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MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT
by Barbara Fitzsimmons
Liam Glendening
Principal Trombone
Richard T. Whisner Chair
Trombonist Liam Glendening holds the principal chair of both the Maryland Symphony and Portland Symphony Orchestras. He has also performed alongside the Baltimore Symphony, Chicago Symphony, and San Diego Symphony orchestras. A passionate chamber musician, Liam is a founding member of the award-winning Kresge Trombone Quartet and plays with the Terrapin Brass Quintet. As a freelance musician, Liam performs and serves as a teacher and clinician across the east coast.
Liam’s musical career began on the cello but after tendonitis damaged his bowing hand he decided to follow in his father and grandfather’s footsteps by taking up the trombone. While he studied with his father during high school, Liam was a member of the National Youth Orchestra and won the American Trombone Workshop’s solo competition. He attended Vanderbilt University as a Cornelius Vanderbilt scholar and later joined Northwestern University’s worldrenowned trombone studio during his masters. He spent three years as the trombone fellow for the Aspen Music Festival and School. His past teachers include Jeremy Wilson, Douglas Wright, Per Brevig, Gene Pokorny, Warren Deck, and Michael Mulcahy.
Liam also plays the theremin; he has premiered several new chamber works featuring the instrument and performed in the Nashville production of Be More Chill on both theremin and trombone. He also performs on the bass guitar, and he moonlights as a recording engineer for both classical chamber ensembles and rock bands. In his free time he writes short stories, bakes bread, and runs with his dog, Arlo.
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AUDIO ENGINEERING
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SYMPHONY HONORARY DIRECTORS
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ABOUT THE COVER
Alan J. Noia
Mrs. Georgia Pierné
Mr. James G. Pierné
Samuel G. Reel, Jr.
William J. Reuter
Joel L. Rosenthal, M.D.
Dr. Hugh Talton
Martha “Marty” Talton
Cassandra Wantz
Richard T. Whisner
Dvořák did not recognize the cello as a solo instrument. Hanuš Wihan, a contemporary Czech cellist, had asked for a cello concerto for quite some time, but Dvořák always refused. He felt that the cello was a fine orchestral instrument, but totally insufficient for a solo concerto. Dvořák was fond of the middle register, but complained about the nasal high register and the mumbling bass. In a letter to a friend, Dvořák wrote that he himself was probably most surprised by his decision to write a cello concerto despite these long-held reservations. - Hector Fernandez, Artist
ELIZABETH
SCHULZE,
MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR
FIRST VIOLIN
Robert Martin
Concertmaster
MSO Guild Chair
Joanna Natalia Owen
Associate Concertmaster
Marty & Hugh Talton Chair
Brent Price
Assistant Concertmaster
Lysiane GravelLacombe
Thomas Marks Chair
Kristin Bakkegard
H. Lee Brewster
Yen-Jung Chen
Mauricio Couto
Megan Gray
Catherine Nelson
Petr Skopek
SECOND VIOLIN
Anna Luebke
Principal
J. Emmet Burke Chair
Ariadna Buonviri
Associate Principal
Julianna Chitwood
Assistant Principal
Ruth Erbe
Teresa L. Gordon
Melanie Kuperstein
Swiatek Kuznik
Kat Whitesides
Patricia WnekSchram
VIOLA
Phyllis Freeman
Principal
Alan J. Noia Chair
Magaly Rojas Seay
Associate Principal
Stephanie Knutsen+
Acting Assistant
Principal
Sungah Min
Rachel Holaday
Alice Tung
CELLO
Todd Thiel
Principal
J. Ramsay Farah Chair
Katlyn DeGraw
Associate Principal
Jessica Albrecht
Assistant Principal
Aneta Otreba
Mauricio Betanzo
Youbin Jun
Alyssa Moquin
Jessica Siegel Weaver
BASS
Adriane Benvenuti
Irving Principal
Shawn Alger
Associate Principal
Kimberly Parillo
Brandon Smith
FLUTE
Laura Kaufman
Mowry
Principal
Marjorie M. Hobbs Chair
Nicolette Driehuys Oppelt
Elena Yakovleva
PICCOLO
Elena Yakovleva
OBOE
Fatma Daglar
Principal
Joel L. Rosenthal Chair
Amanda Dusold
Rick Basehore
ENGLISH HORN
Rick Basehore
CLARINET
Beverly Butts
Principal
John M. Waltersdorf Chair
Jay Niepoetter
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Open
BASSOON
Erich Heckscher
Principal
Bennett S. Rubin Chair
Scott Cassada
Susan Copeland Wilson
CONTRABASSOON
Susan Copeland Wilson
FRENCH HORN
Alex Kovling
Principal
Libby Powell Chair
Mark Hughes
Assistant Principal
Chandra Cervantes
Kyle Pompei+
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Nathan Clark
Principal
Robert T. Kenney Chair
Scott A. Nelson
Robert W. Grab Chair
Matthew Misener
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Liam Glendening
Principal
Richard T. Whisner Chair
Jeffrey Gaylord
Kaz Kruszewski
TUBA
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Principal
Claude J. Bryant Chair
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Open
Principal
William J. Reuter Chair
Matthew Mitchener+
Eric Stoss+
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Julie Angelis Boehler+
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Vincent & Phyllis Mauro Chair
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ABOUT THE MSO
by Barbara Fitzsimmons
On November 13, 1982, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s music rang through the concert hall in front of an audience of 1,400 for the very first time. With 55 musicians under the baton of our first conductor, Barry Tuckwell, we began our journey to become a cornerstone of the arts in Western Maryland and beyond.
Our inaugural season consisted of just four concerts and was a rousing success. Thanks to the dedication of the community that helped found us, the MSO was able to turn a profit in our very first year despite the logistic and economic struggles we faced as a symphony starting during a recession outside of a major city. This initial triumph provided the perfect springboard to grow, and grow we did.
After an extensive search for our next music director, we were lucky to welcome Elizabeth Schulze to the MSO in 1999 to usher in a new period of growth and music. Today, our yearly full orchestral performances have doubled, and we’ve expanded beyond the concert hall with small ensemble groups to further serve our community. From our much-anticipated Pops! performances to the Classical music we were formed to play, the modern MSO has something for everyone.
While most know the MSO for its performances, education has been a cornerstone of the organization since as early as 1985, when we launched our first educational programming for the community. A love of classical music starts young, but that doesn’t mean you are ever too old to grow your appreciation for music or learn something new about a melody that moves you. Today, we continue expanding the Vincent Rauth and Barbara Ingram Groh education department to provide programs for music lovers of all ages, even those of us who have long finished school.
Whether you come to us for your first concert or have been a subscriber for many years, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra is proud to welcome you to today’s performance. We hope you enjoy the show and that we see you at many more to come!
THE MARYLAND THEATRE
Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 7:30pm
Sunday, November 10, 2024 | 3:00pm
Elizabeth Schulze conductor
Benett Tsai cello
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Symphony No. 3 in F Major, op. 90 (1833-1897)
36’
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante
III. Poco allegretto
IV. Allegro – Un poco sostenuto
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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
Cello Concerto in B Minor, op. 104, b. 191 (1841-1904)
40’
I. Allegro
II. Adagio, ma non troppo
III. Finale: Allegro moderato – Andante –Allegro vivo
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PROGRAM NOTES
Symphony No. 3 in F Major
Op. 90
Johannes Brahms
Born May 7, 1833, in Hamburg, Germany
Died April 3, 1897, in Vienna, Austria
This work was first performed on December 2, 1883, by Hans Richter conducting the Vienna Philharmonic. It is scored for woodwinds in pairs with added contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, and strings.
Brahms’s Third Symphony is an intensely personal work, much quieter in spirit than his previous symphonies. Dating from a period when Brahms was at the top of his game, the Third Symphony was completed in 1883, but most likely ruminated for a long time before he committed it to the page. The mood is bright and opulent, not surprisingly so since the symphony was composed during a summer retreat in Wiesbaden in the company of his current love interest – a singer named Hermine Spies who was twenty-four years his junior. Although the affair ended in 1887, audiences can be thankful that her influence drew such sunny music from the brooding pen of Brahms.
Clara Schumann, who had been very close with Brahms since the early 1850s, was entrusted with an early copy of the work. Her opinion mattered greatly to the composer, and he often asked for her advice on new scores. She wrote to him, “... I have spent many happy hours with your wonderful creation... From start to finish one is wrapped about with the mysterious charm of the woods and
forests ... I hear the babbling brook and the buzzing of insects....”
This symphony begins with two chords in the winds – the first a bright F major, followed by a cloudy diminished chord. Without pause the movement erupts in an unsettled waltz-like theme that owes much to Robert Schumann’s Rhenish Symphony. Although the movement is clearly set in ¾ meter, Brahms groups the beats in pairs of two. The result is an unsettled feeling that underlies one of the most sweeping movements he ever composed. Woodwinds, especially clarinets, play a prominent role in this symphony and introduce several of the themes. After the development section, the first movement becomes more subdued and ends quietly.
For the two central movements, Brahms drew from music he had written for an aborted production of Goethe’s Faust. The second movement is an andante in sonata form that begins with a bittersweet clarinet solo. A second theme for clarinet and bassoon does not return in the recapitulation, but finds a new home in the last movement. Brahms’s third movement, one of his most enduring, features a languorous cello solo. As in the first movement, the rhythmic interplay adds a sense of undulation to an otherwise straightforward theme. As others have remarked, even though this movement was composed in a minor key, it is anything but doleful. Instead, the effect is one of quiet grace.
Ever the champion of the Gypsy style, Brahms wrote his finale with a subdued
Hungarian flavor. Railing against the expectation of a major-key finale, Brahms begins in F minor. This tumult is compounded by sections of stormy tonal conflicts. The development section includes the second theme of the andante second movement, which serves as a poignant turning point in Brahms’s formal scheme. A fleeting reference to the first movement’s soaring theme leads to the coda, which brings the movement to a quiet close. Brahms’s confidante, Clara Schumann wrote, “. . . one’s beating heart is soon calmed down again for the final transfiguration which begins with such beauty in the development motif that words fail me!”
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Op. 104
Antonin Dvořák
Born September 8, 1841, in Nelahozeves, Bohemia
Died May 1, 1904, in Prague, Czech Republic
Dvořák completed this work on June 11, 1895. It was premiered on March 19, 1896, in London with cellist Leo Stein as soloist and the composer conducting. It is scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, three horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, triangle, and strings.
Antonin Dvořák spent three years in the United States between 1892 and 1895. Invited by the president of the National Conservatory of Music in America, located in New York City, Dvořák could
not refuse the offer of becoming its director. His annual compensation of $15,000 was very impressive for the time, representing twenty-five times the salary he had received at the Prague Conservatory. In today’s currency, his salary represents nearly $400,000. During Dvořák’s American period, he conducted many concerts and composed several works. His first summer was spent in the idyllic Czech village of Spillville, Iowa.
Dvořák’s last American work was his thoroughly Czech-flavored Cello Concerto. However, its inspiration was thoroughly American. The motivation came from Victor Herbert, later known as the composer of delightful operettas (Naughty Marietta and Babes in Toyland are the most popular of his more than fifty stage works), who performed his own Second Cello Concerto in 1894 to an audience that included Dvořák. The Czech composer, having been pressed for years by his countryman Hanuš Wihan to compose a cello concerto, was duly impressed and decided to begin composing a new work. The result is more Czech than American, probably due to the homesickness he felt while vacationing in Spillville.
Dvořák’s first movement begins quietly with a woodwind passage. From this gentle whisper, the texture builds to a towering climax. Before the cellist enters, both of the main themes are introduced by the orchestra alone, as is the custom in traditional concertos. The soloist is finally heard with an ornamented version of the first theme, proceeding to a more straightforward reading of the second melody. One of the most
PROGRAM NOTES
interesting aspects of the first movement is the reversal of the two main themes when they return after the development section.
Marked Adagio non troppo, the second movement shows the Bohemian side of Dvořák’s work. First played by the clarinet, the first theme bears the hallmarks of Czech folk music. The second theme is derived from the composer’s own art song, “Let me wander alone in my dreams,” which was a favorite of his sister-in-law (and first love), Josefine Kauric. He decided to quote this work when he received word that she was ill. His treatment of the theme is almost that of a conversation between woodwind soloists and the cellist. The first theme returns, this time with a flute obbligato.
The finale is a fiery rondo built upon martial rhythms. Near the center of the movement, the tempo relaxes, and a series of musical reminiscences begins. One account, probably accurate, claims that the return of Josefine’s theme, near the end of the sequence, was added after Dvořák’s eventual return to Prague, where he found that she had died. Regardless of the inspiration, the effect is one of exquisite beauty, occurring just before the final restatement of the march theme.
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BRAVO! COVER ARTIST
Hector Fernandez is a self-taught artist who has been creating since he was young. Although he has worked in many mediums, his true passion is scratchboard, which allows for incredible detail and striking contrast in each piece.
Scratchboard is a unique black-and-white medium. The board is a wood panel with a fine white clay veneer covered by black India ink. The drawing starts black, and white lines are carefully scratched through the ink with sharp tools like scalpel blades.
Hector resides in Hagerstown, MD and is a Signature Member of the International Society of Scratchboard Artists, which he joined when it was formed 13 years ago.
He has received many awards for his art from various exhibitions including the Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Glendale Art Association, Washington County Arts Council, and most notably 8 awards from the International Society of Scratchboard Artists (2 Silver, 1 Bronze, and 5 Awards of Excellence).
Hector’s work has shown across the U.S., Canada, and Australia. He is thrilled to be collaborating with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra to create the cover artwork for the BRAVO! programs for the 2024/2025 Season.
See more of Hector’s work at www. hectorgallery.com.
GUEST ARTIST BIO
The music-making of young Australian cellist Benett Tsai has been described as “electrifying…flawless freshness” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) and “charismatic, heartfelt playing full of fluid intensity” (Sydney Arts Guide). Profiled as one of the thirty “next generation young musicians making their mark” by Limelight Magazine, he gained attention at the 2022 Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann, where he received both Third Prize and the Special Prize for Best Haydn Concerto as the youngest participant. He recently joined the storied roster of Young Concert Artists after winning the 2023 YCA Susan Wadsworth International Auditions in New York. As an inaugural YCA Jacobs Fellow, he is the recipient of The Stern Young Artist Award from the Linda and Isaac Stern Foundation and holds the Anne & George Popkin Cello Chair.
Since his mainstage debut at thirteen, Benett has performed actively as a solo artist and chamber musician. He has appeared with orchestras such as the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Sinfonia Lahti, Kammerphilharmonie Metamorphosen Berlin, Canberra Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra Academy. In recitals, he has been presented at venues like the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Berliner Philharmonie, City Recital Hall in Sydney, Helsinki Music Centre, and Melbourne Recital Centre. Notably, he was featured in the 2020 documentary The Way Forward, collaborating with pianist JeanYves Thibaudet.
In the 24-25 season, Benett will perform with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Umberto Clerici, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and Anchorage Symphony Orchestra with Elizabeth Schulze, and the Kennett Symphony with Michael Hall. He will also give debut recitals at The Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.) and Kaufman Music Center (New York), appear at Carnegie Hall for the YCA Season Finale, and perform on a nationwide tour of Australia with Kathryn Selby & Friends. Recent highlights include Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Colburn Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen at The Soraya and appearances at the Verbier Festival Academy.
Born in 2003, Benett began playing the cello at five under the guidance of his uncle and teacher, Thomas Tsai. He is currently an undergraduate student of Clive Greensmith at the Colburn School in Los Angeles.
Benett Tsai appears courtesy of Young Concert Artists.
MUSIC DIRECTOR BIO
With passion, verve and illuminating musicianship, Elizabeth Schulze has been conducting orchestras and opera companies, advocating for music education, and electrifying audiences in the States and abroad for more than two and a half decades.
Recipient of the 2013 Sorel Medallion in Conducting for her adventurous programming, Schulze is in her 24th season as the Music Director and Conductor of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and is the recently appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra in Alaska.
Schulze made her European debut, leading the Mainz Chamber Orchestra in the Atlantisches Festival in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She appeared in Paris as the assistant guest conductor for the Paris Opera and has also appeared in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Vienna with the National Symphony during its 1997 European tour. Her most recent international work includes conducting in Hong Kong, Jerusalem and Taipei.
Schulze’s recent guest conducting in the States includes appearances with the Buffalo Philharmonic and the New Jersey, Detroit, San Francisco and Chautauqua Symphonies. Her positions with U.S. orchestras include an appointment as Associate Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, Music Director and Conductor of the Flagstaff, Waterloo/Cedar Falls, and Kenosha Symphony Orchestras, Principal Guest Conductor of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, Cover Conductor and Conducting Assistant for the New York Philharmonic, and Assistant Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, an appointment sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Since the beginning of her career, Schulze has been a spirited advocate for music education. Her far-ranging work included a long association with the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute (SMI). For more than 15 years Schulze conducted, taught and mentored dozens of young musicians at SMI at the Kennedy Center. She has also conducted the American Composer’s Orchestra in LinkUp educational and family concerts in Carnegie Hall and throughout New York City. And for six years, Schulze joined her mentor Leonard Slatkin, teaching at the NSO’s National Conducting Institute.
Her music education and mentoring work spans the elementary school to the university. She was an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University and has guest conducted the orchestras of The University of Maryland, the Manhattan School of Music and Catholic University of America. She has also guest lectured at the Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music.
Schulze’s own education includes training in Europe and in the States. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and was an honors student at the Interlochen Arts Academy. She holds graduate degrees in orchestral and choral conducting from SUNY at Stony Brook. She was the first doctoral fellow in orchestral conducting at Northwestern University and was selected as a conducting fellow at L’École d’Arts Americaines in France. She was the recipient of the first Aspen Music School Conducting Award. At Aspen, she worked with Murry Sidlin, Lawrence Foster and Sergiu Commissiona. As a Tanglewood fellow, she worked with Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier and Leonard Bernstein.
Schulze is represented by John Such Artists Management, Ltd.
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Jack Anderson Anonymous
Ashley Armstrong
Elizabeth & Harold Baker
Robert and Kathy Bell
John & Helen Benchoff
Mike & Grace Bennett
Pieter & Stephanie Bickford
J. Bruce & Connie Burley
Mary Kay Chaudrue & Charles Charpiat
Tom Cummings
Samuel Cushman
Dan & Carolyn Davis
Mr. Larry DeHaan
Timothy & Vernell Doyle
Donna Ersek
James C. Failor
Philip Fearnow
FRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONY (con’t)
PARTNER
(con’t)
($250 to $499)
Tracie & Marcia Felker
Mrs. Susan Fiedler
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Garlitz
Gretchen Gawler
Joseph & Wanda Gerstner
Donald & Kathryn Henry
Reverend Roland & Mrs. Leslie Hobbs
Lucy Hogan
Karen Jenneke
Michael Jordon
Mr. Brooks & Mr. Kline
Joan Canfield & William Kramer
April L. Dowler & John W. League Family
Gay Ludington
Robin Lyles
Estelle Martin
Steven McDaniel
Kathy McKinley
Peter Michael
Dr. & Mrs. Raymond
Morgan
Mr. Daniel Webber & Dr. Candice Mowbray
Jean & Katharine Oliver
Patricia Patton
Ann Portocarrero
Phyllis Price
Howard & Francine
Reynolds
Kathy Robinson
Susan Roza
Michael Seem
Jennifer Smith
Deanna & Wilbur Soulis
James & Darlene Stojak
Dr. Robert & Mrs. Amy Strahl
David & Naomi Styer
Ronald & Leura Sulchek
George A. Tompkins Jr.
David & Henrietta Tyson
Joseph & Rose Ulrich
Chris Vaccari
Jim & Stephanie Vaughn
Rick Rogers & Susan Warrenfeltz
Sharon Wood
FRIEND
($100 to $249)
Robert Abdinoor, Sr.
Dr. & Mrs. A.F. Abdullah
Mr. Austin Abraham
Ms. Karen Adams
Teresa Angle
Anonymous
Laura Apelbaum
Jair Barr
Stephen Becker
Laurie Bender
Fritz Blattl
The Honourable & Mrs. W.
Kennedy Boone, III
Don & Mary Bowman
Mary-Jane Bowyer
Aileen Boyd
Cori Bragunier
Allen & Elizabeth Brown
Susan & Wally Brubaker
Louise Bucco
Shawn Buck
Scott & Megan Cassada
Barbara Clary
Paul & Anne Cox
Arthur & Sondra
Crumbacker
Keith Dagliano
Benjamin & Kathleen
Dengler
Kathleen Detlefsen
Patricia Douglas
Richard & Kandyce
Douglas
Greg Duffey
Kenneth & Pamela Duncan
Nancy Dunn
Andrew & Maria Durelli
Steve Fritz
Kristi Frush
Devin Fitzsimmons
Ian Fitzsimmons
Carl & Rose Marie
Gearhart
Robin Gigger
Marianne Gooding
Teresa Gordon
Bradley & Linda Gottfried
Robert Grahl
Danielle Gross
James & Brooke Grossman
Joshua Grove
Linda Grove
Sarah Hall
Michael & Rowan Harp
Hillary Hawkins
Michael Heyser
Lawrence Hoeck
Ed & Kathy Hose
Sharon Isbin
Mark Jameson
Paula Jilanis
Liz Kaylor
Caitlin Kelch
David Steele & Robert Kelly
Mary Ann Keyser
James King
Robert & Barbara Kott
Reverend George Limmer
John Lindeman
Maryanne Ludy
Emma Lyles
Charles & Melissa Mackley
James Main
Mary Malaspina
Pat & Frank Malejko
Henry & Mary McKinney
Douglas Meyer
Vivian Michael
Annellen Moore
Raymond Moreland, Jr.
Frank Morrisey
Daniel Mullenix
LeRoy & Nicole Myers
Tim & Beth Newhardt
Nitzell Household
Lee Ann O’Brien
Emily O’Farrell
Terri Gwizdala
Cheryl Pedersen
Paul & Ann Pittman
Sarah Polzin
Brenda Price
David & Monica Quin
Sharon Ridenour
James Roan
Martin & Karen Robinson
Michael Roehn
Maria Rojas
Mario Rojas
Beverly Schaff
Aileen Schulze
Catherine Seibert
Jeffrey Selby
Toni Serini
Dustin & Ashley Simmons
Frederick & Dorcas Slick
Thomas Sloan
Ida Smith
Jedidiah Smith
Carolyn Snyder
Michelle Strong
Ms. Jeanne Stoner
Robert & Sara Sweeney
Tess Tiches
Ashton & Benito Vattelana
Frank & Annette Van Hilst
Daniel Villanueva
David Wallace
Cynthia Weaver
John Guy & Alexis Webb
Mark & Katharine Weimer
Mary L. Wetzel
Bill & Kimberly Whaley
Brett Wilson
Julie Yoder
PATRON
($50 to $99)
Patton & Jacqueline Allen
Verna Anson
Dale Stein & Dominic Ambrosi
Anonymous
Thomas J. Arenobine
Justin Artz
Dave Barnhart
William Barrett
Justin Behrens
Jessica Bennett
Andrew Bowen
Karen Boyer
Jimmy Campbell
John Colborn
Colleen Corballis
Kevin Cozort
Dr. Anton T. Dahbura
Maria Dahbura
Beth Decker
Thomas Druzgal
Marian & Jim Emr
Pastor Andrea Ernest
Debbie Everhart
Robin Ferree
Jacqueline Fignar
Todd & Gail Fineberg
Steve Flook
Larry Fry
Megan Gallagher
Stephen Ginaitis
Ethan Golden
Mr. Stephen & the Honorable Gina Groh
Mark & Kim Halsey
James & Shawn Hardy
Valerie Harshman
Thomas & Josie Haywood
Yuman He
Klaus & Becky Hein
Eunice Heistand
Sean Henderson
Danny Henley
Janelle Horst
Mary House
Jeff Hull
Judy Johnson
Jane Jones
Brian Kendall
Karol Kennedy
Karlen Keto
Wallace & Betty Lee
Barbara Linthicum
Fred & Amanda Littlepage
Teresa Lum
Victoria Lynch
Missy Maddioncalda
Bill Mandicott
Ben Marlin
McCauley Family
Heather McEndree
Gary Meyer
Kim Milburn
Chris Moleskie
Tereance Moore
Patricia Mullinix
Amy Myers
Carole Myers
Christina Nemir
Allen Oberholzer
Gary Olds
Barry O’Neill
Theresa O’Sullivan
Edward Poling
Lisa Poole
Jonathan Prince
Mark Reback
Barbara Rice
Mary Ridenour
Dan & Careth Rinehart
Keith Rodgers
Eric Rollins
Maurice Rumbarger
Susan Ruppert
Fred Rutledge
John & Bobbi Schnebly
Eric Schwartz
Arby & Renee Shaw
Rich Shilling
Joan Shupp
Nathan Speir
Steven Stitley
Donnie Stottlemyer
Laura Strite
Andrew Talton
Elizabeth Troy
Hector Fernandez & Roger
Velasquez
John & Donna Weimer
Wheeler Household
Clarence White, Jr.
MUSIC & WELL-BEING SOCIETY
“The Music & Well-Being Society provides organizational and financial support to enhance the physical and mental health of our regional community through music.”
Music & Well-Being Society Founding Members
Founding members as of October 24, 2024.
Members who have generously agreed to serve as matching donors have been listed in bold.
William T. Alexander
Patton & Jacqueline Allen
Dominic Ambrosi & Dale Stein
Tina Angle
Anonymous
Michael & Barb Armel
Stephenie Lane Baker in honor of Tena Lane & Sharon Ingersoll
Mary Barnhart
Robert & Judith Batson
Laurie Bender
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Bigsby
Aileen Boyd
Scott & Kim Bowen
Brook Lane
Allen & Elizabeth Brown
Dr. J. Emmet & Mrs. Mary
Anne Burke
Dr. Bruce & Mrs. Connie Burley
Drs. Joan Canfield & William Kramer
Sun & Twila Cheung
Julianna Chitwood
Charles Clark
Paul & Anne Cox
Michael Cusic
Dan & Carolyn Davis
Larry & Cathi DeHaan
Ben & Kathy Dengler
Dr. & Mrs. Allen Ditto
Kenneth Duncan
Andrew C. Durham
Donna Ersek
James Failor
Philip Fearnow
Tracie Felker
Mrs. H. William Fielder, Jr.
Dr. Jacqueline M. Fignar in memory of John Fignar, Jr.
Katie Groh Fitzsimmons
Mrs. Adna Fulton
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Garlitz
Dr. Bradley & Mrs. Linda Gottfried
Rev. Dr. D. Stuart Dunnan in memory of Roger Grab
Thomas & Gwendolyn Hard
Don & Kathryn Henry
Michael Heyser
Dr. Robert & Mrs. Marjorie Hobbs
Ms. Jean Inaba in honor of Elizabeth Schulze’s 25th anniversary with the MSO
Paula Jilanis
Willa Weller Kaal
Donna & Richard Kipe
Barry Kissin
Lois Kuhn
Mr. Duane Lawson & Mrs.
Susan Alsip-Lawson in memory of Walter & Ann Lawson
Doris Lehman in honor of Elizabeth Schulze
Ric Lillard
Reverend George Limmer
Virginia Lindsay in memory of Tom Lindsay
Ed & Julie Lough
Dr.& Mrs. Ira Lourie
Charles & Melissa Mackley
Corrine Mackley
Mary Malaspina
Dr. George & Mrs. Connie Manger
Mike & Amy Mason
Heather McEndree
Bill & Gaye McGovern
Susan Michael
Lisa Miller
Doug & Beth Mills
Nick Mohar-Schurz
Dr. Ray & Mrs. Merry Morgan
Ella Mose
Cynthia Myers in memory of Richard Biesecker
Lee Ann O’Brien
Bill O’Toole in honor of Elizabeth Schulze
Valerie Owens & Mike Dunkum
Chris Ramsey
Harry & Pat Reynolds
Mary Ridenour
Roy Rogers & Susan Warrenfeltz
Kathy Robinson
Denis & Susan Rocco
Susan Roza
Maurice & Marie Rumbarger
Aileen Schulze in memory of Earl J. Schulze
William & Christian Simmelink
Dr. David & Mrs. Suzanne Solberg
Dr. Douglas & Mrs. Sue
Ellen Spotts
Dr. Monica Stallworth & Mr. Peter Murdock
David Steele
Jeanne Stoner
Shelly Strong
Michael Su
Dr. William & Mrs. Kathleen Su
Robert & Sara Sweeney
Dr. Hugh & Mrs. Marty Talton
George A. Tompkins, Jr.
David & Susan Trail
David & Henrietta Tyson
Dr. Matthew & Mrs. Bernadette Wagner
Drs. Paul Waldman & Mary Money-Waldman
Washington County Gaming Commission
John & Donna Weimer in memory of Cathy “CL” Widmyer
Bill & Kimberly Whaley
Dennis E. Whitmore
Mike & Marlene Young
HERITAGE SOCIETY & ENDOWMENT
The MSO’s commitment to excellence is supported by the generosity of individuals who are personally committed to promoting, preserving, and supporting the arts. In recognition of these patrons, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra has created the Heritage Society.
We invite you to consider becoming a member of the Heritage Society through an outright financial gift, living trust, bequest in will, life insurance gift naming, retirement gift plan, real estate gift donation of real property, or a charitable remainder annuity trust. Please contact Jennifer Sutton, Director of Development, at jsutton@marylandsymphony.org to learn more.
Heritage Society Members
Members as of October 24, 2024.
Dr. & Mrs. A. F. Abdullah
Alberta G. Alcorn Family
Dr. & Mrs. Michael Anderson
Anonymous
Mr. & Mrs. John M. Baer
Teresa & John Barr
Dave Barnhart
Jack Beachley Family
Sara Bock
Gary & Deb Bockrath
The Honorable & Mrs. W.
Kennedy Boone, III
Joann Bousum
Kim & Scott Bowen
Hermione H. Brewer
Mr. & Mrs. Jack B. Byers
Jason & Dadra Call
Michael G. Callas
Mr. & Mrs. Frank D.
Carden, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Jack Carey
Mr. & Mrs. Allen J. Clopper
Peter & Kathleen
Clouthier in memory of Rosemary G. Vocke
Mrs. David Cushwa, III
Toni & Lee Crawford
Mary & Bud Dahbura Family
Dr. & Mrs. Breese
Dickinson
Dr. & Mrs. Allen Ditto
Dr. Edward W. Ditto, III Family
Mr. & Mrs. Merle Elliott
Patricia Enders
Mr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Erck, III
Katie Fitzsimmons
Samuel Freeman Family
Dr. & Mrs. Carl J. Galligan
Mr. & Mrs. William H. Gelbach, Jr.
Florence Hill Graff Family
Vincent Rauth Groh & Barbara Ingram Groh Perpetual Charitable Trust
Lucinda S. Grunberg
Jean Hamilton
Michael & Rowan Harp
Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Harsh, Jr.
Dr. Aryeh & Mrs. Laura Herrera
Mr. & Mrs. John Hershey, Jr.
Harvey H. Heyser, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. Robert K. Hobbs
Elsie Holloway Family
William “Tad” & Anne Holzapfel
John H. Hornbaker, Jr., M.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Hose
John V. Jamison, III Family
Karen Jenneke
Dr. Robert L. Josephs
Mr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kaylor
Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Kenney
Renee & Fred Kramer
Michelle Leveque & Patrick McFadden
Bill & Monica Lingenfelter
Reverend George A. Limmer
Dr. & Mrs. Ira Lourie
Morton & Sophia Macht
Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Macon
Melinda & James E. Marsden
Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Massey
Paul C. & Margaret K. Massey Family
Vincent & Phyillis Mauro Family
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Meyer
Mrs. Victor D. Miller
Leslie W. Mills
Dr. Candace Mowbray & Mr. Daniel Webber
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Nitzell
Mr. & Mrs. Alan J. Noia
Valerie Owens & Mike Dunkum
Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Pedersen
Mr. & Mrs. Dominick J. Perini
Mr. & Mrs. Spence W. Perry
Georgia & Jim Pierné
Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Pitzer Family
Samuel G. Reel, Jr.
William J. & Selina A. Reuter
Mrs. Theron Rinehart
Pearl & Odell H. Rosen
Dr. & Mrs. Joel L. Rosenthal
Bennett Rubin Family
Mrs. Agnita M. Schreiber Family
The Schurz Family
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph L. Sharrett
Ashley & Dustin Simmons
Dr. Douglas & Mrs. Sue Ellen Spotts
James & Colleen Stone
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Z. Sulchek
Agnes Supernavage
Jennifer Sutton & Sonny Smoyer
Dr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Talton
Doris H. Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Tischer
Jay L. Troxell Family
Bruce Van Wyk
John M. Waltersdorf Family
Mr & Mrs. Robert A. Wantz
Mrs. Dorothy Slocum Webster
Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Weeks
Mrs. Mary B. Welty
Captain J. Maury Werth
Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Whisner
Mr. & Mrs. William P. Young, Jr.
SEASON SPONSORS & PARTNERS
Our Deepest Gratitude to Our Season Sponsors and Partners
The Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s 2024-2025 season is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors and partners. We extend heartfelt thanks for their commitment to bringing exceptional music to our community.
The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.
“INSPIRATIONS” PRE-CONCERT EXPERIENCE SPONSOR
The Schurz Family
SUBSCRIBER & DONOR VIP LOUNGE SPONSOR
The Holzapfel Family
SENIOR TRANSPORTATION SPONSOR
Mr. Ed Lough
SEASON HOSPITALITY PARTNER
FREDERICK TRANSPORTATION SPONSOR
TICKET SPONSOR
SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT
People come to the Symphony for beautiful music, socialization, and community. I have made so many lifelong friends and found a community at the MSO.
- Deb Bockrath
For thirty years, Deb Bockrath has been a pillar of the MSO. She has served on the Symphony Guild and Board of Directors as well as chaired the Education Committee for nearly twenty years where she now coordinates educational programing.
“I’ve always loved working with kids, so the Education Committee seemed to be the perfect place for me. One of my favorite parts of the programs is seeing the look on kids’ faces when they play an instrument for the first time and knowing you’ve inspired them, it’s amazing. Music gives kids a goal, a group of people to engage with, and a way to make friends. It’s something meaningful to do and fills their time with progress. There are so many studies about the benefits that music brings to children as they grow, it gives them a group and a mission. I’m hoping that the gift I’ve given to education programing and the time I spend working on these programs will let us give that to more and more kids as the department continues to grow.”
As the Co-Chair of the newly restored Guild, Deb continues:
“It is my hope that through restarting the guild, we will give adults the opportunity to connect through music and each other, not just the kids. Everyone can find community and passion here, and I’m glad to see that the MSO is trying to give back now more than ever. I hope the Guild restarting will give people the opportunity to be involved with that.”
From all of us at the MSO, we thank you, Deb for all that you have done and continue to do in support of the perpetuity of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Our Education Department and organization as a whole has been forever changed because of you.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Schulze on 25 Years!
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