SoNA Evoking Folklore 2022-23 Program

Evoking Folklore

April 29, 2023

Evoking Folklore

Saturday, April 29, 2023 – 7:30PM / Walton Arts Center

Paul Haas, Conductor

Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate

Manuel de Falla

Chokfi’

Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Angela Cheng, piano

Sponsored by Friends of Sara Sharp

I. In the Generalife

II.A Distant Dance

III.In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba

INTERMISSION

Aaron Copland

Symphony No. 3

I.Molto moderato

II.Allegro molto

III.Andante quasi allegretto

IV.Molto deliberato

Concert sponsored by the Sharp Family in memory of Sara Sharp.

Friends of Sara Sharp

George & Mary Benjamin

Joel & Lynn Carver

Jack & Grace Cleghorn

Jenny Coogan

John & Kay DuVal

Sandy Edwards

Karolyn Farrell

David Fedele & Matthew Herren

William & Joyce Feldman

Patsy & Dan Ferritor

Malcolm & Ellen Hayward

Morriss & Ann Henry

Anthony & Susan Hui

Karen Kapella

Bob & Linda Kelly

Tom & Jill King

Martha & Malcolm McNair

D. Riley Nicholson

Judith Ricker & Mark Cory

Lynn Rogers & Jerry Jones

Bob & Diane Shaw

St. Paul’s Friends of Music

Joyce Stafford

Martha Sutherland

In Memory of Sara Sharp

Virginia Ann Coogan

Elizabeth Davis

Don Deweese

David Fedele & Matthew Herren

Bill & Joyce Feldman

Phyllis Gasser

Josh & Margo Hale

Vickie S. Hilliard

Anthony & Susan Hui

Carolyn Johnson

Tom & Jill King

Robert Ritschel

John Savage & Julie Crawford

Nancy Sloan

Joyce Stafford & Jack Cole

Gene Tweraser

Terry Vaughn & Tim Gilster

Marianne Woods

Don & Sheroll Walker

Evoking Folklore

Board of Directors

Mike Russell, Chair

Jack Cleghorn, Vice Chair

Kim Hadley, Treasurer

Marti Sudduth, Secretary

Hannah Breden

Monique Carswell

Malcolm Hayward, M.D.

Drew Hutchison

Carl Frazier-Sparks

Anthony Sumlin

Laura Wilkins

Tod Yeslow

Board of Advisors

Ed Clifford

Cynthia Coughlin

Susan Hui

Jill King

Tom King, Ph.D.

Peter B. Lane

Bill Mitchell

Dick Trammel

Staff

D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director

Paul Haas, Music Director

Ben Harris, General Manager

Terry Hicks, SoNA Singers Director

Sarah Pearson, Assistant Conductor

Natalie Fernandez, Music Education Director

Marti and Kelly Sudduth Chair

Devanee Williams, Development Manager

Jarrett Bastow, Personnel Manager

Richard Bobo, Music Librarian

Luke Pearson, Accounting

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The Symphony of Northwest Arkansas

Paul Haas

Music Director & Conductor

FIRST VIOLIN

Winona Fifield, Concertmaster Maestro’s Circle Chair

Paulo Eskitch, Acting Associate Concertmaster

Johann Acuña, Acting Assistant Concertmaster

Will Bush

Elizabeth Chrisman

Yida Hu

Sarah Kelly

Nicole Paglialonga

Austin Rice

Jennifer Sherman

Allison Steiner

Alla Wijnands

SECOND VIOLIN

Miho Oda Sakon, Principal Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music Chair*

Geronimo Oyenard, Associate Principal

Merritt Denton

Mary Haley

Diane Halliburton

Thane Isaac

Cristian Martinez Vega

Martha Mattes

Raul Munguia

Karol Rulli

VIOLA

Jesse Collett, Principal

Grace Clark, Acting Associate Principal

Lester Lewis Endowed Chair

Mary Kelly

Logan Mabry

Matthew Pavon

Anthony Verge

Phillip Wachowski

Anne Wenzel

CELLO

Kari Caldwell, Principal Starr Foundation Chair

Michael Puryear, Acting Associate Principal

Diane Bucchianeri

Christian Serrano Torres

Pecos Singer

BASS

Christine Craddock, Acting Principal Marybeth and Rick Hays Chair

Marc Facci, Acting Associate Principal

Benji Wilson

Russell Thompson

FLUTE

Gabriel Vega, Acting Principal

Greenwood Gearhart Chair

Ginny Hudson, Acting Associate Principal Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music Chair*

Carley Flowers, piccolo

Kelly Hermann, piccolo

OBOE

Lise Glaser, Acting Principal

Robert T. Murphy III and Beau

G. Reynolds Chair

Andrew Baker

Lauren White, English Horn

CLARINET

Trevor Stewart, Principal

Jasper Hensley

Orlando Scalia, bass clarinet

Amanda Hudnall , E-flat clarinet

BASSOON

Richard Bobo, Acting Principal

Mark Lauer

Josue Avelar, contrabassoon

HORN

Jake Rensink, Acting Principal

Josh East

David Renfro

Katelyn Halbert

Joe Falvey, Assistant Horn

TRUMPET

Richard Rulli, Principal Ed and Carol Clifford Chair

Andrew Stadler

Tim Wootton

Benjamin Hay

TROMBONE

Cory Mixdorf, Principal Tenor Michael Hollomon and Eric Wailes Chair

Doug Fletcher

Jason Hausback, Principal Bass

TUBA

Ryan Robinson, Principal

TIMPANI

Stephen Craft, Principal

PERCUSSION

James Harris, Principal

Fernando Valencia

Julianne Brown-Meola Chair

Amy Hearting

Micheal Barnes

Carson Vanduch

HARP

Devanee Williams, Acting Principal

KEYBOARD

Tomoko Kashiwagi, Acting Principal

Kristine Olefsky

*Mt. Sequoyah Women of Music: Liz Allen, Jenny Coogan, Karolyn Farrell, Phoebe Goodwin, Jill King, Natalie Olsen, Lynn Rogers, Jane Scroggs, Jackie Telfair, Laura Wilkins, and Ann Marie Ziegler

Paul Haas Music Director & Conductor

SoNA Music Director Paul Haas enjoys a distinctive career as conductor, composer and installation artist. His guest conducting engagements have included performances with Orchestra of St. Luke’s, San Antonio Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the New World Symphony, among others, as well as festival appearances.

Over the last decade, he has written commissions for a wide variety of iconic venues, including the Park Avenue Armory and Rubin Museum of Art in New York, Grace Cathedral in San

Angela Cheng Piano

Sponsored by Friends of Sara Sharp

Consistently praised for her brilliant technique, tonal beauty, and superb musicianship, Canadian pianist Angela Cheng is one of her country’s national treasures. In addition to regular guest appearances with virtually every orchestra in Canada, she has performed with the symphonies of Saint Louis, Houston, Indianapolis, Colorado, Utah, San Diego and Jacksonville, as well as the philharmonic

Sara Elizabeth Savage Sharp

May 24, 1939 – October 6, 2021

Sara was born in the little south Arkansas town of Waldo, in Columbia County. Music was one of the pillars of her life. She studied piano under her mother, starting at the age of three and by her early teens was playing the organ in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Hope.

She attended the University of Arkansas – under a National Merit Scholarship – where she received a BA and MA in history and then a performance degree in organ. She was the Music Director, Organist, and Choir Director at St. Theodore’s Episcopal Church in Bella Vista for fifteen years. She donated the grand piano to the Walton Arts Center in her mother’s memory.

Francisco, the Anchorage Museum of Art in Alaska and the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

In addition to his positions as Music Director of SoNA and the Thunder Bay Symphony in Ontario, Canada, Haas is the founder and Artistic Director of Sympho, a trailblazing concert production company that creates powerful and emotional musical experiences, collaborating with leading artists and using unexpected performance methods and unorthodox venues.

Haas is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard School. He resides in Germantown, New York, with his wife and three children. Find out more at paulhaas.com.

orchestras of Buffalo, Louisiana, Rhode Island, London, Israel and Minas Gerais in Brazil.

Recent performances include a debut with the Fort Worth Symphony, performing Rachmaninoff’s “Variations on a Theme of Paganini,” under the baton of Robert Spano, and a return to the Vancouver Symphony, performing Ravel’s Concerto in G with Otto Tausk.

A native of Hong Kong, Ms. Cheng studied extensively with Menahem Pressler at Indiana University and with Sascha Gorodnitzki at The Juilliard School. She is currently on the artist faculty of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where she was honored with the 2011-12 Excellence in Teaching Award.

Sara was the founding Dean of the local chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She was a longtime supporter of the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, serving on the board, including a tenure as Board Chair. When the organization re-branded as SoNA, she continued serving the organization as a member of the Board of Advisors.

In 1960 she married Frank Sharp, and they then moved to a farm on Kessler Mountain where they raised four children and housed many foster children.

During Sara’s sixty years in Northwest Arkansas, she rarely missed a choral, symphonic, or organ performance, as well as making her adopted Ozark hills ring with the sound of her music.

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Your planned charitable bequest to SoNA can make a significant impact by helping to ensure that our mission will thrive far into the future. Gifts of all sizes make it possible for us to build financial strength and maintain our tradition of excellence and community outreach for generations to come. For assistance with bequests, including gifts of stock, please contact Jett Moore with Greenwood Gearhart, Inc. at jtmoore@greenwoodgearhart.com or 479.521.5353.

The Maestro’s Circle

SoNA wishes to thank the donors who have contributed to our Endowment Fund through the Maestro’s Circle. If you would like to learn more about multi-year gifts that help ensure SoNA’s future, please contact D. Riley Nicholson, Executive Director, at riley@sonamusic.org or 479.521.4166.

Bob & Becky Alexander

The James Burton Blair Family Foundation

Bob Bogle (in memoriam)

George & Mary Benjamin

Joel & Lynn Carver

Nick & Carolyn Cole

Cynthia Coughlin

Sandra K. Edwards

Pete & Shirley Esch

Reed Greenwood

Mary Ann Greenwood (in memoriam)

Susan & Orville Hall

Malcolm & Ellen Hayward

Tom & Jill King

Hannah & Greg Lee

Jim & Ann McKenzie

Ellis & Kay Melton

Robert T. Murphy III and Beau G. Reynolds

David & Pamela Parks

Mary Lynn Reese

Frances Lee Scott (in memoriam)

Diane & Mark Simmons

Dewitt & Cindy Smith

Billie Starr

Marti & Kelly Sudduth

The Walton Family Foundation

Corporate, Foundation & Government Partners

Friends of SoNA

Contributions to SoNA’s annual fund and special events enable us to continue to bring great music and innovative music education to life in Northwest Arkansas. Gifts listed below have been received or pledged between September 1, 2021 through March 20, 2023. We make every effort to maintain accurate records. If we have inadvertently omitted your name, please let us know so that we may correct our error. Gifts listed below do not include corporate matches.

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$10,000+

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George & Mary Benjamin

City of Fayetteville

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Kimberly Hadley

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Jim & Ann McKenzie

Mike & Mary Russell

Frank Sharp

Mark & Diane Simmons

Dewitt H. Smith III & Cynthia B. Smith

Marti & Kelly Sudduth

Bravissimo

$5,000 - $9,999

The James Burton Blair Family Foundation

Ed & Carol Clifford

Cynthia Coughlin

Sandra K. Edwards

Orville & Susan Hall

Michael Hill

Thomas & Jill King

Hannah & Greg Lee

Ellis & Kay Melton

Robert T. Murphy III and Beau G. Reynolds

David & Pam Parks

Mary Lynn Reese

Eric Wailes & Michael Hollomon

The Walton Family Foundation

Amanda & Chad Ware

Bruce & Laura Wilkins

Bravo

$2,500 - $4,999

Anonymous

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Monique Carswell

Encore

$1,000 - $2,499

Jacquelyn Brandli & Doug Cummins

Mark Breden

Julianne Brown-Meola

Evan & Anita Bukey

Jack & Grace Cleghorn

Angela Cothren

Virginia Ann Coogan

Lynda Coon

Sid & Kay Davis

Don B. Deweese

Raymond Etheredge

Don & Karolyn Farrell

William & Joyce Feldman

Nancy Garner & Mort Gitelman

Sue & Lyle Gohn

Phoebe J. Goodwin

Howard & Treva Hamilton

Bob & Linda Kelly

Jeff & Cheryl Kester Thomas

Jacqueline King

Bill & Sabra Martin

Jay & Judy McDonald

Bob & Linda McMath

Lindsey & Rita Miller

Mike & Kathy Moss

Tim & Deborah Ogg

Nancy Preis

Mark Smidt

Sally Stone

Anthony & Chantal Sumlin

Brad Vester

Donald & Sheroll Walker

Ann Marie Ziegler

Prestissimo

$500 - $999

Anonymous

Bob Beitle, Jr.

Sabrina Bewley

Hannah Breden

Robert Burns

Support for the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Season Partners

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Pete & Shirely Esch

Carl & Josh Frazier-Sparks

Hershey & Denise Garner

Rick Hays & Marybeth Cornwell

Anthony & Susan Hui

James R. Jinks

David & Deborah Malone

Doug & Barbara Prichard

Todd Simmons

Carolyn Smart

Joyce Stafford

Billie Jo Starr

Tod Yeslow & Jackie Telfair

Joel & Lynn Carver

Patricia A. Cornish

Count & Lisa Darling

Tom & Dana Dykman

Peter & Tara Elzer

James & Betty Ezell

David Fedele & Matthew Herren

Martha Frits

Rachel & Adam Golden

Albert Gray

Morriss & Ann Henry

Bob & Carol Hodges

David & Holly Johnson

David Jolliffe & Gwynne Gertz

Baum Charitable Foundation Trust

Peter Lane & Barbara Putman

Cole Lester

Lisa Mahlum

Richard & Evelyn Millan

Mike Necessary

Vivian & Charles Nicholson

Robert & Melinda Nickle

Kimberly Ringhausen

Lynn Rogers & Jerry Jones

Ann & Charles Rye

William & Judy Schwab

Joe & Sue Schultz

Eloise Jane Scroggs

Winifred Shanor

Ken & Celia Shireman

Dr. & Mrs. Arnold Smith

Robert Welsh

Buddy & Mary Whiteaker

Pattie & David Williams

Presto

$250 - $499

Karen Anderson

Michael Babb

Dale & Vayle Benedict

Robert & Vicky Bruce

June M. Carter

Jonathan Deweese

Tommy & Kathy Deweese

Adrienne Elrod

Helena Gadison

Craig & Alissa Gardenswartz

Bob & Kathy Harriell

Bruce Harris

Rebecca Harrison

Peter & Margo Heinzelmann

Walt & Sudie Henderson

James & Mary Hurley

Eric Jackson

Joan & Bruce Johnson

Tom & Karen Kapella

Elaine & David Longer

Sandra Luetjen

Jacob & Ashley McElroy

William McGowan & Kelly Carithers

Dennis McKinnie

Bill & Deeg Mitchell

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Andrea Newby

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Regina Peck

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Hoyt & Mary Purvis

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Kathryn Rubenstein

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John Savage

Dr. & Mrs. James Scherer

Taylor Smith

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Rebecca Summerlin

Clayton Thompson

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Deanna Williams

Allegro

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C.L. Abercrombie

Carole & John Ball

L.E. & Patricia Beland

Jerome Biebesheimer

Kathryn Birkhead

Blackbaud Giving Fund

Aaron Bleidt & John Clayborn

Michael Todd Bradley

John Van & Rosemary Brahana

Lori Bremer

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Stan D’Aubin

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Elizabeth Davis

Ted & Dianne Dreher

Alan Ellstrand & Karen Byers

Tommy & Rebecca Free

Joel Freund & Carla Crawley

Susan & Michael Gray

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Vickie Hilliard

Corey Huffty

Barbara Jackson

Carolyn Johnson

Ann Kabanuck

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Terry Vaughan & Tim Gilster

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Ramona Jones

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James Sawyer & Mary Charlton

Nancy Sloan

Janice Stanesic

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Marianne Woods

Kaitlyn Wyre

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