April 2023
A Night at the Ballet: Brian Raphael Nabors, Humperdinck, Griffes, Ravel, and Stravinsky
April 21-23
Pink Martini
April 28-30
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In this new pop musical based on the life of Jesus, a common-man-from-anobscure-family arrives in the big city and defies expectations. Melding a youthful voice with a timeless perspective, the greatest story ever told is brought into the third millennium, reminding us of the universal power of love and redemption.
The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Kimbell Art Museum. It is supported in part by the William and Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District.
Promotional support provided by
Raphael Nabors,
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Thank you for joining us for another great concert evening! We have an extraordinary set of programming ahead for the spring including A Night at the Ballet and the recently announced Concerts in the Garden Festival. I’m personally very excited for CITG’s Patriotic Pops concert, and country superstar Pat Green.
As part of the FWSO’s commitment to serving our community, the FWSO also recently hosted over 5,000 students from FWISD for six Link Up concerts presented in partnership with Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute. Alongside the Orchestra musicians, students performed on their recorders while dancing and singing along to the music. Students work for weeks on this program, culminating in a shared performance experience that brings joy to everyone. Through this work the FWSO is not just developing the next generation of musicians, they are contributing to the development of strong community leaders, cultural supporters, and arts advocates.
The Board of Directors and I recognize you; our donors, patrons, and volunteers, for your help in making this possible.
With much appreciation and gratitude,
Mercedes T. Bass Chairman of the Board of Directors
This month, we are starting to approach the end of Robert Spano’s exhilarating inaugural season as Music Director. The reaction from the community, our patrons, musicians, and staff to his performances has been overwhelmingly positive, and the orchestra has hit a new “high water mark” in playing standard. Still to come this season are important artistic collaborations, including our performances with Texas Ballet Theater of a world premiere of a new production of Stravinsky’s Firebird suite, and Haydn’s Creation featuring Miami-based chorus Seraphic Fire and projections by Elaine J. McCarthy. On the Pops series, we are eagerly anticipating the return of Pink Martini, conducted by Music Director Laureate Miguel HarthBedoya. Mark your calendars now for Principal Guest Conductor Kevin John Edusei’s special performance in Bass Hall on June 2, 2023.
As backdrop to this vibrant artistic programming, many American symphonies including the FWSO are finding this first post-COVID season especially challenging. Audiences are gradually returning to live performances, which is encouraging, although the weak economy is also creating its own difficulties. We are especially grateful for your patronage and support during this period, and hope that as the economy improves, we will see audiences return to pre-COVID levels. In the meantime, we thank you!
We hope that you enjoy the remainder of this season’s performances and are planning to attend the many exciting Symphonic and Pops concerts announced for 2023-2024. The new 2023-2024 season is now on sale so be sure to secure your tickets. We look forward to seeing you!
Yours sincerely,
Keith Cerny, Ph.D. President and CEO
Spano leads the Fort Worth Symphony in six symphonic programs, three chamber music programs, and a gala concert with Yo-Yo Ma, in addition to overseeing the orchestra and music staff and shaping the artistic direction of the orchestra and driving its continued growth. Additional engagements in the 2022-23 season include a return to Houston Grand Opera to conduct Werther.
Robert Spano, conductor, pianist, composer, and teacher, is known worldwide for the intensity of his artistry and distinctive communicative abilities, creating a sense of inclusion and warmth among musicians and audiences that is unique among American orchestras. After twenty seasons as Music Director, he will continue his association with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as Music Director Laureate. An avid mentor to rising artists, he is responsible for nurturing the careers of numerous celebrated composers, conductors, and performers. As Music Director of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 2011, he oversees the programming of more than 300 events and educational programs for 630 students and young performers. Principal Guest Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra since 2019, Spano became Music Director Designate on April 1, 2021, and begins an initial three-year term as Music Director in August 2022. He is the tenth Music Director in the orchestra’s history, which was founded in 1912.
Maestro Spano made his highlyacclaimed Metropolitan Opera debut in 2019, leading the US premiere of Marnie, the second opera by American composer Nico Muhly. Recent concert highlights have included several world premiere performances, including Voy a Dormir by Bryce Dessner at Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and mezzosoprano Kelley O’Connor; George Tsontakis’s Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; Dimitrios Skyllas’s Kyrie eleison with the BBC Symphony Orchestra; the Tuba Concerto by Jennifer Higdon, performed by Craig Knox and the Pittsburgh Symphony; Melodia, For Piano and Orchestra, by Canadian composer Matthew Ricketts at the Aspen Music Festival; and Miserere, by ASO bassist Michael Kurth.
The Atlanta School of Composers reflects Spano’s commitment to American contemporary music. He has led ASO performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the Ravinia, Ojai, and Savannah Music Festivals. Guest engagements have included the Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Minnesota Orchestras, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, and the San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, New World, San Diego, Oregon, Utah, and Kansas City Symphonies. His opera performances include Covent Garden, Welsh National Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, and the 2005 and 2009 Seattle Opera productions of Wagner’s Ring cycles.
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German conductor Kevin John Edusei is sought-after the world over, dividing his time equally between the concert hall and opera house. He is praised repeatedly for the drama and tension that he brings to his musicmaking, for his attention to detail, sense of architecture, and the fluidity, warmth and insight that he brings to his performances. He is deeply committed to the creative elements of performance, presenting classical music in new formats, cultivating audiences, introducing music by under-represented composers and conducting an eclectic range of repertoire from the baroque to the contemporary.
In the 2022/23 season, Edusei makes his debut with many orchestras across the UK and US, including the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Hallé, Utah Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and National Symphony (Washington) orchestras amongst others and he returns to the London Symphony, the City of Birmingham Symphony, Baltimore and Colorado Symphony orchestras. With the Chineke! Orchestra he returns to the BBC Proms for a televised performance of Beethoven 9 and also performs at Festivals in Snape, Hamburg, Helsinki and Lucerne. In recent seasons he has conducted many of the major orchestras across the UK, Holland, Germany and the US. He is the former Chief Conductor of the Munich Symphony Orchestra and 22/23 marks the start of his tenure as the Principal Guest Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (Texas).
In the 2022/23 season Edusei also makes his debut with the Royal Opera House conducting La Boheme with Juan Diego Florez and Ailyn Pérez. He recently made his debut at the
English National Opera and previously has conducted at the Semperoper Dresden, Hamburg State Opera, Hannover State Opera, Volksoper Wien and Komische Oper Berlin. During his time as Chief Conductor of Bern Opera House, he led many new productions including Britten Peter Grimes, Strauss Salome, Bartók Bluebeard’s Castle, Wagner Tannhäuser and Tristan and Isolde, Janáček Kátya Kábanová and a cycle of the Mozart Da-Ponte operas.
In 2004 Edusei was awarded the fellowship for the American Academy of Conducting at the Aspen Music Festival by David Zinman, in 2007 he was a prize-winner at the Lucerne Festival conducting competition under the artistic direction of Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös, and in 2008 he won the First prize at the International Dimitris Mitropoulos Competition.
Mei-Ann Chen as a Freeman Conducting Fellow.
Past engagements include guest conducting in the Boston Symphony’s Community Chamber Concerts, leading members of the BSO in Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat. Fukumura assisted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Philharmonic as cover conductor. Equally adept in opera conducting, he has led full productions of Britten’s Turn of the Screw and Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Northwestern University Opera Theatre.
Taichi Fukumura is a rising JapaneseAmerican conductor known for his dynamic stage presence, resulting in a growing international career. Acclaimed for his musical finesse and passionate interpretations, he is praised by musicians and audiences alike across the United States, Mexico, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria, Hong Kong, and Japan. A two-time recipient of the Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Award in 2021 and 2022, Fukumura is the newly appointed Assistant Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for the 2022-2024 seasons.
Highlights from the 2021/22 season include guest conducting debuts with La Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Selected by the Berlin Philharmonic as one of 10 Assistant Conductor Candidates, Fukumura conducted in the Siemens Conductors Scholarship Competition. Fukumura served as the Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Sinfonietta, where he previously received mentorship from Music Director
Born in Tokyo, Taichi Fukumura grew up in Boston and began music studies at age three on the violin. Professionally trained on the instrument, he received a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from Boston University, studying with Peter Zazofsky. Fukumura received both his Doctoral and Masters degrees in orchestral conducting from Northwestern University, studying with Victor Yampolsky. Additional conducting studies include Aspen Music Festival Conducting Academy, Pierre Monteux School and Festival, Paris Conducting Workshop, and Hong Kong International Conducting Workshop.
With a discography of critically-acclaimed recordings for Telarc, Deutsche Grammophon, and ASO Media, Robert Spano has garnered four Grammy™ Awards and eight nominations with the Atlanta Symphony. Spano is on faculty at Oberlin Conservatory and has received honorary doctorates from Bowling Green State University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Emory University, and Oberlin. Maestro Spano is a recipient of the Georgia Governor’s Award For The Arts And Humanities and is one of two classical musicians inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. He makes his home in Atlanta and Fort Worth.
Robert Spano, Music Director
Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Chair
Kevin John Edusei, Principal Guest Conductor
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Music Director Laureate
VIOLIN I
Michael Shih, Concertmaster
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Swang Lin, Associate Concertmaster
Ann Koonsman+ Chair
Eugene Cherkasov, Assistant Concertmaster
Mollie & Garland Lasater Chair
Jennifer Y. Betz
Ordabek Duissen
Qiong Hulsey
Ivo Ivanov
Izumi Lund
Ke Mai
Rosalyn Story
Kimberly Torgul
Albert Yamamoto
VIOLIN II
Adriana Voirin DeCosta, Principal
Steven Li, Associate Principal
Janine Geisel, Assistant Principal
Symphony League of Fort Worth Chair
Molly Baer
Tatyana Smith
Matt Milewski
Sue Jacobson°
Kathryn Perry
Andrea Tullis
Camilla Wojciechowska
VIOLA
DJ Cheek, Principal
Linda Numagami, Associate Principal°
HeeSun Yang, Assistant Principal
Joni Baczewski
Sorin Guttman
Aleksandra Holowka
Dmitry Kustanovich
Daniel Sigale
CELLO
Allan Steele, Principal
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Emileigh Vandiver, Associate Principal
Keira Fullerton, Assistant Principal
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation Chair
John Belk
Deborah Brooks
Shelley Jessup
Jenny Kwak
BASS
William Clay, Principal
Taichi Fukumura, Assistant Conductor
Rae and Ed Schollmaier+ Foundation Chair
John Giordano, Conductor Emeritus
Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Bass Chair
Paul Unger, Assistant Principal
Jeffery Hall
Julie Vinsant
The seating positions of all string section musicians listed alphabetically change on a regular basis.
FLUTE
Jake Fridkis, Principal
Shirley F. Garvey Chair
Gabriel Fridkis, Assistant Principal
Pam Holland Adams
PICCOLO
Pam Holland Adams
OBOE
Jennifer Corning Lucio, Principal Nancy L. & William P. Hallman, Jr., Chair
Tamer Edlebi, Assistant Principal
Tim Daniels
ENGLISH HORN
Tim Daniels
CLARINET
Stanislav Chernyshev, Principal Rosalyn G. Rosenthal Chair*
Ivan Petruzziello, Assistant Principal
Gary Whitman
E-FLAT CLARINET
Ivan Petruzziello
BASS CLARINET
Gary Whitman
BASSOON
Joshua Elmore, Principal
Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Bass Chair
Cara Owens, Assistant Principal
Samuel Watson
CONTRA BASSOON
Samuel Watson
HORN
Gerald Wood, Principal
Elizabeth H. Ledyard Chair
Alton F. Adkins, Associate Principal
Drs. Jeff and Rosemary Detweiler Chair
Kelly Cornell, Associate Principal
Aaron Pino
TRUMPET
Kyle Sherman, Principal
Cody McClarty, Assistant Principal
Dorothy Rhea Chair
Oscar Garcia
TROMBONE
Joseph Dubas, Principal
Mr. & Mrs. John Kleinheinz Chair
Steve Peterson, Principal°
John Michael Hayes, Assistant Principal
Dennis Bubert
BASS TROMBONE
Dennis Bubert
Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Bass Chair
TUBA
Edward Jones, Principal
TIMPANI
Seth McConnell, Principal
Madilyn Bass Chair
Nicholas Sakakeeny, Assistant Principal
PERCUSSION
Keith Williams, Principal
Shirley F. Garvey Chair
Nicholas Sakakeeny, Assistant Principal Adele Hart Chair
Deborah Mashburn
Brad Wagner
HARP
Position vacant
Bayard H. Friedman Chair
KEYBOARD
Shields-Collins Bray, Principal
Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn & Van Cliburn Chair
STAGE MANAGER
Branson White
ORCHESTRA PERSONNEL MANAGER
Joseph Dubas
ORCHESTRA LIBRARIANS
Christopher Hawn
David Sterrett
*In Memory of Manny Rosenthal
°2022/2023 Season Only
+Denotes Deceased
The Concertmaster performs on the 1710 Davis Stradivarius violin.
The Associate Concertmaster performs on the 1685 Eugenie Stradivarius violin.
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra dedicates
The April 21-23 performances to Dana and David Porter
The April 28-30 performances to Amon G. Carter Foundation
Generous Supporter of the 22/23 Symphonic Season
Robert Spano, Music Director
April 21-23, 2023
Bass Performance Hall
Robert Spano, Conductor
Tim O’Keefe, Choreographer
Texas Ballet Theater
A Night at the Ballet: Brian Raphael Nabors, Humperdinck, Griffes, Ravel, and Stravinsky
HUMPERDINCK Prelude to Hänsel und Gretel
GRIFFES The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan, Opus 8
BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS Of Earth and Sky: Tales from the Motherland
I. Huveane Moves Away from the Humans
II. Anansi
III. Nyami Nyami
IV. Celebration
World Premiere
Intermission
RAVEL Suite of Five Pieces from Ma Mère l’Oy (Mother Goose)
I. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty
II. Tom Thumb
III. Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas
IV. Conversations of Beauty and the Beast
V. The Enchanted Garden
STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird (1919 Revision)
I. Introduction and Dance of the Firebird
II. Dance of the Princesses
III. Infernal Dance of King Kastchei
IV. Berceuse
V. Finale
Texas Ballet Theater
Video or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited. Patrons arriving late will be seated during the first convenient pause. Program and artists are subject to change.
The ballet opens in the magical forest of the evil Koschei. Koschei has enslaved four princes as his minions. As Koschei and his minions dance, Koschei deposits his soul into a magic egg, thus rendering him immortal. Koschei summons the Firebird who is also his captive.
Prince Ivan enters the magical forest. The Firebird approaches and Ivan is bewitched while watching her dance. Ivan confronts the Firebird. He spares her life and in return, she offers a magic feather he can use to summon her if he ever needs help. She introduces Prince Ivan to five beautiful princesses, who are also Koschei’s captives. Ivan and one of the princesses, Tsarevna, dance together and fall in love. He promises to protect her and tells her they must leave the forest.
Ivan and Tsarevna are apprehended by Koschei and his minions. The infernal dance ensues. Prince Ivan uses the magic feather to summon the Firebird to help him defeat Koschei and his minions. During the fight, Koschei gravely wounds Tsarevna. Prince Ivan retaliates and destroys the magic egg, releasing Koschei’s soul. Koschei’s power is neutralized and he vanishes from the forest. The four minions change back into princes.
The Firebird requests the magic feather from Prince Ivan and uses its power to restore Tsarevna to her former state. Tsarevna and Ivan once again pledge their love to each other as the princesses and princes celebrate the victory.
Firebird Nicole Von Enck
Minons Jackson Bayhi
Kyle Torres-Hiyoshi
Joamanuel Velazquez
Prince Ivan Andre Silva
Princess Tsarevna Rieko Hatato
Koschei Carl Coomer
Princesses Amanda Fairweather
Adeline Melcher
Katelyn Rhodes
Samantha Pille
Covers
Henry Winn
Rayleigh Vendt
David Schrenk
Jason McClung
Choreography Tim O’Keefe
Costumes Masako Parshall, Katelyn Clenagha
Cristian Jiminez
Lighting Chad R. Jung
The mission of Texas Ballet Theater is to create, present and tour worldclass ballet, from classical to cutting–edge, and promote its appreciation, accessibility, and technical mastery among students, pre-professionals, and audiences of all ages. They are honored to be the only arts organization to serve as resident company for both leading performance venues in Dallas and Fort Worth – the Winspear Opera House and Bass Performance Hall. The internationally recognized company is built on a rich 53-year history and boasts a repertoire that is creative, expressive and collaborative.
A native Houstonian, Tim O’Keefe was awarded a scholarship to Houston Ballet Academy in 1981, joined the company one year later, was promoted to Soloist in 1985, and in 1995 was named Principal Dancer. In 1997, Houston Ballet Artistic Director Ben Stevenson created the title role of Dracula for Tim. He has choreographed works for Houston Ballet’s Cullen Contemporary Series and for Houston Ballet Academy, as well as Love Thing, Ragtime Dance, and Violin Concerto in D for Texas Ballet Theater. Tim joined Texas Ballet Theater in 2002 and was named Acting Artistic Director in 2022.
Brian Raphael Nabors
Brian Raphael Nabors (b.1991, Birmingham, AL) is a composer of emotionally enriching music that tells exciting narratives with its vibrant themes and colorful harmonic language. Nabors' music has been performed by the Cincinnati, Atlanta, Nashville, and Detroit Symphonies as well as ROCO Chamber Orchestra. He has also been performed by artists such as the Atlanta Chamber Players, Dallas's Voices of Change, Boston Musica Viva and the Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings. His work has been featured in masterclasses with composers such as William Bolcom, John Harbison, and Lowell Liebermann.
With an eclectic musical palate and crafty compositional technique to match, Nabors’ music draws from combinations of Jazz Funk, R&B, and Gospel with the modern flair of contemporary classical music. This interesting blend of sound worlds is one that continues to craft his unique musical voice.
Chad R. Jung
Chad R. Jung is a native of Fort Worth who specializes in design for Theatre, Opera, Music, and Dance. Previous design for FWSO include: Steve Reich’s Different Trains, A Soldier’s Tale, & Die Zauberflöte. As resident designer for Fort Worth Opera, Chad has designed numerous operas over the past 20 years, including the World Premiere of JFK. Opera credits include designs in Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Milwaukee, Palm Beach, San Antonio, Seattle, Tampa, and internationally for Opéra de Montréal, and Opera Australia at the iconic Sydney Opera House. Jung has collaborated on a variety of unique projects with: Ballet Austin, Bruce Wood, Casa Mañana, Dallas Museum of Art, FW Symphony Orchestra, Texas Ballet Theatre, Tony Tucci and Washington Ballet at the Kennedy Center. Locally, Jung is a founding member of Amphibian Stage and the Resident Designer for Kids Who Care Inc, where he is devoted to mentoring the next generation of artists and helping to change the world, one kid at a time.
DURATION: About 8 minutes
PREMIERED: Weimar, 1893
INSTRUMENTATION: Piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, and strings
“Dear Mertz, I would like to ask a small favour. Perhaps you remember that before my trip to Italy I bought a large black artist’s hat ... For the first time in a long while I began wearing it again. The Master [Richard Wagner] happened to see it yesterday and he suddenly grabbed it and put it on his head, saying that I would simply have to order one just like it for him – this is the hat that embodies his ideal of hatdom and in the future he would wear no other, etc., etc.”
The composer Engelbert Humperdinck — not to be confused with the 20th-century British pop singer of the same nom de plume — was something of a one-hit wonder in the classical world and an unabashed acolyte of Richard Wagner. The two musicians became close enough that Humperdinck would eventually tutor Wagner’s son Siegfried in music and Wagner felt entitled to occasionally filching Humperdinck’s headwear. Musically, Humperdinck would attempt to follow in “the master’s” footsteps, as is apparent in his most famous work, the opera Hänsel und Gretel (after the Grimm brothers’ fairytale).
Engelbert Humperdinck (Born 1854, Germany; died 1921)
PRELUDE: A typically brief musical composition that serves as an introduction to a larger musical work.
FURTHER LISTENING:
Humperdinck: Errinerung (“Memory”)
Bübchens Weihnachtstraum (“The Christmas Dream”)
Dornröschen (“Sleeping Beauty”)
The Prelude, full of rustic charm, opens with a gentle chorale for the brass. Strings take over, joined soon by winds and brass, filling the music with a prayerful warmth. (The music literally illustrates the two titular children’s evening prayers.) This lighthearted take on a story about a woman who eats children began its life as a favor to Humperdinck’s sister, who asked the composer to write some songs for a Christmas puppet show her children were preparing. That show would prove a less gruesome adaptation of the fairy tale with some of the more alarming bits removed.
So well were these initial songs received by the family’s little audiences that he’d go on to expand and orchestrate the work as a full opera. Fellow composer Richard Strauss conducted the initial performances, and the work became a smash success overnight and an enduring European Christmas tradition.
Humperdinck exhibited tremendous talent for music at an early age and is another in a long line of musical talents to have faced opposition from his parents in settling on music as a career. He entered the Cologne Conservatory at the age of 18 and quickly racked up quite a few prestigious prizes before encountering Wagner’s music and aesthetics. Hansel und Gretel is filled with dense orchestral writing and leitmotifs, or musical themes that become associated with a person or idea. Some of his friends and contemporaries feared that his loyalty would overshadow his own career. Indeed, Humperdinck is primarily remembered as a Wagnerian disciple.
DURATION: About 10 minutes
PREMIERED: Boston, 1919
INSTRUMENTATION: Three flutes, two oboes and English horn, two clarinets and bass clarinet, three bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, two trombones and tuba, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, tambourine, gong, pianoforte, celesta, two harps, solo violin, and strings
“[I had] taken as a basis for my work those lines of [Samuel] Coleridge’s poem describing the ‘stately pleasure-dome,’ the ‘sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice,’ the ‘miracle of rare device.’”
— Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Born 1884, United States; died 1920)
TONE POEM: A piece of orchestral music, typically one movement, based on an idea or story.
FURTHER LISTENING:
Griffes: The White Peacock Poem for Flute and Orchestra Clouds
Three Tone-Pictures
by Jeremy ReynoldsJohn Cage, the famous 20th-century American composer, once wrote: “I have come to the conclusion that much can be learned about music by devoting oneself to the mushroom.” He’s hardly alone in his appreciation for the influence of stimulants and depressives on classical composition. Hector Berlioz composed at least part of his Symphonie fantastique under the influence of opium. Beethoven was a bit of an alcoholic. Stravinsky took behavior modification drugs. Chopin was rumored to combine opium and sugar cubes.
In writing The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, Charles Tomlinson Griffes may have had the artistic equivalent of a contact high. He took inspiration for the music from a fragment of a poem by the writer Samuel Taylor Coleridge (not to be confused with the composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor), who said the words came to him in a dream, likely opium inspired:
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. ...
The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
For Griffes, these words inspired a tonal language of sumptuous excess. His first pass at the music was as a piano work, but he later orchestrated it to allow for more tonal variety. An ominous rumble in the percussion ushers listeners forward. Piano chords and plucked string instruments begin to color in the texture. Then the horns enter, followed by trumpets, suggesting a hazy fanfare. Strings, bowed now, provide a gauzy cover for a languorous oboe solo as the music picks up the pace. The pace remains
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I. Huveane Moves Away from the Humans
II. Anansi
III. Nyami Nyami
IV. Celebration
DURATION: About 20 minutes
WORLD PREMIERE
INSTRUMENTATION: Three flutes, three oboes, three clarinets, three bassoons, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani and percussion, harp, piano, and strings
“I’m inadvertently influenced by my synesthesia. For as long as I can remember, I’ve had color associations with certain keys, days of the week, and months of the year. Many times I feel as though all of these elements are linked together.
(Born 1991, United States)
BATA: The Bata dance is a prominent traditional dance among the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. It is a very entertaining performance done by professionals, usually accompanied by music, songs, and chants. The dance is not just related to body movements, it is an expressive dance and rhythm relationship. (RefinedNG)
FURTHER LISTENING:
Nabors: Let It Ring!
Onward Pulse
by Jeremy ReynoldsBrian Raphael Nabors often cites his spirituality as one of the primary influences on his music, which draws on a variety of musical traditions ranging from gospel to jazz funk to R&B and Neo Soul. The Alabama native’s recent career highlights include performances of his music by the Boston, Atlanta, Fort Worth, Nashville, Detroit, and Cincinnati symphonies, and he often cites themes of humanity’s relationship with nature as an inspiration for his work.
Of Earth and Sky is a new work for the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra that illuminates three African mythical tales and wraps up with a celebratory finale. The composer himself described the work as follows:
“The piece opens up with an epic creation story from the Basotho and Bavenda people of Lesotho, Southern Africa. The creator god Huveane created the heavens and the earth, plants, living creatures — including human beings. Huveane’s creation became too noisy for him to remain on earth. He then climbed into the sky by driving in pegs that he put his feet on, taking out each peg as he stepped onto the next, so that people would not be able to follow him. He has lived in the sky ever since.
Anansi is an Akan character who has become famous throughout Africa and many countries in the Caribbean region. He is known for his insight, intelligence, and wisdom. Anansi can change form and may be depicted as a human, although his normal form is a spider. According to the Asante people, Anansi can be a trickster — that is, a personality who teaches moral, ethical, political, or social values based on his ability to lead a person to the truth through example, puzzles, and the least-expected turns and twists of fate.
The Nyami Nyami is one of the Tonga people’s most important gods. Living on the banks of the Zambezi River in Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Tonga people (also known as the Batonga) look to the dragon-like creature for protection and provision in difficult times. Reported sightings
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— Brian Raphael Nabors to icareifyoulisten.comI. Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty
II. Tom Thumb
III. Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas
IV. Conversations of Beauty and the Beast
V. The Enchanted Garden
DURATION: About 28 minutes
PREMIERED: Paris, 1910 (piano version); 1912 (orchestrated version)
INSTRUMENTATION: Two flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, timpani, bass drum, cymbals, triangle, tam-tam, glockenspiel, xylophone, celesta, bell tree, harp, and strings
“Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!”
— Maurice Ravel (Born 1875, France; died 1937)
PROGRAM MUSIC: Music of a narrative or descriptive kind; the term is often extended to all music that attempts to represent extra-musical concepts without resort to sung words. (Grove Dictionary of Music)
FURTHER LISTENING:
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite Nos. 1-2
Rapsodie espagnole
Adélaïde ou le langage des fleurs
by Jeremy ReynoldsIn the early 20th century, the ballet impresario Diaghilev traveled often to Paris to a new hot ticket work. It was a particularly thrilling time to be in the City of Light — Proust was busy writing away, fashion designer Coco Chanel was on the rise, and a young Maurice Ravel was rising to fame on account of his musical prowess. Still, the composer made sure to occasionally write non-commercial music, short little bonbons for family and friends.
The Mother Goose suite, loosely based on a collection of children’s tales by 17th-century French writer Charles Perrault, began its life as a simple piano duet for a friend’s two piano-playing children, ages 6 and 7 at the time. Scarcely a year later, however, recognizing the quality of the whimsical melodies, Ravel’s publisher, Jacques Durand, persuaded him to orchestrate the music. Ravel developed a lush, sophisticated palate for the work that emphasizes the woodwinds in various solos and groupings throughout. He later wrote additional music to build the suite from a collection of five stand-alone pieces to a short ballet, loosely adapted from the tale of Sleeping Beauty, though it’s the suite that appears most often in the concert hall.
The prelude begins with a wistful flute solo, setting the scene for tales of magic. Tom Thumb features questioning, ascending strings, soon joined by a plaintive oboe. The third movement is in a pentatonic tonality, suggesting an Eastern setting. Conversations of Beauty and the Beast places a clarinet in dialogue with a waltzing string accompaniment before a bassoon begins to growl in response. Finally, The Enchanted Garden doesn’t reference a specific tale in the suite, but in the ballet, it’s the music that accompanies the prince awakening a sleeping beauty in her garden. Ravel’s music for strings here is luxurious, blooming slowly and building to a grand, glittering finish.
Mother Goose would be the first of three ballets he composed throughout a prolific career. While the third, Daphnis and Chloe, was the largest-scale work, the charm of Mother Goose earned public approval far faster.
SUITE from THE FIREBIRD (1919 revision)
I. Introduction and Dance of the Firebird
II. Dance of the Princesses
III. Infernal dance of King Kastchei
IV. Berceuse
V. Finale
DURATION: About 20 minutes
PREMIERED: Paris, 1910
INSTRUMENTATION: Piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, celesta, and strings.
“One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.”
— Igor Stravinsky (Born 1882, Russia; died 1971)
NEOCLASSICAL MUSIC: A 20th century trend by which composers once again sought to return to aesthetics associated with “classicism,” i.e. clarity of form and clean melodic lines, now with new harmonic and structural tricks.
FURTHER LISTENING:
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
Pétrouchka
Pulcinella
Octet for Winds
by Jeremy ReynoldsStravinsky began writing The Firebird, perhaps his most famous work, on spec. At the time, the omnipresent ballet impresario Diaghilev had fixed on the idea of a Russian nationalist ballet written in a 20th century style. Though Diaghilev had previously commissioned Stravinsky, then only 28, for some orchestral arrangements, he sought a more experienced hand for his Firebird. He had abysmal luck. First, one composer accepted the commission only to withdraw, and then another. Stravinsky, realizing that sooner or later his name might spring to mind, began drafting music about a month before Diaghilev actually asked him to compose the score.
The ballet’s setting is fantastical, a blend of fairy tales loosely inspired by a verse from the poem “A Winter’s Journey” by poet Yakov Polonsky.
...And in my dreams I see myself on a wolf’s back
Riding along a forest path
To do battle with a sorcerer-tsar
In that land where a princess sits under lock and key,
Pining behind massive walls.
There gardens surround a palace all of glass; There Firebirds sing by night
And peck at golden fruit.
Stravinsky came up with a variety of themes for different characters and about 50 minutes of music. The score proved instantly popular, and, recognizing the commercial possibilities, he quickly reduced the work to a concert suite. A few years later, in 1919, he took another pass at a suite, immortalizing a 20-minute concert version that isolates some of the most memorable music. This is the most commonly heard version today.
The suite opens with a tectonic, ominous growl in the low strings before the mythical Firebird’s music plays, a sudden change in style, a dance of delicate trills and a sparkling, fluttering scherzo that features the woodwinds. The second movement is a rustic dance for the bewitched
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majestic throughout, an expansive tour of Coleridge’s “sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice.” There are suggestions of “exotic” tonalities throughout, which Griffes achieves through slightly altering traditional Western scales.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered the work in 1919. Griffes attended the premiere, which was to be his last public appearance. He died a few months later at the age of 35 during the Spanish Flu pandemic.
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of the monster in the Zambezi River are not unusual, but for the non-believers, the most convincing proof that the Nyami Nyami may be more than just a legend was the mysterious disasters that occurred during the construction of Kariba dam wall.
Celebration is a joyous finale honoring the jovial energy of the African spirit. Within this celebration, I was especially inspired by the traditional “Bata” dance of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria and the Zaouli dancers of the Guro people of Côte D’Ivoire. I seek to engulf the listener in these sounds of life, spirit, and humanity.”
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princesses, filled with pathos and longing. The Infernal Dance launches with a great shout in the orchestra (there are some fantastic videos of this waking up sleeping audience members), followed by a series of frenetic, snarling, sharply articulate melodies. The lullaby, one of the more famous solos for bassoon, slinks and lulls the evil Immortal and his pests into slumber, while the finale features an incredibly optimistic, delicate solo for the French horn, the
noblest of orchestral instruments. The celebration builds to an utterly thrilling finish.
Stravinsky would collaborate with Diaghilev several more times, including the ballets The Rite of Spring and Pulcinella, but it’s the concert version of The Firebird that boosted his income later in life brought him no small amount of income to help subsidize his composing career.
Robert Spano, Music Director
April 28-30 2023
Bass Performance Hall
Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Conductor
Bolero
Amado mío
Je ne veux pas travailler
U Plavu Zoru
Ich dich liebe
Destino
Sola soy
Una notte a Napoli
Exodus
¿Dónde estás, Yolanda?
Askim bahardi
Intermission
Rhapsody in Blue
Tempo Perdido
Song to the Moon
Hang On Little Tomato
Până când nu te iubeam
Zundoko-Bushi
Hey Eugene
Get Happy / Happy Days Are Here Again
Video or audio recording of this performance is strictly prohibited. Patrons arriving late will be seated during the first convenient pause. Program and artists are subject to change
Celebrating more than 30 years of professional conducting, Miguel Harth-Bedoya is a master of color, drawing idiomatic interpretations from a wide range of repertoire in concerts across the globe. He has amassed considerable experience at the helm of orchestras with 2019/20 his seventh season as Chief Conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and his 20th and final season as Music Director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Previously he has held Music Director positions with the Auckland Philharmonia and Eugene Symphony.
Harth-Bedoya regularly conducts the upper level of American orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Cleveland, Philadelphia, New York Philharmonic Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Cleveland, Minnesota, New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestras. Following his exceptional tenure as Associate Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic during the early years of his career, Harth-Bedoya’s “special chemistry” (LA Times) with the orchestra remains strong and he returns often as a guest conductor.
In 1994 in his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Thomas Lauderdale was working in politics, with the intention of eventually running for office. Like other eager politiciansin-training, he went to every political fundraiser under the sun… but was dismayed to find the music at these events underwhelming, lackluster, loud and un-neighborly. Drawing inspiration from music from all over the world – crossing genres of classical, jazz and old-fashioned pop – and hoping to appeal to conservatives and liberals alike, he founded the “little orchestra” Pink Martini in 1994 provide more beautiful and inclusive musical soundtracks for political fundraisers for causes such as civil rights, affordable housing, cleaning up the Willamette River, funding for libraries, public broadcasting, education and parks.
One year later, Lauderdale called China Forbes, a Harvard classmate who was living in New York City, and asked her to join Pink Martini. They began to write songs together. Their first song – “Sympathique” (Je ne veus pas travailler)- became an overnight sensation in France, was nominated for “Song of the Year” at France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards, and to this day remains a mantra (“Je ne veux pas travailler” or “I don’t want to work”) for striking French workers. Says Lauderdale, “We’re very much an American band, but we spend a lot of time abroad and therefore have the incredible diplomatic opportunity to represent a broader, more inclusive America… the America which remains the most heterogeneously populated country in the world… composed of people of every country, every language, every religion. Except for Native Americans, all of us are immigrants from every country, of every language, of every religion.”
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Mercedes T. Bass +, Chairman of the Board
Marianne Auld +, Chairman of the Executive Committee
Teresa King +, Secretary
J.W. Wilson +, Treasurer
Keith Cerny, Ph.D., President and CEO
Amy Roach Bailey
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Barbara Cox
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Mitzi Davis
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Lee Hallman
Kathleen Hicks
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Misty Locke
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Dr. Till M. Meyn
Erin Moseley
Don C. Plattsmier +
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Alann B. Sampson +
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Dan Sigale
Kal Silverberg
Kathleen B. Stevens
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Chairmen Emerita
William P. Hallman, Jr.*
Adele Hart*
Ed Schollmaier*
Frank H. Sherwood
Life Trustee
Rosalyn G. Rosenthal
Rae and Ed Schollmaier*
FWSO President Emerita
Ann Koonsman*
* Denotes Deceased + Executive Committee Member
$500,000 and above
Sid W. Richardson Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John Kleinheinz
$150,000- $499,999
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Mary Potishman Lard Trust
William E. Scott Foundation
$50,000- $149,999
American Airlines
Lowe Foundation
Adeline & George McQueen Foundation
Leo Potishman Foundation
Qurumbli Foundation
$25,000- $49,999
BNSF Railway
Omni Hotel Fort Worth
Fort Worth Tourism Public Improvement District
$10,000–$24,999
Alcon Anonymous
Bank of America Corporate Philanthropy
Bratton Family Foundation | Mr. and Mrs. Douglas K. Bratton City Club of Fort Worth
George & Jeanne Jaggers Charitable Trust
Helene Bare & W. Glenn Embry Charitable Trust
MJR Foundation
Neiman Marcus Fort Worth
Piranesi
The Roach Foundation
The Thomas M., Helen McKee & John P. Ryan Foundation
Symphony League of Fort Worth
Texas Ballet Theater
Texas Commission on the Arts
$5,000–$9,999
Atmos Energy
The Felucca Fund
Fifth Avenue Foundation
Kimbell Art Foundation
Marguerite Bridges Charitable Trust
Metroplex Piano
Anonymous
Texas Women for the Arts
The Worthington Renaissance Fort Worth Hotel
$2,000–$4,999
Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP
Kenny G. Inc.
Once Upon A Time...
Robert D. & Catherine R. Alexander Foundation
Tanner and Associates, PC
$500-$1,999
Albertsons Safeway
Ben E. Keith Beverages
Central Market / H.E.B.
Fash Foundation
The Pace Fund
Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
Texas Christian University
WFAA-TV Channel 8
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra expresses its deepest gratitude to the following donors for their extraordinary annual financial support that sustains the FWSO as a world-class orchestra and valuable community asset. This listing reflects contributions to the Annual Fund from March 1, 2022 to March 27, 2023. *Denotes Deceased
Chairman’s Level
$1,000,000 and Above
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass
President’s Level
$500,000- $999,999
Mr. & Mrs. John B. Kleinheinz
Maestro’s Level
$150,000–$499,999
Sasha and Edward P. Bass
Guest Conductor’s Level
$50,000–$149,999
Ms. Marianne M. Auld and Mr. Jimmy Coury
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Davis; Davoil, Inc.
Ms. Lee Hallman
Aaron Howard & Corrie HoodHoward
Concertmaster’s Level
$25,000–$49,999
Connie Beck & Frank Tilley
Mollie & Garland Lasater at the NTCF Fund
Priscilla & Joe Martin
Nancy & Don Plattsmier
Artist’s Level
$10,000–$24,999
Carol Margaret Allen
Megan & Victor Boschini
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas K. Bratton
James Brooks
Mary Cauble
Deborah & Tom Deas
Althea L. Duersten
Eugenie Guynn
Gary & Judy Havener
Mr. & Mrs. J. Luther King, Jr.
Luther King Capital Management
Deborah Mashburn & David Boddie
Ellen F. Messman
Nesha & George Morey
Estate of Virginia & James
O’Donnell
Mrs. Susan S. Pratt
The Roach Foundation
Jonathan and Medea Suder; MJR Foundation
Mr. Gerald E. Thiel
Mr. & Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. J.W. Wilson
Benefactor| $5,000–$9,999
Mr. & Mrs. David R. Atnip
Mr. & Mrs. Tull Bailey
Dr. Joyce Beck
Ellen & Larry Bell
Anonymous
Greg & Pam Braak
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John Broude & Judy Rosenblum
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Dean & Emily Crocker
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Margaret & Craig Dearden
C. Edwards & R. Schroeder
Mr. & Mrs. Kirk French
Gail Aronoff Granek
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Ms. Nina C. Hutton
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Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Koonsman
Mr. & Mrs. William Leavitt
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Dr. and Mrs. Scott Marlow
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart D. McDonald
Anonymous
Berlene T. & Jarrell R. Milburn
Mrs. Erin Moseley
Stephen & Brenda Neuse
Anonymous
John & Anita O’Carroll
Mr. & Mrs. Omas Peterson
Don & Melissa Reid
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Reynolds
Dr. Deborah Rhea & Ms. Carol Bollinger
Rosemary Riney
Alann Bedford Sampson
Jeff & Judy Schmeltekopf
Ms. Patricia A. Steffen
Tim and Clare Stonesifer
Ronda & Walter Stucker
Dr. Richard Turner
Laurie & Lon Werner
Ms. Virginia Wheat
Charles White
Dr. James C. Williams
Mr. & Mrs. Mitchell Wynne
Contributor | $3,000–$4,999
Mr. Bill Bond
Judge Tim & Celia Boswell
Frances Jean Browning
Honorable H.D. Clark III and Mrs. Peggy Sue Branch-Clark
Mrs. Jeanne Cochran
Gary Cole
Drs. Jeff & Rosemary Detweiler
Doug & Carol English
Angela L. Evans
Dr. Oscar L. Frick
Ms. Clara Gamache
Gary Glaser and Christine Miller
Kay Glenday
Steve* & Jean Hadley
Dr. Christy L. Hanson
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Richard Hubbard, M.D.
Gordon & Aileen Kanan
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L. Lumley
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In memory of Marie A. Moore
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Mary Pencis
Ms. Jane Rector
Jude & Terry Ryan
Gayla & Blaine Scheideman
Punch Shaw & Julie Hedden
Kal & Karen Silverberg
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Mary & Reuben Taniguchi
Dr. Stuart N. Thomas; In memory of Dr. Gaby Thomas
Joy & Johnnie Thompson
John Wells & Shay McCulloch-Wells
Sustainer | $2,000–$2,999
William & Kathryn Adams
Mary Frances & George Barlow
Charitable Fund at the NTCF
Linda Brookshire
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Dr. & Mrs. Lincoln Chin
Susan Jackson Davis
Mr. & Mrs. Ben J. Fortson, Jr.
Dr. & Mrs. William H. Gibson
Anonymous
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Michelle & Reagan Horton
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In memory of Laura Elizabeth Bruton
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McCraw Family Charitable Fund
Shannon McGovern
Barbara Measter
Dr. & Mrs. Till M. Meyn
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Harris Franklin Pearson Private Foundation
Lynne B. Prater
William Proenza
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Emmet G. & Judith O. Smith
Thomas L. Smith
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John Williams & Suzy Williams
Suzy Williams & John Williams
Arthur & Carolyn Wright
Stuart Yarus & Judith Williams
Anonymous
Donor | $500–$1,999
Anthony Ackley
Kathryn Anderson
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Roy I. Bacus, Jr.
Ellen Baer
Ms. Anne H. Bass
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Anonymous
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John L. Bryant
In memory of Jack & Mildred Malone
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LRS Construction Services, L.P.
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Poteet
Anonymous
Dr. desAnges Cruser
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Paula C. Davis
Dedrick Family
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Anonymous
Jack R. Driscoll
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In Memory of Mary E. Duran
Dawn Ellison
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In Memory of Owen Hedden
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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The Seger Family
Marisa Selkirk
Dr. D.D. (Darcy) Sety
Betty Sherman
Anonymous
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Mary Alice Denmon Smith
Kathleen & Richard Stevens
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Ms. Nan Terry
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Lola LaCrosse & Jerry Tutt
Mr. Robert G. VanStryland
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Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm Wetsel
Anonymous
Lyn Clayton Willis
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Mr. Adrian Wright
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Dr. & Mrs. Bobby J. Wroten
David & Maureen Yett
Dr. & Mrs. Shawn Zarr
Dr. & Mrs. Daniel Ziegler
Patsy C. & Bill J. Zimmerman
The Board of Directors extends sincere gratitude to the following donors who have demonstrated exceptional generosity and commitment to the FWSO by endowing the following chairs and programs.
Music Director Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass* Chair
Guest Conductors
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Associate Conductor Rae & Ed Schollmaier*/Schollmaier Foundation Chair
Concertmaster
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Associate Concertmaster Ann Koonsman* Chair
Assistant Concertmaster Mollie & Garland Lasater Chair
Assistant Principal 2nd Violin Symphony League of Fort Worth Chair
Principal Cello
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass Chair
Mr. Sid R. Bass Chair
Assistant Principal Cello Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation Chair
Principal Bass Mr. & Mrs. Edward P. Bass Chair
Principal Oboe Nancy L. & William P. Hallman, Jr. Chair
Principal Flute Shirley F. Garvey* Chair
Principal Clarinet Rosalyn G. Rosenthal Chair
In Memory of Manny Rosenthal
Assistant Principal Trumpet Dorothy Rhea* Chair
Principal Bassoon Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Bass Chair
Principal Horn Elizabeth H. Ledyard* Chair
Associate Principal Horn Drs. Jeff and Rosemary Detweiler Chair
Principal Trombone
Bass Trombone
Mr. & Mrs. John Kleinheinz Chair
Mr. & Mrs. Lee M. Bass Chair
Principal Percussion Shirley F. Garvey* Chair
Assistant Principal Percussion Adele Hart* Chair
Timpani Madilyn Bass Chair
Harp Bayard H. Friedman * Chair
Keyboard Rildia Bee O’Bryan Cliburn & Van Cliburn* Chair
Great Performance Fund Rosalyn G. Rosenthal Chair
In Memory of Manny Rosenthal
Pops Performance Fund The Burnett Foundation
Adventures in Music
The Ryan Foundation
Symphonic Insight Teresa & Luther King
* Denotes Deceased
The Endowment Fund provides the institutional bedrock upon which the Orchestra is able to achieve long-term artistic growth and financial stability. Your support of the Endowment Fund is crucial. Please contact Meagan Hemenway, Vice President of Development at 817-665-6008 or mhemenway@fwsymphony.org.
$5,000,000 and above
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass
Nancy Lee* & Perry R. Bass*
Mr. Sid Bass
$1,000,000–$4,999,999
Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation
Sasha and Edward P. Bass
The Burnett Foundation
Garvey Texas Foundation
Kimbell Art Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John Kleinheinz
Elizabeth H. Ledyard
Rosalyn Rosenthal
Rae & Ed Schollmaier*
$500,000–$999,999
Mollie & Garland Lasater
The Thomas M., Helen McKee & John P. Ryan Foundation
T.J. Brown & C.A. Lupton Foundation
$250,000–$499,999
BNSF Railway
Drs. Jeff & Rosemary Detweiler
Estate of Dorothy Rhea
Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. Hart III
Mr. & Mrs. J. Luther King, Jr.
Qurumbli Foundation
$100,000–$249,999
Alcon
American Airlines
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Ramona & Lee Bass
Althea L. Duersten
Estate of Peggy L. Rayzor
Mr. & Mrs. Ben J. Fortson, Jr.
Mr.* & Mrs. Dee J. Kelly, Sr.
Luther King Capital Management
John Marion
Mr. & Mrs. John V. Roach II / The Roach Foundation
Anna Belle P. Thomas
$50,000–$99,999
Michael and Nancy Barrington
Van Cliburn*
Mrs. Gunhild Corbett
Mrs. Edward R. Hudson, Jr.
Mr. & Mrs.* Ronald Koonsman
Scurlock Foundation
Symphony League of Fort Worth
Mr. & Mrs. Jack S. Blanton Jr.
Estate of Linda Reimers Mixson
Dee Kelly Foundation
$25,000–$49,999
Estate of Linda Reimers Mixson
Estate of Michael Boyd Milligan
Garvey Texas Foundation
Colleen* and Preston Geren
Mrs. Adele Hart
Mr. and Mrs. Craig Kelly
Dee Kelly Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Krebs
Mr. Eddie M. Lesok
Mr. & Mrs. Duer Wagner Jr.
Laurie & Lon Werner
$10,000–$24,999
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Adams*
Mr. & Mrs. Malcolm K. Brachman
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas K. Bratton
Mr. Carroll W. Collins*
Mary Ann and Robert Cotham
Mrs. Norwood P. Dixon*
Elizabeth L. and Russell F. Hallberg Foundation
Estate of Ernest Allen, Jr.
Fifth Avenue Foundation
Mrs. Dora Lee Langdon
Carol V. Lukert
Mr. & Mrs. Richard W. Moncrief
Stephen & Brenda Neuse
Peggy L. Rayzor
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Reynolds
William E. Scott Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Taylor
Donna* & Bryan Whitworth
William S. Davis Family Foundation
Mr. Thomas L. Smith
$5,000–$9,999 Anonymous
Mrs. Charles Anton*
Ms. Lou Ann Blaylock
Sue & John Allen Chalk, Sr.
Nelson & Enid Cleary
Barbara A. & Ralph F. Cox
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Davis; Davoil, Inc.
Estate of Whitfield J. Collins
Francis M. Allen Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Scott Jeffrey Gerrish
Felice and Marvin Girouard
Jann Green
Maritza Cáceres & Miguel
Harth-Bedoya
Richard Hubbard, M.D.
JPMorgan Chase
Klabzuba Family Foundation
Priscilla & Joe Martin
Miss Louise McFarland*
RadioShack Corporation
Karen Rainwater Charitable Fund at the NTCF
Alann Bedford Sampson
Betty J. Sanders
Save Our Symphony Fort Worth
Mr. Gerald E. Thiel
John* & Frances Wasilchak
Charitable Fund at the NTCF
Peggy Meade-Cohen Crut
H. Paul Dorman
* Denotes deceased
Centurion Society members have achieved lifetime giving of $100,000+ (individuals) or $500,000+ (organizations)
Alann P. & Charles F. Bedford Fund at The NTX Community Foundation
Alcon
American Airlines
Amon G. Carter Foundation
Anonymous
Arts Fort Worth
Ms. Marianne M. Auld
Mr. & Mrs. William C. Bahan
F. Robert* & Mona Tull Ball
Michael and Nancy Barrington
Bass Foundation
Lee and Ramona Bass Foundation
Linda Taylor
Sasha and Edward P. Bass
Ramona & Lee Bass
Mrs. Mercedes T. Bass
Mrs. Perry R. Bass*
Robert & Ann Bass Household
Ben E. Keith Beverages
Marvin & Laurie Blum
BNSF Railway
Mr. and Mrs. Clive D. Bode
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas K. Bratton
Mr. & Mrs. L. O. Brightbill III
The William & Catherine Bryce Memorial Fund
Estate of Frank X. Buhler
The Burnett Foundation
Sue & John Allen Chalk, Sr.
Van Cliburn*
Mary Ann and Robert Cotham
Barbara A. & Ralph F. Cox
Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee
Dr. Ron* & Juana-Rosa Daniell
Kim & Glenn Darden
Mr. & Mrs. William S. Davis; Davoil, Inc.
Katrine Menzing Deakins Charitable Trust, Bank of America, Trustee
Drs. Jeff & Rosemary Detweiler
Althea L. Duersten
Mr. Vance A. Duffy
Elizabeth L. and Russell F. Hallberg
Foundation
Estate of Dorothy Rhea
Estate of Linda Reimers Mixson
Estate of Mildred G. Walters
Estate of Peggy L. Rayzor
Katie & Jeff Farmer
John E. Forestner
Mr. & Mrs. Ben J. Fortson, Jr.
Frank Kent Cadillac
Cornelia Cheney Friedman
Mr. & Mrs. Walker C. Friedman
William M. Fuller Foundation
Paula & George Fultz
Tera & Richard Garvey
Garvey Texas Foundation
George & Jeanne Jaggers Charitable Trust
Cami & John Goff
Eugenie Guynn
Helene Bare & W. Glenn Embry Charitable Trust
Qurumbli Foundation
Mrs. Adele Hart
Mr. & Mrs. Mark L. Hart III
Gary & Judy Havener
Aaron & Corrie Howard
Mrs. Edward R. Hudson, Jr.
JPMorgan Chase
Kathleen E. Connors Trust
Dee Kelly Foundation
Mr. * & Mrs. Dee J. Kelly, Sr.
Mr. & Mrs. Roby Key
Kimbell Art Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. J. Luther King, Jr. / Luther King Capital Management
Mr. and Mrs. John Kleinheinz
Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Koonsman
Lewis F. Kornfeld, Jr. Memorial Fund at the NTCF
Mollie & Garland Lasater at the NTCF Fund
Elizabeth H. Ledyard
Mr. Eddie M. Lesok
Dr. and Mrs. W. S. Lorimer, Jr.
Mrs. Robert Lowdon
Jeff & Judy Schmeltekopf
Rae & Ed Schollmaier *; Schollmaier Foundation
William E. Scott Foundation
Sid W. Richardson Foundation
Mr. Charles M. Simmons*
Thomas L. Smith
Star-Telegram
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Sterling
Mr. Paul Stevens
Kathleen & Richard Stevens
Jonathan and Medea Suder; MJR Foundation
Symphony League of Fort Worth
T.J. Brown & C.A. Lupton Foundation
Mary & Reuben Taniguchi
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas M. Taylor
Texas Commission on the Arts
Anna Belle P. Thomas
Mr. & Mrs. Kelly R. Thompson
Mr. & Mrs. Marion L. Walden
John* & Frances Wasilchak
Charitable Fund at the NTCF
Web Maddox Trust
Wells Fargo
Laurie & Lon Werner
Donna* & Bryan Whitworth
Ulla & K.P. Wilska
Worthington Renaissance Hotel
* Denotes deceased
Experience Oakridge firsthand by visiting our beautiful campus to see students and faculty in action. We want to share the value of being an Oakridge Owl and our commitment to inspiring students to seek their full potential in Academics, Athletics, and the Arts.
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A COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL SERVING STUDENTS AGE 3 THROUGH GRADE 12.
DFWPMA & FCVC Physicians Medical Associates is a first-rate multispecialty medical clinic that focuses on Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult, and Geriatric Psychiatry and Counseling services. Our aim is to offer the best medical services to individuals and families in the DALLAS FORT WORTH area. DFWPMA & FCVC provides Psychiatry, diagnostic evaluation, individual/family counseling and therapeutic addiction services in coping with illness such as but not limited to: Attention Deficit Disorder, Autism, Depression, Behavioral Issues, Addiction, Grief, PTSD, and Trauma. DFWPMA & FCVC’s goal is to improve quality of life and overcome emotional problems associated with illness. Treatments in mental health help the biological, psychological, behavioral, and social factors known to cause or worsen illnesses and disability. Our psychiatrist and Counselors see from ages 3 and up.
Emmanuel Nji, PMHNP-BC Board-Certified Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
THOMPSON’S HARVESON & COLE has served the Fort Worth area funeral and cremation needs since 1911. After six plus decades on 8th Avenue we have moved. Our new location is in the old John Knox church. The facility includes a beautiful Tudor chapel with stained glass windows, large sparkling reception room, a serving kitchen, lovely outdoor areas, and ample parking.
THOMPSON’S HARVESON & COLE has served the Fort Worth funeral and cremation needs since 1911. After six plus decades on 8th Avenue we have moved. Our new location is in John Knox church. The facility includes a beautiful Tudor with stained glass windows, large sparkling reception room, serving kitchen, lovely outdoor areas, and ample parking.
The Thompson family continues to provide Fort Worth, and its surrounding areas, with the outstanding service that has earned the company such a superior reputation for so many years.
The Thompson family continues to provide Fort Worth, surrounding areas, with the outstanding service that has the company such a superior reputation for so many years.
4350 River Oaks Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76114 817.336.0345
4350 River Oaks Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76114 817.336.0345 thompsonfunerals.com
4350 River Oaks Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 817.336.0345 thompsonfunerals.com
4350 River Oaks Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 817.336.0345 thompsonfuneral.com
Hear from 10 real students as they share their stories and experiences in Tarleton’s episode of The College Tour, a TV series streaming on YouTube and Amazon Prime!
Inspiration from the stage can open new worlds at home.
You won’t believe what’s possible with Realtors ® like ours.
Williams Trew is proud to support performances at Bass Hall.
