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The 2013/14 Masterworks season ends with Gershwin’s classic, in an original arrangement by Andrew Litton. Our maestro, a masterpiece: Who could ask for anything more?
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Andrew Litton, Music Director
Andrew Litton and George Gershwin go way back. For starters, the Colorado Symphony Music Director and Gershwin, one of the most beloved American songwriters and composers, have a lot in common. Like the grandparents of George and his brother Ira, Litton’s grandparents were immigrants from Russia. And also like the Gershwins, Litton was raised a musical boy in New York City, a stone’s throw from the Gershwin family home. Gershwin has been one of the few constants in a life and career defined by change and diversity. In 1979, as a young pianist, Andrew was invited to perform Rhapsody in Blue in Moscow, conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov. He returned
to Moscow in 1980, amid the chaos of the then-recent Russian invasion of Afghanistan. The unusual timing of a visit from an up-andcoming American artist amid the chaos of military conflict caught the attention of the international media. As conductor, performer and recording artist, Litton has carried his love of Gershwin with him to every podium. He’s recorded Gershwin’s music with the Bournemouth Symphony, the Bergen Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic and the Dallas Symphony. In May, Litton closes the Colorado Symphony’s 2013/14 season with a blockbuster rendition of the Porgy and Bess Suite, featuring baritone Gordon Hawkins in the role of Porgy. (Hawkins recently won audiences in the title role of Opera Colorado’s Rigoletto.) Litton invites you to Catfish Row
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– and into the Porgy & Bess Concert Suite, his 1996 arrangement of Gershwin’s classic opera which includes beloved classics “Summertime,” “It Ain’t Necessarily So” and “I Loves You Porgy.” Here Andrew talks with Anthony Pierce, Colorado Symphony Vice President of Artistic Administration, about the joy of Porgy and the genius of Gershwin. For a podcast of the complete conversation, including Litton’s musings on Gustav Mahler, visit www.coloradosymphony.org/soundings. Anthony Pierce: We close with a huge program — Porgy and Bess, the iconic American opera, based on DuBose Heyward’s book. Tell me about your experience with Porgy. Andrew Litton: I fell in love with the music of Gershwin as a kid. As a pianist, I learned ‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ would play it even people didn’t ask, at every opportunity. In seventh grade, we did Girl Crazy, his famous 1930 musical, at my school. All those hits songs, one after the other, are in the original Girl Crazy, starting with ‘Embraceable You,’ one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. That musical was a turning point in history, the debut of Ethel Merman, who was such a whirlwind. She stopped the show every night, with ‘I Got Rhythm.’ What isn’t often talked about was who was in the pit. As musicians we all have to start somewhere. I, too, sat in the pit and played keyboard for ballet when I was 18, 19. Sitting in the pit for Girl Crazy was the original Benny Goodman Quartet, Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson, Gene Krupa and Lionel Hampton. It was amazing. So that was your introduction. The more I explored Gershwin and the world he lived in and the friends he had the people
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he consorted with, the more fascinating it became. I’m also a New Yorker! I basically grew up 100 yards from where he lived; he and Ira lived in two apartments on Riverside Drive for ten years. I became pretty much obsessed with Gershwin and got to know the opera fairly early on in my life. Later, like all assistant conductors — I was 22 at the time — I did the Russell Bennett suite, which comes up in Pops concerts all the time. But then I discovered that George Gershwin himself had written an orchestral suite called Catfish Row, much less often done, about 23 minutes of music, stitched together. My whole beef with the Bennett was that it really turned the opera into a Broadway show. That’s been an ongoing beef since 1935 when it was premiered: Is it an opera, or is it a Broadway show? That’s tough when the composer in question had only written Broadway shows up to that point. The controversy continued because the Gershwin brothers liked money, like we all do. When the option came to have it premiered at the Metropolitan Opera or on Broadway, well, the Met would have done it nine times, because that’s what opera houses do, where
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My version is maybe two-thirds of the original. Porgy is very long. Part of the great tragedy of Gershwin, for me, is that there’s no doubt in my mind he would have learned, like the other natural songwriter, Giuseppe Verdi, that sometimes brevity is a good thing. Verdi it seemed could just breathe tunes, things just came out so natural. Maybe we had to work harder at it than it seemed; we don’t know. You can always go out of a Verdi opera singing the tunes. That’s the same thing with George Gershwin. He had this ability also. What Verdi was writing in his midGordon Hawkins reprises the role of Porgy with the Colorado 30s is not his best stuff; he grew; Symphony in May. what he was writing in his 40s, all the way up to his 80s, were his masterpieces. We are on Broadway you can do it for years. So deprived of knowing this about Gershwin George chopped it up and it became more of because he died tragically two years after a Broadway show. So Russell Bennett was not writing this opera. out of line when he made his suite into an even more popsy, jazzy treatment. And it’s accessible. You can afford to produce it, as an orchestra. In about 1990, I was moaning to [Litton friend and opera singer Willard White]. I said, ‘I’m just so sad there are no other options that are truer to the opera.’ And he said, ‘Well, Andrew. Why don’t you do a suite?’ It was like, when someone says, ‘When you’re in town, stop by.’ You don’t think seriously about it. Until I was like, ‘Well, yeah. I could do it.’ So I started working on it. Started using the original Catfish Row orchestral suite that George himself made as a kind of template. I wanted this to be able to be done by symphony orchestras. I wanted four singers — which is the same as Beethoven 9 or Verdi Requiem — and a big choral part, because of course, the chorus is Catfish Row. The whole point of the opera is this big community of people who live so closely together.
What’s so fantastic about this opera is he puts in every type of musical form he could have possibly ever encountered. There’s even a moment in the opera where Mariah sings, ‘I hate your struttin’ style.’ And it is completely early rap. It’s even spoken to a beat. So we’ve got rap, folk tunes, Broadway tunes, jazz and symphonic music, all wrapped up in one package. It’s just amazing how much he accomplishes in this one piece, and to think of what he would have written when he was fifty or sixty. It’s tragic when one thinks that way. The good news is, at least we have this. Andrew Litton conducts the Porgy and Bess Suite Friday, Mary 16 and Saturday, May 17 at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, May 18 at 2:30 pm at Boettcher Concert Hall. This Masterworks program also features Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, featuring Andrew Litton on piano, Colorado Symphony Concertmaster Yumi HwangWilliams on violin and principal cellist Silver Ainomäe.
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MASTERWORKS • 2013/14 PORGY AND BESS SUITE COLORADO SYMPHONY ANDREW LITTON, conductor/piano YUMI HWANG-WILLIAMS, violin SILVER AINOMÄE, cello JANICE CHANDLER-ETEME, soprano (Bess) KAREN SLACK, soprano (Serena) HOWARD HASKIN, tenor (Sportin’ Life) GORDON HAWKINS, baritone (Porgy) COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS, Duain Wolfe, director THIS WEEKEND’S CONCERTS ARE GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO AL AND URSULA POWELL FRIDAY’S CONCERT IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY SATURDAY’S CONCERT IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO DONNA AND TED CONNOLLY, JENNIFER HEGLIN, AND MS. MIRIAM ROBINS SUNDAY’S CONCERT IS GRATEFULLY DEDICATED TO WELBORN SULLIVAN MECK AND TOOLEY, P.C., AND JOHN AND ROSEMARY PRIESTER
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ANDREW LITTON, conductor/piano Andrew Litton, Music Director of Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sommerfest, and Conductor Laureate of Britain’s Bournemouth Symphony, recently also became Music Director of the Colorado Symphony. He guest conducts the world’s leading orchestras and opera companies and has a discography of over 120 recordings with awards including America’s Grammy,® France’s Diapason d’Or, and many British and other honors. First appointed Bergen Philharmonic Music Director in 2003, Litton will celebrate the orchestra’s 250th Anniversary in 2015. It is one of the world’s longest established orchestras. In recognition of Litton’s achievements with the Bergen Philharmonic, Norway’s King Harald knighted Litton with the Royal Order of Merit. Under Litton the Bergen Philharmonic has taken numerous tours, including debuts at the London BBC Proms and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, as well as appearances at Vienna’s Musikverein, Berlin’s Philharmonie, and New York’s Carnegie Hall - the capstone of its first American tour in 40 years. Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic record for the BIS and Hyperion labels, winning extraordinary critical acclaim for their Mendelssohn, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev series. Andrew Litton, a graduate of the Fieldston School, New York, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard in piano and conducting. The youngest-ever winner of the BBC International Conductors Competition, he served as Assistant Conductor at Teatro alla Scala and Exxon/Arts Endowment Assistant Conductor for the National Symphony under Rostropovich. His many honors in addition to Norway’s Royal Order of Merit include an honorary Doctorate from the University of Bournemouth, Yale University’s Sanford Medal, and the Elgar Society Medal. For further information, visit www.andrewlitton.com.
YUMI HWANG-WILLIAMS, violin Yumi Hwang-Williams made her debut at the age of 15 as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music. She is known today as an artist whose dynamic, stylish mastery of the classics is matched by her commitment to exploring and performing the works of contemporary composers. Strings magazine described her as a ‘Modern Prometheus’ who has ‘emerged as a fiery champion of contemporary classical music’. Her interpretations of works by Thomas Adès, Aaron Jay Kernis, Michael Daugherty and Christopher Rouse have earned unreserved approval from the composers as well as critical acclaim. Yumi is a regular soloist with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the symphony orchestras of Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Basel, Switzerland, and the Brucknerhaus Orchester, Linz, amongst others, under the batons of conductors such as Marin Alsop, Dennis Russell Davies, Hans Graf, Paavo Jarvi, and Peter Oundjian. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with such artists as Gary Graffman, Ida Kavafian, Christopher O’Riley, and John Kimura Parker. She is a member of the popular Aster Piano Trio, now in its fourth season. Yumi Hwang-Williams has served as Concertmaster of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra since 2000. She was Concertmaster of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra for twelve years, has performed as Guest Concertmaster for the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ottawa, at the invitation of Music Director Pinchas Zukerman, and has been Guest First Violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She is a faculty member of Denver University’s Lamont School of Music. PROGRAM 2 SOUNDINGS 2013/14 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
MASTERWORKS BIOGRAPHIES SILVER AINOMÄE, cello Appointed principal cello of the Colorado Symphony in 2009, Silver Ainomäe performed throughout Europe before moving to Denver. Ainomäe, who began his cello studies in 1988 at Tallinn Music High School in Estonia, recently worked as a freelance musician throughout Europe including positions as guest-leader of the Helsinki Philharmonic in Finland and work with London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. In 1992, at the age of 8, he moved from Estonia to Finland, where he pursued his musical training at Turku Conservatory with Jukka Perksalo and at the Sibelius Academy with Hannu Kiiski and Arto Noras. In 2006/07 he continued his studies in London at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Razumovsky Academy with Oleg Kogan. Awards that he has received at national and international competitions include second prize at the International Competition for Young Cellists, main prize and four special prizes at the contest festival “Con Brio 2000,” first prize in the string category at the “Verdi Note” competition in Rome, fifth prize at Isang Yun International Music Competition in South Korea, third prize at Witold Lutosławski International Cello Competition in Poland (2005) and sixth prize at Paulo International Competition in Finland (2007). Additionally he has given recitals and performed as a chamber musician on numerous occasions throughout Europe.
JANICE CHANDLER-ETEME, soprano (Bess) Soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme’s engagements include Strauss’ Four Last Songs (Reading, Baltimore, Syracuse, Harrisburg and Utah Symphonies; Florida Orchestra, Fort Wayne Philharmonic; Grand Teton and Texas Music Festivals); the Verdi Requiem (Binghamton Philharmonic, Chautauqua Music Festival; Philip Glass’ Passion of Ramakrishna (Pacific Symphony); Mahler’s Second Symphony (San Diego, Baltimore, Nashville, Cincinnati, Colorado and Pacific Symphonies; Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra); Haydn’s Die Schöpfung (Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Symphonies); Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang Symphony (San Diego Symphony), Lokumbe’s Dear Mrs. Parks (Detroit Symphony) and Can You Hear God Crying? (Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia); the Brahms Requiem (San Diego, Baltimore, Colorado Symphonies); Mahler’s Eighth Symphony (Milwaukee, Grand Rapids, American and Montreal Symphonies); Beethoven No. 9 (Cleveland Orchestra, New Jersey and Houston Symphonies), Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (Festival Miami, Baltimore Symphony), Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (Dallas and Santa Rosa Symphonies). In Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, she sang Bess at the Opera de Lyon, as well as the the Bennett concert version under Jeffrey Tyzik with the Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver Symphonies and at the Vail Music Festival. Conductors with whom she has worked include Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Andreas Delfs, Christoph von Dohnányi, Charles Dutoit, Claus Peter Flor, Hans Graf, Jeffrey Kahane, Carlos Kalmar, Raymond Leppard, Jahja Ling, Andrew Litton, Keith Lockhart, David Lockington, Stuart Malina, Peter Oundjian, Christof Perick, EsaPekka Salonen, Stefan Sanderling, Robert Shaw, Vladimir Spivakov, Yuri Temirkanov, Edo de Waart and Hugh Wolff. She has been guest soloist with the Los Angeles and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestras; Boston, NHK (Japan), Phoenix and Kansas City Symphonies; Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Rochester Philharmonics; and Philadelphia Orchestra.
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MASTERWORKS BIOGRAPHIES KAREN SLACK BLACKWELL, soprano (Serena) Hailed for possessing a voice of extraordinary beauty, a seamless legato and great dramatic depth, young American soprano Karen Slack was most recently heard in the title role of Tosca and as Leonora in Il trovatore with the Arizona Opera, Mahler Symphony No. 2 with The Latvian National Symphony, Beethoven Symphony No. 9 with Alabama Symphony, and as Aida with West Bay Opera. Other recent engagements include the role of Violetta in La traviata with both Sacramento Opera and West Bay Opera, Serena in Porgy and Bess with both Washington National Opera and San Francisco Opera, Verdi Requiem with Madison Symphony and Sacramento Choral Society, Mimi in La bohème with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, the role of Cilla in Richard Danielpour’s American opera Margaret Garner with Michigan Opera Theater, and her featured role in Tyler Perry’s movie and soundtrack “For Colored Girls” as the Opera Diva. Upcoming engagements for 2014 and beyond include company debuts as Serena in Porgy and Bess with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Sister Rose in Dead Man Walking with Madison Opera and Des Moines Metro Opera and the title role in Verdi’s Aida with Austin Lyric Opera. The soprano has won numerous competitions and awards: most recently, the Montserrat Caballe International Competition, Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, George London Foundation Award, Marian Anderson ICON Award, Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition, Rosa Ponselle International Vocal Competition, Florida Grand Opera Competition, Portland Opera Lieber Award, Liederkranz Foundation Award and the Jose Iturbi International Competition for Voice.
HOWARD HASKIN, tenor (Sportin’ Life) American tenor Howard Haskin has garnered praise and accolades worldwide as much for his “extrovert dramatic presentation” as his “ringing, lustrous” voice. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, he has sung more than 50 roles, including Otello, Peter Grimes, Bacchus, Don José, Cavaradossi, Jason in Cherubini’s Médée, Oedipus Rex, Paris in Tippett’s King Priam, Samson and Sportin’ Life, with major opera houses around the world, such as Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Opéra de Paris, Nederlandse Opera, and San Francisco Opera. Haskin frequently performs under the batons of leading conductors, such as Sir Roger Norrington, Ivan Fischer, Harmut Haenchen, Anne Manson, Ira Levin, Charles Dutoit, Esa-Pekka Salonen, David Zinman, Andrew Litton and Sir Simon Rattle, and has been featured as a soloist with many of the world’s major orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, Swedish Radio Symphony, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Berlin Philharmoniker, and Orquestra Symphonica do Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro-Brasilia. Haskin created the role of Vova in Schnittke’s Life with an Idiot at Nederlandse Opera, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich. He is well known for his portrayal of Sportin’ Life, which he has performed to great acclaim with major orchestras and opera houses around the world, often under the baton of Maestro Litton. Among other roles performed on both the concert and operatic stages, Haskin has appeared as the Jailer/ Grand Inquisitor in Dallapiccola’s Il Prigioniero in New York, Montreal, Paris, Amsterdam, Florence, Tokyo, and Stockholm. A live recording of this last performance, under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen and released by Sony Classical, received a Grammy® nomination. Visit the official website for tenor Howard Haskin at www.howardhaskin.com. PROGRAM 4 SOUNDINGS 2013/14 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
MASTERWORKS BIOGRAPHIES GORDON HAWKINS, baritone (Porgy) Baritone Gordon Hawkins began his career singing the bel canto roles of Italian opera and is now critically acclaimed throughout the world for his in-depth interpretations and luxuriant voice. A winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the George London Grant recipient, he is also a winner of the Luciano Pavarotti Competition and in 2006 was honored as the Washington National Opera “Artist of the Year.” Current and upcoming highlights include Scarpia in Tosca with Vancouver Opera. Lyric Opera of Kansas City; the title role in Rigoletto with Opera Colorado, Vancouver Opera; Porgy and Bess in concert with the Jacksonville Symphony, Bergen International Festival; Amonasro in Aida in concert with the Atlanta Symphony; title role in Nabucco with Opera Carolina; as well as return appearances with Los Angeles Opera and Washington National Opera. Other recent engagements Alberich in Der Ring des Nibelungen at the San Francisco Opera and Deutsche Oper Berlin; Der Freischütz and Alberich in Das Rheingold and Gotterdämmerung at Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville; Telramund in Lohengrin at Deutsche Oper Berlin; Renato in Un ballo in Maschera at the New Orleans Opera; Crown in Porgy and Bess at Cincinnati Opera; and Amonasro in Aida at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Michigan Opera Theatre and Cincinnati Opera. Mr. Hawkins has been heard on the Live BBC Radio broadcast as Alberich in Götterdämmerung with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, and Live from the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts earlier in his career.
DUAIN WOLFE, Colorado Symphony Chorus director Recently awarded two Grammys® for Best Choral Performance and Best Classical Recording, Duain Wolfe is founder and director of the Colorado Symphony Chorus and music director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus. This year marks Wolfe’s 30th season heading the Colorado Symphony Chorus. The Chorus provides vital support for numerous performances and radio broadcasts with the Colorado Symphony each season, and has been featured at the Aspen Music Festival each summer for two decades. Wolfe, who is in his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Chorus, America’s largest professional chorus, has collaborated with Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, and the late Sir George Solti on numerous recordings incuding Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, which won the 1998 Grammy® for Best Opera Recording. Wolfe’s extensive musical accomplishments have resulted in numerous awards, including an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Denver, the Bonfils Stanton Award in the Arts and Humanities, the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in an Artistic Discipline and the Michael Korn Award for the Development of the Professional Choral Art. Wolfe is also founder/director of the Colorado Children’s Chorale, from which he retired in 1999 after 25 years; celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. For 20 years, Wolfe also was active with the Central City Opera Festival as chorus director and conductor, founding and directing the company’s young artist residence program, as well as its education and outreach programs. Wolfe’s additional accomplishments include directing and preparing choruses for Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, Vail’s Bravo! Festival, the Berkshire Choral Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Grand Teton Music Festival. He has worked with Pinchas Zuckerman as Chorus Director for the Canadian National Arts Centre Orchestra for the past 12 years. SOUNDINGS 2013/14 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG PROGRAM 5
COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS The 2013-2014 Colorado Symphony concert season marks the 30th year for the Colorado Symphony Chorus. Founded in 1984 by Duain Wolfe at the request of Gaetano Delogu, then the Music Director of the Symphony, the chorus has grown over the past three decades into a nationally respected ensemble. This outstanding chorus of over 200 volunteers — including some 15 charter members — joins the Colorado Symphony for numerous performances (more than 25 this year alone), and radio and television broadcasts, to repeat critical acclaim. The Chorus has performed at noted music festivals in the Rocky Mountain region, including the Colorado Music Festival, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival and the Grand Teton Music Festival, where it performed Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 under the direction of Zubin Mehta. For over two decades, the Chorus has been featured at the world-renowned Aspen Music Festival, performing such diverse repertoire as the Bernstein Mass, Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 8, Honegger’s unique Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake), Britten’s Peter Grimes, the Berlioz Requiem, and the epic Schoenberg Gurre~Lieder, under the baton of notable conductors Lawrence Foster, James Levine, Murry Sidlin, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano and David Zinman. The Colorado Symphony Chorus has appeared at select public and special events, and has collaborated with many renowned Colorado arts ensembles, including the Colorado Children’s Chorale, Central City Opera, Opera Colorado and the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. The chorus sang at the 1991 opening gala for the Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre; provided choral support for international opera star José Carreras; tenor Andrea Bocelli; and participated in the 1993 Papal Vigil when Pope John Paul II visited Denver. It has performed the works of a number of Colorado composers, including Samuel Lancaster and John Kuzma, and has had works written especially for it by Colorado Symphony composers-in-residence Jon Deak and Libby Larsen. The Colorado Symphony Chorus is featured on a recent NAXOS release of Roy Harris’ Symphony No. 4. In July 2009, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Chorus, Duain Wolfe led a three-country, two-week concert tour of Europe, presenting the Verdi Requiem in Budapest, Vienna, Litomysl and Prague, with a final presentation in Aspen. From Evergreen to Lochbuie, and Boulder to Castle Rock, singers travel each week to rehearsals and performances in Denver totaling about 80 each a year. The Colorado Symphony continues to be grateful for the excellence and dedication of this remarkable all-volunteer ensemble! For an audition appointment, call 303.308.2483.
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COLORADO SYMPHONY CHORUS Duain Wolfe, Chorus Founder and Director; Mary Louise Burke, Associate Chorus Director; Eric Israelson, Chorus Manager; Barbara Porter, Assistant Chorus Manager; Laurie Kahler, Principal Accompanist Soprano I Brown, Jamie Campbell, Lindsay R. Causey, Denelda Choi, LeEtta H. Colbert, Gretchen Daniels, Kaylin E. Dirksen, Sarah Dukeshier, Laura Gile, Jenifer D. Gill, Lori C. Gordon, Kate A. Graber, Susan Harpel, Jennifer Hedrick, Elizabeth Hendee, Lauren Hinkley, Lynnae C. Kirschner, Mary E. Kushnir, Marina Look, Cathy Maupin, Anne Moraskie, Wendy L. Porter, Barbara A. Ropa, Lori A. Ross, Kelly G. Saddler, Nancy C. Sladovnik, Roberta A. Smith, Camille S. Solich, Stephanie A. Sowell, Kelly Stegink, Nicole J. Tate, Judy Travis, Stacey L. Wood, Linda K. Soprano II Benson, Claire E. Blum, Jude Bolton, Susie Bowen, Alex S. Brauchli, Margot L. Christus, Athanasia Coberly, Ruth A. Cote, Kerry H. Dakkouri, Claudia Eberl, Lacey Gross, Esther J. Harrold, Rebecca Hilgefort, Connie Joy, Shelley E. Kraft, Lisa D. Nova, Ilene L. Nyholm, Christine M. O’Nan, Jeannette R.
Rae, Donneve S. Rattray, Rebecca Rider, Shirley J. Snyer, Lynne M. Von Roedern, Susan K. Walker, Marcia L. Weinstein, Sherry L. Wells. Kirsten Woodrow, Sandy Alto I Adams, Priscilla P. Berlin, Myrna G. Boothe, Kay A. Brady, Lois F. Branam, Emily M. Brown, Kimberly Buesing, Amy Conrad, Jayne M. Costain, Jane A. Dunkin, Aubri K. Earhart, Jamie L. Franz, Kirsten D. Gayley, Sharon R. Golden, Daniela Groom, Gabriella D. Guittar, Pat Holst, Melissa J. Hoopes, Kaia M. Horle, Carol E. Kolstad, Annie Kraft, Deanna McWaters, Susan Moore, Suzanne Murray, Cassandra M. Passoth, Ginny Thayer, Mary B. Virtue, Pat Wise, Sara Wood, Heather Wyatt, Judith M. Alto II Adkins, Marilyn B. Chatfield, Cass Cox, Martha E. Daniel, Sheri L. Deck, Barbara R. Dominguez, Joyce Eslick, Carol A. Herold, Carole Hoskins, Hansi Isaac, Olivia Jackson, Brandy H.
Janasko, Ellen D. London, Carole A. Maltzahn, Joanna K. Marchbank, Barbara J. Mendicello, Beverly D. Mieger, Marge A. Millar, Kelly T. Moore, Jane B. Nittoli, Leslie M. Norris, Deborah R. Ochsner, Sally W. Rust, Carol L. Scooros, Pamela R. Townsend, Lisa Trierweiler, Ginny Tenor I Banks, Andrew K. Dougan, Dustin Gewecke, Joel C. Gordon, Jr., Frank Guittar, Jr., Forrest Hassell, Christopher Hodel, David K. Moraskie, Richard A. Muesing, Garvis J. Nicholas, Timothy W. O’Donnell, William Reiley, William G. Snook, David Van Milligan, John P. Waller, Ryan Zimmerman, Kenneth A. Tenor II Babcock, Gary E. Bradley, Mac Davies, Dusty R. Dixon, Stephen C. Fuehrer, Roger A. Gale, John H. Kolm, Kenneth E. Kostrzewski, Brett A. Martin, Taylor S. Mason, Brandt J. Milligan, Tom A. Pettigrew, James L. Ruth, Ronald L. Sims, Jerry E. Wolf, Jeffrey P. Wyatt, Daniel L.
Bass I Adams, John G. Branam, Travis D. Carlton, Grant H. Cowen, George Drickey, Robert E. Eickhoff, Benjamin Gray, Matthew Hesse, Douglas D. Hume, Donald Jirak, Thomas J. Mehta, Nalin J. Moore, Philippe Parce, Frank Y. Quarles, Kenneth Rutkowski, Trevor B. Thofson, Chad Williams, Benjamin M. Wood, Brian W. Bass II Bell, Perry W. Boe, Jeffrey E. Fletcher, Jonathan S. Friedlander, Bob Gallagher, John A. Gibbons, Dan Israelson, Eric W. Jackson, Terry L. Kent, Roy A. Kraft, Mike A. Millar, Jr., Robert F. Moncrieff, Kenneth Morrison, Greg A. Nelson, Chuck Nuccio, Eugene J. Phillips, John R. Skillings, Russell R. Swanson, Wil W. Virtue, Tom G. Williams, Miles D.
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Beethoven: Concerto in C major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op.56, “Triple Concerto” The piece is scored for solo violin, solo cello, and solo piano, flute, pairs of oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns and trumpets, timpani, and strings. Duration is 37 minutes. Last performance by the Colorado Symphony was on October 9 & 10, 2010, with Marin Alsop conducting, Claude Sim, violin, Silver Ainomäe, cello, and Alessio Bax, piano soloist. Beethoven’s Triple Concerto is a hybrid of the rich harmonies of the early Romantic Era and the delicate precision of the Baroque concerto grosso. In the latter genre, an eighteenth century composer such as Bach or Handel would produce a work for orchestra with several soloists, and would structure the piece so that the melodies alternated between the orchestra and the solo group, known as the “concertino.” The orchestra would introduce a theme, and the concertino group would elaborate upon it. This is exactly what happens in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti. Yet in the Classical Era of the late 18th century, the concerto grosso fell out of favor, and though hundreds of concerti emerged from this time, nearly all were for a single solo instrument. Beethoven, too, wrote mostly solo concerti, with this one exception, in which he seems to flash back to his early studies of Handel’s compositions. He does not trouble himself to retrieve the instrumental delicacy of his model. Beethoven had little use for Baroque-style airiness, but the interplay of multiple soloists and orchestra seems to have held his interest. Although his concertino writing is far more expansive than Handel would have allowed, it gives modern listeners an intriguing glimpse of how a master may choose to combine the best elements of different eras. The solo group in the Triple Concerto is composed of a piano, a violin, and a cello. This exact combination of instruments is known, in chamber music circles, as a piano trio. It is a highly popular genre, used to good effect by Haydn, Mozart, and numerous other composers. By 1803, when Beethoven began the Triple Concerto, he had already completed several piano trios, as well as sonatas for violin and piano, and sonatas for cello and piano. He had learned to balance the different timbres of the three solo instruments, and now set himself the task of combining those timbres with a full orchestra. This familiarity with the three instruments no doubt served him well, as in the extensive concertino sections, he fully exploits the various instruments’ distinct personalities. The work offers much dramatic expression for soloists and orchestra alike. Although there are passages of lyric beauty, the more frequent mood is of an assertive driving spirit. It is often said that this concerto was intended for Beethoven’s young piano student, the Archduke Rudolf, youngest brother of the Austrian emperor. According to the composer’s sometime friend, Anton Schindler, the piano part was kept simple so as to suit the limits of the twenty-year-old Archduke’s abilities. However, the piano part is not, in fact, a particularly easy one, and it has always seemed unlikely that the young nobleman would have been able to wrap his fingers around it. Moreover, recent research has indicated that Beethoven and Rudolf may have not become associated until shortly before the work’s premiere in May of 1808. Yet on August 26, 1804, Beethoven included the Triple Concerto on a list of compositions, including the Waldstein Sonata and the Eroica Symphony, that he offered to the publisher Breitkopf and Härtel. If the concerto was in a publishable condition four years before the two men became acquainted, PROGRAM 8 SOUNDINGS 2013/14 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES any intention that Rudolf might play the piece could only have been an afterthought. Since Schindler has been shown in other instances to possess a somewhat creative memory, and since no documentary evidence, such as a program from the premiere, has survived, the story must be regarded as an interesting possibility that cannot be proven.
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Gershwin: Suite from Porgy and Bess – arranged by Andrew Litton The piece is scored for solo vocalists, SATB chorus, and orchestra. Duration is 1 hour 5 minutes. This is the first performance by the Colorado Symphony. Imagine being at the Alvin Theater in New York City, October 10, 1935, swimming through the crowd to find your orchestra seat. And what a crowd: such important aisle sitters from the theater as Alexander Woollcott and Brooks Atkinson were joined by musical powers Virgil Thomson and Olin Downes; film stars Leslie Howard, Joan Crawford and Katharine Hepburn sitting close to opera stars Lily Pons and Kirsten Flagstad; playwrights Robert E. Sherwood, Elmer Rice and Ben Hecht with novelists J.B. Priestly, Edna Ferber and Fannie Hurst; violinists Fritz Kriesler and Jascha Heifetz rubbing elbows with bandleaders Paul Whiteman and Fred Waring. All present to witness the birth of “an American folk opera” called Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin bridged the gap between art and commercialism, between Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and the concert hall. In collaboration with DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and his brother Ira Gershwin he blended three centuries of European operatic history with jazz and popular American song to create work containing, in his word, “the drama and romance of Carmen and the beauty of Meistersinger.” As the house darkens, an edgy bush ripples through the audience, eagerly anticipating what promises to be the most exciting theater event of the season. The brief, wildly energetic and syncopated overture with winds, strings, percussion — and a very prominent xylophone — crashes through the silence, the curtain rises… In March 1924 in Charleston, South Carolina, a crippled, black American named Goatcart Sammy attempted to shoot Maggie Barnes and was pursued by police who, with their Cadillacs, not surprisingly overtook the goat-cart and put him in jail. This story caught the eye of an insurance policy writer Dubose Heyward who, more interested in creative writing, put it into a best selling novel called Porgy. This caught the fancy of George Gershwin who, then touring with his 1926 music Oh, Kay!, unsuccessfully approached the novelist, suggesting an opera. Having seen the theatrical possibilities, Heyward and his wife Dorothy were already dramatizing the book for Broadway. The 1927 Theater Guild production was a hit, and Porgy was hot property. Al Jolson pursued the rights to the work in order to produce a musical treatment by talents no less than Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in which he would play the lead in blackface. Meanwhile, the famous songwriter continued to rise as a historical figure – the man who brought jazz into the concert hall with works such as Rhapsody in Blue, Concerto in F, and a tone poem An American in Paris. Although Gershwin had signed a Metropolitan Opera contract to compose a ‘Jewish opera’, to be called The Dybbuk, a truer voice called him in Porgy. Feeling only a serious operatic treatment would be appropriate, Heyward signed on with Gershwin and the Theater Guild in 1933 to write the work with George’s brother Ira, widely known as a top-class lyricist. SOUNDINGS 2013/14 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG PROGRAM 9
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES The Gershwin brothers and Heyward worked intensely for twenty months. George spent five weeks during the summer of 1934 on the islands off Charleston, studying a community of Gullah Negroes whose music exemplified the rhythmic complexities and spiritual nature for which they were searching. Being the impresarios as well as the creators of Porgy and Bess, the brothers secured their all-black cast. (At this time the Metropolitan Opera – probably realizing that Dybbuk would never see the light of stage – offered to present two performances of the “folk opera.” Gershwin declined considering that not a single Afro-American had yet appeared at the Met.) The production team, also hand-picked, was stellar: Rouben Mamoulian, whose direction of the play version had given the production its singular style, came from Hollywood to direct the opera; Alexander Smallens conducted the orchestra, Alexander Steinert coached the singers, and Eva Jessye lead the choir. Once rehearsals started, Gershwin was fixated. According to Mamoulian, he was present at rehearsal practically every day, and “thought, breathed, dreamed, and played Porgy and Bess all the time; nothing and nobody else was of even secondary interest.” A reporter coaxed Gershwin – being uncharacteristically quiet to the press – outside the theater, but the myopic man “kept peering through an open door to the stage where rehearsal was in progress.” Taking turns as rehearsal pianist, Gershwin coached the cast with the Gullah dialect, since he had been there and most of them had not. As it became obvious that some tightening of music and text was needed, Mamoulian reported that “[George] knew the theater, he knew the audience. His showmanship was so keen that no matter how well he loved a musical passage or an aria … he would cut it out without hesitation if that improved the performance as a whole.” Even between the wildly successful Boston tryout and the New York production, the creators cut forty-five minutes to help guarantee not only a night of great music, but also of great theater. Hearing the opening strains of ‘Summertime’ that night, sung winningly by Abby Mitchell, you know this is an event unlike any in previous Broadway – and especially stale operatic – history. Although in the intermissions you overheard people grumble phrases like “halfway opera” and “politically Uncle Tom,” when the curtain fell after the third act, the tumultuous applause and cheering goes on for over half an hour. Outside the theater, limos and cabs take some four hundred invitees uptown for a party at a huge penthouse apartment on Madison Avenue. As a guest of Marshall Field you get to witness Paul Whiteman’s spur of the moment decision to bring twelve members of his orchestra. Eventually, after all sixty members of the cast arrive, Gershwin takes over the piano, reprising much of the opera. Even though you have to work in the morning, you wait for the reviews with the rest at the party of the year, promising to last until seven in the morning. As far as you are concerned, as a European composer put it in a song: “Here’s the new world, come across the sea in splendor, to take over old Europe with a dance.” The Theater Guild production ran 124 performances. Not a hit by Broadway standards, but certainly impressive as an opening run of consecutive performances of a new opera. Even a subsequent tour failed to earn enough to recoup the original investment. Ironically, the Gershwins’ last and most ambitious and original work for the stage was a financial failure.
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Insignificant now, these box office figures. Neither Gershwin, who died in 1937, nor Heyward, who died eight years later, could have foreseen the vast impact of their collaboration. Giving the twentieth century some of its all-time standards (‘Summertime’, ‘I Got plenty of Nuttin’, ‘It Ain’t Necessarily So’, etc.) the Gershwins released a creative force that has, over its sixty-plus year history, constantly found new and different realizations. Soon after its premiere, the original cast recorded Porgy and Bess’ most popular numbers on Decca, and (white) Metropolitan Opera stars Lawrence Tibbett and Helen Jepson sang them for Victor. Russell Garcia orchestrated excerpts in 1957 for a best-selling recording by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong; a year later Gil Evens arranged a suite as a profitable vehicle for trumpeter Miles Davis. The production history of Porgy and Bess also testifies to its dramatic versatility and evergreen nature. It received a “colossal” 1938 revival in Los Angeles by Merle Armitage, and again by Cheryl Crawford in 1941 where spoken dialogue replaced most of the recitative. More musical play than opera, Broadway embraced Crawford’s production. This revival played 348 performances, toured the United States, and then returned to Broadway for another run. The 1952 revival of the opera restored the recitative and added twenty minutes of material cut from the 1935 Theater Guild production. Now solidified as a classic, Porgy and Bess became an instrument of American foreign policy, a cold war tool acting as a universal symbol of the American dream and achievement. Starring William Warfield (Porgy), Leontyne Price (Bess) and Cab Calloway (Sportin’ Life), the production traveled extensively in the United States (the National Theater audiences in Washington were the first unsegregated ones in the Nation’s Capital in a hundred years) and Europe, going as far as Leningrad and Brazil. Porgy and Bess was the first opera by an American Composer to be performed at La Scala in Milan and the Volksoper in Vienna. By the 1980’s landmark productions appeared at Houston Grand Opera (with much unearthed material), the Met (finally, for the work’s fiftieth anniversary in 1985), Glyndebourne and Covent Garden. The numerous suites arranged from Porgy and Bess have mostly been instrumental ‘Porgy without words’. Gershwin toured his orchestral suite, now known as Catfish Row, within a few months of the opera’s premiere. Famous Broadway composer and arranger Robert Russell Bennett’s version, Symphonic Picture, has become a staple of the international orchestral repertory. Realizing that the stunning quality of the opera lies not only in the music but also in the lyrics, Andrew Litton prepared an operatic suite in 1991. Enjoying a long association with the Gershwins’ music since the earliest days of his career, as both pianist and conductor, Litton created a viable version of Porgy and Bess for four soloists and chorus that can neatly fit on a second half of an evening’s concert. Using a generous selection of Porgy and Bess’ pivotal numbers, Litton encapsulates the drama of Heyward’s vision in the space of an hour, including over a third of the total opera. More than an orchestrated “hits from Porgy and Bess,” this suite echoes Gershwin’s defense when critics charged him with writing ‘songs’ in his opera: But songs are entirely within the operatic tradition. Many of the most successful operas of the past have had songs. Nearly all of Verdi’s operas contain what are known as ‘song hits.’ SOUNDINGS 2013/14 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG PROGRAM 11
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Carmen is almost a collection of song hits. Of course, the songs in Porgy and Bess are only a part of the whole … I have used symphonic music to unify entire scenes. It is the last sentence that mirrors Litton’s spirit behind this suite: the orchestra does indeed serve as the unifying element, providing a symphonic continuity for the drama despite the heavy cuts in the opera. But most importantly, Litton’s suite bears witness to the Gershwins’ winning score, fashioned and blended from classical sources, spirituals, jazz, blues and Broadway, whose fertility of invention has the originality and vitality to be reborn in myriad and varied ways.
The story of Porgy and Bess. Italics indicate action not covered in the material performed in this suite. Act I, Scene 1: Catfish Row The time is the unfortunate recent past that has a feeling of unreality, of never having been. The scene is Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina. As described by Heyward it… …was not a row at all, but a great brick structure that lifted its three stories about the three sides of a court. The fourth side was partly closed by a high wall, surmounted by jagged edges of broken glass set firmly in old lime plaster, and pierced in its center by a wide entrance-way. Over the entrance there still remained a massive grill of Italian wrought iron, and a battered capital of marble surmounted each of the lofty gate-posts. The court itself was paved with large flag-stones, which even beneath the accumulated grime of a century, glimmered with faint and varying pastel shades in direct sunlight. The south wall, which was always in shadow, was lichened from pavement to rotting gutter; and opposite, the northern face, unbroken except by rows of small-paned windows, showed every color through its flaking stucco, and, in summer, steady blaze of scarlet from rows of geraniums that bloomed in old vegetable tins upon every windowsill. Introduction/JasboBrown “Summertime” “A Woman Is A Sometime Thing” All is quiet. The people of this poor community make their living mainly by fishing; the sea is just offstage. Jasbo Brown is at the piano, playing a low-down blues number as some Catfishers dance in a slow, almost hypnotic rhythm. Clara sings a lullaby to her baby. A crap game starts. Since Clara is unable to quiet her child, her husband, Jake, snatches it, jokingly sharing his view that men are more reliable parents than women. Following Jake’s song, macho stevedore Crown enters (“takin’ the whole sidewalk”) with Bess (a “liquor guzzlin’slut”). After taking some happy dust and drink from the local supplier, Sporting Life, Crown joins the crap game. Steadily losing, he picks a fight and kills Robbins with a cotton knife. Bess urges Crown to flee; the entire crowd disappears except for Robbins’ widow, Serena, left wailing over her husband’s body. Bess, shunned by the community, knocks on every door to no avail – until a cripple, Porgy, takes her in. PROGRAM 12 SOUNDINGS 2013/14 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Act I, Scene 1: Serena’s room “Gone, Gone, Gone” “My Man’s Gone Now” “Leavin’ For The Promise’ Lan’” A wake is held for Robins. Her friends intone the dirge “Gone, gone, gone.” A detective enters, abruptly canceling the music and interrogates the mourners. Arbitrarily the law men finger Peter, the honey-vendor, who quickly fingers Crown. He is taken away as a material witness. Serena sings her lament, and Bess – though not entirely accepted – leads the mourners in a spiritual for they will all soon be “Leavin’ for the Promise’ Lan’.”
Act II, Scene 1: Catfish Row “Oh I got Plenty O’ Nuttin” “Bess, You Is My Woman Now” “Oh, I Can’t Sit Down” After watching Jake and the others prepare to take their fishing boats out under the threat of the September storms, Porgy sings of his contentment. Enter skuzzy lawyer offering to arrange Bess’ divorce from Crown (to whom she was never married). Enter scuzzy Sportin’ Life who continues to try to woo Bess away from Porgy with happy dust and an exciting life in New York. Porgy chases him off as the residents of Catfish Row prepare for a picnic on Kittiwah Island. In spite of a bad omen, a buzzard flying above, the couple share a quiet moment together and sing of their love. All a jumping with excitement, people bust out of their homes, singing as they go to the island. Bess offers to remain home with Porgy, but he urges her to go with the others, who have begun to accept her because of her devotion to him.
Act II, Scene 2: Kittiwah Island “I Ain’t Got No Shame” “It Ain’t Necessarily So” “Shame On All You Sinners” Dancing, laughing picnickers celebrate. Sportin’ Life joins in the fun with some deliciously cynical biblical criticism. Serena sobers the group with a little preaching. Meanwhile, Bess has wandered away from the group and is approached by Crown, who has been hiding on the island. He unsuccessfully pumps her for happy dust, then demands she stay with him. She tries to resist.
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MASTERWORKS PROGRAM NOTES Act II, Scene 3: Catfish Row After two days on the island, Bess is found unconscious and brought Porgy, who tends over her as she stays in a delirious state for a week. Serena and others pray over her. “I Loves You, Porgy” Roused by sounds in the other room, Bess finally awakes and goes to seek Porgy. Although she confesses her love, she cannot deny the power Crown has over her. At the close of the duet, the wind rises and the hurricane bell warns the fishermen at sea of the approaching storm.
Act II, Scene 4 and Act III, Scene 1: Serena’s room Crown bursts in on the women and Porgy huddled together in prayer for the fishermen. At the window, Clara spots Jake’s capsized boat in the water and rushes out. Mockingly, Crown (since there is “no whole men left”) goes out to fetch Clara, promising to return for Bess and deal with the cripple. Clara never returns, and Bess sings the dead mother’s lullaby to the orphaned child. In the opening scene of Act III Crown does indeed come back; however, it is Porgy who deals with him – with a knife.
Act III, Scene 2: Catfish Row “There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York” The Police investigate Crown’s murder, and take Porgy with them to identify the body. Sportin’ Life slimes over to Bess, assuring her that the cripple will be locked up forever. He again offers Bess some happy dust and dangles the New York carrot in front of her. In her confusion and distress, Bess accepts.
Act III, Scene 3: The same “Good Mornin’, Sistuh” “Oh Lawd, I’m On My Way!” An orchestral introduction paints a picture of serenity restored. As residents greet one another, Porgy returns in triumph, having successfully weathered the police interrogation. An uneasy reception committee tells him of Sportin’ Life’s lies and Bess’ departure. She’s “worse than dead” they insist, but Porgy’s determination is steel. He demands his goat-cart and sets off to New York. The opera finishes with his song of faith, punctuated by chorus.
-J. Knighten Smit PROGRAM 14 SOUNDINGS 2013/14 | COLORADOSYMPHONY.ORG
IN MEMORIUM
Brian Priestman 1927 – 2014
o A great friend to classical music around the globe was lost on April 18 at the age of 87. Serving as music director of the Denver Symphony from 1970 to 1979, Brian Priestman was well known throughout the community for his flamboyant personality and magnetic charm. Whether in a classroom or on the podium, he brought “along his larger-than-life aura and a sense that classical music could be a causal affair.” (Denver Post) Born in Birmingham, England, Brian worked in the classical music business the world over including conductor positions held with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Handel Society of New York, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand National Orchestra, Florida Philharmonic, Cape Town Symphony and Malmö Symphony Orchestra. Maestro Priestman was one of the guest conductors who welcomed the region’s newly named orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, at its debut at McNichols Arena on October 27, 1989 and was la oyal friend and advocate for the orchestra. Those fortunate enough to have known Brian Priestman undoubtedly remember him for his lively, energetic presence and panache. He passed at his home in Broze, France.
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Dr. and Mrs. John H. Gale Dr. Ben and Mrs. Jean Galloway Dr. and Mrs. David H. Garfield Dr. Burton and Lee Golub Jonathan and Julia Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Greenly Hugh and Nancy Grove Fred and Carol Grover Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harris Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Harry Mrs. Joan Hazen Mr. Nick Hazen Diane D. Henry Bobbie Hill Dr. Bradley O. Hofer Mike and Vicki Hoffman Marilyn Howard William C. Hubbard Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hucks, Jr. Scott and Ria Hudson Mrs. Eleanor L. Isbill Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Johnson Carole and Marv Johnson Richard and Mary Anne Johnston Glenn R. Jones Hannah Kahn and Arthur Best Donald and Henny Kaufmann Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Kern Walter and Jean Koelbel Don and Mary Lou Kortz Ruth and George Krauss Mr. Dennis G. Kruger Phyllis and James Kurtz-Phelan Warren and Nancy Lawrence Minnie B. Lindsey Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Lingenfelter Mr. and Mrs. Alan Lipner Mr. and Mrs. Neil Littlefield Karen I. and John E. Litz John and Mary Lohre Jerry and Lyla Malzahn Ms. Joan Manley Ms. Patricia Mason Mrs. Jan Mayer Dr. and Mrs. John G. McFee Mr. and Mrs. David McGaw Virginia and Bill McGehee Michael E. McGoldrick Bill McKnab and Margaret Jurado Katherine McMurray Robert Meade Sharon L. Menard Gene and Dee Milstein Mr. Robert R. Montgomery Kirsten and David Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moritz Anne and David Necker James Neely Drs. Sarah and Harold Nelson
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Mr. and Mrs. W. Peterson Nelson Ms. Deborah R. Norris Mr. Stephen Norris Sheila O’Brien Ed Onderko Mr. David Parce Dr. and Mrs. Bruce C. Paton Erik Peterson Mr. and Mrs. Mike Pokorny Mary and Bernard Polak Mr. Paul G. Quinn Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Rakowich Mrs. Dorothy M. Read Mr. Eli Reshotko and Mrs. Adina Reshotko Mr. Jeffrey T Riggs Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ris Ms. Margaret Roath Jim and Doreen Ryan Ruth Schoening Ron Shaffer Jo Shannon Ruth S. Silver Sam and Marty Sloven Mr. David C. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Don Smith Dr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Smith Marlis and Shirley Smith Mitch and Barbara Solich Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Stamp Robert Steiger Mr. Daniel Stenersen Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Stephenson Philip T. Stoffel Dr. Bill Strempel Marilyn and David Swan Margot K. Thomson Stirling Trent Mr. and Mrs. Howard Turetzky Joseph and Lana Turner Kyle and Bev Turner Mr. M. A. Vaida Dr. Phillip Vigoda Tom and Eleanor Vincent Richard and Sharon Voegtle Denise McCleary and Paul Von Behren Bruce Wald Mr. James B. Wallace Loren E. Warner Mrs. Jean Watt Timothy White Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Whitney Dr. John Willhardt Mr. Jerry Winter and Ms. Lois Keener Curtis Woitte Dr. and Mrs. Roy R. Wright Lee and Doris Yeingst Mr. Robert Yost Dick and Lorie Young
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Dr. Marty Yussman David and Diane Zile Ms. Linda Roberts Zinn SYMPHONY MUSICIAN ($500+) Corporations, Foundations, Government Grants, Support Groups Bank of America Barolo Grill The Broadmoor Caterpillar Foundation Matching Gifts Caulkins Family Foundation Club Cherry Creek Dais Family Foundation Dan Sharp Luxury Outerwear Earls Kitchen and Bar Ergün Tercan European Salon ExxonMobil Foundation Finkel Family Fund Grossman Plastic Surgery Henry Laird Smith Foundation Hilb Family Foundation IBM International Foundation Inn and Spa at Loretto Kemp Family Fund MHA Petroleum The Moe Family Charitable Fund Nelnet, Inc. Shanahan’s Steakhouse Sloss and Carpenter Orthodontics State Farm Companies Foundation Strear Family Foundation, Inc. Tipton Family Foundation Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa Individuals Anonymous Mr. Allan Auger David H. and Lornel A. Baker Mr. and Mrs. Larry Ballonoff Mr. James D. Balog Carlos Barradas Richard and Linda Bateman Mr. Richard Bartlett Mr. and Mrs. James Beall Dr. and Mrs. Henry J. Beckwitt Anne and Henry Beer George and Phee Belsey Dr. and Mrs. Robert N. Berg Sue and Bix Bicknell Marie and Howard Blaney Jude Blum Ms. Susan Bonfield Vince and Mary Jo Boryla James W. Boyd and Sue Ellen Charlton Dr. and Mrs. Edward A. Brainard
Wally and Suzanne Brauer Dr. and Mrs. David Brewer Ms. Barbara Brown Matthew Brown and Beth Montgomery Ms. Willa Brunkhorst Rogene and Sandy Buchholz Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Butz Mr. David Cahn Douglas and Constance Cain Shirley and Roland Calhoun Mr. Gustavus W. Center Mr. and Mrs. John B. Chafee Ms. Jodi A. Chambers Michelle Chapman Ms. Delores I. Clark Jim and Tomomi Clark Catherine Cole Sylvia Fergus and David Cooper Paul and Eileen Cooper Scott Coors and David Hurt Frances S. Corsello Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Craft Ray and Kathleen Cravy Constance Crocker Lauren Curler Karen and William Curtis Mike and Bonnie Dalke Ms. Ruth Dalrymple Philip Dattilo and Barbara Melendez Susan E. Davies Mr. and Mrs. John D. De Leon Mr. and Mrs. Michael DeGroat Dr. T. M. Derloshon D.D.S. Christine Devereaux Mr. and Mrs. William Diss Mr. Robert P. Domaleski Mr. and Mrs. John R. Donnell Mr. and Mrs. Denis E. Donnelly Mr. and Mrs. William D. Doty Dorothy M. Dringman Mr. and Mrs. Gary Dudley Mr. Pat Durbin and Ms. Mary A. Schricker Lois N. Eckhoff Mrs. Nancy Eicher Dan and Lucy Ellerhorst Mary and Woody Emlen Mr. Richard M. Eslinger Ms. Judy Fahrenkrog and Mr. Larry King Warren E. Fair Michele Ferguson Paul Ferguson Ms. Gail Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Gregg Flannery David and Debra Flitter Dr. Lauren Fraser and Ms. Rebecca Coughlin Dick and Sigrid Freese Ms. JoAnne Friedman Rudi Fronk
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Mr. and Mrs. Max Furer Lucille Gallagher and Richard Stieg, M.D. Todd Gander and Terry Hsu-Gander Mr. and Mrs. John A. Gallagher B.J. and Grace George Linda Laird Giedl Dr. Burton and Lee Golub Ms. Mona Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Haggerty Jerry Jean Hale Dr. and Mrs. John L. Hall Charles and Linda Hamlin Becky and Keith Hammond Mr. Chet K. Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin Mr. and Mrs. Earl Hanna Ken and Florence Hardesty Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Harris Mr. and Mrs. Leeon E. Hayden Mr. David J. Hayes Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hembre Karin D. Henszey Keith Herman Ann Herron Mr. and Mrs. Melvin L. Hess Jeffrey L. Hill Mr. and Mrs. William Hill Mr. Stephen Hindes Ms. Laura Hoffman Mr. Robert Homiak Ms. Sally Hopper Mr. Andrew E. Hornbrook Mrs. Isabella W. Horsky Keith Howard Duane and Katy Howell Mr. David Hubly Mr. Mark T. Hughes Mr. Francisco Huitron Michael E. Huotari and Jill R. Stewart Mr. Paul W. Husted Robert Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kauerz Michelle Keist Dr. and Mrs. M. Richard Kem Polly and Frank Kemp Mr. Allen Kemp Dr. E. Glenn Kindle Heidi and Randy Keogh Mel and Roberta Klein Kathy and Rob Klugman Ronald and Sharon Klusman Ms. Deniece Kohl Rich Kylberg and Jilliann Parker Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ladenburger Penny and Dick Leather Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lederer Pauline Langsley Eugene Lee Ms. Linda L. Lee Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Lee
COMMUNITY SUPPORT David C. Leger Deanna Rose Leino Theodore Lichtmann Don and Ingrid Lindemann Mr. and Mrs. Harold Logan George and Roberta Lohr Patty Lorie-Kupetz George G. “Sandy” Lowe Ms. Hope Lowry Mrs. Jean Macferran Mr. and Mrs. Gordon R. MacRae Tish Maes Jean L. Marshall Harold P. Martin, M.D. Mr. and Mrs. Amos C. Mathews Donald and Purnee McCourt Frank McCurdy Jan McNally Ms. Janet Melson Dr. Gary B. Melton Mr. and Mrs. Jay Miller Ron and Bonnie Milzer Mrs. Patty H. Moore Mr. and Mrs. Todd D. Munson Mr. and Mrs. Trygve Myhren Ms. Trish Nagel Mr. and Mrs. James Nalven
Mr. Bob Neuman Hans E. and Margaret C. Neville Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Newberry Dr. and Mrs. John Odom Larry O’Donnell and Kermit Cain Ray O’Loughlin and James A. Henderson Mary and Art Otten Ms. Sue Pawlik Dr. and Mrs. David S. Pearlman Kerry Pearlman Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pfeiffer Patrick and Susan Pientka Mr. Kenneth R. Piner and Mrs. Karen L. Pierce Mr. Ryan Pollock Ed Post Ms. Pamela Pryor Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Quinby Terence T. Quirke Dick Ramsey Richard Replin and Elissa Stein Reid T. Reynolds Holli Riebel Hannelore Rimlinger Dr. Richard and Sandra Roark
Eleanor Roberts Ms. Carol Robison Nancy K. Roeder Terri and Jay Rolls Anthony C. and Patricia J. Romeo Sig and Lucille Rosefeld Ms. Elfie Rosin Ms. Julie B. Rubsam Mr. and Mrs. William E. Russell Cynthia L. and Paul D. Schauer Mr. John A. Schiff Dave Schmitz G.A. and W.B. Scholten Mr. Richard Schubel Mary Ann Schultz Betty and Maurice Serotta Boyce Sher Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Shultz Ms. Marlena Siegel Dr. Arnold and Bonnie Silverman Ms. Victoria Simpson Mr. and Mrs. Catherine Skokan Drs. Robert H. Slover, II and Robin Slover Dr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Smith
MeMorial day weekend 2o14
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Fri 4–8pm | Sat 11–8pm | Sun 11–5pm denver Performing arts Complex downtowndenverartsFestival.com Fine art and Fine Craft exhibition Showcasing Colorado and national artists
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Billie Busby and Sidney Smith William and Janice Smith Mr. Patrick Sola Mr. and Mrs. William H. Speaker Mr. and Mrs. Hanspeter Spuhler Mr. and Mrs. Fred K. Sternburg Mr. and Mrs. Russell Stewart Alena M. Stimack Julie and John Strain Mr. and Mrs. Michael Strear Mrs. Mary C. Symonton Lou and Katherine Svoboda Cedric and Carol Tarr Judy and Rob Tate Mr. Frank Thomson Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Tillery Nan Timbel Mr. and Mrs. Warren Toltz David Tourtelot and Nikki Headlee Barbara J. Tramutt Ms. Helen Tuttle Mr. and Mrs. Stanley D. Van Egmond Dr. and Mrs. Gary D. Vander Ark Ms. Betty Vean Harry and Terri Vogler Ed and Patty Wahtera The Sylvan Stool Family Mr. Peter J. Wall Ms. Grace Wanner Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Ward Ms. Shirley Ward Consul Emeritus and Mrs. Tor Westgaard Rosemary Whitaker Mr. Flint Whitlock and Dr. Mary Ann Watson Tim Wieland Chris Williams Dr. and Mrs. Roger A. Williams Ms. Ruth Williams Werner Winkler Mr. Michael F. Winslow Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L. Wittow Jim and Marlene Wogsland Ms. Elizabeth A. Yoder Ms. Phyllis J. Young Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zelinger R.A. Zimmerman SYMPHONY PATRON ($250+) Corporations, Foundations, Government Grants, Support Groups The Amica Companies Foundation Ansco Invesment Company Ball Corporation Big Red F The Blues Jean Bar Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival Central City Opera Chase
The Colorado Ballet Colorado Childrens Chorale Colorado Music Festival The Colorado State Music Teachers Association Colorado Trust Covenant Village Covidien Employee Matching Gift Program Daniels-Houlton Family Foundation Delish Demure Denver Area Music Teachers Association Denver Film Society Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver Plastic Surgery Associates Denver Zoo DIRECTV Matching Gift Center Dulin Charitable Trust First Bank Denver Tech Center Freeman Family Foundation Guitar Center Dr. Raymond P. Henkel Charitable Fund Jewish Community Foundation JW Marriott Denver at Cherry Creek Kate’s Real Food La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa LibertyGives Foundation Littleton Drum Studio MGive Foundation Network for Good Oceans Apart Inc Oracle Matching Gifts Program Park Avenue Oculo Plastic Surgeon Pat Hansen’s Studio Patterson Inn Pearl Dentistry Pinehurst Country Club Pink Fog Studio Pinnacle Bancorp, Inc Prost Brewing The Real Dill The Ritz-Carlton, Denver Rural Route Farms Ruth Stark Fund Sigma Alpha Iota Steele Street Bank and Trust United Way of Larimer County Valley Country Club Veda Salon and Spa YourCause, LLC Zuber Law P.C. Individuals Anonymous (9) Margaret and Norm Aarestad Lois Abbott
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Richard and Susan Abernethy Merrill and Frances Adams Jim and Lorraine Adams Carol J. Addington Mr. Robert M. Adelstein Mr. and Mrs. B.T. Allison III Donna Rae Altieri Mrs. Linda Amell Dr. and Mrs. Jules Amer Ms. Catherine H. Anderson DeAnn Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel W. Andrews Mr. and Mrs. John Andrews Larry and Gloria Angus Ron and Shalah Arlian Bill and Phyllis Ashton Bruce Avery Lew and Judy Babcock Ms. Darthelia Baker Ms. Marian J. Bakken Mr. and Mrs. Dennis E. Baldwin Louis Baptist Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barrett Ms. Jennifer N. Bater Mr. Roger Bates and Ms. Debra Brew Ms. Linda Battan Nancy Battan Irene Becker Chris and Agnieszka Behounek Robert A. Behrman Mr. Edgardo L. Belen Fr. Mark Berge Ms. Margaret Bass Berglund Neal and Myrna Berlin Mr. and Mrs. William F. Blanning Ms. Rose A. Blaschke Irma Furbeck Boltman David and Rachel Bondelevitch Mr. Kermit J. Boothroyd Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Bowes Ms. Mary A. Boyle Mr. and Mrs. Michael Boyle Carey D. Bozovich Elizabeth Bradley Ms. Susan Bradley Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Brauchli Ms. Peggy Brody Mr. and Mrs. Hal Brooks Ms. Joanne Broten Ms. Coralie Brown Mr. John M. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Trevor S. Brown Dr. Vaughn Browne Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bruner Jr Mr. and Mrs. Rick Bruno Mr. and Mrs. Peter K. Bryan Cameron Burke Neil Burris and Sandy Mazarakis John Burt Karen Cage Bill and Jo Calhoun Lois M. Calvert
COMMUNITY SUPPORT Rusty and Ellen Campos Ms. Barbara Carpenter Ms. Nicolette Cavallaro Mr. and Mrs. Tod Cavey Roger and Barbara Chamberlain Ms. Marilyn Chappell Ms. Leticia Church Dr. David Claassen and Mrs. Delores Claassen Ms. Deborah Clendenning Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Clifford Ms. Pam Cocker Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cohen Ms. Jo E. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Cohen Dr. and Mrs. S. Phillip Cohen Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Collins Rabbi and Mrs. Julian I. Cook Ben and Ann Cooper Dr. John A. and Ms. Jane H. Coppola Mr. and Mrs. Tom E. Costner Kerry and Walter Cole Mrs. Anita Cox Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cox Dr. James W. Craft Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Craft
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Creighton Mr. Edward Cronin Margaret Cunningham Mr. Barry Curtiss-Lusher Mary Ann Cushing Chuck and Kay Darling Ronald L. Deal Michael Demers Mr. and Mrs. Rus Dewitt Mr. David DiGiacomo Mr. and Mrs. Josiah B. Dodds Ms. Ann Marie Doerhoff Leland and Margaret Dong Peter and Marian Downs Dr. Paul and Paulette Dragul Ms. Marina Dubrova Ms. Donna Duhadway Gerald S. Dunbar Mr. and Mrs. Phillippe Dunoyer Roger and Carol Dutton Ms. Janice G. Eckhardt Gretchen and Bill Edwards Christina Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Roger Emblen M. Stephen and Sydney M. Enders
Ms. Gislinde G. Engelmann Bede and Burt Epstein Richard and Mary Fanyo Mrs. Ann B. Fawcett John and Joan Feek Ms. Elizabeth J. Feitner Ms. Janice E. Ferguson Vince and Dorothy Fesmire Bud and Mimi Figel Larry L. Fike and Karen M. Helm Dr. and Mrs. M.V. Filippone Dr. and Mrs. Ralph Fisch Mr. Dan Fishman Mr. and Mrs. James W. Fleet Mr. Robert Fleming Nancy Follett Mr. Graeme Forbes Ms. Marcia Forman Mr. Richard Forseberg Mr. William Fortune Mr. Richard Foster John and Lorna Fox Mr. Chris Frampton Ms. Elizabeth Frank Ms. Kirsten D. Franz Mr. and Mrs. David Freedman Mr. David Friedman
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Ellen and Sheldon Friedman Carol Friend Deborah Froeb Norbert and Linda Frueh Caleb and Sidney Gates Mr. and Mrs. Greg Fulton Deborah B Gaensbauer Lukasz Galecki Dr. and Mrs. Richard V. Gander Dr. and Mrs. Arthur D. Garfein Lester and Joan Garrison Ms. Jane C. Gilbert Ms. Kathleen Gill Dr. and Mrs. Stanley H. Ginsburg Dr. Gerry and Karen Glancy Mr. Robert Gleser Mr. and Mrs. Gary Goble Mr. Joseph Goldhammer and Mrs. Elizabeth Block Mr. Barry J. Goldstein and Mrs. Thorey Goldstein Ms. Phyllis Goodman Miyuki Mabel Googins Dr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Gorden Mr. and Mrs. James B. Grange Ms. Ellen D. Graves Mrs. Ellie Greenberg Mr. Robert Greene Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Greenholz Ms. Carol A. Greenwald Nancy and Russ Gregory Mr. Scott Greiner Ms. Eileen H. Griffith Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Griffiths Mr. and Mrs. Peter Griffiths Martha and Jim Groebe Catherine Caton Groene Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Groshek Martin C. Gross Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Haas Gen. and Mrs. Gerald E. Hahn Arthur E. Hall, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Haller Ms. Grace M. Halmi Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Hauptman Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hancock Ms. Ellen Hanes Mary Hanewell Arthur and Lilly Hardin Ms. Darlene K. Harmon Col. A. Lee Harrell and Madeline Homler Mr. Billy Harris and Ms. Linda Purcell Mr. Carroll R. Harr Ms. Lisa Harris Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Harvey
Kat and Stuart Haskins Charles and Luanne Hazelrigg Mr. and Mrs. George Hearne Dr. Thomas Heinrich Mrs. Joann D. Helm Ms. Elizabeth W. Hepp Owen and Deborah Herman Mr. Douglas Hesse and Ms. Becky Bradway Cynthia Hinds Daniel S. and Vicky L. Hinds Sarah C. Hite Ms. Mary L. Hobson Ms. Jean A. Hoerl Ruth and George Hopfenbeck Ms. Mary J. Hopkins Bob Horecky Rev. and Mrs. G.L. Horle Ken and Sue Hovland Ms. Surilda J. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hunter Mr. Edward Hurry and Dr. Roberta Shaklee Chuck Husted Mr. and Mrs. Frank Isenhart Mr. Tom James Jennifer Janezic Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jeffery William C. Jensen Craig N. Johnson and Alicia J. McCommons Margie Lee Johnson Ms. Michelle Johnson Dr. Doug Jones, MD Dr. and Mrs. Everette Jones Mr. Jeffrey C. Jones Stanley and Barbara Jones Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Judd Bill Juraschek Thomas and Veronika Kalan Ms. Margaret T. Kaluk Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kane Donald and Susan Kany Dr. Chris and Mrs. Janice Karras Mrs. Diana Kasson Mr. Norman L. Kautsky Mr. Ross Kazer Mr. J. K. Kelly David Kendall Ms. Judy H. Kessenich Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Kiken John C. Kinnamon Ms. Julie Kinney Mrs. Margie A. Kinslow Eileen and Walter Kintsch Mrs. Oza Klanjsek Mr. and Mrs. Stanley W. Kleinsteiber Stephen and Nancy Kneipple Mr. Finn B. Knudsen Elmer and Doris Koneman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Koski
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Ms. Robin Kovachy Ms. Sylvia Kreider Mr. Jack Kullman Mr. Dan LaChance C. Daryl and Lori W. Lamb Charlotte and Maurice Larue Keith P. Lautenbach Richard S. Leaman Dr. Hanna Lee Ms. Carol J. Lens Thomas and Joan Leonard Phyllis Lerud Sidney and Renae Levin David and Peggy Lindstrom Mrs. Seymour Liss Ms. Marilyn Litman Nancy Livingston Charles and Gretchen Lobitz Dr. and Mrs. Ron Long John Loveridge Mr. and Mrs. William C. Loyd Greg Lucas Fred and Bonnie Luhman Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lynch Ms. Donna R. Lynch Ms. Jeanne Maher Janika and Paul Mahon Mr. and Mrs. Paul Marcus Mr. Jackie L. Markey Mr. and Mrs. David Marks Elizabeth Marr and John Price Mr. and Mrs. Gerard Martins Mr. James L. Marvin Wendell Matt Mrs. Dorothy B. Mauk Mr. and Mrs. Robert McClelland Dr. Jerrald McCollum Rex and Nina McGehee Carla E. McKennett Mrs. Bridget McNeil Mr. and Mrs. Harold “Bud” Meadows Mrs. Ethel and Mr. Lee Mendel, and Mrs. Barbara Mendel Curtis H.P. Menefee and Kathryn A. House Virginia Messick Mr. and Mrs. Charles Metzger Ms. Ronnie Mitzner Mr. and Mrs. Robert Monks Ms. Cheryl Montanio Cheryl L. Moody Mr. Douglas G. and Dr. Laura B. Moran J. Gregory Morrell Ms. Rossann Mosher James and Karin Mote Sharon and Kurt Muenchow Mr. David Mullikin Kenneth and Gloria Mundell William and Rosemarie Murane
COMMUNITY SUPPORT Mr. and Mrs. James W. Mytton Mr. and Mrs. Ron Nadel Mrs. Cynthia F. Nagel Bill and Barbara Nash Mr. Robert Nauman and Ms. Liz Goodman Ms. June P. Nay Katherine Nazzaro Mary Neidig Mr. Harry G. Newman and Mrs. Elizabeth Frank Paul and Barbara Nicholas Ms. Tricia Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Nicoulin Richard L. Nielsen Mr. Charles Niemczura and Ms. Decker Swann Mr. and Mrs. Alan F. Nies Richard Nirk Ms. Sally Ochsner Schubert M. Ogden Dr. Bonnie M. Orkow, Ph.D. Mr. Steven Otsuki Mr. John Parfrey Kelly Parker Susan S. Parkhurst Ginny Passoth John and Mary Parfrey
Ms. Joyce Paul Mr. Howard L. Paynter Mr. and Mrs. Neil Peck Mr. Tom Persing Marge Petersen Ms. Marie M. Pfister Mr. and Mrs. George C. Pickering Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Pierce Tom Pierce and Lu Ann Dillon Ms. Sally G. Plummer Dr. Barbara Pollack Ms. Nadine Popham Ms. Barbara Powell Mr. and Mrs. H.W. Praetorius Dr. Richard Presnell Libby Printz Robert and Sarah Przekwas Mr. Michael L. Raggio Mr. and Mrs. Ted E. Rains Dr. and Mrs. Pablo Ramos Richard M. Randall Sandra Rapley Ralph and Ingeborg Ratcliff Ms. Joan Ratz Melinda H. Reed Mr. and Mrs. David Reinecke Mr. Robert B. Renfro
Russell Reynolds Mr. Kent Rice Nancy and Gene Richards Dr. Susan B. Rifkin Mr. and Mrs. William H. Roberts Phil Rock and Pamela Page Michael Rodel Mr. Bernie Rogoff and Ms. Jean Greenberg Bernard and Beverly Rosen Ms. Mary Ann Ross Molly O. Ross Mr. Robert Ross Ms. Jennifer Rowe Paul D. Rubner and Vicki D. Jensen Ms. Clarice Ruckhaus Mr. Stanley Rudeen Ms. Carol L. Rust Judy and Ron Ruth James and Carol Salbenblatt Stanley and Karen Saliman Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Sandt Dr. Donald W. Schiff, M.D. Ms. Astrid Schmidbauer Ms. Ann Schmidt Mr. Gary Schneider
Toulouse-Lautrec and La Vie Moderne: Paris 1880-1910
June7 - August 17, 2014
Celebrate Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and 94 avant-garde artists in the Parisian artistic and cultural scene. Discover over 180 objects that will delight you including paintings, watercolors, drawings, rare zinc shadow puppet silhouettes, and famous Chat Noir cabaret illustrations. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Jane Avril (detail), 1893, color lithograph, 48 ¾ x 36 inches, Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels.
This exhibition is organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia.
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT Mr. James B. Schoedler Ms. Shirley A. Scott Mr. and Mrs. Karl O. Seller Mr. and Mrs. Robert Shaklee Dr. David Shander Charles and Shirley Anne Sheets Mr. Daniel Sloan Mr. David Sloan John and Kathleen Sloan Mr. and Mrs. Jack L. Smith Jackie Solis Poli Soong Dr. Norman Spivy Mrs. Susan Spangler Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Stanko Ms. Ruth M. Stark Dr. and Mrs. Byron St. Clair James Steed Mr. and Mrs. Tim Stegink Jackie Stevens Mary L. Stewart Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Stienmier Mrs. Donna Stiles Mr. Herbert Stoeger Mr. Samuel Stott Bill and Shirley Stout Arthur and Stephanie Strasburger Mr. Stephen D. Straub Mr. and Mrs. William E. Sweet, III Ms. Cle C. Symons Vincent and Gay Tagliavore Dr. and Mrs. Richard W. Talley Dr. and Mrs. John Taubman Erik and Frances Taylor Mr. James Taylor Mr. Larry Taylor Walt and Sally Tejan Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Tellis Mr. Tom Teske Dr. Marsha Tharakan Ms. Barbara Thorngren Thomas and Wendy Thorpe Skip Thurman Mr. Roger Tinklenberg Ms. Martha Tracey Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Trask Robert and Kelli Tregemba Donald and Mary Tucker Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Turner Ms. Janet Velazquez Mr. and Mrs. Roberto J. Valdez Tim van Binsbergen Ms. Phyllis Vandehaar Mr. and Mrs. John C. Vaughey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Virtue Mr. and Mrs. James M. Voorhees Dr. and Mrs. Bolko von Roedern Laurence Wagley
Gary and Mary Lou Waldman Mr. and Mrs. Winston G. Walker Julie and Bob Wallace John R. and Kristine E. Wallack Ms. Tina Walls Rev. Donald N. Warner Ms. Polly Warner Carley J. Warren Ms. Hanna Warren Walter and Susanna Weart Jay P. Webster Hedy and Michael Weinberg Mr. and Mrs. Terrance Weinburger Ms. Marilyn Wheeler Thomas and Theresa Wheeler Norman and Marcia Whitcomb Sidney J. and Shirley B. White John Whitehill Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Whitney Dr. Norman E. Wikner and Dr. Lela A. Lee Daniel Williams Ms. Janet Williams Dr. John S. Williams, M.D. Mrs. Astrida Wilson Kent Wilson Ms. Marion Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel T. Winston Ms. Marylou Witaschek Mr. Ian Witter George and Beth Wood Mr. Hunter Wolcott Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Wolfe Ms. Jacquelyn Wonder Mr. and Mrs. Lester R. Woodward Mr. and Mrs. John D. Wright Dr. and Mrs. M. Robert Yakely Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Young Joan and David Zapiler Mr. and Mrs. Vladimir M. Zolotoochin Loren Zweig ENDOWMENTS The following members of the Symphony family have established special funds to perpetuate the work of the Colorado Symphony for future generations. These endowed funds are gifts from individuals who have loved, believed in and supported the orchestra; to these individuals the Colorado Symphony extends unending gratitude. The Bill Gossard Music Director Chair The Charles S. Sterne Conductor’s Podium
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The Dave and Pam Duke Families Guest Artist and Guest Conductor Fund The Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome H. Kern Concertmaster Chair The Principle Percussion Chair, Endowed by a Friend of the Colorado Symphony THE HORACE TUREMAN SOCIETY Named for the first conductor of the Denver Civic Orchestra, the Horace Tureman Society honors an exceptional group of people who have pledged future support for the Symphony through an estate gift. The Tureman Society recognizes in perpetuity those making estate gifts through wills, living trusts, annuities, IRAs, retirement plans, charitable trusts, life insurance designations or other legacy giving vehicles. Richard and Susan Abernethy Mr. and Mrs. David M. Budd Mr. Jim Caputo Mr. Gene Child Anne M. Culver Ms. Janice G. Eckhardt Jennifer Guess Donna E. Hamilton Johannes Heim Cathey A. Herren Janice E. Hesser Senta G. Holtzmann Mr. and Mrs. Gopal Iyengar Ms. Gloria E. Johnston Mr. Geoffrey Kuhn Sandy and Evan Lasky Deanna Rose Leino Virginia and Frank Leitz Ms. Ann C. Levy John and Merry Low Evi and Evan Makovsky Mrs. Sue McFarlane Steve G. Morton Mr. Thomas Murray Mr. and Mrs. Ron Neel Judith Nichols William Oliver Gordon R. and Pam Parker Barbara J. Powell James Robert Pratt Dr. and Mrs. W. Gerald Rainer Mr. Neil F. Roberts Audrey D. and Harvey D. Rothenberg Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Runice Suzanne Ryan Richard and JoAnne Sanders
COMMUNITY SUPPORT Ms. Floy L. Senior James and Jenene Stookesberry Mr. Richard Thackrey James D. and Judy Vaughn John R. and Kristine E. Wallack Phyllis J. Young IN MEMORIAM GIFTS The following gifts were made to the Colorado Symphony in memory of a family member, friend, or supporter of the symphony. These tributes hold an honored place with the Colorado Symphony, and we are pleased to recognize them. In memory of Merrill Adams given by: Ms. Pamela Lewis Mr. Frank Y. Parce In memory of Donald L. Ambler given by: Mr. Frank Y. Parce Mr. Chet Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Mr. Charles Ansbacher given by: Swanee Hunt Family Foundation In memory of Margaret “Peggy” Brown given by: Mr. Steve Erke Ms. Alma Haycraft K. H. and M. E. Schlichtemeier David R. Wilson In memory of Ms. Ellie Campbell given by: Ms. Marilyn Johnston Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kueler Mr. George Peak In memory of Mr. and Mrs. John Caton given by: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Perkaus In memory of Mrs. Lucille Center given by: Ms. Willa Brunkhorst Ms. Ruth Moss Mrs. Frances B. Smith In memory of Blair Chotzinoff given by: Mr. Chet Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin Nancy and Robert Schulein Fund
In memory of Mrs. Zylpha Clinton given by: Esther A. Spachner In memory of Mr. Stephen Connor given by: Mr. and Mrs. Max Buckman In memory of Betty Damerau given by: Carroll Barnes Franklin and Edna Churchill Ralph and Alice Damerau Robert Damerau Carol Dasse Susan Hess Vicky Mateev Patrice Oliver Shirley Satterlund Ramon and Sandra Villarreal Richard and Marsha Wagner Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Winkelbauer In memory of Mr. George Decurnou given by: His friends in Healthcare Policy and Financing In memory of Dr. Louis Duman given by: Sylvia Sosin Cohen In memory of Mr. Leo M. Eisel given by: Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Serotta In memory of Dr. Joyce S. Freeman given by: Freeman Family Foundation In memory of Jerry Friedman given by: JoAnne Friedman In memory of Ms. Callae B. Gilman given by: The Gilman Family Foundation In memory of Ms. Hermina Goldfarb given by: Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Newman In memory of Mrs. Pamela Gordon given by: Ms. Jo Anne Meinert Karen Rownd In memory of Manny Greenberg given by: Ellie Greenberg and Family The Sylvan Stool Family In memory of Mr. Bryon E. Graber given by: Victoria Aguilar
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Mary Louise Burke Mr. Keith Corrette Vishnu and Jane Devkar Mr. Robert A. Graber Jeff Holliday David House Brenda Lechuga Ms. Penny May Mitch McKee Ms. Nancy N. Morehead Mrs. Jo B. Shannon In memory of Kenny Harper given by: Mr. Chet Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Louise Hadley Hill given by: Mr. George Heisel In memory of Jeannine D. Hiester given by: Phillip C. Hiester In memory of Dr. and Mrs. James Hill given by: Mr. John Hill In memory of Ms. Vesta “Dott” Hutchison given by: Ms. Sherri Colgan Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Grigg Mrs. Joan Laubhan Mr. George Peak Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Whitney Ms. Phyllis Wrenick In memory of Mr. William “Bill” Houlton given by: Colorado Permanente Medical Group Ms. Karin Henszey Katharine Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Trygve Myhren Lynn Nelson Mr. and Mrs. James M. Woodward In memory of Glenn Johnson given by: Anonymous In memory of Wilson LeChat given by: Dr. Mary Ann Watson In memory of Mrs. Elaine C. Lenicheck given by: Ms. Kate Bermingham Mr. Chet Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Mr. Dallas Mauk given by: Mr. Frank Y. Parce
COMMUNITY SUPPORT Mark and Mary Schreiber Wilson Wampler In memory of Tracy M. Smith given by: Eaton Smith In memory of Mr. John M. Sommer given by: The Bailey Company Charles and Jerry Boutin Frederick and Mary Brower Mr. and Mrs. William Max Buckman Mr. Scott Contine Merriline Crawford Mr. Bruce Evans Mr. and Mrs. Gary Harris Mr. and Mrs. Frank Isenhart Mr. and Mrs. William C. McGehee Nancy Orcutt Ms. Gwendolyn A. Parker Dee Perry Van Gilder Insurance Corporation In memory of Mr. and Mrs. John and Marie Straub given by: Mr. Stephen D. Straub
In memory of Mr. Albie Urban given by: Mr. and Mrs. David McGaw In memory of Mr. Guenther Vogt given by: Drs. Paula and William Bernstein Merle Chambers and Hugh Grant Al and Terri Fisher Mr. Floyd Ingalls Richard and Pricilla Roberts Susan Sheridan Mr. Robert Turner Laura and Alan Zeigel In memory of Mr. Harry W. Vogler given by: Mrs. Teresa Vogler In memory of Mr. Robert “Bob” Wick given by: Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chenoweth Mrs. Patricia Redifer In memory of Lisa Gayle Wigod given by: Alan and Judy Wigod
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In memory of Mr. Galen Nelson given by: Mr. and Mrs. Mark Murphy In memory of Barbara Ridgeway given by: Kathryn Taylor In memory of Mr. Harry Safstrom given by: Mr. Chet Hampson and Ms. Susan Martin In memory of Lyn Sabichi given by: Eileen Price In memory of Mr. Robert Schulein given by: The Nancy and Robert Schulein Fund In memory of Mrs. Janice A. Smith given by: Emily and Michael Bocko Robert R and Shirley Gallagher David and Joyce Guyton Dave and Barbara Lohr Barbara S. Miller Jim and Winnie Moss Jean C. Parchen
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COMMUNITY SUPPORT In memory of Mr. Jack “John” Wyatt given by: Mr. Frank Y. Parce
IN HONOR GIFTS
The following gifts were made to the Colorado Symphony in honor of a family member, friend, or special occasion. These tributes hold an honored place with the Colorado Symphony, and we are pleased to recognize them. In honor of Mr. Michael Altenberg’s birthday given by: The Striker Foundation In honor of Ms. Courtney H. Bress given by: Mr. Doug Hershey and Ms. Bronwyn Bateman In honor of Bill and Jo Calhoun’s wedding anniversary given by: Mr. and Mrs. Mark Calhoun In honor of the birth of Margo Allon Choen, daughter of Drs. Joel and Jodie Cohen given by: Mrs. Nancy Livingston
In honor of Dick and Sigrid Freese given by: Ms. Margaret Roath In honor of Mr. Mike Fries Anna and John J. Sie Foundation In honor of Ms. Donna S. Gerich given by: Ms. Grace E. Johnston In honor of Chet Hampson given by: Mrs. Leslie Cady Susan Martin In honor of Mrs. Maryanne Harry’s birthday given by: Ms. Jeanne Maher In honor of Philip C. Heister, Master Electrican of the CSO given by: Mr. and Mrs. Eli Reshotko In honor of Fred and Margaret Hoeppner given by: Dr. and Mrs. David Flitter In honor of Steve and Elizabeth Holtze Mr. and Mrs. Carl Eklund
In honor of Ms. Beth Johnston given by: Ms. Donna Gerich In honor of Mary Rossick Kern and Jerry Kern given by: Ms. Linda Dee In honor of Deanna Leino given by: Mr. Frank Y. Parce In honor of Andrew Litton given by: Mary Spillane In honor of CSO organist Ken Mervine given by: Ms. Sallie D. Suby-Long In honor of Lois Moll given by: Judith Ellis In honor of Frank Y. Parce given by: Mr. David Parce In honor of Mrs. Lois and Dr. Gerald Rainer given by: Mr. Stephen A. Edmonds In honor of Ms. Eleanor Roberts given by: Mr. Frank Y. Parce
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Thank you to those companies who match current and retired employee contributions to the Colorado Symphony and to our donors who apply for these matching gifts. Please check with your Human Resources department to see if your contribution can double through the generosity of your company. To contact the Colorado Symphony Development Department directly, please call Jackson Stevens at 303.308.2475.
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