Program Book: April 2022 | Spring Love and Butterflies with Tania Miller

Music Director Finalists Season SPRING / FALL 2022

Yaniv Attar

Scott Terrell

Andrew Crust

Tania Miller

Alastair Willis

Eric Garcia

Radu Paponiu

Yaniv Segal

Vlad Vizireanu

Tania Miller

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022, 7:30 PM

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Tonight’s concert is dedicated to the memory of

Wendy Joy Nutter Young 1952 - 2022 We are grateful for Wendy’s many years as a volunteer, RSO board member, and along with her husband Fred, leading supporter of the RSO.

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Contents Letter from the Conductor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Program.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Guest Artist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Conductor Biography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Program Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17-20 Orchestra Roster. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Larsen Legacy Campaign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22-23 Corporate and Foundation Contributors.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Leadership Giving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Individual Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27-29 Tribute Gifts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Foundation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Encore Society. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Contracted Musicians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 RSO Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency’s Partners in Excellence program

Additional support comes from the Rockford Area Arts Council

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Letter from the Conductor There’s so much about spring that brings joy. As we enjoy the blossoming of tulips and daffodils, the emerging green grass, the spring brooks, and the sights and smells of buds forming on trees waking up from their winter slumber, we feel our own excitement about life becoming lighter, brighter, and full of new plans and potential. We recognize the cycle of life is what makes spring even more special.

Music can have this same effect on us when we experience it inside our busy lives. It takes us out of the fray and gives us a moment to reflect. It helps to renew our sense of hope, and it brings us together as a community. Just like nature, music speaks to us on a quiet, personal level, and yet, the music brings us all together through an experience that we all share - without words or opinions, sides, or divisions, it’s there for all of us and reminds us that we are all human.

As we experience the shock of the war in the Ukraine, various conflicts in our societies, personal frustrations, and struggles as we come out of the pandemic, music is there for us, and reminds us of the incredible potential of human creativity. Creativity, in itself, is a blossoming of spring. New ideas emerging out of a seeming nowhere, surprising and inspiring us.

This concert is about hope, possibility, and of course, what would spring be without love? In Copland’s Appalachian Spring, a young man and woman, newly married, start a life together - building a new home, and enjoying the support of an entire community who comes together to help them raise their barn. The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto was composed

by He Zhanhao and Chen Gang in 1958 and tells the ancient Chinese folk story of two friends Zhu and Liang who fall in love, but are separated through the circumstances of Zhu’s arranged marriage. Liang falls into depression and dies. On the day of Zhu’s wedding, a strong wind prevents her from passing by Liang’s grave, the earth opens up, and she is swallowed into his grave. Emerging out of this tragedy appear two butterflies, united and free to be together in spirit. I look forward to performing with your wonderful concertmaster, Michèle Lekas. John William’s Chairman’s Waltz comes from the beautiful story of Memoirs of a Geisha, where the geisha Sayuri falls in love with the Chairman, the first person to show her true kindness.

I open this program with Mozart’s beautiful Haffner Symphony because his music here is so light, joyful, and full of vibrancy. It’s a short Symphony, only 15 minutes long, and I especially love the way that the first theme weaves itself throughout the movement, like a Where’s Waldo rascal hiding in the music at every turn. Mozart, in his youth and vitality, awes us with the force of his incredible creativity and the virtuosity of his mind. And of course, how could we celebrate the essence of spring without J. Strauss’s The Beautiful, Blue Danube? The opening horn melody and shimmering chords capture the feeling of expectation and hope that we have for this new spring. As the dance begins, I hope a smile lights up your face.

Please enjoy the concert!

Tania Miller

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Spring Love and Butterflies Saturday, April 30, 2022, at 7:30 p.m.

Coronado Performing Arts Center

Rockford Symphony Orchestra Tania Miller, conductor Michèle Lekas, violin

Symphony No. 35 in D Major, K. 385 (“Haffner”)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)

Allegro con spirito Andante Menuetto Presto

The Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto

He Zhanhao (b. 1935) and Chen Gang (b. 1935) Michèle Lekas, violin - INTERMISSION -

“The Chairman’s Waltz” from Memoirs of a Geisha Suite

John Williams (b. 1932) Aaron Copland (1900 – 1990)

Appalachian Spring An der schonen, blauen Donau (On the Beautiful Blue Danube), Op. 314

Johann Strauss II (1825 – 1899)

This concert is generously sponsored by

Guest artists on RSO concerts are supported by an endowment gift from Richard Nordlof.

Hotel accommodations for guest artists are provided by Holiday Inn of Rockford.

This evening’s performance will be broadcast on WNIU/90.5 or 105.7 FM on May 9, 2022 at 7:00 p.m.; audio streaming available at northernpublicradio.org.

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Guest Artist Michèle Lekas, violin Michèle Lekas received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Quebec Conservatory of Music in her native Canada, and later studied in the United States with Jaime Laredo, David Cerone, and Sally Thomas.

She was a member of the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the chamber orchestras Les Violons du Roy (Quebec), the Camerata Lysy Gstaad (Switzerland), and the New American Chamber Orchestra (based in Granada Spain, and touring Europe for a year). Michèle is currently concertmaster of the Rockford Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Indiana Symphony, and the New Philharmonic Orchestra, and is a regular substitute musician with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She served as the Artistic Coordinator for the Rockford Symphony Orchestra’s series of Chamber Concerts at the Rockford Art Museum in Fall 2021.

She often appears as soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. Michèle has recorded for CLAVES with the New American Chamber Orchestra, for Warner Brothers and NAXOS with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and with Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to her classical repertoire, Michèle works in recording studios, and often performs for Broadway in Chicago productions.

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Conductor Tania Miller Canadian Conductor Tania Miller has distinguished herself as a dynamic interpreter, musician, and innovator. On the podium, Tania projects authority, dynamism, and sheer love of the experience of making music. As one critic put it, “she delivers calm intensity…expressive, colourful, and full of life…her experience and charisma are audible.”

Others call her performances “technically immaculate, vivid, and stirring”.

Tania’s 2021/22 season features debuts with the World Orchestra Festival in Daegu, South Korea with concerts in Daegu, Hwaseong, and Seoul with the Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra.

She recently debuted with the KBS Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and will debut this season with Calgary Opera. Recent engagements include L’Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, the Vancouver Symphony, and London Symphonia and this season she will conduct the Vermont Symphony, and Elgin Symphony Orchestra, among others.

Tania has appeared as a guest conductor in Canada, the United States, and Europe with such orchestras as the Bern Symphony Orchestra, NFM Wroclåw Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Ottawa’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestra Métropolitain de Montreal, Vancouver Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Hartford Symphony, Madison Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Louisiana Philharmonic, and numerous others.

Tania was Music Director of Canada’s Victoria Symphony for 14 years and gained national acclaim for her commitment to the orchestra and community during that time. She has distinguished herself as a visionary leader and innovator with a deep commitment to contemporary repertoire and composers, and has gained a national reputation as a highly effective advocate and communicator for the arts. An avid writer about music and the arts, her writing has been featured in the League of American Orchestra’s Symphony Magazine, Toronto’s Globe and Mail, and Better Humans.

Tania received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Royal Roads University, and an Honorary Fellowship Diploma from Canada’s Royal Conservatory of Music for her commitment to leadership in community and music education. She was recipient of the 2017 Friends of Canadian Music award from the Canadian League of Composers for her dedication to the performance of contemporary music.

She has doctorate and master’s degrees in conducting from the University of Michigan (1995-2000). She worked as assistant conductor to Bruno Weil at the Carmel Bach Festival for four seasons, and as Assistant and Associate conductor of the Vancouver Symphony from 2000-2004.

Tania’s website: www.taniamiller.com.

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Program Notes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 (“Haffner”) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptized as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was born in Salzburg, Austria on January 27, 1756, and died in Vienna, Austria on December 5, 1791. The score for his Symphony No. 35 calls for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, and strings. It is written in four movements and is approximately 15 minutes in length.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 did not start life as a symphony. Its history gives us an insight into the practice of musical recycling. Some of the most illustrious composers were well known self-borrowers, with Bach and Handel, weighed down with musical and extramusical obligations, among the most frequent practitioners of the art. Mozart, with his facility for generating and developing original ideas, seldom indulged in this kind of shortcut, so that the back stories for each recycled piece are noteworthy.

In 1776 Mozart received a commission from the family of Salzburg’s former mayor, Sigmund Haffner, for a large serenade to be played at his daughter’s wedding (known today as the Haffner Serenade, K. 250). The family was pleased, and in the summer of 1782, a year after Mozart finally moved to Vienna to seek his fortune as one of Europe’s first free-lance musicians, they commissioned a similar work to celebrate Haffner’s elevation to the aristocracy. Busy with his own wedding and the staging of his opera The Abduction from the Seraglio, Mozart dragged his feet but finally – after his father’s constant nagging – sent the Haffners a new serenade.

Half a year later, while planning for a series of subscription concerts (Akademien) in Vienna, Mozart asked his father to return the manuscript. He removed the opening and closing marches and the repeat of the first movement’s exposition, rewrote the minuet, and added flutes and clarinets to the outer movements, repackaging it as Symphony No. 35. Destined to become a perennial favorite, the Symphony was likewise a great success at the sold-out concert of its premiere; even the Emperor applauded heartily, giving the young composer a gift of 25 ducats – although ever in a financial pinch, Mozart had hoped for more.

The opening movement dispenses with the customary slow introduction, launching right into a “statement – response” theme, the first phrase brash and angular, the second phrase subdued.

The famous “Haffner” theme reappears in ingenious transformations. It dominates the entire movement despite the brief appearance of the contrasting second theme and a closing theme.

The Andante is in the typical ternary (ABA) form that reigned for slow movements – although with variations – from the Baroque concerto through the nineteenth century. Mozart creates a particularly long, multi-sectioned theme, and provides an only mildly contrasting middle (B) section.

One of the distinctions between Mozart and Haydn has been that the former nearly always wrote elegant, courtly minuets, while the latter made his sound like country dances. In this Symphony, however, Mozart musters the full orchestra for a heavy Minuet. The Trio, for strings alone, is more graceful.

In the brief Finale, a hybrid sonata rondo form complete with two contrasting themes, Mozart pulls a few surprises with some asymmetrical phrasing, unusual key modulations and a coda that takes off sounding as if it might be a new development.

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Program Notes Chen Gang and He Zhanhao The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto Chen Gang was born in Shanghai, China on March 10, 1935.

He Zhanhao was born in Zheijiang, China on August 29, 1933. The score for their composition, The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto, calls for two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion (gu ban, cymbal, tam-tam), harp, piano, and strings. The duration is approximately 27 minutes.

There are few collaborative works in the Western classical repertory. But then, given the date of composition of The Butterfly Lovers, during the first idealistic decade of the Cultural Revolution in China, such an effort is hardly surprising. While a student at the Shanghai Conservatory, He Zhanhao joined with several classmates to form a violin experimental group, attempting to adapt western classical principles and techniques to Chinese folk melodies. The Butterfly Lovers, written together with his fellow student Chen Gang in 1959, emerged as a product of the group’s musical experiments.

Born in Shanghai and a graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Chen Gang is currently a professor at his alma mater. He has composed in most Western musical genres, but has made extensive use of pentatonic scales. He has also composed a number of film scores.

A native of Zhuji in Zhejiang province, He played in a traditional opera troupe, where he learned to imitate the erhu technique on the violin. (The erhu, sometimes known in the West as the “Chinese violin,” has two strings that are bowed. It is an instrument employed for solos, small ensembles, and large orchestras). He graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory in 1964 and continued to teach in its composition department. His music covers a wide range of historical and traditional styles from both Chinese and Western sources, and he has continued to combine Western and Chinese instruments.

The single-movement programmatic The Butterfly Lovers is based on a popular Chinese legend first recorded in the ninth century and often called the Chinese Romeo and Juliet story. Over the years, the story has given rise to a number of operas, films, animated films, and a musical.

After a brief introduction on the oboe and flute, the solo violin enters with a “love” theme that pervades the entire concerto. Although written in one continuous movement, the concerto has three sections, corresponding to the typical Western concerto structure. The sections portray programmatically the most important episodes of the story: the love between Zhu and Liang, the Whirlwind, and the lovers’ metamorphosis. The themes derive from Chinese opera and traditional folk melodies. The violin frequently recalls erhu techniques.

John Williams “The Chairman’s Waltz” from Memoirs of a Geisha Suite John Williams was born in Floral Park, New York, on February 8, 1932. The score for “The Chairman’s Waltz” calls for three flutes, three oboes, three clarinets, two bassoons, four horn, three trombones, one tuba, and strings. The duration is approximately four minutes.

In the 1930s and 40s the major Hollywood studios hired established classical composers – many of them refugees from Nazi Germany – who went on to develop a language of cinematic music that was as important a factor in controlling viewers’ emotional responses as the acting and cinematography itself. Some of the best-known names are Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Kurt Weill, Miklós Rózsa and Marvin Hamlisch.

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Program Notes John Williams is heir to this tradition; since the 1960s he has expanded and deepened that language to become the most important film composer of all time. The industry’s premier directors, especially George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg, have sought him as a partner, and their combined efforts have garnered armloads of awards, with Williams himself receiving as of this date five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and 21 Grammys. He holds the record for the Oscar nominations.

Williams wrote the music for the 2005 film Memoirs of a Geisha, the story of a young girl sold by her impoverished family to a geisha house to help support the family. It garnered a Golden Globe award. Williams recruited Yo-Yo Ma to perform the cello solos, and in 2008 arranged a six-movement suite for cello and orchestra of themes from the film. The suite was premiered by Yo-Yo Ma and the Chicago Symphony in August of that year. The third movement is “The Chairman’s Waltz”.

Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 14, 1900, and died in Sleepy Hollow, New York, on December 2, 1990. The score for Appalachian Spring calls for two flutes with one doubling on piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, two trombones, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, and strings. The duration is approximately 27 minutes.

During his long career, Aaron Copland composed in many diverse styles. His output included scores for films (The Red Pony, Our Town, The Heiress), works incorporating jazz (Piano Concerto, Music for the Theater) and the 12-tone technique (Piano Quartet, Piano Fantasy). In the mid-1930s he began to feel “an increasing dissatisfaction with the relation of the music-loving public and the living composer.” In order to reach a wider audience he simplified his style to make it more accessible, yet without sacrificing sound artistic values. The first work in this more popular vein was El Salón Mexico, finished in 1936. This was followed by the works for which he is best known today: his three American ballets Billy the Kid, Rodeo and Appalachian Spring.

Copland composed the ballet Appalachian Spring in 1944 for the great pioneer of modern dance, Martha Graham, to be performed at an evening of modern ballet at the Library of Congress.

Copland originally called it “Ballet for Martha,” but Graham gave it its final title after a poem by Hart Crane – although the ballet bears no relation to the text of the poem. The size limitations of the stage at the Library dictated a small ensemble; consequently, the original version was scored for 13 instruments (flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano and strings). Soon after the successful premiere, however, Copland extracted a somewhat shortened suite from the ballet for full orchestra, the version most frequently heard today.

In the preface to the score of the suite, Copland summarized the story of the ballet using the words of the New York Herald Tribune review by Eric Denby, written after the New York premiere: “…A pioneer celebration in spring around a newly-built farmhouse in the Pennsylvania hills in the early part of the last century. The bride-to-be and the young farmer-husband enact the emotions, joyful and apprehensive, their new domestic partnership invites... A revivalist and his followers remind the new householders of the strange and terrible aspects of human fate. At the end the couple are left quiet and strong in their new house.”

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Program Notes fifths that became the hallmark of Copland’s “American” style. After building up to a frenzied climax, a solo clarinet interrupts plaintively with the Shaker tune “Simple Gifts.” Copland uses the song as the theme for a set of variations, which themselves increase in intensity as more and more instruments are added with each new variation. Then, with another sudden shift in mood, we are transported back to the quiet introduction, and the Suite ends as it began.

“Simple Gifts” was composed by Shaker Elder Joseph Brackett, Jr. in 1848 for dancing during Shaker worship. Copland’s five variations never veer far from the original melody, which he found in a 1940 collection of Shaker songs compiled by Edward D. Andrews. While the tune was certainly perfect for Graham’s choreography, it didn’t exactly fit the story line, as the Shakers themselves were dedicated to a life of celibacy.

Johann Strauss II An der schönen, blauen Donau (Blue Danube), Op. 314 Johann Strauss II was born in Neubau, Vienna, Austria on October 25, 1825, and died in Vienna, Austria on June 3, 1899. The score for The Blue Danube Waltz calls for two flutes with one doubling on piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, one trombone, one tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings. The duration is approximately 10 minutes.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire never really recovered from the devastation of the Napoleonic wars.

All through the nineteenth century it fought a rearguard action to maintain its integrity against nationalist movements from within and encroachment by its neighbors from without. Then, in 1866, the Austro-Prussian war settled who was the dominant power in the German-speaking countries. Austria lost resoundingly and never again would have a major say in German affairs.

But in Vienna, the capital, one would have seen little of that instability and disintegration. For those at the Habsburg court, the well to do and the upper class of civil service, it was a time of glitter and joie de vivre, ostensibly the most brilliant and prosperous period of the monarchy.

Opulent parties, balls and dancing were all the rage while the empire disintegrated.

Johann Strauss II, by far the best known of nineteenth century Vienna’s composers of dance music, was adored by high society who fondly named him the Waltz King. He was by nature shy, self-effacing and insecure, far removed in nature from the light-heartedness and exuberance expressed in his music. He was a close friend of Brahms, who always tried to convince him that posterity would remember his music, but to no avail. Brahms, however, got it right.

Strauss composed An der schönen, blauen Donau, in 1867, and it became Vienna’s consolation prize for the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the hands of Prussia the previous year.

Strauss originally composed it for a celebration of the Viennese Men’s Choral Society, but when it premiered in Vienna the response was only lukewarm. It was the orchestral version that became a best seller, selling millions of copies in the composer’s lifetime. Later generations have also been fascinated by the melancholy grace of this unintentional “requiem” for the Austrian monarchy.

When a music lover once asked Brahms for an autograph, the composer wrote down the first two bars of the waltz and signed “Leider nicht von Brahms” (Regrettably not by Brahms).

The Viennese waltz, as perfected by the Strauss dynasty, consisted of several sections of different melodies, sometimes repeated, sometimes occurring only once. The signature opening of this waltz is never repeated.

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Orchestra Roster Spring Love and Butterflies, April 30, 2022

Violin 1 Michèle Lekas, Concertmaster Rachel Handlin, Assistant Concertmaster Matthew Cataldi Jackie Fisher Denise Connolly Joanna Bryk-Roberts Julia Evans Marty Hackl Brandon Lamm Pam Lutter Violin 2 Lisa Chodorowski, Principal Kathryn Siegel Tara Hayes Susan Oliverius Domnica Lungu Annarita Tanzi Emily Lin Hanna Bingham

Viola Hannah Barton, Principal Rebekah May Esther Delamater Hannah Lamm Darren Chan Teresa Wilmot Cello Michael Beert, Principal Richard Yeo Mike Nelson David Bednarek Jim Haugland Paul Gronquist Bass Weldon Anderson, Principal Doug Bistrow John Tuck John Floeter Flute Scott Metlicka, Principal Miguel Rodriguez

Oboe Laura Medisky, Principal Ruth Aurand Casserly

Bass Trombone Robin Schulze, Principal

Horn Kathryn Swope, Principal Katherine Seybold Ritter Renée Vogen Ingrid Mullane

Collin Boltz

Tuba Clarinet Keith Polito, Principal Darleen Carl-Beck, Principal Timpani Colleen Griggs Sarah Christianson, Principal Bassoon Percussion Karl Rzasa, Principal Kerry Knodle, Principal Joshua Fleming Dan Bretz

Trumpet Mark Baldin, Principal Paul Semanic

Harp Nanette Felix, Principal Piano Jayne Latva, Principal

Trombone Rick Seybold, Principal Brian Rogers

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David & Rosalie Whitehouse In memory of Charles “Chuck” Prorok Gifts of $500 - $999 Gene & Maggie Anderson In memory of Brian Anderson Paul & Teri Baits The Estate of Jean-Marc Bartsch In memory of Jean-Marc Bartsch Kyle & Marge Bevers Capri Restaurant Dr. Ronald Foran & Ms. Martha Dahlberg Joseph & Susan Drennan Mr. & Mrs. De Lon Fox Jason & Louise Gesmer Shirley Holzwarth Mr. & Mrs. J. Laird Lambert Mr. & Mrs. Donald Martin Nancy Matthews Marcia L. Mueller In celebration of Fred & Wendy Young’s 40th Wedding Anniversary Nielsen Chorale Richard & Sandra Niggermann Northwest Bank of Rockford Chris & Megan Perry Sarah Pfluger

Larsen Legacy Virginia Poust Wirsing Tom & Vira Rudnicki Mr. & Mrs. Frank Schepley Schirger Family Brian & Julie Thomas Doug & Diane Wilson Christopher & Sandra Wrate Drs. Mark & Jo Ann Zarnke Gifts of $100 - $499 Anonymous (2) Mrs. Barbara Adam AFHL Law Anna & John Borchers Taylor & Susan Carlin In memory of Charles “Chuck” Prorok Mary Caskey James & Connie Coffey Ms. Susan Conant Mr. & Mrs. John Cook John & Geri Cygnor Dan & Kirby Doyle Gene & Carolyn Elliott Dr. & Mrs. George English Paula A. Fitzpatrick Michael & Audra Freeze Alan & Marlene Garrett The Piano Doctor Bonnie & Bob Gosdick Ms. Brina Grigg In memory of Charles “Chuck” Prorok Gerrie Gustafson Erich & Jan Hagenlocher Ms. Susan Hansen Margret & Brett Hanson Mrs. Janis Hedrick Madeline Herdeman Mrs. Nancy Hyzer In memory of Keith Hyzer Beverly Joyce In honor of William & Christine Howard Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Keating Mr. & Mrs. David Klintworth Jerry Kortman & Doc Slafkosky Ms. Constance Kramer Dr. & Mrs. Fredric Kullberg Brian LeClercq Mr. & Mrs. Brian Livingston Mr. Richard Luthin Mark & Mary Madaus Mr. & Mrs. Roger Mahler Katie Malnor Mrs. Marty Mangas

Drs. Michael & Karol Manley Faye Marcus Tom & Sandra Mathews Joseph & Mary Rita McCarthy Daniel McCullough In celebration of Steven Larsen’s tenure John & Barbara McNamara Mary Mercer Susan Moller Mr. & Mrs. Parker Moyer Lowell & Carol Nafziger OliverClose, LLC Robert & Amy Phelps Ken & Marth Reinert Carole M. Restuccia In memory of Dr. Robert D. Restuccia Sharon Robertson Martha Rolf Bill & Kathy Scarpaci Tom & Karen Shifo Sigma Alpha Iota William & Karen Sikorski Mr. & Mrs. Richard Silvestrini Steven & Julie Spencer Kyle & Margo Stedman Reid & Anthea Tanouye Duane & Melissa Teske Ms. Patricia Timm & Mr. Roger Kaage John & Kathy Torrence Jim & Jean Twyning Karen Van Howe Dubravka Vedo Tom & Linda Vojtech James & Stephanie Waddell Dr. Loyd J. Wollstadt William & Joyce Zartman Ethan Zentz Mr. & Mrs. David Zumdahl Gifts up to $99 Anonymous Dick & Sally Baker Patricia Bartels Kevin & Monna Bergdall Mr. & Mrs. John Buzzard Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Carlson Lori Chappell Ron & Patricia Cox Phil & Shirley Davidson Michael & Nancy Driscoll Rev. Jane Eesley

In honor of Rev. Jay and Kris Quinn Ellwyn & Gayle Englof In memory of Charles “Chuck” Prorok LaVona Farney Cindy Fischer Minoo Hagshenas Rev. & Mrs. Gordon Hanstad Leonora Hantke Mr. & Mrs. Robert Harms Cynthia Hill Capt. Jeffrey Keho Jeannine Kleczewski Richard & Nancy Kunnert Ms. Luba Levin In memory of Lyudmila Levina Colleen McDonald In memory of Jim Brechlin William Midgett Lynda Moser Mr. & Mrs. Robert Pauwels Curtis & Selma Peterson Ms. Dorothy Powell Ms. Stephanie Quinn In celebration of Steven Larsen’s tenure Nick & Gayle Scheuer Sancee Siebold Jim & Sharon Smith Sandra Stevens Jim & Patti Tefft Joan Tilson Jack & Dora Tippens Brad & Meredith Townsend Shirley Wooden RSO Musicians Tom & Becky Asher James Brechlin Ruth Aurand Casserly Lisa Chodorowski Barbara Drapcho Jackie Fisher Alison Gaines Jayne Latva Scott Metlicka Saphra Mikal Brent & Ingrid Mullane Joel Ross Karl Rzasa Rick & Julie Seybold Teresa Wilmot Gifts as of April 18, 2022.

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RSO Annual Fund Corporations & Foundations Generous support from businesses and foundations help fund the Rockford Symphony Orchestra and specific programs and events each year. These vital partnerships provide support for the RSO’s concert performances, education and outreach programs, and many other projects. The following reflects gifts received towards the Annual Fund in the last year.

$50,000 +

Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity Rockford Symphony Orchestra Foundation Small Business Administration $10,000 - $49,999

Bergstrom, Inc. ComEd, An Exelon Company Illinois Arts Council Agency

Kjellstrom Family Foundation of Northern Illinois Midland Wealth Management

$5,000 - $9,999

Alfred & Ella Peterson Anderson Family Foundation Collins Aerospace Community Foundation of Northern Illinois Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation

Hunt Charitable Trust Estate Kjellstrom Family Foundation Endowment Fund Savant Wealth Management William M. Miller Charitable Trust

$2,500 - $4,999

DiBenedetto and Associates

Gloyd Family Foundation

$500 - $2,499

Aqua-Aerobic Systems Estwing Manufacturing Co. Gordy and Mary Ann Smith Charitable Trust

HMC Products, Inc. Jean VanLandingham Fund Rockford Area Arts Council

Sjostrom & Sons Foundation, Inc. UW Health

In-Kind

Holiday Inn

John Morrisey Accountants, Inc.

Rockford Park District

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RSO Annual Fund Leadership Giving The investments made by our Larsen Circle and Founders Club members allow the Rockford Symphony Orchestra to strengthen our commitment to providing vibrant musical experience to our community. These donors receive special benefits including opportunities to meet RSO musicians and guest artists, and access to the Manager’s Apartment reception at intermission and following performances. The RSO is proud to count the following individuals among its leadership supporters.

Larsen Circle Fellow ($10,000+)

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Dr. & Mrs. Paul Christensen

Larsen Circle Member ($5,000+)

Dr. & Mrs. William Baskin*^ Robin Gausebeck* Bill & Sally Hoff^ Michael Kikta & Karen Stephenson Betty Klingensmith

Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Pittman Drs. Arnold Rosen & Kathleen Kelly^ Mr. & Mrs. William H. Shippee Mr. & Mrs. Russ Stoneback

Founders Club Fellow ($2,500 - $4,999)

Don Banks Ron & Carol Burmeister Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain Ellwyn & Gayle Englof*^ Jack & Colleen Holmbeck*^ Dr. & Mrs. Bill Kobler^ Mrs. Judith Larson

Dick Leighton* Mrs. Barbara McDonough Steve & Donnette Nailor Dr. Arthur Rettig & Hon. Kathryn Zenoff Keith Syfert & Linda Miller*^ Stephen & Rita Weber

Founders Club Member ($1,750 - $2,499)

Ronald Armagost Lyn Becknell* Peter & Ann Boline Judith Daykin Thomas & Tami Gaudreau Dr. & Mrs. Norm Hagman Mr. & Mrs. John R. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Chris Kovarik Ms. LoRayne Logan*^ Mr. & Mrs. Ron Lundstrom Steve & Mary Martin

Marcia L. Mueller*^ Dr. Richard & Karen Olson Ronald F. Peterson^ Ellen Poppen Daniel & Dr. Mieka Shuman Tom & Linda Sandquist Jack & Barbara Simon Brian & Julie Thomas Brian Willemot Fred & Wendy Young^ Drs. Mark & Jo Ann Zarnke

* In addition to this gift to the Annual Fund, the donor is an Encore Society Member, having pledged an estate gift to the RSO Foundation which will generate annual funding to the orchestra in perpetuity. ^ In addition to this gift to the Annual Fund, the donor has made a lifetime gift to the RSO Foundation which generates annual funding to the orchestra in perpetuity.

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RSO Annual Fund The Rockford Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the hundreds of music lovers who contribute to our Annual Fund campaign. Every gift plays an important part in the success of the RSO’s many performances, programs, and education activities.

The RSO is proud to count the following individuals among its most valued supporters with gifts received in the last year.

Symphony ($1,000 – $1,749) Mrs. Barbara Adam Dennis Klapperich & Monique Aduddell Gene & Maggie Anderson Dr. & Mrs. James Barrett Lynell Cannell Mrs. Jean Cassens Mrs. Marilyn Dougherty Dan & Kirby Doyle Dr. & Mrs. Donald Feeney Michael & Audra Freeze Jim & Mary Lou Gault Laina M. Gerace Matt & Heather Giebel Gerrie Gustafson Kerry Knodle* Mr. Steven Larsen & Ms. Marti Bein Paul & Judy Letourneau John & Karen Messley Craig & Lin Milius Glenn & Gail Palmer Jay & Cathy Pick Ken & Martha Reinert Trudy Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Mark Taylor Dr. & Mrs. Dean E. Thomas Mrs. Carol Waxler David & Rosalie Whitehouse^ Teresa Wilmot Christopher & Sandra Wrate Concerto ($500 – $999) Gary Anderson Fr. David Beauvais Kyle & Marge Bevers Dennis & Joanne Blunt Anna & John Borchers Dr. & Mrs. Neil Brogren Alan & Susan Bryant Sandra Campbell Andy Conway

Dr. Ronald Foran & Ms. Martha Dahlberg Mr. & Mrs. James Dehler Jeff & Maria Diestelmeier Dick & Emily Diller Dr. & Mrs. Stephen Geller Barrie & Alan Gibby Tom & Carol Guschl Warren & Mariel Heinke Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Herdeman Pam Lonsway Nancy Matthews Brian Molloy Marianna & Herb Page Mrs. Cheryl Parrett Colin & Hana Peterson Trish Rooney & Stanton McGroarty Tom & Vira Rudnicki Bill & Kathy Scarpaci Charles & Stella Schroeder Gene & Donna Seefeldt Rick & Julie Seybold William & Karen Sikorski Karen Starr Jim & Jean Twyning Dubravka Vedo Larry & Kathy Wachowiak James & Stephanie Waddell John & Marianne Wahlquist Dr. Ruth Ann Wasson Ethan Zentz Overture ($200 – $499) Anonymous Mrs. Alice Alfredson Tom & Becky Asher Major General (ret) John & Myrna Borling Mary Caskey Mr. & Mrs. James Castree Mr. & Mrs. David L. Clendening

Mr. & Mrs. John Cook Alan Cooper Ron & Patricia Cox Phil & Shirley Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Davis Janet de Guehery John DeWaters & Lenore Lund Philip & Kathy Dierstein Mr. & Mrs. William Dilts Judith Ann Durgom Ms. Lynne Emling Paula A. Fitzpatrick Dr. & Mrs. John R. Foster Mr. & Mrs. De Lon Fox John Fox Mr. & Mrs. Clifford Gray Mr. & Mrs. Paul Grover Erich & Jan Hagenlocher Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hager Minoo Hagshenas Mr. & Mrs. Bob Hallstrom Ms. Susan Hansen Margret & Brett Hanson Rev. & Mrs. Gordon Hanstad Mark & Kristin Hatch Mrs. Janis Hedrick Justin Holzwarth Ed & Beth Howard Mike & Lynne Istad Mr. & Mrs. Doug Kruger Mr. & Mrs. J. Laird Lambert Ms. Lorre LaPasso Ms. Betty J. Leeson George & Beverley Letcher Susan Lindsay-Jones Mr. & Mrs. Brian Livingston Kathlynn & James Lockard Mrs. Marty Mangas Drs. Michael & Karol Manley Faye Marcus

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Mr. & Mrs. Donald Martin Thomas & Enid Michalowski Grant & Erin Moore Mr. & Mrs. Parker Moyer Gerald & Diana Ogren* Raymond & JoMarie Paul Sue Polivka David & Linda Poole Terry Raiford Ms. Darlene Riddle Martha Rolf Mr. Daniel Peter & Ms. Ellen Roseberg Jeffrey & Dorice Royce José & Lois Seijo Harley Shepherd Mrs. Lynne Sobczak George Strombeck Chuck & Jan Thomas Ms. Patricia Timm & Mr. Roger Kaage Karen Van Howe Richard & Lan Vaughan Richard & Donna Warden William & Joyce Zartman Prelude ($75 – $199) Anonymous (2) Dr. & Mrs. George Arends Robin Ashley Drs. Ed & Molly Baker Dick & Sally Baker^ Patricia Bartels Mr. Don Bein Benjamin Bernsten & Mary McNamara Bernsten Anthony & Connie Bonaccio Susan Bowler Mrs. Karen Brown Mr. & Mrs. George Bull Lori Bush Mr. & Mrs. John Buzzard Mr. & Mrs. Cliff Carlson Mr. & Mrs. Steven Chapman Ms. Susan Conant Gordon Conover Greg & Lorna Cote Sue Custer John & Frances Donahue Joseph & Susan Drennan Loren & Patricia Due

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Kurt Duesterhoeft Martha Dunegan Mr. & Mrs. Charles Elliot Gene & Carolyn Elliott Bruce, Jocelyn, & Cynthia Fary Andrew Fenstermacher Cathy Ferguson-Allen Terrance & Lois Fisher Mr. & Mrs. Frank Flores Mr. & Mrs. Philip Frankfort Laura Frankiewicz & Lucio Bortolin Alan & Marlene Garrett Tom & Gail Giglio Ms. Suzanne Gill Rich & Debbie Gortowski Bonnie Gosdick Peter & Jane Gottlick John Gradick Keith & Judith Haggestad Mr. & Mrs. James Hansberry Sherri Hayes Tom & Sue Hayes Kent & Jean Heise Mr. & Mrs. John Heisel Jr. Dr. & Mrs. David Helland Cynthia Hill Don Holt David & Paula Hougan William & Christine Howard Dr. & Mrs. William Hutt Christel & Harvey Ilg Mr. and Mrs. Karl Jacobs Margaret Jindra Audrey Johnson Bonnie Johnson Clifford Johnson Martha Kaiser Nancy Joan Kauzlarich Mr. & Mrs. Timothy Keating John & Margaret Kleber Ed & Charlotte Kletecka Mr. Dave Lantz Mr. & Mrs. Vincent Lara Charlotte Larrison Ronald & Karen Larson Dr. & Mrs. Herbert Lash Ray & Debbie Lecuyer Mr. & Mrs. Ken Lemmel

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Erik & Susan Lewinski Mark & Mary Madaus Mr. & Mrs. Roger Mahler Sandra Martell Tom & Sandra Mathews Frank & Sue McCabe Joseph & Mary Rita McCarthy Daniel McCullough Tom & Sarah McNamara Orrin & Dorothy Merritt Judithann Meyer Candace Moore Allan & Cynthia Morrill Doris Mosser Thomas Myers Lowell & Carol Nafziger Mr. & Mrs. Robert Nelson Ralph and Sue Norman K. Sue & Bill Null Carol Ann Ostrom Owano Family Charitable Fund Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Pellicore Gary Perket Curtis & Selma Peterson James Petrie Robert & Amy Phelps Matthew & Jessica Piske Ms. Dorothy Powell Mr. James & Dr. Margaret Provenza Jane Reuber Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Richard John & Anita Richards Dr. & Mrs. Gary Rifkin Elizabeth C. Rogers Nick & Gayle Scheuer Joe Herreweys & Twila Schock Brent & Lizabeth Schultz Bill & Tammy Schulz Doug & Tammy Scott Tom & Karen Shifo Bruce & Nancy Shindel Mr. & Mrs. James Smith Tyler Smith Molly Soper Fred Speer & Chris Mullins Steven & Julie Spencer State Farm Mr. Steven Stroker

James & Margaret Stuntz Mike & Judy Thompson John & Pat Timmerwilke Jack & Dora Tippens Matthew & Karen Toohey John & Kathy Torrence Dale & Lynne Townsend

Rudy Valdez Mr. James Vandervort & Ms. Patricia Sment Tom & Linda Vojtech Waterside Financial Advisors Carol Wehmeyer Lenae Weichel

Peggy Werner Paul & Sharon Werther Deanna Wilcox-Sandberg Doug & Diane Wilson Pam & Barbara Wilson Mr. & Mrs. David Zumdahl

* In addition to this gift to the Annual Fund, the donor is an Encore Society Member, having pledged an estate gift to the RSO Foundation which will generate annual funding to the orchestra in perpetuity. ^ In addition to this gift to the Annual Fund, the donor has made a lifetime gift to the RSO Foundation which generates annual funding to the orchestra in perpetuity.

We make every effort to ensure that our listing is accurate. If your name is missing or misspelled, we apologize. Please call the RSO at 815.965.0049; we will make the correction in our next Program.

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Tribute Gifts Honor a loved one by making a donation to the Rockford Symphony Orchestra in their name.

In celebration of Alice Alfredson Harley Shepherd In memory of Arthur Alfredson Mrs. Alice Alfredson In memory of Brian Anderson Gene & Maggie Anderson In memory of Alice Bein Mr. Don Bein In memory of Jim Brechlin Friends and Family of Jim Brechlin Rock Valley Children’s Choir Rock Valley Master Chorale In memory of Mrs. Barb Campbell Susan Bowler In memory of John A. Durgom Judith Ann Durgom In memory of Rose Mary S. Durgom Judith Ann Durgom In celebration of Bradley Gabbert’s Birthday Gail Gabbert Janis Gabbert Ernie Redfern

Bill & Sally Hoff Justin Holzwarth Ms. LoRayne Logan Doris Mosser Marcia L. Mueller Ms. Lisa Novak Raymond & JoMarie Paul Jim Pirages Mr. & Mrs. Peter Rundquist Doug & Tammy Scott Mr. Steven Stroker In memory of Dick Hynes Anonymous Waterside Financial Advisors Judith Wyatt In memory of James E. Johnson and James L. Johnson Audrey Johnson

In memory of Tom Rogiewicz John Gradick In memory of Dr. & Mrs. Bertil Roseberg Mr. Daniel Peter & Ms. Elle Roseberg In memory of Selma Rosen Erich & Jan Hagenlocher Thomas Myers In memory of Donald Ross, Robert & Betty Ross Ms. Lynne Emling In memory of Greg Sisler Ms. Betty J. Leeson In memory of William H. Starr Karen Starr In honor of Rebecca Swan Elizabeth C. Rogers

In memory of Mary Stuart Johnson In recognition of The Third Degree Major General (ret) John Mr. Don Bein & Myrna Borling In memory of In celebration of Julie Thomas Holly Beth and Betsy Kaske Ms. Suzanne Gill Anonymous In celebration of Phil Klintworth José & Lois Seijo

In memory of Rudolf Vedo Dubravka Vedo

In celebration of Elena Giglio Tom & Gail Giglio

In memory of Jeanne Lindquist Harley Shepard

In memory of Robert Gosdick Bonnie Gosdick

In memory of Mary J. Lucas Dr. Ruth Ann Wasson

In memory of Helgee & June Wahlquist John & Marianne Wahlquist

In memory of Doris Gradick John Gradick

In memory of Dennis McDonough Mrs. Barbara McDonough

In memory of Troy Hedrick Mrs. Janis Hedrick

In memory of John F. McNamara Barbara McNamara

In memory of Shirley Holzwarth The Century Club Ruth Dahlberg Mrs. Elizabeth Dickinson Bruce, Jocelyn, & Cynthia Fary Andrew Fenstermacher Mr. & Mrs. Philip Frankfort Jennifer Furst Paul Gaziano & Rosemary Collins Erich & Jan Hagenlocher

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In memory of Ron Parrett Mrs. Cheryl Parrett In memory of Chuck Prorok Matthew & Karen Toohey In celebration of Carol Rice’s 90th Birthday Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Pittman

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In celebration of John Wahlquist’s Birthday John G. Anderson John Klosterboer Bill & Carolyn Kobler Candice Moore William Waller In memory of Don Zimmerman Dennis & Joanne Blunt

Ensuring the Legacy of Great Music in Rockford We are grateful to the following leaders who have contributed to the endowment, where their gift will live on forever. $250,000 and above Mr. James Lathers Mr. Richard Nordlof

Classics Series Guest Artist Chair

$100,000 - $249,999 Mary Ann Eibler Loving Trust The Funderburg Foundation John C. McCarthy

Assistant Concertmaster and Principal Cello Chair

$50,000 - $99,000 Dick & Grace Leighton

Youth Concert Education Program

$10,000 - $49,999 Dr. & Mrs. William Baskin Dan & Ruth Nicholas Priscilla & John Cotton Dr. & Mrs. Robert Pasky Gordon & Georganne Eggers Bob & Patty Rhea Ellwyn & Gayle Englof Severson Charitable Isadore Olson Scholarship Fund Remainder Trust DeWayne & Donna Fellows Sterling Charitable Trust RSYO Sterling String Quartet Jim & Carol Gingrich Verona A. Swenson Goddard Family Foundation Keith Syfert & Bill & Sally Hoff Linda Miller Jack & Colleen Holmbeck Glenn Theil Janet Kjellstrom David & Rosalie Whitehouse LoRayne Logan Fred & Wendy Young Mrs. Jane Marlowe $1,000 - $9,999 Mr. & Mrs. Richard Baker, III Ronald F. Peterson Edward J. Enichen Mr. Charles Prorok & Ms. Marcia Mueller Dr. & Mrs. Donald Feeney Caroline Reed Mark D. Johnson In Memory of Roger & Mary Reithmeier KristyAnn Lauren Johnson Brian A. Ritter David D. Kalber Arnold Rosen & Dr. & Mrs. Bill Kobler Kathleen Kelly Kent & Marti Mallquist Dick & Katie Wolff Lisle Menzimer

The Rockford Symphony Orchestra Foundation was established in 2007 to build a permanent endowment to benefit the Rockford Symphony Orchestra. The Foundation prudently invests donated funds to generate annual income in perpetuity for the RSO. Special opportunities are available to endow a chair, a program, or to underwrite RSO musicians. Naming chairs or programs recognizes donors (or honors a person dear to a donor) in a most caring and enduring way. Endowed chairs and programs are named in perpetuity.

For more information about supporting the Rockford Symphony Orchestra Foundation, please call 815.965.0049.

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A Special Thanks Dr. & Mrs. William Baskin Lyn Becknell Ruth Aurand Casserly Ellwyn & Gayle Englof Mrs. Crawford Gates Robin Gausebeck Jack & Colleen Holmbeck Shirley Holzwarth Mrs. Janette Howard Kerry Knodle Dick Leighton Ms. LoRayne Logan Gerald & Diana Ogren Charles J. Prorok & Marcia L. Mueller Joel Ross Tom & Jennie Seeling Keith Syfert & Linda Miller David & Fleur Wright

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Are you a member of the Encore Society?

Have you made a bequest through your will or provided another type of estate gift to the Rockford Symphony Orchestra? If so, we hope you will share this information with us.

Remaining anonymous is a choice that is understood and respected by the RSO. But sharing information about your gift can also be an important choice to help us clearly understand your desires and ensure your wishes are carried out.

Informing the RSO about your intentions also allows us to celebrate your generosity and thank you during your lifetime and could inspire others to make a similar commitment.

Unless otherwise designated, all bequests go directly to the Rockford Symphony Orchestra Foundation Endowment Fund, benefitting the RSO in perpetuity.

For more information about becoming a member of the Encore Society, please call 815.965.0049.

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Rockford Symphony Orchestra with Endowed and Sponsored Chairs Violin I Michèle Lekas, Concertmaster Sponsored by Barbara McDonough Rachel Handlin, Assistant Concertmaster John C. McCarthy Chair Matthew Cataldi Denise Connolly Jacqueline Fisher Gretchen Madson-Sherrell Eric Pidluski Carol Yampolsky Violin II Azusa Tashiro, Principal Lisa Chodorowski Kathryn Siegel Tara Hayes Susan Oliverius Viola Rebecca Swan, Principal Noel Navoa Ria Hodgson Annika Sundberg Nick Munagian Teresa Wilmot Cello Mike Beert, Principal John C. McCarthy Chair Michael Nelson Sponsored by Dr. & Mrs. William Baskin Kerena Moeller James Haugland * Derek Handley Lisa Bressler

Bass Alison Gaines, Principal Sponsored by Dr. Michael Kikta & Ms. Karen Stephenson Weldon Anderson James Brechlin Chair Doug Bistrow Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Steve Nailor Flute Scott Metlicka, Principal Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. John Holmbeck

Trumpet Mark Baldin, Principal Sponsored by Bill & Sally Hoff Paul Semanic Saphra Mikal Trombone Rick Seybold, Principal Brian Rogers

Nicole Frankel Bass Trombone Jean Bishop Mike Zielinski, Principal* Sponsored by Tuba Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain Joshua Wirt, Principal** Oboe Sponsored by Laura Medisky, Principal** Drs. Arnold Rosen & Sponsored by Kathleen Kelly Dr. & Mrs. Paul Christensen Timpani Ruth Aurand Casserly

Clarinet Darleen Carl-Beck, Principal Colleen Griggs Patrick Rehker Bassoon Karl Rzasa, Principal Sponsored by Dr. & Mrs. Bill Kobler

Simón Gómez Gallego, Principal Sponsored by Dick Leighton Percussion Kerry Knodle, Principal Harp Nanette Felix, Principal Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. Russ Stoneback

Piano Joshua Fleming Sponsored by Robin Gausebeck Jayne Latva Joel Ross Gerik Fon-Revutzky Sponsored by Mr. & Mrs. William H. Shippee

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RSO Foundation

Artistic Staff

Officers

Officers

Colin Peterson President

Ellwyn Englof President

John Floeter Personnel and Operations Manager

Joe McCoy Immediate Past President

Bill Kobler Vice President

Ethan Zentz Treasurer

Marcia Mueller Secretary/Treasurer

Tami Gaudreau Secretary

Trustees LoRayne Logan

Directors

Keith Syfert

Donald Banks

David Whitehouse

Judy Bridgeman

Julie Thomas (ex officio)

Andy Conway Gayle Englof Matt Giebel

Marty Hackl Music Librarian Linc Smelser RSYO Conductor Curt Johnsen Production Manager

Administrative Staff Julie Thomas Executive Director Margo Stedman Education & Community Engagement Director Angie Theisen Development and Communications Manager

John Johnson Michael Kikta, M.D.

Matt Guschl Patron Services Coordinator

Kerry Knodle Arnold Rosen, M.D.

Audra Freeze Education and Engagement Coordinator

Thomas Sandquist Russ Stoneback Music Director Emeritus Steven Larsen

Heather Savage Administrative Coordinator

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