2021 Spoleto Festival USA Program Book by Spoleto Festival USA

JoAnn Verburg, BETWEEN, 2021, ink on paper, courtesy of Pace Gallery and G. Gibson Projects.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Special Features

Artist Talks

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From the Chair of the Board From the General Director Event Calendar Venue Guide Board of Directors About Town Between Friends

Dance

57 Conversations With

Personnel and Special Thanks 94 Administration and Apprentices 96 Committees / Volunteers 97 Corporate Contributors 98 Contributors

20 Caleb Teicher & Company ¤ 24 Ballet Under the Stars ¤ 26 Ephrat Asherie Dance ¤

Theater 29 The Woman in Black

Spoleto at Home 32 A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call 34 The Journey 39 Virtual Chamber Music Offerings 44 Virtual Orchestral Offerings 45 Virtual Choir Offerings

Music

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Chamber Music Preservation Hall Jazz Band ^ A New Orleans Jazz Celebration ^ Sarah Jarosz + Steep Canyon Rangers + The Cookers ^ The Wood Brothers + Two Wings: The Music of Black America in Migration ^

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COVER: JoAnn Verburg BETWEEN, 2021 Archival ink on paper

Charleston Garden Tour 58 Behind the Garden Gate

48 x 32 inches Courtesy of Pace Gallery and G. Gibson Projects

FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD William G. Medich

When Nigel Redden let me know that he was planning to step down as general director of Spoleto Festival USA, I was forced to think back to the last time there was a transition of Festival leadership. Truth be told, when Nigel returned after a brief hiatus and assumed this position in 1995, Spoleto’s fate hung in the balance. While that season’s festival had been an artistic success, Nigel inherited something of a fiscal disaster: Spoleto Festival USA had an accumulated deficit of $3 million, an endowment well below $1 million, and only six of 27 full-time administrative staff members who remained after layoffs and resignations. It was conceivable that the Festival would disappear. Yet what the Festival did have was a dedicated board of directors, a committed audience, and great good-will in the national and international arts communities. And, in Nigel, the Festival gained an extraordinarily savvy leader, someone who knew how to leverage his skills of financial management, donor relations, and judgement of artistic talent to effectively steer the Festival to success. Now 25 years later, thanks to Nigel, the hard work of board members and staff, and the enthusiasm and generosity of patrons, the possibility of Spoleto’s disappearance seems inconceivable. From a financial standpoint, the accumulated deficit was paid off years ago. Spoleto now owns its office on George Street and its scene shop on upper King Street, and there are 61 years remaining on its leasehold of Festival Hall. Our endowment is nearly 30 times what it was in 1995. Nigel’s legacy, however, transcends our ledgers. Within Spoleto—and in Charleston, too—he created an environment in which artists feel comfortable and supported. He provided artists the freedom to create new work and experiment with presenting works in new ways. And

he took us, the audience, along for the ride. He made many of us fall in love with an eighteen-and-a-half-hour Chinese opera. He presented Porgy and Bess in a way which emphasized the characters’ African roots—and simulcast the premiere on large screens around the city, allowing for thousands of additional viewers. He encouraged us to make the Chamber Music series at Dock Street a staple of our lives for 17 days each year. Without question, Nigel’s artistic vision has profoundly impacted the performing arts world for the better. Still, we must press on. The board of director’s search committee is currently reviewing candidates to lead the Festival in this next transition. Going forward, we will bolster our education programs; explore the possibilities of digital media; and build coalitions with other organizations in Charleston, around the country, and, perhaps, around the world. Most of all though, we will remain committed to a Festival program that is broad, sometimes challenging, sometimes entertaining, and always adventurous.

Opposite: Nigel Redden onstage at the Dock Street Theatre in 1989, photo by William Struhs

FROM THE GENERAL DIRECTOR Nigel Redden

Since I announced my retirement almost a year ago, I have been asked repeatedly to list the performances that I remember most fondly from the soon-to-be 52 years since I first started working for the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and subsequently, my 35 years, give or take, at Spoleto Festival USA. I have continuously sidestepped the question; I have so many favorites that none can really be “favorites.” Choosing among the thousands of performances held at the festivals since my introduction to them is impossible. Yet for my final letter in this program book, I have decided to travel back in time and recount the numerous performances and experiences through my festival history that would top a list of favorites—if such a thing could exist. I might begin with the first opera I saw at Spoleto, Italy, in 1969: L’Italiana in Algeri, when Patrice Chereau, who was something of an enfant terrible in the opera world, thumbed his nose at Gian Carlo Menotti, the founder of the Festival dei Due Mondi. This delight in the radical would also include a work from my first visit to Charleston in 1983, when I watched Ken Russell’s direction of Madama Butterfly. The production ended with a nuclear explosion and the transformation of Japan into something resembling the United States in the 1950s, complete with six-foot-high ketchup bottles and giant hamburgers. Then during my first year as general manager in 1986, I remember the beauty of Stravinsky’s Le Renard, for which David Gordon directed and Beni Montresor designed a production with huge helium-filled puppets of the fox, the cat, the goat, and the cock floating over the dancers on the Dock Street Theatre stage. I would also mention here the 16-foot-high ant—yes, a 16-foot-high ant—that circled the College of Charleston Cistern Yard in Lee Breuer’s The Warrior Ant. The Warrior Ant, Spoleto Festival USA, 1988

This non-list would also have to include Athol Fugard performing in his Road to Mecca, Renee Fleming’s first performance at the Festival in Platee, and then her extraordinary performance as the Countess in Nozze di Figaro. I’d have to include Allen Ginsberg reading his poem during Hydrogen Jukebox. And I certainly could not forget the elation that I and everyone involved felt when we read the New York Times review that described the 1991 exhibition, Places with a Past, as “the most moving and original exhibition in the United States this season.”

Then there are the moments that reveal the beautiful melding of nations and cultures that occur during an international arts festival. I would point first to the series of works by Chinese and Chinese-American artists: Silver River, Paradise Interrupted, Feng Yi Ting, and, of course, the eighteen-and-a-half-hour opera, The Peony Pavilion. There was the after party when General William Westmoreland invited the ensemble of Vietnamese dancers—all from Hanoi—to his house after the deeply moving performance of Ea Sola’s work. I think of the audience dancing in the street after the Bale Folklorico di Bahia performance. And how could I omit Shen Wei’s mesmerizing choreography or Rezo Gariadze’s devastating retelling of the Battle of Stalingrad using two puppet horses made from tin cans and string? Adding to this list are the productions from Ireland’s Gate Theatre, beginning with the amazing Salome in 1990, plus Emma Rice’s work, starting with the poignant Tristan and Yseult.

Above: Hydrogen Jukebox, Spoleto Festival USA, 1990 Right: Paradise Interrupted, Spoleto Festival USA, 2015

Oh, there’s Don Giovanni and the Orchestra playing Surrogate Cities—and I haven’t even mentioned the chamber music performances, which I attend religiously each Festival. Refreshing and intriguing, these concerts are, without question, the best way to begin each day. I could go on and on. I suppose what I’m getting at is that the absolute best part of the Festival is the way performance follows performance. The way dance follows opera, follows chamber music, follows theater, and so on—and how my impression of one is influenced by what I have just seen or what I am about to see. This is what I love most about Spoleto Festival USA. And while my time behind-the-scenes is coming to an end, I look forward to the many more performances left to take in as I join you in the audience.

EVENT CALENDAR 27 MAY: THURSDAY

3 JUNE: THURSDAY

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8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH

11:00am Chamber IV DST 2:00pm Chamber V DST 6:00pm ATW: A Phone Call 7:30pm ATW: A Phone Call 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH 9:00pm Steep Canyon Rangers CIS

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9 JUNE: WEDNESDAY

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28 MAY: FRIDAY 10:00am Chamber I DST 2:00pm Chamber I DST 8:30pm Caleb Teicher & Company RVG 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH 9:00pm Preservation Hall Jazz Band CIS 29 MAY: SATURDAY 9:00am Behind the Garden Gate 11:00am Chamber I DST 2:00pm Chamber I DST 8:30pm Caleb Teicher & Company RVG 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH 9:00pm New Orleans Jazz Celebration CIS 30 MAY: SUNDAY 11:00am Chamber II DST 2:00pm Chamber II DST 5:00pm Conversations With | Nigel Redden 8:30pm Caleb Teicher & Company RVG 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH 9:00pm Sarah Jarosz CIS

Chamber V DST Chamber V DST ATW: A Phone Call ATW: A Phone Call ATW: A Phone Call Ballet Under the Stars RVG The Woman in Black FVH Steep Canyon Rangers CIS

5 JUNE: SATURDAY 9:00am 11:00am 2:00pm 3:00pm 5:00pm 7:00pm 8:30pm 8:30pm 9:00pm

Behind the Garden Gate Chamber VI DST Chamber VI DST ATW: A Phone Call ATW: A Phone Call ATW: A Phone Call Ballet Under the Stars RVG The Woman in Black FVH The Cookers CIS

6 JUNE: SUNDAY 31 MAY: MONDAY 11:00am Chamber II DST 2:00pm Chamber III DST 8:30pm Caleb Teicher & Company RVG 9:00pm Sarah Jarosz CIS

11:00am 2:00pm 3:00pm 5:00pm 7:00pm 8:30pm 8:30pm

Chamber VI DST Chamber VII DST ATW: A Phone Call ATW: A Phone Call ATW: A Phone Call Ballet Under the Stars RVG The Woman in Black FVH

1 JUNE: TUESDAY 11:00am Chamber III DST 2:00pm Chamber III DST 8:30pm Caleb Teicher & Company RVG 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH 2 JUNE: WEDNESDAY 11:00am 2:00pm 8:30pm 8:30pm

Chamber IV DST Chamber IV DST Caleb Teicher & Company RVG The Woman in Black FVH

Bold = Opening Performance Italic = Virtual Performance

7 JUNE: MONDAY 11:00am 2:00pm 3:00pm 5:00pm 6:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 8:30pm

Chamber VII DST Chamber VII DST Conversations With | Scott Silven ATW: A Phone Call ATW: A Phone Call ATW: A Phone Call Ballet Under the Stars RVG The Woman in Black FVH

Chamber VIII DST Chamber VIII DST The Journey The Journey The Woman in Black FVH The Wood Brothers CIS

Chamber VIII DST Chamber IX DST The Journey The Journey Ephrat Asherie Dance RVG The Wood Brothers CIS

10 JUNE: THURSDAY 11:00am Chamber IX DST 2:00pm Chamber IX DST 3:00pm Conversations With | Alisa Weilerstein 5:00pm The Journey 7:00pm The Journey 8:30pm Ephrat Asherie Dance RVG 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH 11 JUNE: FRIDAY 11:00am Chamber X DST 2:00pm Chamber X DST 5:00pm The Journey 7:00pm The Journey 8:30pm Ephrat Asherie Dance RVG 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH 9:00pm Two Wings CIS 12 JUNE: SATURDAY 11:00am Chamber X DST 1:00pm The Journey 2:00pm Chamber XI DST 4:00pm The Journey 5:00pm Chamber XI DST 8:30pm Ephrat Asherie Dance RVG 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH 13 JUNE: SUNDAY 11:00am Chamber XI DST 2:00pm Chamber XI DST 2:00pm The Journey 5:00pm The Journey 8:30pm Ephrat Asherie Dance RVG 8:30pm The Woman in Black FVH

VENUE GUIDE

FVH | Festival Hall, 56 Beaufain St.

CIS | College of Charleston Cistern Yard, 66 George St.

RVG | Rivers Green at College of Charleston, 205 Calhoun St.

DST | Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Chair

Directors

Chairs Emeriti

Mr. William G. Medich

Mr. Ronald D. Abramson

Mr. Carlos E. Evans

Mr. Richard J. Almeida

Mr. William B. Hewitt

Mr. Dean Porter Andrews

Mrs. Martha Rivers Ingram

Mr. Larry Antonatos

Mr. M. Edward Sellers

Mrs. Katharine I. Bachmann

Mr. Joel A. Smith, III

Ms. Susan L. Baker

Mr. Charles S. Way, Jr.

President Mrs. Alicia Mullen Gregory

Treasurer

Ms. Elizabeth L. Battle Ms. Melissa Blanchard

Mr. Phillip D. Smith

Directors Emeriti Circle

Mrs. Tippy Stern Brickman Mrs. Claire Holding Bristow

Mrs. Nancy M. Folger

Mr. Richard W. Chisholm

Mrs. Susan W. Ravenel

Mr. Derick S. Close

Mr. David L. Rawle

Mr. Andrew T. Barrett

Mrs. Ruth L. Edwards

Ms. Kathleen H. Rivers

Ms. Rebecca W. Darwin

Dr. Elizabeth A. Fleming

Mrs. Joan G. Sarnoff

Mrs. Jennie L. DeScherer

Mrs. Susan T. Friberg

Mr. W. Lucas Simons

Mr. Gary T. DiCamillo

Mrs. Barbara G.S. Hagerty

Mrs. Katherine Westmoreland

Ms. Margie Ann Morse

Mrs. Lou Rena Hammond

Dr. John M. Palms

Dr. Courtney L. Tollison Hartness

Mrs. Cynthia B. Thompson

Ms. M. Russell Holliday, Jr.

Mr. Paul Trippe

Mr. Ozey K. Horton, Jr.

Mrs. Janice S. McNair

Mr. Loren R. Ziff

President Andrew T. Hsu

Mr. Charles Wadsworth

Vice Presidents

Dr. Eddie L. Irions, Jr.

General Counsel and Secretary

Dr. George H. Khoury Mrs. Elizabeth P. MacLeod

Mr. John B. Hagerty

Mrs. Susanne H. McGuire Ms. Martha Rhodes McLendon Mrs. Marian M. Nisbet Mrs. Anne Bullock Perper Mr. Walter G. Seinsheimer, Jr. Mrs. Cynthia Anne Solomon Mr. Sheldon I. Stein Mr. Michael C. Tarwater Mrs. Hellena Huntley Tidwell Mr. C. Douglas Warner Ms. Palmer Weiss

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ABOUT TOWN Spoleto ETC Happenings in 2020 – 2021

The stages of Spoleto Festival USA may have been dark in 2020, but Spoleto ETC (Engaging the Community)—the Festival’s community education and outreach initiative—was as active as ever. Spoleto ETC connects Festival artists and the broader community through three distinct avenues: tailored education programs for students; discussion series and partnerships with other area organizations; and investment in the advancement of young artists and arts administrators. Through meaningful dialogues, participatory workshops, and curriculum building, Spoleto ETC served more than 5,900 local, national, and international constituents in the past year. IN-SCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMS Omar Ibn Said Workbook

Chamber Music in the Schools

Illustrated by renowned artist Jonathan Green and written in partnership with South Carolina social-studies educators, this educational workbook introducing Omar Ibn Said was distributed to more than 3,000 students in the Charleston County School District this spring. The workbook is available online for teachers and parents to download and includes activities and prompts to aid in learning. Copies have been shared with Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and will also be housed in the Howard University library in Washington, DC, as a resource for educators.

This season, several Festival artists visited area schools virtually. In May, Director of Chamber Music Geoff Nuttall, violist and composer-in-residence Jessica Meyer, pianist Gilles Vonsattel, clarinetist Todd Palmer, and cellist Paul Wiancko took to the Dock Street Theatre stage to record two concerts--one distributed to elementary school students, and one shared with middle and high school students in the Charleston County School District.

Partnership with Engaging Creative Minds

Workshop with Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra

The Festival partnered with Charleston organization Engaging Creative Minds to craft curriculum related to Omar Ibn Said’s autobiography and the history of enslaved Muslims in South Carolina before the Civil War. This curriculum was introduced into public eighth-grade classrooms across the tri-county area this spring. Additionally, students in four schools took part in workshops with Charleston-based teaching artists—Marcus Amaker, Nakeisha Daniel, and Marielena Martinez—who brought their individual perspectives to Said’s story through hands-on visual, literary, and performing arts projects.

ADVANCEMENT FOR YOUNG ARTISTS

In early May, Festival Resident Conductor and Director of Orchestral Activities John Kennedy led a virtual workshop with four student instrumentalists of the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra. During the event, Kennedy shared various artistic and technical aspects a conductor or orchestra director listens for in auditions. He worked with the students master-class style as they played excerpts of audition pieces and offered pointers for students and attendees.

DISCUSSIONS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Exploring Omar Discussion Series Beginning in October 2020, the Festival re-introduced Exploring Omar. This eight-part virtual discussion series expands upon the historical context and cultural significance of Omar, the Festival’s upcoming world premiere opera based on the life of Omar Ibn Said. Each discussion featured expert panelists in the fields of religion, education, culture, and the arts to create connections between Omar and modern-day ideas. All discussions were recorded and are available to watch on the Festival’s YouTube channel. Azure Virtual Offerings with HEART Variations of Azure Family Concerts—engaging performances tailored for families and individuals who are on the autism spectrum or exhibit similar forms of neurodiversity—were shared with Charleston-based nonprofit HEART. This fall and spring, the Festival facilitated several virtual workshops led by artists from the Chamber Music series including pianist Stephen Prutsman (who founded Azure Family Concerts), Director of Chamber Music Geoff Nuttall, cellist Arlen Hlusko, and composer-in-residence Jessica Meyer. In May, pianist Gilles Vonsattel, clarinetist Todd Palmer, and cellist Paul Wiancko joined Meyer and Nuttall at the Dock Street Theatre to record a concert specifically for the HEART-ists.

The Festival and Charleston County Public Library partnered to present three virtual book conversations, each reflecting themes from the Festival’s upcoming opera Omar. In December, the group examined Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In February, the Festival and the Library hosted a discussion on Lawrence Hill’s Someone Knows My Name. And for the third and final discussion in May, the focus was on Claudia Rankine’s Just Us.

Spoleto ETC is made possible by an anonymous donor; Carol H. Fishman, in memory of Leo Fishman; The Danielle Rose Paikin Foundation; Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation; Leslie Aucoin and Vernon Drew; The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust; Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts; and SC Humanities. For more information on how to help expand programs like these, please visit spoletousa.org/support.

Illustrations by Jonathan Green from the Omar Ibn Said Workbook.

Book Talks with Charleston County Public Library

BETWEEN FRIENDS Nigel Redden and JoAnn Verburg in Conversation

Long before he was the General Director of Spoleto Festival USA and long before celebrated photographer JoAnn Verburg received a mid-career retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Nigel Redden remembers a knock on the front door of his Minneapolis home. At the time, he was the Director of Performing Arts at Walker Art Center and, after hours, renovating a five-bedroom house that provided lodging for some of the performers he programmed. On the other side of the door was Verburg, a visiting artist at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, inquiring about a room for rent. “I remember when I moved in in January, it was the coldest I had ever been, partly because it was Minnesota and partly because Nigel was working on the electric wiring with the doors open,” Verburg reminisces. “Trisha Brown Dance Company was also there that first month. And after their rehearsals during the day, the dancers would gather in the kitchen, talking about the making of their new piece. I knew nothing about dance, but I was just so interested—I love process.” Looking back, Verburg relishes that time in Redden’s house and considers it one of the most influential turning points of her career. “I started photographing people who were dancers, and I began thinking about time and the body—all things that had not been aspects of my life as an artist before. My photography blossomed.” Redden and Verburg remained close friends through the years, and for his final Spoleto season, Redden asked Verburg to choose one of her works to adorn the Festival poster. Titled Between, the photograph (2021, 48" x 32", archival ink on paper) captures one of Verburg’s signature subjects: olive trees in Spoleto, Italy. Even this has ties to Redden— he suggested Spoleto as a honeymoon destination for the photographer and her husband, poet Jim Moore, and they have since made it an annual pilgrimage. Ahead of Spoleto’s 2021 season and Redden’s retirement, the friends shared a conversation via Zoom about art, what guides their work, and Verburg’s latest project. JoAnn Verburg: Nigel, we met a long time ago, and I’ve known two of the people you worked with early in your career: Ellen Stewart and Martin Friedman. And while those

JoAnn Verburg, BETWEEN, 2021, ink on paper, courtesy of Pace Gallery and G. Gibson Projects.

Nigel Redden and JoAnn Verburg in conversation via Zoom.

two figures are so different on the surface, almost opposite, I’m wondering if their spirits sit on your right and left shoulders, asking questions or nagging at you. Nigel Redden: Ellen, the founder of LaMama Experimental Theater Club in New York, gave me a job right after I graduated college. And Martin—the longtime director of Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, who basically recreated what had been a rich man’s private museum into a real powerhouse of contemporary art—gave me my first really responsible job. In some ways, they were remarkably alike. They both operated on instinct. Ellen used to say she had “beeps” about people. Martin didn’t use those words at all, but he would intuitively feel something was right. JV: They both had the scope to understand when something needed to be tweaked to keep the thing afloat, and their institutions are so successful and ongoing—all these years later. They were intuitive and responsive to changes in the art world, visual and performing. NR: Martin wanted to constantly reinvent the Walker, and Ellen was constantly inventing. She had a vision that was also flexible. JV: So, how does Spoleto Festival USA fit into those ideas? NR: A festival reinvents itself. A festival is a kind of Phoenix that rises from each year’s ashes; it’s an institution that defies being institutional. Yes, Spoleto is an

institution—we own real estate; we have assets. But I think what makes Spoleto Festival USA so special is the program—the artists we work with change year to year. There are threads that remain constant, but there are new juxtapositions of theater and dance and music of various sorts each year. We are inspired by the possibilities that Charleston offers. And I think we’ve remained true to what was the founding inspiration—that the Festival should be profoundly multidisciplinary at its heart. JV: Once, when Jim and I came to the Festival, I remember you talking about how a festival is seeing one thing and then another thing and then another thing. Can you talk about how the performances build on each other? NR: One of the wonderful things about a festival is that everyone can have a different experience and create their own itinerary. And to some extent, if you’re seeing multiple performances, you begin to see connections— human connections—between disparate things. You absolutely see things differently than you would if each performance were in isolation. JV: I want to ask a follow-up question to that—and it has to do with how you’re preparing the dinner party, so to speak. The analogy being, when you’re hosting a dinner party, you weigh which guests to invite, how to seat them, and which courses to prepare. As the director of Spoleto, do you think Oh, I love this person’s work, but I’ll wait until it’s a little more mature. Or, I have to bring this artist’s work to balance this other piece?

20 NR: The idea of themes comes up often, that the program should investigate things in a kind of museum-like, curatorial fashion. I feel that idea doesn’t work all that well. The performing arts are messy, which I think is a wonderful message. Our audience members will each find different threads through a series of performances than I would. I may have a strong idea of what I think the threads are, but I don’t want those to be imposed on anyone else. There needs to be a space for curiosity, and so, for me, the program has to be right intuitively. JV: That really appeals to me. The art experiences that are the most important for me are those that I am perplexed by, agitated by, or bothered by—sometimes in combination with beauty. In my case, when selecting works for an exhibition, I want that exhibition itself to be a work of art. Once someone walks into an exhibition, there’s the experience of walking in, and then there are more experiences that build upon each turn throughout the space. Each visitor has their own trajectory, and an individual experience. And yet I want to set the work up so that there are certain things that happen within the whole—so that every trajectory, every combination, will be valid. It’s tricky. I redo and redo the configuration to get something that feels like a whole. On the other hand, if the exhibition is in a gallery, I want people literally to walk away with one of the images, so it’s necessary for the pieces to work independently as well. NR: We’ve been talking about intuition. How has that guided your work? JV: I’m intuitive when I’m shooting. Right now, I’m in the middle of another tree project I started in Spoleto. I’d done a series of olive tree photographs many years back. I never thought I would do another until there were several large earthquakes in 2016. After it happened, buildings, or parts of buildings, would just come down. At that time, I found myself outside a lot because people were very afraid. Everything that we knew felt like it was up for grabs. It was scary. But when I was out there with the olive trees, I found myself calming down and feeling such an appreciation for the ongoing nature of nature. After some time, I had an idea—an

experiment, really: in photographing these trees, can I express something about the people and culture who tend olive trees—even though people aren’t necessarily in the pictures? I’ve since traveled to orchards in Israel, Arizona, and California, where I am now. Still, I don’t have an agenda. If the olive trees all seem as though they could be anywhere to a viewer, that’s fine. That’s not failure. And if there are ways in which people look at these images and feel something slightly different, that will be interesting to me, too.

Caleb Teicher & Company

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May 28 at 8:30pm; May 29 at 8:30pm; May 30 at 8:30pm; May 31 at 8:30pm; June 1 at 8:30pm; June 2 at 8:30pm

Caleb Teicher Márion Talán Joseph Wolfslau Serena Wong Macy Sullivan Aria Roach

1 hour | Performed with a short pause

Meet Ella

Choreography Original Lighting Design Dancers Music

Nathan Bugh and Caleb Teicher Asami Morita Gaby Cook, Caleb Teicher, Macy Sullivan Selections from Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert (Live) and Mack The Knife: The Complete Ella in Berlin (Live). Performed and recorded live by Ella Fitzgerald.

Meet Ella was created with commissioning support from Gibney Dance with funds provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation. This piece was also made possible, in part, thanks to an artistic residency at the American Tap Dance Foundation.

Bzzzz Choreography Music Dance Editor and Understudy Beatboxer Dancers

Caleb Teicher with solo improvisation by dancers Chris Celiz and Caleb Teicher Macy Sullivan Chris Celiz Caleb Teicher, Jared Alexander, Naomi Funaki, John Manzari, Demi Remick, Tamii Sakurai, Funmi Sofola

The creation of Bzzzz was made possible, in part, by a New York City Center Choreography Fellowship and was commissioned by New York City Center for the Fall for Dance Festival with generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation, and Stephen Kroll Reidy. This piece was also made possible, in part, thanks to an artistic residency at the American Tap Dance Foundation.

The 2021 dance series is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

Caleb Teicher & Company

About the Company Caleb Teicher & Company (CT&Co.), founded in 2015, seeks to expand the capacity of America’s rich music and dance traditions through innovative choreography, performance, and contextualization. Utilizing tap dance, vernacular jazz, Lindy Hop, and a mix of other American dance styles, the company’s work represents a unique style of theatricality, humor, emotional expression, and aesthetic exploration.

Artistic Team CALEB TEICHER (artistic director/ choreographer/dancer) is a New York City-based dancer and choreographer who began their career as a founding member of Michelle Dorrance’s Dorrance Dance. Since founding CT&Co., Teicher’s creative work has expanded to engagements and commissions across the US and abroad, including The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Guggenheim Museum, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Teicher is known for choreographic collaborations with diverse musical talents, performing as a soloist with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center, recording percussion and vocals for television with Ben Folds, and choreographing Regina Spektor’s residency on Broadway. Teicher is the recipient of a 2019 New York City Center Choreographic Fellowship, two Bessie Awards, a 2019 Harkness Promise Award, and a 2019 NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant. MÁRION TALÁN (costume designer) is a recognized designer with two decades of experience. Her career includes collaborations with Bryan Arias, Joe Salvatore, Pilobolus, Sonya Tayeh, and The Juilliard School. Talán is originally from Mexico City and currently resides in New York City. JOSEPH WOLFSLAU (sound designer) is based in Brooklyn. Recent designs include production for La Sonnambula (Promenade Opera); production for Magnum Opus: A Retrospective (The People Movers); sound for The Emperor’s Nightingale (Pan Asian Rep.); sound for The Peanut Butter Show (Little Lord); production design for Cendrillon (Promenade Opera); sound for Romulus the Great (Yangtze Rep.); sound for Brideshead Obliterated (Dixon Place); set, sound, and costumes for 410 [Gone] (Yangtze Rep); sound for CoIncident (JACK); sound for Ski End (New Ohio); sound for CoVenture (Baryshnikov); and set and costumes for Poor Sailor (Tugboat Collective).

SERENA WONG (lighting designer) is a Brooklyn-based freelance lighting designer for theater and dance whose work has been seen in the US and Europe. Most recently, Wong has designed for choreographers Gemma Bond, Caleb Teicher, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, and Netta Yerushalmy. She enjoys biking, beekeeping, and baking bread. MACY SULLIVAN (dancer/rehearsal director/understudy) has the pleasure of working as a dancer, rehearsal director, and dance editor for Caleb Teicher & Company. Outside of CT&Co., she has performed extensively with Dance Heginbotham and enjoyed projects with Merce Cunningham Trust, The Bang Group, The Chase Brock Experience, and Pat Catterson. Sullivan has assisted Caleb Teicher, Michelle Dorrance, John Heginbotham, and Chase Brock in the creation and staging of works at Southern Methodist University, American Ballet Theatre, Dartmouth College, and Barnard College. Her own work has been performed at Juilliard’s Center for Innovation in the Arts, Judson Memorial Church, and the 92nd Street Y.

Performers JARED ALEXANDER (dancer) is a native of Clintondale, New York. He started dancing at the age of three and hasn’t stopped since. His passion and talent led him to study in New York City, where he has been fortunate enough to work with and train under influential teachers and choreographers including Ray Hesselink, Rhonda Miller, Mandy Moore, Scott Jovovich, Lauren Gaul, Ephrat Asherie, Martha Nichols, Alexandra Damiani, Liz Imperio, Aaron Parkhurst, Jess Hendricks, and many more. Alexander recently graduated from Pace University in May 2019 with a BFA in Commercial Dance and is excited to work with Caleb Teicher & Company as well as share his journey with you. CHRIS CELIZ (beatboxer) is a musician, educator, and performer from New York City. He has worked with such luminaries as Harry Belafonte, Bryonn Bain, and Dana Leong. Celiz is the 2015 American 2v2 Champion and has been ranked as one of the top North American beatboxers. His most notable accomplishment is the formation of “The Beatbox House,” a conglomerate of the most talented beatboxers in the United States looking to rebrand the art form. GABY COOK (dancer) is an esteemed, active professional in the global Lindy Hop community. For nearly 20 years, she has established her career, teaching and performing worldwide for events such as Herräng Dance Camp, Paris Jazz Roots, and Lindy Focus. She leads two swing and jazz based dance companies: Wild Rhythm Dance Company and Gatsby Entertainment. These companies have been featured on stages such as Jacob’s Pillow’s Inside/Out Series, Jazz at Lincoln

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Center Orchestra, The 92nd St Y, Midsummer Night Swing at Lincoln Center, and many appearances at the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center. NAOMI FUNAKI (dancer) is a tap dancer from Tokyo, Japan. She currently lives in New York as an IISP student of Steps on Broadway. She has performed in CT&CO. and Dorrance Dance’s second company. She has danced at the first Tap Family Reunion, Vail Dance Festival, Fall for Dance Festival at New York City Center, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Tokyo International Tap Dance Festival, and is an alumna of The School at Jacob’s Pillow’s tap dance program. JOHN MANZARI (dancer) is an Ovation Award and Helen Hayes Awardnominated performer, teacher, and choreographer. A multifaceted artist, he is best known for tap dancing. His stage credits include 42ND Street, Maurice Hines: Tappin’ Thru Life, The Wiz is 40: A Celebration in Dance and Music, Duke Ellington’s Sophisticated Ladies, and Apollo Club Harlem. Television credits include The View, PBS’s special Michael Feinstein at the Rainbow Room, The Jerry Lewis Telethon, and the season seven finale of So You Think You Can Dance. Concerts include A Little Old, A Little New at Birdland and Jacob’s Pillow. Manzari can be seen in a documentary about his mentor, titled Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back. DEMI REMICK (dancer) is a YoungArts Gold winner, one of Dance Magazine’s "25 To Watch,” and a Capezio athlete. Remick tours worldwide as the tap dance soloist with Postmodern Jukebox at venues like the Sydney Opera House and was recently a featured soloist at Company XIV, an Off-Broadway production in Brooklyn. She has danced for CT&Co., Dorrance Dance, Jason Samuels Smith, Bill T. Jones, Lisa La Touche, Monica Bill Barnes, and American Ballet Theatre’s James Whiteside. Remick teaches at Broadway Dance Center. She earned her BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Dance. TAMII SAKURAI (dancer) is a tap dancer based in New York City. She is an artist-in-residence at the American Tap Dance Foundation, and she has had the privilege of working with numerous leading tap companies such as Brenda Bufalino’s New American Tap Dance Orchestra and Michelle Dorrance’s Dorrance Dance. Sakurai studied mathematics and dance at Hunter College, where she developed her own style of teaching tap dance that incorporates numbers and visuals. In 2016, she made her Off-Broadway debut in STOMP.

FUNMILAYO “FUNMI” SOFOLA (dancer) is from the greater Seattle area. Her formal dance training began at the age of eight. When she was eleven years old, she joined the Alchemy Tap Project, which was founded by Josh Scribner. Sofola was a participant in The School at Jacobs Pillow Tap Program 2017 and was a 2018 National YoungArts finalist in tap dance. Currently living in New York City, Sofola is earning a B.F.A. in Commercial Dance at Pace University. As a member of the class of 2023, she is enjoying opportunities to train with renowned artists including Rhonda Miller, Lauren Gaul, Scott Jovovich, and Lisa La Touche.

Ballet Under the Stars

BALLET UNDER THE STARS ivers Green at College of Charleston R June 4 at 8:30pm; June 5 at 8:30pm; June 6 at 8:30pm; June 7 at 8:30pm Artistic Team Stage Manager Nicole Mitchell Lighting Designer Jason Lyons Dancers Isabella Boylston, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Joseph Gordon, Unity Phelan, Calvin Royal III Piano Susan Walters Oboe James Austin Smith

1 hour | Performed without an intermission

Apollo

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George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Igor Stravinsky Unity Phelan and Calvin Royal III Susan Walters

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Concerto Six Twenty-Two

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This Bitter Earth

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Christopher Wheeldon Max Richter and Clyde Otis Isabella Boylston and Calvin Royal III

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The performances of Apollo and Diamonds, both Balanchine® Ballets, are presented by arrangement with The George Balanchine Trust and have been produced in accordance with the Balanchine Style® and Balanchine Technique® Service standards established and provided by the Trust. The 2021 dance series is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Piano by Steinway & Sons. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

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In G Major

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George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky Isabella Boylston and Joseph Gordon

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Dancers ISABELLA BOYLSTON (dancer) was born in Sun Valley, Idaho, and began dancing at the age of three. She joined the American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in 2005, the main Company in May 2006, and was promoted to principal dancer in August 2014. She has danced leading roles in nearly all the classics as well as works by Alexei Ratmansky and George Balanchine. Boylston won the 2009 Princess Grace Award and was nominated for the 2010 Prix Benois de la Danse. In 2011, she received the Clive Barnes Award. She was the recipient of the 2014 Annenberg Fellowship. She has appeared as a guest star with the Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, National Ballet of China, and Ballet Estable del Teatro Colon. Boylston was featured in Francis Lawrence’s film Red Sparrow alongside Jennifer Lawrence.

ADRIAN DANCHIG-WARING (dancer) was born in San Francisco, California. He is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet, where he has collaborated with many of today’s renowned choreographers and performed an active repertoire of masterworks by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. He was a founding member of Christopher Wheeldon’s company Morphoses. Danchig-Waring is the Director of the New York Choreographic Institute and has worked with New York City Ballet’s education department and The Weinberg Family Cerebral Palsy Center to develop methodology of movement workshops for children with cerebral palsy. He was a 2018 research fellow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and is a director of the George Balanchine Foundation.

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JOSEPH GORDON (dancer) was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and started dancing at the age of three. In 2006, Gordon began studying at the School of American Ballet, the official school of the New York City Ballet, and joined the company in August of 2011. He was promoted to principal dancer in October of 2018. Gordon was nominated for the Clive Barnes award in 2016 and was the recipient of the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. He was also the 2015 – 16 Janice Levin Dancer Honoree. Gordon has performed on stages around the world and was recently profiled in The New York Times “Arts and Leisure” section in February 2020. UNITY PHELAN (dancer) was born in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2012, Phelan was invited to join the New York City Ballet (NYCB) as an apprentice and became a member of the corps de ballet in 2013. In the winter of 2017, Phelan was promoted to soloist. In her time at NYCB, Phelan has danced numerous ballets by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Alexei Ratmansky, Justin Peck, Christopher Wheeldon, and other choreographers. Phelan has been featured in Dance, Elle, People, and Style magazines. In the last couple years, Phelan has been found on the silver screen, acting in John Wick 3: Parabellum and I’m Thinking of Ending Things. In 2019, Phelan was awarded the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists for her work at NYCB. CALVIN ROYAL III (dancer) began his formal dance training at the Pinellas County Center for the Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was a finalist at the Youth America Grand Prix Competition and awarded the Ethan Stiefel Scholarship to train at American Ballet Theatre (ABT)’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in 2006. Royal joined ABT II in 2008 and ABT main company in April 2011. In 2017, he was promoted to soloist and, in 2020, to principal dancer. Royal has been featured in works by Twyla Tharp, Christopher Wheeldon, Alexei Ratmansky, Kyle Abraham, and Wayne McGregor. He has also been nominated for the Clive Barnes Award and is the winner of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship grant.

Musicians JAMES AUSTIN SMITH (oboe) has been praised for his “virtuosic,” “dazzling,” and “brilliant” performances (New York Times) and his “bold, keen sound” (The New Yorker). He is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and Decoda; coprincipal oboist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and artistic and executive director of Tertulia, a chamber music series that takes place in restaurants in New York and San Francisco. He is a member of the oboe and chamber music faculties of Stony Brook University and the Manhattan School of Music. SUSAN WALTERS (piano) studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music. She joined the New York City Ballet as a solo pianist in 1997. Walters has performed notable piano solos with the company, including for such ballets as Les Noces, Rubies, In G Major; Who Cares?, Twoand-Three-Part Inventions, and Dances at a Gathering. She has performed Dances at a Gathering in Paris, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, and New York City. In addition, she premiered Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH in New York and Washington, DC, at The Kennedy Center, and she has performed premieres by Christopher Wheeldon, Justin Peck, Richard Tanner, and Christopher D’Amboise. She has also been the solo pianist in many of Peter Martins’s ballets, including Zakouski, Burlesque, and Hallelujah Junction.

Ephrat Asherie Dance

EPHRAT ASHERIE DANCE ODEON

ivers Green at College of Charleston R June 9 at 8:30pm; June 10 at 8:30pm; June 11 at 8:30pm; June 12 at 8:30pm; June 13 at 8:30pm Artistic Team Choreographer/Director Ephrat “Bounce” Asherie Dancers Manon Bal, Teena Marie Custer, Val “Ms. Vee” Ho, Matthew “Megawatt” West, Ousmane Wiles Musicians Bass Eduardo Belo Piano Vitor Gonçalves Percussion Angel Lau, Jeremy Smith

1 hour | Performed without an intermission

The 2021 dance series is sponsored by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. Piano by Steinway & Sons. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

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Choreographer/Director EPHRAT “BOUNCE” ASHERIE (choreographer/dancer/director) is a New York City-based b-girl and a 2016 Bessie Award Winner for Innovative Achievement in Dance. Asherie has received numerous awards to support her work, including Dance Magazine’s Harkness Promise Award, a Jacob’s Pillow Fellowship at the Tilles Center, and a National Dance Project Award. She is also a 2021 – 22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. As artistic director of Ephrat Asherie Dance, her work has been presented at ArtPower at UC San Diego, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, the Joyce Theater, and Works & Process at the Guggenheim. She has been mentored by Richard Santiago (“Break Easy”) and collaborated with Buddha Stretch, Bill Irwin, Michelle Dorrance, Doug Elkins, Gus Solomons, Jr., and Rennie Harris. Asherie is a co-founding member of the all-female house dance collective MAWU and is forever grateful to New York City’s underground dance community.

Dancers MANON BAL (dancer) is a versatile professional dancer from Marseille, France. She has trained at the IFPRO Centre de International de Dance Rick Odums in Paris and at the prestigious Ailey School in New York City. As a choreographer, Bal is the co-founder of Mozaik Dance in collaboration with Janine “J9” Micheletti and Sun Kim. The company has presented their work Sad Hope at Jacob’s Pillow, San Francisco Hip Hop Dance Fest, and as a part of the New Victory Dance Series. As a performer, Bal has danced with PMT Dance Company at Barclays Center for the Nets Halftime Show and worked for respected choreographers such as Ronald K. Brown, Tweet Boogie, Jon Rua, and Miki Tuesday. TEENA MARIE CUSTER (dancer) is an artist and healer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her solo choreographic work has been presented at Sadler’s Wells in London and around the United States. She has created street dance theater works for over 35 university dance departments around the country, and after receiving an MFA from Ohio State University, was on faculty at Slippery Rock University and the American Dance Festival. Custer is a member of the Venus Fly and Get Down Gang street dance crews and has been with Ephrat Asherie Dance since 2012 while also touring with Bill “Crutchmaster” Shannon.

VAL “MS. VEE” HO (dancer) is originally from Vancouver, Canada. Ho has proudly been in Ephrat Asherie Dance since 2012. In her career, she has also had the pleasure of working with such distinguished choreographers as Buddha Stretch, Rennie Harris, Luam, Maria Torres, and Bradley Rapier. Amongst her numerous TV, film, and stage credits, highlights include the official Hideaway music video by Kiesza, The Detour, VH1’s Dear Mama television special, Step Up 3D, Rennie Harris’ Legends of Hip Hop, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Sadler’s Wells Breaking Convention, and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. Ho is also a dance educator on faculty at Broadway Dance Center and Pace University’s Commercial Dance BFA Program. In 2017, she became the first Hip Hop teacher at The Julliard School. MATTHEW “MEGAWATT” WEST (dancer) started dancing at the age of sixteen in Queens. West is an active part of New York City’s underground dance community and teaches youth classes throughout the five boroughs. He is a regular guest artist with Dorrance Dance and can be seen in Baz Lurhman’s Netflix series The Get Down and battling with his crew, the Mellow Animals. OUSMANE WILES (dancer) was born in Senegal, West Africa, and trained and performed with his family’s dance company, the Maimouna Keita School of African Dance, from a young age. Raised in Brooklyn, Wiles is also a legendary member of the ballroom scene and founder and artistic director of Les Ballet Afrik. He has worked with many artists, including Janet Jackson, Jidenna, Raashad Newsome, and Wummi. Wiles is on faculty at Broadway Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Dance Center, and the Maimouna Keita School of African Dance.

Musicians EDUARDO BELO (bass) is a Brazilian bass player and composer who has worked with many great musicians, including Ari Hoenig, Chico Pinheiro, Duduka Da Fonseca, Helio Alves, Claudio Roditi, Kevin Hays, Gabriel Grossi, Koran Agan, Mario Adnet, and many others. Eduardo earned his BA in Music at the Universidade de Brasília and his master’s degree in jazz from the Queen’s College of New York. VITOR GONÇALVES (piano) is a multi-talented musician and arranger from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After success playing with such icons as Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Bethânia, and Itiberê Zwarg in Brazil, he made the move to New York City,

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where he has since been featured on NPR’s Jazz Night in America and in The New York Times as a guest of the renowned Spok Frevo Orquestra. A frequent player at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Jazz Standard, the Jazz Gallery, and Festivals around the world, he is known as both a project leader and gifted collaborator. In 2017 he released his debut album on Sunnyside Records, Vitor Gonçalves Quartet. In 2020, Gonçalves garnered two Grammy nominations, one for Best Latin Jazz album with Thalma de Freitas and the other for Best Large Jazz Ensemble with Anat Cohen Tentet. ANGEL LAU (percussion) is a Peruvian percussionist based in Hudson Valley, New York. While his foundation comes from his classical percussion studies at Purchase College, Lau’s interests in Afro-Peruvian and Brazilian music have grown to encompass folkloric and modern percussion styles from across the world. Lau has performed and recorded with artists such as Kala and the Lost Tribe, Common Tongue, Birdland Latin Jazz Orchestra, Kelly Quigley, Wallace Roney, Jr., Ted Piltzecker, Maria Quintanilla, and Leah Woods. In 2017, Lau had the opportunity to commission Believe Me, a composition by Sergio Krakowski that involved Pandeiro and electronics and was meant to reflect turmoil in the US government. JEREMY SMITH (percussion) is a percussive artist whose foundation comes from his classical training at The Juilliard School, but his interests lie in a wide range of folkloric and modern percussion traditions from around the globe. Smith performs regularly with flamenco guitarist and composer Andreas Arnold, Peruvian music group Festejation, Middle Eastern music collective Brooklyn Nomads, and global jazz quintet Mr. Ho’s Orchestrotica. He has also been a featured player in performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Hudson Valley Philharmonic. Other collaborations and performances include the Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Gypsy All-Stars, Farah Siraj, Antonio Lizana, Jorge Glem, Al Margen Flamenco, Fleur Seule Latin Big Band, Nashaz, Terraza 7 Big Band, Zāna, Quentin Angus, and the NY Andalus Ensemble.

The Woman in Black

THE WOMAN IN BLACK A play by Stephen Mallatratt based on the novel by Susan Hill Festival Hall May 27 – 30 at 8:30pm, June 1 – 8 at 8:30pm, June 10 –13 at 8:30pm Artistic Team Director Robin Herford Associate Director Maggie Spanuello Designer Michael Holt Lighting Designer Anshuman Bhatia Sound Designer Sebastian Frost Original Sound Design Rod Mead Vision Productions Imogen Finlayson Casting Director Laura Stanczyk General Managers Pemberley Productions with Martin Platt Producer PW Productions and Pemberley Productions Stage Managers Tim Smith,Clara Mooney Production Manager Anshuman Bhatia Cast Peter Bradley, Nick Owen

1 hour, 45 minutes | Performed with one intermission

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

The Woman in Black

Artistic Team ANSHUMAN BHATIA (lighting designer and production manager) designs for opera, theater, and dance. His work has been seen at Santa Fe Opera, Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts, Dublin’s Civic Theater, Soho Rep, The Public, The Atlantic, Arena Stage, The Park Avenue Armory, Bard Music Festival, WP Theater, The Juilliard School, Madison Opera, Kentucky Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Classic Stage Company, HERE Arts Center, LoftOpera, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Keen Company, Pacific Symphony, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Virginia Arts Festival, Rattlestick Theater, The Sheen Center, and Troy’s Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC). He holds a Master of Fine Arts from New York University. IMOGEN FINLAYSON (Vision Productions) trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (New York Company, 2018-19) and the Cours Florent (Paris). Previously Vision Productions for The Woman in Black at The McKittrick Hotel in New York in 2020; other recent theater credits include the John Wick immersive theater experience, Step One, The Moors, The Richard Project, Star Spangled, Spring Awakening, Blue Stockings, and Cymbeline and the Tempest. She was also part of the SGCNZ Young New Zealand Shakespeare Company (performances included the Globe and the Minack). ROBIN HERFORD (director) read philosophy and English at the University of St Andrews and trained as an actor at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Much of Herford’s early career was involved with Sir Alan Ayckbourn and the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. He has appeared in the original production of more Ayckbourn plays than any other actor and has directed over 30 of his productions. The Woman in Black, which Herford commissioned and directed in 1987, has been running in London for over 30 years and has completed 12 UK tours. Herford now directs much more than he acts. The last two productions he directed were Stray Dogs and The Woman in Black at McKittrick’s Hotel in New York, where it won Best Revival in the Off-Broadway Alliance Awards. SUSAN HILL (author) was born in Scarborough and took her English degree at King’s College London. Her best-known books, apart from The Woman in Black, are the novels I’m the King of the Castle, Strange Meeting, and In the Springtime of the Year. Her books have won the Whitbread Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and have also been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her most recent books are a trilogy of crime: The Various Haunts of Men, The Pure in Heart, and The Risk of Darkness. Hill lives in a farmhouse in rural Gloucestershire from where she runs her own small publishing company, Long Barn Books. Hill was awarded a CBE in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday and Diamond Jubilee Honours. MICHAEL HOLT (designer) is designer for drama, opera, and ballet who has collaborated with leading arts companies around the world. He has been associated with playwright Alan

Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough for over 40 years. West End credits include The Woman in Black; Absurd Person Singular (Whitehall Theatre), The Glory of the Garden (Duke of York’s Theatre), Rough Justice (Apollo Theatre), and June Moon (Vaudeville Theatre). International credits include productions in New York, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Norway, and Austria. Opera productions include collaborations with the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen; the Avignon Festival, France; the Knokke Opera Festival, Belgium; and The Brisbane Festival, Australia. SEBASTIAN FROST (sound designer) has numerous theater design credits, including The Last Ship (UK, US); 170 Days in Nanjing (Nanjing Opera); Memoirs of a Sailor (Kuwait); Kiss Me Kate (WNO); Jekyll & Hyde (Old Vic); An Inspector Calls (UK, US); White Christmas, Annie, A Christmas Carol (Leeds Playhouse); Calamity Jane (Watermill, UK); The Witches (Curve), If Only, Antony & Cleopatra (Chichester); The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe (Kensington Gardens); Decade (Headlong); Little Shop Of Horrors (Birmingham); The Magic Flute (Duke of York’s Teatre); The Common Pursuit, Take Flight, Total Eclipse (Menier); Trainspotting (UK); Tonight’s The Night (Victoria Palace); Boy Band (Gielgud), Kat And The Kings (London, Cort, Cape Town); Summer Begins (Donmar); and Fame (UK). In 2008, he received a Tony nomination for Best Sound Design of a Musical for Sunday in the Park with George on Broadway. STEPHEN MALLATRATT (playwright) wrote his early plays while working as an actor in Alan Ayckbourn’s Scarborough company. Several of these were produced and directed by Ayckbourn at Scarborough, and commissions from other theaters followed. In addition to original plays, Mallatratt wrote adaptations of books for both TV and theater. His television work included The Innocents for YTV, and he adapted the Forsyte Saga for Granada. The Woman in Black is now in its thirtieth year at the Fortune Theatre in the West End and in its ninth year at the Rafael Solaria theatre in Mexico. It has been translated into at least 12 languages and performed in 41 countries. Mallatratt passed away on November 22, 2004. CLARA MOONEY (stage manager) was company manager on the 2018 – 2019 first national tour of The Woman in Black. She is a Brooklyn based writer and director. Her recent credits include The Commons (d. Emma Miller, The Hearth) Macbeth; (d. Posner and Teller, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre); A Christmas Carol (d. Emily Penick, ACT Theatre); and The Crucible (d. John Langs, ACT Theatre.) Mooney holds a BA in Drama from Kenyon College and is thrilled to be a part of this production. PEMBERLEY PRODUCTIONS (producer) is a New Yorkbased producer and general manager. In the 2019 – 2020 season, Pemberley toured—or was due to tour—The Last Ship, starring Sting in the US; Romantics Anonymous in the US; Ensemble Basiani (Republic of Georgia) in the US; and two sit-down engagements of The Woman in Black to Shakespeare Theatre DC and the McKittrick Hotel, New York. Previous seasons have seen Pemberley tour the Public Theater’s (New

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York) international tour of The Apple Family Plays. Other production credits include two US tours of Filter Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company production of 12th Night, two US tours of Paterson Joseph’s one-man play Sancho, a US tour of The National Theatre of Great Britain’s landmark production of An Inspector Calls, and a national tour of the London production of The Woman in Black. PW PRODUCTIONS (producer) is one of the West End’s most prolific and significant theatre producers, responsible for some of the most successful productions in British theatre since it was founded in 1983 by Peter Wilson, MBE. The company has acted as general manager and production accountant for more than 500 productions throughout the world. PW Productions— in partnership with promoters and co-producers—has also presented work in Japan, Singapore, Canada, the US, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Austria, Australia, and Hong Kong. MAGGIE SPANUELLO (associate director) has worked on The Woman in Black (McKittrick Hotel). Regional credits include The Woman in Black; The Tempest (The Smith Center, South Coast Repertory); A Christmas Carol, Gutenberg! The Musical!, and Forever Plaid (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Murder for Two (Hope Summer Rep), and Completely Hollywood Abridged (Old Creamery Theatre). In Chicago, her credits include Macbeth and The Tempest with Posner and Teller, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); The 39 Steps (BrightSide Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare 400 Chicago/Civic Orchestra of Chicago); and The Valkyries (Gorilla Tango Theatre). International credits include Next to Normal, Seussical!, and Blooming Season (Shanghai Conservatory of Music). TIM SMITH (stage manager) began working as a tour manager for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1999, touring the UK, USA, and Japan. Tim has stage-managed productions for Druid Theatre Company, Garsington Opera, Tricycle Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, in London’s West End, and on national UK tours. He has been proud to bring shows as a stage manager in the United States to Lincoln Center Festival, the New Haven Festival of Arts and Ideas, and the Guthrie Theater.

Actors PETER BRADLEY (Arthur Kipps) has performed on stage with the Tony Award-winning Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. He is also an artistic associate with Provision Theatre and Irish Theatre Chicago. Bradley received a Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for his performance in The Woman in Black at the Royal George Theatre in 2019. He has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor); Memphis Symphony Orchestra (Mei-Ann Chen, conductor); and the San Diego Symphony Orchestra as narrator (Rafael Payare, conductor). His television credits include Missing Persons, Angel Street, The Untouchables, and Early Edition. NICK OWEN (The Actor) has theater credits that include The Woman in Black (First US Tour); Peter and the Starcatcher (First National Tour); The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Steppenwolf for Young Adults); April 4th, 1968 (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher (Peninsula Players); The Picture of Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights (Life Line Theater); Iphigenia 2.0 (Next Theatre Company); That Face and Reverb (Redtwist Theatre); Aftermath (Signal Ensemble); Ah, Wilderness! (Eclipse Theatre Company); and The Ring Cycle (The Building Stage). His film and television credit include Black Box (Feature), Chicago Med, The Chi, Sirens, and Chicago Fire.

SPOLETO AT HOME | A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call

A THOUSAND WAYS (PART ONE): A PHONE CALL 600 HIGHWAYMEN Written and Created by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone

Virtual

June 3 at 6:00pm and 7:30pm; June 4 at 5:00pm, 6:30pm, and 8:00pm; June 5 at 3:00pm, 5:00pm, and 7:00pm; June 6 at 3:00pm, 5:00pm, and 7:00pm; June 7 at 5:00pm, 6:30pm, and 8:00pm

Directors/Writers Executive Producer Line Producer Dramaturg/Project Design Part One: A Phone Call Sound Design

Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone ArKtype/Thomas O. Kriegsmann Cynthia J. Tong Andrew Kircher Stanley Mathabane

1 hour | Performed via phone

This production was commissioned by The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, Stanford Live at Stanford University, Festival Theaterformen, and The Public Theater, and was originally commissioned and co-conceived by Temple Contemporaryat Temple University. Part One: A Phone Call was developed in partnership with On the Boards production and technical teams. Original support for the production was provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia.

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

SPOLETO AT HOME | A Thousand Ways (Part One): A Phone Call

About the Company

600 HIGHWAYMEN/ABIGAIL BROWDE AND MICHAEL SILVERSTONE (directors/writers) have been making live art since 2009 that, through a variety of radical approaches, illuminates the inherent poignancy of people coming together. The work exists at the intersection of theater, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounter. Though the processes are varied, each project revolves around the same curiosity: what occurs in the live encounter between people. 600 HIGHWAYMEN has been called the “the standard-bearers of contemporary theatermaking” by Le Monde and “one of New York’s best nontraditional theater companies” by The New Yorker. They are recipients of an Obie Award, Switzerland’s ZKB Prize, two Bessie Award nominations, and in 2016, were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Artistic Team THOMAS O. KRIEGSMANN/ ARKTYPE (executive producer) is honored to be back at the great Spoleto Festival USA. He began ArKtype in 2005 with a focus on new work development and touring strategies worldwide. His past work includes projects with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Toshi Reagon, Peter Brook, Victoria Thiérrée-Chaplin, Yaël Farber, Peter Sellars, Jay Scheib, Julie Taymor, and Tony Taccone. Recent premieres include Bryce Dessner’s Triptych (Eyes of One Another), John Cameron Mitchell’s The Origin of Love, Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Cyber’s Cartography, and Big Dance Theater and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Man in a Case. Upcoming premieres include Karen O and Lila Neugebauer’s Forget About You, Scott Shepherd’s This Ignorant Present with Malthouse, Sam Green’s 32 Sounds, and Nora Chipaumire’s Nehanda. ANDREW KIRCHER (dramaturg/ project designer) is a creative producer, dramaturg, curator, and scholar of live and new media performance. Current creative collaborations include Janani Balasubramanian, 600 HIGHWAYMEN, Flako Jimenez, Nikki Appino and Philip Glass, Lorelei Ramirez, Annie Saunders, and Pig Iron. He was the director of The Public Theater’s Devised Theater Initiative, associate director of the Under the Radar Festival, general manager of Ars Nova, and curator of the Prelude Festival. He is a Brown Institute

Magic Grant recipient, a member of the Guild of Future Architects, a 2020 Sundance Fellow, and a Ph.D. candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. Kircher teaches technology and performance theory at Brooklyn College. CYNTHIA J. TONG (line producer) is a creative producer working across commercial (Broadway and offBroadway), nonprofit, and regional theater. In addition to her work on A Thousand Ways, she is the Associate Producer at Tom Kirdahy Productions, a Fellow of WP Theater’s 2020 – 2022 Lab, and a founding member of The Industry Standard Group—the first BIPOC commercial theatre investment and producing organization. Highlights from past independent producing projects include NYCLU’s Sing Out for Freedom benefit (Virtual, 2020), Playbill’s Women in Theatre concert (Virtual, 2020), and LORDES (New Ohio Theatre, 2019). Based in New York City but originally from sunny Rancho Palos Verdes, California, she holds a BA in sociology from Wesleyan University.

SPOLETO AT HOME | The Journey

THE JOURNEY Created and Performed by Scott Silven

Virtual

June 8 at 6:00pm and 8:00pm; June 9 at 5:00pm and 7:00pm; June 10 at 5:00pm and 7:00pm; June 11 at 5:00pm and 7:00pm; June 12 at 1:00pm and 4:00pm; June 13 at 2:00pm and 5:00pm

Director Allie Winton Butler Production Designer Jeff Sugg Text Rob Drummond Sound Designer Gareth Fry Composer Jherek Bischoff Creative Producer Michael Mushalla 1 hour | Performed via computer

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

SPOLETO AT HOME | The Journey

Program Note

Creator/Performer

I am delighted to be bringing The Journey to Spoleto Festival USA.

SCOTT SILVEN is a renowned illusionist who has mesmerized audiences for more than a decade, pushing the boundaries of his craft by creating stylish, smart, and uniquely immersive performances that have received critical acclaim across the globe. Hailed by Vogue as a “worldrenowned mentalist” and The New York Times as “astounding,” Silven’s latest groundbreaking digital work, The Journey, follows two major sold-out runs in New York and a headline world tour of his smash-hit shows At the Illusionist’s Table and Wonders at Dusk. From stage to screen, Silven’s objectives remain absolute: to orchestrate an aweinspiring experience that invites his audiences to look at the world and themselves in an extraordinary way.

This show came out of a desire to create an immersive experience that explored the power of home, place, and connection in fragmented times. Memory and nostalgia form a big part of my work, and serendipitously, returning to Scotland and my childhood home last year made me recognize the power of place and our connection to the past and ignited the concept of the show being based around the Scottish landscapes and myths from my childhood. I discovered that I wanted to craft an experience that would take my audiences on a virtual adventure across the world from their home to mine and to use their imaginations and memories as the guide on this transportive journey together. The challenges of the online format have allowed me unique opportunities to engage with the audience on a deeper level that I wouldn’t ordinarily be able to do in a traditional theatrical environment. I send the audience exclusive advance content—including cinematic vignettes and a binaural sound experience—that they can interact with before the experience. As well as this, I wanted to tap into the unique power of participants being in their own homes as they watch and engage with the show. I ask the audience to bring specific objects from their home, as well as images and memories of meaning to them, which I hope makes for a uniquely personal and immersive experience that you may not get sitting in the usual darkened space of a theater. By weaving together these interactive elements with breakthrough technology, stunning visuals, and breathtaking illusions to help tell my story, we have hopefully created something audiences will have never experienced in the online realm before. For me, illusion has the power to be so much more than simple escapism. My hope is that The Journey asks the audience to consider what makes them who they are. We’re all driven by memories, decisions, relationships, and dreams, and The Journey should make you look closely at your own path through life and consider what motivates you and what you’re capable of when you open yourself to new forms of connection. I’m truly excited for Spoleto audiences to take the first step on what will hopefully be an unforgettable adventure.

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CHAMBER MUSIC Geoff Nuttall, The Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director of Chamber Music

Dock Street Theatre Artists Composer in Residence/Viola Piano Piano Piano/Harpsicord/Organ Violin Violin Viola Viola Cello Cello Cello Double Bass Oboe Clarinet Bassoon Horn Countertenor

May 28, 10:00am and 2:00pm; May 29 – June 11, 11:00am and 2:00pm; June 12, 11:00am, 2:00pm, and 5:00pm; June 13, 11:00am and 2:00pm Jessica Meyer Gilles Vonsattel Inon Barnatan Pedja Muzijevic Jennifer Frautschi Livia Sohn Hsin-Yun Huang Ayane Kozasa Alisa Weilerstein Arlen Hlusko Paul Wiancko Anthony Manzo James Austin Smith Todd Palmer Monica Ellis David Byrd-Marrow Anthony Roth Costanzo

St. Lawrence String Quartet Violin Geoff Nuttall Violin Owen Dalby Viola Lesley Robertson Cello Christopher Costanza Staff Chamber Music Administrator Livia Sohn Coordinator Eva Dove Assistant/Page Turner Emilio Vazquez 1 hour | Performed without an intermission

Support provided by The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation. The St. Lawrence String Quartet is the Arthur and Holly Magill quartet in residence. The following musicians’ participation is generously sponsored by the following individuals: Jessica Meyer, Ayane Kozasa, and Alisa Weilerstein are sponsored by Erica Pascal and Michael Hostetler; Inon Barnatan and Alisa Weilerstein are sponsored by Miriam DeAntonio, M.D.; James Austin Smith is sponsored by Bob and Dana Wilson; Inon Barnatan is sponsored by Nancye B. Starnes; Todd Palmer is sponsored by Stono Construction, in loving memory of Joseph D. Logan, III; Pedja Muzijevic is sponsored in memory of Keith S. Wellin, by his wife, Wendy C. H. Wellin. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. The chamber music curtain in the Dock Street Theatre was designed and painted by Christian Thee.

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Program I

May 28, 10:00am* and 2:00pm; May 29, 11:00am and 2:00pm^

String Quartet, op. 76 no. 4, “Sunrise” St. Lawrence String Quartet

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)

Source of Joy Jessica Meyer, viola and loop pedal

Jessica Meyer (b. 1974)

String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, op. 132: III, “Heiliger Dankgesang” St. Lawrence String Quartet

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

* This chamber music concert is dedicated in loving memory of Ted Stern, first chair of Spoleto Festival USA, and his wife, Alva. ^ This chamber music concert has been endowed though the generous support of Ann and Andrew Barrett.

Program II

May 30, 11:00am and 2:00pm‡; May 31, 11:00am

She Sailed the Savage Seas, world premiere St. Lawrence String Quartet

Jessica Meyer

Piano Quintet No. 2, op. 20 St. Lawrence String Quartet; Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Ludwig Thuille (1861 – 1907)

‡ This chamber music concert has been endowed though the generous support of Ann and Michael Tarwater.

Program III

May 31, 2:00pm; June 1, 11:00am and 2:00pm

From our Ashes, world premiere Livia Sohn, violin

Jessica Meyer

String Quintet in C major, D. 956 St. Lawrence String Quartet; Paul Wiancko, cello

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)

Program IV

June 2, 11:00am* and 2:00pm; June 3, 11:00am

Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, op. 105 Geoff Nuttall, violin; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Robert Schumann (1810 – 56)

But Not Until Jessica Meyer Jessica Meyer, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello Trio in E-flat major, K. 498, “Kegelstatt” Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Ayane Kozasa, viola

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 91)

* This chamber music concert is dedicated in loving memory of Mary and Marion Field.

Program V

June 3, 2:00pm; June 4, 11:00am and 2:00pm

Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV 287 George Frederic Handel (1685 – 1759) James Austin Smith, oboe; with Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord; Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass The 3 Gs Hsin-Yun Huang, viola

Kenji Bunch (b. 1973)

Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, op. 75 Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921)

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Program VI

June 5, 11:00am and 2:00pm^; June 6, 11:00am

American Haiku Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello

Paul Wiancko (b. 1982)

Sextet in C major, op. 37 Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; Todd Palmer, clarinet; David Byrd-Marrow, horn

Ernö Dohnányi (1877 – 1960)

^ This chamber music concert has been endowed through the generous support of Gary and Mary Becker.

Program VII

June 6, 2:00pm; June 7, 11:00am and 2:00pm

Milonga, live premiere Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano

Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)

Septet in E-flat major, op. 20 Todd Palmer, clarinet; Monica Ellis, bassoon; David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass

Ludwig van Beethoven

Program VIII

June 8, 11:00am and 2:00pm; June 9, 11:00am

Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major, op. 102 no. 1 Ludwig van Beethoven Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano “Pensieri, voi mi tormentate” from Agrippina Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor; James Austin Smith, oboe; Geoff Nuttall, Livia Sohn, Jennifer Frautschi, and Eva Dove, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang and Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko and Arlen Hlusko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

George Frederic Handel

Concerto for Clarinet, Viola, and Orchestra, op. 88 | Max Bruch (1838 – 1920), arr. Todd Palmer Todd Palmer, clarinet; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Jennifer Frautschi, Geoff Nuttall, Livia Sohn, and Eva Dove, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, Arlen Hlusko, and Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; James Austin Smith, oboe; Monica Ellis, bassoon; David Byrd-Marrow, horn

Program IX

June 9, 2:00pm; June 10, 11:00am and 2:00pm

“Venga pur, minacci e frema” from Mitridate Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Monica Ellis, bassoon; Geoff Nuttall and Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass Ballade für Oboe, world premiere James Austin Smith, oboe

Siegfried Thiele (b. 1934)

Nonet in F minor, op. 2 Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Jennifer Frautschi and Geoff Nuttall, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Monica Ellis, bassoon

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 – 1912)

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Program X

June 11, 11:00am* and 2:00pm; June 12, 11:00am

Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat major, op. 97, “Archduke” Inon Barnatan, piano; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Alisa Weilerstein, cello

Ludwig van Beethoven

“Pie Jesu” from Requiem in D minor Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor; Pedja Muzijevic, organ; Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass

Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924)

*This chamber music concert has been endowed though the generous support of Deborah Chalsty.

Program XI

June 12, 2:00pm and 5:00pm; June 13, 11:00am and 2:00pm

Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major, K. 412 David Byrd-Marrow, horn; Geoff Nuttall, Jennifer Frautschi, and Livia Sohn, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. Ben Loeb

Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO 23 Robert Schumann, arr. Benjamin Britten Livia Sohn, Geoff Nuttall, and Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass Fantasie in F minor for four hands, D. 940 Franz Schubert Inon Barnatan, Pedja Muzijevic, piano Gabriel’s Oboe James Austin Smith, oboe; Livia Sohn, Geoff Nuttall, Jennifer Frautschi, and Eva Dove, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass

Ennio Morricone (b. 1928)

Variations on a Rococo Theme, op. 33 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 93), arr. Todd Palmer Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Jennifer Frautschi and Geoff Nuttall, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Arlen Hlusko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; David Byrd-Marrow, horn

Streamable Chamber Music Offerings Videos

Radio

Excertps from all 11 Chamber Music programs are being video-recorded. Concert highlights, with short introductions from artists, are shared on Spoleto’s YouTube page soon after the in-person events. Videos are free to view and are available through June 18, 2021.

Spoleto’s Chamber Music concerts are also recorded and broadcast in full on South Carolina Public Radio, weekdays at 11:00am, on the program “Sonatas and Soundscapes,” June 4 to June 18, 2021.

Program I, excerpts Program II, excerpts Program III, excerpts Program IV, excerpts Program V, excerpts Program VI, excerpts Program VII, excerpts Program VIII, excerpts Program IX, excerpts Program X, excerpts Program XI, excerpts

May 29, 5:00pm May 31, 5:00pm June 1, 5:00pm June 3, 5:00pm June 4, 5:00pm June 6, 5:00pm June 7, 5:00pm June 9, 5:00pm June 10, 5:00pm June 12, 5:00pm June 13, 5:00pm

Podcasts South Carolina Public Radio is again producing an 11-episode podcast, Spoleto Backstage, with installments featuring concert recordings and artist interviews with host Bradley Fuller.

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Program Notes

Artists

She Sailed the Savage Seas for the St. Lawrence String Quartet Program II – World Premiere When I began researching what makes this town special, I discovered it was a hot spot for pirates in the 1670s. I came across the story of Anne Bonny, one of the only female pirates in history. Bonny spent her early years in Charles Towne, the site of present-day Charleston. She eventually fled for the Bahamas, where she met the infamous pirate Calico Jack Rackham and became his partner as well as a member of his crew. She dressed like a man to blend in on the ship and fought just as fiercely as one, too. However, her career in swashbuckling only lasted a few precious years. One evening, the men in Bonny’s crew were too intoxicated to fight against a group of marauders determined to capture their sloop. She defended the ship as mightily as she could, but alas, all the pirates—including Bonny—were captured and sentenced to death. According to all written accounts, Bonny disappeared before she could be hanged. How she lived out the rest of her life remains a mystery to this day. – Jessica Meyer From Our Ashes for violinist Livia Sohn Program III – World Premiere Early in my compositional career, I wrote a violin quartet for the ladies in MoVE (the Modern Violin Ensemble), and Livia so happened to be one of those violinists. When I first heard she had taken a break from playing after struggling with focal dystonia, I offered to write a piece in a way that would be comfortable for her to play when she was ready to pick up her violin again. When I received the email that she would be back playing in time for Spoleto Festival USA’s 2021 season, I was overjoyed. We began the composition process together by discussing which specific actions in her fingers we should avoid, and I wrote the piece with those enabling constraints. I find many parallels between writing this piece and our pandemic experience. We have a new set of limitations, but this does not mean we cannot pivot and live well within them. It just takes a bit of ingenuity, patience, and love. – Jessica Meyer

GEOFF NUTTALL (violin/The Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director for Chamber Music) began playing the violin at age eight after moving to Ontario from Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, where he studied under Lorand Fenyves. In 1989, Nuttall co-founded the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) and has played more than 2,000 concerts around the world. In 2020, the PBS-produced television show Great Performances invited Nuttall to co-present on his favorite composer, Franz Joseph Haydn, in a documentary miniseries called Now Hear This, “Haydn: King of Strings.” He is now on faculty at Stanford University, where the SLSQ has been ensemble-in-residence since 1999, and makes his home in the Bay Area with his wife, Livia Sohn, and their sons, Jack and Ellis. This is Nuttall’s 12th season as the Director of Chamber Music. INON BARNATAN (piano), “one of the most admired pianists of his generation” (The New York Times), is celebrated for his poetic sensibility, musical intelligence, and consummate artistry. He began his tenure as Music Director of La Jolla Music Society Summerfest in 2019. Barnatan is a regular soloist with many of the world’s foremost orchestras and conductors. He recently served for three seasons as the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, Barnatan is also a sought-after recitalist and chamber musician and has toured worldwide with frequent cello partner Alisa Weilerstein. DAVID BYRD-MARROW (horn), hailed as “stunning and assured” (The New York Times), is a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble and The Knights. Working with a wide range of performers, he has premiered works by artists from George Lewis to Chick Corea. Byrd-Marrow has performed at many festivals including the Ojai Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, Mostly Mozart Festival, Tanglewood Music Center, and as faculty at the Banff Music Centre. Formerly a member of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, he has also made appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Atlanta and Tokyo Symphony Orchestras, the Washington National Opera, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. On Broadway, Byrd-Marrow most recently performed in the orchestra for Carousel. He is a professor of horn at the University of Denver.

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CHRISTOPHER COSTANZA (cello) enjoys a variety of interests and passions, among them are running, cooking, and passenger rail-related pursuits. He finds running a perfect opportunity to explore the unique locales he visits during his extensive travels. As a runner, he has completed several full and half marathons as well as 5K and 10K races. Costanza’s cooking interests and skills revolve around a plant-based diet and are focused on local, organic, and seasonal ingredients. He has performed throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician. Learn more about his life and career by visiting his new website. ANTHONY ROTH COSTANZO (countertenor) is a Grammy-nominated countertenor. He recently returned to the Metropolitan Opera in the title role of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten. He has appeared with many of the world’s other leading opera companies including Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, English National Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Glyndebourne, Dallas Opera, Glimmerglass, and Teatro Real Madrid. In concert, he has sung with the New York Philharmonic, Berlin Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Versailles, The Kennedy Center, The Met Museum, The Armory, Madison Square Garden, and the Guggenheim. Costanzo received his bachelor’s from Princeton University and his master’s from the Manhattan School of Music. OWEN DALBY (violin) has been praised as “dazzling” (The New York Times), “expert and versatile” (The New Yorker), and “a fearless and inquisitive violinist” (San Francisco Classical Voice). As a member of the St Lawrence String Quartet, Dalby is Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University and regularly tours all the major chamber series in North America and Europe. Dalby received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale. With his wife, violist Meena Bhasin, he is the co-artistic director of Noe Music, a concert series in San Francisco, where they make their home with their two children. EVA DOVE (violin/chamber assistant) has been described as “dynamic and compelling” (Charleston City Paper) for her performances across America in venues from Carnegie Hall to Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. Recently, she performed with the Strings Festival Orchestra in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and was invited to serve as concertmaster of San Diego’s summer opera workshop, Opera Neo. Dove has also performed with Arizona Musicfest under the direction of Robert Moody. She holds her bachelor’s and

master’s degrees from Rice University and is currently a doctoral student at Arizona State University, where she serves as chamber music teaching assistant. She frequently performs with the Phoenix Symphony and teaches in the local community college system. Dove is a former member of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra (2018 – 19). MONICA ELLIS (bassoon) is a founding member of the ground-breaking, Grammy-nominated wind quintet, Imani Winds. Now in their 24th season, the quintet maintains a vigorous domestic and international touring schedule. Ellis is an artistic and administrative leader for Imani Winds, their chamber music festival, and their foundation. Her influential teachers include George Sakakeeny at Oberlin Conservatory (B.M.) and Frank Morelli at The Juilliard School (M.M.) and Manhattan School of Music (P.S.), where she is on faculty. Ellis has performed and recorded with artists and organizations from Wayne Shorter to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She is a frequent commentator on critical discussions regarding race, gender and entrepreneurship in classical music and is a board member of Concert Artists Guild. In February 2021, Imani Winds released its eighth studio recording entitled Bruits. JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI (violin) is a two-time Grammy nominee and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient. She has appeared as soloist with innumerable orchestras including the Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. As chamber musician, she has performed with the Boston Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She has also appeared at Chamber Music Northwest; La Jolla Summerfest; Music@Menlo; Tippet Rise Art Center; Toronto Summer Music; and the Bridgehampton, Charlottesville, Lake Champlain, Moab, Ojai, Santa Fe, Salt Bay,and Seattle music festivals. Her discography includes several discs for Naxos, and her most recent releases are on Albany Records. Frautschi attended the Colburn School, Harvard, New England Conservatory, and Juilliard. She currently teaches at Stony Brook University. ARLEN HLUSKO (cello) has performed extensively as a soloist and chamber musician across North America, Asia, and Europe. Newly appointed cellist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Hlusko is also a laureate of numerous competitions, Grammy Award winner for her collaboration with The Crossing, and recent alumna of the Curtis Institute of Music and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect. Hlusko also regularly performs with several ensembles based on the East Coast, including Dolce Suono Ensemble and Frisson. She has recently been a featured performer with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra, among others. Hlusko founded her own

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interactive chamber music concert series, Philadelphia Performances for Autism, and is involved with several communities in Philadelphia and New York City, including Carnegie Hall’s “Musical Connections” at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. HSIN-YUN HUANG (viola) has forged a career by performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Highlights of her recent seasons include performances under the batons of David Robertson, Osmo Vänskä, Xian Zhang, and Maximiano Valdés in Beijing, Taipei, and Bogota as well as appearances at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. She is the first solo violist to be presented in the National Performance Center of the Arts in Beijing and regularly appears at prominent music festivals. She first came to international attention as the gold medalist in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. Huang is currently on the viola faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School. AYANE KOZASA (viola), hailed for her “magnetic, wide-ranging tone” and her “rock solid technique” (Philadelphia Inquirer), is a founding member of the Aizuri Quartet, whose Grammy-nominated debut album Blueprinting was released on New Amsterdam Records in 2019. In September 2020, the quartet launched their interactive web series for children called “AizuriKids,” an engaging series of episodes that explores music from Beethoven to Eleanor Alberga. Her duo with composer and cellist Paul Wiancko—known as “Ayane & Paul”—actively performs and commissions new works for viola and cello and recently collaborated with Norah Jones on her album Pick Me Up Off the Floor. ANTHONY MANZO (double bass) has a vibrantly interactive and highly communicative music-making style that has made him a ubiquitous figure in the upper echelons of classical music. He regularly performs at venues including Lincoln Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Spoleto Festival in Charleston. He also appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and with unconducted chamber orchestras across the country. Manzo has also been guest principal with Camerata Salzburg during their summer residency at the Salzburg Festival. He has also performed two tours as soloist alongside bass/baritone Thomas Quasthoff. Manzo is an active performer on period instruments with groups including The Handel & Haydn Society and Philharmonia Baroque. He teaches at the University of Maryland.

JESSICA MEYER (viola/composer-in-residence) is a Grammy-nominated violist and composer whose passionate musicianship radiates accessibility and emotional clarity. Her playing has been described as “fierce and lyrical” and her works “other-worldly” (The Strad) and “evocative” (The New York Times). Since embarking on her composition career seven years ago, her works have been commissioned and performed by many established ensembles including A Far Cry, the American Brass Quintet, and Roomful of Teeth. Meyer’s upcoming projects include a concerto for herself, a song cycle for the National Gallery of Art, a work for the President’s Own Marine Band, and interactive performances in Carnegie Hall as well as around the country as part of their nationwide Link Up Program. PEDJA MUZIJEVIC (piano/harpsichord) has performed virtual solo recitals for 92Y, Spoleto Festival USA, Maverick Concerts, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s Bach Festival; chamber music for Schubert Club in St. Paul; and concertos by Chopin and Mozart with Atlanta and Billings Symphonies during this past pandemic season. As the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York and artistic advisor at Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana, he has curated and produced film shoots for dozens of musicians at various locations in New York City and Boston. He continues to develop his cooking skills and hopes to be able to share food with friends soon. TODD PALMER (clarinet) is a three-time Grammy nominee who has appeared as soloist, recitalist, chamber music collaborator, educator, arranger, and presenter in a variety of musical endeavors around the world. As a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and winner of the grand prize in the Ima Hogg Young Artist Auditions, he has appeared as soloist with many symphony orchestras and as recitalist in concert halls around the US, Canada, South America, Europe, and Asia. Palmer gave the world premieres of Orpheus and Euridice by Ricky Ian Gordon at Lincoln Center, and Crosswalk, a new work for clarinet and dance specially created for him by choreographer Mark Morris. His Broadway credits include South Pacific, The King & I, Sunset Boulevard (starring Glenn Close), and Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of My Fair Lady.

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LESLEY ROBERTSON (viola)—celebrating 31 years with the internationally acclaimed St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ)—is proud to make her life at Stanford University where, along with her SLSQ colleagues, she directs the chamber music program at the department of music. At Stanford, Robertson teaches viola, coaches chamber music, and spearheads the SLSQ’s Emerging String Quartet Program and the SLSQ’s annual chamber music seminar. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School, Robertson also holds a degree from the University of British Columbia. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and served on the juries of the Banff, Melbourne, and Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competitions.

GILLES VONSATTEL (piano) is a Swiss-born American pianist. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award and winner of the Naumburg and Geneva competitions. He has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, Symphonique de Montréal, Boston Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony. He has also performed recitals and chamber music at Ravinia, Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bravo! Vail Valley, Chamber Music Northwest, La Roque d’Anthéron, Music@Menlo, the Lucerne Festival, and Spoleto Festival USA. As an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Vonsattel regularly performs at Alice Tully Hall and on tour throughout the United States and internationally.

JAMES AUSTIN SMITH (oboe) has been praised for his “virtuosic,” “dazzling,” and “brilliant” performances (The New York Times) and his “bold, keen sound” (The New Yorker). He is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), and Decoda; co-principal oboist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra; and artistic and executive director of Tertulia, a chamber music series that takes place in restaurants in New York and San Francisco. He is a member of the oboe and chamber music faculties of Stony Brook University and the Manhattan School of Music.

ALISA WEILERSTEIN (cello) is one of the foremost musicians of our time. Since making her professional and Carnegie Hall debuts in her early teens, she has been in high demand as a solo recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist with leading orchestras worldwide. She was recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011. An authority on Bach’s music for unaccompanied cello, Weilerstein recently released a best-selling recording of his solo suites on the Pentatone label, streamed them in her innovative #36DaysOfBach project, and deconstructed his beloved G-major prelude in a Vox.com video, which has been viewed almost 1.5 million times. Her discography also includes chart-topping albums and the winner of BBC Music’s “Recording of the Year” award. Career milestones include a performance at the White House for President and Mrs. Obama.

LIVIA SOHN (violin/chamber music administrator) is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied violin with Dorothy DeLay and chamber music with Felix Galamir. She started playing violin at age five in her home state of Connecticut and gave her first public performance two years later as a guest soloist with the New Haven Symphony. Sohn began attending the Juilliard Pre-College Division at that time, and at the age of 12, won first prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. She has since played concerts across six continents with orchestras and festivals worldwide. Sohn can be heard on the Naxos and Eloquentia labels, as well as on iTunes performing the Dvorak and Khachaturian Concertos in a live recording with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Sohn makes her home in the Bay Area with her husband, Geoff Nuttall, and their two sons, Jack and Ellis.

PAUL WIANCKO (cello/composer) has led an exceptionally multifaceted musical life, collaborating closely with artists such as Midori, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Goode, Chick Corea, Mitsuko Uchida, Max Richter, Norah Jones, and members of the Guarneri, Takács, JACK, Parker, St. Lawrence, and Juilliard quartets. Chosen as one of Kronos Quartet’s 50 for the Future, Wiancko’s own compositions have been described as “dazzling” and “compelling” (Star Tribune) and as “vital pieces that avoid the predictable’’ (Allan Kozinn). The New York Times featured Wiancko’s piece LIFT in the article “5 Minutes to Make You Love the String Quartet,” stating more recently that it “teems with understanding of and affection for the string-quartet tradition.” LIFT can be heard on the Aizuri Quartet’s Grammy-nominated album Blueprinting, one of NPR’s top 10 classical albums of 2018.

SPOLETO AT HOME | Virtual Orchestral Offerings

SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA ORCHESTRA John Kennedy, Resident Conductor and Director of Orchestral Activities Each year, the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra takes on a dynamic new identity. This season, 17 past ensemble members share video profiles of themselves and bite-size solo performances every day of the Festival. Musicians will also present the digital premiere of Arden on Saturday, June 5, a new site-specific work composed by Resident Festival Conductor and Director of Orchestral Activities John Kennedy. Videos will premiere on the Festival's YouTube channel throughout the season and remain available until June 18, 2021.

Digital Performance

Artists Composer John Kennedy Mezzo Soprano Naomi Louisa O'Connell Piano Renate Rolhfing Violin Giancarlo Latta Viola Celia Daggy Cello Suebin Jin

Saturday, June 5, at 5:00pm Arden, digital premiere

John Kennedy (b 1959)

Video Profiles Najette Abouelhadi, cello Omri Barak, trumpet Viola Chan, flute Andrew François, viola Clifton Joey Guidry, bassoon Israel Gutierrez, trombone Sidney Hopson, percussion Kayla Howell, horn Edward Kass, double bass Abby Kent, harp Austin Lewellen, double bass Jarrett McCourt, tuba Francesca McNeeley, cello Aurora Mendez, violin Alfonso Noriega, viola Renate Rohlfing, piano Priscilla Rinehart, horn Michelle Sung, flute Tamara Winston, oboe

JOHN KENNEDY (conductor), Spoleto Festival USA Resident Conductor and Director of Orchestral Activities, is known for his long engagement of adventurous and multi-disciplinary programming across genres and musical eras. Kennedy has conducted over 300 premieres, working closely with composers from John Cage to Kaija Saariaho. In recent seasons at the Festival, he has led a succession of new international operas by leading composers of our time, including Dusapin, Francesconi, Glass, Hosokawa, Lachenmann, Liza Lim, Huang Ruo, and others. Kennedy is a prolific composer whose wide-ranging music has been commissioned and played worldwide, including at the Santa Fe and Sarasota Operas.

SPOLETO AT HOME | Virtual Choir Offerings

CHOIR Joe Miller, Director of Choral Activities Choir concerts have long been a staple of Spoleto Festival USA, with Director of Choral Activities Joe Miller leading world-renowned singers in versatile and powerful performances. This season, get a front row seat to the Festival choir's heaven-sent sounds with two digital performances plus five video profiles introducing master choristers. Videos will premiere on the Festival's YouTube channel throughout the season and remain available until June 18, 2021.

Digital Performances

Artists Soprano Jisoo Bae Kristine Caswelch Ashley Ross Alto Molly Getsinger Corbin DeSpain Tenor Gregory Miller Shane Thomas Bass Claude Cassion Stephen Hanna Matthew Lee Organ Shiloh Roby Flute Carley M. Barnes Oboe Leonardo De La Cruz

Saturday, May 29, at 5:00pm "Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis" (Gloucester)

Herbet Howells (1892 – 1983)

Friday, June 4, at 5:00pm "My Shepherd Will Supply My Need"

Mack Wilberg (b 1955)

Video Profiles Jennah Delp, conductor Kyle VanSchoonhoven, singer Andrew Cooper, singer/conductor Madeline Healey, singer Vinroy Brown, conductor

JOE MILLER (conductor) is the director of choral studies at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is also artistic director for choral activities for the Spoleto Festival USA and director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Symphonic Choir. D.C. Theatre Scene has hailed Joe Miller as “a fearless artist.” His performances with the Westminster Choir have been praised by The New York Times for their “precision, unanimity and power.” Upcoming projects include collaborations with the Philadelphia Orchestra with Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Jaxpa Vitola Latvijas Muzikas adademija in Riga, Latvia; and the American Choral Directors Association.

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PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND With Special Guest Shannon Powell

College of Charleston Cistern Yard May 28 at 9:00pm Artists Bass/Tuba Ben Jaffe Drums Walter Harris Trombone Ronnell Johnson Trumpet Brandon Lewis Vocals/Saxophone Clint Maedgen Piano Kyle Roussel Drums/Percussion Shannon Powell 1 hour, 15 minutes | Performed without an intermission

Artists PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND (PHJB) has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 50 years, keeping alive the Crescent City’s inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. PHJB serves as a reminder that the music history it was founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history. The band’s most recent album, So It Is, redefines what New Orleans music means today by tapping into a sonic continuum that stretches back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots through its common ancestry with the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Fire Music of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane. PHJB has shared festival stages from Coachella to Newport with legends like Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello, and the Grateful Dead as well as modern giants like My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire, and The Black Keys.

Sponsored by Wells Fargo. Programming at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard is kindly endowed by Carlos, Lisa, and Blake Evans. Piano by Steinway & Sons. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

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A NEW ORLEANS JAZZ CELEBRATION A Tribute to the Life and Music of Danny Barker

College of Charleston Cistern Yard Artists Musical Director/Clarinet Featured Vocalist Bass/Tuba Trombone Drums/Tambourine Trumpet/Vocals Piano Banjo/Vocals

May 29 at 9:00pm Dr. Michael White Catherine Russell Kerry Lewis Jeffery Miller Shannon Powell Gregg Stafford David Torkanowsy Don Vappie

1 hour, 15 minutes | Performed without an intermission

About Danny Barker

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Danny Barker was born in New Orleans in 1909. He started out playing clarinet and drums before switching to banjo and adding guitar. In 1930, he moved to New York City, where he played and recorded with a wider range of jazz legends than any other musician before or since. Barker returned to New Orleans in 1965. There he was asked by his church pastor to recruit young musicians from the community to form a band. The result was a group called the Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band. Graduates of the Fairview included many musicians who have made lasting contributions to New Orleans music, including Dr. Michael White, Shannon Powell, Gregory Stafford, Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and the members of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Barker was largely responsible for the revitalization of this fundamental part of New Orleans music and culture.

KERRY LEWIS (bass/tuba) has proven his dedication to his craft from the streets of New Orleans to five continents. He has performed at The Palm Court Jazz Café at Preservation Hall and with Banu Gibson and her New Orleans Hot Jazz group, Leroy Jones Quintet, as well as Dr. Michael White and his Original Liberty Jazz band. His contribution to blues, country, rock, jazz, and roots music can be found on countless recordings from the last twenty years. One of Lewis’s standout projects was Abstract, the musical group he cofounded with Gerald French, Joel Hamilton, Paul Longstreth, and Marc Adams. His record label, 11th Commandment, was a natural outgrowth from this ensemble. JEFFERY MILLER (trombone) first performed at Carnegie Hall as a guest with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band at age 15. Now 25, the three-time Grammy-nominated artist has continued to perform on prestigious stages and in venues including the Apollo Theater, The New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival, and Madison Square Garden. He has recorded, performed, and collaborated with artists including

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Solange, Yasiin Bey, Jon Batiste, Wynton Marsalis, Trombone Shorty, and John Legend. Miller received his BM and MM from The Juilliard School in 2018 and 2020. He currently leads his own band, with which he blends modern R&B, pop vocals, and the New Orleans aesthetic into which he was born. SHANNON POWELL (drums/ tambourine) has performed all over the world with notables in jazz. In his early career, Powell toured extensively with Harry Connick, Jr. and released two platinum albums with him, including We Are in Love and Blue Light, Red Light. During subsequent years, Powell has toured with Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marcus Roberts, Diana Krall, Dr. John, Earl King, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and John Scofield. Powell has also recorded with Ellis and Jason Marsalis, Nicholas Payton, Donald Harrison, Irvin Mayfield, Blind Boys of Alabama, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Currently, Powell is a bandleader and has recorded his own CD, Powell’s Place. Considered a living legend in New Orleans music, Powell is heralded as “The King of Tremé,” the neighborhood in New Orleans where he was raised. CATHERINE RUSSELL (vocals) is a graduate of American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has toured the world with David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Jackson Browne, Michael Feinstein, The Holmes Brothers, Wynton Marsalis, and Rosanne Cash. Since the release of her debut album Cat (2006), she has had six acclaimed and chart-topping albums including Strictly Romancin’ (2012 Prix du Jazz Vocal for Vocal Album of The Year) and Bring It Back (2014). Russell was a featured artist on the Grammy Award-winning soundtrack for the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Her sixth album, Harlem On My Mind (2016), received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Russell has appeared on PBS and on Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR. Russell’s seventh album as a leader, Alone Together (2019), received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. GREGG STAFFORD (trumpet/vocals) was born on July 6, 1953, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Performing traditional New Orleans jazz, he has become one of New Orleans’ most recognized and highly respected musicians. He is the leader of two groups in the city of New Orleans: The Young Tuxedo Brass Band and Gregg Stafford’s Jazz Hounds. He has worked with many legendary New Orleans musicians such as Danny Barker, Willie Humphrey, Jeanette Kimble, Narvin Kimble, George “Kid Sheik” Colar, Emanuel Sayles, Chester Zardis, Teddy Riley, and many others. He currently performs as a member of Dr. Michael White’s Original Liberty Jazz Band, the Palm Court Jazz Band, and Preservation Hall Jazz Band.

Stafford has recorded and performed at festivals and venues all over the world. DAVID TORKANOWSKY (piano) was born in New Orleans, where he was nurtured by numerous legends, including Danny Barker. As a pianist, keyboardist, and/or musical director, Torkanowsky has performed and recorded with Jarreau, Allen Toussaint, Ani DiFranco, Boz Scaggs, Chuck Berry, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dr. John, Etta James, Gladys Knight, Patti Labelle, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Taj Mahal. Torkanowsy has won Grammy Awards for his work on Irma Thomas’s After the Rain, Boney James’s Ride, and Bobby Rush’s Porcupine Meat. He has been the composer and/ or contributed music for The Big Easy (USA Network), Crime Story (NBC), Treme (HBO), Bosch (Amazon), Sons of Guns (Discovery), NCIS: New Orleans (CBS), and the award-winning documentaries The Big Uneasy (directed by Harry Shearer), and The Experiment. DON VAPPIE (banjo/vocals) has several overlapping careers as a guitarist, bassist, singer, arranger/composer, educator, lecturer, record, and event producer. He is an expert not only about New Orleans jazz but its place and importance in the contemporary music scene. With eight albums as a leader, Vappie has also recorded and/or performed with numerous artists including Peggy Lee, Terence Blanchard, Wynton Marsalis, Eric Clapton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dr. Michael White, Bela Fleck, and many more. His latest release, The Bluebook of Storyville, is a tribute to Creole jazz—the melding of cultures containing the influences of the Caribbean in New Orleans jazz. In the words of Howard Reich of The Chicago Tribune, “Vappie brings Crescent City traditions to practically everything he touches.” DR. MICHAEL WHITE (clarinet) is a composer, educator, writer, producer, and jazz historian. A New Orleans native, he currently teaches African American music at Xavier University and holds the Rosa and Charles Keller Endowed Chair in the Humanities there. He also played with over three-dozen New Orleans jazz legends born between the late 1890s and 1910, including Danny Barker, and was a member of The Fairview Baptist Church Brass Band. White has recorded 15 recordings under his name and many others with artists like Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Taj Mahal, and Eric Clapton. He has received the NEA’s National Heritage Fellowship, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities’ Louisiana Humanist of the Year award, and the French Chevalier of Arts and Letters award. White regularly performs with his Original Liberty Jazz Band and Dr. Michael White Quartet.

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SARAH JAROSZ College of Charleston Cistern Yard May 30 and 31 at 9:00pm Artists Guitar John Leventhal Guitar Mike Robinson Bass Dave Speranza Drums John Fatum 1 hour, 15 minutes | Performed without an intermission

Artists SARAH JAROSZ—with her captivating voice, richly detailed songwriting, and enchanting multi-instrumentalism—has emerged as one of the most compelling musicians of her generation. The Texas native and four-time Grammy Award-winner last appeared at Spoleto Festival USA in 2019 as part of the folk trio I’m With Her. She returns in 2021 for two magical evenings illuminated by her ethereal, sparkling vocals and tender storytelling.

Sponsored by First Citizens Bank. Programming at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard is kindly endowed by Carlos, Lisa, and Blake Evans. Piano by Steinway & Sons. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

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STEEP CANYON RANGERS College of Charleston Cistern Yard

June 3 and 4 at 9:00pm

Artists Guitar/Vocals Woody Platt Banjo/Vocals Graham Sharp Mandolin/Mandola/Vocals Mike Guggino Fiddle/Vocals Nicky Sanders Drums/Vocals Mike Ashworth Bass/Vocals Barrett Smith

1 hour, 15 minutes | Performed without an intermission

Artists STEEP CANYON RANGERS are Asheville, North Carolina’s Grammy-winners, perennial Billboard chart-toppers, and frequent collaborators of the renowned banjoist (and occasional comedian) Steve Martin. Steep Canyon Rangers released three albums last year, all on Yep Roc Records. The Grammy-nominated North Carolina Songbook is a recording of their live 2019 performance at Merlefest in Wilkesboro, North Carolina, in which they performed a selection of songs by North Carolina songwriters (Ola Belle Reed, Doc Watson, James Taylor, Ben E. King, and others). Their most recent release of all original music, Arm in Arm, came out in October 2020.

Sponsored by First Citizens Bank. Programming at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard is kindly endowed by Carlos, Lisa, and Blake Evans. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

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THE COOKERS College of Charleston Cistern Yard

June 5 at 9:00pm

Artists Saxophone Billy Harper Alto Saxophone Donald Harrison Trumpet David Weiss Trumpet Eddie Henderson Piano George Cables Bass Cecil McBee Drums William “Billy” Hart 1 hour, 15 minutes | Performed without an intermission

Artists BILLY HARPER (saxophone) moved to New York in 1966 and soon began attracting attention from some of jazzdom’s giants: Gil Evans, Lee Morgan, and Art Blakey. His 1973 record Capra Black has been hailed as “one of the seminal recordings of jazz’s black consciousness movement—a profoundly spiritual effort that channels both the intellectual complexity of the avant-garde as well as the emotional potency of gospel” (Jason Ankeny). Along with an abundant imagination that connects directly to his blues and gospel roots, Harper’s muscular tone, lithe articulation, comprehensive harmonic knowledge, and unflagging energy define him as a saxophonist.

DONALD HARRISON (alto saxophone) was born in New Orleans in 1960 and grew up in a home environment saturated with the city’s traditional music of brass bands, parades, modern jazz, R&B, funk, classical, world, and dance music. His critically acclaimed albums Indian Blues (1991) and Spirits of Congo Square (2000) combine jazz with Afro-New Orleans traditional music—reflecting Harrison’s commitment to maintaining his hometown culture and music for the next generation. Harrison has performed and recorded with an illustrious list of distinguished musicians including Roy Haynes, Miles Davis, Lena Horne, and Dr. Lonnie Smith to name just a few.

Sponsored by First Citizens Bank. Programming at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard is kindly endowed by Carlos, Lisa, and Blake Evans. Piano by Steinway & Sons. This performance is made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

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EDDIE HENDERSON (trumpet) received his first informal trumpet lesson at age nine from Louis Armstrong. As a teenager, he studied at the San Francisco Conservatory, and in 1957, Eddie met Miles Davis for the first time. Miles, a family friend, admired the strikingly beautiful tone and musicality of Henderson’s trumpet playing and encouraged him to pursue a career. His first major musical exposure was as a member of Herbie Hancock’s trailblazing Mwandishi sextet, and Henderson went on to work extensively with Pharoah Sanders, Norman Connors, and Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. He has also created his own solo recordings. DAVID WEISS (trumpet) appeared on the scene in the late eighties with the modus operandi to move jazz forward. He established himself in New York by touring and/or recording with the likes of Freddie Hubbard, Charles Tolliver, Bobby Hutcherson, James Moody, and many others. Constantly innovative as a trumpeter, composer, and arranger, he was also the driving force behind the creation of The Cookers. Another of his groups, Point of Departure, re-examines some of the most innovative music of the late 1960s with two critically acclaimed CDs (Snuck In and Snuck Out) recorded live at the Jazz Standard for Sunnyside Records. GEORGE CABLES (piano) was born in New York City in 1944. He was classically trained as a youth, and when he started his education, he admittedly “didn’t know anything about jazz.” But smitten with the potential for freedom of expression he heard in jazz, he went on to become “everyone’s favorite sideman” by accompanying saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Art Pepper, trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw, vibist Bobby Hutcherson, and others. Later, Cables began leading his own groups more often, with a new trio release just last year. Noted for fresh interpretations of classic compositions and his innovative style of writing, Cables has emerged as a major voice in modern jazz. CECIL MCBEE (bass) was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a community of rich and varied musical roots. The recipient of two NEA composition grants, McBee has written works that are performed worldwide and have been recorded by Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Pharoah Sanders, and many others. In 1989, he won a Grammy for his performance of Blues for John Coltrane, featuring Roy Haynes, David Murray, McCoy Tyner, and Pharoah Sanders.

In 1991, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. As one of post bop’s most advanced and versatile bassists, McBee creates rich, singing phrases in a wide range of contemporary jazz contexts. WILLIAM “BILLY” HART (drums) was born 1940 in Washington, D.C. He is a jazz drummer and educator who has performed with some of the most important jazz musicians in history. Throughout the 1960s, he played with soul artists such as Otis Redding and Sam and Dave. Later, he was a sideman with the Montgomery Brothers, Jimmy Smith, and Wes Montgomery. In the 1970s, Hart was a member of Herbie Hancock’s sextet (1969–1973) and played with—among others—McCoy Tyner and Stan Getz. Hart now spends considerable time at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and is adjunct faculty at the New England Conservatory of Music and Western Michigan University.

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THE WOOD BROTHERS College of Charleston Cistern Yard

June 8 and 9 at 9:00pm

Artists Bass/Vocals Guitar/Vocals Drums/Keyboard

Chris Wood Oliver Wood Jano Rix

1 hour, 15 minutes | Performed without an intermission

Artists THE WOOD BROTHERS channeled a series of freewheeling, improvised sessions into Kingdom in My Mind, their seventh studio release and most spontaneous and experimental collection yet. While on past records, the band would write a large batch of songs and then record them all at once, Kingdom found them retroactively carving tunes out of sprawling instrumental jam sessions like sculptors chipping away at blocks of marble. Deep as the lyrics dig, the arrangements always manage to remain buoyant and light. Kingdom in My Mind follows The Wood Brothers’ previous studio release, One Drop of Truth (2018), which hit the number-one spot on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart and garnered the band their first Grammy nomination for Best Americana Album.

Sponsored by First Citizens Bank. Programming at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard is kindly endowed by Carlos, Lisa, and Blake Evans. This performance is made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

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TWO WINGS:

THE MUSIC OF BLACK AMERICA IN MIGRATION College of Charleston Cistern Yard Artists Narrator Vocals/Co-producer Piano/Co-producer Trombone Vocals Vocals/Guitar Woodwind Quintet Violin Violin Violin/Viola Viola Cello Cello

June 11 at 9:00pm

Julie Dash Alicia Hall Moran Jason Moran Wycliffe Gordon Sharón Clark Toshi Reagon Imani Winds Curtis Stewart Juliette Jones Chala Yancy Tia Allen Ismail Akbar Seth Parker Woods

1 hour, 30 minutes | Performed without an intermission

Program Note We gather tonight to recognize the Great Migration—a long, rough chapter of American history that roughly spans the years 1910 to 1970 when six million Black Americans left their homes in the South. Seeking release from the grip of unremunerated labor and terrorizing, ever-increasing Jim Crow laws and statutes, Black families headed up North and out West in massive numbers. Through Two Wings, we settle into the musical worlds defined by this mass movement of people, and we give thanks for the opportunities our great-grandparents, grandparents, and parents struggled to deliver to us. As descendants of the Great Migration, we give equal thanks for the determination of Southern families who stayed, those who fought for access for all people, and those whose culture and resilience continue to inform the path of this nation as we unite for the hope of a more tolerant America.

Two Wings is a kaleidoscope from our jukebox on the subject. Gospel, folk, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, opera, Broadway, jazz, orchestral, and chamber music are all represented here because in all of them is the Black musical imagination that continues to shape the cultural and political landscape of this country. From the work songs and Negro spirituals and up along the route of history of American and global entertainment, this music travels. Through bodies and technologies, it migrates in the blues and gospel into rhythm and soul. It passes through classical and church musicians, the school choir, and piano lessons. Music travels. There are points in jazz history that mark it. When pianist James P. Johnson recorded his “Carolina Shout” in 1921, the father of the “Harlem Stride” piano style took hold. Uptown pianists from Duke Ellington to Johnson’s own pupil Fats Waller challenged each other with “Carolina

Sponsored by Wells Fargo. Programming at the College of Charleston Cistern Yard is kindly endowed by Carlos, Lisa, and Blake Evans. Piano by Steinway & Sons. This performance is made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

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Shout.” When trumpeter Louis Armstrong’s intro and cadenza to “West End Blues” were heard, the performance remained a testament to Armstrong’s precision and inventiveness. That solo has been learned by legions ever since. Lionel Hampton’s recording of “Flying Home” featured the rousing “Texas Tenor” Illinois Jacquet. His solo became a hit, a standard in the saxophone repertoire. Each of these pieces reflect a place—effectively the call and the response between those who left the South, those who stayed or returned, and the generations to come. Through Two Wings we also express our overwhelming gratitude for the lives of the countless innovators whose brilliance informs our lives. We recognize our music in the work and fascination of other artists just as we use our freedom to explore, build, and gather techniques from around the world. We trace a narrative written in these songs—songs that tell their own story about the movement of people and everyone who finds a home in Black music. Art becomes the record keeper. – Alicia and Jason Moran

Artists ISMAIL AKBAR (cello) has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Spano playing the Boccherini Cello Concerto and as soloist and chamber musician throughout Panama, the Bahamas, Russia, and Italy. As soloist with the North Georgia Chamber Symphony, Georgia Tech Symphony Orchestra, and Georgia College Orchestra, Akbar has held substitute positions as principal and assistant principal cellist of Symphony Orchestra Augusta, Hilton Head Symphony, North Georgia Chamber Symphony, and Greenville Symphony Orchestra. Serving as a faculty cello instructor at Laurel Ridge Music Festival in Helen, Georgia, for 12 years, Akbar is on the Board of Directors of Orvieto Musica’s Italian Music Festival. As cello teaching artist of the Atlanta Music Project, Akbar is an advocate for social change through musical excellence. TIA ALLEN (viola) has performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, the Metropolitan Museum, Royal Opera House of Muscat, and the Teatro Nacional in Santo Domingo. As a freelance artist in New York City, she has performed with Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, The Eagles, Anderson Paak, Miley Cyrus, Cynthia Erivo, Dua Lipa, Michael Bolton, Frank Ocean, and Bebe Winans. She currently holds the viola chair in the Broadway show Jagged Little Pill. Other Broadway performances include My Fair Lady, Spongebob Squarepants, An American in Paris, and On the Town. She has enjoyed many televised performances and appeared in Bruce Springsteen’s Tucson Train and Western Stars videos. She is also the founder, director, and violist of Diverse Concert Artists. SHARÓN CLARK (vocals) has been acclaimed by every major newspaper, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Clark has performed for the likes of President Bill Clinton and Thomas

“Keter” Betts, and as a featured soloist, she has worked with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the Richmond Symphony, and the Baltimore Symphony. She has also headlined the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, the Cape May Jazz Festival, and the Savannah Music Festival. In the United States, she has performed at the Kennedy Center, Dizzy’s Club (Jazz at Lincoln Center), Birdland, Blues Alley, Lincoln Theater, Smithsonian Jazz Café, One Step Down, and Twins Jazz. JULIE DASH (narrator) is an American filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced the film Daughters of the Dust (1991), which was the first full-length film by an African American woman with general theatrical release in the United States and is included in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. One of a generation of African and African American filmmakers creating alternatives to Hollywood films, her output includes Funny Valentines, Incognito, Love Song, The Rosa Parks Story, and Brothers of the Borderland, which was commissioned by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Dash’s book Daughters of the Dust: A Novel (1997) is a sequel to the film set 20 years later in Harlem and the Sea Islands. Dash recently directed multiple episodes of ABC’s new limited series Women of The Movement. WYCLIFFE GORDON (trombone) is one of the top trombonists of his generation. Gordon tours regularly leading his quartet and is a former member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He was also featured on Billy Taylor’s Jazz at the Kennedy Center series. In 2019, Gordon created Still, We Rise: He Heard My Cry, commissioned by the Gailliard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, to honor the ongoing preservation and recognition of the Slave Dwelling Project, a joint effort with the Historic Charleston Foundation. Gordon is Director of Jazz Studies at Augusta University. IMANI WINDS (woodwind quintet) has created a distinct presence in the classical music world with over 20 years on the scene and six albums (including Grammy-nominated The Classical Underground). Embracing dynamic new voices and virtuosic collaborations in the world of jazz as well as outreach and education, they have revolutionized the woodwind quintet. Imani Winds’ tours include extensive travel abroad in China, Singapore, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe. They have also toured to performing arts centers and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Disney Hall, Chamber Music Northwest, and Banff. In 2016, Imani Winds was inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. In 2021, Imani Winds released their latest album, Bruits, on Bright Shiny Things Records. About the album, Grammophone states, “The ensemble’s hot rapport churns with conviction throughout.” JULIETTE JONES (violin) is a multi-genre live and studio recording violinist, BMI composer, and founder of Rootstock Republic—a broad-based string production company. Under the company, she has scored, recorded, and contracted for several live, television, and multimedia events, including NBC’s Grammy-nominated and Emmy

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Award-winning broadcast of Jesus Chris Superstar and the Oscar-nominated film Mudbound. As a performer, Jones has worked with Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Lauryn Hill, Lizzo, Janelle Monáe, Hans Zimmer, John Legend, and One Republic. ALICIA HALL MORAN (co-producer/mezzo-soprano) has released two critically acclaimed albums—Heavy Blue and Here Today—which embrace opera and soul while featuring rich combinations of jazz and classical collaboration. Her unique output includes The Motown Project, currently online as a digital project produced with Joe’s Pub/The Public Theater; Black Wall Street: Tulsa Race Riot of 1921; and Breaking Ice: Battle of the Carmens. Her Broadway debut came in the Tony award-winning revival of Porgy and Bess, for which she starred as Bess on national tour. She is currently the inaugural chamber music artist-in-residence at Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow. She has widely premiered music by a plethora of contemporary composers and collaborates across the visual and performing arts. JASON MORAN (piano/co-producer) is a pianist, composer, and educator from Houston, Texas. Upon graduating from Manhattan School of Music, he recorded nine critically acclaimed records for Blue Note Records. His most recent recordings were created on his own label, Yes Records. Moran created the score for Ava DuVernay’s films Selma as well as 13th. His commissions include IN MY MIND: Monk at Town Hall, 1959; Fats Waller Dance Party; and James Reese Europe and The Absence of Ruin. In 2010, Moran was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently the artistic director for jazz at The Kennedy Center and is on the faculty at New England Conservatory. TOSHI REAGON (vocals/guitar) is a talented and versatile singer, composer, musician, curator, and producer with a profound ear for sonic Americana from folk to funk and blues to rock. While her expansive career has landed her at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, and Madison Square Garden, you can just as easily find Reagon turning out at a music festival, intimate venue, or local club. She has collaborated with many artists, including Carl Hancock Rux, Ani DiFranco, Lenny Kravitz, Elvis Costello, and Nona Hendryx. Reagon is the librettist of a critically acclaimed opera she co-created with her mother, Dr. Beatrice Johnson Reagon, which was adapted from the Octavia E. Butler novel Parable of the Sower. CURTIS STEWART (violin) is a Grammy-nominated musician who enjoys an eclectic career bouncing between various realms of music. His work spans from MTV specials with Wyclef Jean and sold out shows at Madison Square Garden with Stevie Wonder to stints at the Kennedy Center with the Jimmy Heath Big Band and performance installations at the Whitney Museum, Guggenheim Museum, and Museum of Modern Art. Stewart has performed as a classical soloist at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall as well as made chamber music appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Newport Jazz Festival. His ensembles—PUBLIQuartet and The Mighty Third Rail—realize a vision to find personal and powerful connections between

styles, cultures, and music. Stewart has taught at The Juilliard School amongst other institutions. SETH PARKER WOODS (cello) has established himself as an in-demand soloist and chamber musician both in the United States and throughout Europe and Asia. Musical America named him “Artist of the Month: October 2017” and Strings Magazine made him a cover artist. A fierce advocate for contemporary music and interdisciplinary arts, his collaborators have included: Basel Ballet, Berlin Staatsballet, Ictus Ensemble, Lucerne Festival, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Tate Modern, Vanessa Beecroft, and Adam Pendleton. CHALA YANCY (viola/violin) has performed across the United States, Jamaica, Venezuela, France, and Italy. An avid supporter of new music, Yancy served as co-director of the International Street Cannibals and is a member of the Manhattan Camerata and Sandcastle New Music Ensembles. Having premiered many solo and chamber music works, Yancy also performs regularly in New York City with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Harlem Chamber Players, and Musica de Camara. A featured artist for Trifecta at the Cannes Lion Festival, she has appeared on stage with Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Adele, Marc Anthony, and Johnny Mathis. She can be heard on recordings by Alicia Keys, Alicia Hall-Moran, James Carter, and on Tania Leon’s Inura: For Voices, Strings, and Percussion (which won a Latin Grammy Award and was nominated for a Grammy).

Artist Talks

CONVERSATIONS WITH Hosted by Martha Teichner Virtual

May 30 at 5:00pm Guest: Spoleto Festival USA General Director Nigel Redden

June 7 at 3:00pm Guest: Scott Silven (The Journey)

June 10 at 3:00pm Guest: Alisa Weilerstein (Chamber Music)

1 hour | Streamed live through YouTube

Host MARTHA TEICHNER (host) has been a CBS News correspondent since 1977. During that time, she has covered major historical events around the world—for a dozen years mostly in conflict zones— helping to pave the way for other women journalists. She joined CBS Sunday Morning in December 1993. She has won 12 Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. DuPont Award, five James Beard Awards, and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, among others. Born in Traverse City, Michigan, Teichner is a graduate of Wellesley College. Her first book, When Harry Met Minnie, a memoir about two dogs and the power of friendship, was released in February 2021.

Charleston Garden Tour

BEHIND THE GARDEN GATE Charleston Horticultural Society The Garden Conservancy’s National Open Days Program Downtown Charleston Gardens May 29 and June 5, between 9:00am and 3:00pm A special Spoleto Festival USA collaboration with Charleston Horticultural Society and The Garden Conservancy, Behind the Garden Gate features self-guided tours through 12 of Charleston’s most exquisite private gardens.

About the Organizations THE CHARLESTON HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY (CHS) is Charleston’s pre-eminent organization offering a wide array of programs, garden tours, one-of-a-kind special events, and publications—all aimed at lifting the sights of those interested in gardening and the quality of gardens throughout this, one of the nation’s most beautiful planted cities. Founded in 2000, CHS has grown to more than 1,300 members, many of whom contribute to activities that enhance Charleston’s greenscape, as well as its educational and cultural life. From monthly lectures and workshops with renowned experts to intimate tours of some of Charleston’s most extraordinary gardens, CHS brings excitement, innovation, and a sense of joy to those just discovering an interest in gardening to the keenest professionals—and everyone in between. In conjunction with Spoleto Festival USA, CHS is participating in The Garden Conservancy’s popular Open Days program, which fuels the passion for gardening by inviting visitors behind the garden gate in some of the country’s best private gardens and encouraging conversation with fellow gardeners. On two consecutive Saturdays (May 25 and June 1), guests can tour eight private gardens; different gardens are offered on each day. These gardens are rarely open to the public. CHS has a growing and dedicated volunteer corps, receives extensive local press coverage of its events, and offers a variety of publications—in print and on the internet. Its website, chashortsoc.org, has details.

THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY is a national nonprofit dedicated to saving and sharing outstanding American gardens. Since 1995, Open Days, its award-winning experiential garden education program, has welcomed more than one million visitors into thousands of inspired private landscapes—from urban rooftops to organic farms, historic estates to innovative suburban lots—in 41 states. To augment self-guided tours of private gardens, site-specific Digging Deeper programs invite participants to take a closer look at the garden world with a wide array of experts. Hundreds of volunteers help this robust annual program showcase regional horticultural and stylistic expressions in a national context, celebrating the rich diversity of American gardens. Visit gardenconservancy.org for more information. Discover America’s unique and extraordinary private gardens with The Garden Conservancy!

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ADMINISTRATION General Director: Nigel Redden Executive Assistant to General Director: Alicia Armstrong

Artistic Leadership

Marketing and Public Relations

Resident Conductor and Director of Orchestral Activities:

Director of Marketing and Public Relations: Jessie Bagley

Public Relations Manager: Jenny Ouellette

John Kennedy

Director of Choral Activities: Joe Miller

Digital Marketing and Communications Manager: Annie Courtenay

The Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director of Chamber

Receptionist/Volunteer Coordinator: David B. Graham

Photographers: William Struhs, Leigh Webber

Music: Geoff Nuttall

Artistic Administration

Box Office

Director of Artistic Planning and Operations: Nicole Taney

Box Office Manager: Olivia Anderson

Wells Fargo Jazz Advisor: Larry Blumenfeld

Assistant Box Office Manager and Front of House Coordinator:

Wells Fargo Jazz Host: Quentin Baxter

Company Manager: Allison Ross-Spang

Box Office Associates: Jada Davis*, Charity Hamm, Whitley

Community Engagement Coordinator: Latesha Smith

Anna Brown Lewis, Brianna Morgan, Emily Orenstein*

Artist Services Assistant: Christian Causby Drivers: Steve Griner, Ned Shows, Christine Castaneda, Monty

House Management

Wooley, Thaddeus Simmons, DeMett Jenkins, DJ Tucker House Managers: Nancy Barnwell, Karl Bunch, Doug Elliott, Artistic Administrator: Michael Eberhard

Kathy Elliott, Doug James, Phillip Moss, Erica Rouvalis,

Vocal Coach: Diane Richardson

Carolee Williams, John Wong

Finance and Operations

Production

Chief Financial Officer: Tasha Gandy

Director of Production: Mike East

Accounting Manager: Katie Osborne

Production Manager of Operations: Leah Gordon

Technology Manager: David Robinson

Production Manager of Technology: Andrew R. Cissna

Accounting Assistant: Rachel Spitzmiller*

Festival Hall Venue and Sales Manager: Dexter Foxworth Festival Sound Supervisor: Lew Mead

Development

Festival Sound Engineer: Preston Dunnavant Festival Electrician: Mitchell Girgasky

Chief Advancement Officer: Julia Forster

Assistant Production Manager: Claire Caverly

Associate Director of Individual Giving: Caroline Poe

Assistant Production Manager of Operations: Alyson Workman

Institutional Writer: Katherine Jones

Assistant Production Manager of Technology: Peter Leibold VI

Individual Giving and Stewardship Manager: Katie Hetrick

Lighting Designers: Javier Calderon, Peter Leibold VI, Jason

Special Events Manager: Allison Lewis

Patron Services Manager: Sally Lovejoy

Venue and Scenic Designer: Brandon Roak

Development Administrator: Jessica Melton

Piano Technician: Scott Higgins

Lyons

Harpsichord Technician: Julia Harlow

Theater Staffs

Apprentices

Venue Managers: Mariah Pepper Berkowitz, Becca Eddins,

The apprentice program is endowed in part by Emeritus

Professors Charles M. and the late Shirley F. Weiss.

Stephanie Freed, Martin Lechner

Venue Stage Managers: Walter Crocker, Gabrielle Illg, Stanley L.

Ralph III

Venue Electricians: Gabrielle Blackburn, Javier Calderon,

Elizabeth A. Coco

Venue Audio Engineers: Brian Davis, Devon Swiger Assistant Audio Engineers: Tyler Draher, Robert Isley Electricians: Amanda Fisk, Allison Newcombe Production Assistant: Emily Kritzman Logistics Manager: Will Klein Logistics Team: D. Wade Jolly, John Zawislak

Health and Safety Covid Compliance Technical Writer: Mackenzie Foster Front of House Covid Compliance Supervisors: Andrew Avila,

Robert T. Ball Jr. MD, Justin Fenniman, John Sam Steele

Health and Safety Supervisors: Kayleigh Laymon, Nina Simone Walker Medical University of South Carolina Back2Business Team:

Alicia Culler, Regina Fraiya, Tiletha Lane, Ryan Taylor

PRODUCTION SUPPORT Lighting control: ETC Lighting and Rigging equipment: 4Wall Entertainment, Inc. Specialty Rigging: United Staging & Rigging, LLC Sound equipment: Masque Sound Video support: Resound Media Group Acoustic Consultation: Creative Acoustics, LLC Interstate trucking: Janco, Ltd. Pianos: Steinway & Sons, Fox Music House Scenery: TTS Studios International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees: Local 333

Outside Council Independent Auditors and Tax Advisors: Elliott Davis, LLC Counsel: Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP:

John Hagerty

ACCOUNTING Jah’Mar Coakley* ARTIST SERVICES Ashley Freeman Elizabeth Allison* Holland Cloyd* BOX OFFICE Adelaide Meny* Anna Sheppard Chase Mitchum Chloe Wright Christina Han Emily Kendall Hannah Runner Isabel Kwon Ivy Chace John Kramer Joshua Stenger Kayla Dockery* Kevin Schneider Michelle Troszak Rachel Rice Sienna Sherman Xavier Wooding* PRODUCTION Corina Matos Aguilera Joanna Burgess *College of Charleston student

COMMITTEES / VOLUNTEERS Spoleto Festival USA gratefully acknowledges the many volunteers who have made the 2021 Festival possible. Volunteers as of April 28, 2021, are listed below. The dedication of our volunteers is deeply appreciated and vital to the success of Spoleto Festival USA.

2020 Auction Committee

Brelyn LeCheminant Sarah Miller Gelber

Ruth Edwards, Co-Chair

Patrick Napolski

Doug Warner, Co-Chair

Evan Nowell

Cantey Brown

Megan Pinckney Rutherford

Ann Colley

Lawson Still

Dee Dee Dalrymple

Cat Taylor

Betsy Fleming

Lauren Turgeon

Hester Hodde Russell Holliday

Ushers

Eddie Irions Laura Lemenze

Molly Brockinton

Liz MacLeod

Pamela Brown

Leslie Richardson

Sherry Donoho

Kaye Smith

Stan Frick

Wally Seinsheimer

Betty Gore

Shelly Stein

Adeline Hudson

Liz Sullivan

Donna Jacobs Margaret Jensen

Gala XLV Committee

Hilde Kuck Sharon Langdale

Ruthie Edwards

Carlaye McClain

Barbara Hagerty

Rosalyn Monat-Haller

Russell Holliday

Laura Moses

Liz MacLeod

Seiko Smith

Heather McFarlin

Tonie Velie

Doug Warner

Elise Wallace Susan Walters

2020/21 Spoleto SCENE Steering Committee

Charles Ward Pamela Ward

Ali Miller Bechtel, Co-Chair

Jim Wigley

A. Taylor Rains, III, Co-Chair

Susan Wigley

Annika Bernard Kitty Caissy Julia Fariss Carter Foxworth James Hewlette Emily Hill Nicholas Kliossis Henry Laurens

CORPORATE CONTRIBUTORS Spoleto Festival USA is deeply grateful to its corporate partners for the rich support they provide, both financially and otherwise. The Festival could not have experienced 45 years of presence, growth, and success in Charleston without the generosity of these institutions.

Founders

Leaders

Ambassador

CONTRIBUTORS The work to sustain Spoleto Festival USA is a collaborative effort between hundreds of individuals and institutions. The board of directors are joined by corporations, foundations, government agencies, and individual supporters across the state of South Carolina and country to help meet the annual and ongoing production costs of the Festival. We applaud these collaborators for their continued leadership and generosity. A special thanks to all who generously donated to the 2020 ticket cancellation fund. Because of your meaningful gifts, the Festival can once again bring our community together in celebration of the performing arts. We are forever grateful. We also wish to thank all our loyal donors who support us at the Friend level. Due to the cancellation of the 2020 Festival, the following lists represent contributors whose gifts were received from April 23, 2019, to April 28, 2021. Those whose gifts were received after April 28, 2021, will be acknowledged in the 2022 program book.

2020 Founders Bank of America BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina City of Charleston Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Wells Fargo 2020 Leaders American Express Company The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation First Citizens Bank Galena-Yorktown Foundation Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation Ingram Charitable Fund Peter R. Kellogg and Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation Mr. M. Edward Sellers and Dr. Suzan Boyd The Estate of Charles M. Weiss 2020 Ambassadors Bloomberg Philanthropies BMW Manufacturing Company Explore Charleston Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. DeScherer Mr. and Mrs. Carlos E. Evans Herzman-Fishman Charitable Fund Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Kennard The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation National Endowment For The Arts Nelson Mullins Riley and Scarborough, LLP Mr. Phillip D. Smith Ted and Susan Soderlund South Carolina Arts Commission South State Bank Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Way, Jr. Ms. Anita G. Zucker 2020 Guarantors Mr. and Mrs. Andrew T. Barrett Richard and Jill Almeida June Ammirati Trust Larry and Julia Antonatos Mrs. Katharine I. Bachman Ms. Susan L. Baker and Mr. Michael R. Lynch Ms. Elizabeth L. Battle Mr. and Mrs. Joe Blanchard Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blumenthal Tippy and Michael Brickman Claire and Peter Bristow Mr. and Mrs. Wayland H. Cato, Jr. Charleston Gastroenterology Specialists Rick and Marsha Chisholm Mr. and Mrs. Derick Close Colbert Family Fund County of Charleston

Miriam DeAntonio, M.D. Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Gary and Susan DiCamillo Oliver S. and Jennie R. Donaldson Charitable Trust Vernon Drew and Leslie Aucoin Ted and Cheryl Eatman Ruth L. Edwards Betsy Fleming and Ed Weisiger, Jr. Flora Family Foundation Drs. Angeleita Floyd and Scott Cawelti Mrs. Susan T. Friberg Mr. David M. Furr Barbara and Richard Hagerty Mr. John B. Hagerty and Ms. Susan W. Simons Karyn Lee and Bill Hewitt Ms. M. Russell Holliday, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ozey K. Horton, Jr. Erica Pascal and Michael Hostetler Dr. Eddie L. Irions, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Johnson, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. George H. Khoury Ms. Linda P. MacCracken Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Marterer William B. McGuire, Jr. Family Foundation Charley and Martha McLendon Mrs. Marian M. Nisbet Norma and John Palms Ms. Eleanor Parker Susan Pearlstine Norton Anne and Scott Perper Nigel Redden and Arlene Shuler Mr. and Mrs. James N. Richardson, Jr. The John M. Rivers, Jr. Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Joan G. Sarnoff David M. Savard Wally and Bev Seinsheimer Jan Serr and John Shannon Sherman Capital Markets, LLC Kit and Joel Smith T. Scott and Kaye S. Smith Dr. and Mrs. Kerry Solomon Barbara and Sheldon Stein Mr. and Mrs. W. Charles Sullivan

Ann and Michael Tarwater Mrs. Cynthia B. Thompson Hellena Huntley Tidwell Bill and Judy Wahl 2020 Benefactors Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Anderson The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Donald H. and Barbara K. Bernstein Family Foundation Hyman and Marietta Bielsky Frank and Kathy Cassidy Paul and Caroline Cronson Mark F. Dalton Arlen D. Dominek and A. J. Young Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust Mrs. Penelope Coker Hall Roger and Susan Kennedy Martha and Terry Maguire Heather McFarlin Bill and Julie Medich Margie Ann and Wardell Morse Mrs. Susan W. Ravenel | David W. and Susan G. Robinson Foundation The Kathleen H. Rivers Family Fund The Wilbur S. Smith and Sally J. Smith Foundation Dr. Vincent Van Brunt Thomas C. and Kathleen Wright 2020 Sustainers Anonymous Mary Lou and John Barter Susan and Van Campbell Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Coker Mrs. Mary Elder Enterprise Holdings Foundation William and Prudence Finn Charitable Foundation Nancy Folger Michael Furlong and Eric Larsen Susan and Mark Geyer Sean and Courtney Hartness Fund

Becky and Bobby Hartness Fund Carolyn and Wayne Jones Charitable Foundation Susan and Louis Kaufman J.C. Kellogg Foundation Fund Paul L. King Kite Foundation Elizabeth Rivers Lewine Tom and Debbie Mather Judy Mazo and Mike Seidman Mrs. Frank M. McClain Mr. and Mrs. Andrew McKenna Jay and Ginger Millen - Caldwell Partners Mr. and Mrs. John A. Neely

Mr. and Mrs. William C. Cleveland Lois Conway Foundation Fund Kate and Nigel Cooper David and Gail Corvette Walter Crocker and Bette Mueller-Roemer Croghan’s Jewel Box Charlie and Maryileen Cumbaa The Cuskley Jones Family Charitable Fund Margaret and Russ Dancy Rebecca and Cress Darwin Mary and John Degnan Ted Dintersmith and Elizabeth Hazard Mr. and Mrs. P. Steven Dopp

Katharine Newman and Jonathan Hook Pacolet Milliken, LLC Dr. Gail M. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Howard Phipps, Jr. Carol and David Rawle J. Stephen and Ann Rhodes Mr. Aubrey Sarvis Mr. and Mrs. W. Lucas Simons Mr. and Mrs. Paul W. Soldatos Stono Construction Marti and Austin Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Rowan G.P. Taylor Susan and Trenholm Walker Palmer and Ethan Weiss Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Ziff

Dr. Carol J. Drowota Mr. and Mrs. John M. Dunnan Esther B. Ferguson Susan Lobell and Ronald Fielding Anne Forrest Alexandra and David Fox Richard J. Friedman, MD and Sandra Brett Tasha Gandy and Amanda Hollinger Sally Frost George Linda and David Gilston Charlotte W. Gollobin Suman and Rajan Govindan Judith Green and Dr. Michael Fritz Richard and Ann Gridley Faye Griffin Lou Rena Hammond Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hanlin Ms. Nora Harlow George and Cindy Hartley Barbara W. Hearst Henry and Sylvia Yaschik Foundation, Inc. Gordon and Sarah Herring C. Carroll and Susan B. Heyward Paul and Becky Hilstad Joy and Howard Holl Dr. Robert Holt Horan Family Philanthropic Fund Mr. and Mrs. Patrick C. Ilderton Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin P. Jenkins, III Patsy and Terry Jones

2020 Producers Anonymous Allan and Jane Anderson Mr. Dean Porter Andrews and Ms. Lynn Easton Ann Addlestone Apple Bass/Bradford Gift Fund Carolyn Bishop-McLeod Honorable Ann W. Brown Mary and Frank Brown William and Mary Buckley Foundation Don Burdette Walter Cain and Paulo Ribeiro Dr. Harry and Mrs. Jennifer Clarke

Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Kammerer Mr. Eddie J. Khoury Barry and Elaine Krell June and Mariano La Via Michael and Sigrid Laughlin Mr. and Mrs. Robert Levin Lisa and Erik Lindauer Linda Lively and James E. Hugh, III Mrs. William C. Lortz Mr. and Mrs. James S. MacLeod Dawn Laurel Foundation Professors Bill and Carolyn Matalene Joseph H. and Evelyn M. McGee Marianna G. McLean Clare and Ed Meyer George W. and Phyllis P. Miller Fund Jo Ellen and Bill Odom Mr. and Mrs. John L. Paul Bill and Sheila Prezzano Dr. Thomas Quattlebaum Dr. and Mrs. Gordon S. Query Mr. Alexander Reese and Ms. Alison Spear Sylvia and Bob Reitman Artie and Lee Richards Karl and Teri Riner Paul and Mary Jane Roberts Mr. Herbert E. Rosner Gretchen and Fritz Saenger Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Sanders Ginger and David Scott Ms. Candra Seley Ms. Mindelle Seltzer and Dr. Robert Lovinger Mr. and Mrs. Harley Shuford, Jr. Annie and Graham Stone Fitzhugh and Ann Stout Mr. and Mrs. James E. Stovall Mr. Sam Stowe, III Judy and Larry Tarleton Dr. Carolyn Thiedke and Mr. Fred Thompson, III Anne and Ken Tidwell Sharon and Eddie Toporek Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Trippe Bettie and Mark Tullis

Mr. C. Douglas Warner and Mr. Truman Smith Mr. and Mrs. D. Sykes Wilford Terry and Joe Williams Bob and Dana Wilson John C. Wohlstetter Shelley and Marty Yonas WeThePeople Mindelle and Loren Ziff 2020 Patrons Anonymous Deane and Roger Ackerman Family Fund Jerome Andersen and June Hajjar Dr. Renee D. Anderson and Mr. Ivan V. Anderson, Jr. Bill and Ruth Baker Charles J. and Sharon T. Barnett Cindy and Shon Barnett M Beverly and Robert G Bartner Mark and Sarah Lee Beck Diana Bendel Jaclyn S. Berlinsky Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Blackford, III Blake Family Fund Anne Frances Bleecker Bruce and June Boggs John and Jane Brooks Mark and Judith Buono Ilse Calcagno Teresa Caton Cantrell Ellen Costello and Michael Judge Jane and Hunter deButts Sarah Lund Donnem Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Drew N. Keith and Susanne Riley Emge Henry and Mollie Fair Natalie Foster Henry and Ann Hurd Fralix Gordon and Linda Gill Mary Hamrick and Randy Hall Robin and Ken Hanger Elizabeth Heck Bill and Ruth Hindman

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Alan and Lucy Hinman Joseph Rodricks and Karen Hulebak Helen Alexander and Stuart Huston Fund David and Susan Reichardt Ellen Kirsh and Anthony Clifford Randy and Kaye Koonce MaryAnn Largen Tricia and Ted Legasey Rose and Ted Levin Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Levy Carol and Tom Lindstrom Suzan Floyd Mabry Michael and Mary Jo Manning Patricia H. and James J. Marino Declan and Ava McBride Gwen and Layton McCurdy Christine and Hall McGee Heloise Merrill and Wilson Parker Ms. Robbie Nichols and Mr. Robert Nicholson Dr. Donna C. Orvin Caroline and Kevin Pennington Scott Shanklin-Peterson and Terry Peterson Ralph and Coby Piening Ms. Pamela Pollitt James and Kathleen Ramich Malcolm and Caroline Rhodes

Mr. and Mrs. Gary Rice Amy K. Rich Bené and Charles Rittenberg Myrtle T. Robinson Carol and Mike Ross-Spang David M. Rubin and Christina Press Joe and Edie Rubin Shayla and Chip Rumely Dr. and Mrs. Lars H. Runquist Dandy Joint Venture Elizabeth Sarnoff Charitable Fund Hugh T. Scogin, Jr. Shuler Family Fund Mr. and Mrs. George T. Sink, Sr. Mitchell and Debra Sonkin Mr. and Mrs. Jacien L. Steele Samuel and Sunny Steinberg Carol and Elliot Surkin Ms. Martha A. Teichner Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Tisdale, Jr. Jack Meeks and JoAnn Tredennick Cindy and Richard Urquhart Tina Wardrop Katherine Wells and Jim Flanagan Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. West Rebecca and Jim Wick Steep Canyon Rangers photo by Sandlin Gaither

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Carlos E. Lopez, M.D.

Miriam and Sanford Ain

Mr. and Mrs. James C. Mabry, IV

Peter and Aarati Alexander

Anonymous

Dr. Bernard and Denise Mansheim

Brady and Betty Anderson

Jeffrey Adams and Susan Hunter

Joe and Joanne Martin

Dr. Mary L. Applebaum

Mr. Nasit Ari and Ms. Libby Rittenberg

Susan and Eugene Massamillo

Susan Parson and Angus Baker

Fred and Mary Jo Armbrust

Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. McClanahan, Jr.

Dr. Sy Baron and Ms. Gloria Adelson

Dianne and John Avlon

Dr. and Mrs. Patrick McMenamin

Douglas and Karen Bean

Patti and Mickey Bagg

Kit and John McMurray

Dr. Richard A. Beck and Peggy B. Beck

Sam and Marion Bass

Dexter and Susan Mead

Emerson Bell

Mr. and Mrs. John M. Bowers

Janice and Jay Messeroff

Richard and Annmarie Boruta

Frances W. Bramlett

Ralph and Martha Meyer

Thomas and Cheryl Boswell Charitable

Mr. and Mrs. Broadwater

Dr. and Mrs. James F. Mooney, III

Christina and Ernst Bruderer

Valerie Morris, Dean | School of the Arts

2020 Associates

David Bundy and Katherine Richardson

College of Charleston

Fund Bouknight Family Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Timothy H. Boyer

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Carwile

Robert and Teri New

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2021 Founders Anonymous BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Mr. M. Edward Sellers and Dr. Suzan Boyd Wells Fargo 2021 Leaders City of Charleston First Citizens Bank Wayne and Alicia Gregory Family Foundation National Endowment For The Arts Mr. and Mrs. Carlos E. Evans The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Ingram Charitable Fund South Arts South State Bank Peter R. Kellogg and Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation 2021 Ambassadors Claire and Peter Bristow Bloomberg Philanthropies

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TWO REMARKABLE LADIES

One of the sad realities of having long-time supporters is that we occasionally lose someone who has been very important to the success of the Festival. In 2020, we lost two wonderful supporters who came to the Festival in very different ways and whose involvement was also very different but equally critical. Norma Palms was the quintessential Charlestonian: elegant, kind, and ready with a word of welcome or praise for everyone. A fixture in both philanthropic and social circles, she carried the city’s hospitable spirit with her in everything she did. Norma—together with her husband of 62 years, John—was vital in raising money for the renovations of Festival Hall and the Dock Street Theatre during the Great Recession as well as many other worthy causes. Equal parts humble and hilarious, Norma is perhaps best remembered by us here at the Festival for her co-acceptance speech of the 2012 Mary Ramsay Civic Award, which was bestowed upon her and John in honor of their charitable contributions to the people of Charleston. Norma had the audience doubled over with laughter and not a soul excused themselves from her speech early. Norma was one of a kind, and we will sorely miss her grace, wit, and dedication to the Festival.

Christel DeHaan came to the Festival in a much different way. A German immigrant, Indianapolis resident, and a very successful entrepreneur, Christel is remembered fondly for her tough, no-bones-about-it business attitude and fierce opinions while serving on Spoleto’s board. She asked hard questions and expected straight-forward answers. She first visited the Festival with a group of friends from the Indianapolis Opera many years ago. Taken with our musical offerings, Christel remained a part of Spoleto until the day she died and continues to support the performing arts now through the Christel DeHaan Foundation. In her lifetime, Christel gave more than $200 million to charity, much of which was used to aid and educate impoverished children around the globe, where she established Christel Houses to provide homes for orphans. Christel lived by a simple philosophy: to care, to share, and to make a difference. The Festival could not be more fortunate to have loved and admired such an inspiring figure. - Nigel Redden, General Director of Spoleto Festival USA

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Richard Wilson and David Trachtenberg Shelley and Marty Yonas Mindelle and Loren Ziff 2021 Patrons Anonymous David Adoff and Hildy Teegen Jerome Andersen and June Hajjar Dr. Renee D. Anderson and Mr. Ivan V. Anderson, Jr. Ms. Melissa M. Babb Nella Gray Barkley Charles J. and Sharon T. Barnett Cindy and Shon Barnett Anne and Philip Bergan Jaclyn S. Berlinsky Henry and Sherry Blackford Anne Frances Bleecker Bruce and June Boggs Marge and Steve Bottcher Ilse Calcagno Jean and Richard Day Jane and Hunter deButts Christine Edgington DeMers Al and Angela Phillips Diaz N. Keith and Susanne Riley Emge Natalie Foster Mary Hamrick and Randy Hall Robin and Ken Hanger Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Hanlin Bill and Ruth Hindman Helen Alexander and Stuart Huston Fund Ms. Brenda Louise Jackson The Joanna Foundation Will Jones and Barry Pate Ellen Kirsh Jill and Tom Klaffky Dr. Michael S. Kogan Randy and Kaye Koonce Tricia and Ted Legasey Rose and Ted Levin Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Levy Carol and Tom Lindstrom

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Sarah Jarosz photo by Kaitlyn Raitz

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In Memory of Hasham and Rosalie Khoury | Mr. Eddie J. Khoury In Memory of Diana Khoury Mr. Eddie J. Khoury In Memory of Berna Korna Mr. James Coren In Memory of David Maybank Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Way, Jr. In memory of Dr. Thomas and Mrs. Ingrid McDonald | Tracy and Lyla Leigh In Memory of Norma Cannon Palms Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Boyd Susan C. Haag Mr. and Mrs. George D. Johnson, Jr. Mrs. Cameron Mackie Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Meador, Jr. Carol and David Rawle Nigel Redden Kathleen Rivers Wally and Bev Seinsheimer Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Steinhour Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Way, Jr. Jennifer and Mack Whittle In Memory of Normand W. Redden Mr. and Mrs. Ozey K. Horton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Way, Jr. In Memory of Dr. Edward and Regina Siedlecki

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In Memory of Frederick Howard Smith Mrs. Linda Gill In Memory of Marcia Soldatos Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Peters Mr. Paul W. Soldatos In Memory of Judy Vane Judy Mazo and Mike Seidman In Memory of Judith Bates Mr. William Hamill Gifts in Memory of Homer Burrous, Joe Flummerfelt, Barbara Fredericks, Sandra Lipton, Kitty May, and Charles D. Ravenel Mrs. Susan W. Ravenel

2020/21 Spoleto SCENE Members Eliza Alderman Carolyn Barnick Brian and Meredith Bauerband Ali Miller Bechtel Kathryn and Wiley Becker Leslie Abbott Bell Annika Bernard and John Moffett Thomas and Abbie Berry Merideth Bonvino Kitty Caissy Haddie and David Caughran Lydia Chernicoff William Close Brandon Cole Marie Stitt and Edward Crouse Jason Crowley and Tarah Gee Wilson and Sarah Daniel The Eversole Family Julia Fariss Carter Foxworth Liz Fulton Morrison Carrie and Tyler Gilliam Andrew Gloeckner Blair Gottfried John and Grace Harrison Robert Harvey Marjorie Elaine Hendriks James Hewlette Emily Hill

Lauren and Adam Holzer

Lucerna Planta

Gary and Kelly Hylton

SWOON

Lindsay and Heath Johnson

Nice Commerce

Carter Joyce

The Gild Group

Lukia Kliossis Nicholas and Martha Kliossis

2020 Auction Contributors

Lucia Lang Kaylee Lass

Explore Charleston

Henry Laurens

Glenn Keyes Architects

Brelyn LeCheminant

Hill Plumbing and Electric Company

Zach Lee

Hood Construction

Katie Libby

Kiawah River

Kalee Lineberger

Low Country Case & Millwork

Jamie McAdams

Mosaic Catering + Events

Andrew McDonald

Ooh! Events

Sarah Miller Gelber and Greg Gelber

Palmetto Automatic Sprinkler Company

Hunter Mitchell Leah Montgomery

Inc. (PASCO) Production Design Associates

Katherine Morris Laura Musselman

2021 Spoleto Society Pin Sponsor

Patrick Napolski Caitlin Fahey Nevin

Kiawah River

Evan Nowell Brice and Fallon Peper

Gala XLV Sponsors

Megan Pinckney Rutherford Tara Pittman

Platinum

Lauren Powell and Allen Pendarvis

American Express

A. Taylor Rains, III

South State Bank

Whit Slagsvol

Barbara and Sheldon Stein

Lawson Still Ben and Virginia Street

Gold

Austin Stukins

Barone Fini Wines and Villa Pozzi Wines

Ashton Szadek

BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina

Matt Tarney and Emily Rast Tarney

College of Charleston

Cat Taylor

Explore Charleston

Robert Torre

Jennie and Dick DeScherer

Lauren Turgeon

Gary and Susan DiCamillo

J. Gordon Valentine

Ruth Edwards Antiques & Interiors

Megan Walton

Dr. and Mrs. Edward M. Gilbreth

Savannah Margaret Willis

Alicia and Wayne Gregory

Meg Workman

William E. Kennard and Deborah

Katelyn Zawyrucha

Kennedy Kennard Dr. and Mrs. George H. Khoury

2020 Spoleto SCENE Sponsors

Moët Hennessy Helen Savard and David Savard

Cathead Vodka Edmund’s Oast Holy City Construction

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The Journey photo by David Wilkinson, Empirical Photography

Silver

IBM Corporation

Historic Charleston Foundation

Susan Baker and Michael Lynch

JP Morgan Chase Foundation

Hyatt Place and Hyatt House Charleston/

Carriage Properties

UBS Employee Giving Program

Carlos and Lisa Evans

Wells Fargo Foundation

Heaven Hill Brands Liz and Jim MacLeod

Marabu North America Mary Mac Wilson

Special Thanks and Gifts in Kind

Ms. Heather McFarlin

Molly & Me Old Whaling Co.

Martha and Charley McLendon

Dr. Dave Albenberg

Anne and Scott Perper

Belmond Charleston Place, Brenna

Ian McLernon - Rémy Cointreau

Historic District, Blair Stegall

Housing Contributors

Emerson and Christopher Baxter

Kathleen Rivers Interior Design

Charleston Coffee Roasters

Bob and Sue Goodman

Mr. Phillip D. Smith and Ms. Lesley Burke

Charleston International Airport, John

Mr. and Mrs. Francis McCann

Charles and Elizabeth Sullivan Palmer Weiss Interior Design, Inc.

Robison and Lt. Brian Query Charleston Magazine

2020 Auction Donations

Charleston Tea Garden

Matching Gifts Apple AT&T Foundation Matching Gift Center BenefitFocus The Coca-Cola Foundation Matching Gifts Program

Christophe Artisan Chocolatier

Anonymous

City of Charleston, Robert Somerville

167 Raw

College of Charleston, Amy Orr and

Alicia Gregory

Ashleigh Freer-Parr Embassy Suites Charleston Historic District, Dianne Parker

Andrew Pinckney Inn Angel Oak Wines Barre South

Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Ashley Mancini

Bittermilk

ConocoPhillips

Fox Music House

Blossom

Eaton Corporation

Food for the Southern Soul

Bobby and Carolyn Cremins

Eli Lilly and Company Foundation

Grey Ghost Bakery

Boone Hall Plantation & Gardens

Flora Family Foundation

Dr. Lucinda Halstead

BREW-ed Brewery & History Tours

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Brookgreen Gardens

Kevin Freeman

Callie’s Hot Little Biscuits

Kevin Johnson

Callie’s Kitchen

Landrum Tables

Carlos Evans

Le Farfalle

Caroline’s Market & Catering

Leslie Richardson

Charleston Artist Collective

Linda Elksnin Art, LLC

Charleston Beer Fest - Palmetto

Lou Hammond

Community Care Charleston County Parks and Recreation Commission Charleston Grill at Charleston Place, A Belmond Hotel

Lynn McBee Magnolia’s Mellow Mushroom Mike Lata Miles White

Charleston Harbor Tours

Mr. and Mrs. Berryman Edwards

Charleston Marriott

Ms. Roses Fine Food & Cocktails

Charleston Riverdogs

Mylkbar Eco Nails + Beauty

Circa 1886

Pam White

Coastal Expeditions

Parcel 32

Copper Penny

PB Cooks

Croghan’s Jewel Box

Pour Taproom

Currie Jewelry

Revival

David Furr

Seyahen Jewerly

Derick Close

Shelly Stein

DiCamillo Bakery

Sonesta Resort Hilton Head Island

Drayton Hall Preservation Trust

Stems and Skins

Ecohealth Wellness Center

Sugar Bakeshop

Edmund’s Oast Exchange

The Alley

Edmund’s Oast Restaurant

The Charleston Museum

Explore Charleston

The Establishment

F45 Training, West Ashley

The Foundry Hotel

Francis Marion Hotel

The Grocery

Friedrich’s Optik

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Garden & Gun

The Neighborhood Dining Group

Gerald and Suzanne Marterer

The Quarters on King

Gilmore Bar Services

The Restoration

Graft Wine Shop

The Windsor Boutique Hotel

Grand Bohemian Hotel

The Woodhouse Day Spa

Grassroots Wine

The Statler Hotel & Residences

Half-Moon Outfitters

Tommy Baker

Harry Root

Viking Cruises

Henry Fralix and Ann Hurd Fralix

Visit Lex

Hilton Head Island Boat Show

Wentworth Mansion

Hoffman Law Firm - David Hoffman

Wiki Wiki Sandbar

Home Team BBQ Hotel Bennett Jon Carloftis Fine Gardens Keeneland

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