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Welcome Letter from Caramoor’s Interim CEO Spring 2021 Concerts Caramoor Conversations Caramoor Goes Virtual! by Kathy Schuman

Concert Program

Become a Member Highlights from Our Fall Special Events Thank You to Our Donors Caramoor Leadership Caramoor Staff

©2021 Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts 149 Girdle Ridge Road PO Box 816 Katonah, NY 10536 Caramoor Grounds & Performance Photos Gabe Palacio Photography, Katonah, NY gabepalacio.com Caramoor Fall Fête Photos Chansoda Roeun chansoda.com

General Information 914.232.5035 Box Office 914.232.1252 caramoor.org Program Magazine Staff Laura Schiller, Publications Editor Adam Neumann, aanstudio.com, Design Tahra Delfin, Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Roslyn Wertheimer, Marketing Manager Sean Jones, Marketing Coordinator

Dear Friends, Welcome to our Spring 2021 season. We are thrilled to present this exceptional array of artists, brought to you from our Music Room in The Rosen House. We are overjoyed that, starting April 2, we are able to bring a limited-capacity audience into this venue while we continue livestreaming our concerts as well.

Over the past year, Caramoor – like many performing arts organizations everywhere – has focused on streaming concerts in a profound effort to keep the music playing. We are incredibly appreciative of the artists who have joined us on this journey, and we are deeply grateful to you, our dedicated audience members, who have allowed us to transport the music directly into your homes.

Our eight concerts this spring include a vocal recital by one of today’s leading bass-baritones, two string quartets from our Ernst Stiefel Quartetin-Residence program, a spirited Baroque band, a legendary jazz singer, and more. We are also pleased to continue a new video series we started this fall, Caramoor Conversations, designed to deepen our audiences’ connection to the musicians and composers that we have presented.

I am so excited to share that, in May, Caramoor will welcome Edward J. Lewis III as our new President & CEO. Ed has two decades of experience in performing arts leadership. An accomplished violist, Ed is a demonstrated leader, innovator, and musician with a long roster of accomplishments. He will be coming to us from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he is currently Vice-Chancellor for Advancement. We can’t wait to introduce Ed to the Caramoor community.

Most importantly, we look forward to welcoming you back to our grounds more fully this summer. It is our hope that, by then, the world will be ready for us to gather safely to share the many joys of live music together.

Warmly,

Nina Curley Interim CEO

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March 21 Dashon Burton, bass-baritone David Fung, piano April 1 Schwab Vocal Rising Stars April 9 Son Little April 11 Thalea String Quartet April 25 Emi Ferguson and Ruckus May 2 Callisto Quartet May 8 Catherine Russell May 23 Junction Trio

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Caramoor Conversations is a free video series that dives deeper into the pieces of music being performed in an upcoming concert. These in-depth discussions with the artists are a way for the audience to have a better understanding, and hopefully, a greater connection to the composers and their work. After their initial broadcast, the Conversations will be available throughout the current season. You can tune in at any time!

Sunday, March 28, 3:00pm

Sunday, April 18, 3:00pm

The Red Book

The Bartók String Quartets (Part Two)

Free Available on demand starting March 28

Free Available on demand starting April 18

with Paola Prestini and Sonu Shamdasani

with Ara Guzelimian and the Callisto Quartet

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Caramoor Goes Virtual!

How Caramoor has adapted to the digital landscape and stayed close to artists and audiences throughout the pandemic.

By Kathy Schuman, Artistic Director Wh o ca n f o r g et t h e w e e k o f M a r c h 9, 2 0 2 0 ?

It began with us welcoming five Schwab Vocal Rising Stars for our annual mentoring program with Steven Blier, with every intention of having a public concert in the Music Room on Sunday, March 15. Well, as the week progressed, it became clear that this was not to be. By March 14, everything had shut down.

But wait….didn’t we just install video cameras in the Music Room the previous year? Should we do a livestreamed concert?? Do we even know how to do that???

Well, here we are, a year and 20 livestreams later, and I’m proud to say — we know how to do that!

As we launch our Spring 2021 season of livestreamed concerts, I’d love to share a few thoughts with you on the past year and what it’s been like to bring music to you in this new virtual format.

In-person vs Livestream As we transitioned to livestreaming, I felt it was really important to transfer some part of the special Caramoor setting to our virtual concerts. So, we decided early on not to do any remote recordings, but only ones actually filmed at Caramoor. (We did have one exception to this, which was our quartet-in-residence, who were unable to travel from Houston, TX). I introduced each concert from a different room of the Rosen House, or from a spot on the grounds, so our audiences could learn a bit more about our unique site.

Added content One of the benefits of the video concerts is our ability to add additional content and features to the programs.

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Emily Buffum, our livestream technician, hard at work

Many of our livestreamed concerts are followed by a Q&A on stage with the artists. The audience can send questions in through the chat box during the stream. These talks really help connect audiences to the musicians, and allow them to hear about not just the music, but how they’ve been coping throughout this past year. For many of these artists, our performances were the first time they played with other people, or outside of their homes, for many months.

We’ve also added short pre-recorded interviews with alumni of our Rising Stars programs, and segments with or about composers whose works are featured on the programs. We even included a fun video of the Jacobsen brothers playing our theremin!

A post-concert chat with Gloria Chien, Anthony McGill and Kathy Schuman, Caramoor’s Artistic Director

Becoming a media company We discovered that putting on livestreamed concerts is MUCH more work than “normal” live concerts! The programs are shot with three cameras and live-edited from the basement.

(Yes, practically all of our streams have really been LIVE.) So, we now have a whole livestream ‘team’ including a director, a livestream technician, an audio engineer, video graphic designer, live- chat monitor, etc.

It all comes together on the day of the performance, with the extra nailbiting that comes along with that dreaded phrase “technical difficulties”!

Thankfully these have been few and far between, but we will not soon forget when we couldn’t get any audio on Inon Barnatan’s July livestream and had to tell folks to tune in the next day.

But that was back in July…

Working during a pandemic On top of everything else, there are all the Covid safety protocols. Artists sometimes had to quarantine, there were Covid tests, there were masks, there were gloves, there were Lysol wipes, there were chairs spaced six feet apart (and colleagues with a ruler to check!). And our artist/staff meals were “enjoyed” with each of us sitting alone

at our own table. One of the oddest things for me was the 15 minutes or so leading up to each stream. Usually there’s audience filing in and chatting and the whole Music Room is aflutter with anticipation and conviviality.

Now, the moments leading up to the stream are really, really quiet. The few staff members are at their ‘stations’ — the hall is virtually empty, except for a couple of us. The stage manager gives the countdown….5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

After each piece, we give the artists a quiet thumbs up; there’s usually no clapping or bows.

George Lewis and Jeremy Denk in a mid-concert video chat about the composer “Blind Tom” Wiggins

As I write this, it looks like N.Y. State may be allowing small indoor audiences this spring. Whoopee! Music to my ears. Now we’ll have to figure out how to do in-person concerts simultaneously with livestreams.

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Son Little Presented in Collaboration with City Winery Friday / April 9 / 8:00pm / Music Room A small, socially-distanced invited audience is present for this concert, in accordance with N.Y. State Covid-19 health and safety guidelines. This explains the clapping you might hear!

Caramoor thanks Susan and Bob Morgenthau for their generous support of this Livestream.

The Music Room theatrical lighting was a generous gift from Adela and Lawrence Elow.

We would like to thank our media partners for their support:

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About the Artist.

map and trusting the currents of life to carry you where you belong.

“I’d always produced myself in the past,” explains Little, “but it’s easy to get caught up in an endless quest for perfection when you do that. Working with Renaud let me see my work from an outsider’s perspective, and that helped me get out of my own way.”

Son Little “Letting go can be a scary prospect,” says Son Little. “But there’s beauty in it, too. Everything you leave behind opens up space for something new in your life.”

That was certainly the case with Little’s remarkable new album, aloha. Written in only eight days and recorded at Paris’s iconic Studio Ferber, the entire project was an exercise in letting go, in ceding control, in surrendering to fate. While Little still plays nearly every instrument on the album himself, he put his songs in the hands of an outside producer for the first time here, collaborating with French studio wizard Renaud Letang (Feist, Manu Chao) to create his boldest, most self-assured statement yet.

Equal parts vintage and modern, the collection blends classic soul, old-school R&B, and adventurous indie sensibilities into a timeless swirl fueled by gritty instrumental virtuosity and raw, raspy vocals. It’s an ambitious work of vision and reflection, to be sure, but more than that, it’s an ecstatic testament to the freedom that comes from torching the

Born Aaron Earl Livingston to a preacher and a teacher in Los Angeles, Little first came to international prominence with his self-titled debut, released in 2015 on ANTI- Records.

While Little’s collaborations with The Roots and RJD2 had already helped him make a name for himself by that point in his adopted hometown of Philadelphia, critics on both sides of the pond were quick to recognize the unique power of Little’s solo recordings, which stripped the past for parts that could be reconstituted into something wholly new and original.

NPR hailed Little’s “impeccably crafted songs” as “honest and unpretentious,” while The Independent proclaimed him “a formidable talent,” and Vice declared that he was “dissolving the barrier between R&B and rock 'n' roll one tearjerker at a time.”

Songs from the record racked up roughly 30 million streams on Spotify alone, and the album landed Little dates with everyone from Leon Bridges and Kelis to Shakey Graves and Mumford & Sons alongside festival appearances at Bonnaroo, Newport Folk, and more. Never one to rest on his laurels, Little showed off his production chops the following year, earning a GRAMMY Award for his work helming Mavis Staples’ acclaimed Spring 2021 II

See That My Grave Is Kept Clean, and in 2017, he released a critically lauded sophomore album, New Magic, which Paste said “did for the blues what Sharon Jones did for soul music.”

By now, it’s probably clear that Son Little likes to keep busy. In order to create aloha, though, Little knew he’d have to do the unthinkable: sit still.

The next thing Little had to let go of was even more challenging. Just weeks before he was set to begin assembling the album demos in Petaluma, California, his hard drive fried, taking with it nearly a dozen detailed demos for new songs. For a meticulous planner like Little, it was a devastating blow, one that left him with no choice but to start over.

“Losing all that material felt like a nightmare at the time, but I’ve since learned to see it as an opportunity,” he reflects. “If I hadn’t lost all those songs, I never would have written all the new stuff that became aloha.”

Beginning again with what was essentially a blank slate, Little penned much of the new album in Petaluma, in a tiny house and it’s adjacent barn.

He let the songs take him on a journey of self-exploration there, examining the kind of big-picture questions that emerged from his subconscious in the quiet stillness: What am I doing? How did I get here? Who do I really want to be?

“I let the dust settle after a hectic year, and stopped worrying about the music for a minute,” explains Little. “I tried to just tune in to what was happening in my mind, to just be present in my body. It was liberating.”

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That sense of liberation is clear from the very beginning of aloha, with album opener hey rose showcasing Little’s freewheeling way with words and lean, swaggering delivery. Inspired by the sense of infatuation that comes with new love, the track sets the stage for an album full of unflinching selfexamination and daring sonic fusion.

Little injects trippy psychedelia into Sam Cooke soul on the slow-burning about her. again., channels Prince and Michael Jackson on the breezy 3rd eye weeping, and marries sparse, distorted guitar tones with clean, dense vocal harmonies on the infectious mahalia.

“That song’s an apology delivered at the start of a relationship, instead of the end, when it all falls apart,” says Little, who often collapses time and space in his writing by combining characters and scenes from throughout his life. “I’d been thinking a lot about how I find myself repeating the same mistakes in different areas of my life. I find myself drawn over and over to the same qualities in different people, and sometimes the dynamic can become toxic. Pointing the finger is easy. I’m trying to be better at acknowledging my part of the problem.”

Recognizing the power of our own self-destructive tendencies is a recurring theme on aloha. Little mourns the suicide of a beloved uncle on suffer, using addiction and mental illness as a lens to explore forgiveness and empathy, laments the rapidly deteriorating world his two children are set to inherit on o clever one, and meditates on the dangers of succumbing to passion at the expense of reason on belladonna.

“There’s a lightness that comes from being so deeply in love with a person or an idea,” says Little. “But there’s a danger that comes with it, too.

It’s like a drug: a little bit and you feel incredible; too much and it kills you.”

It would be easy to feel helpless in the face of such inexorable forces, to feel as if we are prisoners of fate rather than masters of our own destiny, but Little instead finds peace in perseverance on the album. “Hallelujah,” he sings on the gorgeous never give up, “though I’m battered and blue / feel like I’m born to lose…Never will I give up.”

It is a potent reminder that letting go doesn’t mean giving in; in fact, quite the opposite. Letting go can be an act of defiance, of growth, of empowerment.

Letting go requires a leap of faith, and, in Son Little’s case, that faith has been richly rewarded. Whether that means this album represents the end of one chapter or the beginning of the next is impossible to know just yet, but in either case, there’s really only one thing to say: aloha.

2021 Summer Season will be announced on Tuesday, April 13!

This summer’s concerts will be presented at a decreased audience capacity, in compliance with state guidelines.

We are looking forward to safely welcoming audiences back to the newly renovated Caramoor campus this summer, so that we can enjoy live music together. Our staff is taking every precaution, and working diligently to make sure health and safety protocols are in place on behalf of our artists, staff, and audience. Please check our website, social media, and future e-newsletters for more information.

Spring 2021 IV

Coming up next this spring...

Aaron Crouch, tenor

Erin Wagner, mezzo-soprano

Samuel Kidd, baritone

Grace Francis, piano

Nicoletta Berry, soprano

Saturday / May 8 / 8:00pm

Catherine Russell

Presented in Collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center

Catherine Russell dazzles her audiences with familiar favorites and forgotten gems alike. Russell excelled as a backup singer and multi-instrumentalist with David Bowie, Steely Dan, Cyndi Lauper, and Paul Simon, before launching a remarkable solo career, featuring Grammy award-winning and chart-topping recordings. In 2019 she released her seventh album, Alone Together, which was then Grammy-nominated for Best Jazz Vocal Album.

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Highlights of Our Fall Special Events.

For our annual Cabaret benefit, Laura Osnes and Tony Yazbeck celebrated Gershwin and the American Songbook in a Livestream from the Music Room.

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aramoor’s special events play a vital role in raising funds for our core programming and are a great opportunity to thank our donors who help foster musical inspiration.

We appreciate the support of our event donors, especially in this strange past season as they withstood reschedules and modifications aplenty. Our Opening Night Gala was cancelled though received generous support from ticket and table reservations converted to donations. Our Cabaret in the Music Room instead became live on screen from your own living room and even included some fancy-footed dance numbers. And we were able to host a small, outdoor, socially distant, and compliant fundraising dinner – the Fall Fête – in the careful hands of our friends at Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Caramoor is grateful to the event committees and patrons that helped guide us in making sure these occasions were memorable and successful.

Laura Osnes serenaded audiences in thier homes with a favorite Gershwin song.

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Cabaret supporters Larry and Adela Elow shared their passion for cabaret in a lively mid-concert video recording.

Caramoor held its Fall Fête in a safe and lovely setting at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

The Fall Fête tables, distanced for safety, were decorated with seasonal flowers.

Fall Fête guests enjoyed a socially distanced outdoor dinner.

An Auction Table enabled guests to bid on unique items and support Caramoor.

SAVE THE DATES! October 23, 2021 Cabaret in the Music Room Eugene Linden, Olga and Michael Kagan

December 4, 2021 Benefit Dinner in the Rosen House

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Caramoor / Support.

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Gifts of Membership.

The following is a list of individuals, families, and/or households who received the Gift of Membership during the period January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020 and thus may not be included in the previous list.

Dana & Robert Bos Ms. Francheska Calderon Kayce & John Carey David Ellis & Ann Greenawalt Ms. Christie Fitzpatrick Carolyn & David Goodman Ms. Cynthia Haupt Mrs. Cynthia Herbert Jennifer & Julio Herrera Debbie & Manny Hochadel Mr. Timothy Horan Ms. Mary Judge Katherine & Albert Kim Susan & Marks Lachs Mr. Jonathan Larsen Daniella Mini & Cesar Rabellino Ms. Jane Minnis Ms. Bärli Nugent Dawn & Richard Papalian Mrs. Amy Passman Jennifer & John Roach Dillon Smith Maureen & Charles Steele Ms. Brigitte St. John Ms. Amelia D. Wierzbicki Ms. Gwenn S. Winkhaus Ms. Manja Wurschke For more information about Membership benefits, or to give the Gift of Membership, please contact Jennifer Pace, Director of Individual Gifts, at jennifer@caramoor.org or call 914.232.5035 ext. 412.

All concerts made possible, in part,

by ArtsWestchester with funds from the Westchester County Government.

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The 2020 Summer and 2020 Fall Seasons were supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

All concerts made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Honor / Memory.

From January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, generous contributions to Caramoor were made in honor of the following individuals, organizations, programs, or Caramoor departments, or to note special celebrations or causes, and/or in memory of special individuals or couples: In Honor of Anonymous Estelle F. Baum Lucienne & Max Bissainthe Michael Brown Caramoor’s amazing staff Caramoor Staff Caramoor’s Staff, with admiration Jonathan Clark Sandy & Bill Cordiano Tahra Delfin Judy Evnin Judy & Tony Evnin Susan W. (Susie) Freund Josh Groban Jeff Haydon Gerry Hodes The Kend Family Kate & Peter Kend’s 30th Anniversary Peter Kend Felix Kleinman Siena Licht Miller Stephen Limpe In thanks for the Livestream [Our] Grandfather Adolph Loewi Zoë Martin-Doike Susan & Richard O’Leary Phyllis & David Oxman C. Pace & R. Pace Dan Rader Tina Salierno Olivia Schectman Laura Schiller Mildred Skolnick The Unicorns!

Leslie Williams & James Attwood In Memory of William T. Appling Helen-Mae Askin Hilton Bailey Elaine Barath Steven Bloom Emanuela Briccetti Dr. Solomon & Edith Brizer by their daughter Diane Brizer Those of our Caramoor Community lost to COVID-19

Martha Dinerstein Lauren Finster Susan (Sue) McPherson Gottsegen Robert D. Hodes Peter Kubicek by his family Joan Lynton Victor Marrow Grace Helen McCabe Eva Petschek Newman Terrance W. Schwab John Eugene Sharp Elie Siegmeister Marion & Herbert Sineck In-Kind Donations.

Caramoor gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and organizations that made in-kind contributions (gifts other than cash or stock) from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. Certain gifts of products or services that can be used by Caramoor enable us to further our mission of presenting exciting concerts, mentoring young musicians, and providing arts education to school children.

Aundrea & James Amine Anonymous (2) Nancy & Jon Bauer Mr. Albert Carbonell Mrs. Marcy Carlson Pat & Ian Cook Mr. & Mrs. William Cordiano Nina & Tom Curley Ms. Kathryn E. Dysart & Mr. Jeffrey L. Schwartz Mr. Tom Eirman Mr. & Mrs. Anthony B. Evnin Ms. Jane Gladstone Great Performances Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Greif Cecilia Tay Kellie-Smith & Sam Kellie-Smith Katherine & Peter Kend Katherine & Marc Lazar Tracy & Stephen Limpe Betsy Mitchell Orchestra of St. Luke’s Mary Lou & Mike Pappas Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of New York Kathy Schuman Storm King Art Center Mr. Gary Taratunio Leslie Williams & Jim Attwood WineBid Audrey & Richard Zinman / 16

Matching Gifts.

Caramoor gratefully recognizes the support of the many companies and foundations that make matching gifts. Employees can maximize their contributions to Caramoor by taking advantage of their employer’s matching gift programs. The following organizations made matching contributions from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020.

AmazonSmile Foundation Bank of America Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund The Benevity Community Impact Fund The Blackbaud Giving Fund Bloomberg L.P. Corporate Giving Program Broadridge Credit Suisse Americas Foundation Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund GE Foundation Goldman Sachs Gives Goldman, Sachs & Co. Greenlight Capital IBM Corporation Matching Grants Program J.P. Morgan Charitable Giving Fund JPMorgan Chase’s Good Works Employee Giving Program Morgan Stanley GIFT Network for Good Pfizer Foundation Sy Syms Foundation Vanguard Charitable YourCause, LLC

Encore Society (Planned Giving).

The Encore Society recognizes dedicated individuals and couples who have indicated their intent to include Caramoor in their estate planning. Planned giving is a wonderful to establish a legacy at Caramoor and make a lasting impact on the organization.

Caramoor thanks the following thoughtful individuals who have designated Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in their estate plans.

Anonymous An Anonymous Couple § An Anonymous Couple (2) Laura B. Blau Catherine A. M. Cavanaugh Catherine & George Daubek Mr. Robert C. Dinerstein Ralph P. & Barbara J. DuPont Judy & Tony Evnin Annette & Len§ Gilman Dr. Susan Harris & Mr. Thomas Molnar Mrs. Betty Himmel Olga Kagan Ms. Deborah A. Kempe & Mr. Andre M. Hurni Nancy S. Offit Susan & Richard O’Leary Marie C. Rolla§ Eileen Caulfield Schwab Lucille Werlinich Leslie Williams & Jim Attwood § deceased If you would like more information about planned giving at Caramoor, or to notify us of your intention to include Caramoor in your estate planning, please contact Nina Curley, VP/Development Officer, at nina@caramoor.org or 914.232.3681. Additional information may be found at plannedgiving.caramoor.org.

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Endowments.

Philanthropic gifts to Caramoor’s permanent endowment(s) allow the use of Annual income to ensure program continuity and organizational strength in perpetuity. Investments in Caramoor’s endowment(s) support concerts of the highest quality, help bring creative and significant projects to our campus, and provide income to our education and mentoring programs. Gifts to Caramoor’s endowment(s) help ensure this organization’s strength and vitality far into the future.

The following is a list of all endowments currently established at Caramoor.

Named Endowment Funds Marjorie Carr Adams Fund for Young Vocal Artists Marjorie Carr Adams Sense Circle Fund Mimi & Barry Alperin Rising Stars Fund Albert Berol Rising Stars Fund The Adela and Lawrence Elow Fund for The Great American Songbook: 1900 to 1960 Susan and John Freund Piano Fund Carmela S. Haklisch Rising Stars Fund Susan & Joseph Handelman Fund for Evnin Rising Stars Mentors Susan & Joseph Handelman Rising Stars Fund Robert D. Hodes Rising Stars Fund Maximilian E. & Marion O. HoffmanFoundation Rising Stars Fund Tondra & Jeffrey Lynford Rising Stars Fund Enid & Lester Morse Fund for Classical Music Eva Petschek Newman Fund for Young Artists Anne S. Nichols Rising Stars Fund Nancy S. Offit Fund for the Performance of Classical Music and Opera* Edna B. Salomon Rising Stars Fund Terrance W. Schwab Fund for Young Vocal Artists Marilyn M. Simpson Opera Fund William Kelly Simpson Fund The Ernst C. Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence Fund Texaco Rising Stars Fund The Lucille Werlinich Fund for Caramoor’s Gardens* *future bequest Other Endowment Funds Bel Canto at Caramoor Caramoor General Fund Caramoor Virtuosi Chamber Music Fund Children’s Performances Gardens & Estates Innovation Fund Piano Performance Renaissance Days Rosen House Stewardship Sense Circle If you are interested in discussing a gift to Caramoor’s permanent endowment(s), or establishing a dedicated endowment like the ones listed above, contact Nina Curley, VP/ Chief Development Officer, at nina@caramoor.org or 914.232.3681. / 18

Leave a Legacy.

C

aramoor Center for Music and the Arts was established

by Walter and Lucie Rosen to operate their estate in perpetuity as a home for art, music, and inspiration. The Rosens were touched by the pleasure their friends took while visiting Caramoor, and they decided to leave their home as a legacy for all to enjoy. It is thanks to the vision, energy, and estate planning of this inspirational couple that we enjoy Caramoor today.

The Rosens had the forethought to make plans for Caramoor’s future, and we hope you will think of Caramoor when considering your future. We would be so honored if you would consider adding us to your estate plans

and joining with the Rosens in growing your legacy. You can help ensure a bright future for Caramoor.

Generosity comes in many forms, and it is often the best way for you to support causes that matter the most to you. When you give to Caramoor, you help us to make a difference. One long-term way is to Leave a Gift in Your Will. If this is appealing, please contact us for suggested language to review with your attorney and/or financial planners. When you have made these arrangements, please let us know you have done so. We will be happy to welcome you to our Encore Society with other like-minded Caramoor donors.

If you would like more information about planned giving at Caramoor, or to notify us of your intention to include Caramoor in your estate planning, please contact Nina Curley, VP/ Chief Development Officer, at nina@ caramoor.org or call 914.232.3681.

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Caramoor’s Leadership As of March 20, 2021

Board of Trustees

Advisory Council

James A. Attwood, Jr., Chairman* Peter Kend, Vice Chairman* Paul S. Bird, Treasurer* Angela Haines, Secretary* Judy Evnin, Chairman Emerita*

Judy Aydelott Laura Blau Jonathan Clark Kevin Conroy Effie Fribourg Joan Gilbert Marilyn Glass Virginia L. Gold Hélène Grimaud Maureen Hanagan Betty Himmel Kevin Howat Frederick Jones Olga Kagan Bim Kendall Stanley Kogelman Dr. Lewis Kohl Linda Merrill Susan Morgenthau David C. Oxman Edward Pla Yvonne Pollack Faith Rosenfeld Deborah Stiles Alden L. Toevs Lucille Werlinich

Barry J. Alperin* James L. Amine* David Barber Jon Bauer* Gail A. Binderman Ian Cook* William Cordiano* Lawrence Elow Susan W. Freund* Michael E. Gellert* Francis Goldwyn Sandra S. Joys* Floy B. Kaminski* Cecilia Tay Kellie-Smith Stephen Limpe* Nancy Offit* Richard H. O’Leary Lawrence Rothenberg Mrs. Andrew Saul Nina Stanton Lisa Welch Ian Winchester Richard Zinman* *Executive Committee Member

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Staff and Contractors Executive Office Gardens & Grounds Nina Curley, Interim Chief Executive Officer Milton Alvarez, Facilities Superintendent Liat Greif, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison Rosa Alvarez, Facilities Housekeeping Assistant Artistic Programming Lucio Alvarez, Facilities Crew Kathy Schuman, Vice President Jose Cardenas, Facilities Crew & Artistic Director Saul Jarrin, Housekeeping Assistant & Ellie Gisler Murphy, Senior Artistic Facilities Crew Planning Manager Tim Coffey, Artistic Planning Manager Agencies/Consultants 21C Media Group, Public Relations Artistic Partners AAN Studio, Graphic Designer Jazz at Lincoln Center Blenderbox, Website Management Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Orchestra-in-Residence Capacity Interactive, Digital Marketing Stephan Moore, Sonic Innovations Agency Steven Blier, Terrance W. Schwab Gabe Palacio, Principal Photographer Vocal Rising Stars Barbara Prisament, Media Relations Pamela Frank, Evnin Rising Stars & Outreach Consultant Progressive Computing, IT Consultant Development Spektrix, Ticketing Service & Support Nina Curley, Vice President & Chief Development Officer Technical Direction & Production Erin Harding, Special Events Assistant Ed Greer, Technical Director Christina Horzepa, Grants Manager Pete F. Petrino, Lighting Designer Brittany Knapp, Membership Assistant DJ Grant, Chief Audio Engineer and Donor Concierge Jeremy Robbins, Video Director Junetta Maxfield, Director of Emily Buffum, Livestream Event Technician Development Operations Alison Robeson, Technical Crew Jennifer Pace, Director of Individual Gifts Michael Campbell, Technical Crew Gayle Greves, Director of Special Events Finance and Human Resources Tammy Belanger, Vice President & Chief Financial Officer Tina Salierno, Bookkeeper Andrea Assenzio, Assistant Bookkeeper Karla Stewart, Human Resources Coordinator Marketing Tahra Delfin, Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer Alex Cutrone, Director of Ticketing & Guest Relations Aarti Gilmore, Event Operations Manager Sean Jones, Marketing Coordinator Olivia Ottinger, Box Office Coordinator Laura Schiller, Publications Editor Roslyn Wertheimer, Marketing Manager Roanne Wilcox, Director of the Rosen House Christopher Thomas, Archive Coordinator Marcelle Carpentieri, Rosen House Assistant Germania Alvarez, Housekeeping Manager & Collections Assistant 21 / Caramoor