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UTAH SYMPHONY Thierry Fischer, Music Director

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

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Andrew Larson

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Claude Halter

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Wen Yuan Gu

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Evgenia Zharzhavskaya

VIOLA* Brant Bayless

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John Eckstein Walter Haman Anne Lee Louis-Philippe Robillard Kevin Shumway Pegsoon Whang BASS* David Yavornitzky Principal

PICCOLO Caitlyn Valovick Moore

TRUMPET Travis Peterson

OBOE James Hall

Jeff Luke

Principal The Gerald B. & Barbara F. Stringfellow Chair

Robert Stephenson Associate Principal

Lissa Stolz ENGLISH HORN Lissa Stolz CLARINET Tad Calcara

Lee Livengood BASS CLARINET Lee Livengood E-FLAT CLARINET Erin Svoboda-Scott BASSOON Lori Wike

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THIERRY FISCHER CONDUCTS BACH, WYNTON MARSALIS, CARTER & WAGNER APRIL 29–30, 2021 / 7:30 / ABRAVANEL HALL MAY 1, 2021 / 5:30 / ABRAVANEL HALL

Thierry Fischer, conductor Madeline Adkins, violin Claude Halter, violin

BACH: Concerto for 2 Violins in d minor, BWV 1043 I. Vivace II. Largo ma non tanto III. Allegro Madeline Adkins, violin Claude Halter, violin

MARSALIS: A Fiddler’s Tale

Fiddler’s March Happy March Little Concert Piece Tango The Blues On Top

CARTER: Double Trio Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES

Thierry Fischer has been Music Director of the Sao Paulo Symphony since March 2020 and of the Utah Symphony since 2009, becoming Music Director Emeritus in 2023. He was Principal Guest of the Seoul Philharmonic 2017–2020, Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales 2006–2012, and Chief Conductor of the Nagoya Philharmonic 2008–2011 (now Honorary Guest Conductor). In recent seasons he has conducted the Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta and Cincinnati symphonies, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra (New York), BBC Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Maggio Musicale Firenze, Salzburg Mozarteumorchester, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande; also the Swedish and Munich chambers, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Ensemble Intercontemporain. He has performed and commissioned many world premieres.

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

He has led Utah Symphony in annual single composer cycles including Mahler, Ives and Nielsen; he has also released acclaimed performances of Mahler’s symphonies 1 and 8 on Reference Records, the latter with the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir. 2019 saw the first release of a Saint-Saens symphony cycle on Hyperion as part of an ongoing collaboration (also to excellent reviews). He has conducted the orchestra in Utah’s five national parks and forged outreach links in Haiti. In celebration of its 75th anniversary season in 2016, he brought the orchestra to Carnegie Hall for the first time in 40 years and released a CD of newly commissioned works by Nico Muhly, Andrew Norman, and Augusta Read Thomas. For his inaugural concerts in Sao Paulo Fischer conducted Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis with the OSESP Orchestra and Chorus to launch their 2020 Beethoven season. Last season’s highlights also included three back-to-back Beethoven programmes with the Brussels Continued on the next page…

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES Philharmonic at Flagey in Brussels; at the Southbank Centre he conducted Tristan Murail with the London Sinfonietta and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In Autumn 2020, on top of concerts with his titled orchestras, he returned to the London Philharmonic for a streamed concert at the Royal Festival Hall. Whilst Principal Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales 20062012 Fischer appeared every year at the BBC Proms, toured internationally, and recorded for Hyperion, Signum and Orfeo, winning the ICMA Award in 2012 for Frank Martin’s Der Sturm on Hyperion with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic

Orchestra and Chorus. In 2014 he released a Beethoven disc with the London Philharmonic on the Aparte label. Fischer started out as Principal Flute in Hamburg and at the Zurich Opera. His conducting career began in his 30s when he replaced an ailing colleague, subsequently directing his first few concerts with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe where he was Principal Flute under Claudio Abbado. He spent his apprentice years in Holland, and became Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra 2001–2006. Thierry Fischer is represented by Intermusica.

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ARTISTS’ PROFILES Madeline Adkins joined the Utah Symphony as Concertmaster in 2016. She previously served as Associate Concertmaster of the Baltimore Symphony for 11 years, as well as Concertmaster of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra from 2008–2016. Adkins has performed as a soloist in Europe, Asia, Africa, and 20 U.S. states. She has served as guest concertmaster of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra. She has also been a guest artist at numerous summer festivals including the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival in South Africa, the Sarasota Music Festival, Music in the Mountains, the Grand Teton Music Festival, and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, as well as a faculty member at the National Orchestral Institute and the National Youth Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. She performs on the “ex-Chardon” Guadagnini of 1782, graciously loaned by Gabrielle Israelievitch to perpetuate the legacy of her late husband, former Toronto Symphony concertmaster, Jacques Israelievitch. Adkins’ CD of the complete works for violin and piano by Felix Mendelssohn with pianist Luis Magalhães was released in 2016. In 2018-19, she will serve as the Music Director of the NOVA Chamber Music Series. The daughter of noted musicologists, Adkins is the youngest of eight children, six of whom are professional musicians. Adkins received her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the University of North Texas and her master’s degree from the New England Conservatory where she studied with James Buswell.

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Originally from Paris, France, Claude Halter has been Principal Second Violin of the Utah Symphony since 2011. Prior to this, he was acting Assistant Concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony and a member of the New World Symphony. Claude is also a proud founding member of the Fremont String Quartet. When not rehearsing or performing, he enjoys exploring Utah’s unique landscape and opportunities with his wife, Utah Symphony cellist Anne Lee. Claude Halter Violin UTAHSYMPHONY.ORG

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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 Music historians rarely miss an opportunity to take note of an anniversary. Birth dates are celebrated, and the deaths are remembered in thoughtful contemplation. But exactly three hundred years ago, the great Baroque masters Antonio Vivaldi and Johann Sebastian Bach were making history in a way that, though worth celebrating, is rarely marked on a calendar: They had reached full maturity as composers at a time when music was changing rapidly, and they were part of the reason it was changing.

key. It was first defined around 1680, just a few years before Bach was born—and Bach, always an enthusiastic adopter of new musical technologies, demonstrated complete mastery of this new tuning system as well as advances in the construction of instruments in every choir of the orchestra. When suites of movements began to emerge as “concertos” that contrasted smaller versus larger numbers of instruments playing together, Bach embraced this idea even as it was taking shape. And Antonio Vivaldi, who was born in 1678—seven years earlier than Bach—was the Baroque era’s prolific master of the concerto, composing virtually hundreds of them.

In the early 18th century, musical knowledge was exploding in a way we could compare to digital technology today. Instruments were becoming more advanced, opening new possibilities in range, volume and texture; informal conventions of musical structure began to coalesce into forms that became the foundations of now-familiar musical classifications. In just a few more generations, in the Classical era, it would seem as if these developments had always been there.

Bach demonstrated a universe of musical possibilities in his Well-Tempered Clavier, showing that composers could now modulate freely within individual works—a freedom that gave rise to the sonata allegro form we hear in later concertos and symphonies. Even those of us without extensive musical training somehow know a key change when we hear it: on an intuitive level, we sense that a melody we’ve already heard is being repeated in a different scale. As the composer manipulates each movement’s elements— exposing more themes, developing them relationally through various key changes, and usually returning to the original key— we experience the architecture of the movement and the overall work.

Take, for example, the well-tempered system of tuning, which enabled composers to modulate freely and compose in any

If Baroque concertos are missing some of the compositional elements we take for granted in Classical and Romantic

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concertos, that does not mean they are less sophisticated or less beautiful than those that came later; in fact, the more monumental concertos of the 19th century are lacking in some of the elements that Bach and Vivaldi put into theirs. Since the advent of the great Romantic concertos—a genre virtually invented, of course, by Beethoven—we have come to expect the concerto to showcase the skill of a single soloist with virtuosic playing that is thrilling, often conveying a sense of monumentality as it works its way through strenuous musical ideas. A sense of struggle is not out of place in many such concertos, conveying as they do the Romantic ideals of the soloist as an individual heroically countering the massed forces of the orchestra. Baroque concertos, by contrast, are more focused on the idea of contrasting a large group with a smaller group. There is a dynamic esthetic appeal here, far more complex than simply many versus few: Baroque composers knew that depending on how the musical materials are presented, either a large or a small group of players could be foregrounded in a composition or provide the foil for another group of players. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Bach deeply flattered Vivaldi. The German master’s unquenchable thirst for musical knowledge extended to Vivaldi’s concertos, which were written in an Italian style he learned through emulation— sometimes by literally copying Vivaldi’s scores. Bach’s D Minor concerto for two

violins is a prime example of his refined, German version of Vivaldi’s Italian style, incorporating the characteristic alternation of fast-slow-fast pacing and the textural contrast between the ripieno and the concertino of duo-violins. Though Bach was a keyboard player rather than a violinist—indeed, it’s likely that he was one of the greatest organists who ever lived—he seems to have penetrated to the heart of any instrument for which he composed, and this concerto is one that holds a special place in the violin repertory: No composition in all of music offers more sheer enjoyment for an accomplished violinist to play. It’s not just the concerto’s undeniable Italianate gorgeousness, but also the sheer flow of energy and the feel of the instrument when playing the notes of so masterful a composer. Wynton Marsalis (b. 1961)

A Fiddler’s Tale It’s no exaggeration to call Wynton Marsalis American musical royalty. As an internationally acclaimed musician, composer and bandleader, an educator and a leading advocate of American culture, he has created and performed an expansive range of music—from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet—always expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work that places him among the world’s finest musicians and composers.

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Wynton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1961, to Ellis and Dolores Marsalis, the second of six sons. At an early age, he exhibited a superior aptitude for music and a desire to participate in American culture. At age eight Wynton performed traditional New Orleans music in the Fairview Baptist Church band led by legendary banjoist Danny Barker, and at 14 he performed with the New Orleans Philharmonic. During high school Wynton performed with the New Orleans Symphony Brass Quintet, New Orleans Community Concert Band, New Orleans Youth Orchestra, New Orleans Symphony, various jazz bands and with the popular local funk band, the Creators. At age 17 Wynton became the youngest musician ever to be admitted to Tanglewood’s Berkshire Music Center. Despite his youth, he was awarded the school’s prestigious Harry Shapiro Award for outstanding brass student. Wynton moved to New York City to attend Juilliard in 1979. When he started gigging around the City, the grapevine began to buzz. The excitement around Wynton attracted the attention of Columbia Records executives who signed him to his first recording contract. In 1980 Wynton seized the opportunity to join the Jazz Messengers to study under master drummer and bandleader Art Blakey. It was from Blakey that Wynton acquired his concept for bandleading and for bringing intensity to each and every performance. In the years to follow Wynton performed with Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Sweets

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Edison, Clark Terry, John Lewis, Sonny Rollins, Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams and countless other jazz legends. Always swinging, Marsalis blows his trumpet with a clear tone, a depth of emotion and a unique, virtuosic style derived from an encyclopedic range of trumpet techniques. When you hear Marsalis play, you’re hearing life being played out through music. And his vibrant stage manner and personal warmth are borne out in his compositions as well as his performances. Marsalis’ core beliefs and foundation for living are based on the principals of jazz. He promotes individual creativity (improvisation), collective cooperation (swing), gratitude and good manners (sophistication), and faces adversity with persistent optimism (the blues). With his evolved humanity and through his selfless work, Marsalis has elevated the quality of human engagement for individuals, social networks and cultural institutions throughout the world. Commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, A Fiddler’s Tale was created in collaboration with that organization and with Jazz at Lincoln Center. It is Marsalis’ response to Igor Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale. As Marsalis notes on his website, it is composed from the perspective of later twentieth-century music (Stravinsky’s composition dates from 1918) “including but not limited to jazz.” Like Stravinsky’s work, A Fiddler’s

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Tale can be performed with or without narration. It premiered in 1998. Elliott Carter (1908 – 2012)

Double Trio Twentieth Century America produced no composer of greater influence than Elliott Carter, internationally recognized as one of the principal voices in classical music during his lifetime and a leading figure of modernism in the 20th and 21st centuries. He was hailed as “America’s great musical poet” by the esteemed New Yorker critic Andrew Porter, and was noted as “one of America’s most distinguished creative artists in any field” by his friend Aaron Copland. Born in New York City, Elliott Carter was encouraged towards a career in classical music by his friend and mentor Charles Ives. He studied under composers Walter Piston and Gustav Holst while attending Harvard University, and later traveled to Paris, studying with Nadia Boulanger. Following his studies in France, he returned to New York and devoted his time to composing and teaching, holding posts over the years at St. John’s College, the Peabody Conservatory, Yale University, Cornell University, and The Juilliard School, among others. In Carter’s prolific career as a composer, which spanned over 75 years, he demonstrated imagination and

innovativeness worthy of his early mentor, Charles Ives. His catalogue encompasses more than 150 pieces ranging from chamber music to orchestral works to opera, often marked with a sense of wit and humor. He received numerous honors and accolades, including the Pulitzer Prize on two occasions: in 1960 for his String Quartet No. 2 and in 1973 for his String Quartet No. 3. Other awards include Germany’s Ernst Von Siemens Music Prize and the Prince Pierre Foundation Music Award. Carter was the first composer to receive the United States National Medal of Arts, and is one of a handful of composers inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. He was recognized twice by the Government of France: being named Commander of the “Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,” and receiving the insignia of Commander of the Legion of Honor in September 2012. Carter was vigorously creative through the end of his long life; his Double Trio premiered October 2011, when he was 93. Commenting on the work, Carter noted that “…Brass instruments, especially the trumpet and trombone, recently interested me for use in chamber music because of their ability to play softly and use different kinds of mutes. Combining them with solo strings fascinated me so I wrote the Double Trio. This work was composed for the opening of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ Bourgie Concert Hall in September of 2011.” After hearing it, the pianist and musicologist Charles Rosen wrote in The New York Review of Books, “The new Continued on page 26…

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eight-minute Double Trio of this year is one of Carter’s most brilliant creations.” The Double Trio is dedicated to Pierre Bourgie, a prominent Canadian philanthropist and patron of the arts. Richard Wagner (1813–1883)

Siegfried Idyll First, let’s get our Siegfrieds straight. The Siegfried of Richard Wagner’s impossibly beautiful Siegfried Idyll is not the Siegfried for whom the third opera of Wagner’s gigantic tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung is named. Nor does it have anything to do with the gorgeous passage known as “Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey” from the prelude of the Ring’s fourth opera, Götterdämmerung, though elements from the Idyll did find their way into the Ring. In these comprehensively imagined music dramas, Wagner projects his personal cosmology onto a mythic universe—a place of normative values whose inhabitants journey toward moral perfection. But Wagner’s personal life, which gave rise to the Siegfried Idyll, was something else again. The Siegfried Idyll takes its name from Wagner’s son by his second wife, Cosima. At the time they fell passionately in love, Cosima—who was Franz Liszt’s illegitimate daughter by the glamorous Parisian socialite Marie d’Agoult—was married to the distinguished conductor Hans von Bülow, one of Wagner’s

strongest supporters. Beset by financial and artistic turmoil, Wagner accepted the Bülows’ offer of refuge in their country house in Tribschen, near Lake Lucerne. Wagner’s affair with Cosima von Bülow was just one of many on his part, but it proved fateful, finally dooming his marriage to his first wife, Minna. Wagner felt that his genius and his passion were reasons enough for his host and former pupil to step aside; inflamed by love, he was inspired to begin work on his revolutionary opera Tristan und Isolde. For her part, Cosima became pregnant with their daughter Isolde. When Minna conveniently died in 1866, Cosima’s husband granted her a divorce, and she and Wagner married. Two more children followed: Eva and Siegfried. When Cosima entered Wagner’s life, it was as if they were transfigured beings who entered the world of Wagner’s creative imagination. Their shared passion crystallized for Wagner the premise of Tristan und Isolde—the transcendence of inner, spiritual love over external reality and human law—and their relationship unleashed his work on his most innovative music. Together, Wagner and Cosima embodied not only the creative fantasies of his music dramas, but also the principles of his writing on aesthetic philosophy, including his insistence on the purity of German art and myth, and his virulent anti-Semitism. Cosima furthered these ideas after Wagner’s death, managing the opera Continued on page 28…

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house at Bayreuth as a shrine to her husband and his ideas. Though it is relatively short (for Wagner) and intimately scaled for a chamber ensemble, the Siegfried Idyll is in a sense a token of this special moment in the life of one of music history’s most remarkable and disturbing figures. Composed in appreciation of the marital joy that Wagner and Cosima enjoyed after his years of turmoil, it was conceived as a gift for Cosima and specifically scored for an orchestra of 13 to 15 players to be positioned on the stairway leading to Cosima’s bedroom. It was rehearsed in secret and played to awaken her on Christmas Day in 1870.

Originally titled the Tribschen Idyll, the Siegfried Idyll is ecstatic and flowing; like so much of Wagner’s music, it seems to nullify the external sense of time with its own timeless pulse. It begins with a sunrise both literal and figurative, a beautiful dawn that also marks the beginning of a new kind of life. (The work’s original subtitle indicates that the sunrise is orange, and that a bird, “Fidi,” is singing; both the roseate tones of the morning sky and the poetic birdsong are evident in the music. As a kind of gift card to supplement the Idyll, Wagner provided a poetic dedication to Cosima in which he explained the work as follows:

It was your self-sacrificing, noble will That found a place for my work to develop, Consecrated by you as a refuge from the world, Where my work grew and mightily arose, A hero’s world magically became an idyll for us, An age-old distance became a familiar homeland. Then a call happily rang forth into my melodies; “A son is there!” —he had to be named Siegfried. For him and you I had to express thanks in music— What lovelier reward could there be for deeds of love? We nurtured within the bounds of our home The quiet joy, that here became sound. To those who proved ever faithful to us, Kind to Siegfried, and friendly to our son, With your blessing, may that which we formerly enjoyed As sounding happiness now be offered. The Idyll can be heard as an attempt to transmute infidelity into nobility, like lead into gold. The morality may be questionable, but it is difficult to argue with the beauty of the music.

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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT We thank our generous donors for their annual support of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. This list includes donations received from July 1, 2019 to September 29 2020. * in-kind donation

** in-kind & cash donations

† deceased

ENCORE ($100,000 OR MORE) Anonymous Kem & Carolyn Gardner

Anthony & Renee Marlon Estate of Linda & Don Price

Jacquelyn Wentz

BRAVO ($50,000 TO $99,999) Scott & Kathie Amann Diane & Hal Brierley James A.† & Marilyn Parke

Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols** Elizabeth Solomon

Naoma Tate & the Family of Hal Tate Jim & Zibby Tozer Jack Wheatley

OVERTURE ($25,000 TO $49,999) Doyle Arnold & Anne Glarner Judy Brady & Drew W. Browning Michael & Vickie Callen John & Flora D’Arcy Brian & Detgen Greeff

Kristen Fletcher & Dan McPhun Susan & Tom Hodgson Tom & Lorie Jacobson G. Frank & Pamela Joklik Chuck & Crystal Maggelet Edward Moreton

Fred & Lucy Moreton Mark & Dianne Prothro Alice & Frank Puleo George Speciale John & Jean Yablonski Edward & Marelynn Zipser

MAESTRO ($10,000 TO $24,999) Anonymous A. Scott & Jesselie Anderson AKBankhead Fund Berenice J. Bradshaw Trust Thomas Billings & Judge Judith Billings Carol, Rete & Celine Browning Judy & Larry Brownstein Howard & Betty Clark Larry Clemmensen Marian Davis & David Parker Kathleen Digre & Michael Varner Pat & Sherry Duncan Spencer & Cleone† Eccles 32

Midge Farkas Thierry & Catherine Fischer** Doug & Connie Hayes Mary P.† & Jerald H. Jacobs Family Mr. & Mrs. Christopher J. Lansing Herbert† & Helga Lloyd Tom & Jamie Love Mr. & Mrs. Charles McEvoy Carol & Anthony W. Middleton, Jr., M.D. Amanda & Spencer Millerberg Richard & Robin Milne Terrell & Leah Nagata James & Ann Neal

Leslie Peterson & Kevin Higgins Stephen & Cydney Quinn Albert J. Roberts IV Carmen Rogers Sandefur Schmidt Dr. & Mrs. Charles W. Sorenson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. G. B. Stringfellow Steve & Betty Suellentrop James R. & Susan Swartz Jonathan & Anne Symonds Norman C.† & Barbara L. Tanner † Tim & Judy Terrell

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INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT ALLEGRO ($5,000 TO $9,999) Anonymous (5) Alan, Carol, & Annie Agle Edward R. Ashwood & Candice A. Johnson Dr. J.R. Baringer & Dr. Jeannette J. Townsend Dr. & Mrs. Clisto Beaty Mr. & Mrs. Neill Brownstein Mark & Marcy Casp John Clukey Marc & Kathryn Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth R. Cutler Willard & Julia Dere Patricia Dougall Eager Trust Mrs. Sarah Ehrlich Robert & Elisha Finney Wen Flatt Nash Foster Diana George David & SandyLee Griswold** Ray & Howard Grossman Chuck & Kathie Horman

The Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish & Mr. Frederick Quinn Ken & Margo Jacobs Annette & Joseph Jarvis M. Craig Johns Michael Liess Bill Ligety & Cyndi Sharp Daniel & Deena Lofgren Beatrice Lufkin Nick Markosian Christopher & Julie McBeth Hallie & Ted McFetridge Michal & Maureen Mekjian Carol & Anthony W. Middleton, Jr., M.D. Joanne Mitchell Dr. Louis A. Moench & Deborah Moench Marilyn H. Neilson Dr. Stephen H. & Mary Nichols O. Don & Barbara Ostler

Dr. Thomas Parks & Dr. Patricia Legant Dr. Dinesh & Kalpana Patel Frank R. Pignanelli & D’Arcy Dixon Brooks & Lenna Quinn Dr. & Mrs.† Marvin L. Rallison James & Gail Riepe James & Anna Romano Ted & Lori Samuels Peggy & Ben Schapiro Barbara & Paul Schwartz D. Brent† & Suzanne Scott Gerald† & Sharon Seiner Dr. John Shigeoka Stuart & Mary Silloway Gibbs† & Catherine W. Smith Sidney Stern Memorial Trust Thomas & Marilyn Sutton Paul L. Wattis Dr. Rasmus Wegner Kathie & Hugh Zumbro

ABRAVANEL & PETERSON SOCIETY ($2,500 TO $4,999) Anonymous (6) Fred & Linda Babcock Tom & Carolee Baron Tina & John Barry Jennifer & Charles Beckham Dr. Melissa Bentley Donna Birsner Roger & Karen Blaylock Bill & Susan Bloomfield Mr. & Mrs. John Brubaker Richard & Suzanne Burbidge Michael & Christy Bush Mr. & Mrs. William D. Callister Vincent Cannella Hal & Cecile Christiansen The Chung Family George & Katie Coleman Debbi & Gary Cook Dr. Thomas D. & Joanne A. Coppin Thomas D. Dee III & Dr. Candace Dee UTAHSYMPHONY.ORG

Elizabeth deForest John D. Doppelheuer & Kirsten A. Hanson Blake & Linda Fisher Mr. Joseph F. Furlong III Robert & AnnieLewis Garda Heidi Gardner David & Sherrie Gee Jeffrey L. Giese, M.D. & Mary E. Giese Andrea Golding Sue & Gary Grant Arlen Hale Kenneth & Kate Handley Dr. Bradford D. Hare & Dr. Akiko Okifuji Mary Haskins Jeff & Peggy Hatch John Edward Henderson Deborah & Steve Horton Sunny & Wes Howell Dixie S. & Robert P. Huefner

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Michael Huerta & Ann Sowder Jay & Julie Jacobson Drs. Randy & Elizabeth Jensen Maxine & Bruce Johnson Dale & Beverly Johnson Dan & Jane Jones Dr. & Mrs. Michael A. Kalm Rick & Paulette Katzenbach Susan Keyes & Jim Sulat Jeanne Kimball Allison Kitching Howard & Merele Kosowsky Donald L. & Alice A. Lappe Gary & Suzanne Larsen Ms. Susan Loffler Dennis & Pat Lombardi David & Donna Lyon Steve Mahas Keith & Vicki Maio Brian & Shasha Mann Jed & Kathryn Marti 33

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ABRAVANEL & PETERSON SOCIETY ($2,500 TO $4,999) CONTINUED Daniel & Noemi P. Mattis Tom & Janet McDougal David & Nickie McDowell George & Nancy Melling Brad Merrill John Mertens Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mithoff Ruth & William Ohlsen Dr. S. Keith & Barbara Petersen Ray Pickup

Gregory & Ann Robison Marilynn Roskelley & Paul Dorius Mark & Loulu Saltzman Margaret P. Sargent Shirley & Eric Schoenholz Dewelynn & J. Ryan† Selberg Mary & Doug Sinclair Jeffrey Starr Paul Taylor

Denise Torrisi Thomas† & Caroline Tucker Peter Margulies & Louise Vickerman Susan & David† Wagstaff Susan Warshaw Robert R. & Sue A. Webb Dan & Amy Wilcox David & Jerre Winder

PATRON ($1,500 TO $2,499) Anonymous (3) Fran Akita C. Kim & Jane Blair Mr. & Mrs. Lee Forrest Carter Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Carter, Jr. William J. Coles & Joan L. Coles David & Karen Gardner Dee Michael Deputy Lawrence Dickerson & Marcela Donadio Margarita Donnelly Dr. Paul Dorgan

Thomas Fuller Dr. & Mrs. John Greenlee C. Chauncey & Emily Hall Christine St. Andre & Cliff Hardesty E. Art Woolston & Connie Jo Hepworth-Woolston Connie C. Holbrook Gordon Irving Bryce & Karen† Johnson Carl & Gillean Kjeldsberg Heidi & Edward Makowski Clifton & Terri McIntosh Warren K†. & Virginia G. McOmber

Joe Mulvehill Kenneth Roach & Cindy Powell Dr. Barbara S. Reid Frances Reiser Susan Rothman Janet Schaap Mr. August L. Schultz Thomas & Gayle Sherry Douglas & Susan Terry Astrid S. Tuminez Dr. Ralph & Judith Vander Heide John & Susan Walker Frank & Janell Weinstock

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FRIEND ($1,000 TO $1,499) Anonymous (5) Madeline Adkins & John Forest Jim Alexander Christine A. Allred Clayton Anderson Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey L. Anderson Pj Aniello Drs. Crystal & Dustin Armstrong Ian Arnold Curtis Atkisson, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Barusch Diane Banks Bromberg & Dr. Mark Bromberg Kevin Burdette Michael Carnes Dana Carroll & Jeannine Marlowe Carroll Michael & Beth Chardack William & Patricia Child Dr. & Mrs. David Coppin David & Carol Coulter Sandra Covey† Dorothy B. Cromer David & Donna Dalton James Dashner Dr. Kent C. DiFiore & Dr. Martha R. Humphrey Alice Edvalson Eric & Shellie Eide Larry Gerlach Bob & Mary Gilchrist Ralph & Rose Gochnour Kenneth & Amy Goodman Mr. Keith Guernsey John & Ilauna Gurr Dr. Elizabeth Hammond

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Geraldine Hanni Jonathan Hart Lex Hemphill & Nancy Melich Craig & Tiffany Hess Peggy Hudson Stephen Irish Thomas Jacobson Eldon Jenkins & Amy Calara Chester & Marilyn Johnson Jill Johnson James R. Jones & Family Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Lake Gary Lambert Guttorm & Claudia Landro Tim & Angela Laros Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn L. Lefkowitz Harrison & Elaine Levy Julie & John Lund Miriam Mason & Greg Glynis MS. Mary Pat McCurdie Edward J. & Grace Mary McDonough MR. Jeffrey McNeal David Merrill Dr. Nicole L. Mihalopoulos & Joshua Scoville Hal & JeNeal Miller Drs. Jean & Richard R. Miller Henriette Mohebbizadeh Glenn & Dav Mosby Sir David Murrell IV & Mary Beckerle Renate B. Nebeker Ruzena Novak Dr. & Mrs. Richard

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T. O’Brien Lee K. Osborne Joseph J.† & Dorothy Moyle Palmer Dr. Marzia Pasquali & Ms. Nicola Longo Linda S. Pembroke Rori & Nancy Piggott Charles R. Pikler Arthur & Susan Ralph W.E. & Harriet R. Rasmussen Gina Rieke Lousje & Keith Rooker Miguel Rovira David & Lois Salisbury Brent & Jan Scharman James & Janet Schnitz Barbara Slaymaker Jerilyn McIntyre & David Smith Sheryl & James Snarr Dr. & Mrs. Michael H. Stevens Richard and Shannon Straight Richard & Janet Thompson Kenneth Uy David H. & Barbara S. Viskochil Dr. James C. Warenski Renee Waters Cindy Williams Mary Ann & Charles Williams Margaret & Gary Wirth David B. & Anne Wirthlin Marsha & Richard Workman Paul Wright

ENDOWMENT DONORS TO UTAH SYMPHONY | UTAH OPERA ENDOWMENT Utah Symphony | Utah Opera is grateful to those donors who have made commitments to our Endowment Fund. The Endowment Fund is a vital resource that helps the long-term well-being & stability of USUO, & through its annual earnings, supports our Annual Fund. For further information, please contact 801-869-9015. Gael Benson Edward Ashwood & Candice Johnson Estate of Alexander Bodi The Elizabeth Brown Dee Fund for Music in the Schools Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation Thomas & Candace Dee

Hearst Foundation Roger & Susan Horn The Right Reverend Carolyn Tanner Irish & Frederick Quinn Edward & Barbara Moreton Estate of Pauline C. Pace Perkins-Prothro Foundation Kenneth† & Jerrie Randall

The Evelyn Rosenblatt Young Artist Award Bill & Joanne Shiebler James R. & Susan Swartz Norman C. Tanner & Barbara L. Tanner Trust O.C. Tanner Company M. Walker & Sue Wallace

GIFTS MADE IN HONOR Marie Nelson Bennett Neill & Linda Brownstein Peggy Chase Dreyfous Paula Fowler Kem Gardner

Burton & Elaine Gordon Barbara Scowcroft & Ralph Matson Matthew & Maria Proser Pat Richards

Bill & Joanne Shiebler Grant Gill Smith Dale Strobel Whittney Thomas J. Brian Whitesides

GIFTS MADE IN MEMORY Dennis Austin Jay T. Ball Dawn Ann Bailey Betty Bristow Robert H. Burgoyne, M.D. Doris Macfarlane Corry Kathie Dalton Dr. James Drake Robert Ehrlich William K. Evans, Jr. Crawford Gates Lowell P. Hicks Jamila Janata 36

Dr. Gary B. Kitching M.D. Harry Lakin Julia Lawrence Frank & Maxine McIntyre Warren K. (Sandy) McOmber Clyde Dennis Meadows Dr. Richard George Middleton Mary Muir Mary E. Nelson Jack Newton Richard Perkins

Glade & Mardean Peterson Rhoda Ramsey Richard Reiser Norman B. Ross Shirley Corbett Russell J. Ryan Selberg Venice Shields Ann O’Neill Shigeoka, M.D. Robert C. Sloan Dorotha Smart Barbara Tanner Maxine Winn

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INSTITUTIONAL DONORS We thank our generous donors for their annual support of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera. This list includes donations received from July 1, 2019 to September 29, 2020. USUO’s 2020–21 season is funded in part by the CARES Act and the Utah State Legislature through Utah Arts & Museums. * in-kind donation

** in-kind & cash donation

$100,000 OR MORE The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Foundation Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation George S. & Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation Marriner S. Eccles Foundation The Florence J. Gillmor Foundation

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation John & Marcia Price Foundation O.C. Tanner Company Salt Lake County Shiebler Family Foundation Sorenson Legacy Foundation

State of Utah Summit County Restaurant Tax / RAP Tax Utah Division of Arts & Museums / National Endowment for the Arts Utah State Legislature / Utah State Board of Education Zions Bank

Kahlert Foundation League of American Orchestras

Grand America Hotel* William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Goldman Sachs Janet Q. Lawson Foundation Frederick Q. Lawson Foundation Love Communications* McCarthey Family Foundation Nora Eccles Treadwell

Foundation Charles Maxfield & Gloria F. Parrish Foundation Moreton Family Foundation Schmidt Family Foundation Simmons Family Foundation Struck* Utah Office of Tourism

$50,000 TO $99,999 Anonymous AHE/CI Trust Dominion Energy

$25,000 TO $49,999 Arnold Machinery Brent & Bonnie Jean Beesley Foundation Carol Franc Buck Foundation Cache Valley Electric Chevron Corporation C. Comstock Clayton Foundation

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INSTITUTIONAL DONORS $10,000 TO $24,999 Anonymous B.W. Bastian Foundation Bank of America Caffé Molise* HJ & BR Barlow Foundation Johnson Foundation of the Rockies Marie Eccles Caine FoundationRussell Family Matthew B. Ellis Foundation

Onstage Ogden Orange County Community Foundation Park City Chamber / Visitors Bureau Promontory R. Harold Burton Foundation Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield Richard K. & Shirley S. Hemingway Foundation

S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney Foundation The Christian V. & Lisa D. Young Family Foundation The Joseph & Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Fund Summit Sotheby’s WCF Insurance W. Mack & Julia S. Watkins Foundation

M Lazy M Foundation Microsoft Corporation Millcreek Coffee Roasters* Morris Murdock Travel Orem City CARE Tax Park City Community Foundation Rancho Market Ray, Quinney & Nebeker Foundation Raymond James & Associates Robert S. Carter Foundation Rocky Mountain Power Foundation Rodney H. & Carolyn Hansen Brady Charitable Foundation Rotary Club of Salt Lake Salt Lake City Arts Council

Snow, Christensen & Martineau Foundation Spitzberg-Rothman Foundation Summerhays Music Center Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Texas de Brazil* The Fanwood Foundation Western Office The Val A. Green & Edith D. Green Foundation US Bank Utah Autism Foundation Victor Herbert Foundation

$1,000 TO $9,999 AC Hotel Salt Lake City/Downtown* Adib’s Rug Gallery Bambara* Bertin Family Foundation Better Days CBRE City Creek Center Corning Incorporated Foundation D’Addario Foundation David Dee Fine Arts Grandeur Peak Global Advisors Henry W. & Leslie M. Eskuche Charitable Foundation Holland & Hart J. Wong’s Thai & Chinese Bistro*

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ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION Steven Brosvik

DEVELOPMENT Leslie Peterson

PATRON SERVICES Faith Myers

David Green

Jessica Proctor

Merry Magee

Olivia Custodio

Mara Lefler

Heather Weinstock

Andrew J. Wilson

President & CEO

Vice President of Development

Senior Vice President & COO

Julie McBeth

Executive Assistant to the CEO

Collette Cook

Executive Assistant to the Sr. VP and COO & Office Manager

Director of Institutional Giving Director of Individual Giving Director of Special Events & DVMF Donor Relations

SYMPHONY ARTISTIC Thierry Fischer

Lisa Poppleton

Anthony Tolokan

Development Assistant

Grants Manager

Symphony Music Director

Ellesse Hargreaves

Vice President of Symphony Artistic Planning

OPERA ARTISTIC Christopher McBeth

Conner Gray Covington

Associate Conductor & Principal Conductor of the Deer Valley® Music Festival

Opera Artistic Director

Carol Anderson Principal Coach

Director of Patron Engagement Marketing Manager - Patron Loyalty Sales Manager

Patron Services Manager

Hallie Wilmes

Patron Services Assistant

Genevieve Gannon

Group Sales Associate

Alicia Ross Val Tholen

Sales Associates

Nicholas Barker Lorraine Fry Ellen Lewis Naomi Newton Ian Painter Talia Ricci Ananda Spike

Barlow Bradford

Michelle Peterson

Walt Zeschin

Michaella Calzaretta

Andrew Williams

Orchestra Personnel Manager

OPERA TECHNICAL Jared Porter

Executive Assistant to the Music Director & Symphony Chorus Manager

Kelly Nickle

Vice President of Finance & CFO

Dusty Terrell

Director of Information Technologies

Symphony Chorus Director

Director of Production

Director of Orchestra Personnel

Opera Chorus Master

Lance Jensen

SYMPHONY OPERATIONS Cassandra Dozet

Director of Orchestra Operations

Melissa Robison

Program Publication & Front of House Director

Senior Technical Director

ACCOUNTING & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Steve Hogan

Properties Master

Mike Lund

Scenic Charge Artist

Tyson Montoya

COSTUMES Verona Green

Alison Mockli

Costume Director

Amanda Reiser Meyer

Chip Dance

Wardrobe Supervisor

Production & Stage Manager

Milivoj Poletan

Kate Henry

Tailor

Operations Manager

Tiffany Lent

Jeff F. Herbig

Properties Manager & Assistant Stage Manager

Lyndsay Keith

Artist Logistics Coordinator

Robyne Anderson

2 Assistant Stage Manager nd

Ticket Agents

Cutter/Draper

Donna Thomas

Milliner & Craftsperson

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Jon Miles Vice President of Marketing & Public Relations

Controller

Payroll & Benefits Manager

Kyle Siedschlag

Accounts Payable Specialist

Jared Mollenkopf

Patron Information Systems Manager

EDUCATION Paula Fowler

Director of Education & Community Outreach

Kyleene Johnson

Symphony Education Manager

Annie Jones

Symphony Education Assistant

Kathleen Sykes

Digital Content Producer

Robert Bedont

Marketing Manager - Audience Development

Nina Starling

Website Content Coordinator

We would also like to recognize our interns and temporary and contracted staff for their work and dedication to the success of utah symphony | utah opera.

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PLANNED GIVING

SUPPORT GREAT LIVE MUSIC IN OUR COMMUNITY WITH A GIFT TO THE ANNUAL FUND Please join our wonderful Utah Symphony | Utah Opera family of donors who sustain great live music in our community. As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, USUO is thankful for your generosity that supports our musicians, singers, artisans, crew and staff. Your gift now will make an impact as we plan for the future. The CARES Act has enacted new rules around charitable giving. The bill makes a new charitable deduction available for up to $300 per taxpayer, regardless of whether you itemize your deductions. Furthermore, if you do itemize, you may elect to deduct qualified contributions of up to 100% of your adjusted gross income in 2020. Please consult your tax advisor or financial planner to determine the impact of CARES Act changes on your personal tax situation.

CONSIDER USUO IN YOUR ESTATE PLANNING We never know what the future holds, but our eyes have been opened to how crucial planning ahead is. The pandemic has caused many of us to contemplate our legacy, assess our priorities, and plan for the future. Perhaps now more than ever, we recognize how important and meaningful it is to have a place where we can gather as a community to be uplifted and inspired by great music. If you want to ensure the future legacy of Utah Symphony | Utah Opera for future audiences to enjoy, please include USUO in your estate planning.

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TANNER AND CRESCENDO SOCIETIES

“YOU ARE THE MUSIC WHILE THE MUSIC LASTS.”~T.S. Eliot

Utah Symphony | Utah Opera offers sincere thanks to our patrons who have included USUO in their financial and estate planning. Please contact Leslie Peterson at lpeterson@usuo.org or 801-869-9012 for more information, or visit our website at usuo.giftplans.org.

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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 Marcy & Mark Casp Shelly Coburn Raymond & Diana Compton Anne C. Ewers

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 Ms. Marilyn Lindsay† Turid V. Lipman

Flemming & Lana Jensen James Read Lether Daniel & Noemi P. Mattis Anthony & Carol W. Middleton, Jr., M.D. Robert & Diane Miner Glenn Prestwich Kenneth A.† & Jeraldine S. Randall Mr.† & Mrs. Alvin Richer

Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols Sharon & David† Richards Harris H. & Amanda P. Simmons E. Jeffery & Joyce Smith G.B. & B.F. Stringfellow Norman† & Barbara† Tanner Mr. & Mrs. M. Walker Wallace

Herbert C. & Wilma Livsey Dianne May Jerry & Marcia McClain Jim & Andrea Naccarato Stephen H. & Mary Nichols Mr. & Mrs. Scott Parker Mr. & Mrs. Michael A. Pazzi Richard Q. Perry Chase† & Grethe Peterson Glenn H. & Karen F. Peterson Thomas A. & Sally† Quinn

Dan & June Ragan Mr. Grant Schettler Glenda & Robert† Shrader Mr. Robert C. Steiner & Dr. Jacquelyn Erbin† JoLynda Stillman Joann Svikhart Frederic & Marilyn† Wagner Jack R. & Mary Lois† Wheatley Edward J. & Marelynn Zipser

CRESCENDO SOCIETY OF UTAH OPERA 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 Edwin B. Firmage

Joseph & Pat Gartman Paul (Hap) & Ann† Green John & Jean† Henkels Edward R. Ashwood & Candice A. Johnson Clark D. Jones Turid V. Lipman Herbert C. & Wilma Livsey Richard W. & Frances P. Muir Marilyn H. Neilson

Carol & Ted Newlin Patricia A. Richards & William K. Nichols Mr.† & Mrs. Alvin Richer Jeffrey W. Shields G.B. & B.F. Stringfellow Norman† & Barbara Tanner Dr. Ralph & Judith Vander Heide Edward J. & Marelynn Zipser †Deceased

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UTAH SYMPHONY GUILD OUR MISSION

Because we believe great music can elevate the human spirit, the purpose of the Guild is to foster, promote, and facilitate the operation of the Utah Symphony Orchestra financially, socially, and educatonally. It is our honor to maintain a gift shop throughout the year which raises funds for our orchestra. We have added all our available items to the “online store” and all proceeds go to USUO. We will continue adding events as social distancing requirements allow to aid in rasing funds for our great orchestra. We will sponsor the Youth Guild and outreach violin lessons again this season, and we appreciate your ongoing support of these important community programs. To join or renew your membership in the guild you may go to our web page and fill out the new members information. www.utahsymphonyguild.org Carolyn Abravanel Eva-Maria Adolphi Wendy Ajax Fran & Tom Akimoto Georgia L. Anderson Reva Anderson Margaret Anderson Wirth Linda Babcock Brenda Bailey William Scot Barraclough & Tom D. Camomile Dominic Barsi Randy & Jeni Bathemess Jean E. Barton Charmaine Bauer Suzanne & Clisto Beaty Maxine Beckstead Karol Behling Janet Bennett Heather Benson Eve Bertran-Hales & Don Hales Joan Blanck Rose Marie Breinholt Chip & Anne Browne Nancy Browning & Michael Homer Mary Ellen B. Caine Akemi Call Gertrud Carpenter

Mary A. Carter Renee Christensen Cecile Christiansen Lynne Church Dianne Clark Doyle Clayburn Melou Cline Beth & Boyle Cole Kathleen Coon Peggy Cordon Marcia Cowley-Keen Janet Cox Tom Cox Carolyn Creek-McCallister Susan L. Croft Wendy & John Crossman Kathryn C. Culbertson Robert & Caprene Curtis William and Bonnie Daniloff Frances Darger Marlene Dazley Joyce De Forest & Robert Duke De Forest Laura Diaz Moore Nancy Dietzler Amy Dixon Carol Elliott Judy Emery Jennifer Fairbourn Rosemary Fairbourn

Reece Fawcett Thierry & Catherine Fischer Carolyn Fredin Patricee Annee Gallagher Patricia A. Giovanazzo Marian & Sidney Green Simon Gretsch SandyLee & David Griswold Janet Hales Kathleen Hall Laurie Hallam Gerry Hanni Shirley M. Hanson Carolee Harmon Nancy Hayes Janet Healy Kristin Hill Sally W. Hodel Kathie & Chuck Horman Rebecca & Stephen Howard Leigh Hutchison Isabella Iasella Mateusz Jagiello Darlene Jenkins Carl Johansen Scott Johnson & Rebecca McGarry Beverly C. Johnson Arlene Jonsson Charlotte Jordan Continued on page 36…

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Ingrid Kaufman Cynthia Kilian Mary Lynn Kinsel Kathy Knowlton Allison Knudson Martin Krueger Kari Landro Angela Laros Lona Mae Lauritzen Nancy Laursen Liz Le Fevre Nora Linscott Wilma S. Livsey Donna Lyon Susan MacIan Carole & Malcolm MacLeod Jennifer & Gideon Malherbe Heidrun I. Mandy Rebecca Marriott-Champion Tonya Marshall Janice Maughan Maybell McCann Camilla McLaughlin Melissa Robison Ann Mentes Julia & Anna Meredith Henriette Mohebbizadeh Heather Moore Karen Morgan Jill Moriearty Sabra Moyes Renate Baron Nebeker Kent & Denise Nelson Bradley & Laurissa Neuenschwander Sylvia Newton Christine Nickerson

Jean Nielsen Carol Nixon Patti Noel Wilma Odell Delmira & Gary Pactoulick Catherine Paiz Judy Parmelee Barbara Patrick Helen Petersen Ann Petersen Leslie Peterson & Kevin Higgins Marilyn Phillips Mrs. Jane O. Piercey Mary-Margaret Pingree Janis Pope Marilyn Poulsen Sherry Poulson Jeana Quigley Carol & Gunter Radinger Hildegard Rayner Joanne Rich Marilyn Poulsen Gina Rieke Della V. Roberts and Warren Gilmour Lynn Rohland Alene M. Russon Martha Sammond Margaret Sargent Amanda & Jonathan Schmieder Glenda Shrader Nan Sibbett Joyce Skidmore Wilson Dorotha Smart Michele Smith

Dianne R. Smith Rita Smith Donna & Ron Smith Joan J. Smith Janette P. Sonnenberg Carol L. Sonntag Elise Stanley Sandra Steiner Marsh Robert Stephenson & Lisa Byrnes Ramona Sterling Jennifer Stroud Lorraine & Walter Stuecken Joann Svikhart Cayman L. Thomas Deborah Tuttle Shirley Van Wagenen Beth V. Cole and Dr. B. Cole Jenette L. Voss Susan Walles Robert & Tilda Wangerien Miriam H. Waterman Paul & Cynthia Watson Suzanne Weaver Heather Weinstock Susan & Brent Westergard Bonnie White Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Williams Connie & Glenn Wimer Jerre Winder Pamela Wing Nicole Woodland Ethnie Wright & Hunter Gundersen Betty & Frank Yanowitz Red York Dwan Young

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THANK YOU! During the time when concerts in Abravanel Hall, Capitol Theater, and the Deer Valley Music Festival were cancelled, the Excellence Concert Series featured Utah Symphony and Utah Opera musicians in live streamed concerts from the Gallivan Center. Thank you for featuring our musicians and giving us quality performance opportunities during this difficult time.

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