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The official magazine of the ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA WARD STARE, MUSIC DIRECTOR JEFF TYZIK, PRINCIPAL POPS CONDUCTOR MICHAEL BUTTERMAN, PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR FOR EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Chair CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN, CONDUCTOR LAUREATE The Christopher Seaman Chair, Supported by Barbara and Patrick Fulford and The Conductor Laureate Society

JAN 6–JAN 22

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Welcome from the President & CEO The Orchestra RPO Board of Directors Bravo to Our Sponsors Bravo to Our Generous Supporters About Your RPO

13 Raiders of the Lost Ark: Film with Orchestra January 6

17 Amy Grant January 7

21 Ehnes Plays Beethoven January 12 & 14

27 Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II January 20 & 21

35 Music of Mozart PHOTO CREDITS: COVER DESIGN: Meg Spoto, m dash studio THIS PAGE: ©2016 Suzy Gorman

January 22 Vol. 94 · Book 5

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Happy New Year from the RPO!

Welcome

The excitement continues January 7 as we welcome six-time Grammy winner Amy Grant to Rochester for her first-ever performance with the RPO! From gospel to pop, songwriting to television, Amy has cemented her status as a true superstar of the entertainment industry, and is one of only two Christian artists to be awarded a star on the legendary Walk of Fame in Hollywood. You won’t want to miss this iconic artist, live with the RPO! January 12 and 14 marks a banner weekend in our Philharmonics season as Music Director Ward Stare returns to lead one of the most popular pieces in the history of classical music—Beethoven’s Violin Concerto—for which we’ll be joined by Grammy-winning violinist James Ehnes. In addition to this Beethoven masterpiece, you’ll have the chance to hear some of Mozart’s greatest works in our popular Sunday Matinees at Hochstein Series (Jan. 22). The concert will spotlight the incredible talent within our orchestra as Concertmaster Juliana Athayde (The Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward Chair) and Principal Viola Melissa Matson (The William L. Gamble Chair) perform Mozart’s sublime Sinfonia concertante.

from the President & CEO

We leap into 2017 in the most exciting way possible—with a big-screen showing of Steven Spielberg’s action-packed Raiders of the Lost Ark, complete with John Williams’ epic score performed live by the RPO! There’s nothing like seeing a film with live soundtrack, and we are thrilled to present this special one-night-only event, which harkens back to the RPO’s early days accompanying silent films right here in Eastman Theatre.

Thank you for making the RPO your choice for a night out! Please keep in mind that ticket sales cover only about 40% of our total operating costs.

We rely on your generous donations to close the gap—and we need your support now more than ever. Your contributions today will help us pass on the gift of music to the youngest listeners in our community, ensuring that every third- and fifth- grader in the Rochester City School District can attend an RPO concert free of charge. To learn more about how your tax-deductible gift can support the RPO, please contact the Development Office at 585-399-3649.

ERICH CAMPING

Bugs Bunny introduced classical music to an entire generation, and January 20 and 21, we’ll laugh out loud at the antics of everyone’s favorite “Wascally Wabbit” with a big-screen showing of Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II. Whether you’re reliving childhood memories or experiencing these iconic animated shorts for the first time, this concert is the perfect treat for the entire family.

From all of us at the RPO, here’s to a happy and healthy New Year filled with beautiful music!

Ralph Craviso President & CEO

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MOZART’S REQUIEM Ward Stare, conductor Eastman-Rochester Chorus, William Weinert, director HOVHANESS Prelude and Quadruple Fugue STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movements MOZART Requiem (Sussmayer Edition) MADE POSSIBLE BY THE MOZART PERFORMANCE FUND: SARAH D. ATKINSON, M.D. AND STEVEN HESS

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Gaelen McCormick, Acting Assistant Principal Edward Castilano Fred Dole Jeff Campbell + Eric Polenik

Nikolette LaBonte, Associate/Assistant/Utility Maura McCune Corvington David Angus

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Jason McNeel FLUTE Rebecca Gilbert, Principal The Charlotte Whitney Allen Chair Funded in perpetuity

Joanna Bassett Supported in part this season by Josephine Trubek

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by Bill & Ruth Cahn

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by Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt M. Sylvester Funded in perpetuity

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WARD STARE Music Director

In the RPO’s 2015–16 season, Stare collaborated with highly regarded guest soloists including violinist Simone Porter, soprano Erin Wall, and worldrenowned pianist Yuja Wang. Stare also conducted the regional premiere of a flute concerto by Pulitzer-Prize winner Aaron Jay Kernis, performed by leading virtuoso Marina Piccinini. RPO 2016–17 season highlights include an American Music Festival, Puccini’s La Bohème, and the world concert premiere of a new work for orchestra by Academy Award-winning composer Elliot Goldenthal. Stare will also collaborate with noted soloists such as pianist Jeremy Denk, violinist James Ehnes, and soprano Nicole Cabell.

2016–17 Season

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Appointed the 12th music director of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in July 2014, Rochester native Ward Stare has been described as “inspiring musicians to impressive heights” by The New York Times, a “compelling figure on the podium” by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and “a dynamic music director” by Rochester CITY Newspaper.

Stare’s recent seasons have seen a number of highly anticipated debuts with orchestras around the world, including performances with the Baltimore Symphony, Sydney Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and the Calgary Philharmonic. This season, he makes his debut in November with the Hawaii Symphony Orchestra leading a program of Wagner, Liszt, and Sibelius, followed by his return to the St. Louis Symphony in December.

HALSKI STUDIO

He made his debut with the Grant Park Music Festival in July 2015, and returned to the New World Symphony in 2016. Stare’s frequent collaboration with the Lyric Opera of Chicago began with his debut in 2012 conducting performances of Hansel and Gretel; he returned in 2013 to lead Die Fledermaus, and again in November 2014 to lead Porgy and Bess to rave reviews. Following his critically acclaimed debut with the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (OTSL) in 2013 conducting Il Tabarro and Pagliacci, Stare returned to OTSL the next season for performances of Dialogues of the Carmelites. He made his debut with the Washington National Opera conducting Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir d’amore in 2014.

Stare served as resident conductor of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra from 2008 to 2012. In 2009, he made his highly successful Carnegie Hall debut with the orchestra, stepping in at the last minute to lead H. K. Gruber’s Frankenstein! The 2013–14 season saw his return to the Atlanta and Detroit symphony orchestras, as well as his debuts with the Syracuse Symphoria, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the Naples Philharmonic with Lang Lang as soloist. Other recent engagements include the Houston, Québec, and Dallas symphonies, as well as numerous engagements with the Saint Louis Symphony where he served as a regular guest conductor on the orchestra’s 2012–13 Family, Special Event, and Subscription series.

Stare was trained as a trombonist at The Juilliard School in Manhattan. At 18, he was appointed principal trombonist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and has performed as an orchestral musician with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, among others. As a soloist, he has concertized in both the U.S. and Europe. wardstare.com

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MICHAEL BUTTERMAN Principal Conductor for Education and Community Engagement The Louise and Henry Epstein Family Chair

Now in his 17th season as principal conductor for education and community engagement with the RPO—the first position of its kind in the United States—Butterman also is the music director of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, with whom he will appear at the Kennedy Center’s inaugural SHIFT Festival in 2017. In addition, he serves as music director of the Shreveport Symphony and the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, and just completed a 15-year tenure with the Jacksonville Symphony, first as associate, and then as resident conductor.

PALMER HOUSE PHOTOGRAPHY

Making his mark as a model for today’s conductors, Michael Butterman is recognized for his commitment to creative artistry, innovative programming, and to audience and community engagement.

As a guest conductor, Butterman has led many of the country’s preeminent ensembles, including The Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and Houston Symphony. In the 2016–17 season, he will return to conduct the National Symphony for three weeks of concerts at the Kennedy Center, as well as to conduct Canada’s Victoria Symphony. Other recent appearances include performances with the symphonies of Oregon, Phoenix, Kansas City, Colorado, Charleston, Hartford, San Antonio, Syracuse, New Mexico, Santa Fe, California, Louisiana, Spokane, El Paso, Mobile, and WinstonSalem, as well as the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Pensacola Opera, and Asheville Lyric Opera. Summer appearances include Tanglewood, the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Ohio Light Opera, and the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia.

His work has been featured in six nationwide broadcasts on public radio’s Performance Today, and can be heard on two CDs recorded for the Newport Classics label and on a disc in which he conducts the Rochester Philharmonic and collaborates with actor John Lithgow. michaelbutterman.com.

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Maintaining and operating the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (Founded in 1923 — Incorporated in 1930)

RPO Board of Directors

EX-OFFICIO OFFICERS Ralph P. Craviso Jules L. Smith, Esq. President & CEO Chairperson of the Board Ralph P. Craviso President & CEO Ilene L. Flaum Vice Chairperson Robert A. Woodhouse Treasurer Mark Siwiec Secretary

2016–17 Season

Dr. Dawn F. Lipson Immediate Past Chairperson (TERM EXPIRES FEB. 2017) Stephen B. Ashley Jeremy A. Cooney, Esq. Dr. Andrew J. Elliot Ilene L. Flaum Michael Gioja Patrick J. Kelly Michael B. Millard Elizabeth F. Rice Jules L. Smith, Esq. (TERM EXPIRES FEB. 2018) La Marr J. Jackson, Esq. David Lane Michael Pietropaoli Christopher N. Pipa Dr. Stephen I. Rosenfeld Katherine T. Schumacher Deborah Wilson

Jules L. Smith, Esq. Chairperson of the Board

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(TERM EXPIRES FEB. 2019) Dr. Steven E. Feldon Marjorie L. Goldstein Dr. Sandra S. Johnson Mark Siwiec Ingrid A. Stanlis Jason Thomas Steven H. Whitman Robert A. Woodhouse

David C. Heiligman Chairperson, Honorary Board Dr. Dawn F. Lipson Immediate Past Chairperson Dr. Jamal J. Rossi Dean, Eastman School of Music Anna Steltenpohl Orchestra Representative W. Craig Sutherland Orchestra Representative HONORARY BOARD David C. Heiligman Chairperson Nancy & Harry Beilfuss James M. Boucher Paul W. Briggs William L. Cahn Catherine B. Carlson Louise Epstein Joan Feinbloom Betsy Friedman Patrick Fulford Ronald A. Furman Mary M. Gooley A. Thomas Hildebrandt Marie Kenton Dr. James E. Koller Harold A. Kurland, Esq. Cricket and Frank Luellen Elizabeth F. Rice Nathan J. Robfogel, Esq. Jon L. Schumacher, Esq. Katherine T. Schumacher Norman M. Spindelman Betty Strasenburgh Josephine S. Trubek Suzanne D. Welch Patricia C. Wilder

PAST RPO CHAIRPERSONS 1930–32: Edward G. Miner* 1932–34: Simon N. Stein* 1934–38: George E. Norton* 1938–41: Leroy E. Snyder* 1941–42: Frank W. Lovejoy* 1942–43: Bernard E. Finucane* 1943–46: L. Dudley Field* 1946–48: Edward S. Farrow, Jr. * 1948–51: Joseph J. Myler* 1951–52: Joseph F. Taylor* 1952–55: Raymond W. Albright* 1955–57: Arthur I. Stern* 1957–59: Thomas H. Hawks* 1959–61: Walter C. Strakosh* 1962–63: Ernest J. Howe* 1963–65: O. Cedric Rowntree* 1965–67: Frank E. Holley * 1967–69: Thomas C. Taylor* 1969–71: Thomas H. Miller* 1971–72: Mrs. Frederick J. Wilkens* 1972–73: Edward C. McIrvine 1973–74: Robert J. Strasenburgh* 1974–75: John A. Santuccio 1975–76: Robert J. Strasenburgh* 1976–78: Dr. Louis Lasagna* 1978–80: Edward C. McIrvine 1980–82: Peter L. Faber 1982–84: Paul F. Pagerey* 1984–85: Peter L. Waasdorp* 1986–89: Robert H. Hurlbut* 1989–91: Paul W. Briggs 1991–93: Karen Noble Hanson 1993–95: Ronald E. Salluzzo 1995–98: A. Thomas Hildebrandt 1998–00: Harold A. Kurland, Esq. 2000–04: David C. Heiligman 2004–06: Ingrid A. Stanlis 2006–09: James M. Boucher 2009–11: Suzanne D. Welch 2011–13: Elizabeth F. Rice 2013–15: Dr. Dawn F. Lipson * Deceased

The RPO expresses its gratitude to all those who have served as Honorary Board members in the past.

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Bravo to Our Sponsors

SEASON & SERIES SPONSORS: SEASON SPONSOR

PHILHARMONICS SERIES SPONSOR

POPS SERIES SPONSORS

SEASON MEDIA SPONSORS

CONCERT SPONSORS: Raiders of the Lost Ark: Film with Orchestra January 6 Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante and Symphony No. 39 are made possible by THE MOZART PERFORMANCE FUND: SARAH D. ATKINSON, M.D. AND STEVEN HESS

GOVERNMENT SUPPORT: RPO PERFORMANCES ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, WITH THE SUPPORT OF GOVERNOR ANDREW CUOMO AND THE NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATURE.

THE HYATT REGENCY ROCHESTER IS THE OFFICIAL HOTEL OF THE RPO FOR THE 2016–17 SEASON

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JAN 6 8 PM KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE

Vinay Parameswaran, guest conductor

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK PARAMOUNT PICTURES Presents A LUCASFILM LTD Production A STEVEN SPIELBERG Film

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Starring HARRISON FORD KAREN ALLEN PAUL FREEMAN RONALD LACEY JOHN RHYS-DAVIES DENHOLM ELLIOTT Music by JOHN WILLIAMS Executive Producers GEORGE LUCAS and HOWARD KAZANJIAN

Raiders of the Lost Ark: Film with Orchestra

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Screenplay by LAWRENCE KASDAN Story by GEORGE LUCAS and PHILIP KAUFMAN Produced by FRANK MARSHALL Directed by STEVEN SPIELBERG

Tonight’s program is a presentation of the complete film Raiders of the Lost Ark with a live performance of the film’s entire score, including music played by the Orchestra during the end credits. Out of respect for the musicians and your fellow audience members, please remain seated until the conclusion of the credits.

“RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK” Licensed by LUCASFILM LTD and PARAMOUNT PICTURES. This program licensed by LUCASFILM LTD and PARAMOUNT PICTURES. Motion Picture, Artwork, Photos ©1981 Lucasfilm Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

MUSIC WRITTEN BY JOHN WILLIAMS BANTHA MUSIC (BMI) ALL RIGHTS ADMINISTERED BY WARNER-TAMERLANE PUBLISHING CORP. (BMI) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. USED BY PERMISSION.

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A Note from the Composer In creating the character Indiana Jones, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg introduced an enduring and much loved figure into the pantheon of fictional movie heroes. Raiders of the Lost Ark was illuminated by the superb comedy-action performance of Harrison Ford and enlivened by the spirited direction of Steven Spielberg.

Speaking for myself, I must say that the experience of composing the music for this film, and for the subsequent installments in the series, was a very happy one, and offered me a wild and truly joyous ride.

I’m especially delighted that the magnificent Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has agreed to perform the music this evening in a live presentation of the movie.

John Williams

I know I speak for everyone connected with the making of the Raiders in saying that we are greatly honored by this event… and I hope that tonight’s audience will experience some measure of the joy and fun we did when making the film nearly thirty-five years ago.

PRODUCTION CREDITS Raiders of the Lost Ark – Film with Orchestra produced by Film Concerts Live!, a joint venture of IMG Artists, LLC and The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc. Producers: Steven A. Linder and Jamie Richardson Production Manager: Rob Stogsdill Production Coordinator: Rebekah Wood Worldwide Representation: IMG Artists, LLC Supervising Technical Director: Mike Runice Technical Director: Matt Yelton Music Composed by John Williams Music Preparation: Jo Ann Kane Music Service Film Preparation for Concert Performance: Ramiro Belgardt Technical Consultant: Laura Gibson Sound Remixing for Concert Performance: Chace Audio by Deluxe The score for Raiders of the Lost Ark has been adapted for live concert performance.

With special thanks to: Paramount Pictures, Lucasfilm Ltd, Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall, John Williams, Alan Bergman, Howard Roffman, Chris Holm, Chip McLean, Darryl J. Franklin, Dan Butler, Pat Woods, Mark Graham and the musicians and staff of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

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artists Active as both an orchestra and opera conductor, Vinay Parameswaran currently serves as Associate Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, where he works with Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero and conducts the symphony in classical, pops, education and community concerts.

HARRY BUTLER

Vinay Parameswaran, guest conductor

Vinay Parameswaran

In recent seasons, Parameswaran made debuts with the Tucson, Eugene, Milwaukee, and Jacksonville symphonies, as well as the National Symphony orchestra. His ďŹ rst RPO appearance was in November 2016.

During the 2014-15 season, Parameswaran made his debut with the Eugene Symphony, and he was one of four participants selected to participate in the David Zinman Conductors Workshop with the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. He was also one of 24 conductors selected to participate in the Malko Competition in Copenhagen.

In 2013, Parameswaran conducted the Curtis 20/21 Ensemble on the album Two x Four, featuring violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh. This recording included Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds, which received a 2014 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Classical Composition.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Parameswaran holds a Bachelor of Arts in music and political science from Brown University. He received a diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Otto-Werner Mueller.

Join us for our 40th Season!

Bach to the Future Sunday, March 26, 2017 at 4:00 p.m.

Mozart and a Guggenheim Fellow Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 4:00 p.m.

Celebrate SCMR with Jon Nakamatsu Friday, May 19, 2017 at 7:30 p.m.

Artistic Directors: Juliana Athayde and Erik Behr

All concerts at the Performance Hall at Hochstein, 50 North Plymouth Ave.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TICKETS visit ChamberMusicRochester.org, email Contact@ChamberMusicRochester.org, or call 585-624-1301.

Artist in Residence: Jon Nakamatsu

Students admitted free with school ID New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature

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EASTMAN • THEATRE

EASTMAN PRESENTS 2016–2017 Welcoming great performers to the Kodak Hall stage FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2017

Norm Lewis: The Music of the Night An evening with the star of Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and smash TV hit Scandal.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2017

An Evening of Storytelling with Garrison Keillor Norm Lewis

The best-selling writer and longtime star of A Prairie Home Companion returns to Rochester.

Generously supported by Dr. Eva Pressman and Dr. Seth Zeidman TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2017

St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Yuri Temirkanov, conducting Nikolai Lugansky, piano

Garrison Keillor

Also part of the Eastman Piano Series Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 “It was like tapping directly into the fount of all Russian music: wistful elegance, sighing melancholy, gorgeously interwined.”–Times of London Generously supported by the Fernando Laires Piano Fund TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 2017

Savion Glover: STePz St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra Savion Glover

“Mr. Glover can be physically reckless, thrillingly so, with no loss of precision.”–New York Times Generously supported by M/E Engineering

All at 8 PM in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre

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Amy Grant, vocalist David Hamilton, guest conductor

Amy Grant

Flight to Neverland Stay For Awhile Takes A Little Time Our Time is Now Big Yellow Taxi House of Love Good For Me The Lucky One Missing You You’re Not Alone In This World

INTERMISSION Sing Your Praise To the Lord To Be Together Every Heartbeat Baby Baby O How the Years Go By Someone to Watch Over Me That’s What Love Is For El Shaddai Every Road/Thy Word Emmanuel

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artists Amy Grant, vocalist Amy Grant’s career spans more than 30 years and stretches from her roots in gospel to becoming an iconic pop star, songwriter, television personality, and philanthropist. With three multi-platinum albums, six platinum albums, and four gold albums, her total career album Amy Grant sales have exceeded 30 million. Grant’s chart success has been consistent throughout her career with six No. 1 hits, 10 Top 40 pop singles, 17 Top 40 Adult contemporary tracks, and multiple contemporary Christian chart-toppers. In addition to her six Grammy® Awards, Grant has earned 26 Dove Awards (including four Artist of the Year Awards) and has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Conventional wisdom has it that Grant put contemporary Christian music on the map, becoming the first Contemporary Christian artist to have a platinum record, the first to hit No. 1 on the Pop charts, and the first to perform at the Grammy® Awards. With that, her legacy as one of the most influential artists of the past couple of decades is assured. Her first studio album in more than a decade, How Mercy Looks from Here, was released May 2013, and debuted at No. 12 on the Billboard 200 Chart. Be Still and Know...Hymns Of Faith was released April 2015.

David Hamilton, guest conductor David Hamilton is an accomplished and respected musician, a creative thinker with versatility, technique and artistic passion. He has earned a reputation as a premiere orchestral arranger.

His music spans a wide range of musical genres on recordings from Shania Twain and Ricky Skaggs, to Renee Fleming and Lang Lang, to the Canadian Tenors, Amy Grant, and many others. He has created music for the screen as film composer, arranger and orchestrator, creating arrangements for the Walt Disney Company, Macy’s, The Boston Pops, The New York Pops and the Nashville Symphony. He has also written and arranged an extensive body of choral music sung by churches across America. Hamilton has recorded with musicians worldwide in studios such as the renowned Abbey Road and AIR studios in London, in Prague, and on the Capitol, Warner Brothers and Paramount scoring stages in Los Angeles.

Hamilton is also a gifted conductor. He travels extensively conducting recording sessions and collaborating with artists as musical director for holiday, pops and choral concerts conducting top U.S. orchestras such as the Dallas, Atlanta, St. Louis, Indianapolis and Virginia symphonies.

He has also conducted at Carnegie Hall and served as guest conductor for pops concerts with the Nashville Symphony on tour and at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

Hamilton earned a master’s degree in music, studying jazz composition, arranging, orchestration, recording and jazz vocal performance at the University of Miami School of Music.

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Concerto in D Major for Violin, Op. 61 b. Bonn, Germany December 15, 1770 d. Vienna, Austria March 26, 1827 First performed by the RPO December 8, 1927; Eugene Goossens, conductor Gustav Tinlot, violin

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is widely held to be the greatest piece of its kind, not simply because it is a fine concerto, but because it is a masterly composition, period. In its gentleness and unassuming confidence, it resembles several other works, including the Fourth Symphony and Piano Concerto No. 4, which he composed during what was even by his standards an intensely creative period: 1805 to 1806.

An incomplete torso is all that remains of a violin concerto dating from the early 1790s. The spark to compose a full concerto came from 26 year old Franz Clement. This child prodigy had risen to the Last performed by the RPO status of acclaimed soloist, and also served as concertmaster and January 31, 2009; conductor of the pit orchestra in Vienna’s prestigious Theatre an Christopher Seaman, der Wien for a full decade. According to a contemporary report, his conductor style “is not the robust, powerful playing of the school of Viotti, but Leila Josefowicz, violin it is indescribably graceful, dainty, elegant.” Naturally, Beethoven reflected these qualities in the concerto Clement commissioned from him. Although by no means an easy piece technically, its principal challenges lie in expressiveness, spirituality, and because of its broad dimensions, in sheer physical stamina.

Clement set a specific date for the premiere: December 23, 1806. Due to the foot-dragging casualness with which Beethoven regularly completed commissioned works, the first performance turned out to be virtually a read-through at sight. Clement’s interpretation of the concerto drew raves from the press, but the piece itself received at best a lukewarm reception.

In the Wiener Theaterzeitung, Johann Nepomuk Möser wrote: “Connoisseurs of music are unanimous in respect to Beethoven’s concerto: it possesses a certain beauty, but the work as a whole often appears to lack unity and the endless repetition of some ordinary passages can be tiresome…”

Clement took the concerto on tour, but audiences everywhere greeted it with no more than polite acceptance. Enjoyment required a shift in listening, away from the virtuoso stunts that audiences preferred, towards Beethoven’s conception of soloist and orchestra as equal partners in the presentation of substantial, fully symphonic musical arguments and developments. It was only in 1844, when 13-year-old soloist Joseph Joachim demonstrated the concerto’s manifold excellences through his performances in London under Felix Mendelssohn’s direction, that it began to establish itself.

The expansive first movement bears a relaxed, leisurely countenance. From time to time, moments of drama provide contrast. The slow movement, a set of variations on a lyrical theme, glows with Olympian warmth. The gracefully dancing final rondo, which follows on without a break, brings the concerto firmly and joyfully back to earth.

MAURICE RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales b. Ciboure, France March 7, 1875 d. Paris, France December 28, 1937

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Ravel created two salutes to the waltz, which for him represented bygone innocence. Composed in 1911, this earlier of the two pays tribute to the piano waltzes of Franz Schubert (1797-1828), who late in life composed brief, separate sets of pieces called Valses nobles and Valses sentimentales. In 1912, Russian dancer Natasha Trouhanova commissioned a dance score from Ravel.

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He orchestrated the Valses nobles and created the scenario for the resulting ballet: Adélaïde, or The Language of Flowers. In this incarnation the music was received more favorably than the piano edition, and it continues to be the more frequently heard of the two.

Last performed by the RPO Ravel did not indicate if he intended each waltz to be considered December 3, 1994; either ‘noble or ‘sentimental.’ Their elusiveness, fostering the David Loebel, conductor possibility that any of them might qualify under either designation, or both, is one of their primary fascinations.

First performed by the RPO October 14, 1976; David Zinman, conductor

The first number gives the suite a festive, albeit brusque launching. The second, one of Ravel’s gentlest, most emotional creations, leans toward the sentimental side of the divide.

Its successor is light and teasing, but displaced accents give it an unsettling edge. The next three valses are brief, wistful cameos alternating animation and repose. With No. 7 Ravel offers the longest, most elaborate and in his words the ‘most characteristic’ item in the set. In the Epilogue, ghostly traces of earlier themes float by, as if heard from a distance. The music gradually dissolves into silence, like a fleeting memory.

RICHARD STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59

b. Munich, Germany June 11, 1864

d. Garmisch-Partenkirchen, The emotionally bruising operatic dramas Germany Salome (1905) and Elektra (1909) seem to have September 8, 1949 purged a taste for such ghoulish material from Strauss’s system. For his next stage project, he First performed by the RPO pulled a complete about-face and produced, October 27, 1949; in close tandem with the librettist Hugo von Erich Leinsdorf, conductor Hofmannsthal, the delicious, supremely tuneful ‘comedy for music’ Der Rosenkavalier (The Last performed by the RPO Knight of the Rose). Admirers of the previous February 11, 2012; operas were taken aback by this startling Arild Remmereit, conductor shift in style, but audiences gave the new score a swift and eager embrace as soon as it premiered in Dresden, Germany, on January 26, 1911. Fifty sold-out performances followed before the year was out, and it remains his most popular opera. The music combines Classical period charm à la Mozart, with 19-century dance rhythms, all of it clothed in Strauss’ ripe, late-Romantic orchestration.

The plot unfolds in Vienna during the eighteenth-century reign of Empress Maria Theresa.

The Marschallin, a worldly woman in her thirties, is having an affair with a young nobleman, Octavian. When Octavian falls in love with Sophie, a more suitable match for him, the Marschallin graciously steps aside and lets true, young love take its course.

Instrumental excerpts from the opera have been performed in concert virtually since its creation, although Strauss did not prepare all of them himself. This popular concert suite appeared in 1945, without crediting an arranger. It presents an enchanting medley of the opera’s most glorious moments, including the surging Prelude; the presentation of the silver rose; a luscious love duet between Sophie and Octavian; a teasing, languorous waltz associated with the lecherous Baron Ochs; the ecstatic final trio and duet; and another, quicker waltz to finish. © 2017 Don Anderson. All rights reserved.

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artists Known for his virtuosity and probing musicianship, violinist James Ehnes has performed in more than 35 countries on five continents, appearing regularly in the world’s great concert halls and with many of the most celebrated orchestras and conductors. His last appearance with the RPO was in 2012.

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In the 2016-2017 season, Ehnes performs the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas in Stresa, Montreux, Los Angeles, Liverpool, and Amsterdam, and joins the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on a tour of China. Ehnes also holds artist residencies with the Melbourne Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, l’Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, and the Scotia Festival; undertakes two tours with the Ehnes Quartet, and leads the winter and summer festivals of the Seattle Chamber Music Society, where he is the artistic director.

His CD releases include a disc of works by Debussy, Respighi, Elgar and Sibelius, and a recording of Beethoven’s Sonatas Nos. 6 and 9 (“Kreutzer”) with pianist Andrew Armstrong, the Sibelius and Schubert Death and the Maiden quartets with the Ehnes Quartet; and the complete works of Beethoven for violin and orchestra with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.

Ehnes was born in Manitoba, Canada. He first gained national recognition in 1987 as winner of the Grand Prize in Strings at the Canadian Music Competition. An Avery Fisher Career Grant winner, Ehnes has received honorary doctorates from Brandon University and the University of British Columbia and in 2007 he became the youngest person ever elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada.

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FRI., JAN 20 and SAT., JAN 21 at 8 PM | KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE

Starring BUGS BUNNY Conducted by GEORGE DAUGHERTY Created and Produced by GEORGE DAUGHERTY & DAVID KA LIK WONG Also Starring ELMER FUDD DAFFY DUCK PORKY PIG WILE E. COYOTE ROAD RUNNER TWEETY SYLVESTER PEPE LE PEW PENELOPE PUSSYCAT GRANNY GIOVANNI JONES . . . and special guest starring appearance by TOM AND JERRY Music by CARL W. STALLING MILT FRANKLYN SCOTT BRADLEY Based on the Works of Wagner, Rossini, von Suppé, J. Strauss II, Smetana, Liszt, Mendelssohn, and Donizetti Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES FRIZ FRELENG ROBERT CLAMPETT TEX AVERY ROBERT McKIMSON ABE LEVITOW WILLIAM HANNA JOSEPH BARBERA Voice Characterizations by MEL BLANC ARTHUR Q. BRYAN as Elmer Fudd JUNE FORAY HANS CONRIED and NICOLAI SHUTOROV as Giovanni Jones “Rabid Rider” and “Coyote Falls” Directed by MATTHEW O’CALLAGHAN, Music by CHRISTOPHER LENNERTZ Produced in Association with IF/X PRODUCTIONS SAN FRANCISCO Official Website www.BugsBunnyAtTheSymphony.net Original Soundtrack Recording on WATERTOWER MUSIC www.watertower-music.com Follow Bugs Bunny At The Symphony on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter!

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THE PROGRAM ACT I THE DANCE OF THE COMEDIANS from “The Bartered Bride”

by Bedřich Smetana THE WARNER BROS. FANFARE Music by Max Steiner “MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG” (“The Merrie Melodies Theme”) Music by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher, and Eddie Cantor, Arranged and Orchestrated by Carl W. Stalling “BATON BUNNY” Music by Milt Franklyn Based on the Overture to “Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna” by Franz von Suppé Story by Michael Maltese Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES and ABE LEVITOW “SHOW BIZ BUGS” Music by Milt Franklyn “Jeepers Creepers” by Harry Warren and Johnny Mercer “Those Endearing Young Charms” Irish Folk Melody, words by Thomas Moore Story by Warren Foster Animation Direction by FRIZ FRELENG “RHAPSODY RABBIT” Music by Carl W. Stalling Based on “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2”

by Franz Liszt Piano Solo performed by Jakob Gimpel Story by Tedd Pierce and Michael Maltese Animation Direction by FRIZ FRELENG ”JOHANN MOUSE” (Scenes) Music by Scott Bradley, after Johann Strauss II Piano Solos by Jakob Gimpel Narrated by Hans Conried Story and Animation Direction by WILLIAM HANNA and JOSEPH BARBERA 28

and “TOM AND JERRY IN THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL” Music by Johann Strauss II (Overture to “Die Fledermaus”) Music Originally Arranged by Scott Bradley Story and Animation Direction by WILLIAM HANNA and JOSEPH BARBERA “BACK ALLEY OPROAR” (Scene) Music by Carl W. Stalling “Largo Al Factotum” by Gioachino Rossini from “The Barber of Seville” Story by Michael Maltese and Tedd Pierce Animation Direction by FRIZ FRELENG “ZOOM AND BORED” Music by Carl W. Stalling and Milt Franklyn Based on “The Dance of the Comedians” from “The Bartered Bride” by Bedřich Smetana Story by Michael Maltese Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES

PEPE LE PEW, LE CHANTEUR ROMANTIQUE “FOR SCENT-IMENTAL REASONS” (Scenes) Music by Carl W. Stalling Story by Michael Maltese Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES “A SCENT OF THE MATTERHORN” (Scene) Music by Milt Franklyn “Tiptoe Through The Tulips” Music by Joe Burke, and Lyrics by Al Dubin Story and Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES “SCENT-IMENTAL ROMEO” (Scenes) Music by Carl W. Stalling “Baby Face” Music by Harry Akst, and Lyrics

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“THE RABBIT OF SEVILLE” Music by Carl W. Stalling Based on the Overture to “The Barber of Seville” by Gioachino Rossini Story by Michael Maltese Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES

“WHAT’S OPERA, DOC?” Music by Milt Franklyn Based on music from “The Flying Dutchman,” “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried,” “Götterdämmerung,” “Rienzi,” and “Tannhäuser” by Richard Wagner Story by Michael Maltese Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES

--INTERMISSION-ACT II “RABID RIDER” Music by Christopher Lennertz Executive Producer: Sam Register Story by Tom Sheppard Animation Director by MATTHEW O’CALLAGHAN and “COYOTE FALLS” Music by Christopher Lennertz Story by Tom Sheppard Executive Producer: Sam Register Story by Tom Sheppard Animation Direction by MATTHEW O’CALLAGHAN

MERRIE MELODIES “THAT’S ALL FOLKS!” Music Arranged and Orchestrated by Carl W. Stalling Voice Characterization by Noel Blanc

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“LONG-HAIRED HARE” Music by Carl W. Stalling after Wagner, von Suppé, Donizetti, and Rossini Story by Michael Maltese Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES “ROBIN HOOD DAFFY” (Scenes) Music by Milt Franklyn Story by Michael Maltese Animation Direction by CHUCK JONES

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PRODUCTION, CREATIVE, and TOURING STAFF Creator / Music Director / Conductor / Producer George Daugherty

Special Effects and CGI/Animation Editor Shawn Carlson

Creator / Producer / Technical Director / Tour Director David Ka Lik Wong

Sound Design, Sound Effects, and Re-Mastering Robb Wenner John Larabee

Production Touring Musicians (Rotating) Jo Pusateri, Principal Percussion and Slide Guitar Kelly Hale, Principal Pianist Leo Marchildon, Co-Principal Pianist/Slide Guitar Keisuke Nakagoshi, Co-Principal Pianist Brenda Vahur, Co-Principal Pianist Robert Schietroma, Principal Percussion Emeritus Co-Producer Amy Minter Art Director, CGI Producer, and Graphics/Animation Designer Melinda Lawton Editors George Daugherty David Ka Lik Wong Scott Draper Mark Beutel Peter Koff Special thanks to Keep Me Posted, Burbank

Audio Mixer and Tour Sound Supervisor Marty Bierman Robb Wenner New CGI Animation Elements Lawton Design New Animation Elements Warner Bros. Animation Audio CD Producers George Daugherty David Ka Lik Wong Steve Linder Sound Effects Editors Robb Wenner John Larabee Music Supervisors David Ka Lik Wong Caryn Rasmussen Click Masters Mako Sujishi Robb Wenner John Larabee Kristopher Carter Music Transcription and Restoration

Ron Goldstein Caryn Rasmussen Leo Marchildon Robert Schietroma Cameron Patrick Robert Guillory Charles Fernandez . . . and special thanks to USC/Warner Bros. Music Archives Music Copyists Caryn Rasmussen Robert Schietroma Michael Hernandez John Norine Jeff Turner Valle Music Judy Green Music Webmaster and Website Designer Lorelei McCollough Video and Audio Production Coordinated and Executed by IF/X Productions San Francisco Exclusive Worldwide Representation IMG ARTISTS Maureen Taylor, Vice President, Tour and Artist Management Meera Vijayendra, Asia/Pacific Consultant

IF/X WISHES TO EXTEND ITS SPECIAL THANKS TO: Warner Bros.; Warner Bros. Consumer Products; Warner Bros. Animation; WaterTower Music; The Sydney Symphony, The Sydney Opera House, and The Sydney Opera House Recording Studios and Facilities; The Power Station Recording Studios, New York; U.S.C. Film School/Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television; U.S.C. Film/Music Archives; U.C.L.A. Film Archives; The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity; Chuck Jones Enterprises; Linda Jones Productions; Post Effects Chicago; Screen Magazine; and very special personal thanks to Isabelle Zakin, Bruce Triplett, Foote Kirkpatrick, Ruth L. Ratny, Mike Fayette, Rick Gehr, Melinda Lawton, and Charlene Daugherty.

George Daugherty dedicates this concert to the memory of his mother, Charlene Elizabeth Daugherty BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II had its world premiere on July 5, 2013, at the Hollywood Bowl, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY had its world premieres on May 7, 2010, at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony; and July 16, 2010, at the Hollywood Bowl, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

BUGS BUNNY ON BROADWAY had its world premiere on June 16, 1990 at the San Diego Civic Theatre; its Broadway premiere at the Gershwin Theatre, New York City, on October 2, 1990; and its international premiere on May 15, 1996 at the Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia.

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BIOGRAPHIES . . .

BUGS BUNNY Bugs Bunny is one of the most recognized cartoon characters in the world, whose signature phrase “What’s Up, Doc?” has long since entered the English language.

Bugs’ first ‘reel’ appearance in front of his soon-to-be-adoring public was in A Wild Hare directed by Tex Avery. Since then, Bugs’ zany antics in hundreds of cartoon favorites have made him a legend throughout the world.

This cool, collected, carrot-chomping rabbit is the unequivocal superstar of the Looney Tunes family.

With never a ‘hare’ out of place he always manages to outsmart his adversaries, whoever they may be.

He’s a real American icon who has graced the TV and cinema screens the world over.

Bugs Bunny’s cartoons have twice been nominated for Academy Awards, and his Knighty Knight Bugs won a coveted Oscar. Bugs has starred in four films in addition to his hundreds of animated shorts and 21 prime time television specials.

GEORGE DAUGHERTY Conductor George Daugherty is one of the classical music world’s most diverse artists. In addition to his 40-year conducting career which has included appearances with the world’s leading orchestras, ballet companies, opera houses, and concert artists, Daugherty is also an Emmy Award-winning / five-time Emmy nominated creator whose professional profile includes major credits as a director, writer, and producer for television, film, innovative and unique concerts, and the live theater.

Since 1993, he has conducted over 20 performances at The Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (most recently with a concert pair in 2015), and an equal number with The National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap (most recently, in 2013 with a pair.) He made his debut with the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in May, 2015 in four sold-out performances, and his current and recent conducting schedule includes multiple performances with San Francisco Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Utah Symphony, Seattle Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra at both Severance Hall and the Blossom Festival, The Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, as well as appearances with dozens of other orchestras in the U.S., Canada, and abroad. He has been a frequent guest conductor at the Sydney Opera House since 1996, and in 2002, 2005, 2010, and 2016, he returned to guest conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House, including recording a new CD with the orchestra.

In this and recent seasons, he also made debuts and return appearances with the Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Omaha Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, West Australia Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and multiple engagements with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra at both the National Concert Hall, and the new Grand Canal Theatre, both in Dublin, Ireland. He has been a frequent guest conductor de Bellas Artes Opera House in Mexico City, where he has conducted the Orquesta del Teatro de Bellas Artes in ballet and opera productions.

In 2012, he was appointed Music Director of Ballet San Jose, where he conducted nearly 50 performances per season for the company, with Symphony Silicon Valley in the orchestra pit. This past season, he also conducted a major international gala for the company starring principal dancers from American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Boston Ballet, and other major companies. In summer 2013, he made his debut conducting The Russian National Orchestra at the internationally acclaimed Napa Valley Festival del Sol, presiding over the reconstruction of a long-lost Fokine ballet with music by Rachmaninoff, plus an international ballet gala.

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He has also been a frequent conductor of London’s Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, with whom he first made his debut in Royal Festival Hall, and most recently conducted a 15-city U.S. and Canadian concert tour with the orchestra and guest artists Dame Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charlotte Church, dancers of the Royal Ballet, and the Westminster Choir and Bell Ringers.

Daugherty has also conducted for scores of major American and international symphony orchestras, ballet companies, and opera houses, including numerous performances with the American Ballet Theatre, Munich State Opera and Ballet, Indianapolis Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra, Moscow Symphony, Kremlin Palace Orchestra of the Russian Federation, Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, the Auckland Philharmonia, Adelaide Symphony, the RCA Symphony Orchestra, Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet, Mexico City’s Bellas Artes Opera House, Montreal Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, Memphis Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Tucson Symphony, Saskatoon Symphony, Austin Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, New Orleans Symphony, Venezuela Symphony, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Seoul Prime Philharmonic, and major Italian opera houses in Rome, Florence, Turin, and Regio Emilia.

As a ballet conductor, Daugherty has conducted for the greatest ballet stars in the world over the past three and a half decades, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev, Gelsey Kirkland, Suzanne Farrell, and up to the stars of today, and has been on the conducting staffs of American Ballet Theatre, the Bavarian State Opera Ballet, La Scala Ballet, and Teatro Regio di Torino Ballet. Prior to his Music Directorship with Ballet San Jose, he has been music director of The Louisville Ballet, Ballet Chicago, Chicago City Ballet, and Eglevsky Ballet, and he has guest conducted for scores of international companies. He has conducted numerous versions of every full-length ballet, as well as scores of works by countless major choreographers ranging from George Balanchine to Sir Frederick Ashton.

As a director, writer, and producer of music-based television programs, Daugherty has created several major productions for the ABC Television Network project, including a primetime animation-and-live action production of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, which he created, co-wrote, conducted, and directed, and for which he won a Prime Time Emmy Award as producer, as well as numerous other major awards (including an additional Emmy nomination as conductor and music director.) He also collaborated with The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan on a television series adaptation of her celebrated children’s book Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat. The Emmy Award-winning 80-episode series debuted on PBS in the fall of 2001 as a daily-animated children’s television series. Daugherty executive produced, and also wrote a large number of the animated tales.

Daugherty also received an Emmy nomination for Rhythm & Jam, his ABC television network specials which taught the basics of music to a teenage audience, which he created and produced with David Ka Lik Wong. In 1990, Daugherty created, directed, and conducted the hit Broadway musical Bugs Bunny On Broadway, a live-orchestra-and-film stage production which sold-out its extended run at New York’s Gershwin Theatre on Broadway, and has since played to critical acclaim and sold-out houses all over the world. The Bugs Bunny symphonic concert tradition continued when Daugherty and producing partner David Ka Lik Wong launched a new version, Bugs Bunny At The Symphony, in 2010, with double World Premieres at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony, and the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The current version of the concert, Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II, also created by Daugherty and Wong, premiered in 2013 with world premieres at the Hollywood Bowl/Los Angeles Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, and National Symphony at Wolf Trap. Daugherty is also the executive producer, conductor, and creator of the touring concerts Rodgers & Hammerstein on Stage and Screen, and Meredith Willson’s The Music Man at The Symphony.

Daugherty has lived in San Francisco for the past 16 years.

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DAVID KA LIK WONG Bugs Bunny At The Symphony Executive Producer David Ka Lik Wong was awarded with a coveted Emmy Award for his work as producer on Peter and the Wolf in 1996, and was also nominated for an Emmy in 1994 for his work as producer of Rhythm & Jam, the ABC series of Saturday morning music education specials for children.

He teamed with George Daugherty as principal producer for the Peter and the Wolf project, the animation and live-action production starring Kirstie Alley, Lloyd Bridges, Sleepless in Seattle’s Ross Malinger, and the new animated characters of legendary animation director Chuck Jones. He also produced the interactive CD-ROM version of the production for Time Warner Interactive.

He was also the senior Producer for the Warner Bros. documentary film The Magical World of Chuck Jones, directed by George Daugherty and starring interviews by Steven Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg, George Lucas, and Ron Howard, among many others.

He has been Producer for the Warner Bros. touring concert production Bugs Bunny On Broadway since 1991, and Bugs Bunny at the Symphony since 2010, as they have toured the world, and he co-produced the original audio CD album for Warner Bros. Records. Mr. Wong has also produced innovative symphony orchestra concerts for some of the world’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, the National Symphony, The Hong Hong Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic, the Sydney Opera House, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Wales Millennium Centre, Sinfonia Britannia, and many others. Most recently, he produced critically acclaimed Christmas concerts for Canada’s National Arts Centre, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. He is also Executive Producer and the co-creator of the touring concerts Rodgers & Hammerstein on Stage and Screen, and Meredith Willson’s The Music Man at The Symphony.

Mr. Wong has teamed with George Daugherty, Amy Tan, and the legendary Sesame Workshop to produce and create the new Emmy Award winning PBS / Sesame Workshop children’s television series Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat, based on the book by Ms. Tan, which premiered on PBS in the fall of 2001, and has since been one of the most highly rated children’s television series on all broadcast networks. Mr. Wong also wrote a number of episodes for the series and story-edited all 80 segments.

Mr. Wong is also the producer of the new WaterTower Music CD release of Bugs Bunny At The Symphony, recorded at the Sydney Opera House with The Sydney Symphony. In addition to his Emmy Awards and nominations, he has won numerous other awards during his career, including the Grand Award of both the Houston and Chicago International Film Festivals, a Silver Award of the Chicago Film Festival, two Parents’ Choice Awards, and the Kids First Award Mr. Wong was born in Hong Kong, and moved to San Francisco with his family at the age of 12. He still calls San Francisco home.

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Juliana Athayde, violin The Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward Chair

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Three Studies from Couperin

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THOMAS ADÈS Three Studies from Couperin b. London, England March 1, 1971

Adès has rapidly become one of the world’s most celebrated composers, with operas, orchestral works, concertos and vocal pieces commissioned and performed by numerous world-class This is the first performance musicians. With the appealing Three Studies from Couperin (2006), by the RPO he joined a distinguished group of composers (Brahms, Stravinsky et al.) who have taken music by earlier composers as the starting point for transcriptions, arrangements, and homages. The base materials for this piece were three harpsichord solos by French composer François Couperin (1668-1733). Adès retained the original titles: Les Amusemens (The Amusements), Les Tours de Passe-passe (Sleight-of-Hand), and L’Âme-en-peine (The Soul in Torment), and applied his fertile imagination to create this intriguing suite.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sinfonia concertante in E-flat Major for violin and viola, K. 320D b. Salzburg, Austria January 27, 1756 d. Vienna, Austria December 5, 1791 First performed by the RPO February 4, 1926; Eugene Goossens, conductor Gerald Kunz, violin Samel Belov, viola Last performed by the RPO November 20, 2004; Christopher Seaman, conductor David Brickman, violin Melissa Matson, viola

During a journey to Paris and Mannheim that began in 1777, Mozart heard examples of a popular musical form, the Sinfonia concertante.

It combined featured roles for several solo instruments, and with the weight and richness of thought of a symphony. Mozart’s own examples include a concerto for flute and harp, and this magnificent piece featuring violin and viola, which probably dates from the summer or early autumn of 1779.

The spacious first movement bears a confident, almost heroic nature, and is the most ingeniously conceived of the three. The dignified pathos of the slow movement shifts the mood dramatically. The recent death of Mozart’s mother, in Paris, may have influenced its tone. The viola really comes into its own here, Mozart using its darker tone to enhance the music’s melancholy spirit. These emotional clouds are blown quickly away by the finale, as impish a rustic romp as Mozart ever created.

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major, K. 543 First performed by the RPO December 2, 1926; Eugene Goossens, conductor

After a gap of nearly two years, Mozart returned to composing symphonies during the summer of 1788. In the space of three months, he created his three final, and greatest, works in this form.

Last performed by the RPO He completed the first of them, No. 39, on June 26. It is elegant, March 6, 2010; witty, and superbly entertaining. It begins with an introduction Christopher Seaman, in slow tempo, one that is a shade on the pompous side. Perhaps conductor Mozart considered it a humorous contrast to the graceful and carefree Allegro that follows. The playful character continues in the slow second movement, with an overlay of warmth added. The outer sections of the third movement, a minuet, are all ballroom stateliness. The central trio belongs squarely to the countryside. The symphony wraps up with a nimble and witty finale, conjuring images of the comic opera world which Mozart understood so fully. © 2017 Don Anderson. All rights reserved.

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artists Juliana Athayde, violin KATE LEMMON

Appointed concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra 2005 at age twentyfour, Juliana Athayde became the youngest person to hold the position since the orchestra’s inception in 1922.

ROGER MASTROIANNI

The Caroline W. Gannett & Clayla Ward Chair

Juliana Athayde

Melissa Matson

She has appeared as guest concertmaster for the Houston, Kansas City and Santa Barbara Symphonies, and the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Ontario. Prior to joining the RPO, Athayde was concertmaster of the Canton (OH) and Plymouth (MI) Symphonies. In 2002, she served as concertmaster of the New York String Seminar under the direction of Jaime Laredo for concerts at Carnegie Hall. For five years, she was a member of the Iris Chamber Orchestra in Memphis and she has performed with The Cleveland Orchestra in the United States and Europe. A fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School for six years, Athayde was awarded the prestigious Dorothy DeLay fellowship in 2005 and was subsequently invited to return in 2010 to deliver the festival’s convocation speech.

Athayde’s numerous solo appearances with the RPO have covered a wide range of composers from Mozart and Brahms to Barber and Prokofiev as well as the 2010 premiere of Allen Shawn’s violin concerto, commissioned by the RPO and specifically written for her. She has also performed as a soloist with several symphony orchestras.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Athayde made her solo debut at the age of 16 performing with the San Francisco Symphony. In demand as a chamber musician locally and nationally, she has collaborated with artists including Michael Tilson Thomas, Joseph Silverstein, Jon Nakamatsu, William Preucil, Jon Kimura Parker, Anton Nel, Orion Weiss and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. Together with her husband, RPO principal oboist Erik Behr, Athayde is Artistic Director of the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester.

Melissa Matson, viola The William L. Gamble Chair Melissa Matson is well known to Rochester audiences as the principal violist of the Rochester Philharmonic, as well as a versatile chamber musician. She is Artistic Director of First Muse Chamber Music, and is a frequent performer with Chamber Music Rochester and the Skaneateles Festival. Matson is a founding member of the Amenda Quartet, whose acclaimed 2015-16 “Project Ludwig” performed the complete string quartets of Beethoven in the Rochester area. Previous solo appearances with the RPO include Berlioz’s Harold in Italy (with conductor Andreas Delfs) and Mozart’s Sinfonie Concertante (with violinist David Brickman).

Before joining the RPO in 1983, Melissa performed throughout the U.S. as a founding member of the Chester String Quartet, top prize winners at the Munich and Portsmouth (England) international competitions.

Originally from northern California, she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Eastman, where she studied with Martha Katz and was awarded the coveted Performer’s Certificate. Aside from teaching orchestral excerpts at Eastman, she devotes her extra time to dyeing artisan fabrics

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Hamilton Stern Construction LLC has marked its meteoric climb by claiming the No. 1 position on the 2016 Rochester Chamber Top 100.

The Pittsford firm, founded in 2010 by Justin Hamilton and Christopher Stern, soared to the top of this year’s list of the area’s fastest-growing private companies. It is the firm’s third year on the list; it had placed at No. 81 a year ago.

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The Nazareth College Arts Center has a new leader. Rita Mannelli has been named executive director following a national search.

She replaces Susan Lusignan, who stepped down in January to take a newly created position as director of marketing and engagement at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester.

The Nazareth College Arts Center serves as a performing arts venue for the campus as well as the community.

It is also the home venue for performances of the Rochester City Ballet and Garth Fagan Dance.

Mannelli comes to Rochester from DePaul University in Chicago where

a bachelor of arts degree in speech communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

She has served as a grant evaluator for the Missouri Arts Council, was a member of the DePaul Women’s Network and is a member of Friends of the Arts in Brighton.

Her husband, Christopher Mannelli, was Photo by Kimberly Simpson Rita Mannelli is the new executive director at the arts center. named executive diHer husband, Christopher, fills that role at Geva Theatre Center. rector of Geva Theatre Center in January. she was director of marketing and comThe couple met when they were workmunications for the School of Music ing together in St. Louis at the Metro since 2006. She has a background in Theatre Co. where Rita served as marnonprofit performing arts. Mannelli keting director and Christopher was the holds a master of arts in public relamusic director. tions and advertising from DePaul and Continued on page 36

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CORPORATE PARTNERS, FOUNDATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS

Bravo to Our Generous Supporters

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following corporate, foundation, and community organizations for their generous support. Listings are in recognition of annual giving from September 1, 2015 to November 17, 2016. Please contact Mark Zeger at 585454-7311 x232 with questions or corrections.

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PARTNER ($1,000–$2,999) Alex and Ani Ames Amzalak Memorial Trust ALSTOM Signaling Foundation Bancroft-Tubbs Family Fund CONCERTO Bill Gray’s Restaurants ($25,000–$49,999) Blitman & King, LLP Canandaigua National Bank The Elizabeth F. Cheney & Trust Foundation Elaine P. & Richard U. Wilson T.M. & M.W. Crandall Foundation Foundation Fred L. Emerson Foundation G.W. Lisk, Inc. Hazlow Electronics, Inc. M&T Bank Hegedorns Kovalsky-Carr Electric Supply SONATA Manning & Napier Advisors ($10,000–$24,999) Morgan Stanley Constellation Brands New Horizons Band & Orchestra Davenport-Hatch Foundation Pinnacle Investments LLC Melvin and Mildred Eggers Premium Mortgage Corporation Family Charitable Foundation Rochester Gas & Electric Corp.

ESL Charitable Foundation Rochester Philharmonic League Gertrude Chanler Fund The Pipa Tagliarino Group Glover Crask Charitable Trust Triad Foundation High Falls Advisors Uniland Development Co Max and Marian Farash Waldron Rise Foundation Charitable Foundation The Louis S. & Molly B. Wolk Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation Foundation Rochester Regional Health System ASSOCIATE Summers Foundation Inc. ($600–$999) Xerox Foundation Diamond Packaging Digital Audio Visual SUITE Environments ($5,000–$9,999) Genesee Valley Penny Saver First Niagara Financial Group KPMG LLP Joseph & Anna Gartner Matthews & Fields Lumber Co Foundation Morgood Tools Inc Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Schreiner Family Fund Gianniny Family Fund Star Headlight Mary S. Mulligan Charitable & Lantern Co., Inc. Trust Vanden Brul Foundation Oppenheimer Funds Inc. In memory of Herb & Joan Rubens Family Foundation Vanden Brul Spindler Family Foundation St. John’s Home SUPPORTER John F. Wegman Fund ($300–$599) Reimer Piano Tuning Service OVERTURE Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Wegman ($3,000–$4,999) Caldwell Manufacturing Co The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation The Community Foundation Rufus K. Dryer II Fund Konar Foundation The MAGIC Center at RIT Rochester Midland Corporation Cornell/Weinstein Family Foundation SYMPHONY ($50,000 AND ABOVE) Wegman Family Charitable Foundation Wegmans Food Markets

GIFTS IN KIND Sarah D. Atkinson, M.D. & Steven Hess Ed & Barbara Burns Michael Butterman & Jennifer Carsillo City Newspaper Constellation Brands Peter & Joan Faber Kurt & Judy Feuhern Kevin Gavagan John Grieco Hedonist Artisan Chocolates Tom & Nan Hildebrandt Jay Advertising Janet Kellner & Jim Kurtz KidsOutAndAbout.com Robin Lehman JR McCarthy Nazareth College Alexandra Northrop & Jules L. Smith, Esq. Richie Rich Events Katherine T. & Jon L. Schumacher Christopher Seaman Mark Siwiec & Duffy Palmer Ingrid Stanlis Ward Stare Jeff & Jill Tyzik Wegmans Suzanne Welch & Bill Watson Patricia Wilder MATCHING GIFT COMPANIES Bank of America Corning Incorporated Foundation Discover Financial Services ExxonMobil Foundation GE Foundation Genesee & Wyoming, Inc Gleason Foundation Google, Inc. Hewlett-Packard IBM Corporation Johnson & Johnson J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. Morgan Stanley Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. Paychex, Inc. Pfizer Foundation Verizon

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ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE SOCIETY The Artistic Excellence Society (AES) recognizes donors for making a three-year pledge of $2,500 or more. The AES is designed to engage our most passionate contributors and to ensure financial stability and ongoing support. Contact Jason V. Polasek at 585-454-7311 x280 to learn more about becoming an AES member.

*Deceased

Anonymous (1) Nancy & Harry Beilfuss Carol & John Bennett Stuart & Betsy Bobry Chris & Tom Burns Mary Ellen Burris Margaret J. Carnall Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Chapman Jeff & Sue Crane Paul R. Donnelly Dr. Eric Dreyfuss Larry & Kas Eldridge Fred L. Emerson Foundation James & Ellen Englert

Deanne Molinari Paul Marc & Pamela Miller Ness Charles H. Owens William & Barbara Pulsifer Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Reed Elizabeth & Larry Rice Paul & Brigid Ryan Katherine T. & Jon L. Schumacher Vicki & Richard Schwartz Nancy Skelton Ingrid A. Stanlis Dr. & Mrs. Tae B. Whang Michael & Patricia Wilder Kitty J. Wise

Louise Epstein Barbara & Patrick Fulford Charles & Cindy Gibson Rob W. Goodling David & Barrie Heiligman Mr.* & Mrs. Robert D. Hursh Ralph F. Jozefowicz Myrta & Robert Knox Jim & Marianne Koller Stephen Lurie & Kathleen Holt Drs. Jacques* & Dawn Lipson Jane & Jim Littwitz Swaminathan & Janice Madhu Daniel M. Meyers

CAMPAIGN FOR ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE The Campaign for Artistic Excellence was launched in 2012 to help the RPO achieve its long-term goals of attracting and retaining the best possible artistic talent, continuing a tradition of community service, building national recognition, and ensuring financial stability and organizational excellence. $100,000 AND ABOVE G. W. Lisk Company, Inc. Drs. Jacques* & Dawn Lipson

$15,000–$29,999 Carol & John Bennett Marie & Charlie Kenton Elizabeth & Larry Rice

$50,000–$99,999 Elaine P. & Richard U. Wilson Foundation Louise Woerner & Don Kollmorgen

$10,000–$14,999 Robin & Michael Weintraub

$30,000–$49,999 High Falls Advisors

$5,000–$9,999 William Eggers & Deborah McLean

GEORGE EASTMAN LEGACY SOCIETY The George Eastman Legacy Society honors those individuals who have included the RPO in their estate plans.

Interested in joining a growing group of dedicated individuals who appreciate the value that the RPO brings to their lives and the life of our community? Contact Jason V. Polasek at 585-454-7311 x280 to find out how you can help ensure that the RPO will be here for future generations.

*Deceased

Anonymous (1) Nancy & Harry Beilfuss Carol & John Bennett Jack and Carolyn Bent Ellen S. Bevan Stuart & Betsy Bobry William L. & Ruth P. Cahn Margaret J. Carnall Joan & Paul Casterline Dr. & Mrs. John J. Condemi Paul Donnelly Janis Dowd & Daan Zwick Joan Feinbloom Donald & Elizabeth Fisher Suressa & Richard H. Forbes Catherine & Elmar Frangenberg Carolyn & Roger Friedlander Betsy Friedman Barbara & Patrick Fulford Rob W. Goodling Mary M. Gooley Barbara Jean Gray-Gottorff George Greer* Mrs. Laura J. Hameister Warren and Joyce Heilbronner Jean Hitchcock

Norman L. Horton H. Larry & Dorothy C. Humm Mr.* & Mrs. Robert D. Hursh Jim & Marianne Koller Marshall and Lenore Lesser Drs. Jacques* & Dawn Lipson Sue & Michael Lococo William C. and Elfriede K. Lotz Cricket & Frank Luellen Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Mahar Joseph J. Mancini Pete & Sally Merrill Robert J. & Marcia Wishengrad Metzger Mrs. Elizabeth O. Miller Deanne Molinari Paul Marc & Pamela Miller Ness Suzanne F. Powell Eileen D. Ramos William Rapp Dr. Ramon L. and Judith S. Ricker Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers Wallace R. Rust Peggy W. Savlov David & Antonia T. Schantz William & Susan Schoff

Peter Schott & Mary Jane Tasciotti Jon L. & Katherine T. Schumacher Gretchen Shafer Ingrid Stanlis Ann & Robert Van Niel Lewis & Patricia Ward-Baker Fred M. Wechsler Robin & Michael Weintraub Michael and Patricia Wilder Kitty J. Wise Nancy & Mark Zawacki Alan Ziegler & Emily Neece Ivan Town Harry & Ruth Walker Susan and Lawrence Yovanoff Mr. & Mrs. Ted Zornow The RPO is most grateful for the generous gifts from the estates of Edith B. Arganbright, Jean Boynton Baker, Norris F. Carlson, William L. Gamble, Jean Groff, William B. Hale, Mrs. Samter Horwitz, Eleanor T. Patterson, Ernest Raschiatore, Gretchen Shafer, and Elbis A. Shoales, M.D.

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MAESTRO’S CIRCLE The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the generous individuals listed here who help us continue to enrich and inspire the community through the art of music. While space only permits us to list gifts made at the Benefactor level and above, we value the generosity and vital support of all donors. Thank you so very much!

Listings are in recognition of annual giving from September 1, 2015 to November 17, 2016. If we have made an error or omission on this list, please accept our sincere apologies and contact Jason V. Polasek at 585-454-7311 x280 so we may correct our oversight.

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MAESTRO ($50,000 AND ABOVE) Suzanne Gouvernet William B. Hale*

Dr. Dawn Lipson Cricket & Frank Luellen

PRESTISSIMO ($25,000–$49,999) Anonymous Barbara & Patrick Fulford Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Furman

Mrs. Marjorie Morris Elise & Stephen Rosenfeld Josephine S. Trubek

Louise Woerner & Don Kollmorgen

PRESTO ($15,000–$24,999) Jim Boucher Ilene & David Flaum Jeff & Alleen Fraser Mr. & Mrs. Michael Millard

Joan M. Pfeifer* Larry & Elizabeth Rice Sunny and Nellie Rosenberg Mrs. Robert M. Santo

Katherine T. & Jon L. Schumacher Jules L. Smith & Alexandra Northrop Ingrid Stanlis Michael and Patricia Wilder

VIVACE ($10,000–$14,999) Mrs. Martin Abkowitz Mr. Roger L Anderson Stephen & Janice Ashley William L. & Ruth P. Cahn Mary Cowden Ralph Craviso William Eggers & Deborah McLean Andrew & Juli Elliot Mr. & Mrs. James T. Englert

Joan Feinbloom Dr. & Mrs. Steven Feldon Ronald Fielding Mike and Tabatha Gioja Marjorie and Julian Goldstein Jody & Bruce Hellman Marie & Charlie Kenton Jim & Marianne Koller David and Nancy Lane

Dr. & Mrs. Hobart A. Lerner Dan & Kiki Mahar Mrs. Richard Palermo Sandra A. Parker & John M. Summers Christopher and Elaine Pipa Sherman Levey & Deborah Ronnen Mark Siwiec & Duffy Palmer Steven & Christine Whitman Robert A. Woodhouse

Joyce Crofton Dr. Eric Dreyfuss Janet & Roger Gram Ms. Anne R Guenther* Howard T. Hallowell III David & Barrie Heiligman Tom & Nan Hildebrandt Stephen Lurie & Kathleen Holt Norman Horton Dr. Sandra Johnson Mrs. Sheila Konar Ernest and Sarah Krug Harold & Christine Kurland

Joanne Lang Dr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Leone, Jr. Mr. Lawrence Martling William P. McCarrick Deanne Molinari Kathy and John Purcell Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Reed Dr. Suzanne H. Rodgers M Sandra & Richard Stein David & Grace Strong Krestie Utech Dr. Sidney & Linda S. Weinstein Robin & Michael Weintraub

Elaine Del Monte Michele Dryer Frederick Dushay, in memoriam for Anita B. Dushay Larry & Kas Eldridge John R. Ertle Robert P. Fordyce in memory of Dr. & Mrs. Charles R. Fordyce Dr. & Mrs. Elmar Frangenberg Betsy Friedman Shirley B. and Kevin Frick Helen & Dan Fultz Patty & Dick George Dr. & Mrs. Charles J. Gibson Mr. & Mrs. Donald Ginsberg Warren & June Glaser Rob W. Goodling Debbie and Michael Gordon Jean Gostomski George & Mary Hamlin Warren & Joyce Heilbronner Elizabeth & John T. Hessney Dr. Jack & Harriette Howitt

Mrs. Robert D. Hursh Mr. and Mrs. Ernest J. Ierardi La Marr J. Jackson, Esq. Leslie H. Jacobs Dr. Ralph F. Jozefowicz Daryl & Charles Kaplan Norman & Judith Karsten Kathryn Kelleher Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Kennedy Robert J. Kennedy M Richard & Karen Knowles Myrta & Robert Knox Marcy & Ray Kraus in loving memory of Dr. Allan & Charlotte Kraus Gay & Don Lenhard John & Dolores Loftus Edith M. Lord Swaminathan & Janice Madhu Mr. Lawrence Martling Bruce & Eleanor McLear Mr. & Mrs. James R. McMillen Duane & Ida Miller James E. and Janet L. Morris

ALLEGRO ($5,000–$9,999) Anonymous (2) Sarah D. Atkinson, M.D. & Steven Hess Miriam H. Ackley David J. Allen Marlene Alva in memory of Ruth G. Alva Nancy & Harry Beilfuss Carol & John Bennett Allen & Joyce Boucher Mr. & Mrs. Paul W. Briggs Mr. & Mrs. Harlan D. Calkins Paul and Mary Callaway Catherine B. Carlson Norris Carlson Joan & Paul Casterline ANDANTE CIRCLE ($2,500–$4,999) Anonymous (3) Allan & Polly Anderson Allegra Angus Bob and Jody Asbury John and Mary Bartholomew Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Bielaska, Jr. Judith M. Binder and Barbara Erbland Stuart & Betsy Bobry Robert Brown Barbara & John Bruning Mr. Roger Buckman and Ms. Jane Ellen Bailey Mary Ellen Burris Philip & Jeanne Carlivati Margaret J. Carnall Betsy & John Carver Mr. & Mrs. Russell D. Chapman Mary Ellen Clark Dr. John Condemi Jeff & Sue Crane Alison & John Currie Richard & Michele Decker

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ANDANTE CIRCLE ($2,500–$4,999) CONTINUED Paul and Brigid Ryan Paul Marc and Pamela Miller Ness Drs. Carl & O.J. Sahler Elizabeth Neureiter-Seely Ron & Sharon Salluzzo Drs. Avice & Timothy O’Connor Richard & Vicki Schwartz Bernard & Molly Panner Nancy A. Skelton Karen A. Petras Janet Buchanan Smith Brock & Sandra Powell Dr. & Mrs. Sidney H. Sobel William & Barbara Pulsifer Norman and Glenna Spindelman Susan A. Raub Mrs. Andrea Stewart John B. Rumsey ADAGIO CIRCLE ($1,000–$2,499) Anonymous (11) Dr. G. Richard and Elaine Abbott Robert E. & Carol G. Achilles Barbara & David Ackroyd Edward & Joan After Carol Aldridge Dr. & Mrs. Henry W. Altland Stephanie & Geoffrey Amsel Marvin & Frederica Amstey Elaine Anderson Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Angevine, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George M. Angle Dave & Jan Angus Mr. & Mrs. Mehdi N. Araghi M Edward and Ruth Atwater Betsy Ann Balzano Mr. and Mrs. Bruce B. Bates Steve & Anne Bauer David M. Berg & Dawn K. Riedy John & Kristine Bouyoucos Judith Boyd Simon & Josephine Braitman Louis and Susan Brescia Claire M. Brown Josh & Beth Bruner Josephine Buckley Patrick and Irene Burke Sharon & Philip Burke Chris & Tom Burns Ann Burr & A. Vincent Buzard Alan L. Cameros Michael B. Gehl & Jeffrey Caruso William T. Chandler Margaret & Donald Cherr Mr. Dale Clark Lorraine W. Clarke Sarah H. Collins* M Christine Colucci Marj & Wiles Converse Jeremy A. Cooney, Esq. John M. Coulter Jeff & Sue Crane Judith & Joseph Darweesh David F. Dean Bonnie & Duane DeHollander Jacques & Monique Delettrez Stephanie & Douglas Dickman Tex & Nicki Doolittle Gail & Douglas Doonan William & Cynthia Dougherty M Marilyn Drumm Dr. & Mrs. James Durfee Rose Duver Dr. Steven & Susan Eisinger Carol & Tom Elliott Louise W. Epstein Gerald G. Estes Julia B. Everitt Trevor & Elizabeth Ewell Sherman & Anne Farnham Samuel J. & Marsha R. Fico Thomas & Janet Fink

Gail R. Flugel Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Forsyth Jonathan Foster Ann and Steve Fox Mr. Thomas Lennox and Mrs. Margaret Freeman Harry & Marion Fulbright Marjorie & James Fulmer Johanna M. Gambino in memory of Jerry J. Gambino Dr. Richard & Josie Gangemi David and Patricia Gardner Sharon Garelick Winston E. Gaum Dr. & Mrs. David Gentile Mr. & Mrs. Wesley P. Ghyzel Ann Goldberg Paul & Carol Goldberg Patricia Goodwin Burton Gordon Robert & Jeanne Grace Jeanne Gray in memory of Robert C. Gray Harvey Greenberg Alan & Julie Griesinger Brigitte & Klaus Gueldenpfennig Susan & James Haefner Jeffrey & Lynne Halik Peggy & David Hall Joan & Alfred Hallenbeck Mrs. Laura J. Hameister Louise Harris Chris Hasenauer Gil & Judy Hawkins Richard A. Henshaw Merrill & Dianne Herrick Walter B.D. Hickey, Jr. David C. & Patricia M. Hinkle Art & Barb Hirst John & Barbara Holder Susan Holliday Dr. Robert E. Horn & Dr. Patricia Nachman Mrs. Samter Horwitz Mary Jo & Jack Hultz H. Larry & Dorothy C. Humm Agop Ispentchian Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence S. Iwan Bob & Elaine Jacobsen Miles & Silvija Jones Dr. & Mrs. Harold Kanthor Lori & Frank Karbel Patrick and Kathleen Kelly Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Kennedy Mr. & Mrs. Mordecai Kolko Karen S. Kral Deanna & Charles Krunsenstjerna Werner & Susan Kunz David & Andrea Lambert Donna M. Landry Ms. Connie Leary Nancy H. Lee

Bob & Gayle Stiles Catherine Toy Mr. John Urban Ann & Robert Van Niel M Skip & Karen Warren Dr. & Mrs. Tae B. Whang Mrs. Frederick C. White Kitty J. Wise

John and Alice Leddy Norman & Arlene Leenhouts Dr. Thomas Caprio & Ann Leonhardt Ken and Katherine Lindahl Jane & Jim Littwitz Mr. & Mrs. James A. Locke III Sue & Michael Lococo Mrs. Frank W. Lovejoy, Jr. Pamela Krug Maloof Joseph J. Mancini Kathryn Markakis and Geoffrey Williams Joan Markman in memory of her sister, Margaret Winters Diana Marquis Saul & Susan Marsh Mrs. Bruce P. Marshall Linda M. Marsters Frances & Robert Marx Richard & Catherine Massie Stephen Matkowsky and Elzbieta Charchalis Carol & John Matteson William & Erin McCune Gilbert Kennedy McCurdy Carol A. McFetridge Pamela McGreevy Marion & Ed Mench Pete & Sally Merrill Robert J. & Marcia Wishengrad Metzger Daniel M. Meyers Hinda & Michael Miller Morning Musicale John Muenter Ann Mulligan* Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Munson Dr. Gary & Ruth Myers Mr. & Mrs. Philip Neivert Sara L. Niemeyer Kathy & Ted Nixon Suzanne J. O’Brien William J. O’Connor, Jr. David E. Owens Mrs. Virginia S. Pacala Jane Parker & Francis Cosentino Patricia & Philip Parr Edward J Pettinella Elizabeth Phelps Channing & Marie Philbrick Douglas & Diana Phillips David & Virginia Pixley Lee Pollan Vera Powley Bill & Beverly Pullis Robert & Anne Quivey Nancy & Vincent Reale Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Richards Mrs. Norma Riedman Doria Scortichini & Chris Ritchlin Carol Ritter Wright & William Wright Daniel & Nancy Robbins Nancy & Art Roberts

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ADAGIO CIRCLE ($1,000–$2,499) CONTINUED Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Stehler Mrs. Stanley M. Rogoff Judith Steinheider Thomas & Elizabeth Ross Chris Stenzel Jamal and Pam Rossi Robert C. Stevens Hon. Franklin T. and Cynthia Russell Mrs. Andrea Stewart Peggy Savlov Dr. Robert & Sally Jo Stookey James G. Scanzaroli Margaret A. Strite Gary B. Schaefer Jim Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence M. Schenck Steve and Cheryl Swartout Peter Schott & Mary Jane Tasciotti Margaret and Charles Symington Thomas Schumacher Dr. and Mrs. Henry A. Thiede Joan M. Schumaker J. Russell & Kathleen Thomas Anthony & Gloria Sciolino Jason Thomas Catherine & Richard Seeger Miriam Thomas Joan & Arthur Segal Robert & Diane Tichell Libba & Wolf Seka Sonya Tierney Mr. & Mrs. Eugene P. Seymour Eric Tillich Wayne & Sonja Shelton Dr. and Mrs. Mark Tornatore Robert & Nancy Shewan Stephen & Shirley Townsend Alice & Ken Slining Mrs. Schuyler Townson George Smith & Diane Ahlman David and Marcia Trauernicht Mary Gayle Smith Dorothy Tyler Susan and David Spector Jim & Linda Varner Kenneth T. & Eva M. Steadman

PHILHARMONIC FRIENDS

Dr. Laura von Doenhoff Robert & Sandra Walker Richard & Brenda Vuillequez Harry & Ruth Walker Robert & Sandra Walker Stephen R. Webb Irene & Alan Weinberg Ann Weitzel Mary Ellen Welch William D. Watson & Suzanne D. Welch Joseph Werner & Diane Smith Stephen Wershing Nancy Weyl Ms. Christine Wickert James H. Willey Ernest Wong Elizabeth D. Woodard Charlotte J. Wright Caroline and Richard Yates Susan Zauderer Mr. & Mrs. Ted Zornow

*Deceased

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Matching Gift

ADVOCATE ($700–$999) Anonymous (5) Betsy & Gerald Archibald Dr. & Mrs. Donald Barrett Jeanne Beecher Hays & Karen Bell Mr. & Mrs. Donald Bennett Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Blumenau Robert Boehner Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Bolger Brian Burke Bruce and Shirley Burritt Cathy Chambers Jane A. Capellupo Cathy Cambers Ted & Winnie Cichanowicz Jack & Barbara Clarcq Dr. Salvatore & Joan Dalberth Frederick Davey Mr. James J. De Luca Nancy & Sreeram Dhurjaty Jane Dieck Paul and Karen Grover Duffy Holly K. Elwell Mrs. Walter Fallon Udo Fehn & Christine Long Mr. & Mrs. Lee J. Fleckenstein George and Marie Follett Suressa & Richard Forbes John & Chris Forken Richard & Carol Fullerton Sue Gaffney Dr. & Mrs. William Grammar Barbara J. Granite Ed & Terry Grissing Michael & Joanna Grosodonia Mrs. Robert Gulick Sharon and Mark Hamer Marilyn & Dick Hare Karen Hatch and Dirk Bernold

Gil & Judy Hawkins Mrs. Robert A. Heinle Mr. Lawrence Helfer Dan & Sandy Hollands Carol E. Hopkins Earl & Mary Ingersoll Ronald & Martha Jodoin Dr. & Mrs. H. Douglas Jones Lori & Frank Karbel Janet Kemp Mr. & Mrs. Alvie Kidd Marilyn & David Klass Clem & Mary Elizabeth Knight Glenn & Nancy Koch Jane Labrum Paul Law Doris & Austin Leve Arthur E. Lowenthal John & Judy Lynd Sandy & Jack Maniloff Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mason Mrs. Gilbert G. McCurdy Richard McGrath Mr & Mrs John F. McNamara Jonathan Mink & Janet Cranshaw Nancy and Kenneth Mihalyov Onnalie Miller Jonathan Mink & Janet Cranshaw Richard & Joyce Mitchell Ilene Montana Dr. Richard & Nancy Newton Thomas W. Petrillo & William R. Reamy Ann Piato Jason Polasek Lee Pollan Margaret Quackenbush Edward Radin Nancy & Art Roberts Nathan & Susan Robfogel

Dr. & Mrs. Gordon N. Robinson Mrs. James A. Rockwell in memory of Rev. James A. Rockwell Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Rosenbaum Carolyn & Charles Ruffing Ron Sassone William Saunders Carol and Axel Schreiner Caroline Schultz Mr. & Mrs. Michael O. Shipley Bruce and Laura Smoller Carol C. Shulman Laura Smoller Kathie Snyder Robert & Norma Snyder Charles H. Speirs Walter Stacker M Susan & Daniel Stare Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Strasser Mr. & Mrs. Rudolph Steiner Frank & Rose Swiskey Drs. Jaimala and Krishan Thanik Jennifer Thomas Celia & Doug Topping Betsy Van Horn Jim Van Meter & Marlene Piscitelli Doug Cline & Lorraine Van Meter-Cline Gary & Marie VanGraafeiland Vic Vinkey John and Susan Volpel Nancy & Tom Walters Dale & Lorraine Whittington Ed and Wilma Wierenga Puck & Claes Winqvist Elise & Joseph Wojciechowski Grace Wong Laura & Joel Yellin Mary Jane Proschel Karen & Sy Zivan

BENEFACTOR ($375–$699) Anonymous (7) Karen Abbas Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Ackley Robert & Anne Allen Norman Alling

Peter & Jane Anderson A. Joseph Antos Dr. and Mrs. E. David Appelbaum Gloria Baciewicz Leslie Baker

Priscilla Baker Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Balta Lon Baratz M D M.J. Barclay John and Lisa Baron

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BENEFACTOR ($375–$699) CONTINUED Celia Dilworth Tom Bartolini Wendell & Mary Discher Asish and Susan Basu Jacqueline Distefano Ann Bauer Margo Dobies Brenda Beal Donald & Stephanie Doe John and Ellen Beck Warren Doerrer Miss Anne Bell J. Ernest Du Bois Eric & Marcia Birken Jane Dunham Chrystine Blackwell Ellen & Lester Eber Mrs. Barbara Blake Cynthia Ebinger Lynne Blank Dianne Edgar James R. Boehler Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Egan Angela Bonazinga & Catherine Lewis Larry & Peggy Elliott Erick & Nancy Bond Marcia L. Elwitt Susan & Peter Bondy Mohsen Emami, M.D. Agneta M. Borgstedt, M.D. M Mr. & Mrs. Henry A. Emmans Mr. and Mrs. William Boudway D. Craig Epperson & Dr. Beth Jelsma Jeff & Kathy Bowen Karl & Paula Essler Shirley Bowen & Tracy Perkins Gordon J. Estey Donald & Mary Boyd Wolf and Carolyn Ettinger Nancy & Chuck Boyer Joan & Peter Faber Linda Bretz Janet Fernandez Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Briggs Dr. Paul Fine Elaine & Wayne Brigman Clara S. Firth Susann Brown & Terence Chrzan Elizabeth B. Fisher Wilma M. Brucker F. Peter Flihan Doug & Chris Brush Mrs. Timothy P. Forget Nancy Brush and John Parker Philip Franco Al Buckner Sandra and Neil Frankel Eileen Buholtz M Ruth Freeman Sarah and Edward Bullard Mary Elaine Aldoretta & Richard Burandt Dr. Gary J. Friend and Mrs. Lois B. Wolff-Friend Debra Burgin Kevin Frisch Mr. & Mrs. Bruce C. Burkey Judith Fulmer Mr. Larry Burling Richard T. Galvin Keith & Joan Calkins Jerry J. Gambino, Jr. Paul Campbell Jill & Kent Gardner Mary Carlton Richard & Joyce Gilbert Wayne Carnall Walter Gilges Gerard and Joanne Caschette Tom & Kelly Gilman John & Diane Caselli Robert & Marie Ginther Diane & Roger Cass Andrea S. Giuffre Richard E. Cavers Bruce Goldman Gary R Chadwick John & Roslyn Goldman Robert & Susan Chapman in memory Jane Gorsline of Lucille Giglia Dr. & Mrs. William Grace Bill and Victoria Cherry Barbara Jean Gray-Gottorff Dr. Lawrence and Mrs. Rita Chessin Mr. & Mrs. Newton H. Green Ms Ellin Chu Russell Green Irene M. Churukian Gay Jane Greene Victor Ciaraldi & Kathy Marchaesi Mr. & Mrs. Michael R. Griswold Martha D Clasquin Michael & Joanna Grosodonia Elizabeth Claypoole Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Grossman Mr. & Mrs. James D. Clifford Mr. Robert C. Grossman Alan Cohen and Nancy Bloom Mrs. Robert Gulick Gloria & Pincus Cohen Ann L. Haag David & Donna Cole Sue Habbersett Mary Collins Dr. & Mrs. Robert J. Haggerty Mary Lewis Consler David & Frances Hall Mr. and Mrs. Alan Cook Mark Hamer Walter Cooper David & MaryAnn Hamilton John & Mary Crowe Nancy Hamlin Jimena Cubillos Zena & Tom Hampson Cathy Cushman & Jeff Sokol Martin & Sherrie Handelman Roy Czernikowski & Karin Dunnigan Barbara & A. Michael Hanna Louis & Allis D’Amanda Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Hanna Jerry Davidson Ronald W. Hansen Teri Davis Robert T. & Mary Ann Hargrave John & Jane DeCory Karen Hart Ken & Jean DeHaven Mr. & Mrs. James M. Hartman Dr. Elise dePapp Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hasiuk Theodore DeSoto Bernice Hatch Josephine Dewey Karen Hatch Jorge L. Diaz-Herrera

Mr. Howard Decker and Mrs. Amy Hecker Ann Hedges M Barbara & Dieter Hentschel Dr. and Mrs. Raul Herrera Carol M. Herring K.L. Hersam Carol & Michael Hirsh Drs. Ryan and Makiko Hoefen Peter Hogan Audrey W. Holly Mr. and Mrs. Ned Holmes Tala and Mark Hopkins Mr. & Mrs. William N. Hosley Andrew & Kathleen Holt Larry and Barbara Howe Mr & Mrs Elmer Humes Drs. Geza & Minou Hrazdina Marjorie S. Humphrey Richard & Joyce Humphreys Mr & Mrs Frank M Hutchins Mr. Robert S. Hyman James Iacutone Dr. & Mrs. Robert Isgro Dewey Jackson Bruce Jacobs Seth Jacobson Stephen Jacobstein Janet S. Jennison David & Patricia Jewell Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Judson, Jr. Valerie & Robert Kalwas Barbara & Robert Kay Mrs. Maryel Kellogg John and Marilyn Kiesling Marcella Klein & Richard Schaeffer Bob & Connie Klein Hon. Joan S. Kohout Diane S Koretz Paulina & Laurence Kovalsky Elsbeth J Kozel Barbara & Jack Kraushaar Dr. & Mrs. Jacob Krieger Loren Kroll Kraig M. Kummer Salvatore & Sandra LaBella Marlowe B Laiacona Rev. William Laird Dr. & Mrs. Leo R. Landhuis Mr. & Mrs. Thomas O. Lange Sally & Lou Langie Carol Laniak David G. Larimer Craig & Susan Larson Diana Lauria Kathleen Leahy Jennifer Leonard & David Cay Johnston Lenore and Marshall Lesser Dr. Pamela A. Leve Sarah F. Liebschutz Mrs. James B. Little Dr. & Mrs. Norman R. Loomis Carol C. Lovell Gift in memory of Helene P. Lovenheim Douglas* & Marcia Lowry Edward J. & Kathleen L. Lynd Russell Madsen Mr. & Mrs. Achilles Mafilios James & Rosa Mance James & Patricia Mangin Jeffrey C & Linda L Mapstone Rebekah & Joseph Marinelli Mr. & Mrs. Wayne J. Mazzarella

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BENEFACTOR ($375–$699) CONTINUED Mrs. Paul Reeves C. Thomas & Emily McCall Stan & Anne Refermat Robert McCory Rene Reixach Mr. Michael McCusker Marjorie Relin Dick & Sandra McGavern Mr. and Mrs. David A. Reynolds Dr. & Mrs. Neal McNabb Bob & Shirley Rheinwald Mr. & Mrs. David McNair Gail Richeson Mrs. Katie Merk McNally Dr. Ramon L. and Judith S. Ricker David McNeeley Christopher Rider Dr. George J. McVey Sandra and Eugene Riley Margaret & Bob Mecredy Suzanne Robinson Andrew & Kay Melnyk Anne Rodgers Carl Mercendetti and Valerie Maresh Elizabeth & Donald Roemermann Jennifer Meyer Mrs. David Romig Rigmor Miller Antonio & Patricia K. Rosati Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Moncrief Judy & Bill Rose Ms. Mary Ann Monley Dr. Harry & Ellen Rosen Jane Morale Dr. Gerald & Maxine Rosen Charles Morgan Rachel Rosen & Ron Wexler Mr. and Mrs. Paul F. Morgan Dick & Bea Rosenbloom Theodore H. Morse Jamal and Pam Rossi David Mosher Beatrice Roxin, in memory of Paul Roxin Joseph and Linda Mulcahy Linda Rubens Mr. & Mrs. Otto Muller-Girard Dr. and Mrs. G. Theodore Ruckert Dr. Donald Munger James Ryan Harold Munson Mr. James R. Sabey George A. Schutt Ed & Gabriel Saphar Michael D. Nazar Madelyn Sasso Roberta & David Ness Susan Scanlon & Croft K. Hangartner Mildred G. Ness Mr. & Mrs. Richard Schenkel Lea Nordhaus Paul & Barbara Schmied Joan & Beryl Nusbaum Dr. & Mrs. Michael Schneider Margaret & David Oakes Suzanne & Michael Schnittman W. Smith & Jean O’Brien Nancy & David Schraver Peter Oddleifson & Kay Wallace David & Naomi Schrier Robert & Betty Oppenheimer Steven Schwartz & Alice Tariot Jim & Linda Orgar Terry K. Schwartz Mildred Ortbach Theresa Seil Rita B. Otterbein Katie Sejba The Rev. Marilyle Sweet Page David & Susan Senise Dr. Vivian Palladoro Rich Sensenbach Robert J. Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Earl H. Sexton Jonathan R. Parkes and Dr. Paul & Kathy Shapiro Marcia Bornhurst Parkes Robert Hallstrom & Lily Shaw Tom Passero Kelly M. Shea David & Marjorie Perlman Philip Sheils Horace Perry Ruth Sheldon Mr. & Mrs. Claude Peters Mary E. Sherman Ms. Marilyn Petz Mrs. Shirley Shumway Doug Philips Myron Silver Allyson and Webster H. Pilcher Myron S. Silver & Rivka Chatman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Poduska Naomi Silver Joyce & Victor Poleshuck Joseph Simpson Mr. & Mrs. Gentry W. Politte Daniel & Sarah Singal Dr. & Mrs. Lee D. Pollan David and Elizabeth Smith Linda E. Postler Carol Snook in memory H.R. Powers of Richard Snook Beth & Lyle Prairie Janet H. Sorensen Bill Prest Patricia Southcombe Mary Jane Proschel Ms. Suzanne Spencer Dr. & Mrs. Edwin Przybylowicz Jean & Harold Stacey Barry & Jean Rabson Kenneth T. & Eva M. Steadman Jerry & Janice Rachfal Donna Stein Mary Kay & James Rahmlow

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Ron and Alison Steinmiller Georgine & James Stenger Mr. & Mrs. David Stern Richard & Gwen Sterns Elizabeth and Robert Sterrett Ann H. Stevens & William J. Shattuck Kevin Stone & Nancy Atwood-Stone Mr. Elmar Strazds Anne Sullivan John & Barbara Szulgit Mark Taubman Eric Thompson Frank Torchio Bill & Mary Anna Towler Patrick Toy Mimi & Sam Tilton John & Betty Travis Mr & Mrs George Treier William J. Tribelhorn J. Michael & Sally Turner John & Janet Tyler Eugene and Gloria Ulterino John R. Unson Ms. Sheree Usiatynski Tom Van Strydonck Roger & Jeanette Van Wormer Margaret Vanas Wayne & Anne Vander Byl Thomas & Jeanne Verhulst Jo Ann F Vierthaler Robert Vosteen Ellen Wagner Brian Waldmiller Mrs. Herbert Watkins Debra Watson Janet & Jeff Waxman Pierce & Elizabeth Webb Mr. & Mrs. David K. Weber Sandra Weber Betsy & Peter Webster Mr. & Mrs. Philip R. Wegman Ann D. Weintraub Richard & Shirley Wersinger Robert White Gary W. Wicks John Wilcox Mr. & Mrs. William Wilcox Mr. John Williams and Mr. Chuck Lundeen Leonore & Lee Wiltse Carol Wischmeyer Mrs. Mary Alice Wolf Charles & Susan Wolfe Beatrice and Michael Wolford Gary & Judith Wood Peter Woods Kevin & Trude Wright Eileen M. Wurzer Linda and Robert G. Wyman Lawrence and Susan Yovanoff Carol Zajkowski

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*Deceased

BRAVO TRIBUTES

Tribute gifts are a special way to remember loved ones or commemorate special occasions such as birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, births, or graduations. If you would like to make a memorial or honorarium gift, please contact Rachel Boucher at 585.454.7311 x249 IN MEMORY OF…

IN HONOR OF…

Lee J. Buchman Rachel Lipschutz and Mark Lipschutz and Family

Mrs. Edward Carnall – Merry Christmas!

Wayne and Anne Marie Carnall Carl Talbot, for his birthday Joanne Randall Robin Weintraub, for her birthday Warren Seideman

THE CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN CONDUCTOR LAUREATE CHAIR The Christopher Seaman Chair is supported by funds from Barbara and Patrick Fulford and The Conductor Laureate Society, recognized below. We sincerely appreciate the support of these most generous patrons, who made it possible to honor former Music Director Christopher Seaman’s 13 dedicated years in a very special way. *Deceased

GOLD BATON ($100,000) Barbara & Patrick Fulford PODIUM ($50,000–$99,999) Joan & Harold* Feinbloom CONCERTMASTER ($25,000–$49,999) Anonymous (2) Mr.* & Mrs. Robert Hurlbut, Sr. Cricket & Frank Luellen PRINCIPAL ($10,000–$24,999) Anonymous (2) Lisa Brubaker, James Viscardi, Louise Woerner & Don Kollmorgen Paul Donnelly William Eggers & Deborah McLean Louise W. Epstein Ronald & Donna* Fielding Steven Hess & Sarah Atkinson, M.D. Mr.* & Mrs. Robert Hursh Harold & Christine Kurland Ann Mowris Mulligan* Kathy & John Purcell

Robin Lehman & Marie Rolf Elizabeth & Larry Rice Nick & Susan Robfogel Ingrid Stanlis Drs. Richard & Gwen Sterns Frank* & Mary Lou* Stotz CONDUCTOR LAUREATE SUPPORTERS John & Carol Bennett Paul & Bea Briggs David & Barrie Heiligman Mr. & Mrs. Bruce M. Kennedy Jim & Marianne Koller Drs. Jacques* & Dawn Lipson Nannette Nocon & Karl Wessendorf Charles H. Owens Peggy Savlov Jon & Katherine Schumacher Joel Seligman Suzanne D. Welch & William D. Watson Robin & Michael Weintraub Deborah Wilson

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Present

audience your message to the best in Rochester.

To reserve your advertising space in BRAVO, call Michelle Sanfilippo at 585.546.8303 or email msanfilippo@rbj.net.

Photo courtesy of University of Rochester

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DEVELOPMENT Domenic Argentieri, Vice President of Development Jason V. Polasek, Director of Donor Relations Mark Zeger, Manager of Institutional Giving Kimberly Cenzi, Manager of Annual Giving Kathy Miller, Administrative & Volunteer Coordinator Rachel M. Boucher, Development Associate Amanda J. Nasso, Development Assistant Madison Hornick* FINANCE Theresa Tornatore, Finance Manager Nancy Atwood-Stone, Director of Information Systems Irene Shaffer, Manager of Human Resources Mark Pignagrande, Accounting Manager Simona R. Benenati, Office Administrator

PATRON SERVICES CENTER Edward W. Solorzano, Director Teddy Sainphor, Manager Emily Gisleson, Assistant Manager Jenni Kohler, Direct Sales Manager David T. Meyer +, House Manager Olivia Case +, Senior Sales Representative Fabrice Broyld + Abby Chapman-Duprey + Patrick Corvington + Gabe Havalack + Kari Swenson + Paulina Swierczek + Troy Tette + ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC LEAGUE Laura Morihara +, RPL Administrator ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC YOUTH ORCHESTRA Irene Narotksy +, Manager Susan Basu +, Co-Manager Kaley Harman * + Part Time * Intern ^ Consultant

2016–17 Season

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS & EDUCATION Richard Decker, Vice President of Artistic Administration Barbara Brown, Director of Education Rebecca Sealander, Concert Production Manager Yunn-Shan Ma, Conducting Fellow Weiting Zhong*

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS Robert Sweibel, Interim Vice President of Marketing & Communications Kathryn Judd, Senior Marketing Manager Michelle Shippers, Communications Manager Mary DeFranco, Interim Bravo Project Manager ^ Sally Cohen PR, Publicist ^

RPO Staff

ADMINISTRATION Ralph P. Craviso, President and CEO Ronald L. Steinmiller, Chief Operating Officer Ellen Beck, Executive Assistant

2016–17 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra RPYO to Perform at Carnegie Hall SUN

FEB 19 1 PM CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK

SUN

MAR 5 3 PM KODAK HALL AT EASTMAN THEATRE

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MAY 14 3 PM HALE AUDITORIUM ROBERTS WESLEYAN COLLEGE

RPYO to Perform at Carnegie Hall Program:

Richard Wagner Prelude to Die Meistersinger Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 1, mvt. 3 Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2

Mahler’s Magic Side-by-Side Concert with the RPO Featuring RPYO Concerto Competition Winners TBD Program: Mahler 1 (mvts 3-4) Von Suppé’s Poet & Peasant

Mozart and Mussorgsky

Andrew Brown Maria Donnelly, Parent Committee Chair Vicky Feathers Elizabeth Hanan Rus Healy Brian King David Lane, Chair John Lucia, Treasurer Jim Orgar Linda Orgar Mike Rutecki Dan Stare Fred Weingarten Roxanne Willard EX-OFFICIO Susan Basu, RPYO Co-Manager Barbara Brown Ralph Craviso Jeanne Gray James Mick, Music Director Irene Narotsky, RPYO Manager Josephine Whang

Featuring RPYO Concerto Competition Winners TBD Program: Overture to Don Giovanni Pictures at an Exhibition

Tickets are available by calling 585-454-2100, online at rpo.org, or in person at the RPO Patron Services Center.

Tickets range from $8-$15. Carnegie Hall tickets from carnegiehall.org.

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Interested in volunteering for the RPO? Contact Kathy Miller, Administrative and Volunteer Coordinator at (585) 454-7311 x243 or kmiller@rpo.org for the following opportunities: Usher: Greet, seat, and care for the patrons while attending concerts.

Box Seat Concierge: Offer enhanced services and care for patrons in Box Seats.

Gibbs Street Assistant: Ensure patrons safely exit their car and enter the theatre.

Give-A-Lift Program: Drive eligible patrons 55+ to and from concerts.

Administrative Support: Support the RPO office on weekdays.

ROCHESTER PHILHARMONIC LEAGUE Rochester Philharmonic League volunteers are ambassadors for the RPO. Our activities focus on introducing young people to classical music through RPO Education Concerts and on fostering the musical talent of our youth through Young Artist Auditions.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDE

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS INCLUDE

■ Planning and hosting the annual Young Artist Auditions

■ Open rehearsals & lunchtime conversations with RPO musicians at Music, Munch & Mingle series

■ Ushering for RPO school concerts at Kodak Hall BOARD OF DIRECTORS Eileen Ramos, President Kathleen Bankey, President Elect Mary-Ellen Perry, Secretary Paul Ness, Treasurer

■ Annual excursion to the Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Yvonne Baker Joanna Bassett Marcia Bornhurst Parkes Judy DiPasquale Catherine Frangenberg

Mary Ann Giglio Sue Habbersett Cynthia Jankowski Connie Kaminski Daryl Kaplan

Bonnie Kramer Sarah Krug Brenda Murphy-Pough Kathleen Newcomb Rollin Charles Phillips Betty Schaeffer

JOIN THE LEAGUE TODAY!

Bravo to Our Volunteers

VOLUNTEER FOR THE RPO

585-399-3654 • rpl@rpo.org • rpo.org/rpl

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ERICH CAMPING

Since its founding by George Eastman in 1922, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra has been committed to enriching and inspiring our community through the art of music. Currently in its 94th year, the RPO is dedicated to maintaining its high standard of artistic excellence, unique tradition of musical versatility, and deep commitment to education and community engagement.

Today, the RPO presents up to 120 concerts per year, serving nearly 170,000 people through ticketed events, education and community engagement activities, and concerts in schools and community centers throughout the region. Nearly one-third of all RPO performances are educational or community-related. In addition, WXXI 91.5 FM rebroadcasts approximately 30 RPO concerts each year. For more information, visit rpo.org.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TICKETS: The RPO Patron Services Center is located at 108 East Avenue, in downtown Rochester. Free 15-minute parking is available outside the RPO Patron Services Center, which is open Monday-Saturday 10 AM- 5 PM. Four-way flashers must be used when parking in these spaces.

NIGHT-OF-CONCERT PURCHASES: For night-of-concert purchases, RPO will-call tickets and concert tickets are available at the Eastman Theatre Box Office (433 East Main Street) starting 90 minutes prior to concert time.

PARKING: Paid parking for Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre is available at the East End Garage, located next to the theatre. Open entrances/exits change frequently while the garage is under construction. Visit rpo.org/parking for the most recent updates. Paid parking for the Performance Hall at Hochstein is available at the Sister Cities Garage, located behind the school at Church and Fitzhugh Streets.

PRE-CONCERT TALKS: Philharmonics ticket-holders are welcome to attend free pre-concert talks, held one hour before all Philharmonics concerts in the orchestra level of the theatre.

SERVICES FOR PATRONS WITH DISABILITIES: Wheelchair locations and seating for those with disabilities are available at all venues; please see the house manager or an usher for assistance. Elevators are located in the oval lobby of Kodak Hall and in the East Wing. A wheelchair-accessible restroom is available on the first floor.

SERVICES FOR HARD-OF-HEARING PATRONS: Audio systems are available at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre; headsets may be obtained from an usher prior to the performance.

CHANGING SEATS: If you find it necessary to be reseated for any reason, please contact an usher who will bring your request to the House Manager.

LOST AND FOUND: Items found in Kodak Hall will be held at the Eastman Theatre Box Office, 433 E. Main Street. For more info, call 585-274-3000.

ELECTRONIC DEVICES: The use of cameras or audio recording equipment is strictly prohibited. Patrons are asked to turn off all personal electronic devices prior to the performance.

REFRESHMENTS: Food and drink are not permitted in the concert hall, except for bottled water.

Refreshments are available for purchase in Betty’s Café located on the orchestra level of Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.

TICKET DONATION: If you are unable to attend a concert, please consider donating your tickets to us as a tax-deductible contribution. Return your tickets to the RPO no later than 2 PM the day of the performance to make them available for resale.

Bravo is published cooperatively by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Rochester Business Journal Michelle Shippers | Editor, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra Meg Spoto | Art Director, m dash studio Don Anderson | Program Annotator, Don Anderson © Editorial Offices: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra 108 East Avenue, Rochester, NY 14604 585-454-7311 • Fax: 585-423-2256

Publisher and Designer: Rochester Business Journal 45 East Avenue, Suite 500, Rochester NY 14604 Advertising Sales: 585-546-8303

CONNECT WITH US facebook.com/RochesterPhilharmonic twitter.com/RochesterPhil youtube.com/SuperRPO rochesterphilharmonic.blogspot.com @rochesterphilharmonic, #rpo1617

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What does it mean to sign your name?

It’s a promise. A pledge.

At CNB, we believe that entrusting your finances to us entitles you to some important promises. In our Pledge of Accountability, we vow to return your calls on the same day.

Listen to your needs. Meet with you regularly to review your financial well-being. And if we ever fail to keep our pledge, we’ll happily refund your money.* We’re more than a bank. We’re a primary care physician for your financial health.

To learn more, contact Jim Blatt at (585) 419-0670, ext. 50624, or visit CNBank.com/WSG. CNBank.com/Pledge

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*Pledge only applies to advised accounts and does not apply to self-directed accounts. To see the full version of our CNB Pledge of Accountability and the details of our Fee Refund Guarantee, visit CNBank.com/Pledge. Investments are not bank deposits, are not obligations of or guaranteed by Canandaigua National Bank & Trust, and are not FDIC-insured. Investments are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of principal amount invested.

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