Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Program 3 / January - February 2023

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MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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, Phillip 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 51st 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 40,000 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 33rd 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 5,800 students and 500 teachers and faculty are expected participate in ACE both in person and in a virtual format.

Photo by Jonathan Kirn

2022.23 SEASON

KEN-DAVID MASUR

Music Director

Polly and Bill Van Dyke Music Director Chair

EDO DE WAART Music Director Laureate

YANIV DINUR Resident Conductor

CHERYL FRAZES HILL

Chorus Director

Margaret Hawkins Chorus Director Chair

TIMOTHY J. BENSON Assistant Chorus Director

FIRST VIOLINS

Ilana Setapen, Acting Concertmaster, Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair

Jeanyi Kim, Acting Associate Concertmaster (2nd Chair)

Alexander Ayers

Yuka Kadota

Ji-Yeon Lee**

Dylana Leung Allison Lovera

Lijia Phang

Margot Schwartz

Alexandra Switala**

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

Shengnan Li*

Laurie Shawger

Mary Terranova

VIOLAS

Robert Levine, Principal, Richard O. and Judith A. Wagner Family Principal Viola Chair

Samantha Rodriguez, Acting Assistant Principal, Friends of Janet F. Ruggeri Viola 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

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

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

E FLAT CLARINET

Benjamin Adler

BASS CLARINET

Taylor Eiffert

BASSOONS

Catherine Van Handel, Principal, Muriel C. and John D. Silbar Family Bassoon Chair

Rudi Heinrich, Assistant Principal Beth W. Giacobassi

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

TIMPANI

Dean Borghesani, Principal Chris Riggs, Assistant Principal

PERCUSSION

Robert Klieger, Principal Chris Riggs

PIANO Melitta S. Pick Endowed Piano Chair

PERSONNEL

MANAGERS

Françoise Moquin, Director of Orchestra Personnel Constance Aguocha, Assistant Personnel Manager

LIBRARIAN

Paul Beck, Principal Librarian, Anonymous Donor, Principal Librarian Chair

PRODUCTION

Tristan Wallace, Technical Manager & Live Audio Supervisor

Paolo Scarabel, Stage Technician & Deck Supervisor

* Leave of Absence 2022.23 Season

** Acting member of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 2022.23 Season

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 music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

In 2022.23, Masur leads a range of programs with the Milwaukee Symphony, where his programming throughout the season explores the natural world and its relationship to humanity.

He also continues the second year of an MSO artistic partnership with pianist Aaron Diehl and leads choral and symphonic works including Mendelssohn’s Elijah and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. As principal conductor of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Masur leads concerts throughout the season, including an annual Bach Marathon. Other engagements include subscription weeks with the Nashville and Omaha symphony orchestras, and a return to Poland’s Wrocław Philharmonic.

In 2021.22, Masur made debuts with the San Francisco Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and led performances with the Rochester Philharmonic and the Kristiansand Symphony Orchestra. Following the gala opening of the Bradley Symphony Center, highlights of the MSO season included a semi-staged production of Peer Gynt.  In the summer of 2022, Masur debuted at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, leading three programs with the Festival Orchestra, including members of the Berlin and Vienna philharmonics, and another concert with the Sapporo Symphony. He debuted at Classical Tahoe in three programs that were broadcast on PBS; and led the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Branford Marsalis, and James Taylor at Tanglewood in a celebration of the composer John Williams.

Masur has conducted distinguished orchestras around the world, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, l’Orchestre National de France, the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the National Philharmonic of Russia, and orchestras throughout the United States, France, Germany, Korea, Japan, and Scandinavia.

Previously Masur was associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, where he led numerous concerts, at Symphony Hall and at Tanglewood, of new and standard works featuring guest artists such as Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Emanuel Ax, Garrick Ohlsson, Joshua Bell, Louis Lortie, Kirill Gerstein, Nikolaj Lugansky, and others. For eight years, Masur served as principal guest conductor of the Munich Symphony, and 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 the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, he has led orchestras and masterclasses at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Chamber Orchestra, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, New England Conservatory, Boston University, Boston Conservatory, the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and at other leading universities and conservatories throughout the world.

Masur is passionate about the growth, encouragement and application of contemporary music and has conducted and commissioned dozens of new works, many of which have premiered at the Chelsea Music Festival, an annual summer music festival in New York City founded and directed by Masur and his wife, pianist Melinda Lee Masur.   The Festival seeks to engage audiences with its ground-breaking collaborations between the performing, visual and culinary arts, and has been praised by The New York Times as a “gem of a series.”

Photo by Adam DeTour

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 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Antwerp Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and a chief conductorship with De Nederlandse Opera and Santa Fe Opera. Edo de Waart is principal guest conductor of San Diego Symphony, conductor laureate of both Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and music director laureate of Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Edo de Waart kicks off the 2022.23 season by returning to Sydney Symphony Orchestra with three performances in the newly renovated Sydney Opera House. Further engagements include Milwaukee, San Diego, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Antwerp symphony orchestras, and a special recording project of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Grieg’s Concerto for Piano with Royal Scottish National Orchestra and regular collaborator Joyce Yang.

As an opera conductor, Edo 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 Royal Flemish Philharmonic.

Beginning his career as an assistant conductor to Leonard Bernstein at New York Philharmonic, Edo 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.

Photo by Jesse Willems

YANIV DINUR, RESIDENT CONDUCTOR

Winner of the 2019 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Fellow Award, Yaniv Dinur is the resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra 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.

Dinur conducts more than 50 concerts per season with the Milwaukee Symphony and was named by the Milwaukee Business Journal as one of the city’s most impressive young leaders currently making a positive difference in Milwaukee. 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’s recent and upcoming guest conducting highlights include subscription debuts with the symphonies of San Diego, Edmonton, Tulsa, Sarasota, Fort Worth, and Orchestra Haydn in Italy. 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, Sofia Festival Orchestra/Bulgaria, State Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Torino Philharmonic, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa.

An accomplished pianist, Dinur made his concerto debut with the Milwaukee Symphony in 2019, playing and conducting Mozart’s D Minor Concerto. He received critical acclaim for his “fluid, beautifully executed piano passages” and “deeply musical playing” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).

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.

Photo by Erin Kavanaugh

MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY CHORUS

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 2022.23 chorus season with the MSO includes works by Brahms, the beloved Holiday Pops concert, Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s grand oratorio Elijah, the ethereal finale of Holst’s The Planets, and Mahler’s magnificent Symphony No. 2, known as the “Resurrection” Symphony.

The 150-member volunteer 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 in 2006 in honor of the founding choral director, Margaret Hawkins, during the ensemble’s 30th anniversary season.

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.

Photo by Jonathan Kirn

CHORUS MEMBERS & STAFF

Barbara A. Ahlf

Laura Albright-Wengler

* James B. Anello

u Thomas R. Bagwell

Barbara Barth Czarkowski

Mary Ann Beatty Marshall Beckman

Zachary Beeksma

Maria Cornelia Beilke

Yacob Bennett

* JoAnn Berk Edward Blumenthal

u Scott Bolens

Becca Bowen Neil R. Brooks Michelle Budny Maggie Burk Ellen N. Burmeister

Gabrielle Campbell Gerardo Carcar

Elise Cismesia

Ian Clark

Sarah M. Cook

Amanda Coplan Sarah Culhane

Colin Destache

Becky Diesler

Rebeca A. Dishaw Megan Kathleen Dixson

Kimberly Duncan Rachel Dutler

u James Edgar Marlene K. Ego

Joe Ehlinger

Hannah Ellison Jay Endres

Amanda Swygard Fairchild

Michael Faust

Sarah N. Ferreira

Catherine Fettig Carly Marie Fitzgerald

Robert Friebus

Karen Frink Maria Fuller George Galloway James T. Gallup

Kara Grajkowski Charyl Granatella

Virginia D. Grossman Ashley Gutting Mark R. Hagner Eric W. Hanrehan Beth Harenda u Karen Heins Mary Catherine Helgren Sara E. Herrick Eric Hickson

Michelle Hiebert Rae-Myra Hilliard Laura Hochmuth Amy Hudson Matthew Hunt Stan Husi u Tina Itson

• Christine Jameson Paula J. Jeske

Andrew Johnson

John Jorgensen

Heidi L. Kastern u Michelle Beschta Klotz

Robert Anton Knier Jill Kortebein

Kaleigh Kozak-Lichtman u Joseph M. Krechel

Harry Krueger Rick Landin Jana Larson

Alexandra Lerch-Gagg Noah Liermann

Robert Lochhead

Kristine Lorbeske Sarah Magid Grace Majewski Joy Mast Saige Matson Justin J. Maurer

Kathryn McGinn Kathleen Ortman Miller Megan Miller

Victor Montañez Cruz

• Marjorie Moon Bailey Moorhead Jennifer Mueller Matthew Neu Kristin Nikkel

Jason Niles Mary Beth Norton Alice Nuteson Thomas Ohlgren Robert Paddock Molly Pagryzinski R. Scott Pierce u Jessica E. Pihart Olivia Pogodzinski Gabriel Poulson Kaitlin Quigley * Jason Reuschlein James Reynolds Marc Charles Ricard Amanda Robison Carlos Rojo Vivian Romano Bridget Sampson James Sampson Darwin J. Sanders John T. Schilling Sarah Schmeiser

Rand C. Schmidt u Allison Schnier

Trinny Schumann Bob Schuppel Matthew Seider Bennett Shebesta u Hannah Sheppard David Siegworth

Kristen M. Singer u Bruce Soto

Joel P. Spiess

* Todd Stacey u Donald E. Stettler

Amanda D. Steven Scott Stieg

* Donna Stresing

Ashley Ellen Suresh

Dean-Yar Tigrani Clare Urbanski Jessica Wagner Barbara Wanless Tess Weinkauf Emma Mingesz Weiss Michael Werni Erin Weyers Grant Wheeler Christina Williams Emilie Williams Kathleen Wojcik-May Kevin R. Woller Maureen Woyci

* Jamie M. Yu Stephanie Zimmer

u Section Leader

6 Mentor

• Librarian

STAFF

Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director

Timothy J. Benson, assistant director

Christina Williams, chorus manager Kayoko Miyazawa, rehearsal pianist Darwin J. Sanders, language/diction coach

DR. CHERYL FRAZES HILL, CHORUS DIRECTOR

Dr. Cheryl Frazes Hill is now in her sixth 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 2022.23 season, Frazes Hill will prepare the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus for classical performances of Brahms’s Gesang der Parzen, Schicksalslied, and Academic Festival Overture, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Holst’s The Planets, and Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

In her role as the Chicago Symphony Chorus associate conductor, she has prepared the chorus for Maestros Boulez, Barenboim, Levine, Mehta, Tilson Thomas, Conlon, Alsop, and many others. She most recently prepared the Chicago Symphony Chorus for performances of Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. 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, 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’s Mountaintop. Other recent performances have included the internationally acclaimed production of Defiant Requiem and appearances with The Rolling Stones during a recent United States concert tour.

Frazes Hill received her Doctorate in Conducting and her Master of Music degree from Northwestern University and two undergraduate degrees from the University of Illinois. An accomplished vocalist, she is a featured soloist, nominated for a Grammy Award in the CBS Masterworks release Mozart, Music for Basset Horns. An award-winning conductor/educator, Frazes Hill has received the ACDA Harold Decker Conducting Award, 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.

A published author, Margaret Hillis: Unsung Pioneer is her newly released book, a biography of the famed female conductor, available on Amazon and in bookstores. She is nationally published on topics of her research in music education and choral conducting. Frazes Hill is a frequent guest conductor and guest speaker, most recently featured with conductor Marin Alsop at Ravinia Festival’s Breaking Barriers: Women on the Podium.

PRECUSSION & INTERLUDES

WATER FESTIVAL

Friday, January 20, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, January 21, 2023 at 7:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Ken-David Masur, conductor

Christopher Lamb, percussion

Robert Klieger, percussion

Chris Riggs, percussion

TAN DUN

Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra

Prelude: Largo molto rubato

I. Adagio molto misterioso

II. Andante molto animato

III. Allegro molto agitato

Christopher Lamb, percussion

Robert Klieger, percussion

Chris Riggs, percussion

IN TERMISSION

BEDŘICH SMETANA

“Vltava” [The Moldau] from Má vlast [My Fatherland]

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK

An American Port of Call

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

“Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, Opus 33a

I. Dawn: Lento e tranquillo

II. Sunday morning: Allegro spiritoso

III. Moonlight: Andante comodo e rubato

IV. Storm: Presto con fuoco

The 2022.23 Classics Series is presented by the UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND.

The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra can be heard on Telarc, Koss Classics, Pro Arte, AVIE, and Vox/Turnabout recordings. MSO Classics recordings (digital only) available on iTunes and at mso.org. MSO Binaural recordings (digital only) available at mso.org.

Guest Artist Biographies

CHRISTOPHER LAMB

Grammy Award–winning percussionist Christopher Lamb has been hailed as a dynamic and versatile performer. Having joined the New York Philharmonic as principal percussionist and The Constance R. Hoguet Friends of the Philharmonic Chair in 1985, he subsequently made his solo debut with the orchestra in the world premiere of Joseph Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto, one of several commissions celebrating the Philharmonic’s 150th anniversary. He has since performed the work to critical acclaim with orchestras throughout the U.S., and in 2011, he won a Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Soloist for his recording with the Nashville Symphony. Lamb also gave the world premiere of Tan Dun’s Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra, a second work commissioned for him by the New York Philharmonic, and he has performed it in South America, as well as in Asia and Europe with such notable orchestras as the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus Orchestra, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. In the U.S., he has performed the work with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, and the Pacific Symphony. New York Philharmonic Music Director Emeritus Kurt Masur selected Lamb’s performance of Tan Dun’s Water Concerto for release in the orchestra’s collection of recordings highlighting his tenure as music director.

A faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music since 1989, Lamb has led clinics and master classes throughout the U.S. and on almost every continent. In 2010, Lamb was invited to join the faculty of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as an international fellow. Lamb has recorded chamber works on the New World, Cala, and CRI labels, and his Grammy Award–winning performance of Schwantner’s Percussion Concerto is available on the Naxos label. Lamb is a former member of The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic and a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.

ROBERT KLIEGER

Since 2011, percussionist Robert Klieger has been a part of the Milwaukee Symphony and Santa Fe Opera orchestras, where he serves as principal percussionist. Prior to this, he was a member of the West Virginia and Canton symphonies and completed a fellowship with the New World Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, where he had the opportunity to perform as both an orchestra member and soloist. Throughout his career, Klieger has had the opportunity to perform with various orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and Hawaii Symphony, as well as participating in international tours with the Cleveland Symphony and National Symphony. In

Guest Artist Biographies

the 2019.20 season, he joined the San Francisco Symphony for a one-year appointment as percussionist.

Klieger holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Southern Methodist University, where he studied with Douglas Howard and Kalman Cherry. He later completed postgraduate work at the Cleveland Institute of Music, studying with Richard Weiner and Paul Yancich. In addition to his work as a performer, he has also participated in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and various summer festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival, the Verbier Festival, and the Center for World Music Workshop and Festival in Bali, Indonesia. In his free time, he enjoys building things, solving problems, traveling, and trying new local cuisines.

CHRIS RIGGS

A native of Edmond, Oklahoma, Chris Riggs joined the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2017. Prior to starting in Milwaukee, he was a fellow at the New World Symphony from 2012 to 2015, and began freelancing with various orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

As an educator, Riggs was an adjunct percussion professor at Sam Houston State University, where he taught on topics including percussion methods, percussion composition and arranging, music therapy, and percussion’s role in the orchestra. He has also worked with various high schools and universities as a drumline instructor and arranger.

Riggs earned his master’s degree in percussion performance and literature from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in percussion performance and a minor in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma. His principal teachers were Lance Drege, Michael Burritt, She-e Wu, and James Ross.

Outside of performing, Riggs enjoys spending time with his family and always looks for an excuse to get to the mountains.

Program notes by J. Mark Baker

TAN DUN

Born 18 August 1957; Changsha, China

Water Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra

Composed: 1998-99

First performance: 3 June 1999; New York, New York

Last MSO Performance: October 2011; Edo de Waart, conductor; Yuri Yamashita, percussion

Instrumentation: 2 piccolos; 2 oboes; clarinet; bass clarinet; bassoon; contrabassoon; 2 horns; 2 trumpets; 2 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (agogo bells, bass bows, slapsticks, water basins, water cup drums, water gongs, waterphones, water tubes); harp; strings

Approximate duration: 30 minutes

The Chinese-born American composer and conductor Tan Dun has been based in New York City since 1993, having received a doctorate from Columbia University. His music draws its inspiration from both Western and Chinese influences. The recipient of numerous awards, his catalogue includes operas, orchestral music, vocal works, solo and chamber music, a passion oratorio, and film music. From the latter category, movie-goers may remember his scoring of Ang Lee’s film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which garnered both an Academy Award and a Grammy. Tan Dun’s fascinating Water Concerto was written in memory of his fellow composer Tōru Takemitsu. (For more information on Takemitsu, please see page 39.) Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic commissioned it for that orchestra’s principal percussionist, Christopher Lamb, who will be performing the work with the Milwaukee Symphony this evening. It is as much a piece of theatre as a piece of music. “What I want to present,” the composer said, “is music that is for listening in a visual way, and watching in an [aural] way. I want it to be intoxicating. And I hope some people will listen and rediscover life’s elements, things that are around us, but we don’t notice.”

Set in four continuous sections, Water Concerto explores how the sounds of H2O itself can be audibly manipulated – patting, pounding, dribbling, swirling, pouring, splashing. Simple water drips are heard as pitch bends, which then go into the orchestra, and vice versa. Implements dipped in water and used percussively – chutes, plastic cups, wooden bowls, African agogo bells, gongs – demonstrate their kaleidoscope of timbral possibilities. Likewise, instruments that contain water or evoke water sounds, including a Slinky (!), are exploited. As the soloist presents a tour de force of tone colors, the orchestra provides both imitation and contrast. The strings can sing a melody, act as percussion, or underpin with tremolandos and glissandos. The winds both blare and whine. Detached mouthpieces squawk and buzz. The whole experience is hypnotic, both visually and aurally. Following the premiere, The New York Times declared the concerto “a grand and entertaining circus of a piece.” (Performances are available on DVD and YouTube; it’s hard to imagine experiencing only the audio portion.)

Encapsulating his use of water in several works, including the Water Passion According to St. Matthew (2020), Tan Dun has written:

So many cultures use water as an essential metaphor – there is the symbolism of baptism; it is associated with birth, creation, and re-creation. If you think of the water cycle, where it comes down to the earth and returns to the atmosphere, only to return – that is a symbol of resurrection. I think of resurrection not only as a return to life, but as a metaphor for hope, the birth of a new world, a better life.

BEDŘICH SMETANA

Born 2 March 1824; Litomyšl, Bohemia Died 12 May 1884; Prague, Bohemia “Vltava” [The Moldau] from Má vlast [My Fatherland] Composed: 1874

First performance: 1875 (“Vltava”); 5 November 1882 (Má vlast); Prague, Bohemia

Last MSO performance: November 1991; Zdeněk Mácal, conductor

Instrumentation: 2 flutes; piccolo; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, cymbals, suspended cymbals, triangle); harp; strings Approximate duration: 12 minutes

The Czech composer Bedřich Smetana – in his eight operas and most of his tone poems – drew on his country’s legends, history, characters, scenery, and ideas. His technical expertise and originality in handling national subjects instilled in his people both self-confidence and a new musical identity. He is rightly regarded as the first major nationalist composer of Bohemia. Má vlast [My Fatherland], a cycle of six symphonic poems composed c1872-79, is a paean of praise to the land he loved so deeply. Composed shortly after Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns had started to experiment with new possibilities in programmatic music, it is, according to scholar John Clapham, “the most heroic instrumental work since Beethoven, and extended the scope and purpose of the symphonic poem beyond the aims of any later composer.” Vltava [The Moldau] is the second piece in the cycle, and by far the best-known. Smetana described the work as follows:

This composition follows the course of the Vltava. We hear the sounds of its two sources of origin, the “warm” and the “cold” water streams that are united and flow through meadows and groves, and on through places where country folk are celebrating their festivals. Water nymphs perform their dances in the silvery moonlight; we float past proud fortresses, fine castles, and noble ruins, overgrown like the craggy rocks on which they stand. The Vltava froths and eddies over the rapids of St. Johann, then streams on in a broad torrent toward Prague, with the castle of Vyšehrad coming into sight on its bank. The Vltava surges majestically onward, disappearing from view and finally flowing into the Elbe.

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK

Born 17 April 1941; Rochester, New York

An American Port of Call

Composed: 1985

First performance: Autumn 1985; Norfolk, Virginia

Last MSO performance: MSO premiere

Instrumentation: 3 flutes (3rd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 3 bassoons (3rd doubling on contrabassoon); 4 horns; 3 trumpets; 2 trombones; bass trombone; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, gong, snare drum, suspended cymbals, tam tam, tenor drum, triangle, whip, woodblock, xylophone); piano; strings

Approximate duration: 10 minutes

The catalogue of Adolphus Hailstork includes major works in a variety of genres, from musical comedy to piano solo to choral music. His compositions have been performed by major orchestras, including the Chicago, Baltimore, and Detroit symphonies. Dr. Hailstork grew up in Albany, New York, where he took lessons in singing, violin, piano, and organ. He studied composition at Howard University and the Manhattan School of Music, and in France with Nadia Boulanger. Following a stint in the military, he pursued his doctorate at Michigan State University. Dr. Hailstork is emeritus professor of music and Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University in Norfolk.

An American Port of Call was composed for the Virginia Symphony, who gave its premiere in 1985. Its bustling vitality brings to mind William Walton’s Portsmouth Point overture (1925). Dr. Hailstork offered this summary of the piece: “The concert overture, in sonata-allegro form, captures the strident (and occasionally tender and even mysterious) energy of a busy American port city. The great port of Norfolk, Virginia, where I live, was the direct inspiration.”

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Born 22 November 1913; Lowestoft, England Died 4 December 1976; Aldeburgh, England

“Four Sea Interludes” from Peter Grimes, Opus 33a Composed: 1945

First performance: 7 June 1945; London, England (opera) 13 June 1945; Cheltenham, England (“Four Sea Interludes”)

Last MSO performance: April 2018; Asher Fisch, conductor

Instrumentation: 2 flutes (1st and 2nd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes; 2 clarinets (2nd doubling on Eb clarinet); 2 bassoons; contrabassoon; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; piccolo trumpet; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, chimes, cymbals, snare drum, tam tam, tambourine, xylophone); harp; strings

Approximate duration: 16 minutes

Benjamin Britten has been hailed as “the greatest English composer since Purcell.” His prodigious output includes operas, solo vocal music, chamber music, concertos, symphonic works, film music, and choral music. Britten’s War Requiem (1961) is one of the towering works of the 20th century.

Peter Grimes is a singular masterpiece, a watershed in the history of English opera. Its central character – the first of many roles written for the tenor Peter Pears, Britten’s life partner –

is a misanthrope, a proud fisherman whose boy apprentice has died under “accidental circumstances.” Grimes resolves to “fish the sea dry” and to create a respectable place for himself in the seaside village society by marrying the schoolmarm Ellen Orford.

When a second boy falls to his death while descending from Grimes’s cliffside hut, Peter is demonized by the townsfolk. Pressed to the brink of insanity by the guilt inflicted upon him, he ultimately takes his fishing boat out to sea and sinks it, drowning himself in the process.

Britten’s opera is remarkable for its insightful delineation of character – the principals, the secondary roles, and the sea itself. Its intricately rich score includes six orchestral interludes, four of which comprise the suite heard on today’s concert. In “Dawn,” which acts as a transition between the Prologue and Act 1, we can hear in the flute and violins a thin glint of sunlight breaking through the clouds; harp, violas, and clarinets add glimmering arpeggios; the sonorous brass harmonies call to mind the deep sea below. At opera’s end, after Peter has drowned himself, this music returns to remind us of nature’s endless patterns, indifferent to the quotidian events of humanity.

“Sunday Morning” opens Act 2. Accented notes from the horns evoke large, clanging church bells; woodwinds, strings, and trumpets suggest smaller bells; and a solo flute portrays waking birds. A full-bodied tonal palette emerges as textures are overlaid and actual bells now announce the Lord’s Day. Britten said “Moonlight” – which introduces Act 3 – depicts “summer night, seascape, quiet.” Its unsteady rhythm and restless harmony might evoke the ebb and flow of moonlit waves, but there’s also a sense of foreboding. (Things are not going to go well for Peter Grimes.)

“Storm” links Scenes 1 and 2 in the first act. It vividly portrays not only a gale blowing in from the sea, but also the protagonist’s anxiety-ridden psychological state. An arching melody – with the characteristic interval of an ascending ninth – is heard as the storm subsides a bit; it is to this melody that Peter had sung “What harbor shelters peace, away from tidal waves and storms?” in the foregoing scene. The dream it articulates is drowned by the squall’s turbulent swell.

Reginald Goodall conducted the premiere of Peter Grimes at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. A few days later, Britten conducted the “Four Sea Interludes” on a concert in Cheltenham.

Frank Almond & Emi Ferguson March 11, 2023 at

Milwaukee Musaik March 19, 2023 at 2pm

NEPTUNE & WATER MUSIC WATER

FESTIVAL

Friday, January 27, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 2:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Ilana Setapen, violin

Jennifer Bouton Schaub, piccolo

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU/ed. Nicholas McGegan Suite from Naïs

1a. Ouverture

2. Entrèe majesteuse des Dieux des Peuples de la terre 3. Sarabande

4. Gavotte vive 5a. Premièr Rigaudon 5b. Deuxième Rigaudon 6. Entrèe des Lutteurs 7. Chaconne

8. Air de Triomphe 9a. Primier Menuet 9b. Deuxième Menuet 11a. Premièr Tambourin 11b. Deuxième Tambourin

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Concerto in F major for Violin and Orchestra, RV 569 I. Allegro II. Grave III. Allegro

Ilana Setapen, violin

IN TERMISSION program continues on page 24

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Concerto in C major for Piccolo and Orchestra, RV 443 I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro

Jennifer Bouton Schaub, piccolo

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Suite No. 1 in F major from Water Music, HVW 348 Overture [Largo/Allegro] –Adagio e staccato – Allegro Menuet Air Menuet Bourée Hornpipe Allegro [variant] Hornpipe [variant]

The 2022.23 Classics Series is presented by the UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND.

The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra can be heard on Telarc, Koss Classics, Pro Arte, AVIE, and Vox/Turnabout recordings. MSO Classics recordings (digital only) available on iTunes and at mso.org. MSO Binaural recordings (digital only) available at mso.org.

Guest Artist Biographies

NICHOLAS McGEGAN

In his sixth decade on the podium, Nic McGegan long hailed as “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” (The Independent) and “an expert in 18th-century style” (The New Yorker) is recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. He is music director laureate of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale and principal guest conductor of Hungary’s Capella Savaria.

Highlights of his 2022.23 guest bookings in North America include leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Baroque; return engagements with the St. Louis and Milwaukee symphonies, and his first appearances with the Eugene and Edmonton symphonies; and a performance and recording of Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Cantata Collective. In Europe, he appears with Denmark’s Aalborg Symphony, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Royal Northern. McGegan’s prolific discography includes more than 100 releases spanning five decades. Having recorded over 50 albums of Handel, McGegan has explored the depths of the composer’s output with a dozen oratorios and close to 20 of his operas. His extensive discography with Philharmonia Baroque includes two Grammy nominations. McGegan has also released two albums with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra under the BIS label. This past season, his album of Mozart violin concertos launched with violinist Gil Shaham and the SWR Symphonie Orchester. English-born, McGegan was educated at Cambridge and Oxford. He was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) “for services to music overseas.” Other awards include the Halle Handel Prize; the Order of Merit of the State of Lower Saxony (Germany); the Medal of Honour of the City of Göttingen; and a declaration of Nicholas McGegan Day by the Mayor of San Francisco, in recognition of his work with Philharmonia Baroque.

ILANA SETAPEN

Since her solo orchestral debut at age 15, Ilana Setapen has been flourishing as a violinist with a powerful and original voice. She is hailed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel as a violinist with “a sparkling sound” and “the kind of control that puts an audience completely at ease.” She is currently the acting concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

In recent seasons, Setapen has had solo performances with the Milwaukee Symphony, Festival City Symphony, and the Amarillo Symphony, among others. She held the assistant concertmaster position of the Grant Park Music Festival Orchestra in Chicago for six years and is a favorite guest concertmaster with the Chicago Philharmonic. She is currently on the faculty at Center Stage Strings at the University of Michigan, and she performs frequently with Present Music.

Solo and chamber music performances have brought her abroad to China, France, Brazil, Holland, England, Monaco, and Italy.

Setapen grew up in Amarillo, Texas. She was a student of Robert Lipsett both at the University of Southern California and at the Colburn Conservatory. She received her Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School as a student of Donald Weilerstein and Ronald Copes. Also a dedicated educator, she has a successful private studio.

JENNIFER BOUTON SCHAUB

Jennifer Bouton Schaub has been a member of the Milwaukee Symphony since 2011. She has performed around the world, including an extended appointment with the Australian Ballet and Australian Opera, and she is a regular substitute with the Chicago Symphony and the Detroit Symphony. Bouton Schaub performed as second flute for Lyric Opera of Chicago from 2014 to 2016, and she was a member of the Virginia Symphony and the Akron Symphony.

Bouton Schaub has been a featured guest artist in numerous American and international festivals, including the Arizona Music Festival, National Repertory Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival (Piccolo Fellowship), Sunflower Music Festival, Artosphere Festival Orchestra, and AIMS Summer Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria. In 2012, she was a prize-winner in the National Flute Association’s Piccolo Artist Competition.

A committed educator, Bouton Schaub has held faculty positions at Carthage College, Wisconsin Lutheran College, and Carroll University. Other academic affiliations include contributing editor, interview subject, and columnist for Flute Talk Magazine and The Instrumentalist; competition judging for the National Flute Association and the Chicago Flute Club; and founding member of Arts and Community Education (ACE) ensemble for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, Bouton Schaub was an assistant editor and research assistant for the publication of the revised edition of Jeanne Baxtresser’s essential book, Orchestral Excerpts for Flute (Presser).

Bouton Schaub received a Certificate in Advanced Flute Studies and Master of Music degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Conservatory. Her teachers include Jeanne Baxtresser, Alberto Almarza, and Marina Piccinini. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Bouton Schaub enjoys being active outdoors with her husband and two young daughters.

Program notes by J. Mark Baker

JEAN-PHILIPPE RAMEAU

Baptized 25 September 1683; Dijon, France Died 12 September 1764; Paris, France

Suite from Naïs

Composed: 1749

First performance: 22 April 1749; Paris, France (complete)

Last MSO performance: November 2001; Nicholas McGegan, conductor

Instrumentation: 2 flutes (1st and 2nd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes; 2 bassoons; 2 trumpets; timpani; percussion (tambourine, tenor drum, wind machine); harpsichord; strings

Approximate duration: 23 minutes

The leading French composer of his time, Jean-Philippe Rameau was a close contemporary of J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, and G.P. Telemann. A member of the “smart set,” he counted Voltaire as a friend. His output of music for the stage is prodigious, and his writings on music theory show him to be a product of the Age of Reason. Traité de l’harmonie [Treatise of Harmony, 1722] is his most important and influential work in that sphere. Seeking to explain music in scientific terms, he maintained that it is founded on harmony, which arises from natural causes. It is to him that we owe the terms “tonic,” “dominant,” “subdominant,” “supertonic,” etc. to describe the role each chord played in a particular key’s hierarchy. Rameau’s stage work Naïs falls into the category of a pastorale héroïque, set in a prologue and three acts. More ballet than opera and more descriptive than dramatic, it relates the story of Neptune, Roman god of the sea, who disguises himself as a mortal to win the affection of the fair nymph Naïs. When two rivals for her affections attempt to attack the incognito god, he summons huge waves to drown them. Neptune then discloses his identity to Naïs. Taking her to his underwater palace, he there turns her into a goddess.

The spectacle – with a libretto by Louis de Cahusac (1706-59) – includes athletic contests, dancing shepherds, flotillas afire, battles in heaven, and underwater palaces. It bears the subtitle Opéra pour La Paix, referring to the fact that the work was composed to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle, the 1749 treaty that ended the War of Austrian Succession (1740-48). (Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks was written for the same occasion.) The selections we’ll enjoy today display a wide range of moods, from the courtly (e.g., gavotte) to the popular (e.g., rigaudon) – and employ richly varied orchestral timbres. As the French philosopher Denis Diderot (171384) noted, Rameau possessed the keen ability to distinguish the tender, the voluptuous, the impassioned – even the lascivious.

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Born 4 March 1678; Venice, Italy

Died 28 July 1741; Vienna, Austria

Concerto in F major for Violin and Orchestra, RV 569

Composed: unknown

First performance: unknown

Last MSO performance: MSO premiere

Instrumentation: 2 oboes; bassoon; 2 horns; harpsichord; strings Approximate duration: 15 minutes

As one of the greatest composers of concertos – and certainly the most prolific, as more than 450 still survive, for various solo instruments and combinations thereof – Antonio Vivaldi hardly needs an introduction. The four violin concertos that comprise The Four Seasons are ubiquitous. He was the first composer to use ritornello form habitually in fast movements. (In a ritornello, the music of the opening tutti recurs in whole or part between solo parts and again at the end.) Likewise, his frequent use of the familiar three-movement layout (fast-slow-fast) became a model for subsequent composers.

Though Vivaldi was a Roman Catholic cleric (his vibrant hair color earned him the sobriquet “The Red Priest”), soon after his ordination he refused to say mass. Nevertheless, he remained pious –outwardly, at least. From 1703 to 1740, with a few interruptions for travel and service elsewhere, Vivaldi labored as a violin teacher, concert director, and choirmaster at Venice’s Ospedale della Pietà, a multi-functional institution: part music school for girls, part orphanage, part conventschool, and part nunnery. Much of his music was composed for faculty colleagues and student ensembles there.

With its use of two oboes and two horns, the Violin Concerto RV 569 is especially colorful. The outer movements, both set in F major, exploit the full ensemble, often pairing like instruments. The sparse middle movement is cast in D minor in a graceful compound meter (12/8); accompanied only by strings and harpsichord, the solo violin sings a melancholy operatic aria.

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Concerto in C major for Piccolo and Orchestra, RV 443

Composed: 1728-29

First performance: unknown

Last MSO performance: February 2014; Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor; Jennifer Bouton, piccolo

Instrumentation: harpsicord; strings

Approximate duration: 12 minutes

For biographical information on Antonio Vivaldi, please see the article above. Nowadays, in this country, we usually group members of the recorder family into the same categories as the four choral voice types: soprano, alto, tenor, bass. Rarer recorders are the sopranino, the great bass, and the double bass. The concerto at hand was penned for flautino (sopranino recorder), one of only three such works Vivaldi created for the instrument. Most likely the piece was fashioned for the girls in his charge at the Ospedale della Pietà. The flautino’s notes resonate an octave higher than the alto instrument, the one that got the lion’s share of solo work in the 18th century (including Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2).

In the same vein, the piccolo (in Italian, the very word itself means “small”) sounds an octave higher than the concert (C) flute. And, like the flautino, its printed music is written an octave below the sounding pitch. Vivaldi’s Concerto in C major, RV 443, sounds entirely idiomatic on

this more modern instrument – one we’re more accustomed to hearing in the final moments of “Stars and Stripes Forever” or the exuberant concluding measures of Beethoven’s Ninth.

Displaying high spirits, in the quick outer movements there’s wit and a sense of humor: the instrument chirps merrily in its highest register, and the soloist is given opportunity for virtuosic display. As in RV 569, the contemplative slow movement employs a minor key and compound meter.

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Born 23 February 1685; Halle, Germany

Died 14 April 1759; London, England

Suite No. 1 in F major from Water Music, HWV 348 Composed: 1717

First performance: 17 July 1717; Thames River, England

Last MSO performance: April 2018; Yaniv Dinur, conductor

Instrumentation: 2 oboes; bassoon; 2 horns; harpsichord; strings

Approximate duration: 30 minutes

England’s King George I was in need of some good PR. The country’s first monarch from the House of Hanover, he spoke little to no English, leading his subjects to regard him as something of a dolt. As any savvy politician of our own time might do, he chose to go on the offensive in a flashy display. In the summer of 1717, he summoned his adviser Baron Kielmansegge and ordered him to arrange for a musical entertainment on the Thames. Not surprisingly, Kielmansegge called upon court composer G.F. Handel to provide the music for this extravaganza.

On a pleasant Wednesday evening in July, a large number of the nobility made their way to the riverfront, where they boarded open barges and cruised up the Thames to Chelsea to enjoy a lavish dinner. According to a report in the Daily Courant on 19 July, one of the barges “was employ’d for the Musick, wherein were 50 instruments of all sorts who play’d…the finest Symphonies, composed express for this Occasion, by Mr. Handel; which his Majesty liked so well that he caus’d it to be play’d over three times in going and returning.” A private report from Friedrich Bonet, the Russian Resident in London, provides further information: The instruments included trumpets, hunting horns, oboes, bassoons, transverse flutes, recorders, violins, and basses; each of the three performances lasted an hour. Apparently, the soiree was such a smashing success that the festivities lasted until 3:00 am; the king made it back to the palace at 4:30 am.

The now-familiar Water Music fulfilled its purpose on two fronts – entertainment for the nobility and favorable advertisement for George I. Making stylish use of characteristic Baroque-suite dance forms, the music is hummable and pleasing to hear. “In his resourceful scoring, designed to keep the royal ear from tiring,” writes NPR’s Ted Libbey, “Handel combines festivity and finesse in perfect measure.” Verily!

TOWARD THE SEA

WATER FESTIVAL

Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Ken-David Masur, conductor

Sonora Slocum, alto flute

Julia Coronelli, harp

Catherine Van Handel, bassoon

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

The Hebrides Overture, Opus 26 (“Fingal’s Cave”)

TŌRU TAKEMITSU

Toward the Sea II (Umi e II) The Night Moby-Dick Cape Cod

Sonora Slocum, alto flute Julia Coronelli, harp

DAVID LUDWIG

Pictures from the Floating World for Solo Bassoon and Orchestra

I. Submerged Cathedral Interlude 1: Sirens

II. On the Boat Interlude 2: Sails

III. Reflections in the Water

Catherine Van Handel, bassoon

IN TERMISSION

HELEN GRIME

Virga

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

La mer [The Sea]

I. De l’aube à midi sur la mer [From Dawn to Noon on the Sea]

II. Jeux des vagues [Play of the Waves]

III. Dialogue du vent et de la mer [Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea]

The 2022.23 Classics Series is presented by the UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND

The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra can be heard on Telarc, Koss Classics, Pro Arte, AVIE, and Vox/Turnabout recordings. MSO Classics recordings (digital only) available on iTunes and at mso.org. MSO Binaural recordings (digital only) available at mso.org.

Guest Artist Biographies

SONORA SLOCUM

Appointed principal flute of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2012 at the age of 22, “Sonora Slocum has wonderful resonance and a delightfully relaxed vibrato. It’s easy to love such vocal playing, and any orchestra is blessed to have her big sound” (American Record Guide). Slocum has performed as guest principal flute with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and has also appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has recorded with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra as well as the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York at Lincoln Center.

In addition to her debut album Return with Affetto Records, Slocum has released a new album, Mozart Flute Quartets, recorded with members of the Dover and escher Quartets with Acis Productions. Both albums are available on all platforms.

With music publisher Hal Leonard, Slocum has compiled a collection featuring popular flute repertoire by French composers and a collection of Moyse Exercises for flute.

Born into a musical family, Slocum grew up in New York City where she attended The Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music Pre-College Division. Slocum holds a bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music and master’s degree in orchestral performance from the Manhattan School of Music. She attended the Music Academy of the West, as well as the Aspen and Pacific music festivals. Slocum studied with Jeffrey Khaner and Robert Langevin.

JULIA CORONELLI

Born and raised in the city of Chicago, Julia Coronelli is the principal harpist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Previously, she held positions as principal harpist of the Sarasota Orchestra, as well as the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. Her playing has been described by The New York Times as “precise and shimmering,” and as “exquisite,” “exceptional,” and “stunning” by The Miami Herald She has performed in the role of principal harpist in many of the world’s greatest halls, including Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Musikerverein (Vienna), Philharmonie de Paris (Paris), Kolner Philharmonie (Cologne), Philharmonie Luxembourg (Luxembourg), Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Teatro Maggio del Musicale Fiorentino (Florence), Lugano Arte e Cultura (Lugano, Switzerland), Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo), Symphony Hall (Birmingham, UK), Oriental Art Center (Shanghai), National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing), National Concert Hall (Taipei), Festival Hall (Osaka), Carnegie Hall (New York), and Orchestra Hall (Chicago). Additional performance credits include concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (UK), St. Louis Symphony, and San Diego Symphony. Coronelli has joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on four recent tours under the direction of Riccardo Muti, including two international tours as guest principal harpist. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Chicago College of Performing Arts.

Guest Artist Biographies

CATHERINE VAN HANDEL

Catherine Van Handel was appointed principal bassoon with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in 2017. Prior to this position, she was the associate principal bassoon of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Van Handel has performed with numerous orchestras across the country including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra, among many others.

As a soloist, Van Handel appears regularly with the Milwaukee Symphony. She has also had solo engagements with the Philadelphia Orchestra, “ The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, and The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Orchestra.

Van Handel serves on the bassoon faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. During her summers, she has participated at prestigious music festivals such as Marlboro Music School and Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, Mainly Mozart Festival by invitation of violinist David Chan, among many others.

Originally born in Taipei, Taiwan, Catherine Van Handel began her musical studies playing the piano and cello. Van Handel moved with her mother and siblings to the U.S. when she was six years old. She continued playing both piano and cello until beginning to play the bassoon at

Amy DeGueme, M.D. Elaine Drobny, M.D. Antoni Gofron, M.D. Usonwanne Ibekwe, M.D. Brent Jones, M.D. Kawaljeet Kaur, M.D.

ENDOCRINOLOGY

Abdullah Fayyad, M.D. Vijay Khiani, M.D. Gene Kligman, M.D. Venelin Kounev, M.D. Srihari Ramanujam, M.D. Chad Stepke, M.D.

GASTROENTEROLOGY Dima Adl, M.D. Jay Balachandran, M.D. Burak Gurses, M.D.

PULMONARY

David Lucke, M.D. Rachel Oosterbaan, M.D. John Sanidas, M.D. Abraham Varghese, M.D. James Volberding, M.D.

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Amanda

Lisa

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Program notes by J. Mark Baker

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Born 3 February 1809; Hamburg, Germany Died 4 November 1847; Leipzig, Germany

The Hebrides Overture, Opus 26 (“Fingal’s Cave”)

Composed: 1829-33

First performance: 10 January 1833; Berlin, Germany

Last MSO performance: February 2019; Alexander Shelley, conductor

Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 2 horns; 2 trumpets; timpani; strings

Approximate duration: 10 minutes

In the summer of 1829, the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn and his friend Karl Klingemann went on a walking tour of Scotland. They also traveled to the Hebrides Islands, off the country’s west coast, and later to Fingal’s Cave on the Island of Staffa. It is said that, after seeing the breathtaking scenery there, Mendelssohn composed the opening bars of his overture and sent them to his sister Fanny, writing, “In order to make you understand how extraordinarily the Hebrides affected me, I send you the following, which came into my head there.” The composer completed the overture’s first draft in Rome, late in 1830. Unhappy with this initial endeavor, he worked on the piece over the next few years. It was premiered in London in 1832, then further revised before its publication in 1833.

Set in sonata form, the overture does not tell a story, but rather evokes the sea and the scenery Mendelssohn encountered. The undulating rhythmic pattern, an arpeggiated fragment in B minor, depicts the sea’s ebb and flow. Dramatic crescendi and sforzandi represent the crashing waves. The second theme, set in D major, first appears in the cellos and bassoons. It is unfettered and more expansive, deemed “the greatest melody Mendelssohn ever wrote” by the ever-quotable Sir Donald Francis Tovey. At the end of our voyage, the clarinet offers a wistful statement of the opening motive, then defers to the flute, who has the last word with its ascending B minor arpeggio above hushed pizzicato strings.

TŌRU TAKEMITSU

Born 8 October 1930; Tokyo, Japan

Died 20 February 1996; Tokyo, Japan

Toward the Sea II (Umi e II)

Composed: 1981

First performance: 27 June 1982; Hokkaido, Japan

Last MSO performance: MSO premiere Instrumentation: strings

Approximate duration: 15 minutes

One of the most prolific composers of the second half of the 20th century, Tōru Takemitsu was the first Japanese composer fully recognized in the West. His impressive list of works includes over 180 concert pieces, 93 film scores, and several works for theater and dance. His early influences were Debussy, Webern, and Messiaen, but his later music reflects a preoccupation with tone color and an understated, crystalline sound. Precision is ever at the forefront, and silence is fully organized.

In the early 1980s, Takemitsu became increasingly absorbed with tonality – not the functional dominant-to-tonic sort of harmony that defines so much of Western music, but one more aqueous, as evidenced in Toward the Sea. Commissioned by the Greenpeace organization for their Save the Whales campaign, he once described it as “an homage to the sea which creates all things and a sketch for the sea of tonality.” Built on a three-note motif – E-flat, E, A – that translates to S-E-A in German parlance, the piece is divided into three sections, each of which references Herman Melville’s classic novel, Moby-Dick.

The work exists in several versions. Takemitsu originally scored the piece for alto flute and guitar, later arranging it for alto flute and marimba and alto flute and harp. The version we’ll hear on today’s concert is deliciously scored for alto flute, harp, and string orchestra. Debussy’s influence on the work is unmistakable. The composer has created an Impressionistic tone poem that simultaneously invokes a sense of quiet majesty and the great whales of the deep.

DAVID LUDWIG

Born 1974; Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Pictures from the Floating World

Composed: 2013

First performance: 1 November 2013; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Last MSO performance: MSO premiere

Instrumentation: 2 flutes (2nd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 2 horns; 2 trumpets; tenor trombone; timpani; percussion (almglocken, bass drum, cymbals, medium gong, sizzle cymbal, tam tam, triangle, vibraphone, wood block); harp; strings

Approximate duration: 18 minutes

The American composer David Ludwig boasts an impressive musical heritage: his grandfather was the pianist Rudolph Serkin, and his great-grandfather was the violinist Adolf Busch. Having received numerous commissions and held positions with nearly two-dozen orchestras in the United States and abroad, he currently serves at the dean of music at The Juilliard School. His choral piece, The New Colossus,was performed at an official prayer service on the morning of Barack Obama’s 2013 presidential inauguration.

Pictures from the Floating World was commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra for conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and for David Matsukawa, its principal bassoonist. In preliminary discussions, Matsukawa told Ludwig that bouncy pieces like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Dukas) had “done us in.” He desired a work that would show off the bassoon’s lyrical capabilities, likening it to the human voice – itself a wind instrument that has different timbres based on what part of the range is being utilized.

For Ludwig, the idea of cantabile lines led to the thoughts of water, which led to thoughts of floating, Japanese art, and Debussy – himself fascinated by the woodblock prints he saw at the World Exhibition in 1881. (Earlier on, Ludwig had intended to pursue an art history degree, but switched to composition.) He took as his point of departure five of Debussy’s “water music” pieces, casting the bassoon concerto into five continuous movements. Each flows unabatedly into the next:

• Submerged Cathedral

• Sirens (interlude for bassoon and two cellos)

• On the Boat

• Sails (interlude for bassoon and two cellos)

• Reflections in the Water

The soloist “sings” over the entire 20 minutes of the concerto, as the orchestra undergirds with

Debussy-influenced harmonies and timbres. “Going back to the idea of the ‘Floating World,’” the composer writes, “there is something poetic for me, as we in the modern world tend to float through our days as one passes into the next, losing definition into memory. (Debussy had an especially keen sense of this.) This piece is a journal, of sorts, to describe that feeling, gliding on time in a world of fleet impressions.”

HELEN GRIME

Born 1981; York, England

Virga

Composed: 2007

First performance: July 2007; London, England

Last MSO performance: MSO premiere

Instrumentation: 3 flutes (2nd and 3rd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes; English horn; 2 clarinets; bass clarinet; 2 bassoons; contrabassoon; 4 horns; 3 trumpets; trombone; bass trombone; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, crotale, cymbals, glockenspiel, marimba, suspended cymbals, tam tam, triangle, whip, wood block, xylophone); celeste; strings Approximate duration: 6 minutes

A Scottish composer born in England, Helen Grime’s catalogue of works includes concertos, orchestral music, piano works, vocal and choral music, an opera, and chamber and ensemble music. She studied at the Royal College of Music and, in 2008, was a Leonard Bernstein Fellow at Tanglewood. Currently, she is a professor of composition at London’s Royal Academy of Music.

Virga was commissioned by the London Symphony Orchestra; it was named one of the best ten new classical works of the first decade of the 21st century by the Royal Scottish National Opera. Grime has offered the following insights into this brief but captivating work:

Virga opens with a striking gesture in woodwind and tuned percussion that is to become a recurring feature throughout the piece. In this fast-moving five-minute long piece, there is much rapid passagework in the strings, in particular a series of turbulent cascading runs, as well as a stately chorale in the brass. About half way through the piece, there is an extended melody for the first violins, at first unaccompanied and later colored by other sections of the orchestra. The extremes of register that were available to me in the orchestra are amplified and highlighted during the small time-scale and were essential in determining the shape of the piece.

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

Born 22 August 1862; Sainte-Germain-en-Laye, France Died 25 March 1918; Paris, France

La mer

Composed: 1903-05

First performance: October 1905; Paris, France

Last MSO performance: June 2019; Matthias Pintscher, conductor Instrumentation: 2 flutes; piccolo; 2 oboes; English horn; 2 clarinets; 3 bassoons; contrabassoon; 4 horns; 3 trumpets; 2 cornets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, tam tam, triangle); 2 harps; strings Approximate duration: 23 minutes

“We must agree that the beauty of a work of art will always remain a mystery. In other words, we can never be absolutely sure ‘how it’s made.’” These words by Debussy seem especially appropriate when considering his set of three “symphonic sketches,” La mer. Neither a “normal” symphony nor a complete disavowal of the form, it nevertheless is a brilliant opus in the orchestral repertoire. (The Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter named it one his top three favorites, along with Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Wagner’s Ring cycle.) These pieces are not programmatic in a traditional sense. That is, they don’t tell a story that follows a normal time line – though Debussy’s friend Eric Satie wryly quipped that, in “From Dawn to Noon on the Sea,” he “particularly liked the bit at a quarter to eleven.” In this work, “the story” is all about color, texture, and nuance.

In the opening segment, as the morning progresses, listen for the sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle, changes in lighting and atmosphere. In “Play of the Waves,” notice the shimmering surface of the water, feel the rocking of the waves and unexpected shifts of the current. In “Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea,” there’s a storm a-coming. The orchestra swells in great washes of sound as air and water collide. Ultimately, though, the sun breaks through the clouds. Calm is restored.

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MUSIC OF THE KNIGHTS

Friday, February 10, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, February 12, 2023 at 2:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Nicholas Buc, conductor

Kelli Rabke, vocalist

Lorinda Lisitza, vocalist

Blaine Krauss, vocalist

Scott Coulter, vocalist

John Boswell, piano and vocalist

PROGRAM TO BE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE

This weekend’s media sponsor is WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO.

The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours. All programs are subject to change.

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Guest Artist Biographies

NICHOLAS BUC

Nicholas Buc is a composer, conductor, arranger, violinist, and pianist. He studied composition with Brenton Broadstock and Dr. Stuart Greenbaum at the University of Melbourne, where he received the inaugural Fellowship of Australian Composers Award. As the recipient of the Brian May Scholarship for Australian film composers, he completed a master’s degree in scoring for film and multimedia at New York University, studying with Ira Newborn and Paul Chihara as well as receiving the Elmer Bernstein Award for Film Scoring.

He has conducted all of the major Australian symphony orchestras as well as the Minnesota Orchestra, Houston, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Austin, Grand Rapids, and Madison symphony orchestras in the U.S. He also makes regular appearances in Asia, conducting the Tokyo, Hong Kong, Malaysian, Osaka, and Taipei philharmonic orchestras. Buc has worked with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Chris Botti, Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, and was conductor/arranger for Tina Arena on six Australian tours. He has also written arrangements for the Birds of Tokyo, Missy Higgins, Passenger, Eskimo Joe, Vera Blue, and The Whitlams, as well as working on five seasons of The Voice Australia. In 2019, he teamed up with Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, arranging their film music for a new show with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival.

KELLI RABKE

Kelli Rabke got her “big break” playing the role of Dorothy in Paper Mill Playhouse’s acclaimed production of The Wizard of Oz. Shortly thereafter, she was handpicked by Andrew Lloyd Webber to play the lead role of the Narrator in the Broadway revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (U.S. cast recording). Following that, she played her dream role of Eponine in Les Misérables on Broadway. She went on to perform in regional theaters across the country in such roles as Mabel in Mack and Mabel, Christine in Phantom of the Opera, and back to Paper Mill Playhouse in Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden as Yonah (American premiere recording). She is one of only two Broadway stars in history to originate a role in both a Stephen Schwartz and an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical — a distinction for which she is incredibly honored. She has been seen and heard in tons of TV commercials and voice-overs, and was the voice of several animated characters, including Kat in the Discovery Kids series Kenny the Shark. She also played the recurring role of Bernadette on The Young and the Restless. She performs regularly with symphony orchestras stretching from Calgary to Mazatlán and all across the country in Blockbuster Broadway!, Music of the Knights, and The Wonderful Music of Oz. Recent performing highlights include debuting an original song written by David Friedman and Kathie Lee Gifford on the Today Show, and recording the PBS American Songbook segment Stephen Schwartz and Friends, featuring the composer himself at the piano and Rabke singing one of his signature songs from Wicked, “The Wizard and I.”

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LORINDA LISITZA

Lorinda Lisitza is an award-winning New York singer/actress originally from Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan, who has been part of Music of the Knights since its world premiere with the Calgary Philharmonic. In New York, she has performed Off-Broadway as a member of the Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, where she starred as Mother Courage to rave reviews and has appeared in several installments of The York Theatre’s Musicals in Mufti series. As a vocalist, she has been a part of The Town Hall’s historic Broadway by the Year series and is a founding member of the Joe Iconis Family, with whom she regularly performs in cabarets and nightclubs throughout New York for a devoted cult following. She has won three MAC Awards, a Bistro Award, and a Nightlife Award for her work in cabaret, and received the prestigious Patrick Lee Independent Theater Blogger Award for her one woman show, Triumphant Baby!, written by Joe Iconis and Robert Maddock. As a singer-songwriter, she is half of the award-winning duo The Ted and Lo Show with Ted Stafford. Lisitza has appeared on Who Wants to be a Millionaire, plays a mean harmonica, and is an avid Texas Hold’em player.

BLAINE KRAUSS

Blaine Krauss recently completed a year-long run in Hamilton as the standby for both Hamilton and Burr. He was thrilled to be part of the second season of Pose while appearing in The Cher Show on Broadway. Prior to that, he was seen as Lola in Kinky Boots shortly after making his Broadway debut in the smash hit Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812. He traveled the world as Simba in The Lion King and starred in the Radio City Summer Spectacular. Krauss regularly performs with symphonies around the globe and is a regular performer at Feinstein’s 54 Below. His talents led him in 2011 to be a featured performer for the largest commemoration of 9/11 outside of the U.S. at the Trocadero in Paris, France. In 2010, he was selected to be one of 20 Presidential Scholars in the Arts by the White House and Presidential Scholar Commission. This venture led to meeting President Obama and concluded with a performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He was selected to be the featured vocalist at the 2010 July 4th celebration at the U.S. National Archives, and he was a selected participant at the International Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. His theatrical credits include Godspell and Spelling Bee at the West Virginia Public Theatre, Evita, Into the Woods, Civil War, Make Me a Song, Chess, and Jean Valjean in CCM’s Les Miserables. Krauss is a proud graduate of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

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SCOTT COULTER

Scott Coulter is one of New York’s most honored vocalists. For his work in cabaret, he has received five MAC Awards (Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs), five Bistro Awards and two Nightlife Awards for Outstanding Vocalist, and has performed at most of New York’s top rooms including Birdland, 54 Below, The Oak Room at the Algonquin, and Feinstein’s at The Regency, where he spent a recordsetting eight months performing the revue 11 O’Clock Numbers at 11 O’Clock, which he also co-created, directed, and musically arranged. His self-titled debut CD won the 2003 MAC Award for Outstanding Recording and was chosen as the best recording of the year by TheatreMania and Cabaret Scenes magazines. Coulter was director and star of A Christmas Carol: The Symphonic Concert in its world premiere with the Baltimore Symphony and reprised his performance in the Emmy-nominated PBS production which premiered in December 2013. He was an Emmy nominee himself for his performance in American Song at NJPAC. Coulter regularly performs in concert both as a solo artist and with a variety of legendary performers including Stephen Schwartz, Tony-winner Ben Vereen, and Grammy-winner Sheena Easton, and he has performed with symphonies all over the world including San Francisco, Baltimore, Seattle, Phoenix, Detroit, Winnipeg, St. Louis, and Calgary.

Coulter is creator, arranger, and director of several touring shows (symphonic and non) including Music of the Knights, The Wonderful Music of Oz, Blockbuster Broadway!, and for the ASCAP Foundation, Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert As a director, his credits include many shows for The Town Hall in New York and Broadway by the Way for The Berkshire Theatre Festival and Broadway by the Bay. Along with Michael Kerker and ASCAP, he is a regular producer/ director of Michael Feinstein’s Standard Time at Carnegie Hall. Coulter recently wrote the book for the new musical Got to Be There, which celebrates the life and music of songwriter Elliot Willensky.

JOHN BOSWELL

Pianist John Boswell has served as musical director for Judy Collins, Andy Williams, Bob Newhart, Scott Coulter, Maude Maggart, Faith Prince, Carmen Cusack, Babbie Green, Jason Graae, and a host of other fine talents. Boswell played the role of Moose in the national tour of Crazy for You and has appeared on The Tonight Show, Today Show, CBS This Morning, Regis and Kathie Lee, General Hospital and was the piano-playing hands of Nancy McKeon on the sit-com The Facts of Life Recent concerts with orchestras have included Jerry Herman: The Broadway Legacy Concert, Blockbuster Broadway!, Sheena Easton and Scott Coulter: The Spy Who Loved Me, and Music of the Knights Boswell has been heard singing in the shows Three Men and a Baby…Grand, Cinema Toast, Broadway Today, Wiseguys, and the New York cult hit Cashino. Broadway/Off-Broadway credits include Crazy for You, The Secret Garden, LIZA! Steppin’ Out at Radio City Music Hall, Back to Bacharach and David, and The Kathy and Mo Show: Parallel Lives His monthly concerts in 2017 at The Gardenia in Los Angeles were crowd pleasers. Boswell has eight CDs of original piano music and a ninth on the way. While a student at UCLA, he received the Frank Sinatra Award for popular instrumentalists.

RACHMANINOFF PIANO & LIVELY DANCES

Friday, February 17, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, February 18, 2023 at 7:30 pm Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 2:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Markus Stenz, conductor Stephen Hough, piano

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

Concerto No. 2 in C minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 18

I. Moderato II. Adagio sostenuto III. Allegro scherzando Stephen Hough, piano

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BÉLA BARTÓK Dance Suite, Sz 77

I. Moderato II. Allegro molto III. Allegro vivace IV. Molto tranquillo V. Comodo VI. Finale: Allegro

GEORGES BIZET/E. Guirard Carmen Suite

Prélude and Aragonaise Intermezzo Séguedille Nocturne Les Toréadors Habañera

Danse Bohème

The MSO Steinway Piano was made possible through a generous gift from MICHAEL AND JEANNE SCHMITZ. The 2022.23 Classics Series is presented by the UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND. The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours.

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MARKUS STENZ

Markus Stenz has held several high-profile positions including principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (2012-2019), principal guest conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (2015-2019), and conductor-inresidence of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (2016-2021). He was general music director of the City of Cologne and GürzenichKapellmeister for 11 years, conducting Mozart’s Don Giovanni; Wagner’s Ring cycle, Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Janáček’s Jenůfa and Katya Kábanová; and Eötvös’s Love and other Demons.

He made his opera debut in 1988 at Teatro La Fenice in Venice. After a recent, and highly successful Mozart and Strauss concert, he returned last season to conduct two concert weeks with repertoire including Mozart, Schumann, and Wagner and will return this season and beyond for productions of Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer and Berg’s Wozzeck.

After appearing recently with the Deutsche Oper Berlin with Britten’s Death in Venice, Stenz returned last season to conduct Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and this season, he will conduct Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann.

The 2022.23 season also sees Stenz’s debut with the Orchestra dell’Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He is delighted to return to the New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra as well as to three orchestras where he previously held positions: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln. Elsewhere in Europe, he will conduct a Wagner evening with Nina Stemme in Budapest, as well the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at Linz Brucknerfest and the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe. In the U.S., he makes his debut with the Detroit Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony orchestras and returns to the Oregon Symphony and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Stenz’s most recent CD release was Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, and other recent highlights include concerts with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dortmund and Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestras, Orchestre National de Lyon, Bergen Philharmonic, and Barcelona Symphony Orchestra.

STEPHEN HOUGH

Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career and a longstanding international following as a pianist with those of composer and writer. The first classical pianist to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honors 2014 and was awarded a Knighthood for Services to Music in the Queen’s Birthday honors 2022.

In the 2022.23 season, Hough performs over 90 concerts across five continents. Recent and upcoming orchestral highlights include return appearances with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, Orchestre National de Fance, Vienna Symphony, London Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Finnish Radio, as well as with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, the St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit and Houston symphonies, and the New York Philharmonic.

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Hough’s extensive discography of over 60 CDs on the Hyperion label has garnered international awards including the Diapason d’Or de l’Année, several Grammy nominations, and eight Gramophone Awards including Record of the Year and the Gold Disc. His recording of Mompou’s Musica callada will be released in 2023.

As a composer, Hough has written for orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble, and solo piano. Recent commissions include the commissioned work for the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and his String Quartet No. 1 Les Six Recontres commissioned by the Takacs Quartet. The quartet was recorded by Hyperion and is to be released in January 2023.

As a writer, Hough’s memoir Enough: Scenes from Childhood, will be published by Faber & Faber in Spring 2023. It follows his collection of essays Rough Ideas: Reflections on Music and More, published by Faber & Faber in London and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in New York, which won a 2020 Royal Philharmonic Society Award. He has also been published by the New York Times and in London in The Telegraph, The Times, The Guardian, and the Evening Standard, and for seven years, he wrote more than six hundred articles for his blog in The Telegraph. Hough resides in London and is an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music and at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School in New York.

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Program notes by J. Mark Baker

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

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

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Opus 18

Composed: 1900-01

First performance: 9 November 1901; Moscow, Russia

Last MSO performance: September 2018; Ken-David Masur, conductor; Boris Giltburg, piano

Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, cymbals); strings

Approximate duration: 33 minutes

Rachmaninoff’s exquisitely tuneful Opus 18 is loved by concertgoers the world over. Several of its melodies have been used for popular songs, and its music as a whole is often heard in movie soundtracks. Given this acclaim, it’s a bit surprising to realize that the composer penned this concerto at a low point in his life. In 1897, the St. Petersburg premiere of his First Symphony was an unmitigated disaster, largely due to Alexander Glazunov’s poor conducting. Rachmaninoff fell into a deep depression and for almost three years was unable to set pen to paper. He made a living by conducting, teaching, and playing the occasional piano recital. In 1900, Rachmaninoff was urged by his aunt Varvara to seek the help of Nicolai Dahl, a doctor who had studied hypnosis. The composer later wrote in his memoirs: “Day after day I heard the same hypnotic formula while I lay half asleep in Dahl’s armchair: ‘You will begin to write your concerto. You will work with great ease. The music will be excellent.’ Incredible as it may sound, this cure really helped me.”

Following his successful recovery, Rachmaninoff set to work on his long-delayed Piano Concerto No. 2, a work he had promised to write for a concert tour to England. Its Moscow premiere, with the 28-year-old composer as soloist, was favorably received. The top of the first page bears the simple dedication: À Monsieur N. Dahl.

Following a series of solemn chords in the piano, the first of Rachmaninoff’s beguiling melodies – characterized by a palpable Russian soulfulness – is heard in the strings. This theme both stands out against, and blends with, the passionate warmth of the one that follows, introduced by the soloist. A mood of gentle introspection opens the Adagio sostenuto, as the pianist lends elegant accompaniment to the dreamy melody of the flute and clarinet. Near the movement’s end, a whirlwind of notes by the pianist leads to an affecting cadenza. The movement concludes with the same almost-religious tranquility with which it began.

The vigorous first theme of the Allegro scherzando is preceded by a march-like orchestral introduction and brilliant passages from the soloist. The composer has reserved an ace up his sleeve, however: a voluptuous melody “sung” by the orchestra. In 1945, this theme was popularized as the hit song “Full Moon and Empty Arms.” After a protracted development of the first theme, this familiar tune returns to bring Rachmaninoff’s much-loved Opus 18 to its rapturous close.

BÉLA BARTÓK

Born 25 March 1881; Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary (now Sînnicolau Mare, Romania)

Died 26 September 1945; New York, New York

Dance Suite, Sz 77 Composed: 1923

First performance: 19 November 1923; Budapest, Hungary

Last MSO performance: MSO premiere

Instrumentation: 2 flutes (1st and 2nd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes (2nd doubling on English horn); 2 clarinets (2nd doubling on bass clarinet) 2 bassoons (2nd doubling on contrabassoon); 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 2 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, snare drum, tam tam, tenor drum, triangle); celeste; piano; harp; strings Approximate duration: 16 minutes

Without question, Béla Bartók is an eminent force in the history of 20th-century music, the most important musical figure to have come out of Eastern Europe. His works comprise core repertoire in numerous genres – orchestral music, piano works, string quartets and other chamber music, concertos, ballets, songs and choral music, and an astounding opera (Bluebeard’s Castle) – and have earned him a reputation as Hungary’s greatest composer. An accomplished pianist and an ethnomusicologist as well as a composer, Bartók was responsible – with his friend Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967) – for revitalizing scholarly interest in Hungarian folk music. With his Edison gramophone in tow, he traveled throughout the provincial areas of his native land, recording the peasantry as they sang the old songs. These were, of course, duly set down in musical notation. As a result, his music became infused with the rural culture of both Hungary and Romania, even as he simultaneously engaged with the Western art music tradition.

Bartók’s Dance Suite was commissioned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the union of the Danube-straddling cities of Buda and Pest. Completed in August 1923, its melodies are original, but the influence of his musicological research is apparent. The composer stated that the first and fourth movements show an Arabic character, the second and third have a Hungarian personality, the fifth is “primitive” Romanian; the finale gathers the five dances together. Music scholar Paul Griffiths has suggested that the Suite carries the weight of a symphony, and that its six main sections might be perceived as follows: introduction, first movement, scherzo, slow movement, second scherzo, finale.

When Bartók sat down to write the Suite, it had been several years since he had contributed to the orchestral concert repertoire. Nevertheless, it was a smashing success at its premiere, instantly becoming one of his most popular works. In its first year, Sz 77 received over 50 performances in Germany alone and continues to be an audience favorite to this very day.

GEORGES BIZET

Born 25 October 1838; Paris, France

Died 3 June 1875; Bougival, France

Carmen Suite

Composed: 1873-74 (opera); 1882 & 1889 (suites)

First performance: 3 March 1875; Paris, France (opera)

Last MSO performance: October 2019; Jun Märkl, conductor Instrumentation: 2 flutes (2nd doubling on piccolo); 2 oboes (2nd doubling on English horn); 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 2 trombones; bass trombone; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, castanets, cymbals, snare drum, tambourine, triangle); harp; strings Approximate duration: 20 minutes

Georges Bizet was something of a musical prodigy. At age four, his mother – herself a talented pianist – taught him to read music even as she taught him the alphabet. Soon after, he formed the habit of listening through the door while his father taught voice lessons. By age nine, young Georges had ingested all the musical instruction his parents had to offer and was granted a special dispensation to enter the Paris Conservatoire. While there, he wrote his Symphony in C (1855) – at age 17 – and the following year he won the Prix de Rome, for his one-act operetta Le Docteur Miracle (1856).

Throughout his too-short life, Bizet composed songs, choral music, and piano music. (An exceptional pianist, he could have had a concert career, had he chosen that path.) We remember him today chiefly as an opera composer, and then only through two stage works, The Pearl Fishers and Carmen. At the time of their premieres, they were poorly received. Carmen’s failure before the public cast Bizet into a deep depression, one that probably contributed to his early death, by heart attack, at age 36. Nowadays, Carmen is one of the most popular works in the operatic canon. With its eminently hummable tunes, its exotic setting (Seville, 1820), and its well-known story of love, lust, betrayal, and murder, it never fails to please.

Years after Bizet’s death, his close friend Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892) compiled two suites of excerpts, retaining the composer’s original orchestration. On today’s concert, we’ll hear excerpts from both, beginning with music from the opera’s prelude, sounding the ominous “fate” theme. The swirling Aragonaise is taken from the prelude to Act 4, as crowds arrive for a parade and a bullfight. The Intermezzo, with its lyrical woodwind solos, opens Act 3; the curtain rises on the smugglers’ camp in a picturesque spot among rocks on a mountain. An orchestral arrangement of Carmen’s Act 1 Seguidille follows; in it, she convinces Don José to set her free – she has been arrested for fighting with another woman, and he has been tasked with taking her to jail – and to join her later at the tavern of her friend Lillas Pastia.

The Nocturne is a transcription of Micaëla’s Act 3 aria, “Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante” [I say that nothing frightens me], here beguillingly sung by the concertmaster’s violin. Les Toréador is the music that opens the opera, preceding the “fate” motif; those two themes will be heard again at the end of the opera, jarringly juxtaposed. Here, we also get a whiff of the bullfighter Escamillo’s song, one of the best-known melodies in all opera. Another of “opera’s greatest hits” follows, Carmen’s seductive Habañera, “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” [Love is a rebellious bird]. Act 2 begins with Danse Bohème, as two gypsy girls dance before a crowd of soldiers in Lilias Pastia’s tavern, accompanied by the sound of the guitar and the tambourine. What fun!

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GALA INDIVIDUALS

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra thanks our individual donors for their generous support of the 2022 MSO Annual Gala.

Mrs. Susan Arensmeier

Laura and Mike Arnow Marget Boyd

Keith and Kate Brewer Mr. Richard D. Buchband Mr. Norman Buebendorf

Daniel and Allison Byrne

Anthony and Vicki Cecalupo

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Chernof

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Lafayette Crump

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Mrs. and Mr. Margaret Diaz

Jonathan Dowling

Elizabeth and Robert Draper

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Mr. David Froiland

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Skip McConeghy

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Tomoko Masur

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John Castino Sandi Fedele-Jacoby Anthony Fuerst

Venkatesh Rajakrishnan John Burkham

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Dirk Timmermans Aditi Gokhale

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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 Stein Family Foundation

Principal Pops Conductor Chair Polly and Bill Van Dyke

Music Director Chair

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Donald B. Abert Principal Bass Chair

Mr. Richard Blomquist

Patrice L. (Patti) Bringe Margaret and Roy Butter

Principal Flute Chair

MSO Endowment/Musical Legacy Society

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

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

Two 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

Elizabeth Elser Doolittle Charitable Trust

Franklyn Esenberg Principal Clarinet Chair

David L. Harrison Endowment for Music Education

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

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

Donald and Judy Christl

Jo Ann Corrao

Lois Ellen Debbink

Mary Ann Delzer

Julie Doneis

Donn Dresselhuys

Beth and Ted Durant

Rosemarie Eierman

Franklyn Esenberg

John and Sue Esser

Jo Ann 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

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Glenda Holm

Jean and Charles Holmburg

Karen Hung and Robert Coletti

Myra Huth

William and Janet Isbister

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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

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 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

Musical Legacy Society/Annual Fund

Sally Wells

Carol and James Wiensch

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 December 5, 2022.

Conductor Circle

$100,000 and above

Bobbi and Jim Caraway

Mr. and Mrs. George C. Kaiser

Donald and JoAnne Krause

Marty Krebs

Nancy Laskin

Sheldon and Marianne Lubar Charitable Fund of the Lubar Family Foundation

Michael Schmitz

Julia and David Uihlein

$50,000 and above

Two Anonymous Donors Laura and Mike Arnow Isabel Bader

Anthony and Vicki Cecalupo Drs. Alan and Carol Pohl

$25,000 and above

Two Anonymous Donors Elaine Burke

Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn Esenberg Doug and Jane Hagerman Judy and Gary Jorgensen

Robert and Gail Korb

Dr. Brent and Susan Martin Drs. George and Christine Sosnovsky Charitable Trust

Drs. Robert Taylor and Janice McFarland Taylor

Lorry Uihlein Charitable Lead Unitrust Thora Vervoren

$15,000 and above

Two Anonymous Donors

Richard and JoAnn Beightol Marilyn and John Breidster Mary and Terry Briscoe

Mary and James Connelly

Dr. Deborah and Jeff Costakos

Mrs. Alyce Coyne Katayama

Cynthia and Brian Dearing Lee Fitzsimonds

Roberta Gordon

Drs. Carla and Robert Hay

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Hoke

Jewish Community Foundation

Eileen & Howard Dubner

Donor Advised Fund

Ju dith A. Keyes

Charles and Barbara Lund

Maureen McCabe

William and Marian Nasgovitz

Paul Nausieda and Evonne Winston Lois and Richard Pauls

Pat Rieselbach

Susi and Dick Stoll Haruki Toyama

Charles T. Urban and Joan M. Coufal

$10,000 and above

Three Anonymous Donors Frances and Lowell Adams Sue and Louie Andrew

Lois Bernard

Keith and Kate Brewer Ms. Dorothy Diggs

Jennifer Dirks

Elizabeth and Herodotos Ellinas Bruce T. Faure M.D. Mary Lou M. Findley

George E. Forish, Jr. Mrs. Susan G. Gebhardt

Greater Milwaukee Foundation Bernard J. and Marie E. Weiss Fund

Judith J. Goetz

Katherine Hauser

Ms. Charlotte Hayslett

Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Hobbs

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 Mr. and Ms. Bruce Myers

Andy Nunemaker

Brian and Maura Packham

Julie Peay

Leslie and Aaron Plamann Christine Radiske and Herbert Quigley John and Mary Rickmeier Sara and Jay Schwister

Allison M. and Dale R. Smith Nancy and Greg Smith Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Tiffany Herbert Zien and Elizabeth Levins

Principal Circle

$5,000 and above Four Anonymous Donors Mark and Laura Barnard Clair and Mary Baum Donna and Donald Baumgartner

Natalie Beckwith Richard and Kay Bibler

William and Barbara Boles George S. and Sally Ann Borkowski Suzy and John Brennan

Jean Britt

Roger Byhardt Chris and Katie Callen Ara and Valerie Cherchian Donald and Judy Christl Sandra and Russell Dagon Karen Dobbs and Chris DeNardis Mrs. William T. Dicus

Joanne Doehler

Dr. Eric Durant and Scott Swickard

Jacquelyn and Dalibor Drummer Dr. and Mrs. Harry A. Easom Dr. Donald Feinsilver and Jo Ann Corrao Paul and Connie Flagg Elizabeth and William Genne Richard and Ellen Glaisner Alison Graf and Richard Schreiner James and Crystal Hegge Ms. Mary E. Henke Mark and Judy Hibbard

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard C. Hlavac James and Karen Hyde Lee and Barbara Jacobi

Jayne J. Jordan

Lynn and Tom Kassouf Kenneth and Alice Kayser

Dr. and Mrs. Kim

Kolaga Family Charitable Trust Anthony and Susan Krausen 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, PhD, RN, FAAN

William J. Murgas

Mark Niehaus

Barbara and Layton Olsen

Elaine Pagedas

Mr. and Mrs. James R. Petrie

Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Pierce-Ruhland Jim and Fran Proulx

Jerome Randall & Mary Hauser

Alice E. Read

Dr. Marcia J.S. Richards Steve and Fran Richman Pat and David Rierson Roger Ritzow Dr. Thomas and Mary Roberts Kay Schanke Richard Eli Schoen Brian M. Schwellinger

Carlton Stansbury

Loretto and Dick Steinmetz

John Stewig and Richard Bradley Kathleen and Frank Thometz John and Karen Tomashek Mrs. James Urdan Mrs. George Walcott Tracy S. Wang, MD

Jim Ward

Mr. and Mrs. Francis Wasielewski Nora and Jude Werra Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Wilson Jessica R. Wirth

Diana J. Wood

$3,500 and above Three Anonymous Donors Fred and Kay Austermann Dr. Philip and the spirit of Beatrice Blank

Professor David and Diane Buck Beth and Ted Durant Fred and Debby Ganaway

Virginia Hall

Margarete and David Harvey Drs. Margie Boyles and Stephen Hinkle

Barbara Hunt

David and Mel Johnson Olof Jonsdottir

and Thorsteinn Skulason Mary S. Knudten

Calvin and Lynn Kozlowski

Stanley Kritzik

Norm and Judy Lasca

Dr. Joseph and Amy Leung

Micaela Levine and Thomas St. John Rusti and Steve Moffic

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Needlman

Dr. Donna Recht and Dr. Robert Newby Dr. and Mrs. R. Nikolaus Schmidt

Elaine Schueler

James Schultz and Donna Menzer Mr. Thomas P. Schweda

Annual Fund

Sue and Boo Smith

Nita Soref

James and Catherine Startt

Jeff and Jody Steren Gile and Linda Tojek

Corinthia Van Orsdol and Donald Petersen

Janet Wilgus Mr. Wilfred Wollner

Carol and Richard Wythes

Leo Zoeller

Orchestra Circle

$2,500 and above

Thomas Bagwell and Michelle Hiebert

Robert Balderson

Marlene and Bert Bilsky

Scott Bolens and Elizabeth Forman Walter and Virginia Boyer

Mr. David E. Cadle

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Chernof

Lynda and Tom Curl

Jack Douthitt and Michelle Zimmer

Steven and Buffy Duback

Robert Gardenier

and Lori Morse Gardenier Kurt and Rosemary Glaisner Mr. Kim M. Graff

Jean and Thomas Harbeck Family Foundation

Leesley B. and Joan J. Hardy Charles and Jean Holmburg Karen Hung and Bob Coletti Deane and Vicky Jaeger

Leon and Betsy Janssen Jewish Community Foundation Dorothy & Merton Rotter Donor Advised Fund

Matthew and Kathryn Kamm Megumi Kanda Hemann and Dietrich Hemann

Barbara Karol

Benedict and Lee Kordus Jane and Tom Lacy

Mary E. Lacy

Frank Loo and Sally Long Dr. and Mrs. Debesh Mazumdar

Daniel and Constance McCarty Guy and Mary Jo McDonald Mark and Carol Mitchell

William and Laverne Mueller

Raymond and Janice Perry

David J. Peterson

Kathryn Koenen Potos

Barbara Recht

Susan Riedel

Ann Rosenthal and Benson Massey

Dottie Rotter

Judy and Tom Schmid

Rev. Doug and Marilyn Schoen

Greg and Marybeth Shuppe

Mrs. George R. Slater

Roger and Judy Smith

Joan Spector

Jim Strey

John and Anne Thomas

Ann and Joseph Wenzler

Floyd Woldt

Sandra Zingler

$1,500 and above

Six Anonymous Donors

Jantina and Donald Adriano Dr. Joan Arvedson

Richard and Sara Aster Priscilla and Anthony Beadell

Richard Bergman

Elliot and Karen Berman

Mrs. Kristine Best

Virginia Bolger

Dr. and Mrs. Squat Botley Cheri and Tom Briscoe Marcia P. Brooks and Edward J. Hammond Ms. Dori Brown

Barbara and Dr. Henry Burko

Bobbi and Jim Caraway Karen and Harry Carlson

Teri Carpenter

Edith Christian

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Christie

Paul Dekker

Art and Rhonda Downey

Sigrid Dynek and Barry Axelrood

Signe and Gerald Emmerich, Jr. Joseph and Joan Fall

Robert and Kristin Fewel

Mr. and Mrs. A. William Finke Jo Ann and Dale Frederickson

Jane K. Gertler

Colette Goldammer

Stephen and Bernadine Graff

Greater Milwaukee Foundation Donna and Tony Meyer Fund

Judith and David Hecker

Robert Hey

Terry Huebner

Robert S. Jakubiak

Maja Jurisic and Don Fraker Dr. Bruce and Anna Kaufman Mr. and Mrs. F. Michael Kluiber

Julilly Kohler

Maritza and Mario Laguna Drs. Kaye and Prakash Laud Larry and Mary LeBlanc Mr. and Mrs. Mark Levy Bruce and Elizabeth Loder

Kathleen Lovelace Mr. and Mrs. Dean Mehlberg

Gregory and Susan Milleville Richard and Isabel Muirhead

Molly Mulroy

Laurie Ocepek

Lynn and Lawrence Olsen Susan M. Otto Dr. David Paris

Jamshed and Deborah Patel Gerald T. and Carol K. Petersen Cathy P. Procton

Thomas and Susan Quadracci Lysbeth and James Reiskytl Emily and Mike Robertson

Margaret Ruscetta

Lawrence and Katherine Schnuck Ms. Betty Jean Schuett Ian and Ellen Szczygielski

Paul and Frances Seifert Dr. and Mrs. Kevin R. Siebenlist

Margles Singleton

Richard and Sheryl Smith Dr. and Mrs. C. John Snyder Kathy and Salvatore Spicuzza

Joan Thompson

Mr. Stephen Thompson R. James and Jean Tobin

Sara Toenes

Mike and Peg Uihlein Mr. and Mrs. Lynn F. Unkefer

Lauren Vollrath

Nancy Vrabec and Alastair Boake Michael Walton Larry and Adrienne Waters

Rolland and Sharon Wilson

John Winter

Prati and Norm Wojtal Lee and Carol Wolcott Jim and Sandy Wrangell Mr. William Zeidler

$1,000 and above Six Anonymous Donors

Drs. Helmut and Sandra Ammon

Steven Barney

Margaret and Bruce Barr James and Nora Barry Mr. James M. Baumgartner Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Beckman

Fiesha Lynn Bell Mr. Lawrence Bialcik

Roger Bialcik

Robert Borch and Linda Wickstrom Karen and Russell Brooker

Tom Buthod

Tim and Kathleen Carr

Ms. Carol A. Carpenter

Dr. Curtis and Jean Carter

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Cecil

B. Lauren and Margaret Charous Nicole and Jack Cook

Ellen Debbink

Mrs. Linda DeBruin

Madison Dohmen

Gloria and Peter Drenzek Don and Nora Dreske Mary Ann Dude

Thomas Durkin and Joan Robotham Mr. Donald Elliott

Shirley Erwin Anne and Dean Fitzgerald Stan and Janet Fox

Gordon and Christine Freese

Deborah Elam

Kimberly Gerber

Pearl Mary Goetsch

Ralph and Cherie Gorenstein

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Dresselhuys Family Fund

Jay Kay Foundation Fund

Mr. and Mrs. James Grigg

Douglas and Margaret Ann Haag Claire and Glen Hackmann

Mr. Randall Hake

Charles W. Helscher

Jean and John Henderson

Dr. Sidney and Suzanne Herszenson

Ms. Judy Hessel

Jenny and Bob Hillis

Eric and Susan Hillstrom

Laura and James Holtz

Mr. Jeffrey L. Hosler

John and Kathryn Housiaux

Barbara Hunteman

Faith L. Johnson

Mary and Charles Kamps

Robert and Dorothy King

Eileen Kehoe and Bud Reinhold

Patrick and Jane Keily

Robert and Dorothy King

Jane Kivlin and Thomas Kelly

Julie and Michael Koss

Dr. Michael J. Krco

Dale and Barbara Lenz

John and Janice Liebenstein

Matt and Patty Linn

Ann Loder

Richard and Roberta London

Stephen and Jane Lukowicz

Joan Maas

Annual Fund/Bravo/Gala Corporate/Corporate and Foundation

Stephen and Judy Maersch

Mike and Jamy Malatesta

Dr. John and Kristie Malone

Mr. Peter Mamerow

Sara and Nathan Manning

Deidre Martin

Joan McCracken

Joni and Joe McDevitt

Debra and Jeffrey Metz

Christel Mildenberg

Theodore and Kelsey Perlick Molinari David and Gail Nelson

Jean A. Novy

Dr. and Mrs. James T. Paloucek

Douglas E. Peterson

Francis J. Randall

Philip Reifenberg

Roberta and David Remstad

Karen and Paul Rice

Drs. Walter and Lisa Rich Dan and Anna Robbins

Drs. Larry and Polly Ryan

Russell and Emily Sagmoen Allen and Millie Salomon Wilbert and Genevieve Schauer Foundation

Martin Schreiber

Lois and Stephen Schreiter Donald and Judith Schultz

Phil Schumacher and Pauline Beck Mark and Deborah Schwallie

Bob and Sally Schwarz

Fred and Ruth Schwertfeger

Lt. Cmdr. Ronald D. and Carol R. Scott

Susan Skudlarczyk

Barbara and Everett Smith Ken and Dee Stein

Bonnie L. Steindorf

Ann Stevens

David Taggart and Terry Burko

Rebecca and Robert Tenges

Dean and Katherine Thome

Mr. and Mrs. James S. Tidey

Drs. Steven and Denise Trinkl

Constance U’Ren

James Van Ess

Ruth A. Way

Henry J. Wellner and James Cook

Jerome and Bonnie Welz

Robert and Barbara Whealon

A. James White

Robert and Lana Wiese

Mr. and Mrs. James Wigdale Linda and Dan Wilhelms

Ron and Alice Winkler

Daryl and Bonnie Wunrow Gertrude and Richard Zauner

BRAVO

Britt Blackwelder

Ashley Brinkman

Elizabeth and Robert Draper

Matt and Victoria Haas

Dan and Krista Hettinger

Matthew and Alicia Hunt

Tina Itson

Kaleigh Kozak

Jacob Magnusson

Molly Mingey

TJ and Kelsey Molinari

Esteé Tanel O’Connor and Walter Zoller

Jessica and Paul Pihart

Monica D. Reida

Sarah E. Rieger

Monica Rynders

Russell and Emily Sagmoen

Cyreia Sandlin

Michael Schaner

Allison Schnier

Brian Schwellinger

Megan Sorenson

GALA CORPORATE

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra thanks our Coporate Sponsors for their generous support of the 2022 Annual Gala.

Baird Private Wealth Management

BMO Harris Bank

CD Smith Construction Services Ernst & Young, LLP

FIS Global Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. Johnson Controls, Inc. Kahler Slater

Kujawa Enterprises, Inc. ManpowerGroup

Marietta Investment Partners Northern Trust

Northwestern Mutual Old National Bank

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Quarles & Brady LLP Rite-Hite Rockwell Automation

U.S. Bank We Energies Foundation

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

$100,000 and above Herzfeld Foundation Rockwell Automation

$50,000 and above Bader Philanthropies, Inc.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Fund

Johnson Controls Melitta S. and Joan M. Pick Charitable Trust

Milwaukee County Arts Fund (CAMPAC)

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

$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

Guardian Fine Art Services Krause Family Foundation Old National Bank

R.D. and Linda Peters Foundation

Schoenleber Foundation, Inc.

U.S. Bank

Wisconsin Department of Tourism

$15,000 and above

A.O. Smith Foundation, Inc.

Bert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable Trust

Gladys E. Gores Charitable Foundation

Kahler Slater

Komatsu Mining Corp Foundation

WEC Energy Group

Wisconsin Arts Board

$10,000 and above

BMO Harris Bank

Brewers Community Foundation

Charles D. Ortgiesen Foundation

The Cudahy Foundation

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

David C. Scott Foundation

William A. and Mary M Bonfield, Jr. Fund

Ellsworth Corporation

Jane Bradley Pettit Foundation

Northwestern Mutual Ralph Evinrude Foundation

William and Janice Godfrey Family Wispact Foundation

Yabuki Family Foundation

$5,000 and above ANON Charitable Trust

Gene and Ruth Posner Foundation, Inc. General Mills Foundation

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Roxy and Bud Heyse Fund/ Journal Fund

Julian Family Foundation MGIC Investment Corporation Milwaukee Arts Board

Schwartz Foundation

$2,500 and above

Brico Fund

Dean Family Foundation Enterprise Holdings

Greater Milwaukee Foundation David Wells Household ELM II Fund

Henry C., Eva M., Robert H. and Jack J. Gillo Charitable Fund

Margaret Heminway Wells Fund

Green Bay Packers Foundation

Hamparian Family Foundation

Richard G. Jacobus Family Foundation

Theodore W. Batterman Family Foundation

$1,000 and above

Anthony Petullo Foundation, Inc.

Camille A. Lonstorf Trust

Clare M. Peters Charitable Trust

Ellis Family Charitable Fund

FIS Global Foley & Lardner LLP

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Bechthold Family Fund

Cottrell Balding Fund

Del Chambers Fund

Eleanor N. Wilson Fund George and Christine Sosnovsky Fund

Irene Edelstein Memorial Fund Mildred L. Roehr and Herbert W. Roehr Fund

Joan and Fred Brengel Family Foundation, Inc.

Matching Gifts/Golden Note Partners/Marquee Circle/Tributes

Usinger Foundation

$500 and above

Anonymous Albert J. & Flora H. Ellinger Foundation

AmazonSmile Foundation

Bell Foundation

Delta Dental Greater Milwaukee Foundation Carrie Taylor & Nettie Taylor Robinson Memorial Fund Nancy E. Hack Fund Robert C. Archer Designated Fund

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

BMO Harris Bank

Bucyrus Foundation, Inc.

Dominion Foundation

Eaton Corporation Fiduciary Partners

GE Foundation

Google Intel Foundation Johnson Controls Foundation Kohl’s Corp.

Northwestern Mutual Reader’s Digest Foundation

Rexnord Foundation Matching Gift Program

Thrivent Financial U.S. Bank

United Way of Greater Atlanta United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Wisconsin Energy Corporation

GOLDEN NOTE PARTNERS

The MSO gratefully acknowledges the following organizations for their gifts of product or services:

88Nine Radio Milwaukee Becker Design

Belle Fiori – Official Event Florist of the MSO

The Capital Grille Central Standard Craft Distillery Coakley Bros. Co. Colectivo Coffee

Downer Avenue Wine & Spirits

Drury Hotels

Exceptional Events Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.

Hilton Milwaukee City Center and Milwaukee ChopHouse Kohler Co.

Marcus Hotels & Resorts

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Ogletree Deakins

Saint Kate – The Arts Hotel – Official Hotel of the MSO

Sojourner Family Peace Center

Steinway Piano Gallery of Milwaukee Studio Gear – Official Event Partner of the MSO

Wisconsin Public Radio

THE MARQUEE CIRCLE

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra proudly partners with the following members of the 2022.23 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

TRIBUTES

In memory of Mary Ann Abrahamson

Linda Budlow

Suzanne and Roger Chernik Ms. Katie A. Heil

In memory Dorothy Aring

Mary and James Connelly

Scott Coonen

and Anitamarie Zingale

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Frank Molly Fritz

Lff Foundation

Lee and Susie Jennings

Daniel Petry

Michael and Jeanne Schmitz

Vera Wilson

In memory of Stan Bluestone Stephen and Frances Richman

In memory of David A. Blumberg

David and Sherry Blumberg

Lucy Cooper

Naomi and Reuben Eisenstein

Gary Engle

Kelsi Gard

Raul Gomez Mark Lukoff

Richard and Mary Lux Jay and Barbara Miller

Suzanne Millett

Drs. Alan and Carol Pohl Howard and Judy Tolkan David Weissman and Miriam Schechter Norma Zehner Margaret Zickuhr

In memory of Dr. Charles Brindis Calvin Bruce

In honor of Ellen Checota’s 80th birthday

Donna and Donald Baumgartner Jodi Peck

Dr. James and Dorothy Stadler Mr. and Mrs. L. William Teweles Jodi Peck and Les Weil

In memory of Wayne Cook

Greg and Julie Bradisse

Art and Rena Thomas Bumgardner

James Collier and Bette Jean

Vanderburg

Anne DeLeo

Anne DeLeo and Patrick Curley Jim and Marlene Gauger Mary Ann Goodman Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hauer Dave and Debbie Holmes Richard Kruse

David Kuehn Tom and Judy Kurtin

Ms. Clare Leslie

Ms. Lynn M. Lucius and Mr. Richard Taylor

Patricia Marek

Mr. Ehud Moscovitz and Ms. Shelley London

Susan Mrnik

Daniel Petry

Al Schefsky

Bernice Smaida

Kathy Stokebrand Spore and Keith Spore

Winifred and Arthur Thrall Jennifer, Gabe, Susie & Lisa Vulpas

In memory of Russ Dagon

Joanne Bauer

Mary Bell

Paulette Berkich

Michael & Catherine Borschel Dr. and Mrs. Squat Botley

Terry Burko and David Taggart Chris and Katie Callen

Donald Chappie

Steve Cohen

Stephen Colburn Eric and Lynn Delzer

Beth Giacobassi

Phillip Harvey Lee and Barbara Jacobi Ms. Mary Jirovec

Hal and Jean Kacanek

Joe Kutchera

Paul Mehlenbeck

Hannah Pearson

Michael Poytinger

Kyle Pyne

Beth Rees

Ms. Helen Reich

Roger B. Ruggeri and Andrea K. Wagoner

Dean and Martha Sayles

Robert Schultz

Gary and Jan Small Karen P. Smith and Donald Haack Gwen Tushaus

Mark Ulmer

Linda Unkefer Shawn Verdoni Anne de Vroome Kamerling

Gary Wagner

Carl Welle

Michael Welsh

Lynn and Roger White Mr. and Mrs. Steve Whitney

In memory of James DeLeeuw Bob and Barbara Whealon

In honor of Neil Dinesen on his 90th birthday Mr. James M. Green

In honor of Carlotta Durand Carla Durand

In memory of Lois Ehlert Patricia and Richard Ehlert

In honor of Mr. John T. Evans Dr. James and Dorothy Stadler

In honor of the 60th Wedding Anniversary of Joanne and Ed Filmanowicz Mrs. James Urdan

In memory of Anne Fitzgerald Michael and Jeanne Schmitz

Mrs. James Urdan Bob and Barbara Whealon

In memory of Matt Flaig Trinidad Torres

In memory of Florence and Glen Fraser

Lisa Gilvary

In memory of Charles Gorham Michael Schmitz Bob and Barbara Whealon

In honor of Marilyn Hagerman Michael and Marilyn Hagerman

In honor of William R. and Charlotte S. Johnson Bill and Char Johnson

In honor of Alyce Katayama Steven and Buffy Duback

In memory of Janie Klug Bob and Barbara Whealon

In memory of Mary Knudten Clair and Mary Baum

In memory of Nancy and Arthur Laskin

Joan J. Hardy

In memory of Dr. Keith Austin Larson

Austin Larson Rev. Curtis A. Larson

Suzanne Zinsel

In memory of Susan Loris

Anonymous

Terry Burko and David Taggart Mark and Susan Cohen James and Charmaine LaBelle Kathleen and Charles Marn Nellie Martens Murphy

Daniel Petry

Kathryn and ZJ Reinardy Susi and Dick Stoll

The Tomashek Family Mrs. James Urdan

In memory of Susan Loris from the MSO League Past Presidents Mark and Susan Cohen Mary Connelly

Judy Christl

Anne DeLeo & Patrick Curl Eileen Dubner

Marta Haas

Jean Holmburg

Barbara Hunt

JoAnne Krause

Kathryn and Zachary-John Reinardy Maggie Stoeffel

The Tomashek Family

Linda Tojek Linda and Lynn Unkefer Mrs. James Urdan

In honor of Peter Mahler’s birthday Linda Gorens-Levey and Michael Levey

In honor of David Uihlein, Julia A. Uihlein Mrs. James Urdan

In honor of Robert Meldman Drs. Alan and Carol Pohl

In memory of Michael McCabe

Sharon Adams

Fred and Kay Austermann

Gary Balcerzak and Thomas Ewing George and Patricia Barger

Carolyn Bellin

James and Helen Benton Joyce and Carl Budde

Elizabeth Ladu Carrier

John Cefalu

Sharon Chudy

Charles and Stephanie Cruse

Anne Davis

Sandra Degeorge

Beth and Ted Durant

Dr. and Mrs. Brenton Field Bill and Kari Foote

Sharon Gardner James and Jenny Gettel

Joseph Grafwallner

Susan Gramling

Kathyrn Hall

Mrs. and Mrs. Michael Hauer

Betsy Head

Donald and Marian Heinz Jeffrey and Susan Heyen

Christine Hill

Jacquelyn Holland

Ms. Sally D. Holt

Dave and Anne Hynek

Cynthia E Jensen

Ms. Anne Kebisek

Dorothy Kerr Linda Krause

Dr. Michael J. Krco

Mordecai Lee

Mary and Earl Lillydahl

Beth Logan

Chuck and Linda Malone

Eric Master

Jeffrey McCabe

Dennis McEvoy

Catherine and Patrick McGinn Cynthia Michalak Mary Michalak

Michelle Murphy Jean Palkert

Ildiko Poliner

David Raday Ellen Redeker and Steven Harvey Patrick and Noreen Regan

Karol Rehm

Mary Jane Reichart

Lauri Rollings

Mr. Darren Schacht

Carl and Barbara Schwartz

James and Mary Jo Sebern Carole and Kevin Shafer

Karen Spinti and James Hempel

John Suchorski

Mike and Barbara Sweeney

Gary and Susan Tatsak

Bonnie Thomson

Taylor Tinmouth

Marybeth Trampe

Robert and Joanne Vandenbusch

Elizabeth Vogel

Kathy Wagner

William and Christine Walker

Diane W. Wirth

Barbara Wollermann

In honor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Musicians Patricia Rieselbach

In honor of Andy Nunemaker with wishes for many happy years in his new home Mrs. James Urdan

In honor of Maura and Brian Packham Bob Bronzo

In memory of Mary G. Peterson David J. Peterson

In honor of Adrienne Pollack-Sender on her milestone birthday Mrs. James Urdan

In memory of Allen Rieselbach

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony w. Asmuth, III Richard and Sara Aster Margery Becker

Richard and Kay Bibler

Dr. Philip and the spirit of Beatrice Blank Bruce and Melissa Block Mark and Sharon Cameli Mary and James Connelly Valeria Downey

Dr. Howard and Eileen Dubner

Thomas Florsheim

Susan Freeman and Richard Kahn G. Frederic and Elizabeth Friedman

Judith Goetz

Joan J. Hardy Benedict and Lee Kordus Norm and Judy Lasca Jim and Mary LaVelle Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Lozoff Ann MacIver

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Mandel

Frederick Muth

Stephen and Frances Richman Pat and David Rierson

Michael Schmitz

Michael and Jane Simpson Nicole Teweles

Gile and Linda Tojek Joan and the Spirit of Jim Urdan, Jennifer, Jon, and Jeff Elizabeth Walcott

In honor of the wedding of Tracy Rogers and Tom Tavolier John and Catherine Crichton

In honor of Bob Schuppel Sarah Cauwels

In honor of Thomas L. Smallwood David and Julia Uihlein

In honor of Polly & Bill Van Dyke Anonymous

In honor of Tom Varney Stanley Kokotiuk

In memory of Donald R. Whitaker Dr. Marcia JS Richards

In honor of Peter Wicklund and Ruby Shemanski Ms. Linda Jenewein

In memory of Anne T. White A. James White

MSO Board of Directors

OFFICERS

Susan Martin, Chair

Andy Nunemaker, Immediate Past Chair

David Uihlein, Honorary Co-Chair

Julia Uihlein, Honorary Co-Chair

Gregory A. Smith, Secretary

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, Chairman’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

Michael J. Schmitz

Gregory A. Smith, Secretary

Dick Stoll, Chair, Marketing & Advocacy Committee

Haruki Toyama, Chair, Artistic Direction Committee

ELECTED DIRECTORS

Kate Brewer

Jeff Costakos

Jennifer Dirks

Steve Hancock

Charlotte Hayslett

Alyce Coyne Katayama

Peter Mahler, Chair, Grand Future Committee

Mark Metzendorf, Chair, Advancement Committee

Christian Mitchell

Robert Monnat

Maura Packham, Chair, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion (EDI) Task Force

Leslie Plamann, Chair, Audit Committee

Craig Schmutzer

Jay E. Schwister, Chair, Retirement Plan Committee

Dale R. Smith

Herb Zien, Chair, Facilities Management Committee

DESIGNATED DIRECTORS

City

Sachin Chheda Pegge Sytkowski

Francis Wasielewski

County Fiesha Lynn Bell Chris Layden

Garren Randolph

MUSICIAN DIRECTORS

Robert Klieger, Chair, Players’ Council

Ilana Setapen

CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL

Douglas M. Hagerman, Chair

Chris Abele

Richard S. Bibler

Charles Boyle

Roberta Caraway M. Judith Christl

Mary Connelly

Donn R. Dresselhuys

Eileen G. Dubner

Franklyn Esenberg

Marta P. Haas

Jean Holmburg

Barbara Hunt

Leon P. Janssen

Angela G. Johnston

Judy Jorgensen

James A. Kasch

Lee Walther Kordus

Michael J. Koss

JoAnne Krause

Martin J. Krebs

Keith Mardak

James G. Rasche

Stephen E. Richman

Michael J. Schmitz

Thomas L. Smallwood Joan Steele Stein

Linda Tojek

Joan R. Urdan

Larry Waters

Kathleen A. Wilson

MSO ENDOWMENT & FOUNDATION TRUSTEES

Bruce Laning, Trustee Chairman, Endowment & Foundation

Amy Croen, Endowment & Foundation

Steven Etzel, Endowment & Foundation

Douglas M. Hagerman,  Endowment & Foundation

Bartholomew Reuter, Endowment Foundation

David Uihlein, Foundation

PAST CHAIRMEN

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 2022.23 Administration

EXECUTIVE

Mark Niehaus, President & Executive Director, Michael and Jeanne Schmitz Chair

Bret Dorhout, Vice President of Artistic Planning

Kathryn Reinardy, Vice President of Marketing & Communications

Rick Snow, Vice President of Facilities & Building Operations

Cynthia Moore, Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion Manager

Michele Fitzgerald, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison

ADVANCEMENT

Michael Rossetto, Director of Individual Giving

Krista Hettinger, Individual Giving Manager

William Loder, Senior Individual Giving Manager

Tracy Migon, Development Systems Manager

Lindsey Ruenger, Individual Giving Manager

Maggie Seer, Institutional Giving Manager

Emma Zei, Advancement Coordinator

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Rebecca Whitney, Director of Education

Hannah Esch, Senior Education & Engagement Manager

Elise McArdle, Education Coordinator

FINANCE

Cathy O’Loughlin, Controller

Jenny Beier, Senior Accountant

Alexa Aldridge, Staff Accountant

MARKETING

Erin Kogler, Director of Communications

Marcella Morrow, Director of Marketing

Lizzy Cichowski, Marketing Manager

Adam Cohen, Patron Systems Manager

David Jensen, Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Zachary-John Reinardy, Lead Designer

Kerry Tomaszewski, Communications Manager

BOX OFFICE

Luther Gray, Director of Ticket Operations & Group Sales

Al Bartosik, Box Office Manager

John Hallman, Patron Services Assistant Marie Holtyn, Box Office Supervisor

BOX OFFICE ASSISTANTS

Jordan Bell, Christine McElligott, and Rora Sanders

OPERATIONS

Françoise Moquin, Director of Orchestra Personnel

Terrell Pierce, Director of Operations

Kayla Aftahi, Operations Coordinator

Constance Aguocha, Assistant Personnel Manager

Paul Beck, Principal Librarian, Anonymous Donor, Principal Librarian Chair

Kelsey Padron, Artistic Coordinator

Paolo Scarabel, Stage Technician & Deck Supervisor

Emily Wacker Schultz, Artist Duty Assistant

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 Coordinator

Sam Hushek, Events & Volunteer Manager

Lisa Klimczak , House Manager

David Kotlewski, House Manager

Zoe Waeltz, Senior House Manager

FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF

Anthony Andronczyk, Ky Catlett, Nathan Desing, Eliana Kiltz, Roger Kocher, Luke Maillefer, Ashley Patin, Steve Pfisterer, Carlos Rojo, Amy Rook, Anne Sempos, Jack Waeltz, Elliot White, Heather Whitmill

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