The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs

MAY 6–14, 2023

JANET QUINNEY LAWSON CAPITOL THEATRE

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WELCOME

On behalf of the board, staff, artists, and musicians of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre for this presentation of the Grammy-winning opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell.

STEVEN BROSVIK President & CEO

Enigmatic cultural icon Steve Jobs relentlessly dedicated himself to creating the perfect device while wrestling with his own imperfections. He developed technology to connect us all while struggling to connect with those around him. To witness an imagined reflection on the meaning of life through this live theatrical blend of song and words allows us a powerful opportunity to gain empathetic understanding of ourselves and those around us. By experiencing, together, the emotions of his triumphs and struggles in the heighted way that music allows, we are all connected—audience, cast, and orchestra in a truly meaningful way.

USUO is proud to have joined with Austin Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Calgary Opera to create the production you witness today which utilizes a modular design concept that enables it to be presented in a wide variety of venues for years to come. We carry this collaborative spirit into the community partnerships we foster as we build upon our past work to invigorate and excite our audience members, expand our impact across our communities, and reach ever more people through the art we create.

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THE UNIVERSE WITHIN

By Michael Clive

What’s the right kind of dramatic premise for an opera? We’ve come a long way from the earliest operas, which were generally restricted to subjects from classical myth, ancient history, or the Bible. Their music enfolded highly symbolic story lines that might enfold moral lessons or even serve as political propaganda for the composer’s patron. These days, the daring souls who choose to create operas face fewer constraints than their predecessors, but that doesn’t make their task any easier than in the past. They must still find subjects that are “operatic”—dramas that engage big ideas and are relevant to our lives.

What about a music-drama that explores the life of an individual who changed history? We could call it a “bio-opera.” It’s not a new idea; examples from past centuries include Handel’s Julius Caesar, Rossini’s William Tell, and Massenet’s Le Cid. But composer Mason Bates’ The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs is an example of a different, more modern genre. It challenges us to consider the life of an individual from our own times, to consider the meaning of that life, and then to look inward to understand the meaning of that life. Examples of this more modern approach include Phillip Glass’ Akhnaten and his Satyagraha (about Mahatma Gandhi); Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X; and Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, based on the memoir by writer Charles M. Blow.

In putting Steve Jobs on the opera stage, Bates and librettist Mark Campbell

explore the spiritual evolution of one of the most influential men of modern times as he launches a revolutionary new world of technological empowerment, then confronts the larger world within himself. Like Steve Jobs, Bates is an innovator whose creativity extends beyond traditional boundaries, combining orchestral scoring with electronics in ways that have made him one of the most sought-after and widely programmed living composers. In The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Bates and Campbell give us an alternative and intimate perspective of a public life, examining the people and experiences that shaped Jobs’ life: his father, his Buddhist practice, his rise and fall as an executive, and finally his marriage to the woman who showed him the power of human connection.

The magical intersection between music and technology is a central tenet of Mason Bates’ work, from his operatic and orchestral compositions to his work as a composer, DJ and curator. During his term as the first composer-in-residence at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, he presented a diverse array of artists through his KC Jukebox using immersive production and stagecraft. His works and his curation are imaginatively transforming the way classical music is both created and experienced. Championed by legendary conductors from Riccardo Muti to Marin Alsop, his symphonic music is the first to receive widespread acceptance for its unique integration of electronic sounds, and he was named the second most-performed

THE UNIVERSE WITHIN

composer of his generation in a recent survey of American music. The original-cast recording of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs received the 2019 GRAMMY award for best opera recording. A recent production in Calgary, Alberta was described as a “mustsee event” by the Calgary Herald.

The musical language of this opera enfolds us in an immersive experience. Bates has described his compositional approach as exploding the concept of Wagnerian leitmotifs into individual sound-worlds, with each character assuming not just a figural motif, but an entire sonic identity. Commenting on the original production, Bates noted that “I wanted Steve’s sound-world to have an authenticity to it, whether through the use of internal machine sounds (spinning hard drives or key-clicks) or external sound effects (charming whizzes and beeps).” His erstwhile friend and business partner Steve Wozniak (“Woz”) is “trailed” by tandem saxophones; his wife, Chrisann Brennan, is tagged by twittering flutes.

The opera’s libretto was written by multiple award-winning librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell, whose operas are among the most successful in the contemporary canon. A prolific writer, Mark has created 40 opera librettos, lyrics for seven musicals, and the text for nine song cycles and four oratorios. Among his best-known opera librettos is Silent Night, which received a Pulitzer Prize in Music and, along with his opera As One, is one of the most frequently produced operas in recent history. In addition to The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Mark’s other successful works include The Shining, Sanctuary Road, Stonewall, Later the Same Evening, The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare, The Manchurian

Candidate, Approaching Ali, The Secret River, A Letter to East 11th Street, Dinner at Eight, Volpone, Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Girl in the World, Stone Soup, and Bastianello/Lucrezia. His musicals include Songs from an Unmade Bed, The Audience, and Splendora. He has also created a new adaptation of Stravinsky/Ramuz’s The Soldier’s Story.

In none of these works was the challenge of creating a libretto more formidable: a text suitable for opera singers to sing onstage while sounding natural and in a current vernacular. Yet Campbell had one advantage we all share in approaching this subject: direct knowledge of Jobs as a public figure and of how his ideas changed our lives. In a note for world premiere production, he observed: “I initially accepted Mason’s invitation to write the libretto…because I love his music, especially the brilliant kinetic energy and theatricality of his sound…I realized that it was an ideal match of a composer to a subject…Sometimes when I got stuck in this libretto, I would look back to 1984 and my first experience with my toastersized 128k Mac in my toaster-sized East [Greenwich] Village [New York] apartment.”

As Campbell’s recollection vividly demonstrates, personal experience pointed his way into The

(R)evolution of Steve Jobs

As audience members, we must follow his lead. This opera poses questions, but not answers, about how we experience life’s challenges in the digital age. Bates and Campbell challenge us to consider these questions with an open mind. Technology has become a gateway to the beautiful, immense, data-rich universe we inhabit. But how has it shaped our understanding of the larger universe within all of us?

BIO-OPERA CONSIDERING CONTEMPORARY CELEBRITY

By Jeff Counts

If it’s true that the distance between “wellknown” and “famous” can be measured in scandals, then we are living in a golden age of notoriety. Of course, everyone from every age could say that, and they would have a good argument. But there is little doubt that ours is a time of uniquely instant and complete scrutiny, a society without secrets if there ever was one. No good deed goes unpunished in the 21st century, no misdeed undissected, so the price of repute can be very high. Especially if your life story is interesting enough to tell on stage.

Recently, opera composers and librettists have been drawn to the big personalities that dominate our attention spans. Operas based on books, plays and other

intellectual artifacts are as common as ever, but they are joined now by a rising number of works inspired by the more, shall we say, vernacular print forms like newspapers, tabloids and press releases. A list of these “bio-operas” (think “bio-pics”) would fill too many pages, but there are a few highlights worth mentioning here. Each of them illustrates the test of embodying people whose voices and faces we already know so well.

Thomas Adès, back in 1995, wrote Powder Her Face, an explicit look into the life of Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, whose marriages, affairs and divorces were front page news during the 1960s. Opera houses have known such characters for

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centuries, but the sexual frankness of Adès’ tale gave Margaret’s high society antics a trashy, early-television-era appeal.

Speaking of television, Jerry Springer: The Opera may not actually be an opera, but it does expertly capture the cult worship of early 2000s talk show hosts. Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee’s work elicited as many complaints during its 3-year London run as Springer’s own program did in its heyday. The unflinching raunchiness of the libretto wouldn’t raise many eyebrows today, but the juxtaposition of high-brow and low still makes an uncomfortable impression.

Gaddafi – A Living Myth premiered in 2006 and it too resists classification as

an opera, at least in the traditional sense. English National Opera commissioned the work from composer and electronic music bandmember Steven Chandra Savale, and everyone involved took a beating in the press. It was saddled at the time with nothing less than the “redefining” the operatic art form, but most found it as odd and unpleasant as its principal subject. Librettist Richard Thomas would return to the gossip pages in 2011 on a project with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. Anna Nicole replayed the tragicomic story of model-turned-punchline Anna Nicole Smith, the centerfold with the highly public life that culminated in a controversial marriage to an 89-year-old billionaire. Notions of beauty, greed, privacy and grief all vie for our gaze in what Michael White of The New York

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Times called the newest addition to the “sisterhood of the fallen”. Like the operatic version of Margaret Campbell, this Anna Nicole is familiar too, in her way.

The list, as previously mentioned... Marylin Monroe, Malcom X, Oliver Sacks... goes on and on. And it brings us, for now, to 2019 and the premiere of The (R) Evolution of Steve Jobs by Mason Bates and Mark Campbell. Here was a man with an arguably greater impact on our lives than all the above names combined. By some estimates, his phones can be found in the pockets and handbags of 28% of the world’s cellular customers, and his signature jeans and black mock turtleneck have embedded themselves in our collective subconsciousness. Ask any person to picture a stereotypical modern tech-maestro in their mind’s eye, and they will see Steve Jobs.

Jobs may have moved through the world like a god at times, but he was no angel. For all his contributions to communication and productivity, his story was littered with troubling personal choices and bad faith acts. He could be warm and welcoming on stage, but cold and calculating in the office. He was a visionary world-builder. He was a deadbeat dad. In other words, ideal for opera.

For his part, (R)Evolution of Steve Jobs librettist Mark Campbell knew the challenge he was facing. In a recent interview, he admitted some initial reluctance about representing Jobs’ personal journey on stage. But he quickly understood that there were opportunities for nuanced humanity in an iconic, complicated man like the Apple co-founder, that his evolution had lessons for all of us. Still, the line between vilification and glorification was very fine, and Campbell had to walk it carefully if he hoped to interrogate, and perhaps re-shape, the version of Steve Jobs we all have in our heads.

When asked about his process as a librettist, Campbell says he “starts from the heart” and that his job is to “write words people will want to sing.” It’s an ideal starting place for The (R)Evolution of Steve Jobs. No other art form, not even film, has as many tools at its disposal to tackle such a topic. Operas about people like Anna Nicole Smith, Colonel Gaddafi and Jerry Springer might not stand the test of time, but that doesn’t mean they were bad ideas. Because it’s music that best unties the knots of narrative impossibility. Song is ultimately more powerful than any special effect, any literary trick. It doesn’t always work, sure. But when it does...

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MASON BATES & MARK CAMPBELL’S

THE (R)EVOLUTION OF STEVE JOBS

MAY 2023

JANET QUINNEY LAWSON CAPITOL THEATRE

Composed by Mason Bates & Libretto by Mark Campbell

Utah Opera Premiere Sung in English Supertitles by Mark Campbell

COMPANY

Steve Jobs ...................................................... John Moore

Laurene Powell Jobs Sarah Coit**

Kōbun Chino Otogawa Wei Wu

Steve Wozniak (“Woz”) .............................................. Bille Bruley

Chrisann Brennan ................................................ Amy Owens**

Paul Jobs Stephen Pace

Teacher Winona Martin*

Young Steve Jobs Declan Morrissey

ARTISTIC TEAM

Conductor Robert Tweten

Original Stage Director ............................................ Tomer Zvulun

Associate Director ............................................ Rebecca Herman

Scenic and Costume Designer Jacob A. Climer

Lighting Designer Robert Wierzel

Projection Designer ............................................. S. Katy Tucker

Sound Designer ............................................... Rick Jacobsohn

Wigs and Makeup Design Shannon Hutchins

Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master Samuel McCoy

Associate Lighting Designer .................................... Marcella Barbeau

Associate Projection Designer ...................................... Blake Manns

Assistant Sound Designer Brian Losch

Stage Manager Kathleen Edwards

Assistant Stage Managers ............................... Jack Ruffer, Colleen Kane

Principal Coach ............................................... Carol Anderson

Guest Coach Lindsay Woodward**

Chorus Pianist Laura Bleakley*

Supertitle Musician ............................................. Mitchell Atencio

This production is jointly owned by Utah Symphony I Utah Opera, The Atlanta Opera, Austin Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and Calgary Opera Association. Scenery constructed by The Lyric Opera of Kansas City. Properties constructed by The Atlanta Opera Production Studio. Costumes coordinated by The Atlanta Opera Costume Studio.

Production is 1:40 hours with no intermission

* Utah Opera Resident Artist

** Former Utah Opera Resident Artist

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COMPANY

John Moore (Minnesota)

Steve Jobs

Utah Opera Debut

Recently:

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Seattle Opera; Le nozze di Figaro, New Zealand Opera

Upcoming:

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, San Francisco Opera; The Listeners, Opera Philadelphia

Sarah Coit (Pennsylvania)

Laurene Powell Jobs

Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Barber of Seville

Former Utah Opera Resident Artist

Recently:

Ariadne auf Naxos, Arizona Opera;

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Seattle Opera

Upcoming:

Judas Maccabaeus, American Bach Soloists; La Cenerentola, Toledo Opera

Wei Wu (New York)

Kōbun Chino Otogawa

Utah Opera Debut

Recently:

Tosca, Los Angeles Opera; Rigoletto, Opera Philadelphia

Upcoming:

Roméo et Juliette, Central City Opera; Carmen, The Metropolitan Opera

Bille Bruley (Arizona)

Steve Wozniak (“Woz”)

Utah Opera Debut

Recently:

Ariadne auf Naxos, Arizona Opera;

Sweeney Todd, Austin Opera

Upcoming:

Der fliegende Holländer, Santa Fe Opera; The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, San Francisco Opera

COMPANY

Amy Owens (New Mexico)

Chrisann Brennan

Most Recently at Utah Opera, Candide

Former Utah Opera Resident Artist

Recently:

The Pirates of Penzance, Virginia Opera; Flight, Dallas Opera

Upcoming:

Our Town, Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater

Stephen Pace (Utah)

Paul Jobs

Most Recently at Utah Opera, Flight

Recently:

Silent Night, Utah Opera; Roméo et Juliette, Utah Opera

Winona Martin (Texas)

Teacher

Most Recently at Utah Opera, Rigoletto

Recently:

Susannah, Wolf Trap Opera;

Albert Herring, Boston Conservatory Opera

Upcoming:

Don Giovanni, Faust, Wolf Trap Opera; Roméo et Juliette, Washington National Opera; Le nozze di Figaro, Utah Opera;

Declan Morrissey (Utah)

Young Steve Jobs

Utah Opera Debut

Current Student at The Madeleine Choir School, Papal mass, Duomo of Milan, St. Peters, St. Francis Basilica

ARTISTIC TEAM

Robert Tweten (New Mexico) Conductor

Most Recently at Utah Opera, Flight

Recently:

Falstaff, Santa Fe Opera;

L’arbore di Diana, New England Conservatory

Upcoming:

La bohème, Utah Opera

Tomer Zvulun (Georgia)

Original Production & Staging

Most Recently at Utah Opera, Silent Night

Recently:

Das Rheingold, Dallas Opera; Madama Butterfly, The Atlanta Opera

Upcoming:

Die Walküre, The Atlanta Opera; A Midsummer Night’s dream, The Atlanta Opera

Rebecca Herman (Texas) Associate Director

Utah Opera Debut

Recently:

Trouble in Tahiti, Tulsa Opera; Bastien und Bastienne, Butler Opera Center

Upcoming:

La Femme Bohème, Le Nozze di Figaro, Spotlight on Opera, Don Giovanni, Austin Lyric Opera

Jacob A. Climer (New York) Scenic and Costume Designer

Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Little Prince

Recently:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Des Moines Metro Opera; The Odyssey, The Alley theater

Upcoming:

The Love for Three Oranges, Des Moines Metro Opera Texas Rose Festival

S. Katy Tucker (New York) Projection Designer

Recently:

Medea, The Metropolitan Opera; Elektra, Washington National Opera

Upcoming:

Florencia en el Amazonas, The Metropolitan Opera; Turandot, Washington National Opera

ARTISTIC TEAM / CHORUS

Robert Wierzel (Connecticut)

Lighting Designer

Most Recently at Utah Opera, Silent Night

Recently:

Das Rheingold, The Atlanta Opera; Blue, Washington National Opera

Upcoming:

We Shall Not Be Moved, Pittsburgh Opera; Romeo & Juliet, Glimmerglass Festival

Samuel McCoy (Pennsylvania)

Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master

Most Recently at Utah Opera, Rigoletto

Recently:

Assistant Conductor, Der fliegende Holländer

The Companion, Mostly Modern Festival

Cav+Pag, New Camerata Opera

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Rick Jacobsohn (New York)

Sound Designer

Recently:

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Calgary Opera;

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, The Atlanta Opera

Upcoming:

The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, San Francisco Opera; Unholy Wars, Opera Philadelphia

Shannon Hutchins (Utah)

Wig & Makeup Designer

Most Recently at Utah Opera, The Flying Dutchman

Recently:

Shucked!, Pioneer Playhouse; Passion, Boston Court Pasadena

Upcoming:

Studio C Seasons 17 &18, BYU TV

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Kiersten Honaker

Jasmine Rodriguez

Katie Sullivan

Kathryn Thompson

ALTO

Natalie Easter

Melissa James

ShaRee Larsen

Winona Martin

TENOR

Jordon LeBaron

Marcus Lee

Jehú Otero

Lucas Henry Proctor

BASS

Bennett Chew

Dyson Ford

Tshilidzi Ndou

Zachary Smith

Chorus

COMPOSER & LIBRETTIST

Composer of the Grammy-winning opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs, Mason Bates is imaginatively connecting the worlds of opera, film, orchestras, and DJing. His work spans major venues such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he was appointed that company’s first composer-in-residence, to The Metropolitan Opera, which commissioned The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Bates has also composed for film, scoring Gus Van Sant’s The Sea of Trees starring Matthew McConaughey and Naomi Watts.

Championed by conductors from Riccardo Muti to Michael Tilson Thomas, his symphonic music is the first to receive widespread acceptance for its unique integration of electronic sounds, and a recent survey named him the 2nd most-performed living composer. His interest in integrating classical music into the digital age has continued with Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra, an animated film with live orchestra for which he composed the score and served as executive producer. The film, with a Grammy-winning soundtrack, was released in the fall of 2022 on Apple TV and can be seen live in concert around the world.

Working in clubs as DJ Masonic, Bates is Artistic Director of Mercury Soul, an organization producing immersive fusions of DJs and classical music in clubs around the country. He serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

The Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winning operas of librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell are among the most successful in the contemporary canon. A prolific writer, Mark has created 40 opera librettos, lyrics for 7 musicals, and the text for 9 song cycles and 4 oratorios.

Campbell’s best- known work is Silent Night, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music and has already entered the standard operatic repertory. Other successful operas include Elizabeth Cree, Some Light Emerges, Dinner at Eight, The Nefarious, Immoral but Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke & Mr. Hare, The Shining, Later the Same Evening, Volpone, Bastianello/ Lucrezia, Rappahannock County, The Manchurian Candidate, As One, and The Shining.

Mark has received many other prestigious prizes for his work, including the first Kleban Foundation Award for Lyricist, three Grammy nominations (one winning) for Best Classical Recording, two Richard Rodgers Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, three Drama Desk nominations, a Jonathan Larson Foundation Award, a New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, the first Dominic J. Pelliciotti Award, and a grant from the New York State Council of the Arts.

MARK CAMPBELL Librettist

MASON BATES Composer

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PROLOGUE

1965: The Jobs family garage, Los Altos

Paul Jobs presents his son Steve with a workbench as a birthday present and calls it “a fine place to start.”

SCENE 1

2007: The stage of a convention center, San Francisco

An adult Steve Jobs delivers a public launch of his company’s new product— “one device”—that will revolutionize technology. He ends his pitch noticeably weak and short of breath.

SCENE 2

2007, directly after: Corporate offices, Cupertino

Steve retreats to his office. His wife Laurene chides him for not taking better care of himself and losing himself in his work. She asks him to return home.

SCENE 3

2007, later that afternoon: The hills around Cupertino

Steve goes on a long meditative walk. He encounters Kōbun Chino Otogawa, Steve’s former spiritual mentor in Sōtō Zen Buddhism, who died five years before. Steve remembers something he once said: “You can’t connect the dots going forward. You can only connect them going backward.” As they gaze at the sunset, Kōbun prompts Steve to acknowledge his mortality.

SCENE 4

1973: A class in calligraphy, Reed College, Oregon

A teacher discusses the significance of the ensō, a circle drawn in Japanese calligraphy. Steve is inspired by the aesthetic ideas of elegance and simplicity.

SCENE 5

1973: The garage of the Jobs family home, Los Altos

Steve’s best friend Steve Wozniak (“Woz”) has created a “blue box,” a device that allows the user to make free telephone calls. Steve and “Woz” celebrate the ease with which they think corporate giants can be toppled.

SCENE 6

1974: An apple orchard near Los Altos

Steve and his girlfriend Chrisann take LSD. Steve imagines their surroundings coming to life as an orchestra, playing Bach. The two start to make love when Kōbun interrupts them.

SCENE 7

2007: The hills around Cupertino

1975: Los Altos Zen Center

Kōbun informs Steve that he cannot live at the Zen Center and hints that his destiny may lie elsewhere.

SCENE 8

1989: A lecture Hall, Stanford University Steve meets Laurene for the first time.

SCENE 9

1976: The garage of the Jobs family home, Los Altos

Woz presents a new computer interface to Steve. Chrisann arrives and tells Steve that she is pregnant. When Steve demands that Chrisann end the pregnancy, she leaves in tears. Steve and Woz dream about the future of their invention, Steve remembering the orchestra in the orchard playing Bach and imagining the computer as “something we play.”

SCENE 10

1989: Steve Jobs’ home, Palo Alto Steve shows Laurene his sparsely furnished

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home. Photographs by Ansel Adams in Steve’s home prompt a brief discussion about artistic inspiration. Laurene and Steve go to the bedroom to make love for the first time.

SCENE 11

1980: Corporate Offices, Cupertino

Steve severs ties with Chrisann and angers Woz by denying a fellow employee his pension. Chrisann and Woz lament the loss of the Steve they once knew.

SCENE 12

1981–1986: Corporate Offices, Cupertino

Steve denies palimony to Chrisann for their child, Lisa, and offends Woz, who quits. Demoted by the board of directors, Steve bitterly leaves the company and has a breakdown.

SCENE 13

2007: The hills around Cupertino

Kōbun reminds Steve that it was necessary for him to learn from his mistakes. He shows Steve a brief replay of his life after he fell apart, revisiting his first meeting with Laurene and the evening when he fell in love with her.

SCENE 14

2007: The hills around Cupertino 1989: A lecture hall, Stanford University

The day when Steve and Laurene met.

SCENE 15

2007: The hills around Cupertino 1989: Steve Jobs’ home, Palo Alto

The evening in Steve’s home when he fell in love with Laurene. Kōbun reminds Steve that Laurene also helped keep his ego in check.

SCENE 16

2007: Steve Jobs’ home Steve returns home after his walk to find Laurene waiting for him. She confronts Steve and gets him to accept his illness and mortality.

SCENE 17

1991: Yosemite National Park

Kōbun marries Steve and Laurene in a Buddhist ceremony. Steve expresses his love for Laurene and his gratitude to her for teaching him the value of human connection. Kōbun’s 1992 death is revealed, prompting a meditation on mortality that segues into the next scene.

SCENE 18

2011: Stanford University Chapel

Kōbun explains that Steve is witnessing his own memorial service. Steve protests a few production elements of the service, but Kōbun tells him to be still, to simplify. Laurene and Woz muse about Steve. Finally, Laurene is left alone and observes that while Steve will be both lionized and demonized, no one can deny his influence on the world.

EPILOGUE (FULL CIRCLE)

1965: The garage of the Jobs family home, Los Altos

As Laurene looks on, Paul Jobs presents his son with a workbench on his birthday as “a fine place to start.”

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UTAH SYMPHONY

Thierry Fischer, Music Director

The Maurice Abravanel Chair, endowed by the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation

Benjamin Manis

Associate Conductor

Barlow Bradford Symphony Chorus Director

VIOLIN*

Madeline Adkins

Concertmaster

The Jon M. & Karen

Huntsman Chair, in honor of Wendell J. & Belva B. Ashton

Kathryn Eberle

Associate Concertmaster

The Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Chair

Laura Ha

2nd Associate Concertmaster

Claude Halter Principal Second

Wen Yuan Gu#

Associate Principal Second

Evgenia Zharzhavskaya Assistant Principal Second

Karen Wyatt••

Sara Bauman~

Erin David

Joseph Evans

Lun Jiang

Rebekah Johnson••

Tina Johnson~

Amanda Kofoed~

Jennifer Kozbial Posadas~

Veronica Kulig

David Langr

Shengnan Li

Hannah Linz••

Yuki MacQueen

Alexander Martin

Rebecca Moench

Hugh Palmer•

David Porter

Lynn Maxine Rosen

Barbara Ann Scowcroft**

Ju Hyung Shin•

Bonnie Terry

Julie Wunderle

VIOLA*

Brant Bayless Principal

The Sue & Walker

Wallace Chair

Yuan Qi

Associate Principal

Julie Edwards

Joel Gibbs

Carl Johansen

Scott Lewis

John Posadas

Whittney Sjogren

Leslie Richards~

CELLO*

Matthew Johnson Acting Principal

The J. Ryan Selberg Memorial Chair

Andrew Larson Acting Associate Principal

John Eckstein

Walter Haman

Anne Lee

Louis-Philippe Robillard

Kevin Shumway

Hannah Thomas-Hollands~

Pegsoon Whang

BASS*

David Yavornitzky

Principal

Corbin Johnston Associate Principal

James Allyn

Andrew Keller

Edward Merritt

Jens Tenbroek

Thomas Zera

HARP

Louise Vickerman Principal

FLUTE

Mercedes Smith

Principal

The Val A. Browning Chair

Lisa Byrnes

Associate Principal

Caitlyn Valovick Moore

PICCOLO

Caitlyn Valovick Moore

OBOE

Zachary Hammond

Principal

The Gerald B. & Barbara F. Stringfellow Chair

James Hall

Associate Principal

Lissa Stolz

ENGLISH HORN

Lissa Stolz

CLARINET

Tad Calcara

Principal

The Norman C. & Barbara Lindquist

Tanner Chair, in memory of Jean Lindquist Pell

Erin Svoboda-Scott

Associate Principal

Lee Livengood

BASS CLARINET

Lee Livengood

E-FLAT CLARINET

Erin Svoboda-Scott

BASSOON

Lori Wike Principal

The Edward & Barbara Moreton Chair

Leon Chodos Associate Principal

Jennifer Rhodes

CONTRABASSOON

Leon Chodos

HORN

Jessica Danz Principal

Edmund Rollett Associate Principal

Nate Basinger~ Julia Pilant~

Stephen Proser

TRUMPET

Travis Peterson Principal

Jeff Luke

Associate Principal

Peter Margulies

Paul Torrisi

TROMBONE

Mark Davidson Principal

Sam Elliot

Associate Principal

BASS TROMBONE

Graeme Mutchler

TUBA

Alexander Purdy Principal

TIMPANI

George Brown

Principal

Eric Hopkins

Associate Principal

PERCUSSION

Keith Carrick Principal

Eric Hopkins

Michael Pape

KEYBOARD

Jason Hardink Principal

LIBRARIANS

Clovis Lark Principal

Claudia Restrepo

ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL

Walt Zeschin

Director of Orchestra Personnel

Hannah Thomas-Hollands Orchestra Personnel Manager

• First Violin •• Second Violin

* String Seating Rotates ** On Leave

# Sabbatical ~ Substitute Member

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Gifts as of March 7, 2023

* in-kind donation ** in-kind & cash donations † deceased

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Anonymous Kem & Carolyn Gardner

ENCORE ($100,000 TO $249,999)

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T. Dee Foundation

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BRAVO ($50,000 TO $99,999)

Judy Brady† & Drew

W. Browning

Larry Clemmensen

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Edward Moreton

Estate of Linda & Donald Price

Mark & Dianne Prothro

Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols

Harris H. & Amanda Simmons

OVERTURE ($25,000 TO $49,999)

Fran Akita

Doyle Arnold & Anne Glarner

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Bloomfield Family Foundation

John H.† & Joan B. Firmage

John H. & Carol Firmage

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Intuitive Funding

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Peggy & Ben Schapiro

Elizabeth Solomon

George Speciale

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Jacquelyn Wentz

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Zipser

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Anonymous

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Judy & Larry Brownstein

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Jeanne Kimball

Mr. & Mrs. Christopher

J. Lansing

Bill Ligety & Cyndi Sharp

Tom & Janet McDougal

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Millerberg Family Foundation

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David & Shari Quinney

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The Christian V. & Lisa D. Young Family Foundation

Kathie Zumbro

INDIVIDUAL DONORS

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4Girls Foundation

Anonymous [10]

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H. Brent & Bonnie Jean

Beesley

David Brown

Hannalorre Chahine

William & Patricia Child

John Clukey

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LJJ Fund at the Community Foundation of Utah

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Cutler

Anne Daigle & Rich Heyman

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Matthew B. Ellis Foundation

Jack & Marianne Ferraro

Rulon Gardner

Sarah Garrison

Diana George

Elaine Gordon

Barbara Greenlee

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Casper

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Parks

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Anonymous [2]

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Austin

Tina & John Barry

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Dr. Melissa Bentley

Céline Browning

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Mr. & Mrs. William D.

Callister

Vincent Cannella

Dr.† & Mrs. Anthony Carter

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Quinn Family Charitable Foundation

Brooks & Lenna Quinn

Joyce Rice

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Sandefur Schmidt

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Craig Stuart

David O. Tanner

Paul Taylor

Tim & Judy Terrell

Brad E. & Linda P. Walton

Jaelee Watanabe

Dan & Amy Wilcox

Douglas Wood

TO $4,999)

Po & Beatrice Chang & Family

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Howard & Betty Clark

George & Katie Coleman

Debbi & Gary Cook

Dr. Thomas D. & Joanne A. Coppin

Cindy Corbin

Ruth Davidson

Thomas D. Dee III & Dr. Candace Dee

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Margarita Donnelly

John D Doppelheuer M.D. & Kirsten A. Hanson M.D.

Karey Dye

Carol & Greg Easton

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James Finch

Adele & James Forman

Linda Francis

Thomas Fuller

Joseph F. Furlong III

Robert & Annie-Lewis Garda

Dave Garside

Larry Gerlach

Jeffrey L. Giese, M.D. & Mary E. Giese

Bob & Mary Gilchrist

Shari Gottlieb

Susan Graves

Dr. & Mrs. John Greenlee

Ronald & Kaye Gunnell

Kenneth & Kate Handley

Jonathan Hart

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Jeff & Peggy Hatch

Nancy Ann Heaps

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Don Hendricks

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Michael Huerta & Ann

Sowder

Jay & Julie Jacobson

Drs. Randy & Elizabeth Jensen

M. Craig & Rebecca Johns

Maxine & Bruce Johnson

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Neone F. Jones Family

Dr. Michael A. Kalm

Dr. James & Carolyn

Katsikas

Michael & Amy Kennedy

Les Kratter

Jeffrey LaMora

Dr. Donald & Alice Lappe

Tim & Angela Laros

Harrison & Elaine Levy

Michael Liess

Abbot B & Joan M Lipsky

Fund

John & Kristine Maclay

Abigail Magrane

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Vickerman

Kathryn & Jed Marti

Dale & Carol Matuska

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Ted A. McKay

Karen & Mike McMenomy

George & Nancy Melling

David B. & Colleen A. Merrill

John & Bria Mertens

Carol & Anthony W. Middleton, Jr., M.D.

Cyrus & Roseann Mirsaidi

MJZR Charitable Trust

Dr. Louis A. Moench & Deborah Moench

Ashton Newhall

Vincent & Elizabeth Novack

Patrick O’Connell

Stanley B. & Joyce M. Parrish

Elodie Payne

Ray Pickup

Lisa Poppleton & Jim Stringfellow

W.E. & Harriet R. Rasmussen

Glenn Ricart

Gina Rieke

Mr. & Mrs. Robert Rollo

Rebecca Roof & Gary Smith

Royall Family Charitable

Fund

Nathan Royall

Mark & Loulu Saltzman

Margaret P. Sargent

Nathan & Shannon Savage

Diana Scardilli

Dr. S. Brent & Janet

Scharman

James & Janet Schnitz

William G. Schwartz & Jo

Ann Givan

Lisa & Joel Shine

Gibbs† & Catherine W. Smith

Sheryl & James Snarr

Spitzberg-Rothman

Foundation

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Toni Stein

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Richard Valliere

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Susan Warshaw

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Kelly Whitcomb

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Bruce Woollen

E. Woolston† & Connie Jo

Hepworth-Woolston

Caroline & Thomas Wright

Peter Zutty

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FRIEND ($1,000 TO $2,499)

Anonymous [5]

Marlene Abbott Barber

Carolyn Abravanel

Christine A. Allred

Margaret Anderson

Ian Arnold

Marlene Barnett

Tom & Carolee Baron

Sue Barsamian

Victoria Bennion

Sarah Bienvenue

Harvey & Donna Birsner

C. Kim & Jane Blair

Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Carter, Jr.

Wan P. Chang

William J. Coles & Joan L. Coles

Community Trust of Utah

Dr. & Mrs. David Coppin

David & Carol Coulter

James Dashner

David & Karen Gardner Dee

Charles Deneris

Klancy & Noel† DeNevers

Dr. Paul Dorgan

Frank & Kathleen Dougherty

Eric & Shellie Eide

Karen Fletcher

Shawn Fojtik

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Heidi Gardner

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Andrea Golding Legacy Foundation

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Travis W. Hancock

Brad Hare MD & Akiko Okifuji PhD

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Grant H. Schettler

August L. Schultz

Gerald† & Sharon Seiner

Silver Fox

Barbara Slaymaker

Janette Smith

Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Stevens

Jim Swayze

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James Upchurch

Dr. Ralph & Judith

Vander Heide

Dr. James C. Warenski

Stephen Watson

Emily Weingeist

Frank & Janell Weinstock

David B. & Anne Wirthlin

Gayle & Sam Youngblood**

Laurie Zeller & Matthew Kaiser

ENDOWMENT

DONORS TO UTAH SYMPHONY | UTAH OPERA ENDOWMENT

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Anonymous

Edward R. Ashwood & Candice A. Johnson

Gael Benson

C. Comstock Clayton Foundation

Estate of Alexander Bodi

The Elizabeth Brown

Dee Fund for Music in the Schools

Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation

Thomas D. Dee III & Dr. Candace Dee

Hearst Foundation

Estate of John Henkels

Roger & Susan Horn

Carolyn T. Irish Revocable Trust

Estate of Marilyn Lindsay

The Right Reverend

Carolyn Tanner Irish† and Mr. Frederick Quinn

Loretta M. Kearns†

Vicki McGregor

Edward Moreton

Estate of Pauline C. Pace

The Linda & Don Price Guest Artist Fund

Perkins-Prothro Foundation

Kenneth† & Jerrie Randall

The Evelyn Rosenblatt

Young Artist Award

Bill & Joanne Shiebler

GIFTS MADE IN HONOR

Alex Martin

Carol Anderson

Doyle Clayburn

Anne & Ashby Decker

Thierry Fischer

Nancy & Eric Garen

GIFTS MADE IN MEMORY

Danny Boy

Julie Lee Lawrence

Joan Coles

JoDeane Cruz

Jack Golden Edwards

Kathy Hall

Carolyn Hanks

John Husband

Karen Johnson

Scott Landvatter

Maxine & Frank McIntyre

Julie Palfreyman

Nancy & Gene Parry

Glade & Mardean Peterson

Steven P. Sondrop

Family Trust

James R. & Susan Swartz

Clark L. Tanner Foundation

Norman C. & Barbara L.

Tanner Charitable Trust

Norman C. & Barbara L.

Tanner Second Charitable Trust

O.C. Tanner Company

Estate of Frederic & Marilyn Wagner

M. Walker† & Sue Wallace

Jack & Mary Lois

Wheatley Family Trust

Edward & Marelynn†

Zipser

Heather Weinstock

Leslie Peterson

Carol Zimmerman

Maria A. Proser

Dan Ragan

Robert C. Sloan

Jayme Terran

Laurie W. Thornton

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We thank our generous donors for their annual support of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera.

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** in-kind & cash donation

$100,000 OR MORE

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HJ & BR Barlow Foundation

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Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation

$50,000 TO $99,999

Anonymous

BMW of Murray/BMW of Pleasant Grove

Dominion Energy

The Florence J. Gillmor

$25,000 TO $49,999

Arnold Machinery

Cache Valley Electric Deer Valley Resort*

The Kahlert Foundation

Marriner S. Eccles Foundation

George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation

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Stowell Leadership Group, LLC*

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Caffé Molise*

Marie Eccles Caine FoundationRussell Family Cultural Vision Fund

Gardner Company

$1,000 TO $9,999

Anonymous

Amazon Black Physicians of Utah

Rodney H. & Carolyn Hansen Brady Charitable Foundation

The Capital Group

David Dee Fine Arts

Spencer F. & Cleone P. Eccles Family Foundation

Henry W. and Leslie M. Eskuche Charitable Foundation

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St. Regis Deer Valley

Stay Park City

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WCF Insurance

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Utah Symphony | Utah Opera would like to especially thank our major sources of public funding that help us to fulfill our mission and serve our community.

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ADMINISTRATION

ADMINISTRATION

Steven Brosvik

President & CEO

David Green

Senior Vice President & COO

Micah Luce

Director of Human Resources & Organizational Culture

Julie McBeth

Executive Assistant to the CEO

Marcus Lee

Executive Assistant to the Senior VP & COO and Office Manager

OPERA ARTISTIC

Christopher McBeth

Opera Artistic Director

Carol Anderson

Principal Coach

Michelle Peterson

Director of Production

Ashley Tingey

Production Coordinator

OPERA TECHNICAL

Sam Miller

Technical Director

Kelly Nickle

Properties Master

JR Orr

Head Carpenter & Shop Foreman

Dusty Terrell

Scenic Charge Artist

COSTUMES

Cee-Cee Swalling

Costume Director

Verona Green

Costume Rentals & Stock Manager

Milivoj Poletan

Master Tailor

Tiffany Lent

Cutter/Draper & Costume Shop Foreman

Sophie Thom

First Hand

Iris Marshall

Costume Rentals & Stock Assistant Manager

Nyssa Sara Lee

Stitcher

SYMPHONY ARTISTIC

Thierry Fischer

Symphony Music Director

Anthony Tolokan

Artistic Consultant

Barlow Bradford

Symphony Chorus Director

Walt Zeschin

Director of Orchestra Personnel

Hannah Thomas-Hollands

Orchestra Personnel Manager

Morgan Moulton

Artistic Planning Manager

Isabella Zini

Artistic Planning Coordinator & Assistant to the Music Director

SYMPHONY OPERATIONS

Cassandra Dozet Senior Director of Operations

Melissa Robison Program Publication & Front of House Director

Chip Dance Director of Production

Jen Shark

Operations Manager

Sarah Madany

Stage Manager

DEVELOPMENT

Leslie Peterson Vice President of Development

Jessica Proctor Director of Institutional Giving

Katie Swainston

Individual Giving Manager

Lisa Poppleton

Grants Manager

Dallin Mills

Development Database Manager

Maren Holmes

Manager of Special Events

Ellesse Hargreaves

Stewardship & Event Coordinator

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Meredith Kimball Laing

Vice President of Marketing & Communications

Adia Thornton

Director of Marketing

Robert Bedont

Marketing Manager

Megs Vincent Communications Manager

Nina Starling

Website Content Coordinator

Ellen Lewis

Marketing & Communications Coordinator

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Faith Myers

Director of Patron Engagement

Jaron Hatch

Patron Services Manager

Toby Simmons

Patron Services Assistant Manager

Genevieve Gannon

Group Sales Associate

Amber Bartlett

Lorraine Fry

Jodie Gressman

Michael Gibson

Sean Leonard

Naomi Newton

Ian Painter

Ananda Spike

Val Tholen

Patron Services Associates

ACCOUNTING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Steve Hogan

Vice President of Finance & CFO

Mike Lund

Director of Information Technologies

Melanie Giles Controller

Jared Mollenkopf

Patron Information Systems Manager

Bobby Alger

Accounts Payable Specialist

EDUCATION

Ben Kipp

Director of Education & Community Engagement

Dr. Jessica Wiley

Symphony Education Manager

Kevin Nakatani

Opera Education Manager

Beth Foley Education Coordinator

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Anonymous

Mr. & Mrs. William C. Bailey

Judy Brady & Drew W. Browning

Dr. Robert H.† & Marianne Harding Burgoyne

Shelly Coburn

Dr. Richard J.† & Mrs. Barbara N.† Eliason

Anne C. Ewers

Joseph & Pat Gartman

Paul (Hap) & Ann† Green

Annette W. & Joseph Q. Jarvis

Edward R. Ashwood & Candice A. Johnson

Clark D. Jones

Turid V. Lipman

Herbert C. & Wilma Livsey

Richard W. & Frances P. Muir

TANNER SOCIETY OF UTAH SYMPHONY

Beethoven Circle (gifts valued at more than $100,000)

Anonymous (3)

Doyle Arnold & Anne Glarner

Edward R. Ashwood & Candice A. Johnson

Dr. J. Richard Baringer

Haven J. Barlow†

Dr. Melissa J. Bentley

Marcy & Mark Casp

Shelly Coburn

Raymond & Diana Compton

Mahler Circle

Anonymous (3)

Eva-Maria Adolphi

Dr. Robert H.† & Marianne

Harding Burgoyne

Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth E. Coombs

Paul (Hap) & Ann† Green

Robert & Carolee Harmon

Richard G. & Shauna† Horne

Virginia A. Hughes

Turid V. Lipman

Anne C. Ewers

Annette W. & Joseph Q. Jarvis

Flemming & Lana Jensen

James Read Lether

Daniel & Noemi P. Mattis

Anthony & Carol W. Middleton, Jr., M.D.

Robert & Diane Miner

Glenn Prestwich

Marilyn H. Neilson

Carol & Ted Newlin

Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols

Mr.† & Mrs. Alvin Richer

Jeffrey W. Shields

G.B. & B.F. Stringfellow

Dr. Ralph & Judith Vander Heide

Edward J. & Marelynn† Zipser

Herbert C. & Wilma Livsey

Dianne May

Jerry & Marcia McClain

Jim & Andrea Naccarato

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