MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PROGRAM TWO. OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2023 by Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra

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ENCORE Volume 42 No. 2

15 October 28 & 29 — Film The Nightmare Before Christmas

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19 November 3 & 4 — Classics Beethoven & López-Gavilán 27

ovember 10 & 11 — Classics N De Waart Conducts Elgar

33 November 17 & 18 — Classics Ruth Reinhardt Returns 41 November 24 - 26 — Film Elf in Concert 45 December 2, 2023 — Pops Holiday Jazz with Dee Alexander 5 7 8 9 11 52 58 59 59 62

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The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Ken-David Masur, is among the finest orchestras in the nation and the largest cultural institution in Wisconsin. Since its inception in 1959, the MSO has found innovative ways to give music a home in the region, develop music appreciation and talent among area youth, and raise the national reputation of Milwaukee. The MSO’s full-time professional musicians perform over 135 classics, pops, family, education, and community concerts each season in venues throughout the state. A pioneer among American orchestras, the MSO has performed world and American premieres of works by John Adams, Roberto Sierra, Philip Glass, Geoffrey Gordon, Marc Neikrug, and Matthias Pintscher, as well as garnered national recognition as the first American orchestra to offer live recordings on iTunes. Now in its 52nd season, the orchestra’s nationally syndicated radio broadcast series, the longest consecutive-running series of any U.S. orchestra, is heard annually by more than two million listeners on 147 subscriber stations in 38 of the top 100 markets. In January of 2021, the MSO completed a years-long project to restore and renovate a former movie palace in the heart of downtown Milwaukee. The Bradley Symphony Center officially opened to audiences in October 2021. This project has sparked a renewal on West Wisconsin Avenue and continues to be a catalyst in the community. The MSO’s standard of excellence extends beyond the concert hall and into the community, reaching more than 30,000 children and their families through its Arts in Community Education (ACE) program, Youth and Teen concerts, Family Series, and Meet the Music pre-concert talks. Celebrating its 34th year, the nationally-recognized ACE program integrates arts education across all subjects and disciplines, providing opportunities for students when budget cuts may eliminate arts programing. The program provides lesson plans and supporting materials, classroom visits from MSO musician ensembles and artists from local organizations, and an MSO concert tailored to each grade level. This season, more than 5,900 students and 500 teachers and faculty are expected to participate in ACE both in person and in a virtual format. 4

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2023.24 SEASON KEN-DAVID MASUR Music Director Polly and Bill Van Dyke Music Director Chair EDO DE WAART Music Director Laureate RYAN TANI Assistant Conductor CHERYL FRAZES HILL Chorus Director Margaret Hawkins Chorus Director Chair TIMOTHY J. BENSON Assistant Chorus Director FIRST VIOLINS Jinwoo Lee, Concertmaster, Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair Ilana Setapen, First Associate Concertmaster Jeanyi Kim, Associate Concertmaster Alexander Ayers Yuka Kadota Elliot Lee** Ji-Yeon Lee Dylana Leung Allison Lovera Lijia Phang Yuanhui Fiona Zheng SECOND VIOLINS Jennifer Startt, Principal, Andrea and Woodrow Leung Second Violin Chair Timothy Klabunde, Assistant Principal John Bian, Assistant Principal (3rd Chair) Glenn Asch Lisa Johnson Fuller Paul Hauer Hyewon Kim Alejandra Switala** Mary Terranova VIOLAS Robert Levine, Principal, Richard O. and Judith A. Wagner Family Principal Viola Chair Georgi Dimitrov, Assistant Principal (2nd chair), Friends of Janet F. Ruggeri Viola Chair Samantha Rodriguez, Assistant Principal (3rd chair)* Alejandro Duque, Acting Assistant Principal (3rd chair) Elizabeth Breslin Nathan Hackett Erin H. Pipal Helen Reich

CELLOS Susan Babini, Principal, Dorothea C. Mayer Cello Chair Nicholas Mariscal, Assistant Principal* Scott Tisdel, Associate Principal Emeritus Madeleine Kabat Shinae Ra Peter Szczepanek Peter J. Thomas Adrien Zitoun BASSES Jon McCullough-Benner, Principal, Donald B. Abert Bass Chair* Andrew Raciti, Associate Principal Nash Tomey, Assistant Principal (3rd chair) Brittany Conrad Teddy Gabrieledes** Peter Hatch* Paris Myers HARP Julia Coronelli, Principal, Walter Schroeder Harp Chair FLUTES Sonora Slocum, Principal, Margaret and Roy Butter Flute Chair Heather Zinninger, Assistant Principal Jennifer Bouton Schaub PICCOLO Jennifer Bouton Schaub OBOES Katherine Young Steele, Principal, Milwaukee Symphony League Oboe Chair Kevin Pearl, Assistant Principal Margaret Butler ENGLISH HORN Margaret Butler, Philip and Beatrice Blank English Horn Chair in memoriam to John Martin CLARINETS Todd Levy, Principal, Franklyn Esenberg Clarinet Chair Benjamin Adler, Assistant Principal, Donald and Ruth P. Taylor Assistant Principal Clarinet Chair* Taylor Eiffert* Madison Freed** E-FLAT CLARINET Benjamin Adler*

CONTRABASSOON Beth W. Giacobassi HORNS Matthew Annin, Principal, Krause Family French Horn Chair Krystof Pipal, Associate Principal Dietrich Hemann, Andy Nunemaker French Horn Chair Darcy Hamlin Kelsey Williams** TRUMPETS Matthew Ernst, Principal, Walter L. Robb Family Trumpet Chair David Cohen, Associate Principal, Martin J. Krebs Associate Principal Trumpet Chair Alan Campbell, Fred Fuller Trumpet Chair TROMBONES Megumi Kanda, Principal, Marjorie Tiefenthaler Trombone Chair Kirk Ferguson, Assistant Principal BASS TROMBONE John Thevenet, Richard M. Kimball Bass Trombone Chair TUBA Robyn Black, Principal, John and Judith Simonitsch Tuba Chair TIMPANI Dean Borghesani, Principal Chris Riggs, Assistant Principal PERCUSSION Robert Klieger, Principal Chris Riggs PIANO Melitta S. Pick Endowed Piano Chair PERSONNEL MANAGER Françoise Moquin, Director of Orchestra Personnel LIBRARIANS Paul Beck, Principal Librarian, Anonymous Donor, Principal Librarian Chair Matthew Geise, Assistant Librarian & Media Archivist PRODUCTION Tristan Wallace, Technical Manager & Live Audio Supervisor Paolo Scarabel, Stage Technician & Deck Supervisor

BASS CLARINET Taylor Eiffert* Madison Freed** BASSOONS Catherine Van Handel, Principal, Muriel C. and John D. Silbar Family Bassoon Chair Rudi Heinrich, Assistant Principal Beth W. Giacobassi

* Leave of Absence 2023.24 Season ** Acting member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 2023.24 Season

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KEN-DAVID MASUR, MUSIC DIRECTOR Hailed as “fearless, bold, and a life-force” (San Diego UnionTribune) and “a brilliant and commanding conductor with unmistakable charisma” (Leipzig Volkszeitung), Ken-David Masur is celebrating his fifth season as music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and principal conductor of the Chicago Symphony’s Civic Orchestra. He has conducted distinguished orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, l’Orchestre National de France, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, the National Philharmonic of Russia, and others throughout the United States, France, Germany, Korea, Japan, and Scandinavia. Masur’s tenure in Milwaukee has been marked by innovative thematic programming, including a festival celebrating the music of the 1930s, when the Bradley Symphony Center was built, and the Water Festival, which highlighted local community partners whose work centers on water conservation and education. He has also instituted a multi-season artist-in-residence program, and he has led highly-acclaimed performances of major choral works, including a semi-staged production of Peer Gynt. This season, he begins a residency with bass-baritone Dashon Burton and leads the MSO in an inaugural city-wide Bach festival, celebrating the diverse and universal appeal of J.S. Bach’s music in an ever-changing world. Photo by Adam DeTour

Last season, Masur made his New York Philharmonic debut in a gala program featuring John Williams and Steven Spielberg. He also debuted at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan and at Classical Tahoe in three programs that were broadcast on PBS, and he led the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Branford Marsalis, and James Taylor at Tanglewood in a 90th birthday concert for John Williams. The summer of 2023 marked Masur’s debuts with the Grant Park Festival and the National Repertory Orchestra; later this season, he returns to the Baltimore Symphony and the Kristiansand Symphony. Previously, Masur was associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. During his five seasons there, he led numerous concerts at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood. For eight years, Masur served as principal guest conductor of the Munich Symphony, and he has also served as associate conductor of the San Diego Symphony and as resident conductor of the San Antonio Symphony. Music education and working with the next generation of young artists are of major importance to Masur. In addition to his work with Civic Orchestra of Chicago, he has conducted orchestras and led masterclasses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, New England Conservatory, Manhattan School of Music, Boston University, Boston Conservatory, Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan Chamber Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and The Juilliard School, where he leads the Juilliard Orchestra this fall. Masur is passionate about contemporary music and has conducted and commissioned dozens of new works, many of which have premiered at the Chelsea Music Festival, an annual summer festival in New York City founded and directed by Masur and his wife, pianist Melinda Lee Masur. The Festival, which celebrates its 15th anniversary in 2024, has been praised by The New York Times as a “gem of a series” and by TimeOutNY as an “impressive addition to New York’s cultural ecosystem.” Masur and his family are proud to call Milwaukee their home and enjoy exploring all the riches of the Third Coast. MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

EDO DE WAART, MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE Throughout his long and illustrious career, renowned Dutch conductor Edo de Waart has held a multitude of posts with orchestras around the world, including music directorships with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and a chief conductorship with the De Nederlandse Opera and Santa Fe Opera. Edo de Waart is principal guest conductor of the San Diego Symphony, conductor laureate of both the Antwerp Symphony Photo by Jesse Willems Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, and music director laureate of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. This season he returns to Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Milwaukee, San Diego, and Fort Worth symphony orchestras. As an opera conductor, de Waart has enjoyed success in a large and varied repertoire in many of the world’s greatest opera houses. He has conducted at Bayreuth, Salzburg Festival, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra Bastille, Santa Fe Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. With the aim of bringing opera to broader audiences where concert halls prevent full staging, he has, as music director in Milwaukee, Antwerp, and Hong Kong, often conducted semi-staged and opera-in-concert performances. A renowned orchestral trainer, he has been involved with projects working with talented young players at the Juilliard and Colburn schools and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara. Edo de Waart’s extensive catalogue encompasses releases for Philips, Virgin, EMI, Telarc, and RCA. Recent recordings include Henderickx’s Symphony No. 1 and Oboe Concerto, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, and Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius, all with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic. Beginning his career as an assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic, de Waart then returned to Holland where he was appointed assistant conductor to Bernard Haitink at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Edo de Waart has received a number of awards for his musical achievements, including becoming a Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion and an Honorary Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

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RYAN TANI, ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Ryan Tani is in his first season as assistant conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. In 2021, he completed his two-year tenure as the Orchestral Conducting Fellow for the Yale Philharmonia under Music Director Peter Oundjian, where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Prize for artistic excellence in his graduating class. Committed to meaningful community music-making in the state of Montana, Tani has directed the Bozeman Chamber Orchestra, Bozeman Symphonic Choir, Second String Orchestra, and MSU Symphony Orchestras. He frequently serves as cover conductor for the St. Louis, Colorado, and Bozeman symphonies and also recently served on the faculty at the Montana State University School of Music. Tani recently concluded his tenure as music director of the Occasional Symphony in Baltimore. A fierce advocate of new music, Tani curated over 20 commissions from Baltimore-based composers during his four-year directorship of OS. As resident conductor of the New Music New Haven series, he has collaborated, under the guidance of Aaron Jay Kernis, with Yale University composition students and faculty. Tani is also a graduate of the Peabody Institute where he studied conducting with Marin Alsop and Markand Thakar, and of the University of Southern California, where he studied voice with Gary Glaze. In 2015, he was declared the winner of the ACDA Undergraduate Student Conducting Competition at their national conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. In addition to his studies at Yale and Peabody, Tani has also studied conducting with Larry Rachleff, Donald Schleicher, Gerard Schwarz, Grant Cooper, and José-Luis Novo. Tani currently resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he can be found in the park with his dog, playing board games with friends and family, in the library with a good book, or in the practice room with his violin.

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The Milwaukee Symphony Chorus, founded in 1976, is known and respected as one of the finest choruses in the country. Under the direction of Dr. Cheryl Frazes Hill, the 2023.24 chorus season with the MSO includes works by Beethoven, Bach, Debussy, and Orff, as well as Handel’s Messiah and the Holiday Pops performances. The 150-member chorus has been praised by reviewers for “technical agility,” “remarkable ensemble cohesion,” and “tremendous clarity.” In addition to performances with the MSO, the chorus has appeared on public television and recorded performances for radio stations throughout the country. The chorus has performed a cappella concerts to sold-out audiences and has made guest appearances with other performing arts groups including Present Music, Milwaukee Ballet, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The chorus has also made appearances at suburban Chicago’s famed Ravinia Festival. The Margaret Hawkins Chorus Director Chair was funded by a chorus-led campaign during the ensemble’s 30th anniversary season in 2006, in honor of the founding chorus director, Margaret Hawkins. Comprised of teachers, lawyers, students, doctors, musicians, homemakers, and more, each of its members brings not only musical quality, but a sheer love of music to their task. “We have the best seats in the house,” one member said, a sentiment echoed throughout the membership. Please visit mso.org/chorus for more information on becoming a part of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus.

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CHORUS MEMBERS & STAFF Anna Aiuppa Marty Foral Noah Liermann Randy Schmidt Mia Akers Robert Friebus Nicholas Lin u Allison Schnier Laura Albright-Wengler Karen Frink Robert Lochhead Trinny Schumann Maria Fuller Kristine Lorbeske Bob Schuppel * James B. Anello u Thomas R. Bagwell William Gesch Grace Majewski Matthew Seider Barbara Barth Samantha Gibson Douglas R. Marx Bennett Shebesta Czarkowski Jessica Golinski Joy Mast u Hannah Sheppard Scott Bass Justin J. Maurer David Siegworth * Mark R. Hagner Marshall Beckman Eric W. Hanrehan Kathryn McGinn Bruce Soto Zachary Beeksma Beth Harenda Shannon McMullen Joel P. Spiess Yacob Bennett u Karen Heins Kathleen Ortman Miller * Todd Stacey Mary Catherine Megan Miller u Donald E. Stettler * JoAnn Berk Edward Blumenthal Helgren Victor Montañez Cruz Scott Stieg u Scott Bolens Kurt Hellermann Bailey Moorhead * Donna Stresing Robert Bortman Martha Hellermann Jennifer Mueller Ashley Ellen Suresh Neil R. Brooks Sara E. Herrick Joseph Thiel * Matthew Neu Heather Brown Eric Hickson Kristin Nikkel Dean-Yar Tigrani Michelle Budny Michelle Hiebert Jason Niles Clare Urbanski Ellen N. Burmeister Laura Hochmuth Alice Nuteson Tess Weinkauf Gabrielle Campbell Matthew Hunt Robert Paddock Emma Mingesz Weiss Gerardo Carcar Stan Husi R. Scott Pierce Samantha Wells Elise Cismesia u Tina Itson u Jessica E. Pihart Michael Werni Ian Clark Olivia Pogodzinski Erin Weyers • Christine Jameson Sarah M. Cook Paula J. Jeske Gabriel Poulson Cameron Wilkins Amanda Coplan Andrew Johnson Kaitlin Quigley Christina Williams u Sarah Culhane John Jorgensen Mary E. Rafel Emilie Williams Phoebe Dawsey Sally Witte • Heidi Kastern * Jason Reuschlein Colin Destache Michelle Beschta Klotz Rehanna Rexroat Kevin R. Woller Emma DeVries Robert Anton Knier James Reynolds Rachel Yap Becky Diesler Jill Kortebein Marc Charles Ricard * Jamie Mae Yu Rebeca Dishaw Kaleigh KozakAmanda Robison Michele Zampino Megan Kathleen Lichtman Katarzyna Zawislak * Bridget Sampson Dixson u Joseph M. Krechel James Sampson Stephanie Zimmer Rachel Dutler Julia M. Kreitzer Darwin J. Sanders u James Edgar Savannah Grace Jenny E. Sanders Joe Ehlinger Kroeger Alana Sawall Jay Endres Autumn Schacherl • Harold Krueger Katelyn Farebrother Benjamin Kulhmann John T. Schilling Michael Faust Pamela Lembke Sarah Schmeiser Catherine Fettig Alexandra Lerch-Gaggl Rand C. Schmidt

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Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director Timothy J. Benson, assistant director Kayoko Miyazawa, primary pianist Darwin J. Sanders, language/diction coach Terree Shofner-Emrich, Diane Kachelmeier, rehearsal pianists Darwin J. Sanders, language/diction coach Christina Williams, chorus manager

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DR. CHERYL FRAZES HILL, CHORUS DIRECTOR Dr. Cheryl Frazes Hill is now in her seventh season as director of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus. In addition to her role in Milwaukee, she is the associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. Frazes Hill is Professor Emeritus at Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts, where she served for 20 years as director of choral activities. During the 2032.24 season, Frazes Hill will prepare the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus for classical performances of Beethoven’s Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt and Choral Fantasy, Bach’s Magnificat, Debussy’s Nocturnes, and Orff’s Carmina Burana, as well as for holiday performances of Handel’s Messiah. In her role as the Chicago Symphony Chorus associate conductor, she has prepared the chorus for Maestros Alsop, Boulez, Barenboim, Conlon, Levine, Mehta, Salonen, Tilson Thomas, and many others. Recordings of Frazes Hill’s chorus preparations on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra label include Beethoven, A Tribute to Daniel Barenboim, and Chicago Symphony Chorus: A 50th Anniversary Celebration. Under her direction, the Roosevelt University choruses have been featured in prestigious and diverse events including appearances at national and regional music conferences and performances with professional orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Illinois Philharmonic. The Roosevelt Conservatory Chorus received enthusiastic reviews for their American premiere of Jacob Ter Velduis’ Mountaintop. Other recent performances have included the internationally acclaimed production of Defiant Requiem and three appearances with The Rolling Stones during a recent United States concert tour. Frazes Hill received her Master of Music and Doctorate degrees in conducting from Northwestern University and undergraduate degrees in voice and music education from the University of Illinois. An accomplished vocalist, she is a featured soloist in the Grammynominated recording CBS Masterworks release Mozart: Music for Basset Horns. An award-winning conductor/educator, Frazes Hill recently received the ACDA Harold Decker Conducting Award, the Mary Hoffman Music Educators Award, and in recent years the Commendation of Excellence in Teaching from the Golden Apple Foundation, the Illinois Governor’s Award, Roosevelt University’s Presidential Award for Social Justice, the Northwestern University Alumni Merit Award, and the Outstanding Teaching Award from the University of Chicago, among many others. Frazes Hill’s recently released book, Margaret Hillis: Unsung Pioneer, a biography of the famed female conductor, received a commendation from the 2023 Midwest Book Awards. The book is available on Amazon and in bookstores. Frazes Hill is nationally published on topics of her research in music education and choral conducting. A frequent guest conductor and guest speaker, Frazes Hill has recently collaborated with Maestro Marin Alsop at Ravinia Festival’s Breaking Barriers: Women on the Podium.

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JUKEBOX SATURDAY NIGHT October 29, 2023 • 2:30 p.m.

THE SOUL OF BROADWAY: IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS Starring Terron Brooks November 10, 2023 • 7:30 p.m.

CHRISTMAS WITH SIX APPEAL VOCAL BAND December 9, 2023 • 2:30 p.m.

THE FOURTH WALL February 4, 2024 • 2:30 p.m.

PIANIST SARAH HAGEN Wonder Woman: A Celebration of Female Composers February 25, 2024 • 2:30 p.m.

SWEET SEASONS A Celebration of the Music and Life of Carole King April 7, 2024 • 2:30 p.m. For more information, tickets, and video samples visit: WLC.EDU/GUESTARTISTSERIES Center for Arts and Performance | Schwan Concert Hall 8815 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Box Office: 414.443.8802

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THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS FILM WITH ORCHESTRA ©Disney

Saturday, October 28, 2023 at 7:30 pm Sunday, October 29, 2023 at 2:30 pm ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL Nicholas Buc, conductor Disney Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” In Concert Live to Film Featuring the Voice Talents of: Chris Sarandon Catherine O’Hara Ken Page William Hickey Glenn Shadix Paul Reubens A BURTON/DI NOVI Production Music, Lyrics & Score by DANNY ELFMAN Based on a Story and Characters by TIM BURTON Adaptation by MICHAEL MCDOWELL Screenplay by CAROLINE THOMPSON Produced by TIM BURTON and DENISE DI NOVI Directed by HENRY SELICK Soundtrack available on WALT DISNEY RECORDS This film is rated “PG.” .

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Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts © All rights reserved. Today’s performance lasts approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 20 minute intermission. The performance is a presentation of the complete film Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas with a live performance of the film’s entire score. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the end credits. MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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Guest Artist Biographies NICHOLAS BUC Nicholas Buc is an Award-winning composer, conductor, and arranger with over 20 years of experience in the music industry. He has composed music for film, television, and the concert hall, with some of his work being screened at festivals and theaters around Australia, Asia, and the United States. As the recipient of the prestigious Brian May Scholarship, he completed a master’s degree in scoring for film and multimedia at New York University, receiving the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring. He recently completed work on the new Australian feature film Slant, starring Sigrid Thornton and Pia Miranda, which won Best Australian Feature at Monster Fest 2022. He also scored the Ukrainian documentary Slava, which won Best Short Film at Byron All Shorts Flickerfest 2023. He has worked with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, and Australian pop sensation Tina Arena. He has written arrangements for Birds of Tokyo, Missy Higgins, and Vera Blue as well as working on MasterChef Junior, The Voice Australia, and the 2021 AFL Grand Final. Buc is highly sought after as a conductor for live film concerts, having conducted the world premieres of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Lion King (2019), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Shrek 2, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2. He is also the only person in the world to have conducted all three original Star Wars films in concert…in one day!

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Friday, November 3, 2023 at 7:30 pm Saturday, November 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL Ken-David Masur, conductor Aldo López-Gavilán, piano Milwaukee Symphony Chorus Cheryl Frazes Hill, director LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Overture to Fidelio, Opus 72 ALDO LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN Emporium

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Opus 112 [Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage] Milwaukee Symphony Chorus LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Fantasia in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Opus 80, “Choral Fantasy” I. Adagio II. Finale: Allegro - Allegretto ma non troppo, quasi andante con moto Aldo López-Gavilán, piano Milwaukee Symphony Chorus

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Guest Artist Biographies ALDO LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN Aldo López-Gavilán is a Cuban-born virtuoso pianist, composer, arranger, and multiple award-winner known for his exceptional talent and innovative approach to music. Born on 20 December 1979, in Havana, Cuba, he comes from a musical family, with a father, mother, and older brother who are all very accomplished musicians. López-Gavilán’s musical journey began at an early age when he displayed prodigious abilities on the piano. He received formal training at the respected Manuel Saumell and Amadeo Roldán Music Conservatories in Havana, and later at the prestigious Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London, England, where he quickly gained recognition for his exceptional technique and captivating performances. Throughout his career, López-Gavilán has collaborated with renowned artists and orchestras worldwide, showcasing his versatility and musical prowess. His compositions often incorporate complex rhythms, rich harmonies, and improvisational elements, reflecting his Cuban heritage and his deep understanding of various musical traditions. In addition to his virtuosity as a pianist, López-Gavilán is a prolific composer, creating works that encompass a wide range of emotions and themes. His compositions have been performed by prominent orchestras and chamber ensembles, earning him accolades and recognition for his innovative contributions to contemporary music. López-Gavilán’s performances and compositions have transcended cultural boundaries, captivating audiences across the globe. His music not only showcases technical brilliance but also resonates with emotional depth, inviting listeners to embark on a musical journey that is both intellectually stimulating and profoundly moving. As a trailblazer in the world of music, López-Gavilán continues to push artistic boundaries, fusing genres and creating a musical legacy that bridges cultures and celebrates the universal language of music. His ability to communicate complex emotions through his music and his dedication to pushing artistic boundaries make him a true luminary in the modern musical landscape.

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Program notes by Elaine Schmidt LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Born 17 December 1770; Bonn, Germany Died 26 March 1827; Vienna, Austria

Overture to Fidelio, Opus 72

Composed: 1804 – 1805 (revised for performances in 1806 and 1814) First performance: 20 November 1805; Vienna, Austria Last MSO performance: 18 May 1969; Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; tenor trombone; bass trombone; timpani; strings Approximate duration: 6 minutes Given Beethoven’s famously mercurial temperament and the consuming anger and frustration he felt over his progressive hearing loss, it takes little imagination to picture livid outbursts when things did not go well. But in fairness, the trials of getting a workable version of Fidelio in front of an appreciative audience were probably worth an outburst or two. In Beethoven’s day, operas were a litmus test of sorts for composers, making or breaking their careers. Any composer hoping to be taken seriously had to write operas — and ones that were deemed successful by the nobility financing them. Haydn and Mozart, in whose footsteps Beethoven was following, had written 26 and 22 operas respectively, with Mozart accomplishing that feat before his untimely death at age 35. Beethoven began his first opera in 1803, at age 33, using a libretto by impresario, composer, and librettist Emanuel Schikaneder, who also wrote the libretto of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute. Beethoven began working on the project, but could not warm up to the libretto, eventually turning to a French “rescue opera” — so named for the plot device of a main character needing to be rescued from a dire situation. Based on a thready-at-best plot, the opera opened under the name Fidelio in 1805, despite Beethoven having given it the dubious title Leonore, or The Triumph of Married Love. It premiered in Vienna, in German, before an audience of the French soldiers who were occupying the city at the time. Not shockingly, it was not well received. A reworked version of the opera fared somewhat better a year later, but it was not until Beethoven completed a wholesale overhaul of it in 1814, calling himself a martyr to the task, that it achieved success. His hearing significantly diminished by this point, Beethoven conducted with an “assistant” conductor following and conveying his movements to the orchestra and singers. This scene would be repeated, quite famously, 10 years later at the premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Disheartened, angry, and exasperated by his 11 years of toil on Fidelio, Beethoven vowed never to write another opera. It was a vow he kept.

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ALDO LÓPEZ-GAVILÁN

Born 20 December 1979; Havana, Cuba

Emporium

Composed: 2017 First performance: 29 July 2017; Incline Village, Nevada, United States Last MSO performance: MSO Premiere Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 3 trumpets; 3 trombones; timpani; percussion (bass drum, chimes, cymbals, snare drum, tam-tam, tom-tom, triangle, vibraphone); strings Approximate duration: 32 minutes If you look closely at this evening’s program, you will discover that Cuban pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán appears not just as the featured soloist on both halves of the concert, but also as the composer of the piece that opens the evening. And what a piece it is! In fact, when Michael Butterman, conductor of the Boulder [Colorado] Philharmonic Orchestra, heard the Performance Today broadcast of the piece’s premiere from the 2017 Classical Tahoe Festival on his car radio while driving home, he ended up sitting in his driveway listening to it and trying to figure out who the composer was. Butterman, who conducted the second U.S. performance of the work with the BPO, was quoted as describing the piece as “a cornucopia” for its mix of elements “from every possible genre and place [he] could imagine.” He said it contained bits and pieces of Philip Glass, Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Prokofiev, and the Downton Abbey theme music, among other things. He also referred to it as “bamboozling” once he studied the mixture of meters and rhythms in the score. López-Gavilán has described his Emporium as “a full piano concerto, with full orchestra and piano solo, and the Classical-era structure of three movements.” He has also explained that it contains classical and jazz elements, along with Cuban and African culture. But the loveliest thing he has said about it is that “it is about love. I have twin daughters and a few years ago, on their birthday, I improvised the main theme of the concerto for them as a birthday present — and they loved it.” His daughters have apparently inherited the aptitude and passion for music that has shaped the previous three generations of their family, having both earned top honors in the first Pequeño Pianista (Little Pianist) category of the first Concurso Latinamericano de Piano competition. If you find yourself entranced by Emporium and need to hear it again, join the club. It has become the most-listened-to piece of López-Gavilán’s Soundcloud page: soundcloud.com/ aldolopezgavilan. It has not yet been commercially recorded.

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Born 17 December 1770; Bonn, Germany Died 26 March 1827; Vienna, Austria

Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Opus 112 [Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage]

Composed: 1814 – 1815 First performance: 22 December 1815; Vienna, Austria Last MSO performance: MSO Premiere Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; timpani; strings Approximate duration: 8 minutes The English translation of Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, the title of Beethoven’s Opus 112 cantata, is “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage.” Although that sounds a good deal like the mariner’s toast to a good voyage one hears today, “Fair winds and following seas,” it actually has quite a different meaning. The cantata’s title and text come from two poems written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), the famous German poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (and more) whose works countless German composers have set to music. Goethe intended the poems, “Meeresstille” and “Glückliche Fahrt,” as a pair or a set, which is the way they were published in 1795. They are often listed as having been “written by 1795,” because it is not clear when Goethe wrote them. But even if he wrote them in the year of their publication, it means they were written about 40 years before the invention of a steam ship that could traverse open water, as opposed to just a river. In Goethe’s day, calm seas could be disastrous for sea-faring vessels, which depended on wind in their sails for propulsion. Calm seas could ruin perishable cargo and, if the calm lasted too long, being stuck on a calm sea could doom the crew to death by starvation and thirst. Goethe depicted a boatsman’s fear of the “deathly, terrible quiet” of the calm sea in the first poem and his palpable relief and joy when the winds stir again in the second poem. The delicious contrast in emotions between the two poems proved irresistible for both Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn, whose own setting of the pair of poems as an orchestral concert overture with the same title was first performed in 1828. Mendelssohn was aware of Beethoven’s setting of the two poems, which he acknowledged by using the key Beethoven had used, D major, for his concert overture. Franz Schubert’s 1815 Lied (song), entitled “Meeresstille,” is a setting of just the first poem.

Fantasia in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Opus 80, “Choral Fantasy”

Composed: 1808 First performance: 22 December 1808; Vienna, Austria Last MSO performance: 18 September 1977; Kenneth Schermerhorn, conductor; Michel Block, piano Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 2 horns; 2 trumpets; timpani; strings Approximate duration: 18 minutes Beethoven, like Mozart before him, was a freelance musician in Vienna. He performed as a pianist and conductor, wrote pieces on commission, negotiated the publication of his music, and dedicated pieces to wealthy individuals in hopes of securing their patronage. This was not a stable income, even in a good year, but in 1808, with his hearing in decline and the threat of a second French occupation looming large, Beethoven’s life was particularly tough. Hoping to make a good impression (and a lot of money), he scheduled a benefit concert for MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

himself — something that was not uncommon at the time. Eager to succeed, Beethoven got a bit carried away in programming the concert. He included the premieres of his fifth and sixth symphonies and his fourth piano concerto (with himself as soloist), some of his own solo piano improvisations, a few solo vocal works, and parts of his Mass in C major. He also wrote a new piece as a grand finale, featuring himself at the piano, joined by the orchestra and chorus: his Choral Fantasy. The concert was four hours long. It was brutally cold in Vienna on the night of the premiere, and the heating system was out at the theater. Members of the orchestra were angry with Beethoven over a tense encounter some days earlier. In addition, the players had so little time to rehearse the new fantasy, which Beethoven had just completed, that they were actually sight-reading parts of it at the performance. At one point, part of the orchestra took a written repeat, while another part of the orchestra did not. Someone shouted out instructions and they pulled back together, only to fall apart again, which forced them to stop and restart. Despite its ragged premiere, this enduring piece shows us innovative Beethoven at his best. If you keep the final movement of his Symphony No. 9 (the “Ode to Joy”) in the back of your mind as you listen to the Choral Fantasy, you will begin to hear hints and snippets of that familiar, great work — a piece he would not begin to work on for another 14 years.

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EDWARD ELGAR Variations on an Original Theme, Opus 36, “Enigma Variations” Theme (Andante) I. “ C.A.E.” (L’istesso tempo) II. “H.D.S.-P.” (Allegro) III. “R.B.T.” (Allegretto) IV. “W.M.B.” (Allegro di molto) V. “R.P.A.” (Moderato) VI. “Ysobel” (Andantino) VII. “Troyte” (Presto) VIII. “W.N.” (Allegretto) IX. “Nimrod” (Adagio) X. “Dorabella” (Intermezzo: Allegretto) XI. “G.R.S” (Allegro di molto) XII. “B.G.N.” (Andante) XIII. “***” (Romanza: Moderato) XIV. “E.D.U.” (Finale: Allegro) The MSO Steinway Piano was made possible through a generous gift from MICHAEL AND JEANNE SCHMITZ. The 2023.24 Classics Series is presented by the UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND and ROCKWELL AUTOMATION. The length of this concert is approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes. Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra can be heard on Telarc, Koss Classics, Pro Arte, AVIE, and Vox/Turnabout recordings. MSO Classics recordings (digital only) available at mso.org. MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Guest Artist Biographies JOYCE YANG Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (The Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Grammynominated pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive sensitivity. She first came to international attention in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, the youngest contestant at 19 years old. In 2006, Yang made her celebrated New York Philharmonic debut alongside Lorin Maazel at Avery Fisher Hall along with the orchestra’s tour of Asia, making a triumphant return to her hometown of Seoul, South Korea. In the last decade, Yang has blossomed into an “astonishing artist” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), showcasing her colorful musical personality in solo recitals and collaborations with the world’s top orchestras and chamber musicians. She received the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant and earned her first Grammy nomination for her recording of Franck, Kurtág, Previn, and Schumann with violinist Augustin Hadelich. Other notable orchestral engagements have included Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Deutsches SymphonieOrchester Berlin, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the BBC Philharmonic. She was also featured in a five-year Rachmaninoff concerto cycle with Edo de Waart and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, to which she brought “an enormous palette of colors and tremendous emotional depth” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). As an avid chamber musician, Yang has collaborated with the Takács Quartet for Dvořák — part of Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series — and with members of the Emerson String Quartet for Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet at the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center. Yang has fostered an enduring partnership with the Alexander String Quartet and together released three celebrated recordings under Foghorn Classics. In recent years, Yang has focused on promoting creative ways to introduce classical music to new audiences. She served as the guest artistic director for Laguna Beach Music Festival in California, curating concerts that explore the “art-inspires-art” concept — highlighting the relationship between music and dance while simultaneously curating outreach activities to young students. Yang’s collaboration with the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet on Half/Cut/Split was a marriage between music and dance to illuminate the ingenuity of Schumann’s musical language. Yang began the 2023.24 season as artist-in-residence for Grant Park Music Festival and as guest artist with the Aspen Music Festival among others, followed by performances with New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. This season, Yang continues to present her wide range of repertoire in over 30 cities, playing 10 different piano concerti, solo recitals, and chamber music. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Yang received her first piano lesson from her aunt at the age of four. She quickly took to the instrument, which she received as a birthday present. Over the next few years, she won several national piano competitions in her native country. By the age of 10, she had entered the School of Music at the Korea National University of Arts, and went on to make a number of concerto and recital appearances in Seoul and Daejeon. In 1997, Yang moved to the United States to begin studies at the pre-college division of The Juilliard School with Dr. Yoheved Kaplinsky. She graduated from Juilliard with special honors as the recipient of the school’s 2010 Arthur Rubinstein Prize, and in 2011 she won its 30th annual William A. Petschek Piano Recital Award. She is a Steinway artist. 28

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Program notes by Elaine Schmidt JOHN ADAMS

Born 15 February 1947; Worcester, Massachusetts, United States

The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra

Composed: 1985 First performance: 31 January 1986; Lukas Foss, conductor, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Last MSO performance: 26 September 2015; Edo de Waart, conductor Instrumentation: 2 flutes (1st doubling on 2nd piccolo, 2nd doubling on 1st piccolo); 2 oboes; 2 clarinets (2nd doubling on bass clarinet); 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 2 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum with pedal, claves, crotales, cymbals, glockenspiel, high hat, sandpaper blocks, snare drum, tambourine, triangle, vibraphone, wood block, xylophone); harp; piano; strings Approximate duration: 12 minutes The MSO has a long history with John Adams’ The Chairman Dances — literally its entire history. The piece was commissioned for the MSO with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the orchestra gave the world premiere of it in 1986. Although Adams wrote The Chairman Dances (the word “dances” is a verb in the title) as he was about to begin work on his opera Nixon in China, it is not simply an excerpt from the opera. Adams explains in a post about The Chairman Dances that it was “kind of a warmup for embarking on the creation of the full opera.” According to Adams’ writings about the piece, The Chairman Dances is a “foxtrot for orchestra.” He explains, “The music is not part of the opera (which is both stylistically and instrumentally quite different from it), but rather a separate response — a purely musical one — to the irresistible image of a youthful Mao Tse-Tung dancing the foxtrot with his mistress Chiang Ch’ing, former B-movie queen and the future Madame Mao, [who was] the mind and spirit behind the Cultural Revolution and the strident, unrehabilitated member of the Gang of Four.” He notes in the piece’s score, “I started somewhat hazily working on the music, not knowing if it had the right tone, and pretty soon I realized it wouldn’t work at all for the opera — it was a parody of what I imagined Chinese movie music of the ‘30s sounded like.” Adams has also written, “The music takes full cognizance of her [Madame Mao’s] past as a movie actress. Themes, sometimes slinky and sentimental, at other times bravura and bounding, ride above a bustling fabric of energized motives. Some of these themes make a dreamy appearance in Act III of the actual opera . . . as both the Nixons and the Maos reminisce over their distant pasts.” The piece opens with the insistent, rhythmic, angular sound of musical minimalism, giving way to more flowing, sinewy sounds and hints of jazz, before returning to the sounds and energy of the opening section.

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SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

Born 1 April 1873; Semyonovo, Russia Died 28 March 1943; Beverly Hills, California, United States

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Opus 43

Composed: 3 July – 18 August 1934 First performance: 7 November 1934; Baltimore, Maryland, United States Last MSO performance: 24 February 2019; Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor; Simon Trpčeski, piano Instrumentation: 2 flutes; piccolo; 2 oboes; English horn; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, snare drum, triangle); harp; strings Approximate duration: 22 minutes The life of Russian composer, conductor, and virtuoso pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff reads like a sweeping novel. Born in Russia into a musical family, he studied at the Moscow Conservatory and launched a promising career. But the dreadful premiere of his Symphony No. 1 — a perfect storm of things going awry — sent him into a four-year depression, which he worked through with the help of a therapist. Rachmaninoff lived with the genetic disorder known as Marfan syndrome, which has many physical manifestations, including extraordinarily large hands. Violinist Niccolò Paganini also suffered from Marfan syndrome, as did Abraham Lincoln and Julius Caesar. Rachmaninoff traveled the world to perform but made his home in Russia until the 1917 Russian Revolution, after which he and his family fled with what they could carry in small suitcases, arriving in the U.S. in mid-November 1918. Making his home in the U.S. for the last 24 years of his life, Rachmaninoff toured extensively but composed little, saying of his departure from Russia, “I left behind my desire to compose: leaving my country, I lost myself also.” Among the few pieces Rachmaninoff wrote after leaving Russia is his brilliant Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, written at his summer home in Switzerland. Based on the 24th caprice of Paganini’s virtuosic 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, which itself was a set of variations on a theme, Rachmaninoff wrote 24 virtuosic variations to be played with orchestra and without pause. He grouped the variations into a concerto-like form that opens with an introduction and 15 generally fast variations, followed by three generally slow variations, and then six generally fast variations, creating the impression of three movements for the listener. Unlike a traditional theme-and-variations format, he introduces the theme after the first variation, not before it. Rachmaninoff included the “Dies irae” chant from the Latin Mass for the Dead in variations 7, 10, 22, and 24. His unabashedly expressive Variation 18 is frequently performed outside the larger work. Rachmaninoff, considered the finest pianist of his day, played the piece’s 1934 world premiere in Baltimore with the Philadelphia Orchestra, under conductor Leopold Stowkowski.

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EDWARD ELGAR

Born 2 June 1857; Lower Broadheath, England Died 23 February 1934; Worcester, England

Variations on an Original Theme, Opus 36, “Enigma Variations”

Composed: October 1898 – February 1899 First performance: 19 June 1899; London, England Last MSO performance: 5 November 2016; David Danzmayr, conductor Instrumentation: 2 flutes (2nd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; contrabassoon; 4 horns; 3 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, cymbals, snare drum, triangle); strings Approximate duration: 29 minutes The fact that British violinist and composer Sir Edward Elgar is such a familiar and respected name in the 21st century is a bit of a wonder, given the fact that aside from violin lessons in his youth, he had no formal training and certainly no training in composition. Yet here we are, nearly 90 years after his death, settling in to listen to the piece that first brought this self-taught composer to the attention of the world: his “Enigma Variations.” We would probably not know Elgar’s name today had he not come home one evening feeling a bit blue. After dinner and a cigar, he sat down at the piano and began noodling at the keyboard, letting his mind wander, and not really paying attention to what he was playing. His wife heard the noodling and commented that it was a good tune. Unaware that he had been playing a tune, Elgar had to noodle a bit more to get back to it. When his wife heard the tune again and asked what it was, Elgar said, “Nothing, but something might be made of it.” That “something” turned out to be the “Enigma Variations.” Not certain what he would do with the tune his wife had enjoyed, Elgar began playing with it, using it as the basis for musical sketches of people he knew well. He labeled each sketch with the initials of the person it depicted. C.A.E. refers to his wife, Caroline Alice Elgar. The E.D.U. section is a reference to himself, using the nickname “Edu” that his wife had given him. Enigmatic as the initials may seem, they are not the enigma Elgar included in the piece. He wrote, “The Enigma I will not explain — its ‘dark saying’ must be left unguessed, and I warn you that the connection between the Variations and the Theme is often of the slightest texture.” He went on to say that another theme runs “through and over” the variations but is never actually played. Intrigued? You’re in good company. Musicologists have been stewing about what that theme might be ever since the piece’s 1899 premiere.

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Guest Artist Biographies RUTH REINHARDT German conductor Ruth Reinhardt is building a reputation for a keen musical intelligence, programmatic imagination, and elegant performances. In the 2023.24 season, Reinhardt’s plans include leading her first staged opera, a production of La Traviata for the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm, directed by Ellen Lamm and featuring the young rising voices of Ida Falk Winland and Joel Annmo. She continues to build her already burgeoning reputation among symphony orchestras, making debut appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, and WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. In North America, she begins the season with a debut appearance at the Nashville Symphony and also makes debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, and a postponed debut with the Grand Rapids Symphony, which was where Reinhardt found herself when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the performing arts world in March 2020. Programmatically, Reinhardt’s interests have led her toward an in-depth exploration of contemporary repertoire, leading the symphonic and orchestral world into the 21st century. Strongly centered on European composers, with significant emphasis on women composers of the second half of the 20th century and early 21st century, she brings new names and fresh faces to many orchestras for the first time. Among those whose works appear often in her programs are Grażyna Bacewicz, Kaija Saariaho, Lotta Wennäkoski, Daniel Bjarnason, Dai Fujikura, and Thomas Adès. Parallel programming can be complementary or contrasting, from the classic moderns such as Lutosławski, Bartók, Stravinsky, and Hindemith, or core composers of the symphonic canon — e.g. Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and Dvořák. In recent seasons, Reinhardt has made an important series of symphonic debuts in North America with the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Detroit, Houston, Baltimore, Milwaukee, and Seattle. In Europe, her appearances have been no less impressive — the Orchestre National de France, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Tonkünstler Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSB), to name several. Reinhardt attended The Juilliard School in New York as a student in the conducting class of Alan Gilbert and James Ross, where she received her master’s degree. Prior education and training was at the Zürich University of the Arts (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), studying violin with Rudolf Koelman and conducting with Constantin Trinks and Johannes Schlaefli. She attended master classes with, among others, Bernard Haitink, Michael Tilson Thomas, David Zinman, Paavo Järvi, Neeme Järvi, and Marin Alsop. Reinhardt was a Dudamel Fellow of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (2017-2018), conducting fellow at the Seattle Symphony (2015-2016) and Tanglewood Music Center (2015), and Taki Concordia associate conducting fellow (2015-2017). Reinhardt was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, into a family of medical doctors and studied violin and singing from an early age. She currently resides in Switzerland.

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Guest Artist Biographies ANDREI IONIȚĂ The Gold Medal-winner at the 2015 XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, Andrei Ioniță is one of the most admired cellists of his generation, called “one of the most exciting cellists to have emerged for a decade” by The Times of London. A versatile musician focused on giving gripping, deeply felt performances, Ioniță has been recognized for his passionate musicianship and technical finesse. His debut album on Orchid Classics combined a Brett Dean world premiere with Bach and Kodály, prompting Gramophone to declare him “a cellist of superb skill, musical imagination, and a commitment to music of our time.” Ioniță made his U.S. debut in 2017 with recitals in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and gave his New York debut recital in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. Previous season highlights include performances with the Münchner Philharmoniker, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, BBC Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He has worked with famous conductors including Herbert Blomstedt, Cristian Măcelaru, Sylvain Cambreling, Kent Nagano, Omer Meir Wellber, John Storgårds, Joana Mallwitz, and Ruth Reinhardt. He has given recitals at Konzerthaus Berlin, Elbphilharmonie, Zürich Tonhalle, LAC Lugano, and L’Auditori in Barcelona, as well as at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, SchleswigHolstein, Verbier, and Martha Argerich Festivals. Ioniță’s exceptional talent makes him a versatile and sought-after performer of chamber music. In his concerts, he joins forces with Martha Argerich, Christian Tetzlaff, Sergei Babayan, and Steven Isserlis, among others. Highlights of Ioniță’s 2023.24 season include performances with the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the baton of Paavo Järvi, the Mexico Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ludwig Carrasco, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Ruth Reinhardt, the Opéra national de Lorraine conducted by Marta Gardolińska, and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Newbury Festival conducted by Jonathan Bloxham. Also in the 2023.24 season, Ioniță will serve as artist-in-residence of the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest in Timișoara, Europe’s 2023 cultural capital. Prior to winning the Tchaikovsky Competition, Ioniță won First Prize at the Khachaturian International Competition in June 2013, and he won Second Prize and the Special Prize for his interpretation of a commissioned composition at the International ARD Music Competition. In 2014, he received Second Prize at the Grand Prix Emanuel Feuermann in Berlin. He was a BBC new generation artist from 2016-18 and was the Symphoniker Hamburg’s artist-in-residence for the 2019.20 season. Born in Bucharest, Romania in 1994, Ioniță first became a student of Ani-Marie Paladi and later of Professor Jens Peter Maintz at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. A scholarship recipient of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, Ioniță performs on a cello made by Giovanni Battista Rogeri from Brescia in 1671, generously on loan from the foundation.

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Program notes by Elaine Schmidt JONATHAN CZINER

Born 1991; Armonk, New York, United States

Rear-view

Composed: 2022 First performance: 25 February 2023; Palos Heights, Illinois, United States Last MSO performance: MSO Premiere Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 3 trumpets; 2 trombones; bass trombone; tuba; percussion (bell tree, brake drum, chimes, crotales, marimba, suspended cymbals, tam-tam, triangle, vibraphone, vibraslap); harp; strings Approximate duration: 10 minutes If you have driven a car in the last 40-or-so years, you have undoubtedly seen the words “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” etched on one or more of your car’s mirrors. So has American composer Jonathan Cziner. He explains on his website that his 2022 composition Rear-view is based on this perplexing sentence commonly found on the rear-view mirror of one’s car. The words are a warning that the convex shape of the mirror, which provides a wider view than that of a flat mirror, distorts the reflected image and could cause the driver to misinterpret the distance to whatever is presented in the image on the mirror. Cziner, who holds a Bachelor of Music degree from New York University and Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Justin Dello Joio, presents listeners with three musical objects in Rear-view: a chord progression, a melody, and an accompaniment. Within the piece, Cziner manipulates the three musical objects, turning them around, playing them backwards, and giving listeners a closer “look” at them. At the end of the piece, he explains, “They appear simultaneously in a rousing conclusion.” But for Cziner, who was the composer-in-residence of the Illinois Philharmonic for their 20222023 season and created three new works for the ensemble — including his first symphony, entitled Celestial Symphony — and who currently heads the composition program of the Charles Ives Music Festival, writing Rear-view was more than an experiment or exercise in the various ways to manipulate musical ideas. He has explained that the piece holds a deeper meaning for him, saying, “On a more personal level, this same idea is reflected in my memories of old road trips, which conjure feelings of fondness but also nostalgia. Each road trip is filled with a series of memories that morph over time and together form the entirety of a grand adventure.”

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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Born 25 September 1906; Saint Petersburg, Russia Died 9 August 1975; Moscow, Russia

Concerto No. 2 for Cello and Orchestra, Opus 126

Composed: 1966 First performance: 25 September 1966; Moscow, Russia Last MSO performance: MSO Premiere Instrumentation: flute; piccolo; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 3 bassoons (3rd doubling on contrabassoon); 2 horns; timpani; percussion (bass drum, slapstick, snare drum, tambourine, tom-tom, xylophone); 2 harp; strings Approximate duration: 33 minutes Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote two cello concertos over the course of a compositional career that included everything from 14 symphonies to numerous film scores, operas, string quartets, piano pieces, and so on. In addition to the wonder of the staggering number of pieces he wrote is the wonder of the fact that he did all of it while alternately being hailed by his government as something akin to a national treasure and being denounced, censured, and forced to undergo rehabilitation for somehow causing offense. Shostakovich wrote his first cello concerto in 1959, creating a brash, boisterous, and virtuosic piece that at one point mocked a song that had been one of Stalin’s favorites. He wrote his second concerto for the instrument in 1966 while in Crimea. Unlike the first concerto, which was a showcase for the abilities of the cellist, the second concerto is highly symphonic in nature. Shostakovich wrote about the concerto in a letter to a friend, saying, “It seems to me that the Second Concerto could have been called the Fourteenth Symphony with a solo cello part.” The concerto is a dialogue between cello and orchestra. It is a brooding, moody piece that opens with a slow, mournful cello solo, establishing the tempo and character of the first movement. The second movement, at a faster allegretto tempo, quotes a song Shostakovich heard a pretzel vendor singing on a street in Odessa to attract buyers, “Bubliki, kupitye, bubliki” (Pretzels, buy my pretzels), working to a frenzy before giving way, without pause, to the final movement. The movement draws on a parody of music from Mahler’s first symphony and repeats the pretzel-vendor’s song before fading to insistent, unsettling, clock-like ticking from the percussion. Shostakovich wrote both of his cello concertos for the great Mstislav Rostropovich, who turned up in the composer’s Moscow Conservatory composition class in 1943. When the composer heard his young student play the cello, he declared that Rostropovich was “of such significance” that his name would come to “represent an entire era of cello playing.” He was not wrong.

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JOHANNES BRAHMS

Born 17 May 1833; Hamburg, Germany Died 3 April 1897; Vienna, Austria

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Opus 98

Composed: 1884 – 1885 First performance: 25 October 1885; Meiningen, Germany Last MSO performance: 7 May 2016; Edo de Waart, conductor Instrumentation: 2 flutes (2nd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; contrabassoon; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones; timpani; percussion (triangle); strings Approximate duration: 39 minutes It took German-born composer Johannes Brahms somewhere between 14 and 22 years to write his Symphony No. 1, haunted as he was by comparisons of himself to the great, innovative symphonist Ludwig van Beethoven. With his first symphony out of the way, completed in 1876, Brahms completed his second in 1877, his third in 1883, and his monumental fourth in 1885. When he played excerpts of his fourth in a two-piano arrangement for some of his musician friends, they simply didn’t understand it. One of them, music critic Eduard Hanslick, made the comment after hearing it that he felt as though he “had been given a beating by two very intelligent people” — not exactly a rave review. But after the symphony’s 25 October 1885 premiere, even Brahms’s progressive critics had to admit that he had created something entirely new with this symphony. Written in the key of E minor, the symphony contains a good deal of decidedly tragic writing. Whether that owes to the tragedies of Sophocles that he was reading during the two summers he worked on the piece, or to an expression of his lifelong melancholic tendencies, the piece still makes a powerful emotional impact on listeners today. With the piece’s fourth movement, Brahms, who was a music historian — or musicologist, before that was a common field of study — turned to the past. Dismissed by many of his day’s progressive composers, including Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner, as a stodgy conservative, Brahms particularly revered the music of J.S. Bach, somewhat ironically so, as he was already known as one of the “three Bs of classical music: Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.” In the symphony’s fourth movement, he turned to Bach’s Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin in D minor, particularly the piece’s Chaconne. By Brahms’s time, the dance roots of the Chaconne were all but forgotten, but the notion of a bass line that was repeated over and over remained. Brahms used that idea as the foundation for the symphony’s final movement, creating a universe of colors, harmonies, vivid emotions, and gorgeous melodic lines above it, sweeping the audience along to the symphony’s deeply expressive final bars.

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ELF IN CONCERT FILM WITH ORCHESTRA

Friday, November 24, 2023 at 7:30 pm Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 2:30 pm ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL Yaniv Dinur, conductor

Directed by Jon Favreau Produced by Kent Alterman, Cale Boyter, Julie Wixson Darmody, Toby Emmerich, and Jimmy Miller Written by David Berenbaum Starring: Will Farrell James Caan Bob Newhart Edward Asner Mary Steenburgen Zooey Deschanel Music by John Debney Cinematography by Greg Gardiner Edited by Dan Lebental Produced by New Line Cinema & Guy Walks Into a Bar Productions Distributed by New Line Cinema ELF and all related characters and elements © & ™ New Line Productions, Inc. (s23) This weekend’s media sponsor is WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO. The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours including one 20-minute intermission. Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra can be heard on Telarc, Koss Classics, Pro Arte, AVIE, and Vox/Turnabout recordings. MSO Classics recordings (digital only) available at mso.org. MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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Guest Artist Biographies YANIV DINUR Yaniv Dinur is the winner of the 2019 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Fellow Award and music director of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra. He is lauded for his insightful interpretations and unique ability to connect with concertgoers of all ages and backgrounds, from season subscribers to symphony newcomers. In New Bedford, he has brought star soloists such as Yefim Bronfman, Pinchas Zukerman, Karen Gomyo, and Vadim Gluzman to play with the orchestra. Under his leadership, the New Bedford Symphony has been nationally recognized for its bold, engaging programming and artistic quality, leading to the League of American Orchestras selecting the orchestra to perform at the 2021 League Conference. Dinur served as resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony from 2015-2023. During this period, he conducted 372 concerts, including 144 performances for youth and children. Recognizing his leadership and impact, the Milwaukee Business Journal selected him as a 40 Under 40 honoree, an award for young professionals making a difference in the community. Dinur’s recent and upcoming guest conducting highlights include subscription debuts with the symphonies of San Diego, Edmonton, Tulsa, Sarasota, Fort Worth, Illinois, Present Music in Milwaukee, Orchestra Haydn in Italy, and Filarmonica de Madrid. He made his conducting debut at the age of 19 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, which led to multiple return engagements. Since then, he has conducted orchestras around the world, including the Israel Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony, Houston Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, New World Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Portugal Symphony Orchestra, Sofia Festival Orchestra/Bulgaria, State Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Torino Philharmonic, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. An accomplished pianist, Dinur established a chamber music series at the Villa Terrace Museum in Milwaukee, where he performs with musicians from the Milwaukee Symphony. Recent concerto performances include Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with the New Bedford Symphony and Mozart’s D Minor Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony, for which he received critical acclaim for his “fluid, beautifully executed piano passages” and “deeply musical playing” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Dinur is the winner of numerous awards, among them the 2017 and 2016 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Awards, 2nd Prize at the 2009 Mata International Conducting Competition in Mexico, and the Yuri Ahronovitch 1st Prize in the 2005 Aviv Conducting Competition in Israel. He is also a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Zubin Mehta Scholarship Endowment. Born in Jerusalem, Dinur began studying the piano at the age of six with his aunt, Olga Shachar, and later with Prof. Alexander Tamir, Tatiana Alexanderov, Mark Dukelsky, and Edna Golandsky. He studied conducing in Israel with Dr. Evgeny Zirlin and Prof. Mendi Rodan, and holds a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance, where he was a student of Prof. Kenneth Kiesler.

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Guest Artist Biographies JOHN DEBNEY John Debney is the ultimate film music character actor. In equal demand for family films such as Jingle Jangle, Come Away, and Elf as he is for adventure films like Iron Man 2, the Oscar-nominated composer also scored the powerful and poignant The Passion of the Christ. Debney is an agile jack-of-all-genres, sci-fi adventure (The Orville), composing for comedies (Bruce Almighty), horror (Dream House), and romance (Valentine’s Day) with the same confidence and panache. Debney is also known for his work in such films as Princess Diaries, Sin City, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, No Strings Attached, The Emperor’s New Groove, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Hocus Pocus. Debney’s work also includes Disney’s The Jungle Book directed by Jon Favreau, Fox’s Ice Age: Collision Course directed by Mike Thurmeier, and Twentieth Century Fox’s award-winning musical The Greatest Showman starring Hugh Jackman and Zac Efron. Debney’s most recent films include The Beach Bum starring Matthew McConaughey and directed by Harmony Korine, the Warner Bros. comedy feature Isn’t It Romantic starring Rebel Wilson, Paramount Pictures’ family adventure feature Dora and the Lost City of Gold, and Bleecker Street’s biopic Brian Banks. Upcoming for Debney is Come Away directed by Brenda Chapman and starring Angelina Jolie. Born in Glendale, California, Debney’s professional life began after he studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts, when he went to work writing music and orchestrating for Disney Studios and various television series. He won his first Emmy in 1990 for the main theme for The Young Riders, and his career soon hit a gallop. Since then he has won three more Emmys (Sea Quest DSV), and been nominated for a total of six (most recently in 2012 for his work on the Kevin Costner western miniseries Hatfields & McCoys). His foray into videogame scoring— 2007’s Lair—resulted in a BAFTA nomination and a Best Videogame Score award from The International Film Music Critics Association. Debney has collaborated with acclaimed directors as diverse as Robert Rodriguez, Garry Marshall, Mel Gibson, the Farrelly Brothers, Jon Favreau, Jim Sheridan, Ivan Reitman, Peter Chelsom, Rob Cohen, Brian Robbins, Tom Shadyac, Sam Raimi, Adam Shankman, Howie Deutch, Renny Harlin, Peter Hyams, and Kenny Ortega. He was nominated by the Academy for his Passion of the Christ score. Inspired by that score, he then created The Passion Oratorio, performed in 2015 in the historic Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain, in front of 6,000 people during Holy Week. In 2005, Debney was the youngest recipient of ASCAP’s Henry Mancini Career Achievement Award. “If I’m doing my job well,” says Debney, “I need to feel it. I really try to make sure that whatever I’m doing— even if it’s a comedy—that I’m feeling it and feeling either humor or the pathos or the dramatic impact of what I’m seeing. That’s the way I approach it.”

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HOLIDAY JAZZ WITH DEE ALEXANDER

Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 7:30 pm ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL Dee Alexander, vocalist John McLean, guitar Steve Million, piano Jeremiah Hunt, bass Charles Rick Heath IV, drums/percussion

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DEE ALEXANDER Born on Chicago’s west side, Dee Alexander is one of Chicago’s most gifted and respected female vocalist/songwriters. Her talents span every music genre, from Gospel to R&B, from Blues to Neo-Soul. Yet her true heart and soul are experienced in their purest form through her performance of Jazz music. From a soft, sultry ballad to a scat-filled romp, Alexander delivers each style with a passion for music that comes across in every note and a grace that is truly her own. Growing up in a household that was steeped in recordings of Dinah Washington, Alexander names Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald among her major influences, as well as Chicago saxophonist Henry Huff, who encouraged her to take risks and cross boundaries thus setting her on the path to becoming one of the most accomplished vocal improvisers in the world today. Her Jazz Institute of Chicago commissioned tribute to Nina Simone and Dinah Washington entitled Sirens of Song introduced her to a larger audience and marked the beginning of worldwide recognition. The Millennium Park performance on the Pritzker Pavilion stage also began a period of frequent European touring. Alexander boasts long and fruitful associations with Chicago’s jazz elite, including Ramsey Lewis, Orbert Davis, Nicole Mitchell, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Alexander’s current project, Songs My Mother Loves, has received rave reviews and is intended not only to express thanks and pay tribute to Dee’s mother for her inspiration and influence, but also to pay homage to the music that has become such a significant part of her life. Alexander is currently a host on the WFMT Jazz Radio Network.

JOHN MCLEAN John McLean’s career has included work as a guitarist, composer, arranger, producer, bandleader, and educator. Since completing his studies at the Berklee College of Music (B.M.) and the University of Miami (M.M.), he has toured throughout the world and appeared on over 50 recordings. McLean has performed and/or recorded with such artists as Kurt Elling, Mose Allison, 46

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Guest Artist Biographies Randy Brecker, Branford Marsalis, Anat Cohen, Jeff “Tain” Watts, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Richie Cole, Ken Nordine, Joe Locke, Regina Carter, Louis Bellson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Terry Callier, Renée Fleming, John Patitucci, Adam Nussbaum, Ernie Watts, Dave Douglas, Patricia Barber, Kendrick Scott, Arthur Blythe, Eddie Gomez, and many others. Over the course of his 30 years of touring as both a leader and sideman, McLean has performed in virtually every major city in North America as well as London, Paris, Moscow, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, Sao Paulo, Jakarta, Dublin, Rome, Madrid, Warsaw, Berlin, Oslo, Reykjavík, Oslo, Stockholm, Istanbul, Bucharest, Helsinki, Seoul, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest, Brussels, Prague, Copenhagen, Zurich, and many more. McLean has conducted clinics throughout the United States and Canada, as well as Europe and Asia. He currently resides in the Chicago area and teaches at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois.

ALEXANDER/MCLEAN PROJECT The Alexander/McLean Project is a collaboration between a group of like-minded musicians who are interested in working along the nexus of poetry, long form composition, and jazz improvisation. This project is designed to expand upon each of the band members’ previous artistic efforts and incorporates a variety of stylistic approaches and strategies. Dee Alexander, the ensemble’s vocalist and co-leader and Westside native, has been a prominent member of Chicago’s arts scene for the last four decades. Dee is widely known for her close association and longtime membership with Chicago’s legendary AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). In addition, Alexander has recorded and toured extensively in both leadership and collaborative roles. Likewise, John McLean the co-leader of the ensemble has a long-standing relationship with Chicago’s creative music scene. McLean has participated in over 60 recordings as both sideman and a leader and has toured worldwide in a variety of creative music ensembles. The goal of the Alexander/McLean Project is to delve as deeply and as creatively as possible into the art of songwriting as it relates to and intersects with the world of jazz improvisation. While the beloved works that we refer to as the “The Great American Songbook” provide us with a sturdy and beautiful template for this undertaking, the purpose of this project is to explore the extension of that legacy as well as presenting original material that reflect the times we are living in with love, hope, and happiness being the goal of every man, woman, and child.

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Janet and Daniel Brophey Janet Brown Sarah Brown Thomas and Joanne Brown Michael and Beverly Bruno Ernest Brusubardis Mr. Ferdinand M. Brutvan Dr. and Mrs. James D. Buck Timothy Bult and Xin Huang Theresa Burkholder Mr. James R. Burmeister Mr. Christopher Burns Mrs. Susan M. Burns Stephanie Burton Ms. Susanne L. Burwell Mrs. Marifred Bylow Mr. Horace Bynum Mr. Andrew Byshenk Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Cadkin David Cadle Ms. Caitlin Cahak Mr. Michael Caito John Calhoun Kristina Calvano Mr. and Mrs. Jim Caraway Mrs. Tera Cares Lisa Carini Turecek Mr. Chad Carlson David and Oksana Carlson Steven and Linda Carlson Mr. and Mrs. Ted L. Carlson Mr. and Mrs. William S. Carpenter Michael and Patricia Carr Tim and Kathleen Carr Thomas Carver Ms. Margaret R. Cary Ms. Susan Case Michael Casey Tatiana Castellino Andrew Catanzaro Barry Chambers Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Chandler Leigh Barker-Cheesebro Ms. Amy Cheke Mr. Ara Cherchian Adriana Chessman Mr. Robert G. Chester Tricia Chirillo Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chojnacki Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Chossek Mr. and Mrs. Peter S. Christensen Mr. and Mrs. Erik R. Christensen Mr. Robert Christensen Ms. Edith I. Christian Ms. Kristin Christie Ms. Magdalena Chrzanowska Mrs. Laura Clark Nathan Clark Sumaiyah Clark Ms. Sharon Clausz James and Mary Ellen Clinton Mrs. Hollis Cloninger Daniel Close Mrs. Gayle Cluck Daniel Cochrane Ms. Tammy Colavecchi Judy Colletti

Argosy Foundation Just Duet Challenge Joy Collura Mike Contardi Ms. Lisa A Coombs-Gerou George and Violet Corliss Mr. Craig A. Cornelius Mr. and Ms. Donald Cornell Teresa Coronado Vivian Corres Dr. Debbie Costakos Ms. Terri Coughlin Isaac Covert Joshua Crabb Parker J. Cristan Frederick and Amy Croen Mr. David D. Crouse Flavius Cucu & Miriam Van de Sype Daniel Culbertson Jill Cymerman Carrie Cyr Charlotte Dahlen John and Betty Jo Dahlman Ms. Cassie Daisy Mrs. Denise Dallmann Simon Dampier Nancy Daniels Mrs. Catherine A. Daubard and Mr. Christopher W. Zibart Bernadette Davel Sarah Davies Brett Dawsey Mrs. Sara De Almeida Isabel De Aos Mr. Bob Deahl Dr. and Mrs. Larry B. Dean Mr. Tom Dechant and Paul Gibler Anthony Decker Thomas Deimel Richard and Dixie Deines Mr. John Deisinger Mr. Paul B. Dekker Carolyn Delery Gerald and Ellen DeMers Ms. Kristine L. Demski Mr. Scott M. Dettmann Miss Trista Deuster Jeffrey Dhein-Schuldt Lynda M. Di Pierro Ms. Ann L. DiCastri Ms. Eva Dickenson Julia Dickson-Gomez & Kevin Brown Janet and Terryl Dietert Ms. Louise Dietrich Mr. Jeremy Dill Mr. Tim Dillard Jennifer Dirks Mrs. Tomi Dittburner Erik Dittmann Michelle Dluzak Ms. Karen E. Dobbs Wendy Dobrzynski Ms. Joanne L. Doehler Mrs. Angela Doggett Linda Dohmen Terrence Dolan Tim Dolan Anthony Dombrowski Ms. Julie A. Doneis

Justin Doss Thomas Dougherty Jean Dow Carl Dowdy Shannon Downey Kendall DiVito Mr. and Mrs. Mark Drana Peter Drenzek Mr. David Drews Jeff Drope and Victoria Teerlink Shannon Drummer James Ducanto Mr. Matt Duchow Mr. Shawn P. Duffy Katherine Dummer Nancy and Michael Dunham Carla Durand Ms. Josefina Durkan Mrs. Audra C. Dutler Marsha Dzioba Mr. Barry M. Eberhardt Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Eberhardy Mr. and Mrs. William Edington Carolyn Edwards Anne and Richard Egan Sheila Eglash Mr. and Ms. Mark D. Ehrmann Mindi Eineichner Edward and Alice Eisendrath Mr. Donald O. Elliott Karyn and Bill Elliott Kaleigh Ellis Rebecca Elon Mrs. Tina Elsafy Molly Elvert Mr. and Mrs. James Engelhardt Terrence Ernst Gary and Judith Ertel Mr. Thomas P. Etten Coral Evans Mrs. Jacci Everts Mr. James Ewig Madhu Expedith Dennis Faber Ann and Alan Fagan Paula Fails Mrs. Amy Fairchild Annie Farrey Sharon and Bradley Fedderly Robert Ferriday and Barbara McMath Ms. Corey Ficht Mrs. Carrie Fidler Mary Fiebelkorn Christina Figueroa Nancy Filsinger Stuart Findlay Jordan and Phyllis Fink Lynda Fink Garret Finocchiaro Ms. Carla J. Fisher Susan Fisher Mrs. Jennifer Fjeseth Ms. Anita B. Fleisch Charles Fleming Mr. Roland Flessner Jennifer and Josh Flowers Kristen Fogtman

Mr. George E. Forish Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Fornear Richard Fortune Mrs. Nicole Fowler Dr. Stanley and Janet Fox Matthew Frank Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frank Mr. Patrick Frasher Patricia Frausto John and Jane Frederick Dale and Jo Ann Frederickson John and Carolyn Fredriksen Gerald and Patricia Freitag Cassie Frerks Mr. Francis A. Freudinger David and Katie Frick Heidi and Lucas Furlong Nicole Gabriel Jeff Gallagher Carol A. Garner Mr. Nate Garry Richard Garsteck Mr. Christopher Gasper Rich Gast Andrew Gebel Ms. Vanessa D. Geever Sarah Gehrenbeck Mr. Gerald R. Gensch Kimberly George Mr. Michael George Mr. and Mrs. Mark Gerard Ms. Kimberly Gerber Carrie Gerhard Justin Germane Jennifer Germanson Jacqueline Gessner Mrs. Martha Giacobassi James and Sharon Gierahn Brian Gifford Richard Gillard Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Gimbel Give Lively Daniel Glaser Stephanie Gnadt Donna Godzisz Owen Goldin Mary Golembiewski Colleen Golomski Gustavo Gonzalez Siaba Ms. Lilian Gonzalez Thomas Good Bruce Goodrich Ralph and Cherie Gorenstein Ann Gorman Mr. Darren Gorr Nicole Gorscak Mr. Donald Gorzek Pamela Gotch William Gowen Mr. and Mrs. Kim M. Graff Mr. Steven Grall Mrs. Sarah H. Gramentine Mrs. and Dr. Marjorie M. Greene Ms. Diane Greenmeier Mary and James Griffith James and Sue Ellen Grigg Timur Gritsevskiy

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Argosy Foundation Just Duet Challenge Mary Grogan Brit Grosecnik Carrie Gross Thaddeus Groszczyk Gerard Grzyb Jim Guckenberg Mr. Nathan Guequierre Whitney Gulbronson Norman Gunder Charmaine and Kurt Gunderson Mr. Jeff Guttenberger Sarah Guttmann Mr. and Mrs. Douglas W. Haag Jim Haakenson Karleen Haberichter Nathan Hackett Evan Hadjimichael Ms. Dawn E. Haggerty Mr. Mark R. Hagner Ms. Karen Haldemann Mr. and Mrs. G. Michael Halfenger Torrin Hallett Dale Halloway Candice Halverson Amber L. Halvorson Michael Hamachek Mrs. Chris Hamburg Sybille Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Dennis Han Steve and Stephanie Hancock Mr. John Hankwitz Paul J. Hans Stephanie Hanson Mrs. Ingrid Hanson-Popp Mrs. Joan Hardy Ms. Sherenia Harper Jenny Harris Mr. Joel D. Harris Kristen Harthun Rosalie Hartmann Rod Harvey Edward Hasler Lauren Hathaway Helen Hawke Kurt Hayes Ms. Anne Hazelwood Natalie Heaton Renee Hechimovich David and Judith Hecker Brianna Heeley Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hegge Mr. Terry Heiden Mr. Keith Heidmann Jeff and Heather Hein Ms. Cynthia Heine Ms. Phyllis M. Heinrich Lynn Heintzkill William Heinzelman James Heinzen Douglas Hempel Dayton & Amy Henderson Mr. and Mrs. John H. Henderson Dr. Robert Henschel Mr. Justin Heppard Jerold Hershberger & Kathi Hillyer Mr. Robert Hey Mr. & Mrs. Jim Heyer Mark and Judith Hibbard

Colleen Hider Mr. and Mrs. Donald Higgs Ms. Lakesha Highshaw E. Alexander and Barbara Hill DJ Hines Joe Hipp Ryan Hobbs Mr. George Hodges Bernadine Hoeft Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hoffman Katherine Hoffmann John Hogan Michael Hogan Mr. Jonathon Holsclaw Mr. Karl A. Holtermann Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Homar Michael Hopkins Mrs. Susan Hopkins-Heatwole and Mr. Scott Heatwole Mark A. Hornburg James Horst Lori Horst Ms. Alice M. Horton Julius Horton Mr. Dennis Horvath Dante and Jennifer Houston Sharon Hovind Justin Hubbard Ms. Melody Huenefeld Johnathan Huff Barbara Hufschmidt Mr. and Mrs. Tyrell Hughes Dale Huhnke Humana Barbara Hunt Mr. Tim Hunter Kathy and Carl Husslein Mr. Kairy Ibrahim Julia Ihlenfeldt Collin Imig Nathan Imig Octavian Ioachimescu Ioulia Ionina Danielle Ippolito Ben Irwin Paul Isham Victoria Italiano Judith Jablonski Kathryn Jackson Mr. Alexander Jacobs and Ms. Drusilla Cagnoni Mr. and Dr. Bruce Jacobs Mrs. Loris Jacobs Joyce Jacobson Gretchen Jaeger Joel W. Jaeger Hilary James Mrs. Michele Jancoski Thur Jeffrey Janik Mr. and Mrs. Leon P. Janssen Douglas and Cheri Jeffery Mr. Brandon Jellison Todd Jensen Charles Jetton Sarah Jewell Paula John Mr. Robert Johns Ms. Barbara Johnson

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Ms. Claire Johnson Ms. Dolores C. Johnson Ms. Jonette Johnson Michelle L. Johnson Nathan K. Johnson Niel Johnson Mr. Steve Johnson Ms. Tanisha Johnson Kim Johnston Thomas V. Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Jonen Anthony Jones Ms. Carole J. Jones Jean Jones Nina Jones Patricia Jones Mr. Todd M. Jones Ms. Olof Jonsdottir Ms. Kelly Jordan Lori Jorgensen Mr. and Mrs. Myron L. Joseph Allison Joubert Mrs. Linda K. Jourdan Thomas Joynt Debra Jupka Maxwell R. Kahle Erik Kakulis Leslie and Wilanna Kalkhof Eleonore Kamoske Kristi Kanitz Ray Kapfhamer Judith Kaplan Mark Karau Paul Karrels Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Karron Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Kaser Mrs. Olga Kaslow Mrs. Bobbie Kasper Ms. Jane Kassens Robert and Jackie Kastengren Elina Kats William and Kathleen Kean Ms. Samantha M. Kearney Mr. Jerome Kegel Mr. Ken Kehl Kristen Kell Mrs. Marguerite Kelley Julie Kellman Melanie Kelly Mr. Kenneth J. Kenitz Brian and Mary Lou Kennedy Matthew Kennedy Kenosha Beef International, Limited Belinda Kenwood Andrew Kerbel Mrs. Judith A. Keyes Mrs. Nicole R. Kiedrowski Thom Kieffer Mr. John D. Kielich Paul and Amy Kilpatrick Rev. and Mrs. George Kimball Mrs. Tia M. Kinens Colleen King Dr. and Mrs. Dennis King Marianne King Molly King Jordan Kirby Mr. Rick Kirby

Argosy Foundation Just Duet Challenge Mark Kitzke Jude Kizenkavich Brian Klarkowski Mr. David Kleba Eric Klemm Timothy Klos Mr. and Mrs. F. Michael Kluiber Ms. Ruth A. Knoll Julie Knox Ms. Lezlie Knox Caroline Kobb James and Joyce Kochan Elizabeth Kocol and Terry Booth Kathleen and Jack Koehler Jessica Koenes Abrianna A. Koenig Camille Koertner Joav Kofman Liz Kohler Kohls Department Stores Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph M. Konrad Angie Kopf Kevin Koplin Mr. Gary K. Koppelberger Robert and Gail Korb Mr. Artem Korchagin Jack Koshkin Paul Kosidowski Mr. and Mrs. John A. Kosma Mr. Mike Kostelnik Alex Kostner Ms. Samantha Kovach Mrs. Lou Ann Koval Shirley Kraemer Mary Krall John Krasovich Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Krause Mark Krause Dr. and Mrs. Anthony Krausen John and Loretta Krenitsky Kerry Kreutzer John and Susan Krezoski Ms. Penny Krist Karen Kritsch Laura Kruck Kara Krueger Sichi Paula Krukar Jessica Krukowski Amy Krymkowski Renata Kubiliute Chip and Sally Kubly Mr. Konrad K. Kuchenbach Mr. Aaron Kullinger James Kupka Ms. Jaynie Kutka Milton and Carol Kuyers Alex Kuzniewicz Ahmya L Cheatham Diane Laabs Mr. Adam Laatsch Mr. and Mrs. Mario Laguna Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Laird Thomas and Evelyn Lajiness Alysandra and Dave Lal Mr. and Ms. Ian Lambert Erica Landgraf Ms. Nancy R. Landis Perry LaRoque

Bruce Larsen Ms. Jana M Larson Jenna Lassila Robert and Carolyn Lawrence Ms. Jamie Lawver Sherman Leatherberry Ms. Acadia LeBouef Robin Leenhouts Mr. Dean Leff John Leicht Jennie Lembach Ms. Veneta Leon-Guerrero Daniel Leunig Mr. and Mrs. Jay Lewein Charles P. Libal Lisamarie V. LiGreci-Newton Matthew Lilla Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lillegren Jacob Limpert Mrs. and Mr. MaryAnn Lindberg Tom Lindow Ellen Linek Jerry Lintz Mr. Theodore Lipscomb Rachel Loepp Eric Lohman Steven and Susan Longo Sally Long and Franklin Loo Ms. Loretta A. Lorenzen and Daryl Laatsch Mr. Anthony D. Lowe Mrs. Melissa Lucareli Mrs. Margaret Lucke Wayne and Kristine Lueders Ms. Vicki Lukas Jane Lukowicz Loredana Lungana Anne and LeRoy Lutz John and Corinne Lutz James and Karen Lynch Kay and Duane Maas Mr. Ron Maclean Edward Macon Mr. Jacob Magnusson Ms. Deborah Mahuta Elaine Malek Judy Maloney Barry and Eileen Mandel Brian Maney Mr. and Mrs. David Mantsch Mr. Jonathan March Angeleene and Patrick Marchese Mrs. Jeaneen Mardak Michael T. Marek Maryanne Marinetti Steven and Mary Rose Marinkovich Mr. Mark & Dr. Courtney Marlaire Ms. Laura Marran Craig Marsh Ms. Jean Marshall Leslie Martin and Sabina Diehr Rev. Clarissa Martinelli Maureen Maskrey Jennifer and Karl Mattes Mr. Brian Matthews Jarred Matthews Mr. and Mrs. Francis Matusinec Megan May

Janis Mayer Vickie McBride Michael McClintock Mr. Merle H. McDonald Jr and Mrs. Sandra K. McDonald Thomas W. McElwee James McFarland Barbara Mann McGinnis Mr. Stephen C. McIngvale Mr. Garrett McIntosh Mr. John S. Mclaughlin Michael McNeil Mr. Christopher McNulty Janet McRoberts Sue Medford Bryan Meeker Ann Megan Ms. Norma Mendoza Amina Merchant Gordon and Sarah Merna Kaila Metzger Sallie and George Meyer Mr. Ron Meyer Dr. and Mrs. Alfred Meyers Lily Miceli Mr. and Mrs. Perry Michalos Susan and Robert Mikulay Jean Mileham Artyom Miller Brett Miller Gene Miller Patricia Miller Kevin Millikin Mr. and Ms. Steve Mills Kari Mitchell Nathaniel Mitchell Woodie Mogaka Ms. Jequitta K. Molot Richard Molter Alejandro Monarrez Mr. Robert Monnat Scott and Marjorie Moon Mr. Terrence Moore Morgan Stanley Jacquelyn Morgan Sarah Morin Kaleen Morkin Johnel G Morris Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Morton Alina Mouscher Mr. Peter Mroz Ms. Melodi Muehlbauer Patti R. Mueller Steve Mulder Mrs. Heather Munroe Jamie Music Alison Myers Mr. Tommie Myles Natasha N. Nabors Susan Nadeau Ned and Margaret Nagy Akilah Nash Fleming Dr. James R. Nass Matt Nejdl Sue Nelsen Gunther Nelson Dr. and Mrs. Randall Nemerovski Karl Nennig

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Argosy Foundation Just Duet Challenge Katherine Neuman Michael Newman Ms. Hannah M. Neylon Mrs. Doris L. Nice Mr. Jason Niles Marjorie Nixon Roy Normington Northwestern Mutual Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Novak Jean Novy Amy Oaks Ms. K. O’Brien and J. Schulte Monica Olague-Marchan Steven Olguin Ms. Diane Olp Mr. and Mrs. Layton Olsen Mrs. Christine M. Olson Mr. Jeremy Olson Mary Beth Olson Lee za Ong Mr. Emil Orcholski George Orlando Mr. Mark Ortell Richard Ortiz Eric Osegard Kelly OShea Sylvana Osorio Ms. Susan M. Otto Mary G. Owen-Tresp Candice Owley Joseph Pabst and John Schellinger Joyce Pace Mr. Domingo Pacheco Brian and Maura Packham Pat Padua Mr. Matthew Pagel Mr. Christopher Palmer Chad Pankop Mr. and Ms. Peter Panzer Joseph Papenfuss Mr. Thomas J. Parisi Kristine Parker Dylan Parks Mr. and Mrs. Mathew R. Parlier Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Parnau Ms. Jean Pascek Laurel Paschke Ms. Emily Passey Mr. and Mrs. Jamshed Patel Dr. & Mrs. Mark Paterson Wendy Pauli Chris Paulsen Mr. Julio E. Payan Mrs. Kimberly Payne Koy Peerenboom Ms. Jeanne Pehoski Mr. David Peloquin Thomas and Judith Pelt Michelle Pera Andrew and Elizabeth Pesch Ms. Laura Peska Mr. and Mrs. Karen Peterson Roy Peterson Jane Petras Mr. and Mrs. Peter Petroll Jr. Jason Pettit Ms. Sarah Pfluger Jill Phillips

Eric Piatkowski Marjorie Piechowski Richard and Ann Piehl Mr. Adam Pierce Fred Pike and Cecilia Taylor Leslie Plamann Craig Plante Mr. John K. Plaski Tatiana Plavnik Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Pleier Ms. Anna Pludeman Charles Poat James Poehlmann Janet Polley Heather Popp Lauren Poppen Tina Posey Marsha Poulsen Kathleen Powers Laurna Prantil Mr. Keith D. Prochnow Mr. Jordan Proefrock Mr. and Mrs. William Prost James and Frances Proulx Mr. and Ms. Steven Prust John and Susan Pustejovsky Ed and Beverly Puzia Mr. Jarod Quigley Mr. and Mrs. William Quinn Ms. Harvian M. Raasch-Hooten Craig Rabe Nicholas L. Rabe Linda Radder Phillip Radovich Judy Radtke George Raich Heather and Austin Ramirez Diana Ramirez Kathy Ramirez Ms. Lena Ramirez Edward Ramthun Dr. Francis J. Randall Mark Rasmussen Ms. Jane Rau Laura Rau Mr. and Mrs. Ben Reehl Linda Reid Tom Reid Philip Reifenberg Mary Reilly-Kliss Nancy Reinbold James and Lysbeth Reiskytl Ruth Renzelmann Mr. Brian Resop Sandra Retherford Terry Retzke Mrs. Mary E. Reuschlein Julie and James Reuss Dr. and Dr. Lisa M. Rich Ms. Jennifer Richards Mr. and Mrs. David A. Rickaby Mrs. Susan Rieder Donald Riegelman and Kathryn Rouse Joseph Rieland Pat and David Rierson Jeremy Riese Mr. Todd Riley Ms. Tanya J. Rittmann

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Mrs. Jeannine Colburn Jacob Riyeff Audrey Roach Matthew and Marianne Robbins Darlene Roberts Evan Roberts Louise Roberts John Robertson Kim Robertson Dennis Robinson Patricia Robinson Ms. TeHanna Robinson Glenn Roby Janice Rodden Ms. Erica Rodenbeck Ms. Gillian Rodger Carol Roe Guy Roesler Mr. Garrett Rogers Kristy Rogers Mr. Bjorn Rogness Marianne Roider Sarah Roidt Stephanie and Jason Rose Gayle Rosemann and Paul McElwee Diane Rosenberg Eileen Rosenberg Shelly Rosenstock Mr. Brian Roser Megan Ross Mr. Michael Rothe Catherine Rotter Dorothy Rotter John Rowland Mr. Fred Royal III John and Mary Rozek Dore Rozwadowski Stacey Rudolph Mr. Frederick Ruenzel Phil Ruff Melinda Rugen Mr. Nicholas Ruiz Thomas Russell Vanessa Rutkowski James Sadler Paul and Dorothea Sager Vitor Salles Mr. Rodrigo F. Sanchez Mr. and Ms. Neal E. Sanders Jenny Sanger Ms. Nina Sarenac Linda Sather Mr. Donald Savaglia Mr. Kevin Sawall Joseph and Judith Sayrs Jonathan Schaar Mr. and Mrs. Theodore H. Schaar Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Schacht Douglas Schaefer Thomas Schaefer Mr. Michael C. Schaner Nathaniel Schardin Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Schaus Jr. Christine Schena Megan Schifer Barbara Haig and Daniel Schley Ms. Imogene Schley Ms. Christine Schlosser

Argosy Foundation Just Duet Challenge Georgianna Schmidt Audrey Schmitz Mr. Thomas Schneider Mr. Richard E. Schoen Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Schoggen Mr. Peter Schotz Ms. Marilyn L. Schrader Jessica Schreiner Dennis Schroeder Robert Schroeder Thomas Schroeder Mrs. Elaine M. Schueler Ms. Betty Jean Schuett Gordon Schuetz Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Schulgit Allison Schultz Christina Schultz Mr. Don Schultz Wes Schultz and Kathryn Flynn William & MacKay Schultz Mr. and Mrs. Gary Schulze Mr. P. Schumacher and Ms. P. Beck Mr. and Mrs. Mark W. Schwallie Mr. Brian M. Schwellinger Deanna Schwenner Mr. and Mrs. Penny L. Schwid Ms. Debra S. Schwinn Andi Sciacca Lynn Scott Ms. Megan Scott Charles Seaman Ms. Penny Seeley-Dean Steve Seidlitz Paul W. and Frances Seifert Mrs. Mary Anne Selby Julie Serbiak Stephanie Serna Jan Serr and John Shannon Cheryl Sexton Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey M. Shabman Kristin Shebesta Patricia Sheehan Mr. Samuel Shelley Ms. Hannah Sheppard Mr. and Mrs. Randall Sherer Mr. Mason Sherwood Mr. Darl V. Shimko Emily and John Shipman Mr. Sergey Shuvaev Dr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Siebenlist Daria Siegel Linda Sierzchulski Mr. Olu Sijuwde Scott Silet and Kate Lewis Mr. Elias Silva Dr. and Dr. Kirsten J. Simanonok Catherine Simmerer George and Mary Simonds Anthony Simonelli Cy Simonsgaard Mr. David Simpson Ms. Mary Sinclair Rice Ranjit Singh Gina Singletery Mr. & Mrs. Bill Sites Gail Sklodowska Mrs. Jennifer Slater Robert Slocum

Mrs. Dorothy M. Smaglick Ms. Marcia S. Smeiska Mrs. Aileen M. Smith Greg and Michele Smith Jason Smith Jerome Smith Mrs. Kirsten A. Smith Lindel Smith Michael Smith Rebecca Smith Rhianan Smith Mr. and Mrs. Roger S. Smith Sheila Smith Stacey Smith Ms. Stephanie A. Smith Mr. Steve Smith Mr. Christopher Smitherman II Jakkquelynn Smolarek Bernadine Smurawa Joanne Sobolik Luke Sommer Susan Sonneborn Mr. Alfredo Sotomayor Michael and Jane Spalding Mr. Michael Spangler Lydia Spettel Mr. Keith Spore Noah Sprunk Donald St George Catherine Staats Mr. Carlton Stansbury Leah Stauber Ms. Milda A. Steinbrecher Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Steiner Morgan Stickler Ms. Victoria Stockinger Diane Paulbeck Robert and Shirley Stoll Eric Stolzmann Mrs. Julie M. Stone Busch Ms. Holly Stoner Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Strait Mrs. Patricia T. Strassburger Mr. Eric Strauss Melody and William Streeter Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Streng James Strey Linda and Don Strike Karen Stromsted Cynthia A. Stuckey Ms. Lisa M. Stukenberg Mr. Tom Suchecki Ms. Marcia Suelzer Mrs. Kathryn L. Swanson Nicole Sweeney Todd Sweet William Sweetland Ms. Sally A. Swetnam Ms. Rachel Swick Anastassia Syrrakos Mr. Ian Szczygielski Jason Szemborski Diane Tadych and Pamela Anderson Mr. and Mrs. David Taggart Ms. Janet R. Tallberg Karen Tarantino Mr. and Mrs. Mike Tarnoff Dave Tauzell

Mr. Trey Taylor Constance Tenhawks Tim and Bonnie Tesch Mrs. Lois Tetzlaff Michelle Thalacker Brandon Thao Jason and Sarah Thelen John and Karen Thibodeau Mr. Mark J. Thomas Mrs. Pat Thomas Reverend Fred Thomas-Breitfeld Ms. Jacquelyn Thompson Jared Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Troy Thompson Bonnie Thomson Elaine Thousand Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Tiffany Karen Tillis Desiree Timmons Mr. and Mrs. Todd Tischer Mrs. Sarah L. Toellner Margaret Tomaszek Witry Mr. Wayne Tompkins Jill Toohill Ms. Kathryn Topp Mrs. Maryclaire Torinus Ms. Trinidad Torres Ms. Barbara Traczek Kristie Tran The Travelers Insurance Co. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis P. Trinastic Drs. Steven and Denise Trinkl Rosemary T. Trotta Ann Trumble Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Tucker Mr. Gary Turner Jennifer Turner Nyesha Turner Daniel Tyksinski Erica Tyler Karalee Tyrrell Robert Uecke Beverly Ugent Ty Uhen Ms. Barbara M. Ujcich Mr. & Mrs. Mark Ulmen United Way of Greater Milwaukee David and Vicky Unruh John Uttech James Van Ess Harold and Mary Beth Van Groll Gretchen Van Helden Amy Vandiepenbeeck Ravi Varma Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Varney Mr. and Mrs. Gary Vasques Thora Vervoren Monica Vincent John C. Viste and Elaine J. Strite Tom Voell Joann Vogel David Voight Mr. and Mrs. Brian Volkman Mary Vollman Ava Voltner Nancy Vrabec Vera Vujicic Mr. David A. Wagner

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Argosy Foundation Just Duet Challenge/MSO Endowment Mr. William Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Yvonne J. Wagner Rebecca Wakefield Mrs. Elizabeth W. Walcott Mr. Josh Walden Sandi Walden Amy Waldman Holly Wallace Mr. and Mrs. John Walloch Kathleen Walrath Mrs. Monica Walrath Christina Walters Mr. and Mrs. Mark Walters Dr. Tracy S. Wang Sarah Wangler Ms. Ruth Wardinski Mr. Matt Wargin Sara Warner Andrew Warshauer Francis and Mary Wasielewski Mr. and Mrs. Larry Waters Mr. Tom Weaver Kathryn A. Weidner Ms. Pamela Weinandt Gerald Weisman Susan Weiss Robert Welch Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence M. Wellenstein Mr. Brandon Wells Jeff Wells Ms. Jennifer Werkmeister Gwen and William D. Werner Lynn and Richard Wesolek Mrs. Elaine Wessel Ms. Stephanie Wesselowski Teresa Wetzel Donald and Melody Weyer Betty White Eric White Sammis and Jean White Justin Whiteman Anne Wiberg Ms. Abeni Wichinski Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wickert Maryann Wieczorek Robert and Lana Wiese Susan Wilbanks Ms. Janet Wilgus Laurie Wilhelm Mrs. Margaret Will Mrs. Janet Wille Margaret Wilson Leah Windhaeuser Rebecca Winnie Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Winter Elaine Wisch Mrs. Melinda D. Wolf Wilfred Wollner Ann Wood Bryan Wood Ms. Diana J. Wood James and Sandra Wrangell Mr. Stan Wright Ms. Shelly Wruck Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Wucherer Sherry Wulff Susan Wundrow

Ms. Susan Wustrack Barbara Wyatt Sibley Ms. Rose M. Yaroch Mrs. Marina Yegorov Hiroko Yoshida Gaylord and Marlene Yost Dennis and Michelle Zagrodnik Mr. Charles W. Zahnow Ms. Ellen Zaitchyk Damon Zaleski Eric Zall Joel Zawada Ms. Laura zellmer Susan Zeuske Jennifer Zickuhr Ms. Caroline Ziegler Mrs. Karen Zieman Mrs. Elizabeth Ziherl Mr. John W. Zilavy Mr. Pat Zimmer John Zippel Mr. and Mrs. Adrien Zitoun Aleks and Amanda Zivkovic Ms. Joella Zocher MSO ENDOWMENT Visionaries Commitments of $1,000,000 and above Jane Bradley Pettit Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair Herzfeld Foundation Krause Family Principal Horn Chair Phyllis and Harleth Pubanz Gertrude M. Puelicher Education Fund John and Judith Simonitsch Tuba Chair Stein Family Foundation Principal Pops Conductor Chair Polly and Bill Van Dyke Music Director Chair Philanthropists Commitments of $500,000 and above Donald B. Abert Principal Bass Chair Mr. Richard Blomquist Patrice L. (Patti) Bringe Margaret and Roy Butter Principal Flute Chair Donald and Judy Christl Fred Fuller Trumpet Chair Andrea and Woodrow Leung Principal Second Violin Chair and Fred Fuller Dorothea C. Mayer Principal Cello Chair Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra League Principal Oboe Chair Northwestern Mutual Foundation Melitta S. Pick Endowed Piano Chair Walter L. Robb Family Principal Trumpet Chair Robert T. Rolfs Foundation Michael and Jeanne Schmitz President and Executive Director Chair Gertrude Elser and John Edward Schroeder Guest Artist Fund Walter Schroeder Foundation

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Principal Harp Chair Muriel C. and John D. Silbar Family Principal Bassoon Chair Marjorie Tiefenthaler Principal Trombone Chair Richard O. and Judith A. Wagner Family Principal Viola Chair Benefactors Commitments of $100,000 and above Four Anonymous Donors Patty and Jay Baker Fund for Guest Artists Mr. and Mrs. Frederick J.O. Blachly Philip Blank English Horn Chair in memoriam to John Martin and his favorite cousin, Beatrice Blank Judith and Stanton Bluestone Estate of Lloyd Broehm Louise Cattoi, in memory of David and Angela Cattoi Lynn Chappy Salon Series Terry J. Dorr and Michael Holloway Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trust Franklyn Esenberg Principal Clarinet Chair David L. Harrison Endowment for Music Education Estate of Sally Hennen Karen Hung and Robert Coletti Richard M. Kimball Bass Trombone Chair William Randolph Hearst Foundation Judith A. Keyes MSOL Docent Fund Charles A. Krause Donald and JoAnne Krause Music Education Endowment Fund Martin J. Krebs Co-Principal Trumpet Chair Charles and Barbara Lund Marcus Corporation Foundation Guest Artist Fund Andy Nunemaker French Horn Chair John and Elizabeth Ogden Gordana and Milan Racic The Erika Richman MSO-MYSO Reading Workshop Fund Pat and Allen Rieselbach Friends of Janet F. Ruggeri Assistant Principal Viola Chair Allison M. & Dale R. Smith Percussion Fund Estate of Walter S. Smolenski, Jr. Bert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable Trust Donald B. and Ruth P. Taylor Assistant Principal Clarinet Chair Mrs. William D. Vogel Barbara and Ted Wiley Jack Winter Guest Artist Fund Fern L. Young Endowment Fund for Guest Artists

Musical Legacy Society/Annual Fund MUSICAL LEGACY SOCIETY The Musical Legacy Society recognizes and appreciates the individuals who have made a planned gift to the MSO. The MSO invites you to join these generous donors who have remembered the Orchestra in their estate plans. Nine Anonymous Donors George R. Affeldt Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Aring, Jr. Dana and Gail Atkins Robert Balderson Adam Bauman Priscilla and Anthony Beadell Mr. F. L. Bidinger Dr. Philip and Beatrice Blank Mr. Richard Blomquist Judith and Stanton Bluestone Patrice L. (Patti) Bringe Jean S. Britt Laurette Broehm Neil Brooks Anthony and Vicki Cecalupo Lynn Chappy Ellen and Joe Checota Donald and Judy Christl Jo Ann Corrao Lois Ellen Debbink Mary Ann Delzer Julie Doneis Terry Dorr and Michael Holloway Donn Dresselhuys Beth and Ted Durant Rosemarie Eierman Franklyn Esenberg John and Sue Esser JoAnn Falletta Donald L. Feinsilver, M.D. Frank and Pauline Fichtner Susie and Robert Fono Ruth and John Fredericks Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Goldsmith Brett Goodman Roberta Gordon Marta P. and Doyne M. Haas Ms. Jean I. Hamann Ms. Sybille Hamilton Kristin A. Hansen David L. Harrison Judy Harrison Cheryl H. and Roy L. Hauswirth Harold W. Heard Cliff Heise Sidney and Suzanne Herszenson Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Hoke Glenda Holm Jean and Charles Holmburg Karen Hung and Robert Coletti Myra Huth William and Janet Isbister Lee and Barbara Jacobi Leon and Betsy Janssen Marilyn W. John Faith L. Johnson Mary G. Johnson

Bill and Char Johnson Jayne J. Jordan Judy and Gary Jorgensen Debra Jupka James A. and Robin S. Kasch Howard Kaspin James H. Keyes Judith A. Keyes Richard and Sarah Kimball Ronald J. and Catherine Klokner Mary Krall JoAnne and Donald Krause Martin J. and Alice Krebs Ronald and Vicki Krizek Cynthia Krueger-Prost Susan Kurtz Steven E. Landfried Mr. Bruce R. Laning Victor Larson Arthur and Nancy Laskin Tom and Lise Lawson Andrea and Woodrow Leung Mr. Robert D. Lidicker Mr. and Mrs. John B. Liebenstein Drs. John and Theresa Liu Dr. John and Kristie Malone Dana and Jeff Marks Steven and Mary Rose Marinkovich Ms. Kathleen Marquardt JoAnne Matchette Rita T. and James C. McDonald Patricia and James McGavock Nancy McGiveran Nancy McKinley-Ehlinger Mrs. Christel U. Mildenberg Christian and Kate Mitchell Joan Moeller Ms. Melodi Muehlbauer Robert Mulcahy Kathleen M. Murphy Andy Nunemaker Diana and Gerald Ogren Lynn and Lawrence Olsen Mr. and Mrs. Philip W. Orth Lygere Panagopoulos Jamshed and Deborah Patel Gerald T. and Carol K. Petersen Mr. and Mrs. Ronald R. Poe Julie Quinlan Brame and Jason Brame Ms. Harvian Raasch-Hooten Gordana and Milan Racic Christine Radiske and Herbert Quigley Steve and Susan Ragatz Catherine A. Regner Ms. Monica D. Reida Pat and David Rierson Pat and Allen Rieselbach Dr. Thomas and Mary Roberts Gayle G. Rosemann and Paul E. McElwee Roger B. Ruggeri and Andrea K. Wagoner Nina Sarenac Mary B. Schley in recognition of David L. Schley Dr. Robert and Patty Schmidt Michael J. and Jeanne E. Schmitz

James and Kathleen Scholler Charitable Fund James Schultz and Donna Menzer Mason Sherwood and Mark Franke Margles Singleton Lois Bernard and William Small Dale and Allison Smith Susan G. Stein John Stewig and Richard Bradley Dr. Robert A. and Kathleen Sullo Terry Burko and David Taggart Lois Tetzlaff E. Charlotte Theis David Tolan Thora Vervoren Dr. Richard O. and Judith A. Wagner Veronica Wallace-Kraemer Michael Walton Brian A. Warnecke Earl Wasserman Alice Weiss Sally Wells Carol and James Wiensch Rolland and Sharon Wilson Floyd Woldt Sandra and Ross Workman Marion Youngquist For more information on becoming a Musical Legacy Society member, please contact the Development Office at 414.226.7891. ANNUAL FUND The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra truly values the music lovers in the concert hall and we thank our contributors to the Annual Fund for investing their time and support to this treasure. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions to the Annual Fund as of September 28, 2023 CONDUCTOR CIRCLE $100,000 and above Ellen and Joe Checota Mr. and Mrs. George C. Kaiser Donald and JoAnne Krause Marty Krebs Sheldon and Marianne Lubar Charitable Fund of the Lubar Family Foundation Michael Schmitz Julia and David Uihlein $50,000 and above Laura and Mike Arnow Anthony and Vicki Cecalupo Drs. Alan and Carol Pohl Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Wilson $25,000 and above One Anonymous Donor Bobbi and Jim Caraway Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn Esenberg Mrs. Susan G. Gebhardt Doug and Jane Hagerman Judy and Gary Jorgensen Judith A. Keyes

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Annual Fund Robert and Gail Korb Dr. Brent and Susan Martin Drs. George and Christine Sosnovsky Charitable Trust Drs. Robert Taylor and Janice McFarland Taylor Thora Vervoren $15,000 and above Two Anonymous Donors Dr. Rita Bakalars Marilyn and John Breidster Mary and Terry Briscoe Elaine Burke Mary and James Connelly Dr. Deborah and Jeff Costakos Mrs. Alyce Coyne Katayama Barbara and Harry L. Drake George E. Forish, Jr. Roberta Gordon Drs. Carla and Robert Hay Jewish Community Foundation Eileen and Howard Dubner Donor Advised Fund Charles and Barbara Lund Maureen McCabe William and Marian Nasgovitz Paul Nausieda and Evonne Winston Lois and Richard Pauls Pat Rieselbach Allison M. and Dale R. Smith John Stewig and Richard Bradley Susi and Dick Stoll Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Tiffany Haruki Toyama $10,000 and above Four Anonymous Donors Keith and Kate Brewer Ara and Valerie Cherchian Jennifer Dirks Bruce T. Faure M.D. Mary Lou M. Findley Greater Milwaukee Foundation Bernard J. and Marie E. Weiss Fund Judith J. Goetz Kim and Nancy Graff Stephanie and Steve Hancock Katherine Hauser Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Hobbs Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Hoke Barbara Karol Christine Krueger Geraldine Lash Mr. Peter L. Mahler Keith Mardak and Mary Vandenberg Mark and Donna Metzendorf Dr. Mary Ellen Mitchanis Christian and Kate Mitchell Bob and Barbara Monnat Patrick and Mary Murphy Andy Nunemaker Brian and Maura Packham Julie Peay Leslie and Aaron Plamann Christine Radiske and Herbert Quigley Lynn and Craig Schmutzer Brian M. Schwellinger Sara and Jay Schwister

Nancy and Greg Smith Tracy S. Wang, MD Mr. and Mrs. Francis Wasielewski Diana J. Wood Herbert Zien and Elizabeth Levins PRINCIPAL CIRCLE $5,000 and above Six Anonymous Donors Fred and Kay Austermann Thomas Bagwell and Michelle Hiebert Robert Balderson Clair and Mary Baum Donna and Donald Baumgartner Natalie Beckwith Lois Bernard William and Barbara Boles Suzy and John Brennan Roger Byhardt Chris and Katie Callen Donald and Judy Christl Sandra and Russell Dagon Karen Dobbs and Chris DeNardis Mrs. William T. Dicus Joanne Doehler Jacquelyn and Dalibor Drummer Beth and Ted Durant Dr. Eric Durant and Scott Swickard Dr. and Mrs. Harry A. Easom Dr. Donald Feinsilver and JoAnn Corrao Paul and Connie Flagg Stan and Janet Fox Elizabeth and William Genne Richard and Ellen Glaisner Alison Graf and Richard Schreiner Margarete and David Harvey James and Crystal Hegge Ms. Mary E. Henke Mark and Judy Hibbard Lee and Barbara Jacobi Leon and Betsy Janssen Jayne J. Jordan Anthony and Susan Krausen Alysandra and Dave Lal Peter and Kathleen Lillegren Wayne and Kristine Lueders Gerald and Elaine Mainman Dr. Ann H. and Mr. Michael J. McDonald Genie and David Meissner Mr. and Mrs. George Meyer Judith Fitzgerald Miller Rusti and Steve Moffic William J. Murgas Mr. and Ms. Bruce Myers Mark Niehaus Barbara and Layton Olsen Elaine Pagedas Ellen Rohwer Pappas and Timothy Pappas Sharon R. Petrie Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pierce-Ruhland Jim and Fran Proulx Jerome Randall and Mary Hauser Dr. Donna Recht and Dr. Robert Newby Dr. Marcia J.S. Richards Pat and David Rierson Roger Ritzow Dr. Thomas and Mary Roberts

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Gayle G. Rosemann and Paul E. McElwee Richard Eli Schoen Mr. Thomas P. Schweda Carlton Stansbury Loretto and Dick Steinmetz Bob and Betty Streng Jim Strey Kathleen and Frank Thometz John and Karen Tomashek Mrs. James Urdan Gary and Cynthia Vasques Jim Ward Nora and Jude Werra Janet Wilgus Jessica R. Wirth $3,500 and above Two Anonymous Donors Dr. Philip and the spirit of Beatrice Blank Virginia Bolger Professor David and Diane Buck Mr. David E. Cadle Ms. Nancy A. Desjardins Stephen and Bernadine Graff Ginny Hall Judith and David Hecker Drs. Margie Boyles and Stephen Hinkle Barbara Hunt David and Mel Johnson Olof Jonsdottir and Thorsteinn Skulason Dr. and Mrs. Kim Benedict and Lee Kordus Stanley Kritzik Norm and Judy Lasca Dr. Joseph and Amy Leung Christopher Mullins and Kay Bokowy Mr. and Mrs. Joel Needlman Elaine Schueler James Schultz and Donna Menzer Roger and Judy Smith Sue and Boo Smith James and Catherine Startt Ian and Ellen Szczygielski Gile and Linda Tojek Corinthia Van Orsdol and Donald Petersen Wilfred Wollner Carol and Richard Wythes Sandra Zingler Leo Zoeller ORCHESTRA CIRCLE $2,500 and above One Anonymous Donor Marlene and Bert Bilsky Scott Bolens and Elizabeth Forman Jean Britt Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Chernof Amy and Frederick Croen Jack Douthitt and Michelle Zimmer Jo Ann and Dale Frederickson Kurt and Rosemary Glaisner Natalia and Patrick Goris Jean and Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation Robert Hey

Annual Fund Mr. and Mrs. Bernard C. Hlavac Charles and Jean Holmburg Howard and Susan Hopwood Deane and Vicky Jaeger Jewish Community Foundation Dorothy and Merton Rotter Donor Advised Fund Matthew and Kathryn Kamm Megumi Kanda Hemann and Dietrich Hemann Lynn and Tom Kassouf Mr. and Mrs. F. Michael Kluiber Kolaga Family Charitable Trust Jane and Tom Lacy Frank Loo and Sally Long Dr. and Mrs. Debesh Mazumdar Mark and Carol Mitchell William and Laverne Mueller Jamshed and Deborah Patel Raymond and Janice Perry David J. Peterson Kathryn Koenen Potos Susan Riedel Ann Rosenthal and Benson Massey Dottie Rotter Judy and Tom Schmid Rev. Doug and Marilyn Schoen Ms. Betty Jean Schuett Paul and Frances Seifert Greg and Marybeth Shuppe Mrs. George R. Slater Dr. and Mrs. C. John Snyder John and Anne Thomas Nancy Vrabec and Alastair Boake Larry and Adrienne Waters Ann and Joseph Wenzler Floyd Woldt Jim and Sandy Wrangell $1,500 and above Six Anonymous Donors Donald and Jantina Adriano Ruth Agrusa Dr. Joan Arvedson Richard and Sara Aster Paul Barkhaus Margaret and Bruce Barr Jacqlynn Behnke Richard Bergman Elliot and Karen Berman Roger Bialcik Dr. and Mrs. Squat Botley Cheri and Tom Briscoe Marcia P. Brooks and Edward J. Hammond James Brown and Ann Brophy Karen and Harry Carlson Teri Carpenter Tim and Kathleen Carr Edith Christian Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Christie Lynda and Tom Curl Larry and Eileen Dean Paul Dekker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dougherty Sigrid Dynek and Barry Axelrood Donald Elliott Signe and Gerald Emmerich, Jr.

Shirley Erwin Joseph and Joan Fall Robert and Kristin Fewel Mr. and Mrs. A. William Finke Robert Gardenier and Lori Morse Gardenier Kimberly Gerber Jane K. Gertler Martha Giacobassi Pearl Mary Goetsch Colette Goldammer Ralph and Cherie Gorenstein James and Sarah Gramentine Mr. and Mrs. James Grigg Greater Milwaukee Foundation Leesley B. and Joan J. Hardy Randall J. and Judith F. Hake Family Foundation Amber Halvorson Leila and Joe Hanson Jean and John Henderson Barbara Hunteman Robert S. Jakubiak Maja Jurisic and Don Fraker Dr. Bruce and Anna Kaufman Dr. Jack and Myrna Kaufman Brian and Mary Lou Kennedy Julilly Kohler Milton and Carol Kuyers Maritza and Mario Laguna Larry and Mary LeBlanc Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levy Bruce and Elizabeth Loder Kathleen Lovelace Stephen and Jane Lukowicz Dr. John and Kristie Malone Guy and Mary Jo McDonald Mr. and Mrs. Dean Mehlberg Gregory and Susan Milleville Jean A. Novy Laurie Ocepek Lynn and Lawrence Olsen Susan M. Otto Dr. and Mrs. James T. Paloucek Gerald T. and Carol K. Petersen Cathy P. Procton Francis J. Randall Philip Reifenberg Lysbeth and James Reiskytl Drs. Walter and Lisa Rich Dr. and Mrs. David Y. Rosenzweig Mr. Thomas Schneider Lawrence and Katherine Schnuck Kristin Shebesta Dr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Siebenlist Margles Singleton Richard and Sheryl Smith Leonard Sobczak Joan Spector Mr. James Stanke David Taggart and Terry Burko Joan Thompson Mr. Stephen Thompson Sara Toenes Drs. Steven and Denise Trinkl Mike and Peg Uihlein Mr. and Mrs. Lynn F. Unkefer James Van Ess

Michael Walton Robert and Lana Wiese Rolland and Sharon Wilson Prati and Norm Wojtal Lee and Carol Wolcott Mr. William Zeidler and Mrs. Denise Zeidler $1,000 and above Three Anonymous Donors Drs. Helmut and Sandra Ammon Sue and Louie Andrew Betty Arndt James and Nora Barry Mr. James M. Baumgartner Jack Beatty Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Beckman Dianne and David Benner Mrs. Kristine Best Mr. Lawrence Bialcik Karen and Geoffrey Bilda Lynn and John Binder Robert Borch and Linda Wickstrom Lois and Robert Brazner Dr. and Mrs. James D. Buck Barbara and Dr. Henry Burko Tom Buthod Ms. Trish Calvy David and Oksana Carlson Ms. Margaret R. Cary Ms. Carol A. Carpenter Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Cecil B. Lauren and Margaret Charous Margaret Cieslak-Etlicher John Chain Ellen Debbink Mrs. Linda DeBruin Ms. Kristine Demski Thomas C. Dill Madison Dohmen Gloria and Peter Drenzek Mary Ann Dude Tom Durkin and Joan Robotham Tina Eickermann Jill and George Fahr Anne and Dean Fitzgerald Barbara and Richard Frank Gerald Gensch and Ellen Conley Greater Milwaukee Foundation Dresselhuys Family Fund Jay Kay Foundation Fund Douglas and Margaret Ann Haag Karleen Haberichter Dale and Sara Harmelink Charles W. Helscher Jenny and Bob Hillis Jeanne and Conrad Holling Laura and James Holtz Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hunter III Kathryn and Alan Janicek Amy S. Jensen Faith L. Johnson Rose and Dale Kaser Robert and Dorothy King Joseph W. Kmoch Julie and Michael Koss Dr. and Mrs. John Krezoski Katherine and Ian Lambert

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Annual Fund/Gala Sponsors/Paddle Raisers/Corporate & Foundation David and Deborah Lenz Matt and Patty Linn Ann Loder Richard and Roberta London Stephen and Judy Maersch Mr. Peter Mamerow Dr. Daniel and Constance McCarty Jennifer McClure Joni and Joe McDevitt Christine Mortensen Richard and Isabel Muirhead David and Gail Nelson Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Novak William and Cynthia Prost Mr. and Thomas Quadracci Seth Rawson Dan and Anna Robbins Kevin Ronnie and Karen Campbell Allen and Millie Salomon Keri Sarajian and Rick Stratton Wilbert and Genevieve Schauer Foundation Phil Schumacher and Pauline Beck Bob and Sally Schwarz Fred and Ruth Schwertfeger Scott Silet Mr. Reeves E. Smith Ken and Dee Stein Bonnie L. Steindorf Sally Swetnam Rebecca and Robert Tenges Tim and Bonnie Tesch Jacquelyn and Way Thompson Mr. and Mrs. James S. Tidey Constance U’Ren Ruth A. Way Henry J. Wellner and James Cook Jerome and Bonnie Welz Robert and Barbara Whealon Sammis and Jean White Linda and Dan Wilhelms Ron and Alice Winkler Frank and Inge Wintersberger Melinda and Thomas Wolf Daryl and Bonnie Wunrow GALA SPONSORS Laura and Mike Arnow Baird Funds BMO Bank Brewers Community Foundation, Inc. Tony and Vicki Cecalupo Ernst & Young, LLP Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. Kahler Slater Architects, Inc Alyce Katayama Marietta Investment Partners Susan and Brent Martin Bob and Barb Monnat Northern Trust Northwestern Mutual Old National Bank Brian and Maura Packham Rite-Hite Holding Corporation Foundation Rockwell Automation U.S. Bank

We Energies Foundation Westbury Bank Herb Zien and Liz Levins GALA PADDLE RAISERS Mary Allmon and Michael Allen Alice Ambrowiak Helmut and Sandra Ammon Adam and Rachel Arndt Laura and Mike Arnow Ahmed and Laila Azam Kerry Bartelt Erica and Eric Berg Jeremy Billow Virginia Bolger Trisha Bournelis Lory Bowman Meg Boyd Brewers Community Foundation, Inc. Bob Bronzo Norman Buebendorf Carrie and Mike Burton Daniel and Allison Byrne Nancy Caliendo Anthony and Vicki Cecalupo Brian and Dawn Cooke Michael Cyrus Brett Dawsey George and Sandra Dionisopoulos Jennifer Dirks Jonathan Dowling Elizabeth and Robert Draper Dale and Syndee Edman Marquita Edwards April Falk George Forish Tom Funk Marion and Mitch Gottschalk John and Peggy Griffith Rex Gromer Matt and Victoria Haas Terry Hamann and Alan Perlstein Kim Hardy Korina Harman Kathryn Hausman and Matthew Millson Katherine and Christopher Hermann LaShonda Hill Judy Hsiung Myra Huth Dustin Hutter Alyce Katayama Tamara Knudsen William Kravit and Mari Katz Konrad Kuchenbach Jason Kuwayama Emily Laga Tom and Kam Lindow Christopher and Krista Ludwig Elaine and Gerald Mainman Bill Mastoris Melinda Lee Masur and Ken-David Masur Susan McVey Sallie and George Meyer Monica Meyer and Brandon Beale Christian and Kate Mitchell

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Rob and Barb Monnat Arsen and Allison Mugurdumov Patrick and Mary Murphy Mark Niehaus Rebecca and David Nowacek Maggey and David Oplinger Susan Otto Brian and Maura Packham Gian Perrone Tirzah Peterson Terrell and Amber Pierce Leslie and Aaron Plamann Kathryn Podmokly David Polzin Deanna Singh and Justin Ponder Kathryn Reinardy Thomas and Lynn Richtman Patricia Rieselbach Chris Riggs Rite-Hite Holding Corporation Foundation Michael Rossetto Linda and Mark Schaefer Michael Schmitz Craig and Lynn Schmutzer Janel and Randal Schneider Lawrence and Katherine Schnuck Christopher Schreiber Gretchen Seamons Leonard Silva Dorothy Smaglick Dale and Allison Smith David Smullen and Merri Moore Patrick Sorek Pamela Stampen Linda and Gile Tojek Haruki Toyama Marq and Rachel Truscott Daniel and Katie Urbanek Rebecca Valcq Andrew and Lisa Vedder Lauren Vollrath Thomas Warden Piotr Wasiak and Elizabeth Odian Jay and Madonna Williams Dawn and Joseph Wilson Blaine Wisniewski Suzanne and Mark Zwaska CORPORATE & FOUNDATION The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra truly values the generosity of musicloving patrons in the concert hall and throughout the community. We especially thank our Corporate and Foundation contributors for investing their time and support to this treasure. We gratefully acknowledge contributions from: $1,000,000 and above United Performing Arts Fund $250,000 and above Argosy Foundation The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Laskin Family Foundation

Corporate & Foundation/Matching Gifts/Golden Note/Marquee Circle $100,000 and above Herzfeld Foundation Rockwell Automation We Energies Foundation $50,000 and above Bader Philanthropies, Inc. Greater Milwaukee Foundation Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Fund Melitta S. and Joan M. Pick Charitable Trust $25,000 and above Anonymous Chase Family Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation Gertrude Elser and John Edward Schroeder Fund Helen and Jeanette Oberndorfer Fund Norman and Lucy Cohn Family Fund Johnson Controls Krause Family Foundation Milwaukee County Arts Fund (CAMPAC) Old National Bank R.D. and Linda Peters Foundation Schoenleber Foundation, Inc. Wisconsin Department of Tourism $15,000 and above A.O. Smith Foundation, Inc. Bert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable Trust Frank L. Weyenberg Charitable Trust Komatsu Mining Corp Foundation National Endowment for the Arts U.S. Bank Wisconsin Arts Board $10,000 and above Brewers Community Foundation Charles D. Ortgiesen Foundation The Cudahy Foundation Ellsworth Corporation General Mills Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation David C. Scott Foundation William A. and Mary M Bonfield, Jr. Fund Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation Northwestern Mutual Ralph Evinrude Foundation William and Janice Godfrey Family Foundation Wispact Foundation $5,000 and above ANON Charitable Trust Brico Fund Frieda and William Hunt Memorial Gene and Ruth Posner Foundation, Inc. Greater Milwaukee Foundation Roxy and Bud Heyse Fund/Journal Fund Julian Family Foundation Milwaukee Arts Board Rite-Hite Corporate Foundation Schwartz Foundation

Westbury Bank $2,500 and above Camille A. Lonstorf Trust Dean Family Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation ELM II Fund Henry C., Eva M., Robert H. and Jack J. Gillo Charitable Fund Margaret Heminway Wells Fund Hamparian Family Foundation Hydrite Chemical Co. Richard G. Jacobus Family Foundation Theodore W. Batterman Family Foundation $1,000 and above Albert J. & Flora H. Ellinger Foundation Anthony Petullo Foundation, Inc. Clare M. Peters Charitable Trust Delta Dental Einhorn Family Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation Cottrell Balding Fund Del Chambers Fund Eleanor N. Wilson Fund George and Christine Sosnovsky Fund Irene Edelstein Memorial Fund Mildred L. Roehr & Herbert W. Roehr Fund Joan and Fred Brengel Family Foundation, Inc. Townsend Foundation Usinger Foundation $500 and above Anonymous Bell Foundation Greater Milwaukee Foundation Carrie Taylor & Nettie Taylor Robinson Memorial Fund Nancy E. Hack Fund Robert C. Archer Designated Fund Loyal D. Grinker MLG Capital Steinway Piano Gallery of Milwaukee MATCHING GIFTS The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following corporations and foundations who match their employees’ contributions to the Annual Fund. Abbott Laboratories Aurora Health Care Benevity Community Impact Fund BMO Harris Bank Bucyrus Foundation, Inc. Carrier Matching Gift Program Caterpillar Foundation Dominion Foundation Eaton Corporation GE Foundation Give Lively Google Humana Johnson Controls Foundation

Kohl’s Corp. Northwestern Mutual Reader’s Digest Foundation Ross Gives Back Stifel Thrivent Financial The Travelers Insurance Co. U.S. Bank United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County Wisconsin Energy Corporation GOLDEN NOTE PARTNERS The MSO gratefully acknowledges the following organizations for their gifts of product or services: Becker Design Belle Fiori – Official Event Florist of the MSO Patrice Bringe The Capital Grille Central Standard Craft Distillery Darwin Sanders Downer Avenue Wine & Spirits Drury Hotels Encore Playbills GO Riteway Transportation Group Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. Hilton Milwaukee City Center and Milwaukee ChopHouse Kohler Co. Marcus Hotels & Resorts Marcus Corporation Ogletree Deakins Patrice Bringe Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel – Official Hotel of the MSO Darwin Sanders Sojourner Family Peace Center Steinway Piano Gallery of Milwaukee Studio Gear – Official Event Partner of the MSO Thomas and Mary Wacker MARQUEE CIRCLE The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra proudly partners with the following members of the 2023.24 Marquee Circle. We thank these generous partners of our annual corporate subscription program for their charitable contributions and for connecting their corporate communities with the MSO. Ellsworth Corporation Hupy and Abraham, S.C. Port Washington State Bank Walker Forge, Inc.

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Tributes TRIBUTES In honor of Laura and Michael Arnow’s (33 1/3) wedding anniversary Fredrick and Kay Austermann Kathleen D. Ryan In memory of J. Mark Baker Laura Petrie Anderson Juliana Fortune Mr. Jim Gettel Kathleen and Charles Marn Milwaukee Chamber Choir In memory of Dennis and Barbara Benjamin Marie Zelmer In honor of Warren and Wendy Blumenthal’s 50th wedding anniversary Laurie Schweizer

In memory of Debra Schaefer Karen Copper In honor of Patrick Schley Jeffrey Pereles Imogene Schley In memory of Michael C. Schnier Pamela Mueller Julie Hartman Mike Park In honor of Bob Schuppel Sarah Cauwels In memory of Lynne Soto Paul Trotter In memory of Betty Stasson Barbara and Dr. Henry Burko

In memory of Steven Paul Glick Jeff Glick

In memory of Edie Bonness Tomsyck Kamaile Anderwald Beth Bonness Maureen Bonness Timothy Dykstal Patty Giuffre Mrs. Robert Gross Chris Lambach Robert Mueller Guy Tomsyck

In memory of Reverend Michael Joseph Hammer David L. Harrison, Jr.

In honor of Fischer & Catherine Van Handel Ellen Hruzek

In memory of Thomas Hausman Jane Hausman and William G. Finley

In honor of Tom Varney Stanley Kokotiuk

In memory of Nancy and Arthur Laskin Joan J. Hardy

In memory of Gerald Wetter Deborah and Gerald Wetter

In honor of Joe and Ellen Checota, and, Andy Nunemaker and Lee Weeks James Stadler

In memory of Dr. Keith Austin Larson Austin Larson Rev. Curtis A. Larson Suzanne Zinsel In memory of William MacPherson Kathleen Wing

In honor of Peter Wicklund and Ruby Shemanski Ms. Linda Jenewein In memory of Anne T. White A. James White

In honor of Robert Meldman Drs. Alan and Carol Pohl In memory of Helen Oberkirsch Francine Cervasio In memory of Mary G. Peterson David J. Peterson Gretchen Saunders In memory of David Reber James and Charmaine LaBelle Gretchen Saunders Marie and Gary Zellmer In memory of I. Carl Romer Beulah Romer Erickson In memory of Elaine Sauer Teresa and Robert Klug In memory of John Sawchuk Daniel Sawchuk

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MSO Board of Directors OFFICERS Susan Martin, Chair Andy Nunemaker, Immediate Past Chair David Uihlein, Honorary Co-Chair Julia Uihlein, Honorary Co-Chair Gregory Smith, Secretary; Chair, Governance Committee Patrick Murphy, Treasurer; Chair, Finance Committee EX OFFICIO DIRECTORS Douglas M. Hagerman, Chair, Chairman’s Council Ken-David Masur, Music Director, Polly and Bill Van Dyke Music Director Chair Mark Niehaus, President & Executive Director, Michael and Jeanne Schmitz Chair EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Susan Martin, Chair Andy Nunemaker, Immediate Past Chair Douglas M. Hagerman Chair, Chair’s Council Eric E. Hobbs Robert Klieger, Chair, Players’ Council Patrick Murphy, Treasurer; Chair, Finance Committee Mark Niehaus, President & Executive Director, Michael and Jeanne Schmitz Chair Maura Packham, Chair, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) Task Force Michael J. Schmitz Gregory Smith, Secretary; Chair, Governance Committee Dick Stoll Haruki Toyama, Chair, Artistic Direction Committee ELECTED DIRECTORS Kate Brewer Jeff Costakos Jennifer Dirks Steve Hancock, Chair, Education Committee Charlotte Hayslett Alyce Coyne Katayama

Peter Mahler, Chair, Grand Future Committee Mark A. Metzendorf, Chair, Advancement Committee Christian Mitchell Robert B. Monnat Leslie Plamann, Chair, Audit Committee Craig A. Schmutzer Jay E. Schwister, Chair, Retirement Plan Committee Dale R. Smith Pam Stampen Herb Zien, Chair, Facilities Management Committee DESIGNATED DIRECTORS City Sachin Chheda Pegge Sytkowski, Chair, Marketing & Advocacy Committee Francis Wasielewski County Fiesha Lynn Bell Chris Layden Garren Randolph PLAYER DIRECTORS Robert Klieger, Chair, Players’ Council Ilana Setapen, Player-at-Large CHAIR’S COUNCIL Douglas M. Hagerman, Chair Chris Abele Richard S. Bibler Charles Boyle Roberta Caraway Judy Christl Mary E. Connelly Donn R. Dresselhuys Eileen Dubner Franklyn Esenberg Marta P. Haas Jean Holmburg Barbara Hunt Leon P. Janssen Judy Jorgensen James A. Kasch Lee Walther Kordus Michael J. Koss JoAnne Krause Martin J. Krebs Keith Mardak

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James G. Rasche Stephen E. Richman Michael J. Schmitz, Immediate Past Chair Joan Steele Stein Linda Tojek Joan R. Urdan Larry Waters Kathleen A. Wilson MSO ENDOWMENT & FOUNDATION TRUSTEES Bruce Laning, Trustee Chairman Amy Croen Steven Etze Douglas M. Hagerman Bartholomew Reute David Uihlein PAST CHAIRS Andy Nunemaker (2014-2020) Douglas M. Hagerman (2011-2014) Chris Abele (2004-2011) Judy Jorgensen (2002-2004) Stephen E. Richman (2000-2002) Stanton J. Bluestone* (1998-2000) Allen N. Rieselbach* (1995-1998) Edwin P. Wiley* (1993-1995) Michael J. Schmitz (1990-1993) Orren J. Bradley* (1988-1990) Russell W. Britt* (1986-1988) James H. Keyes (1984-1986) Richard S. Bibler (1982-1984) John K. MacIver* (1980-1982) Donn R. Dresselhuys (1978-1980) Harrold J. McComas* (1976-1978) Laflin C. Jones* (1974-1976) Robert S. Zigman* (1972-1974) Charles A. Krause* (1970-1972) Donald B. Abert* (1968-1970) Erhard H. Buettner* (1966-1968) Clifford Randall* (1964-1966) John Ogden* (1962-1964) Stanley Williams* (1959-1962) * deceased

MSO 2023.24 Administration EXECUTIVE Mark Niehaus, President & Executive Director, Michael and Jeanne Schmitz Chair Bret Dorhout, Vice President of Artistic Planning Tom Lindow, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Monica K. Meyer, Vice President of Advancement Terrell Pierce, Vice President of Orchestra Operations Kathryn Reinardy, Vice President of Marketing & Communications Rick Snow, Vice President of Facilities & Building Operations Marquita Edwards, Director of Community Engagement Cynthia Moore, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion Manager Michele Fitzgerald, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison ADVANCEMENT Michael Rossetto, Senior Director of Advancement & Major Gifts William Loder, Director of Advancement Maggie Seer, Director of Institutional Giving Maddy Corson, Campaign Coordinator Kathryn Hausman, Individual Giving Manager, Research & Discovery Elise McArdle, Grant Writer Tracy Migon, Development Systems Manager Fiona Pantoga-Montoto, Advancement Coordinator Leah Peavler, Institutional Giving Manager Lindsey Ruenger, Donor Stewardship & Engagement Manager Emma Zei, Annual Fund Manager EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Rebecca Whitney, Director of Education Courtney Buvid, ACE & Education Manager FINANCE Cathy O’Loughlin, Controller Jenny Beier, Senior Accountant Alexa Aldridge, Staff Accountant

BOX OFFICE Luther Gray, Director of Ticket Operations & Group Sales Al Bartosik, Box Office Manager Marie Holtyn, Box Office Supervisor Adam Klarner, Box Office Coordinator BOX OFFICE ASSISTANTS Gabrielle Brady, Vanessa Luster, Andrew Perry, Rora Sanders, Tifani Ziemba OPERATIONS Françoise Moquin, Director of Orchestra Personnel Kayla Aftahi, Operations Coordinator Paul Beck, Principal Librarian, Anonymous Donor, Principal Librarian Chair Matthew Geise, Assistant Librarian & Media Archivist Kelsey Padron, Artistic Coordinator Paolo Scarabel, Stage Technician & Deck Supervisor Emily Wacker Schultz, Artistic Associate Jeremy Tusz, Audio & Video Producer Tristan Wallace, Technical Manager & Live Audio Supervisor Christina Williams, Chorus Manager FACILITIES & EVENT SERVICES Patrick G. H. Schley, Director of Event Services Travis Byrd, Facilities Manager Sam Hushek, Events & Volunteer Manager Lisa Klimczak, House Manager David Kotlewski, House Manager Zed Waeltz, Senior House Manager FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF Anthony Andronczyk, Ky Catlett, Fatima Gomez, Eliana Kiltz, Roger Kocher, Klaire Maduscha, Brennan Martinez, Max McGraw, Cynthia Nord, Ashley Patin, Steve Pfisterer, Amy Rook, Anne Sempos, Jenn Sorvick, Michael Stebbins, Elliot White, Heather Whitmill

MARKETING Erin Kogler, Director of Communications Lizzy Cichowski, Senior Marketing Manager Adam Cohen, Patron Systems Manager David Jensen, Communications Coordinator Zachary-John Reinardy, Lead Designer Kerry Tomaszewski, Communications Manager

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