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PROGRAM March 20 & 22 program......................................................................8 March 20 & 22 program notes..........................................................11 Jeannette Sorrell biography.............................................................18 Anne Martindale WIlliams biography...............................................20 Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida biography..............................................21 David Premo biography....................................................................22 Jeffrey Turner biography...................................................................23 Jennifer Ross biography...................................................................24 John Moore biography.....................................................................25 Lorna McGhee biography..................................................................26 Noah Bendix-Balgley biography.......................................................27 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra biography......................................28 March 27-29 program.......................................................................31 March 27-29 program notes.............................................................32 Andrés Orozco-Estrada biography.....................................................38 William Caballero biography............................................................40 Robert Lauver biography...................................................................41 Mark Houghton biography...............................................................42 Joseph Rounds biography................................................................43 Meet the Musicians...........................................................................44 EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL Individuals........................................................................................46 Foundations & Public Agencies.........................................................53 Corporations .....................................................................................54 Legacy of Excellence..........................................................................56 Commitment to Excellence Special Named Gifts.............................58 Honor/Memorial Gifts.......................................................................60 Music by the Month..........................................................................63 INDIVIDUALS & HEINZ HALL INFORMATION Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Musicians........................................2 Board of Trustees ................................................................................3 Chairman’s Council & Jack Heinz Society...........................................5 New Leadership Board........................................................................5 Pittsburgh Symphony Association......................................................5 Administrative Staff.............................................................................7 Heinz Hall Information.....................................................................68

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Sinfonia from Cantata BWV 42, “Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbaths”

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Suite (Ouverture) No. 2 for Flute, Strings and Continuo in B minor, BWV 1067 I. Ouverture II. Rondeau III. Sarabande IV. Bourrée I and II V. Polonaise and Double VI. Menuet VII. Badinerie Ms. McGhee

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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Sinfonia from cantata no. 42, Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbaths (“And in the evening of that very sabbath”) (1725) ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 21 march 1685 in Eisenach, Germany died 28 july 1750 in Leipzig PREMIERE OF WORK

Leipzig, 8 april 1725 Thomaskirche

The cantata Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbaths (No. 42 in Wolfgang Schmieder’s standard catalog of Bach’s works — Bach Werke Verzeichnis), which takes as its subject Christ’s appearance in the midst of his disciples on the evening of the Resurrection — was composed in 1725 for the first Sunday after Easter, which fell on April 8 that year. The cantata is prefaced by a splendid Sinfonia whose majestic breadth, richness of scoring and expressive cogency would not have been out of place in the Brandenburg Concertos.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Director THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE INSTRUMENTATION

two oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo DURATION

7 minutes

PREMIERE OF WORK

Unknown PSO PREMIERE

18 January 1946

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Suite (Ouverture) No. 2 for Flute, Strings and Continuo in B minor, BWV 1067 (1738-1739)

Syria Mosque Fritz Reiner, conductor Sebastian Caratelli, soloist INSTRUMENTATION

flute, strings and continuo DURATION

19 minutes

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Though the exact date of the Orchestral Suite No. 2 is uncertain, the years during which it could have been composed circumscribe the most productive phase of Bach’s career. The set of orchestral parts in Bach’s hand that serves as the principal source for the work has been dated through the evidence of the paper’s watermark to 1738 or 1739, though this is apparently a performance copy for his Leipzig Collegium Musicum concerts that he extracted from an earlier manuscript score that is no longer extant. The eminent American musicologist Martin Bernstein conjectured that the Suite was written in the early 1730s for Pierre Gabriel Buffardin, first flutist at the court of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland in Dresden, to which Bach was then actively seeking an appointment as composer. It has also been suggested that the Suite may have been composed soon PITTSBURGHSYMPHONY.ORG 2014-2015 SEASON

after Bach arrived in Leipzig in 1723, when he fitted many of his cantatas with elaborate flute parts, or even as early as the period between 1717 to 1723, when he was director of music at Cöthen. Bach had met Buffardin in 1716 in Dresden through his (Bach’s) older brother Johann Jacob, who was a student of the flutist, and it is possible that the Second Suite was composed for him sometime thereafter at Cöthen, a fertile period that also witnessed the production of the three other Orchestral Suites, the Brandenburg Concertos, the Violin Concertos and much of Bach’s chamber music. The Suite would have made the perfect vehicle for Buffardin, who was renowned for his breath control, nimble technique and limpid tone. The Suite in B minor, is an inventive hybrid of dance and concerto forms in which the wind instrument is treated as both a reinforcing tone color for the first violin and as a virtuosic soloist. The work begins with a grandiose Overture based on the type devised by Lully — a slow, pompous opening section leading without pause to a spirited fugal passage in faster tempo. The majestic character of the opening section (though not its music) returns to round out the Overture’s form. The delicate Rondeau is based on an old French form in which the opening motive is heard three times, refrain-like. When the Sarabande emigrated to Spain from its birthplace in Mexico in the 16th century, it was so wild in its motions and so lascivious in its implications that Cervantes ridiculed it and Philip II suppressed it. The dance became considerably more tame when it was taken over into French and English music in the 17th century, and it was included as a regular movement of the instrumental suite by Froberger around 1650, when it had achieved the dignified manner in which it was known to Bach. The Bourrée was a French folk dance adopted by the court as early as the 16th century. The Polonaise seems to have originated in connection with Polish court ceremonies, and had become a separate instrumental genre by about 1700. The Menuet was originally a quick peasant dance from southwestern France, but it became more stately by Bach’s time. The closing Badinerie, whose name derives from the same etymological root as “badinage,” is a dancing showpiece of woodwind virtuosity.

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Concerto for Two Cellos, Strings and Continuo in G minor, R. 531 (P. 411)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 4 March 1678 in Venice died 28 July 1741 in Vienna PREMIERE OF WORK

Unknown PSO PREMIERE

3 March 2003 Katz Performing Arts Center Andres Cardenes, conductor David Premo & Mikhail Istomin, soloists INSTRUMENTATION

Strings and continuo DURATION

Vivaldi obtained his first official post in September 1703 at the Pio Ospedale della Pietà, one of four institutions in Venice devoted to the care of orphaned, abandoned and poor girls. As part of its training, the school devoted much effort to the musical education of its wards, and there was an elaborate organization of administrators, teachers and associates who oversaw the activities of the students. Part of his duties as violin teacher required Vivaldi to compose at least two new concertos as well as other instrumental pieces each month for the regular public concerts given by the Ospedale. The featured performers in these works were occasionally members of the faculty, but usually they were the more advanced students — the difficulty of Vivaldi’s music is ample testimony to their skill. For his students and colleagues and on commission, Vivaldi wrote some three dozen concertos for cello: 27 for solo cello, one for two cellos, three for violin and cello, two for two violins and cello, one for violin and two cellos, and two for pairs of violins and cellos. The G minor Concerto for Two Cellos follows the three-movement structure (fast–slow–fast) characteristic of the late Baroque version of the form: an opening ritornello movement in which solo passages for the tandem cellos alternate with tutti sections for the full ensemble; a melodious Largo in a plaintive mood; and a vigorous finale that here takes on an almost tempestuous quality.

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WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH

Fantasia for Harpsichord in D minor, F(alck) 19

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 22 November 1710 in Weimar died 1 July 1784 in Berlin

Members of the Bach family, beginning with Johannes and Veit at the close of the 16th century, served the courts and churches of north Germany for over two centuries. Though the familial line is properly considered to have reached its apogee with Johann Sebastian (16851750), four of his sons, all trained by him, also became prominent musicians during the mid-18th-century transition from Baroque to Classicism. The eldest, Wilhelm Friedemann, displayed a substantial talent as both organist and composer, but he seems to have lived uncomfortably under his eminent father’s shadow, drifting through various jobs and vacillating in his works between his father’s waning idiom and the not-yet-matured Classical style. By the 1770s, when Friedemann Bach had come to realize that he could never match his father’s mastery of the most rigorous Baroque forms, he devoted himself to his career as a virtuoso performer and largely confined his creative ambitions to such improvisation-based styles as the keyboard fantasia. The Fantasia in D minor (F. 19) is made from a flurry of restless, broken chords and a slow, somber strain in sharply dotted rhythms.

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Finale (Allegro) from Sonata in D minor for Harpsichord, BWV 964 (after Sonata No. 2 for Unaccompanied Violin in A minor, BWV 1003) (before 1720) Bach composed the three sonatas and three partitas for unaccompanied violin before 1720, the date on the manuscript, while he was director of music at the court of Anhalt-Cöthen, north of Leipzig. Though there is not a letter, preface, contemporary account or shred of any other documentary evidence extant to shed light on the genesis and purpose of these pieces, the technical demands they impose on the player indicate that they were intended for a virtuoso performer: Johann Georg Pisendel, a student of Vivaldi, Jean Baptiste Volumier, leader of the Dresden court orchestra, and Joseph Spiess, concertmaster of the Cöthen orchestra, have been advanced as possible candidates. At some unknown date thereafter, Bach arranged the Sonata in A minor (BWV 1003) for solo harpsichord in a version transposed to D minor. The closing Allegro, in two parts (each repeated), is a moto-perpetuo unfolding of briskly moving melodic material. 14

GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN

Grillen-Symphonie (“Whimsical/Cricket Symphony”), TWV 50:1 (ca. 1765)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 14 March 1681 in Magdeburg, Germany died 25 June 1767 in Hamburg PREMIERE OF WORK

Unknown THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE INSTRUMENTATION

piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, strings and continuo DURATION

9 minutes

Jeannette Sorrell provided the following imaginative commentary on the delightful Grillen-Symphonie in the notes for her Koch recording with Apollo’s Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra: “Telemann displayed an adventurous approach to instrumentation with the curious Grillen-Symphonie. A lively controversy rages as to just what Telemann meant by the title. The word ‘Grillen’ means ‘crickets’ in modern German usage, but was often used in the 18th century to mean ‘whims.’ Thus, while Telemann probably intended a ‘Whimsical Symphony,’ he may have been punning, and it is possible that we also have a ‘Cricket Symphony’ on our hands. One thing is certain: if this is a depiction of crickets, it is a pretty whimsical one. It appears that the crickets along the river Elbe may have come in a wide variety of sizes, as evoked by an orchestra ranging from piccolo all the way down to two contrabasses. The use of contrabasses in a soloistic role was certainly whimsical, and indeed, revolutionary on Telemann’s part. The extraordinary complement of winds is also quite striking for an 18thcentury work. One can see the contrabasses and orchestra as Mama and Papa Cricket with their brood: the first movement is a merry family gathering; the second is a kind of flirtatious ballet of cricketettes; and the finale is a rowdy cricket-party with a bit of Polish dancing. In any case, the piece is a delightful romp through Telemann’s whimsical world, with or without insects.”

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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

Concerto for Oboe, Violin, Strings and Continuo in C minor, BWV 1060R (1736)

PREMIERE OF WORK

Unknown PSO PREMIERE

28 October 1955 Syria Mosque; William Steinberg, conductor Arthur Krilov & Chaim Taub, soloists INSTRUMENTATION

strings and continuo DURATION

14 minutes

Bach wrote most of his violin music as part of his duties as Kapellmeister at the court of Anhalt-Cöthen from 1717 to 1723. The original manuscript of the C minor Concerto for Oboe and Violin (BWV 1060R) written at Cöthen is lost, but the music survived in a version from 1737 for Two Harpsichords (BWV 1060) that Bach made for the Leipzig Collegium Musicum he was then directing. The original was reconstructed (the “R” in the catalog listing) in 1970 for the New Bach Edition. The structure of the opening movement follows the ritornello form customary for Baroque concertos: a returning orchestral refrain separated by episodes for the soloists. This is music of austere countenance but vigorous rhythmic energy that embodies the Baroque ideal of touching sentiment allied with visceral stimulation. The lovely second movement, supported by a delicate pizzicato accompaniment in the strings, resembles an operatic duet in its flowing lyricism and thematic interchanges between the soloists. The finale returns the bracing vitality of the first movement.

ANDREW REAMER principal percussion

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Concerto for Two Violins, “La Follia” (after Sonata for Two Violins and Basso Continuo in D minor, Op. 1, No. 12 [R. 63]) arr. Sorrell PREMIERE OF WORK

Unknown THESE PERFORMANCES MARK THE PSO PREMIERE INSTRUMENTATION

Strings and continuo DURATION

9 minutes

In September 1703, Vivaldi was appointed violin teacher and composer at the Ospedale della Pietà, an institution in Venice which housed and educated female “orphans” (mostly bastard daughters of the city’s better classes), and was especially noted for the musical training given to its wards. (Vivaldi’s church, on the Riva degli Schiavoni, just beyond the Piazza San Marco, may still be visited, but the orphanage building itself is long gone.) To announce his creative ambitions to the wider musical world, Vivaldi chose the then-standard method for a young composer of issuing a set of 12 trio sonatas modeled on the esteemed works of the Roman master Arcangelo Corelli. (It was once conjectured that Vivaldi had gone to Rome to study with Corelli himself, but it seems more likely that he simply learned Corelli’s music from its several Venetian editions.) Vivaldi’s Op. 1 was published sometime between 1703 and 1705 by the Venetian firm of Giuseppe Sala. The last number of Vivaldi’s Op. 1 Trio Sonatas, like that of Corelli’s Op. 5, is a set of variations on the ancient harmonic pattern known as La Follia di Spagna (“The Folly of Spain”), which had served as the scaffolding for works in variation form since at least the late 15th century and was later treated by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Cherubini, Liszt, Nielsen, Rachmaninoff and others. Vivaldi’s work consists of the brief Follia theme (eight measures, repeated) followed by a string of nineteen variations that weave an increasingly elaborate embroidery — three times interrupted by slow-tempo insertions — around the harmonic skeleton of the subject. The work’s arrangement as a Concerto for Two Violins is by Jeannette Sorrell.

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JEANNETTE SORRELL Award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell has been credited by the U.K.’s BBC Music Magazine for forging “a vibrant, lifeaffirming approach to the re-making of early music… a seductive vision of musical authenticity.” She takes her inspiration from the 17th-century concept of “affekt,” in which the goal of the musician is to move the emotions of the listeners. Sorrell makes use of baroque dramatic devices, including rhetoric and harmonic tension and release, to bring baroque repertoire to life in a highly personal and communicative way. Sorrell made her much-acclaimed debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in April as conductor and soloist in the complete Brandenburg Concertos. With standing ovations every night, the event was hailed as “an especially joyous occasion” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). Other conducting engagements have included the Seattle Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Omaha Symphony, Handel & Haydn Society in Boston (conductor and soloist), the Opera Theatre of St Louis with the St Louis Symphony (conductor), the Grand Rapids Symphony (conductor and soloist) and the Cleveland Orchestra (guest keyboard artist). In addition, in February 2014, Sorrell filled in for British conductor Richard Egarr on five days’ notice, leading the complete Brandenburg Concertos and playing the harpsichord solo in Brandenburg No. 5, for the closing concert of the Houston Early Music Festival in its inaugural year. In 2014-2015, she returns to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and will also make her debut with the New World Symphony in Miami. Internationally, Sorrell has led sold-out concerts at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Madrid Royal Theatre, the Grand Théâtre de l’Opéra in Bordeaux, and major halls in Lisbon, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Boston on tour with Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, of which she is the 18

founder and music director. She has also led Apollo’s Fire in two major U.S. tours of the Monteverdi Vespers in 2011 and 2014, under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts. Prior tour engagements included the Aspen Music Festival, Library of Congress, the Chautauqua Institution and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire record for the British label Avie Records, and have released 20 commercial CDs, of which four have been Top 10 bestsellers on the Billboard Classical chart. Her recordings include the complete Brandenburg Concerti and harpsichord concerti (with Sorrell as harpsichord soloist and director), which was praised by the London Times as “a swaggering version… brilliantly played by Sorrell.” She has also released four discs of Mozart, and was hailed as “a nearperfect Mozartian” by Fanfare magazine. bestsellers include the Billboard Brandenburgs, the Monteverdi Vespers and Sorrell’s two crossover/folk programs, Come to the River: An Early American Gathering and Sacrum Mysterium: A Celtic Christmas Vespers. Sorrell has attracted national attention and awards for creative programming. She is a two-time recipient of the prestigious American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the research and production of Come to the River. Her awards include an honorary doctorate from Case Western University, the Bodky Award from the Cambridge Society of Early Music and the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society. Passionate about guiding the next generation of performers, Sorrell has led many baroque projects for Oberlin Conservatory and the Cleveland Institute of Music. She also has developed a highly successful Young Artist Apprentice Program to provide pre-professional training for talented period-instrument students under the auspices of Apollo’s Fire.

photo credit: Roger Mastroianni

Born in the United States of Swiss and American parents, Sorrell was one of the youngest students ever accepted to the prestigious conducting courses of the Aspen and the Tanglewood music festivals.Â She studied conducting under Robert Spano, Roger Norrington and Leonard Bernstein, and harpsichord with Gustav Leonhardt in Amsterdam. She won both the First Prize and the Audience Choice

Award in the 1991 Spivey International Harpsichord Competition.Â She holds an Artist Diploma from Oberlin Conservatory, where upon graduation she was invited to join the faculty of the Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute. Sorrell last appeared with the Pittsburgh Symphony in April 2013.

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ANNE MARTINDALE WILLIAMS Anne Martindale Williams has enjoyed a successful career as principal cellist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1979. Throughout her tenure with the orchestra, she has often been featured as soloist both in Pittsburgh and on tour in New York at Carnegie Hall and Avery Fisher Hall. Williams was soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony in the Pittsburgh premier of The Giving Tree conducted by the composer, Lorin Maazel. She has also collaborated with guest artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, André Previn, the Emerson Quartet, Lynn Harrell, Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham and Pinchas Zukerman in numerous chamber music performances. She made her London debut performing Dvořák’s Cello Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic, Andre Previn conducting. Her solo in The Swan on the Pittsburgh Symphony’s recording of Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns was described by Grammophon critic Edward Greenfield as “…the most memorable performance of all.” Williams divides her time between the orchestra, teaching at Carnegie Mellon University, and solo and chamber music performances in America, Europe and the Far East. She has appeared in several nationally televised productions including Concertos, produced by the BBC and Previn and the Pittsburgh, produced by WQED. She has given master classes at many universities and festivals throughout the country, including The Curtis Institute of Music, SUNY at Stony Brook, Manhattan School of Music, the New World Symphony in Miami, the National Orchestral Institute, Aspen, Credo at Oberlin College and the Masterworks Festival. She also has performed at many of America’s prestigious summer music festivals including Aspen, Caramoor, Skaneateles, Maui, Rockport Festivals in Massachusetts and Maine, Grand Teton, Strings Festival in Steamboat Springs, Orcas Island, and Mainly Mozart in San Diego. For many years she has enjoyed performing throughout the country with her Piano Trio, which includes her good friends Andrés Cárdenes and David Deveau. 20

Williams has performed numerous times as soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, performing Schumann’s Concerto in A minor, Tippett’s Triple Concerto, Previn’s Reflections, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 and 6, Strauss’s Don Quixote, Bloch’s Schelomo, Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain, SaintSaëns’ Concerto No. 1 and Brahms’ Double Concerto, as well as Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro for String Quartet. In recent seasons, she was featured in Haydn’s Concerto in C, Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations, Elgar’s Cello Concerto, Haydn’s Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Cello, Oboe, Bassoon and Orchestra, Walton’s Cello Concerto and Honegger’s Cello Concerto. Williams is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Orlando Cole. Her Tecchler cello was made in Rome in 1701. Her husband, Joe, is the director of student ministries at Beverly Heights Presbyterian Church in Mount Lebanon. They reside in Pittsburgh with their daughter, Claire.

CYNTHIA KOLEDO DEALMEIDA Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida has enjoyed playing as principal oboe of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1991. For two years prior, she was associate principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra. DeAlmeida has been featured with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in concertos by Bach (Concerto in A major for Oboe D’amore, Frans Bruggen, conductor, and Brandenburg Concerto Nos. 1 and 2, Jeannette Sorrell, conductor); Haydn (Sinfonia Concertante in B flat major, Alessandro Siciliani, conductor, and Concerto in C major, Manfred Honeck, conductor); Vaughan Williams (Concerto in A minor, Yoav Talmi, conductor); Strauss (Concerto in D major, Sir Andre Previn, conductor); Mozart (Concerto in C major); and Francaix (The Flowerclock, Leonard Slatkin, conductor). She has performed Bach’s Concerto for Violin and Oboe with the Pittsburgh Symphony and Vladimir Spivakov, Andres Cardenes, Pinchas Zukerman and Noah Bendix-Balgley.

Chamber Orchestra, the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia and the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic.

DeAlmeida is an avid chamber musician, having performed nine full recitals at Carnegie Mellon University since 1993. Each summer since 2002, she performs and DeAlmeida has been honored with the teaches as a faculty member of the Music commissioning of three oboe concerti Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, for her by the Pittsburgh Symphony. The California. Several of her performances there first one, commissioned by Lorin Maazel, have been featured on NPR’s “Performance was composed by Leonardo Balada and Today.” DeAlmeida has also performed at premiered in 1993 with Lorin Maazel the Strings Festival in Steamboat Springs, conducting. The following season she Colorado; the La Jolla Festival in La Jolla, recorded it with Maazel and the symphony California; and the Marlboro Music Festival for New World records. The second in Vermont. Pittsburgh commission for DeAlmeida was written by Lucas Richman. She premiered In November 2002, DeAlmeida’s first solo it in 2006 with the Pittsburgh Symphony CD was released on the Boston Records conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. In 2008, label. Classic Discoveries for Oboe was she performed it again with the Knoxville hailed by American Record Guide as “a Symphony, Lucas Richman conducting. masterly recording… Cynthia Koledo In 2015, she recorded this concerto with DeAlmeida is simply one of the finest the Pittsburgh Symphony, Lucas Richman exponents of the instrument anywhere.” conducting, for Albany Records. A third Her second solo CD, entitled Mist Over commissioned concerto, composed by the Lake on the Crystal Record label, was Alan Fletcher, will be premiered with the released in 2006 to rave reviews: “Ms. Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck DeAlmeida is hands down one of the best in June 2015. DeAlmeida has also appeared players in the world…” She can also be as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, heard on Crystal Records’ recording of Sir the Haddonfield Symphony, the Cayuga Andre Previn’s Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon, BIOGRAPHY 2014-2015 SEASON

and Piano with Sir Andre Previn, as well as all the Pittsburgh Symphony recordings since 1991 under Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Marek Janowski and Manfred Honeck. In 2009, DeAlmeida was asked to travel to Berlin to perform and record the German Requiem of Brahms with Marek Janowski and the Radio Orchestra of Berlin (RSB) on the Pentatone label. Teaching has always been a rewarding part of DeAlmeida’s artistic life. She has been associate teaching professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music since 2012, and a faculty member there since 1991. She has held teaching positions at Temple University in Philadelphia and Trenton State College in New Jersey, and has also been invited to teach at the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland as well as the New World Symphony. She is frequently asked to teach masterclasses at universities in the United States and abroad.

In 2003, DeAlmeida was featured on national television on the CBS “Early Show” in a story relating to the oboe and its remarkable health benefits for asthma sufferers, which led to her work as an ambassador for the American Respiratory Alliance in Pittsburgh. DeAlmeida volunteers at the classical radio station WQED in their fundraising pledge drives. She participates in the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Education and Community Engagement department playing and speaking to young people in various venues throughout the Pittsburgh area. DeAlmeida received the Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, studying with Arno Mariotti, and the Master of Music degree from Temple University, as a student of Richard Woodhams. She proudly plays on F. Loree oboes of Paris, France.

DAVID PREMO Cellist David Premo joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1992, was promoted to fourth chair, a non-rotating position in 1994, and subsequent to a national audition in 1999, he was offered the position of assistant principal. Following another round of national auditions, Premo was awarded the position of associate principal in 2001. Additionally, Premo has been artist-lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University since 1994, providing private cello instruction, coaching chamber music groups and teaching an orchestra repertoire class. Premo came to Pittsburgh from Washington, D.C., where he served as associate principal of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra from 1980 until 1991. During his tenure in Washington, Premo performed chamber music at the Phillips Collection, the Corcorcan Gallery and the Library of Congress, and served on numerous occasions as principal cellist with the 22

American Chamber Orchestra, the National Gallery Orchestra and the Wolf Trap Festival Orchestra, among others. Premo performed as a member of the National Symphony

Orchestra, both at the Kennedy Center and on several United States and European tours. Since coming to Pittsburgh, Premo has become a frequently requested chamber musician and soloist, appearing on Shadyside and Rodef Shalom chamber music series and, in 1993, performing the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Edgewood Symphony. In 1995, Premo and Christopher Wu (violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony and winner of the 1994 Passamaneck

Award) won the Pittsburgh Concert Society Competition. In 1996, Premo won the prestigious Passamaneck Award entitling him to a solo recital which he gave in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Hall in April 1997. Premo studied cello in his native Chicago with Margaret Evans of the Chicago Symphony, later with Robert Newkirk at Catholic University, and most recently with Janos Starker at Indiana University. His cello was made in approximately 1860 by Jean Baptiste Vuillaume.

JEFFREY TURNER Jeffrey Turner is the principal bassist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. A native of South Carolina, Turner completed his Bachelor’s degree with James VanDemark at the Eastman School of Music. His other teachers include Lawrence Hurst and Robert Gladstone. Before joining the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1987, Turner was the principal bass of the New American Chamber Orchestra from 1984 to 1986, and played with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the 1986-87 season. Turner currently serves as the director of orchestral studies at Duquesne University, where he is the conductor of the Duquesne Symphony Orchestra. He holds a master’s degree in conducting from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied with Dr. Robert Page. As a conductor, Turner has served in recent years as artistic director of the City Music Center Chamber Orchestra and as music director of the Pittsburgh Live Chamber Orchestra. Locally, Turner has also conducted opera productions at CMU, as well as Honors Orchestra Festivals for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. Turner has served as visiting professor at the Eastman School of Music, Indiana University and the University of Maryland, and as a faculty member of Carnegie Mellon

University. At Duquesne University, Turner has served as chair of strings and as artistic director of City Music Center’s Young Bassist Program. As winner of the Y Music Society’s Passamaneck Award, Turner appeared in a critically acclaimed recital at Carnegie Music Hall in 1989. He was also a winner of the 1990 Pittsburgh Concert Society’s Artist Award. Turner gives annual recitals and master classes throughout the world, and serves as resident artist for many annual festivals, including the Pacific Music BIOGRAPHY 2014-2015 SEASON

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Festival, The National Orchestral Institute, the Korsholm Festival (Finland), Indiana University’s Summer Music Festival and The Asian Youth Orchestra (Hong Kong). Turner has been a faculty member for International Workshops in Graz, Austria; Lausanne, Switzerland; and Glasgow, Scotland. He is featured as recitalist, clinician and

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competition judge at the conventions of The International Society of Bassists. From 1988 to 1992, Turner was the executive director of the Pittsburgh Chamber Music Project, a yearly series of concerts and educational programs featuring Pittsburgh’s finest musicians in collaboration.

JENNIFER ROSS Jennifer Ross joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra as principal second violin in 1998. She began her orchestral career at the age of 19 as associate concertmaster of the Honolulu Symphony, and went on to spend five years as a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony, l’Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal and the Detroit Symphony, and spent three years as concertmaster of the Vermont Symphony.

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An active chamber musician, Ross has performed throughout Europe and North American and has collaborated with many of the world’s great artists including Pinchas Zuckerman, Lynn Harrell and Jaime Laredo. For more than 30 years, she has spent summers at the Grand Teton Music Festival A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Ross studied with Szymon Goldberg, former in Jackson, Wyoming. concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic. As a much sought-after teacher, Ross While at Curtis, she held the position of coaches regularly at the National Orchestra concertmaster of the Curtis Orchestra under Institute in Maryland, The New World Max Rudolf. Her other primary teachers Symphony in Miami and the University of include Louis Krasner, Felix Galimir and Zvi Michigan. During her sabbatical in 2009, she Zeitlin. was a full-time faculty member at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. In 2012, Ross is an avid runner, having completed she served on the jury of the prestigious 13 marathons including Boston. She has Sphinx Competition for Black and Latino encountered every species of wildlife on her String Players and is on the 2014 faculty of solo trail runs in the mountains of Wyoming, the National Youth Orchestra of the USA, and is also a certified yoga instructor. created by the Weill Institute at Carnegie Hall in New York.

JOHN MOORE John Moore became a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in 1996 when he was hired by Music Director Lorin Maazel. He moved to Pittsburgh from San Diego where he had been a member of the San Diego Symphony since 1991. He also held the title of principal bass with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra. Moore earned his Bachelor of Music degree at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1988 studying the double bass with the Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Roger Scott. Moore continued his studies with Lawrence Wolfe at the New England Conservatory in 1988. He won first place in the La Jolla Symphony Solo Competition in 1993 performing the Koussevitsky double bass concerto. Moore has performed with numerous music festivals including the National Repertory Orchestra, the Tanglewood Music Festival, ShleswigHolstein Musik Festival, the Colorado Music Festival, Strings in the Mountains and the Grand Teton Music Festival. Moore was the associate principal bass with the Honolulu Symphony from 1989 to 1991 and served as a lecturer at the University of Hawaii in 1991. In 1996, he was awarded the position of principal bass of the Columbus Symphony. He served interim double bass professor at Penn State University in 2008. In recent years, Moore has been involved with early

music and has performed occasionally with Pittsburgh’s Chatham Baroque, appearing in Chatham’s December 2013 performances of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos. He has performed extensively as a soloist and as a chamber musician in and around Pittsburgh since 1996. Moore is married to Susanne Park, a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony’s first violin section. They live in Lawrenceville with their son, Oliver. Moore plays on a 200-year-old English bass made by Jon Betts.

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LORNA McGHEE Scottish-born Lorna McGhee is principal flute with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and has performed as guest principal with Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Before emigrating to North America in 1998, McGhee was co-principal flute of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in England. As a soloist, she has given concerto performances with the London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in the UK; Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Philharmonia and Victoria Symphony in Canada; and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra and Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra in the United States. A career highlight was a performance of Penderecki’s flute concerto with the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra under the baton of the composer in 2004.

for flute and harp and Canada, New Works for flute and harp. As a member of Trio Verlaine (with Heidi Krutzen, harp and David Harding, viola) McGhee has most recently recorded Fin de Siècle, a CD of music by As a chamber musician and recitalist, she Debussy and Ravel for Skylark Music. Both has performed throughout Europe and the Trio and Duo are committed to broadNorth America in such venues as London’s ening the repertoire and have contributed Wigmore Hall, Barge Music in New York, six new commissions to date. the Louvre, Paris and the Schubertsaal of Vienna’s Konzerthaus. McGhee is often fea- Having taught at the University of Michigan tured in chamber music festivals in Canada, and the University of British Columbia, the United States and Australia. Her per- McGhee has given master classes at univerformances have been broadcast on CBC sities and conservatoires in the UK, United Radio in Canada, BBC Radio, NPR (USA), States and Canada, including the Juilliard Netherlands Radio and ABC (Australia). School, the Royal Academy of Music and She has made chamber music recordings the Banff International Centre for the Arts. for EMI, Decca ASV, Naxos and Meridian. She is now an honorary “Fellow of the Royal Along with Duo partner Heidi Krutzen, Academy of Music.” McGhee has released two CDs on Skylark Music: Taheke, 20th century Masterpieces

NOAH BENDIX-BALGLEY Noah Bendix-Balgley has thrilled and moved audiences around the world with his performances. A Laureate of the 2009 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, he also won 3rd prize and a special prize for creativity at the 2008 Long-Thibaud International Competition in Paris. BendixBalgley won the 1st prize at the 2011 Vibrarte International Music Competition in Paris and was awarded 1st Prize and a special prize for best Bach interpretation at the 14th International Violin Competition “Andrea Postacchini” in Fermo, Italy. Bendix-Balgley has appeared as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de Belgique, I Pomeriggi Musicali of Milan, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana (Italy), Orchestre Royal Chambre de Wallonie (Belgium), the Binghamton Philharmonic and the Erie Philharmonic. In 2014, Bendix-Balgley was appointed 1st concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic.

performed with artists including Gidon Kremer, Yuri Bashmet, Gary Hoffman, Emanuel Ax, Lars Vogt, and percussionist Colin Currie. Bendix-Balgley has appeared at numerous festivals in Europe and North America, including the Verbier Festival, the Sarasota Festival, ChamberFest Cleveland, Bendix-Balgley has been concertmaster the Nevada Chamber Music Festival and of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Connects the World in since 2011. His Pittsburgh debut recital in Kronberg, Germany. January 2012 was named the “Best Classical Concert of 2012” by the Pittsburgh Post- Born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1984, Gazette. Bendix-Balgley’s performance with he began playing violin at age four. At age the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra of the nine, he played for Lord Yehudi Menuhin Beethoven Violin Concerto, featuring his in Switzerland. Bendix-Balgley graduated own original cadenzas, was acclaimed by from the Indiana University Jacobs School critics and audiences alike. Bendix-Balgley of Music and the Munich Hochschule. His has also performed his own version of The principal teachers were Mauricio Fuks, Star-Spangled Banner for solo violin in front Christoph Poppen, and Ana Chumachenco. of 39,000 fans at the Pittsburgh Pirates In his spare time, he enjoys playing klezmer Opening Day at PNC Park. music. He has played with world-renowned klezmer groups such as Brave Old World, Bendix-Balgley is a passionate and and has taught klezmer violin at workshops experienced chamber musician. He has in Europe and in the United States. He performed on North American tour with the performs on a Cremonese violin made in Miro String Quartet. From 2008 to 2011, he 1732 by Carlo Bergonzi. was the 1st violinist of the Munich-based Athlos String Quartet, which won a special prize at the 2009 Felix MendelssohnBartholdy Competition in Berlin, and performed throughout Europe. He has PITTSBURGHSYMPHONY.ORG 2014-2015 SEASON

THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA For more than 119 years, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra has been an essential part of Pittsburgh’s cultural landscape. The Pittsburgh Symphony, known for its artistic excellence, is credited with a rich history of the world’s finest conductors and musicians, and a strong commitment to the Pittsburgh region and its citizens. This tradition was furthered in fall 2008, when Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck became music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. With a long and distinguished history of touring both domestically and overseas since 1900, the Pittsburgh Symphony continues to be critically acclaimed as one of the world’s greatest orchestras. With more than 36 international tours, including 20

European tours, eight trips to the Far East, and two to South America. The Pittsburgh Symphony was the first American orchestra to perform at the Vatican in January 2004 for the late Pope John Paul II, as part of the Pontiff’s Silver Jubilee celebration. The Pittsburgh Symphony has a long and illustrious history in the areas of recordings and radio concerts. As early as 1936, the Pittsburgh Symphony broadcast coastto-coast, receiving increased national attention in 1982 through network radio broadcasts on Public Radio International. The PRI series is produced by Classical WQED-FM 89.3 in Pittsburgh and is made possible by the musicians of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

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The Rise of Exotic Computing for Sinfonietta and Laptop

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MASON BATES

The Rise of Exotic Computing for Sinfonietta and Laptop (2013)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 23 January 1977 in Philadelphia PREMIERE OF WORK

Pittsburgh, 5 April 2013 Static Nightclub members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra INSTRUMENTATION piccolo, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussion, harp, piano, two violins, viola, cello, bass and laptop DURATION

12 minutes

Mason Bates brings not only his own fresh talent to the concert hall but also the musical sensibilities of a new generation — he is equally at home composing “for Lincoln Center,” according to his web site (www.masonbates.com), as being the “electronica artist Masonic® who moved to the San Francisco Bay Area from New York City, where he was a lounge DJ at such venues as The Frying Pan — the floating rave ship docked off the pier near West 22nd Street.” Bates was born in Philadelphia in 1977 and started studying piano with Hope Armstrong Erb at his childhood home in Richmond, Virginia. He earned degrees in both English literature and music composition in the joint program of Columbia University and the Juilliard School, where his composition teachers included John Corigliano, David Del Tredici and Samuel Adler, and received his doctorate in composition from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008 as a student of Edmund Campion and Jorge Lidermann. Bates was resident composer with the California Symphony (2008-2011), Project San Francisco artistin-residence with the San Francisco Symphony (2011-2012), and Composer of the Year with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for both the 2012-2013 and 2014-2015 seasons; he began a five-year residency with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in September 2010. The San Francisco Symphony gave a “Beethoven & Bates” festival during its 2013-2014 season and recorded his Liquid Interface, The B-Sides and Alternative Energy for release in 2015. Bates’ many honors include a Charles Ives Scholarship and Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Guggenheim Fellowship, Jacob Druckman Memorial Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, ASCAP and BMI awards, a Fellowship from the Tanglewood Music Center, Rome Prize, Berlin Prize and a two-year Composer Residency with Young Concert Artists. In 2012, he was awarded the Heinz Medal in Arts and Humanities. Bates is also an ardent and effective advocate for bringing new music to new spaces, “whether,” he explained, “through institutional partnerships such as the residency with the Chicago Symphony’s MusicNOW series, or through the project Mercury Soul, which has transformed spaces ranging from commercial clubs to Frank Gehrydesigned concert halls into exciting, hybrid musical events drawing over a thousand people. Mercury Soul, a collaboration with director Anne Patterson and conductor Benjamin Schwartz, embeds sets of classical music into an evening of DJing and beautiful, surreal visuals.”

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ROBERT SCHUMANN

Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra in F major, Opus 86 (1849)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 8 June 1810 in Zwickau, Germany died 29 July 1856 in Endenich, near Bonn PREMIERE OF WORK

Leipzig, 25 February 1850 Gewandhaus Orchestra Julius Rietz, conductor Eduard Pohle, Joseph Jehnichen, Eduard Leichsenring and Carl Wilke, soloists PSO PREMIERE

28 January 2004 Heinz Hall Sir John Elliot Gardiner, conductor William D. Caballero, Robert D. Lauver, Ronald M. Schneider, Joseph C. Rounds, soloists

Though horns of metal or animal horn were known as early as 2400 B.C. in Sumeria, the modern orchestral instrument traces its provenance to the 16th century. Before that time, the horn had a very limited range and a piercing, raucous tone quality — more a noise-maker for military, hunting and civic signaling than a true musical instrument. By the late 1500s, the instrument had been increased in length, allowing the performer to sound a greater number of pitches; to facilitate its handling, the metal tube was wrapped into a number of circular coils. The earliest reference to the “French” horn (curiously, called “French” only in the English language) was in England in 1681 at just about the time that its musical usefulness was beginning to be recognized. Presumably (though not demonstrably) the name arose because the English thought that the instrument was developed in France, though Italy and Bohemia also figure prominently in the horn’s early history. Early horns were valveless, and therefore limited to only those notes available in the natural overtone series, just as is a simple bugle today. Beginning in 1718, crooks came into common use. These devices were additional lengths of tubing that could be plugged into the horn to create another overtone series with its extra, supplementary set of notes. By the middle of the 18th century, one Anton Joseph Hampel of Dresden formalized the technique of hand-stopping, which served both to mellow the tone (previously, the horn’s bell had been held above the player’s head, and produced a harsh, strident sound) and to fill in some of the gaps in the overtone series. (Complete stopping of the bell lowers the pitch by a half step, but muffles the tone.) It was for this awkward instrument, with its interchangeable crooks and cumbersome hand-stopping, that Mozart wrote his four delightful concertos.

INSTRUMENTATION woodwinds in pairs plus piccolo, two horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings DURATION

18 minutes

At the beginning of the 19th century, horn players still had to switch crooks for each piece (in some cases, for each movement) to match the key of the rest of the orchestra. This problem was solved by the use of a valve mechanism, patented in 1818 by Heinrich Stolzel and Friedrich Bluhmel. Their system allowed the player to deflect the main air stream into side tubes of different lengths by depressing valves, essentially making a series of crooks available at the touch of a key and allowing the production of the complete chromatic scale. It is the system still used on all brass instruments except the slide trombone. One important remnant of the old playing technique, however, was incorporated into the design of the modern horn: the valves are operated by the left hand, unlike the right-handed trumpet, allowing the right hand to rest in the bell to mellow the sound and produce a variety of tonal effects. Though the horn is one of the most treacherous of all instruments to play, in the hands of a master performer its burnished, noble tone is among the most stirring of all musical sounds.

During Schumann’s residence in Dresden, from 1844 to 1850, he was naturally in frequent contact with the local musicians. Richard Wagner, filled with revolutionary political and musical ideas, was conductor at the Royal Opera House, which boasted one of the finest orchestras on the Continent at the time. A chief adornment of that ensemble was a player named Lewy, a virtuoso who headed up the orchestra’s horn section and was also one of the earliest exponents of the new valved instrument. Schumann was so impressed with the possibilities of the improved horn, and with the expressive avenues for it that Wagner had opened in his operas (Rienzi, The Flying Dutchman and Tannhäuser had all been staged by 1845), that he undertook a grand, concerted piece for not just one horn, but for an entire quartet of the instruments. The Konzertstück that he devised was certainly a showpiece for the valved horn, but it was also so hard as to be proclaimed by some as virtually unplayable — Schumann’s biographer Robert Schauffler decided that “the difficulties are so horrendous that it needs almost the trump of an archangel to cope with them.” Performances of the Konzertstück (“quite a curiosity,” the composer called it) have, understandably, been rare over the years, but when a company of master hornists rises to its challenge, it proves to be one the most exciting entries in all of Schumann’s catalog. The Konzertstück was written in 1849, when Schumann was in good health and spirits, and producing music with greater ease and alacrity than at almost any other time in his life — some thirty works date from what he referred to as “my most fruitful year.” The work is in the standard three movements, though played without pause. The first movement abounds with breathtaking feats of virtuosity and intricate ensemble (the opening fanfare may well stay in the listener’s mind for days) couched in a fine orchestral accompaniment with expansive harmonies and rich sonorities. Schumann called the autumnal second movement “Romanze,” using as the theme of its center section a broad melody that returns in transformation in the last movement. The finale resumes the quick tempo and the flashing musical pyrotechnics of the opening movement, though it contains some episodes of contrasting character that Alfred Nieman believed were “not far from the impressionistic images of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, woven together with effortless spontaneity.” Schumann piles one challenge upon another as the movement progresses, ending with an admonition to the soloists that the final, rousing pages are to be delivered “mit Bravour.”

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JOHANNES BRAHMS

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Opus 68 (1855-1876)

ABOUT THE COMPOSER

Born 7 May 1833 in Hamburg died 3 April 1897 in Vienna PREMIERE OF WORK

Karlsruhe, 4 November 1876 Orchestra of the Grand Duke of Baden Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor

Brahms, while not as breathtakingly precocious as Mozart, Mendelssohn or Schubert, got a reasonably early start on his musical career: he had produced several piano works (including two large sonatas) and a goodly number of songs by the age of 19. In 1853, when Brahms was only 20, Robert Schumann wrote an article for the widely distributed Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (“New Journal for Music”), his first contribution to that publication in a decade, hailing his young colleague as the savior of German music, the rightful heir to the mantle of Beethoven. Brahms was extremely proud of Schumann’s advocacy and he displayed the journal with great joy to his friends and family when he returned to his humble Hamburg neighborhood after visiting Schumann in Düsseldorf, but there was the other side of Schumann’s assessment as well, that which placed an immense burden on Brahms’ shoulders.

PSO PREMIERE 9 November 1900 Carnegie Music Hall Victor Herbert, conductor INSTRUMENTATION pairs of woodwinds, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings DURATION

45 minutes

Brahms was acutely aware of the deeply rooted traditions of German music extending back not just to Beethoven, but even beyond him to Bach and Schütz and Lassus. He knew that, having been heralded in a widely publicized article by Schumann, his compositions, especially a symphony, would have to measure up to the standards set by his forebears. At first he doubted that he was even able to write a symphony, feeling that Beethoven had nearly expended all the potential of that form, leaving nothing for future generations. “You have no idea,” Brahms lamented, “how it feels to hear behind you the tramp of a giant like Beethoven.” Encouraged by Schumann to undertake a symphony, Brahms made some attempts in 1854, but he was unsatisfied with the symphonic potential of the sketches and diverted them into the First Piano Concerto and the German Requiem. He began again a year later, perhaps influenced by a performance of Schumann’s Manfred, and set down a first movement, but that music he kept to himself. Seven years passed before he sent that movement to Clara, Schumann’s widow, to seek her opinion. She was pleased with the C minor sketch, and encouraged him to finish the rest so that it could be performed. Brahms, however, was not to be rushed. Eager inquiries from conductors in 1863, 1864 and 1866 went unanswered. It was not until 1870 that he hinted about any progress at all beyond the first movement. The success of the superb Haydn Variations for orchestra of 1873 seemed to convince Brahms that he could complete his initial symphony, and in the summer of 1874, he began two years of labor — revising, correcting, perfecting — before he signed and dated the score of the First Symphony in September 1876.

The first movement begins with a slow introduction energized by the heartbeat of the timpani. The violins announce the upward-bounding main theme in the faster tempo that launches a magnificent, seamless sonata form. The second movement starts with a placid, melancholy song led by the violins. After a mildly syncopated middle section, the bittersweet melody returns. The brief third movement, with its prevailing woodwind colors, is reminiscent of the pastoral serenity of Brahmsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; halcyon earlier Serenades. The finale begins with an extended slow introduction based on several pregnant thematic ideas, and concludes with a noble chorale intoned by trombones and bassoons. The finale proper begins with a new tempo and a broad hymnal theme, and progresses in sonata form, but without a development section. The work closes with a majestic coda in the brilliant key of C major featuring the trombone chorale of the introduction in its full splendor.

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ANDRÉS OROZCO-ESTRADA Andrés Orozco-Estrada, born in Colombia and trained in Vienna, is one of the most sought after conductors of his generation. At the start of the 2014-2015 season, he will take up the positions of music director of the Houston Symphony Orchestra and chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.

London Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic and La Scala Philharmonic Orchestras. Following his debut with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in autumn 2010, Orozco-Estrada was hailed “a brilliant stand-in” (Wiener Zeitung) for Esa-Pekka Salonen and celebrated as an “eminent talent” (Die Presse). In November 2012, Orozco-Estrada stepped in once again at Orozco-Estrada first came to international short notice to replace Riccardo Muti with the attention in 2004, when he took over a Vienna Philharmonic in the Musikverein and concert with the Tonkünstler Orchestra proved to be a “stand-in worth his weight Niederösterreich at the Vienna Musikverein in gold” (Kurier) and “an inspired master of — celebrated by the Viennese press communication” (Standard). Highlights of the as a “wonder from Vienna.” Numerous current and coming seasons include debuts engagements with many international with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestras followed and since then Orozco- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Estrada has developed a highly successful Stockholm Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, musical partnership with the Tonkünstler Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, St Louis Orchestra, one of the most important Symphony, Philadelphia and Cleveland institutions of traditional Austrian musical Orchestras. He will also be making his debut culture. Since the beginning of the 2009- at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera in 2010 season, Orozco-Estrada has been the summer 2014 conducting Don Giovanni. music director of the Tonkünstler Orchestra, a position that he will relinquish in summer Born in 1977 in Medellín, Colombia, Orozco2015. This orchestra holds subscription Estrada began his musical studies on the series at the Vienna Musikverein and is violin and had his first conducting lessons orchestra-in-residence at the Grafenegg at the age of 15. In 1997, he moved to Festival. Between 2009 and 2013, Orozco- Vienna where he joined the conducting Estrada was also principal conductor at the class of Uroš Lajovic, pupil of the legendary Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi (Basque Hans Swarowsky, at the renowned Vienna National Orchestra). Music Academy and completed his degree with distinction by conducting the Vienna Orozco-Estrada has already worked with Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Vienna some of the world’s leading orchestras Musikverein. The emphasis of his artistic work including the Vienna Philharmonic, Munich lies in the Romantic repertoire and Viennese Philharmonic, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Mahler classics. At the same time, Orozco-Estrada Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, shows a keen interest in contemporary music City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and regularly performs premieres of Austrian the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome, Radio composers as well as compositions of Symphony Orchestras of Frankfurt (hr) and Spanish and South American origin. OrozcoHamburg (NDR), and the Orchestre National Estrada currently lives in Vienna. de France. He has made highly successful debuts with the Gothenburg Symphony These performances mark Estrada’s debut Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, with the Pittsburgh Symphony.

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WILLIAM D. CABALLERO During the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s 2011 European Festivals Tour, Caballero — and the Pittsburgh Symphony horn section he leads — received rave reviews. Michael Church of The Independent called Caballero “a principal horn whose pianissimo is simply miraculous,” and Guy Dammann wrote in The Guardian, “The horn section — led very much from the front by their excellent principal William Caballero – is one of the best in the business.” In its September 2012 review of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Exton recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, Gramophone magazine wrote, “Pittsburgh’s first horn is as spectacular as any on disc.” The 2014-2015 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra season represents William Caballero’s 25th year as its principal horn under the Maestros Lorin Maazel, Marris Jansons and Manfred Honeck. Before joining the symphony in May 1989, Caballero previously held principal horn positions with the Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera and Hartford Symphony. He held third horn positions with the Montreal Symphony, Montreal Opera and acting third horn with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops. He has performed as guest principal horn with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the St. Louis Symphony.

England Conservatory, University of Indiana Bloomington, Cleveland Institute of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, Manhattan School of Music, New World Symphony, and the Beijing and Shanghai Conservatories. The past two summers, he joined the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival as performer and teacher. For the previous seven summers, Caballero was on the faculty and performed at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan.

In January 2012, Caballero began collaboration with the Internet music teaching company ArtistWorks.com based Born in New Mexico and reared in Wisconsin, in Napa, California. His teaching website Caballero’s early horn studies included was released in September 2012 as the only working under Larry Simons, Barry Benjamin complete horn teaching curriculum available and Basil Tyler, as well as studying the piano via the internet for horn students worldwide. and pipe organ. Caballero graduated from New England Conservatory in Boston where Caballero is also in demand as a chamber he studied with Richard Mackey and Thomas musician collaborating with musicians such Newell, both former members of the Boston as violinists Gil Shaham, Joseph Silverstein Symphony. and Philip Setzer, and pianists André Previn, Christoph Eshenbach, Orli Shaham and Currently, Caballero is the associate teaching Andre Watts. William has also performed professor of Horn at Carnegie Mellon and worked with jazz musician and composer University School of Music. Previously, he Chris Brubeck, as well as ensembles that held teaching positions at Indiana University include the Tokyo String Quartet, Trio Bloomington, Rice University in Houston, Johannas, Principal Strings of the Berlin Texas, and Duquesne University. He has Philharmonic, Center City Brass, Bay been invited and presented master classes Chamber Concert Series, St. Barth’s Music throughout the world including Northwestern Festival and the Grand Teton Music Festival. University, Colburn School of Music, New He is also a member of the Pittsburgh 40

Symphony Brass, which includes fellow colleagues of the Pittsburgh Symphony Brass section. Recent chamber music performances include performing Brahms’ Horn Trio in E-flat major with Gil and Orli Shaham in Zankel Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York and appearing several times live on National Public Radio’s (NPR) “Performance Today” in NPR’s Washington, D.C. studios. Caballero solo’s regularly with the Pittsburgh Symphony with most recent collaboration as soloist under Maestro Honeck. In April 2014, Caballero performed the world premiere of Robert Levin Edition of Mozart’s 1st Horn Concerto in D, and in September 2012 performed the Pittsburgh Symphony premiere of Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1. Previous solo performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra have included Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat with Maestro Maazel, Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat with Maestro Andre Previn, Mozart Concerto fragments with Pittsburgh Symphony Concertmaster Andres Cardenes, Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings with Maestro Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and tenor Anthony Griffey, Schumann’s Konzertstück in F for

four horns and orchestra with his Pittsburgh Symphony horn colleagues under the baton of Maestro Sir John Elliot Gardener, and the John Williams Horn Concerto under the baton of Maestro Leonard Slatkin. Other recent solo appearances outside of the Pittsburgh Symphony have included performances in Montenegro with Maestro Ronald Zollman and with the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic at New York City’s Carnegie Hall under the baton of former Principal Horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Dale Clevenger. In May 1992, Caballero premiered Benjamin Lees’ Concerto for Horn and Orchestra with the Pittsburgh Symphony under the baton of then-Music Director Lorin Maazel. Following the performances in Pittsburgh, he performed Lees’ Concerto in Spain, Germany, and England with the Pittsburgh Symphony on tour. In May 1996, Caballero recorded the concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Lorin Maazel for New World Records. Caballero holds the Pittsburgh Symphony’s Anonymous Foundation Principal Horn Chair.

ROBERT LAUVER Robert Lauver joined the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra horn section in the 2000-2001 season. Previously he was a member of the horn section of the Saint Louis Symphony since 1992, as well as the St. Louis Symphony Brass Quintet. The Columbus Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Austin Symphony, Chicago Chamber Brass and Baltimore Symphony are among the orchestras with whom Lauver has played. He attended Northwestern and Western Michigan universities.

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MARK HOUGHTON Mark Tennyson Houghton was awarded the position of 3rd horn with Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in June 2014. Previously, he was principal horn of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony and, most recently, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Dallas Morning News critic Scott Cantrell wrote of Houghton: “He had a tone of burnished elegance and amazing expressive range, and he delivered some protracted decrescendos that took the breath away.” Houghton was born in Long Beach, California, and raised in Keller, Texas. After some basic piano training, he began playing horn at age 12. His parents — who are professional horn players and teachers — were his first instructors. Advanced studies yielded a Bachelor of Music degree and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music as a student of W. Peter Kurau. Other notable teachers and mentors include Gregory Hustis and William VerMeulen. Houghton has appeared with the Mimir Chamber Music Festival, Arizona Musicfest, Basically Beethoven Festival, The Hall Ensemble, Eastman Virtuosi and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He has toured domestically with the Eastman Wind Ensemble and abroad with the Eastman Horn Choir. In addition to his previous fulltime principal horn positions, Houghton has performed as principal horn with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and the Dallas Wind Symphony. He has been a featured soloist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, the Phoenix Symphony, the Greater Dallas Youth

Orchestra, the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra, and will perform Schumann’s Konzertstuck in F for Four Horns and Orchestra, Opus 86, in March 2015 with the Pittsburgh Symphony and its internationally acclaimed horn section. Houghton was a prizewinner in the American Horn Competition and the International Horn Society’s John Hawkins Memorial Solo Competition. He has been an artist and/or guest clinician at multiple International Horn Society symposia, the Eastman School of Music, the University of North Texas, Arizona State University, The University of Arizona, Baylor University, Texas Christian University, the University of Oklahoma, Texas Music Educators Association Convention, Texas Tech University and Wichita State University. Houghton is part owner of Houghton Horns, a family business that specializes in highquality instruments, services and accessories for horn players.

JOSEPH C. ROUNDS Horn player Joseph Rounds grew up in a musical family in a small town in Missouri where his father taught trumpet at Northwest Missouri State University and his mother taught piano. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s alma mater, where he studied horn with Verne Reynolds. Studies continued with James Decker at the University of Southern California. Since 1987, Rounds has been a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra serving as assistant principal, second and fourth horn. Previously, he held positions with the Sacramento Symphony and the Sacramento Chamber Orchestra. Rounds currently holds a third degree black belt from the Young Brothers Tae Kwon Do Institute under the guidance of Grand Master Young Bo Kong. Family owned and operated for thirty years.

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ARTIST Q&A FEATURING MEMBERS OF THE PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY HORN SECTION — BILL CABALLERO, PRINCIPAL HORN; BOB LAUVER; JOE ROUNDS; AND MARK HOUGHTON.

What teacher or colleague had the greatest influence on you? Bill: Gunther Schuller. He wasn’t a teacher, but he would tell you the absolute truth. You either accepted it or walked away from it. The best Beethoven Symphony No. 5 I have ever played was with him. Bob: Bill Caballero; he has been the biggest influence on me. Joe: My dad. He started me on the horn. Mark: My parents are a big influence, especially in the beginning as they were both horn players. Do you have any special pre-concert rituals? Bill: Not much…I try to take a nap before a concert. I try to avoid salty foods. I try to peak for a weekend. 44

Bob: Since we perform so much, part of it is showing up on time, play a few notes before, put the horn in the case, getting into the hall is all part of the show focus. What was your greatest performance? Joe: Mahler Symphony No. 5 in Berlin was great. Bob: The Vatican concert was really fun. Not so much for its artistic excellence but for its momentous occasion. It was great to see that world culture that we never had a glance at. Bill: Mahler Symphony No. 7 in Poland in October of 1989 was the favorite concert of my whole life. It was with Lorin Maazel conducting. We had just left Russia and our equipment was extremely delayed, but even with all of those obstacles it just sounded amazing.

What makes for such a tight section? Bob: We are all fun loving and enjoy each other, respect each other and think the world of each other. Joe: It also goes back to the audition. There, we get a sense of what other people are like, who they are and how they will fit. Bob: I remember during my semi-final audition in which there is no screen, Joe saw me and said “the ponytail has to go.” Bill: One of the things that I hope concert goers realize is that these are long-term relationships and working relationships that have developed over time. We’ve been here 15 to 20 years and from that time comes understanding of how we all do what we do and how we work with the rest of the orchestra. The section has had a lot of longevity from all the players. I also like that there are two-way streets with this section. There are a lot of orchestras where that isn’t the case, and I like having the two-way street.

Artistic Planning & Audience Engagement] Bob Moir found it important to flag us down and say “What just happened?” Bill: When the orchestra played Till Eulenspiegel at Point Park during my first or second year, and a colleague came up to me and said “That was a spectacular, spectacular Till” and I thanked him but it wasn’t me who played it. It was Martin Smith, a former hornist. There was also my first concert with the Pittsburgh Symphony…we played Beethoven’s Third Symphony and I completely obliterated the high Eb in the trio. Two weeks later, I go to the doctor and the nurse is weighing me in and while chatting to me she said “Oh, I hear you are the new horn player, I heard you missed a note the other night.” What is your favorite neighborhood? Joe and Bob: Bradford Woods Mark: I like going to the Strip. What is your favorite pizza joint? Bob and Bill: Vincent’s in Forest Hills

Mark: I am really new, but I feel like it has been an easy fit. It is a thrill for me and I am happy to be able to work with guys like these. There is a lot of humor and we like to laugh it off, but we are also really focused in performance. I think it is really important to be relaxed and have a good sense of humor.

What else is in your horn case?

Bill: Respect is also a huge part of it.

Joe: There is one thing…When Martin Smith, former co-principal horn, passed away, we all got these little hatchets.

What is your most embarrassing performance?

Bob: I used to have a carved hummingbird made out of graphite that was anniversary gift from my wife Mark: A toothbrush. I can’t play horn without brushing my teeth.

Bob: We were playing Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and the wheels just came off in a few places. They came off in a manner that [Senior Vice President of

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Kenneth & Dr. Carol N. Maurer Sidney McBride Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall Mr. & Mrs. Jon W. McCarter Patrick & Michelle McCarthy McCarthy Rail Insurance Managers, Inc. Mr. Richard E. McClain Mr. Samuel A. McClung Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Paula & Bob McCracken Mr. Bernard J. McCrory Mrs. Samuel K. McCune Nancy McDonald Mary McDonough Keith McDuffie Kent & Martha McElhattan Barbara McKenna & Family Alexis & Andrew McKinley Jean S. McLaughlin Mr. & Mrs. William J. Mehaffey Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Mellon Suzanne Mellon Peter & Memi Melotti Barbara Sachnoff Mendlowitz In Memory of William C. Menges Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Merriman Robert & Elizabeth Mertz Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation Mrs. William Metcalf III Bridget & Scott Michael Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton Ms. Laurie Miller Robert & Miriam Miller Mr. & Mrs. Stuart M. Miller Dr. & Mrs. Vincent P. Miller Jr. Jack Millstein Frank C. & Judy L. Mindicino Mr. & Mrs. M. Lee Minter Jeffrey Mishler Ann & Mark Mizer Paul & Connie Mockenhaupt Ruth M. Montgomery Amy & Ira* M. Morgan Bill & Jane Morgan Dr. Harvey M. Morris

Eric Von Morton Frank & Brenda Moses Michael & Cynthia Mullins Hilde Munck & Eckard Munck Richard & Martha Munsch Arthur J. Murphy Jr. Mr. George Mycoff James & Marlee Myers Dr. & Mrs. Donald D. Naragon Dr. & Mrs. Dennis W. Nebel Ellen & Ade Neidermeyer Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rev. Robert & Suzanne Newpher Patricia K. Nichols Renee K. Nicholson Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick Karen Kelley Noble Hide & Julia Miller Nobumori Dr. Sean Nolan Mark & Nikki Nordenberg Charles A. Norton James & Lindsey Nova Dr. & Mrs. Harry M. Null Lee* & John Oehrle Dr. Everett F. Oesterling & Mrs. Joyce Oesterling Mr. & Mrs. Hale Oliver John Orndorff Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Orr Dee Jay Oshry & Bart Rack John A. Osuch Sandy & Gene O’Sullivan Russell G. & Karen Overfield Paul M. Palevsky, MD & Sharon R. Roseman, MD Dr. & Mrs. A. H. Panahandeh Dr. Armand J. Panson Pamela & Ronald Pape Sang C. Park Pauline R. Parker John & Joan Pasteris Carol & Richard Patterson Mr. & Mrs. James Patton Camilla Brent Pearce Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Pellett Daniel M. Pennell Dale & Michele Perelman Bill & Stella Perrine Dr. Jeffrey & Francesca Peters Judy Petty

Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Pfendler Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jon R. Piersol Ed & Mary Ellen Pisula Drs. Mary & Raymond Pontzer Dr. & Mrs. Frederick Porkolab David & Marilyn Posner Shirley Pow Ann & Mal Powell Richard O. Price Sarah A. Prichard Bob & Mary Jo Purvis Mrs. Jean Purvis Andrew & Liberty Pyros Mr. & Mrs. C. J. Queenan Jr. Fran Quinlan Janet K. Quint Ms. Barbara Rackoff The Rackoff Family, ASKO Philanthropic Fund of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh Betty Radvak-Shovlin Susan M. Rakfal, MD James D. & Carol L. Randolph Barbara M. Rankin Mr. Leonard E. Rausch Paul & Dorothy Reiber Eric* & Frances Reichl Marnie Repasky Mr. & Mrs.* James H. Rich Mr. & Mrs. James Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Roberts Sam & Diana Robinson Bette & Howard M. Rom Janice G. Rosenberg Dr. Pinchas Rosenberg Shoshana & Jerry Rosenberg Mr. & Mrs. Byron W. Rosener III Mrs. Louisa S. Rosenthal Carol & Scott Rotruck Dr. Joel S. Rozen Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Edmund S. Ruffin III Mr. Robert Rupp Shirley & Murray Rust Mrs. John M. Sadler Tamiko Sampson Mr. & Mrs. Ferd Sauereisen Sally & Keith Saylor

Lawrence P. & Sharron A. Schaefer Eric Schaffer & Michelle Gray-Schaffer Albert & Kathleen Schartner Christopher & Jennifer Scheib Ann & Bill Scherlis Dr. & Mrs. Melvin M. Schiff Joe & Nancy Schmitt Mrs. Shirley Schneirov Christian Schörnich Ms. Carol Schuler Bernie & Cookie Soldo Schultz Mary Ann Scialabba Louise & Franco Sciannameo Barry & Celinda Scott Diana F. Scott Mr.* & Mrs. Jobst W. Seehausen George & Marcia Seeley Mr. & Mrs. David P. Segel Mr. & Mrs. John M. Seifarth Michael Sexauer Aleen Mathews Shallberg & Richard Shallberg Mrs. Sue Shapera Dr. Karen Shulman & Mr. Jay I. Shulman Dr. Charles H. Shultz Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Shure Rhoda & Seymour* Sikov Lee & Myrna Silverman Marjorie K. Silverman Marilyn & Norman A. Sindler Carol Slomski, MD Bobbie & Keith Smith Don & Beth Smith Kathleen Opat Smith Margaret C. Smith Nancy N. Smith Rep. Sam & Donna Smith Mrs. Barney Snyder Mr. Edgar Snyder J. Soffietti David Solosko & Sandra Kniess Fund Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Sorr in support of music & wellness Herbert H. & Barbara South Drs. Horton C.* & Jannene M. Southworth Mr. James Spencer

Mr. & Mrs. Alexander C. Speyer III Richard C. Spine & Joyce Berman Henry Spinelli Janet H. Staab Mr. & Mrs.* Jack Stabile Mr. & Mrs. James C. Stalder Gary & Charlene Stanich Ms. Carrie M. Stanny Dr. James Staples Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Stayer Charles & Rachel Stegeman MaryJean & John Stephen Mr. James Steffy Jerry Stephens Dr. & Mrs. Mervin S. Stewart Mr. Ray C. Stoner In Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Mona & E.J. Strassburger Mr. Su & Ms. Van Dusen Peter Sullivan Richard A. Sundra, in Loving Memory of Patricia Sundra Drs. Gary & Heidi Swanson Joel & Maria Swanson Robert Swendsen & Roberta Klatzky Stu & Liz Symonds in Memory of Roger Sherman Tom & Karen Tabor Dr. Jocelyn Tan & Dr. Alaa Shalaby Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Tannenbaum Carol L. Tasillo Mr. & Mrs. William H. Taylor Jr. Gordon & Catherine Telfer Mr. Doug Thomas Dorothea Thompson Mayor John A. Thompson Mary Lloyd & George Thompson Mrs. Sonya Thorbecke Jim & Gail Titus Melissa Trax & Adam Kupec Mr. & Mrs. Clifton C. Trees In Memory of Audrey Treloar & Florence & Norman Golomb Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Trombetta Jeff & Melissa Tsai

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Jeffrey Turner & Tonya Stefko Eric & Barbara Udren Mary & Gerald Unger Diane & Dennis Unkovic Theo & Pia Van De Venne Suzan M. Vandertie Dr. Filomena F. Varvaro Mary Vasilakis Dr. & Mrs. James E. Vaux Cate & Jerry Vockley Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Vogel Edward L. & Margaret Vogel Drs. Joan Vondra & Thomas Chang John & Linda Vuono Jan Wagner Judy Wagner & Mike LaRue Wagner Family Charitable Trust

Suzanne & Richard Wagner Kevin & Jennifer Walker John & Irene Wall Mr. W.L. & Dr. B.H. Ward Tony & Pat Waterman Ms. Sally Webster & Ms. Susan Bassett Marvin & Dot* Wedeen Phillips Wedemeyer & Jeanne Hanchett Drs. John & Carla Weidman Michael & Cynthia Weisfield Norman & Marilyn Weizenbaum Mr. & Mrs. James P. Welch Jim & Jinny Welker Jane Wentling Bernard & Sheila Werner Nancy Werner Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Westerberg

Rebecca M. Wharton Mr. & Mrs. Thomas White Robert Wickesberg & Susan Noffke Mr. Norm Wien Dr. Philip M. Wildenhain & Dr. Sarah L. Wildenhain Ken & Trudie Wilkins Robert & Carole Williams Robert E. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Miles C. Wilson James & Ramona Wingate Mary Jo Winokur Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Witmer Sheryl & Bruce Wolf Dr. & Mrs. D. Scott Wood Mr. Christopher Wu & Mrs. Annette Wu Dr. & Mrs. John A. Yauch Mark & Judy Yogman

Alice L. Young Hugh D*. & Alice C. Young Maureen Young Mr. Joe Yzurdiaga Frank A. Zabrosky Mr. & Mrs. Richard Zahren Mr. & Mrs. Walter Ziatek Michael & Naomi Zigmond David & Patricia Zimba

*deceased We would like to thank all individuals who contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Heinz Hall. Please see our website at pittsburghsymphony.org for a complete listing. Current as of March 6, 2015

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Allegheny Valley Bank Armada Austrian American Cultural Society, Inc. Bridges & Company, Inc. The Buncher Company BYS Yoga Students Clark Precision Machined Components Business Partners Consolidated PEWTER LEVEL Communications $1,000 - $2,499 CrawfordEllenbogen LLC AlphaGraphics in the Cultural District Enterprise Bank Calgon Carbon Corporation General Wire Spring Co. Clayton Engineering Goehring, Rutter & Boehm Company Hamill Mfg. Co. Coury Financial Group Hertz Gateway Center, LP ESB Bank John B. Conomos, Inc. First Commonwealth Bank Joyce’s Jewelry Boutique Flaherty & O’Hara, P.C. K & I Sheet Metal, Inc. Gordon Terminal Service Lucas Systems, Inc. Co. Marketing Support Network Hughes Television Master Remodelers Productions Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP Jendoco Construction Attorneys at Law Corporation Mitsubishi Electric Power Jennmar Corporation Products, Inc. Kerr Engineered Sales Modany-Falcone, Inc. Company Neville Chemical Company Lawrence County Tourist Promotion Agency PGT Trucking MacLachlan, Cornelius & Pzena Investment Filoni, Inc. Management, LLC McKamish, Inc. Rebecca L. Pounds DDS LLC Nocito Enterprises, Inc. Scott Metals Inc. Practice Growth Partners Walter Long Manufacturing Company Rothman Gordon PC Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Sarris Candies, Inc. Co., LPA Six Penn Kitchen Westmoreland Mechanical Steptoe & Johnson PLLC Testing & Research, Inc. Stringert, Inc. The Techs We would like to thank all Trebuchet Consulting LLC corporations who contribute to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & TriState Capital Bank Heinz Hall. Please see our website United Safety Services, Inc. at pittsburghsymphony.org for a UPMC & UPMC Health Plan complete listing. Vallozzi’s Pittsburgh Current as of March 6, 2015

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LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE

In addition to income from the Annual Fund, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is dependent on a robust endowment to assure its long-term financial stability. Gifts from Legacy of Excellence programs are directed to the endowment to provide for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future. The Steinberg Society honors donors who have advised the Pittsburgh Symphony in writing that they have made a provision for the orchestra in their will. Members of the Sid Kaplan Tribute program have made a gift to the endowment of $10,000.00 or more to commemorate a particular person or event. Endowed naming opportunities for guest artists, musiciansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chairs, concert series, educational programs or designated spaces allow donors to specify a name or tribute for 10 years, 20 years or in perpetuity. For additional information, please call Jan Fleisher at 412.392.3320. STEINBERG SOCIETY Anonymous (18) Siamak & Joan Adibi Rev. Drs. A. Gary & Judy Angleberger The Joan & Jerome* Apt Families Francis A. Balog Robert & Loretta Barone Scott J. Bell Dr. Elaine H. Berkowitz Benno & Constance Bernt Michael Bielski Drs. Barbara & Albert Biglan Thomas G. Black Barbara M. Brock Lois R. Brozenick* Tom & Jackie Cain Estate of Cynthia Calhoun Judy & Michael Cheteyan Educational/Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. David W. Christopher Mr.* & Mrs. Edward S. Churchill Estate of Mr. & Mrs. Eugene S. Cohen Basil & Jayne Adair Cox Mr.* & Mrs. Thomas J. Donnelly Frank R. Dziama Steven G. & Beverlynn Elliott Emil & Ruth* Feldman Joan Feldman & William Adams Mrs. Loti Gaffney Keith & Susan Garver Ken* & Lillian Goldsmith Mr.* & Mrs. Ira H. Gordon James A. Gorton Estate of Anna R. Greenberg Estate of Lorraine M. Gross Mrs. Nancy K. Hansen 56

Elizabeth Anne Hardie Charles & Angela Hardwick Carolyn Heil Eric & Lizz Helmsen Ms. Judith Hess Estate of Mr. John H. Hill Estate of Mr. & Mrs. William C. Hurtt Philo & Erika Holcomb Mr. & Mrs. Blair Jacobson Esther G. Jacovitz Patricia Prattis Jennings Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kahn* Leo & Marge Kane Lois S. Kaufman Stephen & Kimberly Keen Mr. Arthur J. Kerr Jr. Ms. Bernadette Kersting Dr. Laibe A.* & Sydelle Kessler Stanley & Margaret Leonard Frances F. Levin Doris L. Litman Penny Locke Estate of Edward D. Loughney Lauren & Hampton Mallory Dr. Richard Martin in Memory of Mrs. Lori Martin* Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall George E. Meanor Mary Ellen Miller Ms. Jean L. Misner* Catherine Missenda* Dr. Mercedes C. Monjian Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Mooney Perry* & BeeJee Morrison Mildred S. Myers & William C. Frederick Donn & Peggy Neal Dr. Nancy Z. Nelson Rhonda & Dennis Norman Thaddeus A. Osial Jr. M.D.

Estate of Irene G. Otte Judy Petty Estate of Dorothy R. Rairigh Barbara M. Rankin Richard E. Rauh Cheryl & James Redmond Mr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart Donald & Sylvia Robinson Mr. & Mrs. David M. Roderick Charlotta Klein Ross Harvey & Lynn Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Ryan Virginia Schatz Nancy Schepis Dr. & Mrs. Harry E. Serene Dr. Charles H. Shultz Michael Shefler Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Dr. & Mrs. Leonard A. Stept Estate of Dr. Raymond & Karla Stept Mrs. Margaret Stouffer in Memory of Miss Jean Alexander Moore Tom & Jamee Todd Mrs. Jane Treherne-Thomas Eva & Walter J. Vogel Mr. & Mrs. George L. Vosburgh Estate of John & Betty Weiland In memory of Isaac Serrins from Mr. & Mrs. Ira Weiss Brian Weller Seldon Whitaker Mr. & Mrs. Raymond B. White Charles L. & Katherine A. Wiley James & Susanne Wilkinson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Witmer

Patricia L. Wurster Estate of Rufus J. Wysor Naomi Yoran Miriam L. Young Estate of Ruth Yount SID KAPLAN TRIBUTE PROGRAM The Sid Kaplan Memorial Hallway given by David Kaplan in appreciation of generous gifts commemorating family and friends In Honor of Dr. Raymond Stept from his loving family In Honor of Mariss & Irina Jansons and friendship from Dr. Laibe* & Sydelle Kessler Honoring my dear friend, Marvin Hamlisch, from Mina Kulber In Loving Memory of Martin Smith, PSO Horn, 1980-2005, from his siblings Todd Smith, Judy Dupont & Susan Noble

ENDOWED CHAIRS Principal Horn Chair, given by an Anonymous Donor First Violin Chair, given by Allen H. Berkman in memory of his beloved wife, Selma Wiener Berkman Michael & Carol Bleier Viola Chair given in memory of our parents, Tina & Charles Bleier and Ruth & Shelley Stein Lois R. Brozenick Memorial First Violin Chair

ENDOWED CHAIRS Cont. Jane & Rae Burton Cello Chair

William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education

Fiddlesticks Family Concert Martha Brooks Robinson Series Endowed by Gerald Principal Trumpet Chair & Audrey McGinnis Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Silberman Honoring The Center for Principal Clarinet Chair Young Musicians

Vira I. Heinz Music Director Chair Mr. & Mrs. Martin G. Principal Pops Conductor Chair Endowed by Henry & McGuinn Viola Chair Elsie Hillman Dr. William Larimer Mellon Jr. Ron & Dorothy Chutz Tom & Dona Hotopp Principal Oboe Chair, given First Violin Chair Principal Bass Chair by Rachel Mellon Walton Johannes & Mona L. Milton G. Hulme Jr. Messiah Concerts Endowed Coetzee Memorial Guest Conductor Chair by the Howard and Nell E. Principal English Horn given by Mine Safety Miller Chair Chair Appliances Company Donald I. & Janet Moritz George & Eileen Dorman Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. and Equitable Resources, Assistant Principal Jones III Inc. Associate Principal Cello Chair Guest Keyboard Chair Cello Chair Albert H. Eckert Robert & Louise Kahn Fund Associate Principal for Pittsburgh Symphony The Perry & BeeJee Morrison String Percussion Chair Orchestra Schooltime Instrument Loan Fund Concerts Beverlynn & Steven Elliott The Morrison Family Associate Concertmaster Virginia Kaufman Chair Resident Conductor Chair, Associate Principal Second Violin Chair Lawrence Loh Jean & Sigo Falk Principal Librarian Chair Stephen & Kimberly Keen Jackman Pfouts Principal Flute Chair, given Bass Chair in memory of Mr. & Mrs. Endowed Principal Piccolo Arthur Jackman by Barbara Chair, given to honor Frank G. Christian Lantzsch & and Loti Gaffney Duquesne Light Company Jackman Pfouts Principal Second Violin Pittsburgh Symphony William & Sarah Galbraith Chair Association Second Violin Chair Principal Cello Chair Mr. & Mrs. William Genge The Estate of Olga T. Gazalie and Mr. & Mrs. James E. Reed Smith Chair honoring First Violin Chair Lee Principal Bassoon Tom Todd Chair Horn Chair Ira & Nanette Gordon The Gracky Fund for Nancy & Jeffery Leininger Dr. & Mrs. William E. Education & Community First Violin Chair Rinehart Engagement Oboe Chair Edward D. Loughney Susan S. Greer Memorial Co-Principal Trumpet Donald & Sylvia Robinson Trumpet Chair, given by Family Foundation Peter Greer Guest Conductor Chair Cynthia S. Calhoun Principal Viola Chair Virginia Campbell Principal Harp Chair

Mr. and Mrs. Willard J. Tillotson Jr. Viola Chair Tom & Jamee Todd Principal Trombone Chair United States Steel Corporation Assistant Principal Bass Chair Rachel Mellon Walton Concertmaster Chair, given by Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mellon Scaife Jacqueline Wechsler Horn Chair given in memory of Irving (Buddy) Wechsler Barbara Weldon Principal Timpani Chair Hilda M. Willis Foundation Flute Chair Thomas H. & Frances Witmer Assistant Principal Horn Chair Current as of March 6, 2015 *deceased

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COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE SPECIAL NAMED GIFTS BNY Mellon .................................................................... Recordings & Electronic Media and Artistic Excellence Programs Benno & Constance Bernt..........................................................................................................................Stage Right Door Rae & Jane Burton.......................................................................................................................................... Garden Bench Basil & Jayne Adair Cox.................................................................................................................................. Garden Bench Randi & L. Van V. Dauler, Jr. ....................................................................................Mozart Room Elevator & Garden Bench William S. Dietrich II*............................................................Endowment for PittsburghSymphony Educational Programs Dollar Bank Foundation................................................................................................ Community Engagement Concerts Mr. & Mrs. J. Christopher Donahue.........................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Roy & Susan Dorrance ..........................................................................................................................Music for the Spirit EQT Foundation............................................................... Community Engagement & EQT Student Side-By -Side Program Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Gailliot.........................................................................................................Grand Piano, Paris Festival Goldman Sachs Gives ................................................................................................ Community Engagement Concerts Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield ......................................................................................... Music and Wellness Program Elsie & Henry Hillman...................................................The Henry L. Hillman Endowment for International Performances Ms. Seima Horvitz.......................................................................................................................................... Garden Bench David & Melissa Iwinski................................................................................................................................Stage Left Door Robert & Louise Kahn*......................................................................................................................... Schooltime Concerts Lillian Edwards Foundation.................................................................................................................Heartstrings Program Mr. & Mrs.* J. Robert Maxwell .................................................................................................President and CEOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.........................................................................................................Grand Tier Door - Right Center PNC.............................................................................................................. PNC Walkway at Heinz Hall and PNC Tiny Tots Dr. & Mrs. William E. Rinehart ........................................................................................................................ Grand Piano Mr. & Mrs. William F. Roemer......................................................................................................................... Garden Bench Catharine M. Ryan & John T. Ryan III ...................................................................................................Music for the Spirit Alece & David Schreiber................................................................................................................................. Garden Bench Harvey* & Florence Zeve ............................................................................................................................. Garden Bench *deceased

W ELCO ME S T HE F O L LOW ING GRO U PS TO T HE SE PERFO R M A NCE S

Pitt Arts

IT ALL STARTS WITH YOU! The music you hear onstage at every single Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert doesn’t “just happen.” It takes world-class musicians, renowned guest artists and conductors, and most importantly YOU – our dedicated audience – to bring the music to life. It’s Patron Appreciation Month at Heinz Hall this March, and the entire Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra family thanks you for being part of our family. You show your love of the music by being a part of our audience, generously supporting the Annual Fund and by volunteering your time and energy. Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concerts happen because of you, and we are grateful for your ongoing support.

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HONOR/MEMORIAL GIFTS The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is pleased to acknowledge the following members of our donor family who have made generous gifts in honor or in memory of others from January 1, 2014 to February 18, 2015. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy; however, if you are not listed correctly, please call 412.392.4880. Thank you! HONORARY GIFTS Barbara L. Barry, in honor of Michael White’s Birthday Borrebach Grandsons, in honor of Edwin & Frances Borrebach for Christmas Jamini Vincent Davies, in honor of Harold Smoliar Mrs. Betty F. Diskin, in honor of Noah Bendix-Balgley Mrs. Betty F. Diskin, in honor of Ron Schneider Pamela Dodge, in honor of Connie Nelson’s Birthday The Edward Lowy Charitable Fund, in honor of Usher Chris Cox George & Anne Fattman, in honor of Anne Fattman for Christmas Joan Feldman, in honor of Ruth & Emil Feldman Dana H. Ferry, in honor of Paul Silver The Fezziwig Foundation, in honor of Jim Cunningham and Symphony Musicians Scott Bell, Cynthia DeAlmeida, Michael DeBruyn, Erina Laraby-Goldwasser, Jim Nova, Suzanne Park, James Rodgers Stephen & Joyce Fienberg, in honor of Charles Miller’s Special Birthday Ms. Ann Galvez, in honor of Aunt Carol Mueller Mr. & Ms. Donald Grace, in honor of Dr. & Mrs. Nelson Grace Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern, in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Ira Gordon’s granddaughter’s marriage Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern, in honor of Sam Michaels’ Birthday Rebecca Harriman, in honor of Jessica Wolfe Charles Harris & Darlene Nowak in honor of William & Kathleen Caballero Ms. Martha S. Helmreich in Honor of my mother, Anne J. Schaff Mr. and Mrs. Alan Hirsig, in honor of Helge & Erika Wehmeier Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Hoburg, in honor of Monica Meyer’s Birthday Clare & Jim Hoke, in honor of Margaret Bovbjerg Mr. & Mrs. Stuart J. Horner, Jr., in honor of Lauren Scott Mallory Mary Louise Kissane, in honor of Rhian Kenny Marjory Klein, in honor of Steve Oliphant’s Birthday Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Landay, in honor of Sylvia Landay League Of Women Voters Of PA, in honor of Mary Beth Adams PhD Doug & Jeanette MacCallum, in honor of Barbara MacCallum’s birthday 60

Gail Mallory, in honor of Hampton & Lauren Mallory Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton, in honor of Al & Barbara Biglan Dr. & Mrs. Donald B. Middleton, in honor of Ron & Dorothy Chutz Mr. & Mrs. M. Lee Minter, in honor of George Daughtery & David Ka Lik Wong Jim & Susan Morris in Honor of Kay Stolarevsky Carol J. Mueller, in honor of Richard P. Simmons Arthur J. Murphy, Jr., in honor of Hampton Mallory Mr.* & Mrs. Charles H. Muse, Jr., in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Simmons Ms. Caroline Nagel, in honor of Dr. Tor Richter & Ms.Karen Esch’s Wedding Anniversary Ms. Kay C. Neuhausen, in honor of Hans Fleischner’s Birthday Mr. & Mrs. David Nimick, in honor of Bill Caballero Ogden & Betty Nutting, in honor of Peter Greer Mr. and Mrs. George Olsen, in honor of Granger & Betty Morgan Elliott S. Oshry, in honor of Richard Marshall’s Birthday Ms. Patricia Persinger, in honor of Lt. Col Dale McCall Dr. & Mrs. William R. Poller in honor of our four grandsons Mr. Leonard E. Rausch, in honor of Ms. Jackie Evancho’s birthday Mr. Thomas Robinson, in honor of Fritz Okie Millie & Gary Ryan, in honor of Michael E. Bielski’s Birthday Ms. Patricia Shirey, in honor of Mrs. Paul (Doris) Ely’s Birthday Rep. Sam & Donna Smith, in honor of Jim & Electra Agras Ellen Solomon, in honor of Ada & Ed Lieberman John & Sally Stephens, in honor of Dr. William Stept Ms. Jean Stewart, in honor of Charlotta Ross in Memory of her husband Paul Ross Ellen Kiam & William B. Troy, in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Reid Ruttenberg Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Trozzo, in honor of Mrs. Samuel E. Hopkinson Robert S. & Linda F. Walters, in honor of Bob Lauver, Marina Nielsen, Tom & Dona Hotopp Mr. & Mrs. E.J. Ward, in honor of Kim Tillotson Fleming Sally & Leonard Weaver, in honor of Ralph & Kay Reubi Helge & Erika Wehmeier, in honor of Michele & Chuck Cohen

Helge & Erika Wehmeier, in honor of Carol & Jon Walton Ruth O. Williams, in honor of The Martindale Family Drs. Barry & Iris Wu, in honor of Louise Wu Mr. Christopher Wu & Mrs. Annette Wu, in honor of Alan Russell’s Wedding Mr. Joe Yzurdiaga, in honor of Cynthia DeAlmeida Ms. Carol Zich, in honor of Sylvia Landay’s Birthday In Honor of Roy & Susan Dorrance James & Anne Burnham Dr. John McSorley MD In Honor of Juergen Mross Julie Koester Karin M. Holmes Helge & Erika Wehmeier In Honor of Tina & Paul O’Brien Mr. William J. Strimbu Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey A. Wallace In Honor of Abby Ruttenberg’s Special Birthday Alan L. & Barbara B. Ackerman Mrs. Linda Ackerman Ada Davis Toby Frank & Martyn Gefsky Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern Susan Oberg Lane Zola & Stephen Munter Dr. & Mrs. Jerrold Post Nancy & Bill Rackoff Sally & Fred Rock Judy & Stanley Ruskin Dr. & Mrs. Peter E. Sheptak Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Skirboll Don & Beth Smith Susan Leader Of Schwab Charitable Fund Tom & Jamee Todd Suzanne & Richard Wagner In Honor of Chris Wu Edith H. Fisher Tom & Wendy Jones Mr. Raymond Sekula & Mrs. Anne Sekula Tom & Sandy Usher In Honor of Rachel Wymard Mr. Michael Lipman & Mrs. Shirli Nikolsburg Paul & Linda Silver Mr. Christopher Wu & Mrs. Annette Wu MEMORIAL GIFTS Ruth Bachman, in Memory of James Bachman Lorraine E. Balun, in memory of Phyllis E. Zimmerman Barbara L. Barry, in memory of Agnes Kinard Vitasta Bazaz & Sheen Sehgal Fund, in Memory of Dr. Kuldeep Sehgal Mr. Kenneth Beatty & Ms. Susan Weiskopf-Beatty, in memory of Anne Townsend Nick & Dotty Beckwith, in memory of Edna Diamond Jean G. Boyer, in memory of Dale E. Boyer Daniel & Lise Brodkey, in memory of Jerald S. Brodkey Lois R. Brozenick*, in memory of Dr. Helene Borke

Lois R. Brozenick*, in memory of Doris Polzot Mr. and Mrs. John College, in memory of Johnathan Heath College Theodore D. Cox, in memory of W. Jerrold Cox Roy & Susan Dorrance, in memory of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Flecker The Edward Lowy Charitable Fund, in memory of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos The Edward Lowy Charitable Fund, in memory of Dr. Alexander & Cybil Lowy Brooke T. Bonner & Steven D. Fleshman, in memory of M. Douglas Fleshman Mr. John Gesselberty, in memory of Herman Vallecorsa Veronica, Ron, Chloe Greenbaum, in memory of Mrs. Evi Kent Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern, in memory of Kenneth Goldsmith Mrs. Emily E. Heidish, in memory of John G. Heidish Jon Heiman, in memory of Ruth Heiman Mr. Harold Hoffman, in memory of Janet Burgess Patricia Prattis Jennings, in memory of Martin Lerner Dr. & Mrs. R.W. Jilcott III, in memory of Furman South III Christine E. Jordanoff, in memory of Nicholas Jordanoff Ms. Florence Karnofsky, in memory of Emil Feldman Ms. Elise Keely, in memory of Richard M. Holland Madeline P. Kramer, in memory of Fred Kramer Harriet, Barbara, Marc, Scott and Kim Lewis, in memory of Elliott (Bud) Lewis Mrs. Ann Q. Lyle, in memory of Norval W. Lyle Mr. David A. Lynch & Ms. Dorothy A. Davis, in memory of David J. Armstrong Mrs. Cheryl Lyne, in memory of James J. Lyne Dr. Richard Martin, in memory of Mrs. Lori Martin Dale & Dr. Marlene* McCall, in memory of Margaret Cillo Ms. Margaret Menges, in memory of William C. Menges Mrs. Margaret Mima, in memory of Joseph A. Mima Lesa B. Morrison, Ph. D, in memory of Hax McCullough & Perry Morrison Perry* & BeeJee Morrison, in memory of Brian Kalla Perry* & BeeJee Morrison, in memory of Marilyn Spirer Eric & Shelley Nilson, in memory of Lois Nilson Hide & Julia Miller Nobumori, in memory of Ida Mae Good Miller Mr. Alfred J Nogrady, in memory of Russell Clarkson Tom & Nancy Noone, in memory of John Howard Hill Dr. Lynne Porterfield, in memory of James T. & Marjorie Hill Steen Dr. & Mrs. Rafael G. Quimpo, in memory of Malcolm Clemens Dr. Tor Richter, in memory of Elizabeth W. Richter Josefina O. Rodriguez, in memory of Jose Rodriguez Kenneth & Gail Rowles, in memory of Mary Patricia Buehler Donald D. Saxton, Jr., in memory of Barbara Morey Saxton Alberta Sbragia & Martin Staniland, in memory of Burkart Holzner EVERY GIFT IS INSTRUMENTAL 2014-2015 SEASON

Ms. Margaret S. Stouffer, in memory of Jean Alexander Moore Richard A. Sundra, in Loving memory of Patricia Sundra Stu & Liz Symonds, in memory of Roger Sherman Barbara Trachtenberg, in memory of Lee A. Trachtenberg, MD Mr. and Ms. Nigel Treloar, in memory of Audrey Treloar & Florence & Norman Golomb Dr. Art Wegweiser, in memory of Helen F. Wegweiser Dr. Konrad & Mrs. Konrad M. Weis, in memory of Leonard Scheinholtz Seldon Whitaker, in memory of Susan Whitaker Ms. Sallie Jane Zoerb, in Memory of Mr. & Mrs. John W. Zoerb In Memory of Dr. Falk Arnheim Elizabeth & Charles Altman Janet W. Hirshberg Susie, Mark & Greg Tabor In Memory of Don Berry Randolph & Rebecca Allen Larry & Dawn Amos and Jim Warcholak Dr. Richard S. DeLuca Linda Mates Bruce & Susy Robison In Memory of Lois Brozenick Mrs. Sandra Armstrong Jan Fleisher Ms. Colleen S. Gaughan Eric & Lizz Helmsen Alfred & Necole Jacobsen Mary Ellen Miller Camilla Brent Pearce Nancy Schepis Jodi & Andrew Weisfield Jessica D. Wolfe & Joseph R. Martinez Miriam L. Young In Memory of Amy Wenchi Chen Takahiro & Kazumi Hayakawa Yen-Yu & Wu-Kuang Yeh In Memory of Samuel H. Elkind Estelle & Fred Barnett Mrs. Angela B. Bianco Mr. & Mrs. Roger S. Braverman Rosalie/Rachel Brown Caesarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Designs Inc. Sarah/Anne Cogliano Michael Cresanta Karen Dreyfus Carolyn R. Everett Janet Elkind Finfrock & Charles H. Finfrozk David & Carol Gillis L. Gaye Hirz & Jerome B. Feinstein Patricia Prattis Jennings Barbara Katz Kawaii Gifts Ruth Kovacs Mr. Lawrence Kubey Phyllis Jo Kubey Betty & Gary Lee Susan Liebman & Family Jack Markowitz Barbara McKenna & Family Mr. & Mrs. David E. Palefsky Bernard T. Resnick Roberta Weissburg Leathers 62

Sandi Selby & Family Stephanie Snyder Alan & Merle Stolzenberg Tennis Village Mrs. Carole Timblin Ethel Tumim Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Weiner In Memory of Wilbert F. Frisch Bill & Linda Balsinger Ms. Lori Carnvale Gordon R. & Linda W. Clark Mr. Stephen Ferber Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Fitzgerald Ms. Janet L. Frisch Mrs. Charles J. Hinton Mark & Elizabeth Hornak Patricia Prattis Jennings Ms. Amy Korb Jonathan & Kathryn McClure Barbara McKenna & Family Mr. & Mrs. Ian B. Prisuta David & Deborah Faulkner Warn Paul Weber & Ana Dan Sam & Anne Zacharias In Memory of Eva R. Kent Barbara A. Graham Deborah Raggo In Memory of Raymond W. Lehman Mr. David Byrne Mr. Jason C. Bye Patricia Prattis Jennings Rose Mary Lauterbur In Memory of Lorin Maazel The Edward Lowy Charitable Fund Wilbert* & Louise Frisch Dr. & Mrs. Mordecai D. Treblow In Memory of Dr. Marlene McCall Ms. Patricia Persinger Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Smithers In Memory of Rita Painter Ms. Joan Beddow Anna Berenbrok English Department of Beaver Area Schools Ms. Dawn Guillou Frances Linkesh Tom & Meryl Rackley Dane & Jane Schlenke In Memory of Bernard Simmons Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern Janet & Donald Moritz In Memory of Dr. William Stept Mr. Elliott Becker Ms. Kenzy Brooks Highlands Hospital Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Green Lynne & Blair Jacobson Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Sachs James & Susanne Wilkinson In Memory of Elizabeth Wiegand Mr. & Mrs. Irving J. Halpern James & Susanne Wilkinson In Memory of Francis X. Wymard Mr. Michael Lipman & Mrs. Shirli Nikolsburg Paul & Linda Silver Mr. Alexander Speyer III Rhian Kenny Mr. Robert S. Whitehill

MUSIC BY THE MONTH The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is pleased to acknowledge the following members of our donor family who are current members of Music by the Month, the organization’s sustainer giving program. Music by the Month is perfect for patrons who would like to:

• Make automatic monthly contributions via their credit or debit card • Directly support the Symphony’s work both at Heinz Hall and in the community • Spread their charitable contributions across the entire calendar year • Reduce administrative and fundraising costs for the Symphony, making their support go further • Receive fewer solicitation mailings and phone calls • Ensure that the Symphony has a steady and reliable stream of support

For more information about Music by the Month, or to change your listing, please call Andrew Seay at 412.392.3310. Thank you! Anonymous (5) Dr. Kelly Austin Kimberley Beaudet Don Berry* Don & Ann Boyd Dr. Brenda Braid Prof. Bruce Byers Emil Calomino Edward & Gwen Chute Dr. Franklyn Cladis Ms. Kim M. Clapper Cynthia Custer Ms. Sallie O. De Vou Lynn & David DeLorenzo

Linda & Robert Ellison Natalie R. Falcone Ms. Linda Fowler Lorie Fuller Alice V. Gelormino John* & Frances Haeberle Perrin & Nancy Haft James C. & Vera A. Hays Mr. Phillip Hazlet M. William Helwig Carrie Herbel Carol E. Higgins Mary D. Hoehl Connie Hornickel

Andrea Humenick Mr. & Mrs. Jayant Kapadia George & Alexandra Kusic Mr. George & Mrs. Sheryl Lammay Ms. Lindsay Ledwich Marita Mathews McGarry & Tischler Godfrey E. Mills Jeffrey Mishler Daniel M. Pennell Ellen & Robert Piper Nancy & John* Riley Thorn C. Roberts

Ms. Rebecca Slak Janet H. Staab Virginia Stahlsmith Mike Stamatelos Bill & Joan Stenger Mrs. Reggi Sunseri Gordon & Catherine Telfer Kathy & Ernie Thomas Eric & Barbara Udren James & Ramona Wingate Virgil & Rita Yoder Maureen Young

NOMINATED FOR A

GRAMMY AWARD FOR BEST ORCHESTRAL RECORDING

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CONDUCTOR: Manfred Honeck PIANO: Hélène Grimaud

THE ROMANCE OF SCHUMANN

April 10-12

Schumann: Concerto in A minor for Piano and Orchestra, Opus 54 Bruckner:

Symphony No. 9 in D minor

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ON SALE NOW! “This orchestra and conductor are up there with the very best in the world. This particular performance, this amazing performance, is very special indeed.” Russell Licthter, Stereotimes Purchase your copy of Bruckner No. 4 at pittsburghsymphony.org. PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY RECORDINGS ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS GRANT FROM BNY MELLON.

PROGRAM NOTES 2014-2015 SEASON

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2015 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUMMER CONCERT SERIES

Think outside the Bach. Thursday Icons:

Smokey Robinson

July 9, 7:30 p.m. Smokey Robinson brings his honeycoated voice to Heinz Hall for a stellar performance with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

Classical BBQ

July 11, 6:30 p.m. August 2, 6:30 p.m. The Pittsburgh Symphony presents two festive evenings that are perfect for the whole family, featuring orchestral favorites, great food and drinks, pre- and post-concert music, and a chance to mingle with the symphony musicians.

Distant Worlds: music from FINAL FANTASY

August 1, 8 p.m. A multimedia experience, Distant Worlds combines stirring screen images to match the soaring emotions of the Pittsburgh Symphony performing music from SQUARE ENIXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world-renowned video game series.

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HEINZ HALL INFORMATION

BOX OFFICE HOURS are Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m; Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Weekend hours vary based on performance times. Tickets may be purchased by calling 412.392.4900 and are also available at the Theater Square Box Office. CHILDREN are encouraged to attend our youth concerts and Fiddlesticks Family Concerts. Children age six and over, are welcome at all performances with a purchased ticket. The Latecomer’s Gallery and lobby video monitors are always options for restless children.

GROUPS can receive discounted tickets, priority seats, personalized service and free reception space. For more information, call 412.392.4819 or visit our website at pittsburghsymphony.org/groups for information. LATECOMER’S GALLERY is located behind the Main Floor to enjoy the performance until you can be seated. Latecomers will be seated at suitable intervals during the program, at the discretion of the conductor. The gallery is also available for parents with restless children.

PHOTOGRAPHY, video, or audio recording of the performance is strictly prohibited at all times. PRE-PAID PARKING is available to all ticketholders in the Sixth & Penn garage across from Heinz Hall. Ask about prepaid parking when you order your tickets. REFRESHMENT BARS are located in the Garden and Overlook rooms and in the Grand Tier Lounge. Intermission beverages may be ordered prior to performances. Water cups are available in the restrooms.

RESTROOMS are located on the Lower, Grand Tier, Gallery levels, and COAT CHECK is available in the LOCKERS are located on the off the Garden and Overlook rooms; Grand Lobby or in the Dorothy Porter Lower, Grand Tier and Gallery levels. a wheelchair-accessible restroom is Simmons Family Regency Room on LOST AND FOUND items on the Main Floor. the lower level. can be retrieved by calling SMOKING is not permitted 412.392.4844 on weekdays from CONCIERGE SERVICE is in Heinz Hall. The garden is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. available in the Entrance Lobby accessible during performances to assist with your questions for this purpose. MOBILE DEVICES should and to help with dining, hotel, be turned off and put away upon SUPPORTING THE PSO entertainment and transportation entering the theater. AND HEINZ HALL concerns. [Penny Vennare, Event is critical to the financial future of the THE MOZART ROOM Supervisor; Ron Ogrodowski, Pittsburgh Symphony. Ticket sales is available for a grand dining Concierge.] only cover a portion of our operating experience catered by The DRESS CODE for all concerts costs. To make a tax-deductible gift, Common Plea, just seconds is at your personal discretion and please contact our Development away from your seats. For ranges from dress and business department at 412.392.4880 or visit reservations: 412.392.4879 attire to casual wear. us online at pittsburghsymphony.org or pittsburghsymphony.org/ mozartroom. ELEVATOR is located next to the Grand Staircase. EMERGENCY CALLS can be referred to the concierge desk at 412.392.2880. FIRE EXITS are to be used ONLY in case of an emergency. If the fire alarm is activated, follow the direction of Heinz Hall ushers and staff to safely evacuate the theater.

THE FOLLOWING ACCOMMODATIONS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES:

• Level entrance and route to main floor of auditorium • Accessible seat locations with companion seats* • Portable assistive listening devices: Please see ushers for assistance. • Braille programs are available at the concierge desk for all BNY Mellon Grand Classics and PNC Pops performances. • Large print programs are available at the concierge desk for all BNY Mellon Grand Classics, PNC Pops, and Fiddlesticks Family Series performances. *Please contact the box office for the location of these seats.

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