CSO Sibelius Symphony No. 5 - program 02-03-23

February 3 & 4 Knight Theater

Vinay Parameswaran, conductor Alexandra Smither, soprano

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CONTENTS

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WHAT’S INSIDE...

A Message from the President & CEO 3 Concert Program 5 Artist Biographies 6 2021-22 Musician Roster 10 Musician Spotlight 12 About the CSO 13 Spotlight: 2022 in Review 14 Program Notes 16 Annual Fund Donors 26 Corporate & Foundation Sponsors 32 Giving Societies 34 Infusion Fund 37 Board of Directors & Trustees 38 Administration 39

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WELCOME

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Welcome to your CSO! I’m delighted to welcome you back to another exciting month at the Charlotte Symphony! As we begin the celebration of Black History Month, it feels important to reflect on the immense contributions of Black composers and performers in orchestral music.

Throughout February, we will be sharing notable performances of works by Black composers, the history of Black pioneers in classical music, and information about the Black composers and artists of today who are enriching the classical music scene and inspiring countless future musicians.

I invite you to visit our website to learn more about how we are showcasing the music of Black composers and artists in our programming this season, including in a recently announced concert at Johnson C. Smith University on March 21 that showcases the music programs of JCSU side by side with the Charlotte Symphony.

We also continue to share the joy of music with children in communities across the region through our many education and community engagement programs. We believe that music has the power to change lives, and we are committed to making sure that everyone has access to exceptional performances and educational resources.

I hope you will join us in celebrating Black History Month by experiencing the music and stories of these important figures in the world of classical music. It is our goal to make the Charlotte Symphony a welcoming and inclusive space for our entire community. I look forward to seeing you at the Symphony.!

David Fisk President & CEO

The CSO is…

MORE THAN WHAT’S ONSTAGE.

Did you know that the Charlotte Symphony is much more than what you see on the Belk and Knight Theater stages?

Beyond the Classical, Pops, Family, and Movie Series in the theaters, we work to uplift, entertain, and educate our community through inclusive education programs and community performances.

• The CSO has three programs for young musicians: the Youth Orchestra, the Youth Philharmonic, and the Youth Ensemble.

CSO musicians participate in coaching throughout the year, and even perform with the young musicians!

• Reaching approximately 15,000 students each season, we also have extensive school programs, including Project Harmony, “Music and the Holocaust,” and “One Musical Family” Education Concerts.

• We perform throughout the region, from community parks and schools to breweries, senior care centers, and places of worship all season long.

The CSO is…FOR EVERYONE. To learn more, visit charlottesymphony.org

CONCERT PROGR AM

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Friday, February 3, 2023 at 7:30pm Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 7:30pm Knight Theater at Levine Center for the Arts Vinay Parameswaran, conductor Alexandra Smither, soprano GABRIELLA SMITH (b. 1991) Field Guide BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976) Les Illuminations, Op. 18 I. Fanfare: Maestoso (poco presto) II. Villes: Allegro energico IIIa. Phrase: Lento ed estatico IIIb. Antique: Allegretto, un poco mosso IV. Royauté: Allegro maestoso V. Marine: Allegro con brio VI. Interlude: Moderato ma comodo VII. Being Beauteous: Lento ma comodo VIII. Parade: Alla marcia IX. Départ: Largo mesto Alexandra Smither, soprano INTERMISSION WILLIAM GRANT STILL (1895-1978) Poem for Orchestra JEAN SIBELIUS (1865-1957) Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat major, Op. 82 I. Tempo molto moderato II. Andante mosso, quasi allegretto III. Allegro molto - Misterioso concert duration: approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes.

There will be one 20-minute intermission.

This weekend’s concerts are made possible in part by the generosity of

Mark & Judith Brodsky

CONDUCTOR BIO

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Vinay Parameswaran guest conductor

Internationally recognised for his energetic presence, imaginative programming, and compelling musicianship, Vinay Parameswaran is one of the most exciting and versatile young conductors on the podium today.

Highlights of the 2022/23 season include Parameswaran’s debut with the Charlotte Symphony and return appearances with the Nashville Symphony and Rochester Philharmonic orchestras. He also conducts a series of education concerts with the Chicago Symphony. In the 2021/22 season, Parameswaran concluded five seasons with the Cleveland Orchestra, where he was Assistant Conductor from 2018/19 and promoted to Associate Conductor in 2021. During this period, he conducted many concerts each season at Severance Hall, Blossom Music Festival, and on tour.

As Music Director, he led the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra on an acclaimed four-city European tour that included a performance at the Musikverein in Vienna.

Prior to his time with the Cleveland Orchestra, Parameswaran was the Associate Conductor of the Nashville Symphony for three seasons and led over 150 performances, which included his subscription debut with the Orchestra in 2016/17, conducting works by Gabriella Smith, Grieg, and Prokofiev. Other highlights have included debuts with the Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Grant Park Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, and Jacksonville Symphony.

Equally at home in symphonic and operatic repertoire, and in the recording studio, Parameswaran has led performances of Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love with Curtis Opera Theater. In Cleveland, he has assisted Franz Welser-Möst on productions of Verdi’s Otello, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. With the Curtis Ensemble 20/21 and violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer (continued next page)

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Koh, Parameswaran recorded the album Two x Four, featuring works by Bach, David Ludwig, Philip Glass, and Anna Clyne. In 2020/21, Parameswaran recorded a selection of concerts with the Cleveland Orchestra for the Orchestra’s digital streaming platform.

Parameswaran was a Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, and has participated in conducting masterclasses with David Zinman at the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, as well as with Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Parameswaran was a recipient of a Career Assistance Award by the Solti Foundation U.S. in May 2021.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Parameswaran graduated with honours from Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in music and political science. At Brown, he began his conducting studies with Paul Phillips. He received an Artist Diploma in conducting from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with renowned pedagogue Otto-Werner Mueller as the Albert M. Greenfield Fellow.

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Alexandra Smither soprano

An adventurous performer and one of the CBC’s 2017 “30 Young Hot Classical Musicians Under 30”, Canadian soprano Alexandra Smither is a fresh fixture on the worldwide stage.

Her “sunny, cloudless top” and “silky, light, soprano” are an organic fit in staple repertoire of Mozart and Monteverdi.

Ms. Smither’s signature rapport with new music shows her as “an extraordinarily adept soprano, one who can shriek, gurgle, cackle, mutter, gesture, and declaim as well as sing beautifully” (The Threepenny Blog). During the 2021-2022 season, Ms. Smither sings Iphigenia #1 in Wayne Shorter and esperanza spalding’s new opera Iphigenia at MASSMoCA, ArtsEmerson, The Kennedy Center, Cal Performances at UC Berkeley, and The Broad Stage in Los Angeles as well as her debut with California Symphony as the soloist in Katherine Balch’s Illuminate and a return to Ars Lyrica to sing Belinda in Dido and Aeneas.

Ms. Smither’s 2020-2021 season saw her debut with Tapestry Opera in a workshop of Brian Current and Liza Balkan’s Gould’s Wall. A welcome presence at Houston Grand Opera, she covered all seven von Trapp children in their spring 2021 event, My Favorite Things: Songs from The Sound of Music.

In 2019, Ms. Smither debuted with the Boston Symphony, and earned rave reviews in her role debut as Susanna in Against the Grain Theatre’s contemporary adaptation of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Figaro’s Wedding.

In recent seasons, Ms. Smither has cemented her place as an interpreter and champion of even the most intricate new music scores. In 2018 she made her New York debut at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre, performing Luciano Berio’s Sequenza III to enthusiastic reviews. Her impactful 2017 debut with Houston Grand Opera as Younger Alyce in Tom Cipullo’s Glory Denied, was followed by her return to HGO as Diana in their acclaimed mariachi opera, Cruzar la cara de la Luna. Ms. Smither is a two-time Fellow at the Tanglewood Festival, where she debuted at Seiji Ozawa Hall for Schubert’s (continued next page)

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“Der Hirt auf dem Felsen” with Emanuel Ax and Bill Hudgins; her time at Tanglewood also included Berg’s Sieben frühe Lieder, Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are, the world premiere of Theo Chandler’s “Two Taylor Songs”, and performances under the batons of John Harbison and Thomas Adès. In 2017, Ms. Smither was the Grand Prize winner at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Competition, earning wins for first prize and the prize for best performance of the year’s commissioned work, “Malfunctionlieder” by Canadian composer and turntablist Nicole Lizée.

When she’s not singing, Ms. Smither is a volunteer for West Street Recovery, a non-profit organization working to rebuild homes damaged by disasters, and an organizer with Stop TxDOT I-45, which opposes the expansion of Houston’s I-45 freeway.

MUSICIANS

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YOUR CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY Christopher Warren-Green, Conductor Laureate & Music Adviser Christopher James Lees, Resident Conductor FIRST VIOLINS

DOUBLE BASSES

Calin Ovidiu Lupanu, Concertmaster The Catherine & Wilton Connor Chair

Kurt Riecken, Principal

Joseph Meyer, Associate Concertmaster

Jeffrey Ferdon

Kari Giles, Assistant Concertmaster

Jason McNeel

Judson Baines, Assistant Principal

Ernest Pereira°* Susan Blumberg°°

FLUTES

Jane Hart Brendle

Victor Wang, Principal The Blumenthal Foundation Chair

Emily Chatham°° Ayako Gamo Jenny Topilow°° Dustin Wilkes-Kim Hanna Zhdan SECOND VIOLINS Oliver Kot, Principal The Wolfgang Roth Chair Kathleen Jarrell, Assistant Principal The Pepsi-Cola Foundation of Charlotte Chair Carlos Tarazona° Monica Boboc Tatiana Karpova Ellyn Stuart Martha Geissler Sakira Harley VIOLAS

Amy Orsinger Whitehead Erinn Frechette PICCOLO Erinn Frechette OBOES Hollis Ulaky, Principal The Leo B. Driehuys Chair‡ Erica Cice Terry Maskin ENGLISH HORN Terry Maskin CLARINETS Taylor Marino, Principal The Gary H. & Carolyn M. Bechtel Chair Samuel Sparrow

Benjamin Geller, Principal The Zoe Bunten Merrill Principal Viola Chair

Allan Rosenfeld

Alaina Rea, Assistant Principal *

E♭ CLARINET

Chihiro Tanaka, Acting Asst. Principal

Samuel Sparrow

Ellen Ferdon Cynthia Frank

BASS CLARINET

Viara Stefanova

Allan Rosenfeld

Ning Zhao Matthew Darsey†

BASSOONS

CELLOS

Joshua Hood Naho Zhu†

Jonathan Lewis, Principal The Kate Whitner McKay Principal Cello Chair Allison Drenkow, Assistant Principal Alan Black, Principal Emeritus Marlene Ballena Jeremy Lamb Sarah Markle

Joseph Merchant, Principal

CONTRABASSOON Naho Zhu†

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HORNS

TIMPANI

Byron Johns, Principal The Mr. & Mrs. William H. Van Every Chair

Jacob Lipham, Principal The Robert Haywood Morrison Chair

Andrew Fierova Robert Rydel

PERCUSSION

Richard Goldfaden Philip Brindise†

Brice Burton, Principal HARP

TRUMPETS Alex Wilborn, Principal The Betty J. Livingstone Chair

Andrea Mumm Trammell, Principal The Dr. Billy Graham Chair

Jonathan Kaplan Gabriel Slesinger, Associate Principal* The Marcus T. Hickman Chair TROMBONES John Bartlett, Principal Thomas Burge BASS TROMBONE Scott Hartman, Principal TUBA Colin Benton, Principal The Governor James G. Martin Chair

This roster lists the full-time members of the Charlotte Symphony. The number and seating of musicians onstage varies depending on the piece being performed. ° Non-revolving position °° Alternates between first and second violins † Acting member of the Charlotte Symphony ‡ Funded by The Symphony Guild of Charlotte, Inc. * On leave

ARTISTIC OPERATIONS Michael Reichman, VP of Artistic Operations & General Manager Carrie Graham, Director of Artistic Planning Tim Pappas, Acting Director of Operations Nixon Bustos, Principal Music Librarian Bradley Geneser, Assistant Librarian Erin Eady, Acting Personnel Manager John Jarrell, Stage Manager

The Charlotte Symphony is a proud member of the League of American Ochestras.

MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT

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SAM SPARROW Clarinet

Member of CSO since 2017 hometown: Durham, NC

FUN FACTS • I am a NC native from Durham, NC and received my Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance from the Manhattan School of Music.

• I grew up on a small sheep farm with many other animals (including a llama) and used to exhibit sheep in the NC State Fair!

• I love a good adrenaline rush! I’m a big rollercoaster fan, and rode the world’s largest free-fall swing a few years ago in New Zealand!

For more information about Charlotte Symphony musicians, visit

charlottesymphony.org

ABOUT THE CSO

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One of the premier music organizations in the Southeastern United States and the oldest operating symphony orchestra in the Carolinas, the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra (CSO) connects with more than 100,000 music lovers each year through its lively season of concerts, broadcasts, community events, and robust educational programs. The CSO is committed to its mission of uplifting, entertaining, and educating the diverse communities of Charlotte-Mecklenburg and beyond through exceptional music experiences.

The Charlotte Symphony upholds the highest artistic integrity and takes bold steps to engage with its community through music. Its 62 professional, full-time musicians perform throughout the region — from community parks and breweries, to places of worship and senior care centers — and offer significant educational support, aimed at serving the underresourced areas of our community.

The Charlotte Symphony is deeply committed to the notion that music, accessible to all and experienced in its many forms, enriches and unifies our community. The CSO believes in equity and inclusion and strives to be an industry leader in imaginative, relevant programming by intentionally seeking out women conductors, underrepresented in our industry, and conductors, composers, and guest artists of color.

Founded in 1932, the Charlotte Symphony plays a leading cultural role in the Charlotte area and aims to serve the community as a civic leader, reflecting and uniting our region through the transformative power of live music.

OUR MISSION The Charlotte Symphony uplifts, entertains, and educates the diverse communities of Charlotte-Mecklenburg and beyond through exceptional musical experiences.

OUR VISION Reaching out through the transformative power of live music, the Charlotte Symphony will be a civic leader, reflecting and uniting our region.

For more information, visit us online at

charlottesymphony.org

spotlight :

A YEAR IN REVIEW

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2022 was a huge year for the Charlotte Symphony. Thank you for making our favorite moments possible and for being a part of our CSO family.

Let’s take a look back!

JANUARY Jessica Cottis makes her debut conducting the Charlotte Symphony premiere of Kurt Weill’s witty and theatrical The Seven Deadly Sins.

FEBRUARY The CSO launches its Youth Ensemble, a training ensemble designed to bridge early music education with the Youth Orchestras.

MARCH The Symphony celebrates its 90th birthday with a concert featuring Vaughan Williams’s Dona Nobis Pacem, dedicated to the people of Ukraine, and launches a digital archive, honoring the CSO’s storied history.

APRIL The CSO welcomes Atlanta-based Orchestra Noir for a sold-out performance of R&B and hip-hop hits of the ’90s performed side by side with Beethoven.

MAY In his final concert as Music Director, Christopher Warren-Green leads the Charlotte Symphony and Charlotte Master Chorale in one of the greatest works of all time – Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.

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A YEAR IN REVIEW

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JUNE The Charlotte Symphony’s iconic Summer Pops Series returns to Symphony Park for the first time since 2019.

JULY Resident Conductor Christopher James Lees leads the CSO in an exciting program of patriotic music at Village Park in Kannapolis, one of the Symphony’s many free concerts for the community.

AUGUST The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra reaches a two-year agreement with its musicians, creating stability for the Symphony and allowing for a more innovative, united, and diverse organization that reflects our community.

SEPTEMBER After two years of virtual and hybrid instruction, Project Harmony returns to inperson instruction.

OCTOBER Just in time for Halloween, the Charlotte Symphony presents Jordan Peele’s groundbreaking social thriller Get Out, with Michael Abels’ award-winning score performed live to the complete film.

NOVEMBER The Charlotte Symphony welcomes superstar vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens to the stage for the CSO’s 2022 Annual Gala.

DECEMBER Awe-inspiring acrobatics and feats of strength take place above the musicians of the Charlotte Symphony while they perform for three packed houses at Cirque de Noël.

Visit the Charlotte Symphony’s blog to view the full year in review.

PROGR AM NOTES

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by Ken Metzer

GABRIELLA SMITH born: December 26, 1991 in Berkeley, California

Field Guide (2017)

premiere: August 12, 2017 in Santa Cruz, California

“In the past few years, I have become obsessed with making field recordings everywhere I go. It began with my desire to record the unfolding and trajectory of the dawn choruses I remember hearing every early Sunday morning as a teenager on the drive out to Point Reyes Bird Observatory, where I would volunteer as a bird bander. It would always start just as we drove past Lagunitas Creek, about thirty minutes before sunrise, and we’d turn off the music and roll down the windows and let in the glorious cacophony and cold morning air. Since then I have recorded dawn choruses and many other natural and human-produced soundscapes around the world, while backpacking in the Sierras, Cascades, and Andes, in temperate and tropical rainforest, in desert, in coastal scrub, in oceans, tide pools, bays, lakes, and glacial streams, recording underwater sounds with my hydrophone, and in the streets and parks and subways of the cities I have spent time in. I envisioned Field Guide as a collage inspired by these various recordings, my improvisations with them on violin and voice, and experiments processing them electronically. Many thanks to the Cabrillo Festival for commissioning this piece in honor of John Adams’ 70th birthday. John, I dedicate this piece to you in celebration of your birthday and especially in gratitude for the many ways you and your music have inspired me over the years.”

—Gabriella Smith

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BENJAMIN BRITTEN born: November 22, 1913 in Lowestoft, England died: December 4, 1976 in Aldeburgh, England

Les Illuminations Opus 18 (1939) premiere: January 30, 1940 in London

In 1939, composer Benjamin Britten and tenor Peter Pears left England for the United States. Britten was disappointed with the English public’s lack of acceptance of his works.

Further, Britten, a committed pacifist, was distraught over the cloud of war that was enveloping Europe. Poet W.H. Auden, whom Britten greatly admired, advised the young composer that America could provide an artistic and political haven. When Aaron Copland learned of the news, he wrote to Britten: “Dear Benjie, How perfectly extraordinary to think of you here on this side of the water! I can’t get used to the idea — but I will.”

After Britten arrived in the US, he began to experience grave doubts about his decision. Copland encouraged him to remain in America: “You owe it to England to stay here. After all, anyone can shoot a gun — but how many can write music like you?” But eventually, Britten’s love for his native land proved too strong. Britten and Pears returned to England in the spring of 1942. However, during his relatively brief American stay, Britten composed several important works, including his song cycles Les illuminations (1939) and Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (1940), the Sinfonia da requiem (1940), his first String Quartet (1941) and, in collaboration with W.H. Auden, his first opera, Paul Bunyan (1941).

It was Auden who suggested to Britten that he consider composing a work based upon Arthur Rimbaud’s (18541891) collection of poems, published under the title Les Illuminations. Britten began the work in England, in the spring of 1939. That October, after his move to the United States, Britten completed Les Illuminations, scored for high voice and strings.

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In a 1940 program note, Britten offered the following description: (Rimbaud’s) short life as a poet was an erratic and turbulent one, generally near starvation and often homeless, sometimes with his friend Verlaine, sometimes alone, and much of it was set in the most sordid surroundings, in Paris, Brussels, and London; but throughout it, the boy’s inspiration remained radiant and intense. The word ‘Illuminations’ suggests both the vision of a mystic and a brightly coloured picture …. The composer has taken seven of these poems, six in prose and one in verse, and has made them into a cycle.

In Les Illuminations Britten, still in his mid-20s, demonstrates many of the qualities associated with his musical voice. The brilliant writing for string orchestra (previously showcased in the 1937 Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Opus 10) is characteristic of Britten’s mastery in instrumental writing.

The sensitive, expressive vocal settings of Rimbaud’s poetry attended Britten’s song, operatic, and oratorio works. And throughout, there is a powerful sense of a composer’s autobiographical expression.

Les Illuminations is adapted from the suite of prose poems by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud (18541891), written c. 1873-5 during his tempestuous relationship with fellow poet Paul Verlaine. The work was published in 1886 without Rimbaud’s knowledge: by then, he had abandoned writing and was living as a trader in the Horn of Africa.

Britten dedicated Les Illuminations to Anglo-Swiss soprano Sophie Wyss (1897 – 1983), who also performed in the work’s premiere. Wyss also sang the premiere of Britten’s orchestral song cycle Our Hunting Fathers (1936).

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Les Illuminations Text by Arthur Rimbaud (1854–91) FANFARE

FANFARE

J’ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.

I alone have the key to this savage parade.

VILLES

CITIES

Ce sont des villes! C’est un peuple pour qui se sont montés ces Alleghanys et ces Libans de rêve!

[Ce sont des villes!] Des chalets de cristal et de bois se meuvent sur des rails et des poulies invisibles. Les vieux cratères ceints de colosses et de palmiers de cuivre rugissent mélodieusement dans les feux.

These are cities! This is a people for whom arose these Alleghenies and Lebanons from dreams! [These are cities!] Chalets of crystal and wood move on invisible rails and pulleys.

Old craters encircled by colossuses and copper palm-trees, roar melodiously in the fires.

[Ce sont des villes!] Des cortèges de Mabs en robes rousses, opalines, montent des ravines. Là-haut, les pieds dans la cascade et les ronces, les cerfs tettent Diane. Les Bacchantes des banlieues sanglotent et la lune brûle et hurle. Vénus entre dans les cavernes des forgerons et des ermites.

Des groupes de beffrois chantent les idées des peuples. Des châteaux bâtis en os sort la musique inconnue.

[These are cities!] Processions of Mabs in russet, opaline gowns climb the ravines. Farther up, with their feet in the waterfall and the brambles, stags suckle Diana. The Bacchantes of the suburbs sob, and the moon burns and howls. Venus enters into the caverns of blacksmiths and hermits.

Groups of belfries sing the ideas of the people. Unknown music pours forth from castles built of bone.

[Ce sont des villes! Ce sont des villes!]

[These are cities! These are cities!]

Le paradis des orages s’effondre. Les The paradise of storms collapses. sauvages dansent sans cesse la fête de Savages ceaselessly dance out the la nuit. [Ce sont des villes!] festival of the night. [These are cities!]

Quels bons bras, quelle belle heure me rendront cette région d’où viennent mes sommeils et mes moindres mouvements?

What lovely arms, what beautiful hour will give me back that region from where my sleep and my slightest movements come?

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PHRASE

PHRASE

J’ai tendu des cordes de clocher à clocher; des guirlandes de fenêtre à fenêtre; des chaînes d’or d’étoile à étoile, et je danse.

I stretched some cord from steeple to steeple; some garlands from window to window; some chains of gold from star to star, and I dance.

ANTIQUE

ANTIQUE

Gracieux fils de Pan! Autour de ton front couronné de fleurettes et de baies, tes yeux, des boules précieuses, remuent. Tachées de lies brunes, tes joues se creusent. Tes crocs luisent. Ta poitrine ressemble à une cithare, des tintements circulent dans tes bras blonds. Ton cœur bat dans ce ventre où dort le double sexe. Promène-toi, la nuit en mouvant doucement cette cuisse, cette seconde cuisse et cette jambe de gauche.

Gracious son of Pan! Around your forehead crowned with tiny flowers and berries, your eyes — precious globes — stir. Stained by brown lees, your cheeks grow gaunt. Your fangs gleam. Your bosom resembles a zither, ringing sounds circulate between your blond arms. Your heart beats in that belly where the double sex sleeps. Walk, the night gently moving that thigh, that second thigh, and that left leg.

ROYAUTÉ

ROYALTY

Un beau matin, chez un peuple fort doux, un homme et une femme superbes criaient sur la place publique: “Mes amis, je veux qu’elle soit reine!” “Je veux être reine!” Elle riait et tremblait. Il parlait aux amis de révélation, d’épreuve terminée. Ils se pâmaient l’un contre l’autre.

One beautiful morning, in the land of a very gentle people, a superb man and woman cried out in the public square, “Friends, I want her to be queen!” “I want to be queen!” She laughed and trembled. He spoke to his friends of revelation, of hard trials finished. They swooned, one against the other.

En effet ils furent rois toute une matinée où les tentures carminées se relevèrent sur les maisons, et tout l’après-midi, où ils s’avancèrent du côté des jardins de palmes.

In effect, they were kings for a whole morning as crimson hangings were raised on the houses, and all afternoon as they advanced towards the gardens of palms.

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MARINE

MARINE SCENE

Les chars d’argent et de cuivre — Les proues d’acier et d’argent — Battent l’écume — Soulèvent les souches des ronces.

Les courants de la lande, Et les ornières immenses du reflux, Filent circulairement vers l’est, Vers les piliers de la forêt — Vers les fûts de la jetée, Dont l’angle est heurté par des tourbillons de lumière.

Chariots of silver and copper — Prows of steel and silver — Beat the foam — Heave up the roots of bramble, The currents of the heath, And the immense ruts of the ebb-tide, Flowing in circles towards the east, Towards the pillars of the forest — Towards the posts of the jetty, Whose angle is struck by the turbulent whirlpool of light.

INTERLUDE

INTERLUDE

J’ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.

I alone have the key to this savage parade.

BEING BEAUTEOUS

BEING BEAUTEOUS

Devant une neige un Être de Beauté de haute taille. Des sifflements de mort et des cercles de musique sourde font monter, s’élargir et trembler comme un spectre ce corps adoré: des blessures écarlates et noires éclatent dans les chaires superbes. Les couleurs propres de la vie se foncent, dansent, et se dégagent autour de la Vision, sur le chantier. Et les frissons s’élèvent et grondent, et la saveur forcenée de ces effets se chargeant avec les sifflements mortels et les rauques musiques que le monde, loin derrière nous, lance sur notre mère de beauté — elle recule, elle se dresse. O! nos os sont revêtus d’un nouveau corps amoureux.

Against snow, a Being of Beauty of heightened size. The hissing of death and circles of muted music make this adored body rise, enlarge and tremble like a specter 1 : wounds of scarlet and black burst in the superb flesh.

The proper colors of life darken, dance, and emerge around the Vision, on the site. And shivers rise and rumble, and the frenetic flavor of these effects, charged with the mortal hissing and raucous music that the world, far behind us, hurls on our mother of beauty — she recoils, she rises up. Oh! Our bones are dressed once more in a new loving body.

Ô la face cendrée, l’écusson de crin, les bras de cristal! le canon sur lequel je dois m’abattre à travers la mêlée des arbres et de l’air léger!

Oh, the ashen face, the shield of horsehair, the arms of crystal! the cannon on which I must strike through the melee of trees and the light air!

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PARADE

PARADE

Des drôles très solides. Plusieurs ont exploité vos mondes. Sans besoins, et peu pressés de mettre en œuvre leurs brillantes facultés et leur expérience de vos consciences. Quels hommes mûrs! Des yeux hébétés à la façon de la nuit d’été, rouges et noirs, tricolores, d’acier piqué d’étoiles d’or; des faciès déformés, plombés, blêmis, incendiés; des enrouements folâtres!

La démarche cruelle des oripeaux!

Il y a quelques jeunes.

Some very ‘solid’ jesters. Several have exploited your worlds. Without needs, and in no hurry to put to work their brilliant faculties and their experience of your consciences. What mature men! Eyes dazed, fashioned like a summer night, red and black, tricolored, steel studded with golden stars; features deformed, leaden, pallid, incendiary; hoarse-throated frolickers! The cruel swagger of rags!

There are a few young ones.

Ô le plus violent Paradis de la grimace enragée !

Oh the most violent paradise of the enraged grimace!

Chinois, Hottentots, bohémiens, niais, hyènes, Molochs, vieilles démences, démons sinistres, ils mêlent les tours populaires, maternels, avec les poses et les tendresses bestiales. Ils interpréteraient des pièces nouvelles et des chansons « bonnes filles ».

Maîtres jongleurs, ils transforment le lieu et les personnes, et usent de la comédie magnétique...

Chinese, Hottentots, bohemians, naïve deniers, hyenas, Molochs, old insanities, sinister demons, they mingle populist, maternal tricks with bestial poses and tenderness. They would interpret new pieces and “nice girl” songs. Master jugglers, they transform places and people and use magnetic comedy...

J’ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.

I alone have the key to this wild parade.

DÉPART

DEPARTURE

Assez vu. La vision s’est rencontrée à tous les airs.

Enough seen. The vision has been encountered under all skies.

Assez eu. Rumeurs des Villes, le soir, et au soleil, et toujours.

Enough had. Sounds of cities, at evening, in the sun, and always.

Assez connu. Les arrêts de la vie.

Enough known. The stopping of life.

O Rumeurs et Visions! Départ dans l’affection et le bruit neufs!

Oh Sounds and Visions! Depart into new affection and noise.

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WILLIAM GRANT STILL born: May 11, 1895 in Woodville, Mississippi died: December 3, 1978 in Los Angeles, California

Poem for Orchestra (1944) premiere: December 7, 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio

William Grant Still, often referred to as the “Dean of AfricanAmerican Composers,” was born in Woodville, Mississippi.

He studied at Wilberforce College and the Oberlin Conservatory. Still worked with W.C. Handy, and studied privately with George Whitefield Chadwick and Edgar Varèse. He composed successfully in a wide variety of genres, including symphonies, operas, sacred musical, assorted instrumental works, and popular songs, as well as television and film scores. William Grant Still also conducted, and created arrangements of spirituals.

The Kulas American Composers’ Fund commissioned Still’s Poem for Orchestra for the Cleveland Orchestra. The premiere took place on December 7, 1944, with Rudolf Ringwall conducting. On April 4, 1946 at Carnegie Hall, the New York Philharmonic and Music Director Artur Rodziński performed the New York premiere of Still’s Poem in a concert that also featured the celebrated African-American contralto Marian Anderson, singing music by Mahler and Donizetti, as well as spirituals.

According to Still’s wife, pianist, and writer Verna Arvey, the Poem for Orchestra was “inspired by the concept of a world being reborn spiritually after a period of darkness and desolation.” The work’s journey from its agitated opening to resplendent closing pages culminates in a final chord that suggests that challenges nonetheless remain.

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JEAN SIBELIUS born: December 8, 1865 in Hämeenlinna, Finland died: September 20, 1957 in Järvenpää, Finland

Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Major Opus 82 (1915, rev. 1916, 1919)

premiere: December 8, 1915 in Helsinki, Finland

The Symphony No. 5 is Jean Sibelius’s most important largescale work from World War I. The start of composition was in close proximity to the outbreak of the conflict (although Sibelius may have been contemplating the work as early as 1912). Sibelius completed the first version of his Fifth Symphony in time for its premiere in Helsinki on December 8, 1915. The composer led the concert, given in honor of his fiftieth birthday. Sibelius revised the score of his Fifth Symphony the following year. However, it was not until 1919 that Sibelius penned the familiar third, final version of his Symphony No. 5.

It’s not surprising that the period during which Sibelius composed the Fifth Symphony often found him in a reflective, somber mood. A few months after the outbreak of war, he wrote: “My heart sings, full of sadness—the shadows lengthen.”

Without question, Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony has moments of gloom and conflict. However, like another famous Symphony No. 5 — Ludwig van Beethoven’s C-minor, Opus 67 (1808) — the struggle depicted in the Sibelius Fifth culminates in triumph.

In September of 1915, shortly after he began work on the Fifth Symphony, Sibelius wrote in his diary: “In a deep dell again.

But I already begin dimly to see the mountain I shall surely ascend…God opens his door for a moment and his orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony.” Jean Sibelius died in the evening of September 20, 1957, at the age of 91. At the moment of his passing, a concert was taking place in Helsinki. Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent and the orchestra were performing the music of Sibelius — his Symphony No. 5.

The opening movement of the Sibelius Fifth (Tempo molto moderato; Allegro moderato; Presto) is based upon four principal themes. Rather than immediately proceed to the traditional development section, Sibelius first offers a varied second exposition of the principal themes, followed by a (continued next page)

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mysterious development section. A quicksilver episode in 3/4 time serves the dual function of the opening movement’s rather free recapitulation and the work’s scherzo. The coda gathers impressive momentum, bringing the opening movement to a rousing close. The slow-tempo second movement (Andante mosso, quasi allegretto) is a theme and set of variations, some of which offer hints of the ensuing finale. That final movement (Allegro molto; Misterioso) opens with a flurry of activity in the strings. This ultimately gives way to a majestic theme, introduced by the horns. The two themes return throughout in music notable for its energy and inexorable momentum. In the closing measures, the second theme reigns supreme until the work’s stunning conclusion — six hammer blow chords.

1915 photograph of Jean Sibelius and wife Aino relaxing at Ainola, their home near Lake Tuusula, north of Helsinki.

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We gratefully acknowledge these generous donors to the Charlotte Symphony Annual Fund.

This list reflects gifts received between July 1, 2021 through January 1, 2023

BENEFACTOR CIRCLE $100,000+ Anonymous Catherine & Wilton Connor

Douglas Young

$50,000 – $99,999 Roberta H. Cochran Ellen M. Fitzsimmons & Greg Rogowski

$25,000 – $49,999 Anonymous Joan & Mick Ankrom Richard & Ruth Ault Dr. Milton & Arlene Berkman Philanthropic Fund Mark & Judith Brodsky DG Brungard Foundation Linda & Bill Farthing John & Maria Huson

Jane & Hugh McColl Patricia & Thrus Morton Patrick J. O’Leary Richard J. Osborne Paul & Kathy Reichs Carolyn Shaw John & Andromeda Williams

$15,000 – $24,999 Ralph S. Grier Richard Krumdieck Betty P. & Jeffrey J. Lee DeDe & Alex McKinnon

Debbie & Pat Phillips Judy & Derek Raghavan Ann & Fritz Rehkopf

$10,000 – $14,999 Anonymous (3) Francisco & Jeannette Alvarado Katharine & Frank Bragg Mr. & Mrs. R. Alfred Brand III Lynne & Colby Cathey Margarita & Nick Clements Christoph & Robin Feddersen Karen Fox Janet M. Haack Chris & Susan Kearney Ginger Kelly

Page & Ed Kizer Ms. Nina Lesavoy Susan & Loy McKeithen Alex & Ulrike Miles Robert Norville Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Richardson M.A. Rogers Mike Rutledge Thomas & Sherry Skains Richard & Lisa Worf

For more information on how to make a gift to the CSO Annual Fund, please contact Libby Currier, Annual Fund Manager, at 704.714.5137 or lcurrierl@charlottesymphony.org.

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VIRTUOSO CIRCLE $5,000 – $9,999

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(continued) In Memory of Tess Verbesey Kevin & Jill Walker Floyd Wisner & Glenda Colman

Howard P. Adams & Carol B. McPhee Tiffany & Jason Bernd $3,500 – $4,999 Joye D. Blount & Jessie J. Knight Jr Wedge & Debbie Abels Steve & Katrice Boland Philipp J. Bischoff Mary & Charles Bowman Jan & Bob Busch Bill & Robin Branstrom Judith Carpenter Jan & Ed Brown Brian & Morgan Cromwell Shirley & Michael Butterworth Joan & Parker Foley The Jack H & Ruth C. Campbell Foundation H. Clay Furches Mr. & Mrs. Kieth Cockrell Richard I. McHenry & Cynthia L. Caldwell Malcomb & Tammy Coley Mr. & Mrs. Paul McIntosh Jeanie & Tom Cottingham Elizabeth J. McLaughlin Donna & Alvaro de Molina Chuck Miller & Marcy Thailer Mary Anne Dickson Mr. Glenn Mincey & Mrs. Macie Mincey Peggy & Richard Dreher Tony & Linda Pace Mary & Robert Engel Edgar & Karen Whitener Thomas & Heather Finke David J.L. Fisk & Anne O’Byrne Carol & Ron Follmer $2,500 – $3,499 Karen Fox Dr. Robert A. Gaines Anonymous (3) Charles & Caren Gale Julian Andretta The Gambrell Foundation Mrs. Harriet B. Barnhardt Sarah & Frank Gentry Bill & Georgia Belk Joy S. Greene Cathy Bessant & John Clay Chris Jensen Ms. Melody Birmingham Hartmut & Irene Kossack Si & Michael Blake Robert & Vivian Lamb Mr. & Mrs. Alan Blumenthal Laszlo & Anna Littmann Dr. & Mrs. O. Robert Boehm Zaydee López-Ibáňez Twig & Barbara Branch Leslie & Michael Marsicano Ann Thomas Colley Susanne & Bill McGuire Dorothy & Mike Connor Mr. & Mrs. Brian T. Moynihan Melissa Cornwell Emily & Nima Pirzadeh Alfred & Amy Dawson Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Richardson Peter De Arcangelis Sally & Russell Robinson Phil & Mary Delk Nancy & Charlie Robson Cheryl DeMaio Pat Rodgers Peggy & Charles Dickerson Cory & Amanda Rogers Mrs. Carolyn Faison Sara Garcés Roselli & Dan Roselli Alex & Patty Funderburg JD & Katrina Schurter Timothy & Kara Gallagher Mrs. Ylida Scott Harvey & Cindy Gantt Mr. & Mrs. Harley F. Shuford, Jr. Mr. Billy L. Gerhart, Lori & Eric Sklut in memory of Judith Gerhart Emily & Zach Smith Todd & Andrea Griffith Melinda & David Snyder Angela & Michael Helms Ms. Andrea J. Stevenson Ivan Hinrichs Kevin Taylor Brian & Juliet Hirsch Drs. Jennifer Sullivan & Matthew Sullivan Carol A. Hitselberger & Robert Petty Chris & Jim Teat Jim & Peggy Hynes Drs. Chris & Lillian Teigland Shirley & Bob Ivey Judith & Gary Toman David S. Jacobson Mr. & Mrs. C.L. Trenkelbach Ginger Kemp Suzie & Nick Trivisonno (continued next page)

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$2,500 – $3,499 (continued) Bruce & Martha Karsh Dr. & Mrs. Christ A. Koconis Meghan & Luis Lluberas George McLendon & Carol Quillen Rob Roy McGregor Dee Dee McKay Dick Metzler Jay & Elizabeth Monge Diane Morais Joan Morgan Holly & Jason Norvell Celene & Marc Oken Dr. Reta R. Phifer Kathleen D. Prokay Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Rollins, Jr. Bette Roth Nancy E. Simpson George & Tricia Sistrunk Marsha & Robert L. Stickler Mrs. H. Dickson Stowe Dr. Mark R. Swanson Deborah J. Cox & Bob Szymkiewicz Richard R. Taylor Eric & Annette Telljohan In Memory of Dr. Chandler Thompson Dr. John A. Thompson, Jr. & Dr. Lee Rocamora Dr. Cynthia H. Tyson Drs. Iris Cheng & Daniel Uri Paul & Susan Vadnais Ms. Dana Vestal Ellen & Jimmie Wade Mary Claire & Dan Wall Dr. Shanté Williams

PATRON CIRCLE $1,500 – $2,499 Anonymous Marcia Adams Melissa & Daren Anderson Ross & Michele Annable Dan & Barbara Austell Dianne & Brian Bailey Sharon Baker & Peter Moore Merilyn & Craig Baldwin Erskine & Crandall Bowles Brian Bridgford & Sally Gambrell Bridgford Mr. Donald Butler Ms. Catherine P. Carstarphen David M. Cody Neil & Claire Cotty Arlene H. Elisha Mrs. Geraldine S. Emmert Mr. Peter F. Guild Katherine G. Hall

Anne J. Henderson Steven Hershfield & Mary Jo Germain Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Hill, Jr. Joan Irwin Gene & Helen Katz Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kramer Anna Marriott Ms. Rosemarie Marshall & Mr. Lee Wilkins Jim & Dottie Martin Cricket Weston & David Molinaro Eleanor W. Neal Caroline Olzinski Mr. Vincent Phillips & Mr. Paul Pope Torsten & Kim Pilz John & Wilma Pinter Larry & Dale Polsky John & Susan Rae Mr. & Mrs. Pope A. Shuford Morris & Patricia Spearman Robert & Maxine Stein Ann & Wellford Tabor Tillie S. Tice James H. Trexler & Kelly Zellars Daniel & Kathleen Troy Mindy & Don Upton Vera Watson Grant Webb Linda & Craig Weisbruch Mrs. Eugenia N. White Deems Wilson Ms. Deborra Wood & Mr. Russell Propst

$1,000 – $1,499 Anonymous (2) Ashley & Steve Allen Kathleen & Richard Anderson JWD Atchison Mary Lou & Jim Babb Mr. & Mrs. Lincoln A. Baxter Morgan Beggs John & Katherine Beltz Shirley W. Benfield Donald H. & Barbara K. Bernstein Family Foundation Mr. James Biddlecome In Memory of Bernadette Zirkuli Biddlecome Ms. Brett Blumenthal & Mr. David Wax Carole Bourret Khary Brown Herbert Browne Jane & Larry Cain Maggie Callen Ralph & Sam Canfield Ms. Elizabeth Carr Bill & Pauline Chinnis Mr. Mark Copeland & Mrs. Kathleen Goldammer-Copeland

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Ann F. Copeland Sarah & Larry Dagenhart Gwin Dalton Christopher & Elizabeth Daly Dan & Jeannette Davis Ralph & Troyann Dougherty J. Porter Durham, Jr. Elizabeth Betty Eaton Bob & Judy Erb Lisa & Carlos Evans Trae & Kate Fletcher Lucy Quintilliano & Leonard Fumi Jenn & Taylor Gherardi Carol & Joseph Gigler Barry & Laurie Guy Joyce & Ed Hamilton Patrick & Johanne Hawk Fran & Greg Hyde Paul & Linda Ibsen Martha D. Jones Vickie & Eugene Johnson Lea & Stuart Johnson Mr. & Mrs. John E. Kibler Joan Kirschner Mr. & Mrs. Luke Kissam Marilyn Kroll Maria Kurtz Lucinda Nisbet Lucas James Lynch Holly & Christopher Maurer Ms. Nydia McCrohan Shawn & Kelly McGrath Martha Monserrate Susan D. Montgomery Eugene P. Kueny & Don C. Niehus Peter & Janet Nixon Mr. & Mrs. E. O. Oakley Michael & Debbie O’Hara Anita & Gale Pendergraph Barbara M. Pooley Dr. William G. Porter Morry Alter & Joan Rasmussen Rita & Thomas Robinson William R. Rollins Mrs. Gail C. Salmon Dr. Stephen P. Schultz & Donna Dutton Jane Perry Shoemaker Katy & Raleigh Shoemaker Michael Silverman Molly & Conrad Sloan Catherine Thompson Murray & Hazel Somerville Ken Spielfogel & Richard Withem Al & Alice Sudduth Adam & Sienne Taylor Mr. & Mrs. James Traylor Mr. & Mrs. Hans Teich Sarah S. Tull

Mrs. William K. Van Allen Mr. & Mrs. Michael Van Glish Bill & Rita Vandiver Dr. & Mrs. Bill Chu & Jin Wang Pam & Steve West Peter White David Wilcox Bryan Wilhelm Ms. Judith Wood Mrs. Anne Yudell

$500 – $999 Anonymous (4) Michael & Lee Abbott Mark Abrams & Iris Prandi Mr. Lester Ackerman & Mr. Layton Campbell Larry Anderson Leigh & Rhonda Armistead Mrs. Natascha A. Bechtler Bob & Cathy Becker Dr. John L. Bennett & Mr. Eric T. Johnson Jeffrey Boghosian David Bower & Ann Richardson Ms. Marianne Bragg James Broadstone Aram & Scott Bryan Mr. Charles Budd Greg & Mary Lou Cagle Barbara F. Caine Ms. Lisa Callen $500 - $999 cont.

Amanda & Kevin Chheda Hobart B. Cheyne Ms. Michele T. Classe Mr. Brent Clevenger Dr. W. Gerald Cochran & Mr. Timothy D. Gudger Mr. Thomas E. Collins, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Charles E. Cook Dr. Kilian Cooley Dr. & Mrs. Mark Couture Mr. & Mrs. Alpo F. Crane Ellen M. Crowley Mrs. Judy Crozier Craig Selimotic Danforth Dr. Roy E. DeMeo, Jr. & Ms. Linda A. Evanko Thomas & Kris Duffy Virginia Dulaney Ms. Helen Edwards Rebecca Elliott Martin Ericson, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. J. Murray Fadial Doug Faris Tom & Gail Fennimore Lawrence W. Fetner, Jr. Robert & Catherine Flynn Melisa & Frank Galasso Dr. John & Eileen Gardella (continued next page)

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$500 – $999 (continued) Stephen C. & Jean S. Geller Mr. & Mrs. Kodwo Ghartey-Tagoe Pete & Stacy Gherardi Sarah Goad Mr. Walter H. Goodwin, Esq. Dan & Linda Gordon Ms. Cynthia Greenlee Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Groth Ms. Tara Harris Mr. & Mrs. Lowrance Harry Mr. Charles Haughey Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Heafner Mr. Stefan Heinzelmann Logan & Jennifer Henderson Mr. James Howell & Mrs. Deanna Kelly Ben & Christy Hume Pete & Phyllis Johnson Michael & Priscilla Johnson Tim & Kathryn Johnson E. Joann Jones Joseph & Patty Kahle Eugene & Alice Merrill Kavadlo Steven & Mary Kesselman Nancy H. Kiser Theodore & Dorothy Kramer Jonathan Lamb Christopher James Lees Jerome & Barbara Levin Mr. Michael Lewandowski Mr. George Linfors Kathryn Long Mr. Calin Lupanu Dr. & Mrs. William W. MacDonald Bruce & Leigh Marsh Francis & Paula Martin Tom & Sandy Meckley Mr. & Mrs. Kiran H. Mehta Roy H. Michaux Anne & Brad Mitchell Sallie & Joe Moody Tom & Sally Moore Gary & Fran Morrison In Memory of Patricia Nims Karen L. Oldham Nancy Olah & Bill Pace Pamela Pearson & Charles Peach Gwen Peterson & Tom Hodge Janet & Rick Pfeiffer Catherine Philpott Mr. & Mrs. Rodney C. Pitts Jeanine & Naeem Qasim Dr. & Mrs. R. Pinkney Rankin, Jr. Haywood & Sabine Rankin Jane & Milburn Ratteree Brendan Reen Casey Rentch

Nancy Rutledge & Jim Rutledge Robert & Christine Rydel Mr. & Mrs. William Seifert John Schroeder, in honor of Patty McArthur Mr. Andrew Silliker Carol Smith Dr. & Mrs. Henry L. Smith II Rebecca & Eric Smith Scott Smith John-Palmer Smith Julia J. Souther Mr. & Mrs. Larry Stern Kathryn Stewart Sam & Martha Stowe Wesley & Claudia Sturges George & Brenda Sweet Ms. Sarah Teague Tim Timson Jenny & Ken Tolson James & Melanie Twyne Greg & Sandy Vlahos Lyman Welton Barnet & Harriet Weinstock Dr. Thomas H. White Mr. & Mrs. John A. Yakob Ms. Barbara Yarbrough Dan & Susan Yardley Dr. & Mrs. T. Price Zimmermann

$250 – $499 Anonymous (3) Paula Andretta Andrew & Karen Antoszyk Judi Bainbridge Dr. & Mrs. Michael J. Bell Sam & Nancy Bernstein Ms. Deborah Berry Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Bierce Stuart Blackmon Lawton & Janette Blandford Megan Blankemeyer List Ken & Nelle Brown Mr. Nicholas Bonevac Steve Bost David H. & Barbara J. Burns John Carr Robert & Jo Anne Caruso Mary Case Amy Cathey Rev. Janice Chalaron Ms. Catherine Choudary Gray Clark Mortimer & Josephine Cohen Fund Ms. Dorothy Cole Ron & Shirley Coffman Tom Covington Mr. Todd Croy (continued next page)

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Leeda Currin Mr. Michael Curtis Rennie Cuthbertson Rufus Dalton Francis T. Davis Virginia A. Davis Doug & Diane Doak Dr. Kathleen A. Doman Mr. & Mrs. Fang Dong Mike Dyer John Alday & Rebecca Fant James C. Fort Chakana Fowler Jerry Fox Toni Freeman Richard & Karen Fuentes Dr. & Mrs. Richard Gellar Donna Gibson Berkley & Audean Godehn Craig & Myra Green Mr. & Mrs. William Griesmyer Spencer Guthery John & Mary Habit Elizabeth Hage Mr. Christopher Harris Roger K. Hill Barbara Holt Ms. Kelli Hopp-Michlosky Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Horowitz James Horton & Kathy Reardon Norman Harasymchuk Karin & Robert Hudson Betty Hunter Patricia W. Ingraham Cynthia B. Irby Marjorie James Margot Kaiser Mr. H.G. Karn & Mrs. Sandra Washburn Madhu Katta Judy & Ron Kaufman John J. Kelly, Jr. Carolyn Wells Kibler John & Ardis Koch Mrs. S. Lacy Ms. Wendy Laxton Steven Light John J. Locke Skip & Ginny Long Dr. & Mrs. Thomas T. Long III Dr. David Lowry Mr. Charles McKinley Yvonne Mack Staci & Adam Marino Ms. Rosemarie Marshall & Mr. Lee Wilkins Joan W. Martin & Pat Burgess Theodore & Katherine Martinez Ed & Wendy Matthews

Steve & Tammy Matula Jill Maxwell Kim & Alan Maxwell Ms. Judy Mayo James & Stephanie McGarvey Eric Miller Kimberly Moore-Wright Glenn A. Muegel David H. Nance & Jennifer Nance Sara & Tom Nolan Dr. & Mrs. Michael E. Norman Dimitris & Jennifer Papageorgiou Cookie & Jerry Parnell Rose & Bailey Patrick Bradley & Sharon Patterson Mr. Conrad Puckett Mr. Mason & Dr. Krista Rankin Stephen & Melissa Ratliff $250 - $499 cont.

Emily & Brian Reinicker Dr. Livia Robicsek Mr. & Mrs. Albert E. Rodgers Sarah E. Schoedinger Eileen Scholl Merle & Judy Schuh Dr. & Mrs. Marvin Shapiro Ginny Shaw Fred H. Smith James & Ellie Stephens William & Catherine Stone Larry Stratemeyer Charlene Sturgill Brenda Gail Summers Ms. Jena M. Summerville Carrie & Jeffrey Teixeira Nancy & Dick Thigpen Gretchen & Jean-Claude Thill Melissa M. Tolin Patti Tracey & Chris Hudson Cynthia Turner Sarah & Tim Turner Rebecca Valenstein Minyan Wang Jenny & Henry Ward Ms. Leslie Webster Mr. Erik Weghorst Mr. & Mrs. Tom Weidman Mr. & Mrs. Richard J. Wertheimer Mrs. Carol Wilson Allen & Clara Wolfe Karen & Charles Wolff

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CORPORATE PARTNERS We are grateful for the following outstanding corporate funders:

$250,000 +

$100,000 - $249,999

$20,000 - $49,999

$10,000 - $19,999

$5,000 - $9,999 Atrium Health Kingfisher Capital The Dunhill Hotel

For more information, please contact Amanda LoCascio, AVP - Institutional Philanthropy at 704.714.5138 or alocascio@charlottesymphony.org

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GOVERNMENT & FOUNDATION SUPPORT We are grateful for the following outstanding foundation and government funders:

$100,000 +

$50,000 - $99,999

Dickson Foundation

The Truist Charitable Fund is a donor-advised fund created by Truist and administered by The Winston-Salem Foundation

$20,000 - $49,999

DG Brungard Foundation Mariam & Robert Hayes Charitable Trust The Trexler Foundation

$10,000 - $19,999

Blumenthal Foundation Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation Cole Foundation Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation, Inc. John S. & James L. Knight Foundation The Maurer Family Foundation

$5,000 - $9,999 AT&T Foundation The George W. & Ruth R. Baxter Foundation The Jack H & Ruth C. Campbell Foundation The Charlotte Assembly

$2,500 - $4,999 Barnhardt/Thomas Trust Kathryn Stephenson Pipe Organ Endowment Foundation Stanly County Community Foundation Winer Family Foundation

For more information, please contact Toni Freeman, Grant Writer at development@charlottesymphony.org

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We invite your firm to join this special group of corporate supporters committed to keeping the music alive — enriching Charlotte and the surrounding communities as a first-class place to work and live.

$5,000 +

$2,500 - $4,999 GreerWalker Moore & VanAllen Park Inc.

$500 - $2,499 Carter Troutman Pepper LLP World Famous Golf Carts of South Carolina For more information, please contact Amanda LoCascio, AVP - Institutional Philanthropy at 704.714.5138 or alocascio@charlottesymphony.org

The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra recognizes donors of exceptional generosity whose cumulative giving to the CSO exceeds $1 million with the designation of Music Director Society.

Anonymous (2) Bank of America Corporation Catherine & Wilton Connor Goldman, Sachs & Co. The Leon Levine Foundation John S. & James L. Knight Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Hugh L. McColl, Jr. Robert Haywood Morrison Foundation C. D. Spangler Foundation The Symphony Guild of Charlotte, Inc. Wells Fargo Corporation For more information, please contact Leslie Antoniel, AVP of Development, at 704.714.5139 or lantoniel@charlottesymphony.org.

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The Encore Society includes individuals who have made provisions for the CSO in their estate plans. We are honored to recognize their support: Anonymous (3) Geraldine I. Anderson† Richard & Ruth Ault Baldwin Family Trust Barnhardt Thomas Trust Larry & Joyce† Bennett Donald H. & Barbara K. Bernstein Mark & Louise Bernstein† Twig & Barbara Branch Saul Brenner Mike & Joan Brown† Mrs. Joan Bruns† Jan & Bob Busch Dr. Helen G. Cappleman, Ph.D.† Jim Cochran† Robin Cochran Tom Covington Charles & Peggy Dickerson Mr. Martin Ericson, Jr. David J.L. Fisk & Anne P. O’Bryne Peter & Ann Guild William G. & Marguerite K. Huey Fund† Dr. Nish Jamgotch, Jr. Betty & Stanley Livingstone†

Nellie McCrory† M. Marie Mitchell† Cricket Weston & David Molinaro Joan & Richard Morgan Don C. Niehus Eva Nove Richard J. Osborne Gwen Peterson & Tom Hodge James Y. Preston† Mrs. Clayton (Dusty) Pritchett Ann & Fritz Rehkopf Elizabeth Waring Reinhard Nancy W. Rutledge Mike Rutledge Harriet Seabrook Mr. & Mrs. William Seifert Morris & Patricia Spearman Bob & Maxine Stein Dr. Ben C. Taylor III Mr. & Mrs. Hans Teich Cordelia G. Thompson Tim Timson Jenny & Ken Tolson Ms. Debora Wood & Mr. Russell Propst

† Deceased

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Joshua Weilerstein, conductor Joyce Yang, piano

February 10 & 11 Belk Theater

“Enthusiastic” (LA Times) guest conductor Joshua Weilerstein conducts Brahms’s hauntingly beautiful Symphony No. 4 and Grieg’s stunning Piano Concerto.

SMYTH On the Cliffs of Cornwall GRIEG Piano Concerto in A minor BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

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The Charlotte Symphony is supported, in part, by the Infusion Fund and its generous donors.

Multimillion Dollar Commitment City of Charlotte $1.5 million and above Bank of America C.D. Spangler Foundation / National Gypsum Company John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Trane Technologies $600,000 - $1 million Albemarle Foundation Atrium Health Barings Duke Energy Honeywell JELD-WEN, Inc. LendingTree Foundation Lowe’s Companies, Inc. Novant Health Red Ventures Truist $300,000-$600,000 Ally Financial The Centene Charitable Foundation Childress Klein Properties Coca-Cola Consolidated Deloitte EY The Gambrell Foundation Moore & Van Allen PwC Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A. Rodgers Builders Wells Fargo Up to $300,000 Fifth Third Bank Foundation For The Carolinas Deidre and Clay Grubb Leslie and Michael Marsicano Jane and Hugh McColl Nucor Corporation PNC Bank Premier, Inc. Jane and Nelson Schwab

LEADERSHIP

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Linda McFarland Farthing Chair John Williams Vice Chair Mick Ankrom Treasurer David Fisk President & CEO Melissa Anderson Joye D. Blount Mike Butterworth Nick Clements Catherine Connor Mary Delk*

Denise DeMaio Richard Krumdieck Alex McKinnon Ulrike W. Miles Glenn Mincey Robert Rydel* Ylida Scott Melinda Snyder Jennifer Sullivan Jenny Tolson* Jenny Topilow* Kevin Walker *ex officio

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Richard Osborne, Chair Jane & Hugh McColl Ruth & Richard Ault Susan & Loy McKeithen Kat Belk Elizabeth J. McLaughlin Arlene & Milton Berkman George McLendon Jason & Tiffany Bernd Patrick J. O’Leary Frank Bragg Debbie & G. Patrick Phillips Robin & Bill Branstrom Paul Reichs Derick & Sallie Close Nancy & Charles Robson Robin Cochran Patricia A. Rodgers Wilton Connor M.A. Rogers Jeanie & T. Thomas Cottingham III Dan & Sara Garces Roselli Brian Cromwell Laura & Mike Schulte Alessandra & Pasquale De Martino Carolyn Shaw Alvaro & Donna de Molina Tom Skains Peggy & Richard Dreher Emily & Zach Smith Lisa Hudson Evans Bob & Marsha Stickler Todd Gorelick Adam Taylor Janet Haack Cynthia Tyson Reginald B. Henderson, Esq. Braxton Winston Mark & Whitney Jerrell Richard Worf Jeff Lee Albert Zue Gov. James G. Martin

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EXECUTIVE David J. L. Fisk, President & CEO Samantha Hackett, Executive Administrator ARTISTIC OPERATIONS (see p. 11) DEVELOPMENT Shayne Doty, Vice President of Development Leslie Antoniel, Associate Vice President of Development Amanda LoCascio, Associate Vice President, Institutional Philanthropy Libby Currier, Annual Fund Manager Tammy Matula, Database Manager Jennifer Gherardi, Campaign Coordinator Senta Harvey, Annual Fund & Sponsorships Associate FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Angel Adams, Vice President of Finance & Administration Lissette Rodriguez, Staff Accountant Chazin & Company, Financial Services Amy Hine, Office Administrator HUMAN RESOURCES Maribeth Baker (Catapult), Human Resources Counselor LEARNING & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Aram Kim Bryan, Vice President of Learning & Community Engagement Emily Gordon, Project Harmony Manager Dylan Lloyd, Youth Orchestras Manager Peyton Wulff, Learning Manager Jirah Montgomery, Youth Orchestras Assistant MARKETING Mical Hutson, Vice President of Marketing & Audience Development Deirdre Roddin, Director of Institutional Marketing & Communications Nicole Glaza, Senior Manager of Digital Marketing Chad Calvert, Visual Communications Manager Laura Thomas, Marketing Manager Meghan Starr, Patron Communications Manager Garrett Whiffen, Ticketing Manager

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FRANCK SYMPHONY IN D

February 24 & 25 Knight Theater

Mei-Ann Chen, conductor Calin Ovidiu Lupanu, violin Bruch’s Violin Concerto is one of the best-loved works of the Romantic period. “Vivid” (San Francisco Classical Voice) guest conductor Mei-Ann Chen leads this program, featuring Concertmaster Calin Lupanu.

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