MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Program 4

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Volume 41 No. 4

15 February 24 & 25 — Classics

Music of Clyne, Tchaikovsky

& Shostakovich

23 March 3 & 4 — Classics

Music of Montgomery & Dvořák

31 March 10 — BSC Presents

Branford Marsalis Quartet

39 March 11 & 12 — Special

Rick Steves’ Europe:

A Symphonic Journey

45 March 17 - 19 — Pops

The Doo Wop Project

51 March 24 - 26 — Classics

Mendelssohn’s Elijah

5 Orchestra Roster

7 Conductor Bios

11 Milwaukee Symphony Chorus

58 Gala Individuals / MSO Endowment

59 Musical Legacy / Annual Fund

62 Bravo / Gala Corporate / Corporate & Foundation

63 Golden Note / The Marquee Circle / Tributes

66 MSO Board of Directors

67 MSO Administration

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2023 SPRING SEASON

Sunday, April 30

SPRING CONCERT

Concert with Kansas City’s William Baker Festival Singers St. Joseph’s Chapel | 3pm

Saturday, May 13

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These concerts are supported in part by a grant from the Milwaukee Arts Board and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin.

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.

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MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

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)

Alexanders Ayers, Acting Assistant Concertmaster

Yuka Kadota

Ji-Yeon Lee**

Dylana Leung

Allison Lovera

Lijia Phang

Margot Schwartz*

Alexandra Switala**

Yuanhui Fiona Zheng

SECOND VIOLINS

Jennifer Startt, Principal, Andrea and Woodrow Leung Second Violin Chair

Timothy Klabunde, Assistant Principal

John Bian, Assistant Principal (3rd Chair)

Glenn Asch

Lisa Johnson Fuller

Paul Hauer

Hyewon Kim

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.”

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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.

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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.

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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

Robert Bortman

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

STAFF

Michael Faust

Sarah N. Ferreira

Catherine Fettig

Carly Marie Fitzgerald

Robert Friebus

Karen Frink

Maria Fuller

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

Kurt Hellermann

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

Cheryl Frazes Hill, chorus director

Timothy J. Benson, assistant director

Christina Williams, chorus manager

Kayoko Miyazawa, rehearsal pianist

Darwin J. Sanders, language/diction coach

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

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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.

Frazes Hill’s newly released book, Margaret Hillis: Unsung Pioneer, a biography of the famed female conductor, is 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.

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MUSIC OF CLYNE, TCHAIKOVSKY & SHOSTAKOVICH

Friday, February 24, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Han-Na Chang, conductor Zlatomir Fung, cello

ANNA CLYNE

This Midnight Hour

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Opus 33 Zlatomir Fung, cello

IN TERMISSION

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Opus 47

I. Moderato

II. Allegretto

III. Largo

IV. Allegro non troppo

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

The length of this concert is approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.

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

HAN-NA CHANG

Artistic leader and chief conductor of the Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera in Norway since 2017, and newly appointed Erste Gastdirigentin (principal guest conductor) of the Symphoniker Hamburg – Laeiszhalle Orchester commencing in the 2022.23 season, Han-Na Chang’s prestigious and unique international career spans nearly three decades. She first gained international recognition for her precocious musical gifts at the age of 11, when she won the First Prize and the Contemporary Music Prize at the Fifth Rostropovich International Cello Competition in Paris in 1994, awarded unanimously by the jury led by Mstislav Rostropovich. She made her formal conducting debut in 2007, at the age of 24, and has since then focused her artistic output exclusively to conducting.

Chang started her tenure as the artistic leader and chief conductor of the Trondheim Symfoniorkester & Opera in 2017. Prior to this appointment, she served as the orchestra’s principal guest conductor from 2013 to 2017. She served as the music director of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra during the 2013.14 season, culminating in their successful and critically acclaimed performance at the 2014 BBC Proms in London. In 2009, she founded and launched the Absolute Classic Festival at Sungnam Arts Center in South Korea and served as its artistic director until 2014.

As a guest conductor, Chang’s upcoming appearances include the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam and Oslo philharmonic orchestras, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Singapore, Atlanta, Vancouver, Detroit, and Milwaukee symphony orchestras, among others. Her cello recordings, exclusively for the Warner Music label, have been nominated for Grammys, and have been awarded two ECHO Klassik awards, the Caecilia and Cannes Classical awards, as well as a Gramophone Concerto of the Year accolade among others, and remain world-wide bestsellers.

Chang was born in Suwon, South Korea, in December 1982. At the age of six, she received her first cello lesson. Her family moved to New York in 1993 in order to support her continuing studies at The Juilliard School, and she has lived in New York since. At the age of 10, she also started studying with Mischa Maisky, who remains her most important influence to this day, and she counts Mstislav Rostropovich and Giuseppe Sinopoli among the most influential mentors of her formative years. More information can be found at hannachangmusic.com.

Guest Artist Biographies

ZLATOMIR FUNG

The first American in four decades and youngest musician ever to win First Prize at the International Tchaikovsky Competition Cello Division, Zlatomir Fung is poised to become one of the preeminent cellists of our time. A recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in 2022 and a 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Fung’s impeccable technique demonstrates a mastery of the canon and an exceptional insight into the depths of contemporary repertoire. A winner of the 2017 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2017 Astral National Auditions, Fung has taken the top prizes at numerous competitions and was selected as a 2016 U.S. Presidential Scholar for the Arts. He was recently named to WQXR’s 2023 Artist Propulsion Lab.

Recent summer festival appearances include Aspen Music Festival, Bravo! Vail with the New York Philharmonic and Leonard Slatkin, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, and Verbier. As a soloist, Fung has appeared with the BBC Philharmonic, Detroit, Kansas City, Seattle, and Asheville symphonies, among many others. Past recital highlights include his Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Hall debut. Upcoming engagements include a recital debut at Wigmore Hall, debuts with the Dallas, Milwaukee, and Rochester symphonies, and recital tours in the U.S. and Europe.

Of Bulgarian-Chinese heritage, Fung began playing cello at age three and earned fellowships at Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Heifetz International Music Institute, MusicAlp, and the Aspen Music Festival and School. Fung studied at The Juilliard School under the tutelage of Richard Aaron and Timothy Eddy. Fung has been featured on NPR’s Performance Today and has appeared on From the Top six times. In addition to music, he enjoys cinema, reading, and blitz chess.

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Program notes by J. Mark Baker

ANNA CLYNE

Born 9 March 1980; London, England

This Midnight Hour

Composed: 2015

First performance: 13 November 2015; Plaisir, France

Last MSO performance: MSO premiere

Instrumentation: 2 flutes; piccolo; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 2 trombones; bass trombone; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, crotales, slapstick, suspended cymbals, tam tam, vibraphone); strings

Approximate duration: 12 minutes

The opening to This Midnight Hour is inspired by the character and power of the lower strings of Orchestre national d’Île-de-France. From here, it draws inspiration from two poems. Whilst it is not intended to depict a specific narrative, my intention is that it will evoke a visual journey for the listener.

–Anna Clyne

The British composer Anna Clyne grew up in Abingdon, near Oxford, where her mother earned a living as a midwife. Though music was not a regular part of the family’s life, she took cello lessons and later studied music at the University of Edinburgh. Composition lessons commenced during a year abroad at Queen’s University in Ontario. “It was late to start,” she said in a recent interview, “but I already knew what I wanted to say.”

This Midnight Hour was co-commissioned by the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France and the Seattle Symphony. At the time, Clyne was composer-in-residence for the former ensemble, who gave its premiere – conducted by Enrique Mazzola – at the Théâtre Espace Coluche, in the Paris suburb of Plaisir. Cast in one movement, it uses orchestration identical to Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2 (“Little Russian;” 1872, rev. 1880), which was on the same program.

Clyne said she took inspiration from two poems: “La Musica” by Juan Ramón Jiménez and “Harmonie du soir” by Charles Baudelaire. The work’s accessible, almost-cinematic style depicts the mysterious midnight journey of a woman. Full of energy, its moods range from the ominous to the playful. Listen for folklike woodwind solos, some deliberately out-of-tune strings that evoke the sound of a tipsy accordion, and a duet for two trumpets placed on either side of the stage. Lyrical moments alternate with a scampering motif and, at the end, there is a hymn-like melody before the timpani and bass drum bring the proceedings to an abrupt conclusion.

PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Born 7 May 1840; Kamsko-Votkinsk, Russia

Died 6 November 1893; St. Petersburg, Russia

Variations on a Rococo Theme, Opus 33

Composed: 1876

First performance: 30 November 1877; Moscow, Russia

Last MSO performance: April 2016; Ben Gernon, conductor; Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello

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

Approximate duration: 18 minutes

Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo” Variations date from December 1876, following closely on the heels of his symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini. That piece, with its torrential and tortured emotional outpourings, is in stark contrast to the order and calm of the Variations. This delightfully crafted music displays the elegance of an 18th-century divertimento and is the closest the composer ever came to writing a cello concerto.

Music historian David Brown has suggested that, whereas Stravinsky, in his neoclassical works, sought self-discovery by subjecting styles from the past to his Russian flair for creative caricature, Tchaikovsky’s focus on the 18th century was the opposite: a means of psychological escape. At this time in his life – at age 36 – he was already preparing for what ultimately would be a disastrous marriage, in a desperate attempt to gain release from his homosexuality and its accompanying bitter self-hatred.

Following a brief orchestral introduction, the solo cello states the simple, elegant theme. Though it sounds like it might have been written in the 1700s, Tchaikovsky’s melody is of his own devising. Seven variations follow, one after another. (The brief orchestral ritornellos allow the soloist only a moment’s rest.) The harmonic underpinning of the theme – and indeed, even its general melodic contour – is retained throughout. The fifth variation features two cadenzas: one brief, the other more extended. The final variation, replete with blazing 32nd notes, propels the work to a stunning conclusion.

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Born 25 September 1906; St. Petersburg, Russia

Died 9 August 1975; Moscow, Russia

Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Opus 47

Composed: 1937

First performance: 21 November 1937; Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia

Last MSO performance: February 2011; Carlo Rizzi, conductor

Instrumentation: 2 flutes; piccolo; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; E-flat clarinet; 2 bassoons; contrabassoon; 4 horns; 3 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; percussion (bass drum, cymbals, glockenspiel, snare drum, tam tam, triangle, xylophone); harp; celeste; piano; strings

Approximate duration: 44 minutes

Widely regarded as the greatest symphonist of the mid-20th century, the Russian master Dmitri Shostakovich wrote 15 works in that genre. Additionally, his impressive compositional catalogue includes six concertos for various instruments, chamber music (including 15 string quartets), solo piano music, two operas and an operetta, several cantatas and oratorios, three ballets, 36 film scores, incidental music for 11 plays, choral music, and songs.

Along with his older contemporaries Stravinsky and Prokofiev, Shostakovich represents the apotheosis of 20th-century Russian music. Unlike them, however, the whole of his compositional output was created within the confines of Soviet aesthetics. He was educated entirely under the Soviet system, and his loyalty to his country and to his government never wavered, even during those times when he himself fell into disfavor with the powers-that-be. It is a credit to his remarkable genius that he overcame the limitations of the “socialist realism” expected of him, to the point where it no longer impeded his musical creativity.

Shostakovich’s Opus 47 was a smashing success at its premiere and has continued to be the best-known and most-often-performed of his symphonies. Its backstory is a bit darker, however. His opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (1934, rev. 1963) came under the approbation of Stalin’s cultural commissars, who denounced it in the pages of Pravda as “muddle instead of music … un-Soviet, unwholesome, cheap, eccentric, tuneless and leftist.” By this time, Shostakovich had begun work on his Symphony No. 4 (1936). After hearing it in rehearsal, he was unhappy with the piece and withdrew it from performance. Following some soul-searching, he started work on the Fifth in April 1937, completing it three months later.

The Symphony No. 5 has proven to be an enduring work. Cast in four movements, each displaying taut structural design, it opens with a potent Moderato whose emotional power is anything but “moderate.” By comparison, the lively Scherzo is succinct; one can picture the smirk on Shostakovich’s lips as he makes a few Mahler-like nods toward far-off folk music. The luxurious F-sharp minor Largo’s long-lined melodies are yearningly exquisite; note that there are no brass instruments of any kind. In the manic, over-the-top Allegro non troppo, it’s as though Shostakovich is sticking his thumb in the eye of the Soviet authorities. “You want raucous, celebratory music,” he seems to say, “I’ll damn well give you some.” In his somewhat-controversial posthumous memoirs, Testimony (1979), he explained: “The rejoicing is forced, created under threat … It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing.’”

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Jonathon Heyward, conductor

James Ehnes, violin

JESSIE MONTGOMERY

Records from a Vanishing City

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Opus 63

I. Allegro moderato

II. Andante assai

III. Allegro, ben marcato

James Ehnes, violin

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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

Symphony No. 8 in G major, Opus 88

I. Allegro con brio

II. Adagio

III. Allegretto grazioso

IV. Allegro ma non troppo

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The length of this concert is approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.

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JONATHON HEYWARD

Jonathon Heyward is forging a career as one of the most exciting conductors on the international scene. He is music director designate of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (beginning in 2023.24) and chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie.

Heyward’s recent U.K. guest conducting highlights include debuts and re-invitations with the London Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain at the BBC Proms. In continental Europe, recent debuts include the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, Basel Symphony, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Brussels Philharmonic, SymfonieOrkest Vlaanderen, Antwerp Symphony, Philharmonie Zuidnederland, and Kristiansand Symphony. In 2022.23, Heyward debuts with the Musikkollegium Winterthur, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Lahti Symphony, MDR-Sinfonieorchester, and the National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin, Ireland. Most recently in his native United States, Heyward debuted at Grant Park and Mostly Mozart music festivals and with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. In 2021, he made his Wolf Trap debut conducting the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington D.C., and this was followed by further debuts with the Atlanta, Detroit, and San Diego symphony orchestras.

Heyward made his Royal Opera House debut with Hannah Kendall’s Knife of Dawn, having also conducted Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, as well as the world premiere of Giorgio Battistelli’s Wake in a production for the Birmingham Opera Company.

Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Heyward began cello lessons aged ten and started conducting while at school. He studied at the Boston Conservatory of Music, where he became assistant conductor of their opera department and the Boston Opera Collaborative. He received postgraduate lessons from Sian Edwards at London’s Royal Academy of Music. Before leaving the Academy, he was appointed assistant conductor of the Hallé Orchestra, where he was mentored by Sir Mark Elder and became music director of the Hallé Youth Orchestra.

Heyward’s commitment to education and community outreach work deepened during his three years with the Hallé and has flourished since he started as chief conductor of the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie. He is equally committed to including new music within his imaginative concert programs.

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JAMES EHNES

James Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after musicians on the international stage. Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism, and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is a favorite guest at the world’s most celebrated concert halls. Recent orchestral highlights include the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony, NHK Symphony, and Munich Philharmonic. Throughout the 2022.23 season, Ehnes continues as artist in residence with the National Arts Centre of Canada.

Alongside his concerto work, Ehnes maintains a busy recital schedule. He performs regularly at the Wigmore Hall (including the complete cycle of Beethoven Sonatas in 2019.20 and the complete violin/viola works of Brahms and Schumann in 2021.22), Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center Chicago, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Ravinia, Montreux, Verbier Festival, Dresden Music Festival, and Festival de Pâques in Aix. A devoted chamber musician, he is the leader of the Ehnes Quartet and the artistic director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society.

Ehnes has an extensive discography, and he has won awards, including two Grammys, three Gramophone Awards, and 11 Juno Awards. In 2021, Ehnes was announced as the recipient of the coveted Artist of the Year title in the 2021 Gramophone Awards, which celebrated his recent contributions to the recording industry, including the launch of a new online recital series entitled Recitals from Home, which was released in June 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent closure of concert halls. Ehnes recorded the six Bach sonatas and partitas and six sonatas of Ysaÿe from his home with state-of-the-art recording equipment and released six episodes over the period of two months.

Ehnes began violin studies at the age of five, became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin aged nine, and made his orchestra debut with L’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal aged 13. He continued his studies with Sally Thomas at the Meadowmount School of Music and The Juilliard School, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation in 1997. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and an honorary fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, where he is a visiting professor. Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715.

Program notes by J. Mark Baker

JESSIE MONTGOMERY

Born 8 December 1981; New York, New York

Records from a Vanishing City

Composed: 2016

First performance: 27 October 2016; New York, New York

Last MSO performance: MSO premiere

Instrumentation: flute; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets (2nd doubling bass clarinet); 2 bassoons; 2 horns; 2 trumpets; timpani; strings

Approximate duration: 14 minutes

Jessie Montgomery is an acclaimed composer, violinist, and educator. She was born and raised in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Since 1999, Montgomery has been affiliated with The Sphinx Organization, which supports young African-American and Latinx string players. Her growing body of work includes solo, chamber, vocal, and orchestral music. She holds degrees from The Juilliard School and New York University. Last season, the MSO was one of several co-commissioners of Rounds, a concerto fashioned for pianist Awadagin Pratt.

The composer has said that Records from a Vanishing City was inspired by her childhood on New York City’s Lower East Side. That was during the 1980s and ’90s, when that neighborhood was a vital center of the City’s artistic community, prior to its present-day gentrification. Montgomery explains that the term “records” takes two meanings:

1) a varied assemblage of old LPs she inherited from James Rose, a departed family friend; 2) her personal memories of the music she heard while growing up. She has also cited the timbral world of Bartók and Britten –as well music of the Big Band Era – as influences on this eclectic work. She expounds further:

I had this imagery of the city vanishing, and as the piece goes from beginning to end, there’s a sense that these themes are evaporating. In the last section, in the winds, there are solos, and the themes are swirling around each other, weaving in and out of each other … An idea will be stated, and then it evaporates, and then another one comes in, and it evaporates in relation to it … Throughout the course of the piece, there’s a section that’s super structurally obvious, and then the material begins to split apart and vanish as it gets toward the end.

Commissioned by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and dedicated to the memory of James Rose, it was premiered at Carnegie Hall.

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Born 23 April 1891; Sontsovka, Ukraine

Died 5 March 1953; Moscow, Russia

Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Opus 63

Composed: 1935

First performance: 1 December 1935; Madrid, Spain

Last MSO performance: March 2013; Edo de Waart, conductor; Ilana Setapen, violin

Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 2 horns; 2 trumpets; percussion (bass drum, castanets, cymbals, triangle, snare drum); strings

Approximate duration: 26 minutes

In the last years of Tsarist Russia, Sergei Prokofiev, still in his 20s, made his name as a composer of music both weighty and sardonic. Following the Revolution, making his home mainly in the United States and then Paris, his mode of expression progressively became more settled and, one might say, more polished. He spent the last 17 years of his life back in the Soviet Union, however, both spurred on and restrained by the cultural policies of Stalin’s regime. Throughout his life, he occupied himself with music for the stage and was one of the 20th century’s most distinguished creators of symphonies, concertos, and piano sonatas.

The second violin concerto dates from about the same time as two of Prokofiev’s best-known works: the ballet Romeo and Juliet (1938) and that favorite of children’s concerts, Peter and the Wolf (1936). He had only recently repatriated himself to Russia, and his Opus 63 would be his last commission from the West – from the French violinist Robert Soetens, who had played the 1932 premiere of Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two Violins with Samuel Dushkin.

The concerto’s basic layout is traditional, with two fast movements surrounding a slow one. The soloist states the main theme of the opening sonata-form Allegro moderato, alone and unequivocally in G minor. Muted violas and basses enter in the distant key of B minor, but the tonic is soon restored, and the lyrical second theme is cast in the relative major B-flat. Elegant in its simplicity, the Andante assai is set in 12/8 meter in E-flat major. Though there are ample opportunities for bravura, the soloist’s chief demand is to spin out seamless cantabile phrases over pizzicato strings and staccato woodwinds. A set of continuous variations, it is a prime example, stated British music writer Hugh Ottaway, of “Prokofiev’s endearing blend of innocence and sophistication.”

The finale – Allegro, ben marcato – recalls the sort of peasant rondo we know from several wellknown violin concertos of the 19th century. Its principal sections are set in 3/4 meter, with forte chords from the soloist. In the coda, the soloist cavorts frenetically in 5/4 above a bass line and percussion. The concluding whirlwind is marked tumultuoso, and the castanets remind us that the work’s premiere was scheduled for Madrid.

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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK

Born 8 September 1841; Nelahozeves, Bohemia

Died 1 May 1904; Prague, Bohemia

Symphony No. 8 in G major, Opus 88

Composed: 1889

First performance: 2 February 1890; Prague, Bohemia

Last MSO performance: September 2014; Edo de Waart, conductor

Instrumentation: 2 flutes (2nd doubling piccolo); 2 oboes (2nd doubling English horn); 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; strings

Approximate duration: 34 minutes

We wouldn’t be far off the mark if we called Antonín Dvořák the most versatile composer of the Romantic era. The Czech master’s list of works includes operas, chamber music, choral music and songs, symphonies, concertos, tone poems, and other orchestral music.

Cheerful, lyrical, and optimistic, Antonin Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony takes its inspiration from the Bohemian folk music the composer so greatly loved. In his handling of symphonic form, Dvořák shows the influence of his friend Brahms, but he has filled the work with melodies that have an unmistakable Czech flavor in their tunefulness and rusticity.

Though set in the key of G major, the first movement (Allegro con brio) opens with a melody in G minor before a birdlike flute melody takes us to the home key. Listen throughout for harmonic shifts between major and minor, à la Schubert. The Adagio begins with a lovely clarinet duet. Like Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, the movement is inspired by peaceful landscapes and depicts a summer day interrupted by a thunderstorm, but ends contentedly. For the third movement, Dvořák wrote a melancholic waltz in 3/8 time. The middle section is rife with yearning, Czech-inspired melodies.

The finale opens with a trumpet fanfare that soon gives way to a beautiful cello melody before plowing headlong into the Allegro ma non troppo. The movement progresses through an agitated middle section, modulating between major and minor throughout. Following a slow, lyrical section, the symphony concludes with great exhilaration, aided by brass and timpani.

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March 10, 2023 at 7:30 pm

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Joey Calderazzo, piano

Eric Revis, bass

Justin Faulkner, drums

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Piano was made possible through a generous gift from MICHAEL AND JEANNE SCHMITZ. The length of this concert is approximately 90 minutes without intermission. All programs are subject to change.

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BRANFORD MARSALIS

Branford Marsalis continues to thrill audiences around the world while racking up achievements across diverse musical platforms, even after four decades in the international spotlight. From his initial recognition as a young jazz lion, he has expanded his vision as an instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and educator, crossing stylistic boundaries while maintaining an unwavering creative integrity. In the process, he has become an avatar of contemporary artistic excellence winning three Grammy Awards, a Tony nomination for his work as a composer on Broadway, a citation by the National Endowment for the Arts as Jazz Master, and a 2021 Primetime EMMY nomination for the score he composed for the Tulsa Burning documentary.

Growing up in the rich environment of New Orleans as the oldest son of pianist and educator, the late Ellis Marsalis, Marsalis was drawn to music along with siblings Wynton, Delfeayo, and Jason. The Branford Marsalis Quartet, formed in 1986, remains his primary performance vehicle. In its virtually uninterrupted three-plus decades of existence, the quartet has established a rare breadth of stylistic range as demonstrated on the band’s latest release: The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul. But Marsalis has not confined his music to the jazz quartet context. A frequent soloist with classical ensembles, Marsalis has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with acclaimed orchestras around the world, performing works by composers such as Copeland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Milhaud, Rorem, Vaughan Williams, and Villa-Lobos. And his legendary guest performances with the Grateful Dead and collaborations with Sting have made him a fan favorite in the pop arena.

Marsalis’s screen credits as a composer include original music for: Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks starring Oprah Winfrey, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom starring Viola Davis and the late Chadwick Boseman, and the History Channel’s documentary Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre. The critically acclaimed Ma Rainey is the Netflix film adaptation of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play, produced by Denzel Washington. And in reviewing the score Vanity Fair proclaimed “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a story in which the music has to be authentic and the details need to be correct. It requires the musical oversight of someone who has this history in his blood. It requires Branford Marsalis.” While The Guardian noted “Marsalis’s work, both recreation and original composition, is as close to perfection as I could imagine.” He recently received a 2021 EMMY nomination for the original music he composed and produced for Tulsa Burning in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score) category. His work on Broadway has garnered a Drama Desk Award and a Tony nomination for the acclaimed revival of Fences. His previous Broadway efforts include music for the revivals of Children of a Lesser God and A Raisin in the Sun, as well as The Mountaintop which starred Angela Bassett and Samuel L. Jackson.

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Marsalis is also committed to the development of the next generation of musicians. He enjoys working with students and has formed an extended relationship with North Carolina Central University, where he has been teaching for the past 18 years. He has also taught at Michigan State University and San Francisco State University and continues to conduct workshops throughout the world.

In the wake of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina, Marsalis, along with friend Harry Connick, Jr., conceived of Musicians’ Village, a residential community in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The centerpiece of the village is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music, honoring Marsalis’s father. The center uses music as the focal point of a holistic strategy to build a healthy community and to deliver a broad range of services to underserved children, youth, and musicians from neighborhoods battling poverty and social injustice

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RICK STEVES’ EUROPE: A SYMPHONIC JOURNEY

Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 2:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Yaniv Dinur, conductor

Rick Steves, host

USA: FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, arr. Smith & Gearhart

The Star-Spangled Banner

Austria: JOHANN STRAUSS II

Blue Danube Waltz, Opus 314

Germany: RICHARD WAGNER

Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger

Czech Republic: BEDŘICH SMETANA

The Moldau [Vltava]

Italy: GIUSEPPE VERDI

“Triumphal March” from Aida

IN TERMISSION

Britain: EDWARD ELGAR

Pomp and Circumstance March in D major, Opus 39

Norway: EDVARD GRIEG

“Morning” from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Opus 46

France: HECTOR BERLIOZ

“Marche Troyenne” from Les Troyens

All of Europe: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Opus 125 “Ode to Joy”

This weekend’s media sponsor is WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO.

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

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

RICK STEVES

Rick Steves is a popular public television host, a best-selling guidebook author, and an outspoken activist who encourages Americans to broaden their perspectives through travel. But above all else, Steves considers himself a teacher. He taught his first travel class at his college campus in the mid-1970s – and now, more than 40 years later, he still measures his success not by dollars earned, but by trips impacted.

Widely considered America’s leading authority on European travel, Steves produces a best-selling series of guidebooks and is the author of Travel as a Political Act. He is dedicated to providing all Americans with access to travel information, and he has made extensive resources available for free on the Rick Steves’ Europe website, via the Rick Steves Audio Europe™ app, and in Rick Steves Classroom Europe™, a searchable database of short, teachable video clips.

A longtime supporter of public broadcasting, Steves produces and hosts public television and radio shows that air across the nation.

Steves is the founder and owner of Rick Steves’ Europe (RSE), a travel business with more than 100 full-time employees. RSE operates a successful tour program, which brings more than 30,000 people to Europe annually. The company contributes annually to a portfolio of climatesmart nonprofits, essentially paying a self-imposed carbon tax.

Steves works closely with several advocacy groups and makes regular financial contributions to more than 170 organizations, including annual contributions to Bread for the World. He is a board member of NORML and has been instrumental in the legalization of marijuana in several states. He has also provided $8 million in funding to build two new neighborhood centers in his community, and he has donated a 24-unit apartment building for homeless women and their children to his local YWCA.

Steves spends about four months a year in Europe, researching guidebooks, fine-tuning his tour program, filming his TV show, and making new discoveries for travelers. To recharge, he plays piano, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade Mountains, and spends time with his son, Andy, and daughter, Jackie. He lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington, where his office window overlooks his old junior high school.

THE DOO WOP PROJECT

Friday, March 17, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 2:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Jack Everly, conductor

Charl Brown, vocalist

John Michael Dias, vocalist

Russell Fischer, vocalist

Dominic Nolfi, vocalist

Sonny Paladino, vocalist

Nicholas Ward, 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.

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

JACK EVERLY

Jack Everly is the principal pops conductor of the Indianapolis and Baltimore symphony orchestras, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa). He has conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, the San Francisco Symphony, and numerous appearances with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center. Maestro Everly will conduct over 90 performances in more than 22 North American cities this season.

Celebrating his 12th year as music director of the National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth on PBS, Everly proudly leads the National Symphony Orchestra in these patriotic celebrations on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, attracting hundreds of thousands of attendees and reaching millions of viewers annually.

Originally appointed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Everly was conductor of the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years, where he served as music director. In addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed with Marvin Hamlisch on Broadway shows that Mr. Hamlisch scored. He conducted Carol Channing hundreds of times in Hello, Dolly! in two separate Broadway productions.

Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Music in 2021 from his alma mater. He is a recipient of the 2015 Indiana Historical Society Living Legends Award and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Franklin College in his home state of Indiana. He is a proud resident of the Indianapolis community, and when not on the podium you can find Maestro Everly at home with his family.

CHARL BROWN

Charl Brown was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Smokey Robinson in Motown The Musical; he reprised this role opening London’s West End production in 2016. He is also featured on the Grammy nominated original Broadway cast recording. In 2014, Brown was honored to work with Stephen Schwartz playing the role of Adam/Noah in Children of Eden in concert at the Kennedy Center. He returned to Kennedy Center in 2018 as The Specialist in The Who’s Tommy. Other Credits include: Jersey Boys on Broadway and Las Vegas (Hal Miller); Sister Act on Broadway (Officer Eddie Souther, TJ, Pablo U/S, Ensemble); Hair (Hud) in the European Tour; Ragtime (Coalhouse Walker Jr) with Moonlight Stage; Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Adrian) with The Muny; The Who’s Tommy (Captain Walker) at the Denver Center; Ever After (Captain Laurent) with Papermill Playhouse; Johnny Baseball (Tim Wyatt) at ART; Dreamgirls (Curtis Taylor Jr.) at SDMT; Ragtime (Coalhouse) with Performance Riverside; Six Degrees of Separation (Paul) at Long Beach Playhouse; JC Superstar (Judas) with Music at Westwood Theater; A Chorus Line (Richie) at Starlight Theater; and Star Wars Trilogy in 30 Minutes (Lando Calrissian) at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. For television, Brown has been seen in Evil; Madam Secretary; America’s Got Talent (US & UK); Macy’s 85th & 87th Thanksgiving Day Parade; The 63rd Annual Tony Awards; and A Capitol 4th 2013. Brown is a proud graduate of the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts, where he currently sits on the advisory board for the inaugural BFA in musical theater class.

Guest Artist Biographies

JOHN MICHAEL DIAS

John Michael Dias recently appeared on Broadway as Neil Sedaka in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning hit Beautiful: The Carol King Musical. He originated the same role for the Beautiful first national tour. Dias gained a nationwide following starring as Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons in the smash hit Jersey Boys, playing the role on Broadway, as well as in the first national tour – Vegas and Chicago companies. In concert, Dias has performed in Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Neil Sedaka’s Greatest Hits!. He can also be seen singing special appearances with the vocal group The Doo-Wop Project. Dias’ solo album, Write This Way, which features intimate takes on Broadway and pop favorites like “Can’t Take My Eyes off You” and “New York State of Mind” is available on iTunes. Dias earned a BFA in musical theatre from Boston Conservatory.

RUSSELL FISCHER

Russell Fischer was cast in the Broadway company of Jersey Boys on his 22nd birthday, marking his Broadway debut. Fischer starred in the second national tour of Big: The Musical. His latest NYC credit was in Baby Fat, Act 1: A Rock Opera at LaMama Experimental Theater Club. Regional credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Music Man at Chautauqua Opera, the American premiere of Children of Eden at Papermill Playhouse, and most recently, the Atlanta Musical Theatre Festival premiere of The Collins Boy. Fischer was a featured vocalist on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and in the HBO documentary, The Bronx, USA. He has appeared on the live broadcasts of the 2015 Belmont Stakes, the 2009 Tony Awards, and several spots for TV Land’s 60 Second Sitcoms. He enjoys sharing Doo-Wop music with audiences around the world.

DOMINIC NOLFI

Dominic Nolfi most recently performed on Broadway in Chazz Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale - The Musical, directed by Robert DeNiro and Jerry Zaks. As an original cast member of A Bronx Tale - The Musical, Motown: The Musical (Grammy nominated) and Jersey Boys (Grammy Award for Best Cast Album), he can be heard on all three soundtracks. Nolfi also performed in the world premiere productions of A Bronx Tale and Jersey Boys at the Paper Mill Playhouse and the La Jolla Playhouse. Nolfi was born and raised in San Francisco, where he studied youth acting at the acclaimed American Conservatory Theatre. He studied voice at the San Francisco Conservatory and attended the Boston Conservatory on scholarship, where he graduated with a BFA in theater. Upon graduation, Nolfi joined the European production of Grease. It was there that he met his future wife Sonia Iannetti; they have a daughter Vivienne. Nolfi is a founding member of The Doo Wop Project and is unbelievably proud of his association with the other men who helped create the group.

SONNY PALADINO

Sonny Paladino is the music supervisor, arranger, and orchestrator of A Beautiful Noise (The Neil Diamond Musical), Getting the Band Back Together (Broadway), Smokey Joe’s Café (off-Broadway), and Dion’s The Wanderer (upcoming). Other Broadway credits include Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 (music supervisor), POTUS (music director/arranger), Sting’s The Last Ship, and Pippin (associate conductor). Arrangements and orchestrations for the Indianapolis, Baltimore, Seattle, Vancouver, and Detroit symphony orchestras and The Philly Pops. His career also includes performances with Josh Groban, Sting, Patina Miller, and Matthew Morrison. As a record producer, Paladino’s projects include GTBBT, The Great Comet, Soul Vol. 2, Mistletoe and Carly, as well as all four albums for the hit The Doo Wop Project!

Guest Artist Biographies

NICHOLAS WARD

Nicholas Ward is honored to be joining the Doo Wop family! Recently you might have seen him featured (his 5th Broadway production) in the Hit Broadway Revival Of The Music Man,staring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, where he played Oliver Hix (The Baritone in the Quartet). Past credits include: The Lion King (Mufasa), Frozen (OBC-King Agnarr), In Transit (OBC-Chris), and On The Town (Workman, Miss Turnstile’s Announcer). Ward has also had the great pleasure of performing in eight New York City Center Encores! productions including: Brigadoon with Kelli O’Hara, Cabin In The Sky with Chuck Cooper, Pipe Dream with Leslie Uggams, The Golden Apple, 1776, and Zorba with Marin Mazzie, Paint Your Wagon, and Annie Get Your Gun. Lincoln Center Productions include Camelot, Andrew Lippa’s I am Harvey Milk, and Symphony Space’s A Little Night Music. Touring productions include: Showboat and Porgy & Bess. Film & TV credits include: Shmigadoon, Frozen 2, Ricky and the Flash, The Tony Awards, The Tonight Show w/ Jimmy Fallon, GMA, One Night Only: The Best of Broadway, The Disney Holiday Sing Along, and Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting. Regionally he had been featured in many productions including: Ragtime, Man of La Mancha, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, and Jesus Christ Superstar. Original Broadway Cast Recordings include: Music Man, Frozen, and In Transit. Ward is grateful to have had such a wonderful career in the performing arts.

MENDELSSOHN’S ELIJAH

Friday, March 24, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 2:30 pm

ALLEN-BRADLEY HALL

Ken-David Masur, conductor

Sonya Headlam, soprano

Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano

Thomas Cooley, tenor

Dashon Burton, bass-baritone

Milwaukee Symphony Chorus

Cheryl Frazes Hill, director

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Elijah, Opus 70

Part One

IN TERMISSION

Part Two

This weekend’s concerts are dedicated to the memory of MR. THOMAS L. SMALLWOOD by Julia and David Uihlein.

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

The length of this concert is approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes.

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

SONYA HEADLAM

Praised for her “expressive” singing and the “personal connections” she forms with her audience (Cleveland Classical), soprano Sonya Headlam delights audiences in “dramatically engaged” performances with “sensitive phrasing” (Chicago Classical Review) in repertoire ranging from the Baroque period to the 21st century. She is a member of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and performs regularly with The Raritan Players, including an appearance on their recently released recording, In the Salon of Madame Brillon (Acis). Recent engagements include appearances with Apollo’s Fire, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Beth Morrison Projects, Grand Rapids Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, and TENET Vocal Artists, among others. She has been a featured soloist at summer festivals such as the 2018 Prototype Festival, the LOUD Weekend 2022, presented by Bang on a Can and MASS MoCA, and the 2022 Chelsea Music Festival. Upcoming projects include a recording of the songs of Ignatius Sancho with The Raritan Players, Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate with the New World Symphony conducted by Jeannette Sorrell, and performing as the soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Washington Bach Consort and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Headlam holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, where she has also held a visiting scholar appointment conducting research on the 18th-century composer Ignatius Sancho.

CLARA OSOWSKI

Mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski is an active soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe. Recognized for her excellence in Minnesota, Osowski was a recipient of the prestigious 2018-2019 McKnight Artist Fellowships for Musicians administered by MacPhail Center for Music.

The 2022.23 season includes her debut with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque in Handel’s Jephtha led by Dame Jane Glover, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Delaware Symphony, Mozart’s Requiem and Pärt’s Stabat Mater with the South Dakota Symphony, and appearances with the Bach Society of Minnesota, Madison Bach Musicians, National Lutheran Choir, and Bel Canto Chorus of Milwaukee.

In 2017, Osowski became the first-ever American prize winner when she placed second at Thomas Quasthoff’s International Das Lied Competition in Heidelberg, Germany; was a finalist in the Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation Song Competition and was awarded the Richard Tauber Prize for the best interpretation of Schubert Lieder; and won the Houston Saengerbund Competition. She won the Radio-Canada People’s Choice Award and third place in the song division at the 2018 Concours Musical International de Montréal. She was a 2012 Metropolitan Opera National Council Upper-Midwest Regional Finalist, the winner of the 2014 Bel Canto Chorus Regional Artists Competition in Milwaukee, and runner-up in the 2016 Schubert Club Bruce P. Carlson Scholarship Competition.

In addition to performing, Osowski serves as the artistic director of Source Song Festival, a weeklong art song festival in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and participates in a number of ensembles, including Lumina Women’s Ensemble and Seraphic Fire.

Guest Artist Biographies

THOMAS COOLEY

Praised by The New York Times for his “sweet, penetrating lyric tenor with aching sensitivity” and by San Francisco Classical Voice as “an indomitable musical force,” Thomas Cooley is a singer of great versatility, expressiveness, and virtuosity. Internationally in demand for a wide range of repertoire in concert, opera, and chamber music, Cooley performs regularly with major orchestras and Baroque ensembles worldwide.

Cooley is known particularly as an interpreter of the works of Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Britten. He returns as the tenor soloist at the Carmel Bach Festival for his 12th season in 2023, and he was artist-in-residence for Music of the Baroque from 2015 to 2016. Of his Evangelist with Jane Glover, the Chicago Tribune wrote that he was “an ideal Evangelist, firm of voice and commanding of expression.”

Important recent engagements include the role of Gimoaldo in Rodelinda at the Göttingen Handel Festspiele; Telemann’s Der Tag des Gerichts in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam; a recording of the Evangelist in the Johannes-Passion with Nicholas McGegan and the Cantata Collective; Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic and Phoenix Symphony; Handel’s Theodora with Philharmonia Baroque; Britten’s War Requiem in Carnegie Hall; and portraying Acis in Acis and Galatea with the Mark Morris Dance Group. A program of Handel arias and duets entitled “As Steals the Morn” with San Francisco’s Voices of Music was selected as the best Early/Baroque performance in the Bay Area in 2019, a selection from which has received nearly two million views on YouTube.

DASHON BURTON

Dashon Burton has established a vibrant career, appearing regularly throughout the U.S. and Europe. Highlights of his 2022.23 season include returns to The Cleveland Orchestra for Schubert’s Mass No. 6 with Franz Welser-Möst in Cleveland and at Carnegie Hall and to the New York Philharmonic for Michael Tilson Thomas’s Rilke Songs led by the composer. Debut appearances this season include Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Milwaukee Symphony led by Ken-David Masur, Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with the Houston Symphony and Juraj Valčuha, the world premiere of Chris Cerrone’s The Year of Silence with the Louisville Orchestra led by Teddy Abrams, and Dvořák’s Requiem with the Richmond Symphony. Burton continues his relationship with San Francisco Performances as an artist-in-residence with appearances at venues and educational institutions throughout the Bay Area.

A multiple award-winning singer, Burton won his second Grammy Award in March 2021 for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album with his performance featured in Dame Ethyl Smyth’s masterwork The Prison with The Experiential Orchestra (Chandos). As an original member of the groundbreaking vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, he won his first Grammy Award for their inaugural recording of all new commissions.

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Guest Artist Biographies

His other recordings include Songs of Struggle, Redemption: We Shall Overcome (Acis), the Grammy-nominated recording of Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road (Naxos), Holocaust 1944 by Lori Laitman (Acis), and Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. His album of spirituals garnered high praise and was singled out by The New York Times as “profoundly moving…a beautiful and lovable disc.”

Burton received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College and Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. He is an assistant professor of voice at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.

Program notes by J. Mark Baker

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Born 3 February 1809; Hamburg, Germany

Died 4 November 1847; Leipzig, Germany

Elijah, Opus 70

Composed: 1846

First performance: 26 August 1846; Birmingham, England

Last MSO performance: March 1999; James Paul, conductor; Joanna Johnston, soprano; Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano; John Aler, tenor; Richard Zeller, baritone

Instrumentation: 2 flutes; 2 oboes; 2 clarinets; 2 bassoons; 4 horns; 2 trumpets; 3 trombones; tuba; timpani; organ; strings

Approximate duration: 2 hours, 20 minutes

Along with Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah remains near the summit of the oratorio mountain. The main story comes from I Kings chapters 17 and 18, but sentences are taken from many parts of the Old Testament (Deuteronomy, Hosea, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Malachi, the Psalms, et al.), and even from St. Matthew’s gospel.

Elijah was commissioned by the Birmingham Festival, for whom Mendelssohn had conducted his oratorio St. Paul (1836) in 1837. He had begun work on the piece years earlier, but it fell by the wayside when he encountered differences in artistic vision with his librettists. With Birmingham’s proposal on the table, he returned to the work – whose texts came from Luther’s translation of Die Bibel – rejuvenated. There was a huge caveat, however: the English audience expected the oratorio to be sung in their native tongue.

Though fluent in English himself, Mendelssohn turned to William Bartholemew, requesting a singing translation as near as possible to the King James Bible (1611). The two men worked closely together on the project. Though today’s performance will be sung in the original German, the Bartholemew translation serves as the source for the supertitles at this concert. From its first performance, the oratorio was a smashing success. The Times reported: “The last note of Elijah was drowned in a long-continued unanimous volley of plaudits, vociferous and deafening. It was as though enthusiasm, long-checked, had suddenly burst its bonds, and filled the air with shouts of exaltation. Mendelssohn, evidently overpowered, bowed his acknowledgments, and quickly descended from the conductor’s rostrum; but he was compelled to appear again, amidst renewed cheers and huzzas.” In the spring of 1847, the composer returned to England to conduct six further performances. Sadly, by that autumn, he would be dead. Mendelssohn, the boy genius, passed away at the much-too-young age of 38. A performance of Elijah he had intended to conduct in Vienna on 14 November 1847 instead became a memorial concert.

SYNOPSIS Part One

As the orchestra intones dark-hued D-minor chords, Elijah’s motif, the eponymous prophet takes center stage, announcing an impending drought. Listen, too, for descending tritones – the “curse” motif (both will recur). A fiery, contrapuntal overture ensues, depicting the people’s pain and suffering, then leads directly into their cry for Adonai’s help. The soprano and alto soloists continue the lament. The prophet Obadiah cites the reason for the famine: Elijah, following

God’s command, had sealed the heavens because of their worship of idols and false gods. If they repent and seek the one true God, they will be forgiven. The people, however, are unconvinced, believing that they are cut off from God’s mercy. (Listen for the “curse” motif in their agitated outpouring.)

An angel appears to Elijah, instructing him to go into the desert. The double quartet of angels, assuring the prophet of God’s protection, is surely one of the most beautiful moments in the entire oratorio. What follows is a dramatic scena between Elijah and a widow in Zarephath. The prophet wakes her son from death, and the final line of their duet melds into a rapturous chorus. Several years of drought elapse, and Elijah – echoing the music that opened the oratorio –returns to confront King Ahab, who accuses the prophet of being the source of Israel’s travails. Elijah turns the tables on Ahab, maintaining that the king and his subjects have incurred Jehovah’s wrath by forsaking the one true God, turning instead to the god Baal. The people are summoned to Mount Carmel to witness a showdown between the pagan god and Adonai. They have laid logs and bushes on two altars, agreeing that whosoever brings fire upon the altar is to be worshipped as the true God. As they seek to attract Baal’s attention, cutting themselves with knives and jumping upon the altar, their impassioned pleas become ever more urgent.

Elijah, a solitary prophet facing hundreds of Baal worshippers, calls upon the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. The fire descends from heaven and Elijah allows Baal’s prophets to be slain by the throng. In the final tableau of Part One, Obadiah entreats Elijah to help the people of Israel, still suffering under drought conditions. In a touching scene with a young boy, Elijah thrice entreats the Lord to send rain. Before long, the skies darken, the wind howls, there is a deluge of water, and the people burst into a paean of praise.

Part Two

Part Two opens with an extensive soprano aria, set in two parts – Adagio in B minor, Allegro maestoso in B major – enjoining the people to trust the Lord’s comfort; the theme of hope is taken up by the chorus. Elijah again reproves Ahab for the worship of Baal. Hearing of this, Queen Jezebel, enraged, calls for Elijah’s death. Obadiah warns Elijah to flee to the wilderness. Dejected over his inability to convert the people and longing for death, Elijah sings an affective aria – accompanied by a poignant cello solo. Unaccompanied treble-voiced angels sing over the sleeping prophet. We then hear one of the best-known of all choral movements, “He, watching over Israel” [Siehe, der Hüter Israels], notable for its sheer loveliness.

An angel appears, instructing Elijah to go to Mount Horeb, where the Lord will appear to him; she sings an aria of consolation, then warns him to veil his face. In a dramatic chorus, the presence of the Lord is portrayed – earthquakes, fire, and upheaval of the seas – but there soon follows seraphic music: “…there came a still, small voice, and in that still voice, onward came the Lord.”

Following Jehovah’s leading, Elijah feels empowered to return to the faithful and continue his work. In a stalwart recitative and aria, the old prophet gives thanks to God for his renewed strength. “Then did Elijah the prophet break forth like a fire,” the Scriptures tell us, “a fiery chariot with fiery horses, and he went by a whirlwind to heaven.” A consoling tenor foretells the happy fate of the righteous and a quartet enjoins us to seek God to slake our spiritual thirst. The final chorus is a mighty fugue, a celebration of the light of God shining upon His people.

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GALA INDIVIDUALS

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

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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

MSO Endowment/Musical Legacy/Annual Fund

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

Terry Dorr and Michael Holloway

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

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Hoke

Glenda Holm

Jean and Charles Holmburg

Karen Hung and Robert Coletti

Myra Huth

William and Janet Isbister

Lee and Barbara Jacobi

Leon and Betsy Janssen

Marilyn W. John

Faith L. Johnson

Mary G. Johnson

Bill and Char Johnson

Jayne J. Jordan

Judy and Gary Jorgensen

Debra Jupka

James A. and Robin S. Kasch

Howard Kaspin

James H. Keyes

Judith A. Keyes

Richard and Sarah Kimball

Ronald J. and Catherine Klokner

Mary Krall

JoAnne and Donald Krause

Martin J. and Alice Krebs

Ronald and Vicki Krizek

Cynthia Krueger-Prost

Susan Kurtz

Steven E. Landfried

Mr. Bruce R. Laning

Victor Larson

Arthur and Nancy Laskin

Tom and Lise Lawson

Andrea and Woodrow Leung

Mr. Robert D. Lidicker

Mr. and Mrs. John B. Liebenstein

Drs. John and Theresa Liu

Dr. John and Kristie Malone

Dana and Jeff Marks

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

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 January 20, 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

Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Wilson

$25,000 and above

Two Anonymous Donors

Elaine Burke

Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn Esenberg

Mrs. Susan G. Gebhardt

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

Annual Fund

Barbara and Harry L. Drake

Lee Fitzsimonds

Roberta Gordon

Drs. Carla and Robert Hay

Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Hoke

Jewish Community Foundation

Eileen & Howard Dubner Donor

Advised Fund

Judith A. Keyes

Charles and Barbara Lund

Maureen McCabe

William and Marian Nasgovitz

Paul Nausieda and Evonne Winston

Lois and Richard Pauls

Pat Rieselbach

Allison M. and Dale R. Smith

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

Dr. Rita Bakalars

Lois Bernard

Keith and Kate Brewer

Ms. Dorothy Diggs

Jennifer Dirks

Bruce T. Faure M.D.

Mary Lou M. Findley

George E. Forish, Jr.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Bernard J. and Marie E. Weiss Fund

Judith J. Goetz

Stephanie and Steve Hancock

Katherine Hauser

Ms. Charlotte Hayslett

Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Hobbs

Barbara Karol

Christine Krueger

Geraldine Lash

Mr. Peter L. Mahler

Keith Mardak and Mary Vandenberg

Mark and Donna Metzendorf

Dr. Mary Ellen Mitchanis

Christian and Kate Mitchell

Bob and Barbara Monnat

Patrick and Mary Murphy

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

Lynn and Craig Schmutzer

Sara and Jay Schwister

Nancy and Greg Smith

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Tiffany

Herbert Zien and Elizabeth Levins

PRINCIPAL CIRCLE

$5,000 and above

Four Anonymous Donors

Fred and Kay Austermann

Thomas Bagwell and Michelle Hiebert

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

Beth and Ted Durant

Dr. Eric Durant and Scott Swickard

Jacquelyn and Dalibor Drummer

Dr. and Mrs. Harry A. Easom

Elizabeth and Herodotos Ellinas

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

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

William J. Murgas

Mark Niehaus

Barbara and Layton Olsen

Elaine Pagedas

Ellen Rohwer Pappas

and Timothy Pappas

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. Donna Recht and Dr. Robert Newby

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

Jessica R. Wirth

Diana J. Wood

$3,500 and above

Three Anonymous Donors

Dr. Philip and the spirit

of Beatrice Blank

Professor David and Diane Buck

Ms. Nancy A. Desjardins

Fred and Debby Ganaway

Stephen and Bernadine Graff

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

Benedict and Lee Kordus

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

Christopher Mullins and Kay Bokowy

Mr. and Mrs. Joel Needlman

Dr. and Mrs. R. Nikolaus Schmidt

Elaine Schueler

James Schultz and Donna Menzer

Mr. Thomas P. Schweda

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

Sandra Zingler

Leo Zoeller

ORCHESTRA CIRCLE

$2,500 and above

Robert Balderson

Mark and Laura Barnard

Marlene and Bert Bilsky

Scott Bolens and Elizabeth Forman

Walter and Virginia Boyer

Mr. David E. Cadle

Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Chernof

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

Mr. and Mrs. Bernard C. Hlavac

Charles and Jean Holmburg

Howard and Susan Hopwood

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

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

Annual Fund

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

$1,500 and above

Six Anonymous Donors

Jantina and Donald Adriano

Ruth Agrusa

Dr. Joan Arvedson

Richard and Sara Aster

Jacqlynn Behnke

Richard Bergman

Elliot and Karen Berman

Mrs. Kristine Best

Roger Bialcik

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

Lynda and Tom Curl

Paul Dekker

Art and Rhonda Downey

Sigrid Dynek and Barry Axelrood

Signe and Gerald Emmerich, Jr.

Shirley Erwin

Joseph and Joan Fall

Robert and Kristin Fewel

Mr. and Mrs. A. William Finke

Jo Ann and Dale Frederickson

Jane K. Gertler

Colette Goldammer

Greater Milwaukee Foundation

Donna and Tony Meyer Fund

Randall J. and Judith F. Hake

Family Foundation

Leila and Joe Hanson

Judith and David Hecker

Robert Hey

Terry Huebner

Barbara Hunteman

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

Dr. John and Kristie Malone

Mr. and Mrs. Dean Mehlberg

Gregory and Susan Milleville

Richard and Isabel Muirhead

Jean A. Novy

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

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

Betty Arndt

Paul Barkhaus

Steven Barney

Margaret and Bruce Barr

James and Nora Barry

Mr. James M. Baumgartner

Jack Beatty

Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Beckman

Fiesha Lynn Bell

Dianne and David Benner

Mr. Lawrence Bialcik

Karen and Geoffrey Bilda

Robert Borch and Linda Wickstrom

Karen and Russell Brooker

Dr. and Mrs. James D. Buck

Tom Buthod

Ms. Trish Calvy

David and Oksana Carlson

Ms. Carol A. Carpenter

Tim and Kathleen Carr

Dr. Curtis and Jean Carter

Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Cecil

B. Lauren and Margaret Charous

Nicole and Jack Cook

Glen and Karen Copper

Ellen Debbink

Mrs. Linda DeBruin

Ms. Kristine Demski

Madison Dohmen

Gloria and Peter Drenzek

Don and Nora Dreske

Mary Ann Dude

Thomas Durkin and Joan Robotham

Tina Eickermann

Mr. Donald Elliott

Jill and George Fahr

Anne and Dean Fitzgerald

Stan and Janet Fox

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

Dale and Sara Harmelink

Charles W. Helscher

Jean and John Henderson

Dr. Sidney and Suzanne Herszenson

Jenny and Bob Hillis

Jeanne and Conrad Holling

Laura and James Holtz

Mr. Jeffrey L. Hosler

Mr. and Mrs. James H. Hunter III

Kathryn and Alan Janicek

Faith L. Johnson

Mary and Charles Kamps

Eileen Kehoe and Bud Reinhold

Patrick and Jane Keily

Jane Kivlin and Thomas Kelly

Robert and Dorothy King

Joseph W. Kmoch

Jonathan and Willette Knopp

Julie and Michael Koss

Dr. Michael J. Krco

Dale and Barbara Lenz

John and Janice Liebenstein

Matt and Patty Linn

Ann Loder

Bruce and Elizabeth Loder

Richard and Roberta London

Stephen and Jane Lukowicz

Joan Maas

Stephen and Judy Maersch

Mike and Jamy Malatesta

Mr. Peter Mamerow

Sara and Nathan Manning

Jennifer McClure

Joan McCracken

Joni and Joe McDevitt

Debra and Jeffrey Metz

Christel Mildenberg

Theodore and Kelsey Perlick Molinari

Christine Mortensen

Molly Mulroy

David and Gail Nelson

Dr. and Mrs. James T. Paloucek

Douglas E. Peterson

Mr. and Thomas Quadracci

Francis J. Randall

Philip Reifenberg

Lysbeth and James Reiskytl

Roberta and David Remstad

Karen and Paul Rice

Drs. Walter and Lisa Rich

Werner and Carol Richheimer

Dan and Anna Robbins

Kevin Ronnie and Karen Campbell

Russell and Emily Sagmoen

Allen and Millie Salomon

Keri Sarajian and Rick Stratton

Wilbert and Genevieve

Schauer Foundation

Annual Fund/Bravo/Gala Corporate/Corporate & 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

Scott Silet

Susan Skudlarczyk

Barbara and Everett Smith

Dr. and Mrs. C. John Snyder

Ken and Dee Stein

Bonnie L. Steindorf

Ann Stevens

Sally Swetnam

David Taggart and Terry Burko

Rebecca and Robert Tenges

Tim and Bonnie Tesch

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

Frank and Inge Wintersberger

Daryl and Bonnie Wunrow

Gertrude and Richard Zauner

BRAVO

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the members of Bravo, our young professionals donor membership program. Thank you for making an impact on the MSO and broader community through your support and engagement.

Britt Blackwelder

Danielle Boyke

Ashley Brinkman

Elizabeth and Robert Draper

Matt and Victoria Haas

Dan and Krista Hettinger

Matthew and Alicia Hunt

Tina Itson

Benjamin Ivey

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 Corporate 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

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

WEC Energy Group

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

National Endowment for the Arts

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

Foundation

Wispact Foudation

$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

Camille A. Lonstorf Trust

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

Hamparian Family Foundation

Hydrite Chemical Co.

Richard G. Jacobus Family Foundation

Theodore W. Batterman Family

Foundation

$1,000 and above

Albert J. & Flora H. Ellinger Foundation

Anthony Petullo Foundation, Inc.

Clare M. Peters Charitable Trust

Einhorn Family Foundation

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 & Herbert W. Roehr

Fund

Joan and Fred Brengel Family

Foundation, Inc.

Golden Note Partners/The Marquee Circle/Tributes

Usinger Foundation

$500 and above

Anonymous

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

Steinway Piano Gallery of Milwaukee

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

Encore Playbills

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

Thomas and Mary Wacker

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 Mark Barr

Brenda Kaplan

Vashti and Luke Lozier

Robert and Hanna McDermott

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 Richard Cecil

Barbara Cecil

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 & 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

Dr. and Mrs. Mark A. Schrager

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 Ellen Debbink

Mr. Andrew C. Debbink

In memory of James DeLeeuw

Bob and Barbara Whealon

In Memory of Don Devona

Ms. Joan Maas

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

Tributes

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 Patricia Knuth

Jennifer Jesse

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 recognition of Susan Martin’s service on the MSO Board

James Berkes and Mary Beth Pieprzyca

Berkes

Ms. Caroline Ham

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

Dennis and Patricia DuBoux

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 memory of I. Carl Romer

Beulah Romer Erickson

In memory of John Sawchuk

Daniel Sawchuk

In memory of Debra Schaefer

Karen Copper

In honor of Gonzalez Schlenker

Francisco Schlenker

In honor of Bob Schuppel

Sarah Cauwels

In honor of Thomas L. Smallwood

David and Julia Uihlein

Tributes

In honor of David Uihlein and Julia

A. Uihlein

Mrs. James Urdan

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 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

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

Michael J. Schmitz

Gregory Smith, Secretary, Chair, Governance Committee

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 A. Metzendorf, Chair, Advancement Committee

Christian Mitchell

Robert B. Monnat

Leslie Plamann, Chair, Audit Committee

Craig A. Schmutzer

Jay E. Schwister, Chair, Retirement Plan Committee

Dale R. Smith

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, Player-at-Large

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

Tom Lindow, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Monica Meyer, Vice President of Advancement

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, Senior Director of Advancement & Major Gifts

William Loder, Director of Advancement

Krista Hettinger, 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

Christine McElligott, 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, Artistic Associate

Jeremy Tusz, Audio & Video Producer

Tristan Wallace, Technical Manager & Live Audio Supervisor

Christina Williams, Chorus Manager

FACILITIES & EVENT SERVICES

Patrick G. H. Schley, Director of Event Services

Travis Byrd, Facilities Coordinator

Sam Hushek, Events & Volunteer Manager

Lisa Klimczak, House Manager

David Kotlewski, House Manager

Zed Waeltz, Senior House Manager

FRONT OF HOUSE STAFF

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