their hearing device and adjust it accordingly.

Refreshments Bar service is offered in the center lobby before concerts and at intermission. Soda and light snacks are also available in the lobby. The EJ Café, located in the Herberich Lobby, offers appetizers, desserts, gourmet coffees, espresso and cappuccino.

Drinking fountains are in the center lobby.

Smoke Free Theatre Smoking is not permitted anywhere inside EJ Thomas Hall, but designated smoking areas are located outside the building.

Event Cancellation On very rare occasions, severe weather forces EJ Thomas Hall to cancel or postpone an event.

Cancellation information is available by calling the Tuesday Musical office at 330.761.3460.

Security Policy Customer safety and security is of the upmost importance. All patrons entering the facility must have a ticket for that day’s event. There is a police presence both inside and outside of the theatre.

Program Information For information about any Tuesday Musical concert, please call the Tuesday Musical Association office at 330.761.3460 or visit the website at www.tuesdaymusical.org.

Ticket Information Single Tickets To purchase single tickets to any Tuesday Musical concert, call the Tuesday Musical Association office at 330.761.3460 or visit the website at www.tuesdaymusical.org.

Tuesday Musical Association 1041 West Market Street, Suite 200 Akron, OH 44313-7103 Releasing Tickets Tuesday Musical subscribers who are not able to attend a concert are encouraged to release their tickets 24 hours prior to the concert. In exchange for their tickets, subscribers may receive tickets to a different 2016/2017 Tuesday Musical concert (some restrictions may apply) or receive a charitable donation receipt for the value of the tickets. Please remember to call the office 24 hours PRIOR to the concert. Your seats are the best in the house and someone else would love the experience of sitting just where you do.

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