CSO Branford Marsalis plays Ibert - program 05-14-21

May 14 & 15 Belk Theater Christopher James Lees, conductor Branford Marsalis, saxophone

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I’m thrilled to be able to welcome you back to the Belk Theater for an evening filled with extraordinary talent. Resident Conductor Christopher James Lees returns to the podium to conduct your Charlotte Symphony in one of the first concerts with a live audience in more than 14 months! We’ll also warmly welcome jazz royalty and three-time GrammyAward winner Branford Marsalis to the stage to perform lively and jazz-inspired works by Jacques Ibert and Erwin Schulhoff.

It’s been a long road to get to this point, which is why we are gratefully honoring the heroic frontline workers of Atrium Health for their dedication in guiding us, and our community, through the pandemic. On page 8 you’ll read how Dr. Katie Passaretti, Medical Director of Infection Prevention at Atrium Health, helped the CSO keep the music playing by advising on safety protocols. We are very thankful for her work, and for all of the frontline health heroes who have been keeping us safe.

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program

Friday, May 14, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.

Branford Marsalis’s appearance is made possible by

Belk Theater at Blumenthal Performing Arts Center Christopher James Lees, conductor Branford Marsalis, saxophone

Support for tonight’s concert comes from

BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1945) arr. Willner Romanian Folk Dances, sz. 68 ERWIN SCHULHOFF (1894-1942) arr. White Hot-Sonate I. quarter note = 66 II. half note = 112 III. quarter note = 80 IV. half note = 132 Branford Marsalis, saxophone GEORGE GERSHWIN (1898-1937) Lullaby for String Orchestra JACQUES IBERT (1890-1962) Concertino da camera I. Allegro con moto II. Larghetto - Animato Branford Marsalis, saxophone This concert will be performed without an intermission.

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conductor

Christopher James Lees resident conductor

Christopher James Lees was named Resident Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony in 2018.

Emerging American conductor Christopher James Lees is becoming widely recognized for his passionate and nuanced orchestral performances, his fierce commitment to contemporary music, and his natural charisma in front of audiences around the world.

In 2018, Mr. Lees began an appointment as Resident Conductor of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Charlotte Symphony Youth Orchestra. He curates and conducts more than 70 performances a year, including on the Family and Pops series, Education concerts, and the Symphony’s popular On Tap series at Charlotte-area breweries. Mr. Lees made his subscription debut with the orchestra in October 2019.

An active guest conductor, Mr. Lees has returned for performances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic and the Houston, Detroit, Milwaukee, North Carolina, Portland, & Flint Symphonies, as well as debuts with the Indianapolis, Kansas City, Toledo, and Vermont Symphonies.

Additional engagements have taken him to the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orchestra de Chambre de Paris, Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and at the Music in the Mountains Festival & Festival Internacional de Inverno de Campos do Jordão in Brazil.

Only the second American Gustavo Dudamel Conducting Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mr. Lees made his debut with the orchestra in April 2013 and returned for concerts in February 2015.

With the New York Philharmonic and St. Louis Symphony, among others, Mr. Lees has served as an assistant conductor for the world’s leading conductors, including: Gustavo Dudamel, Paavo Järvi, Herbert Blomstedt, Leonard Slatkin, David Robertson, Robert Spano, Marin Alsop, Pablo Heras-Casado, Stéphane Danève, Susanna Mälkki, and Nicholas McGegan.

Music Director Robert Spano named Mr. Lees winner of both the 2011 James Conlon Conducting Prize and the 2012 Aspen Conducting Prizes at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

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guest artist

Branford Marsalis saxophone

These performances mark Mr. Marsalis’s first appearance with the Charlotte Symphony.

New Orleans-born Branford Marsalis is an awardwinning saxophonist, band leader, featured classical soloist, and a film and Broadway composer. In the process, he has become a multi award-winning artist with three Grammys, a citation by the National Endowment for the Arts as a Jazz Master and an avatar of contemporary artistic excellence.

The Branford Marsalis Quartet, formed in 1986, remains his primary means of expression. In its virtually uninterrupted three-plus decades of existence, the Quartet has established a rare breadth of stylistic range as demonstrated on the band’s latest release: The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul. But Branford has not confined his music to the jazz quartet context. A frequent soloist with classical ensembles, Branford has become increasingly sought after as a featured soloist with acclaimed orchestras around the world, performing works by composers such as Copeland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Milhaud, Rorem, Vaughan Williams and Villa-Lobos. And his legendary guest performances with the Grateful Dead and collaborations with Sting have made him a fan favorite in the pop arena.

His work on Broadway has garnered a Drama Desk Award and Tony nominations for the acclaimed revivals of Children of a Lesser God, Fences, and A Raisin in the Sun. His screen credits include original music composed for Spike Lee’s Mo’ Better Blues, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks starring Oprah Winfrey, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. Ma Rainey is the Academy Award-winning Netflix film adaptation of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson’s play, produced

by Denzel Washington and released in December 2020.

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musicians

YOUR CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY Christopher Warren-Green Music Director Christopher James Lees Resident Conductor

FIRST VIOLINS

VIOLAS

FLUTES

Calin Ovidiu Lupanu

Benjamin Geller

Victor Wang

Alaina Rea

Amy Orsinger Whitehead Erinn Frechette

Concertmaster The Catherine & Wilton Connor Chair

Joseph Meyer

Associate Concertmaster

Kari Giles

Assistant Concertmaster

Ernest Pereira° Susan Blumberg°° Jane Hart Brendle Emily Chatham°° Judith Ledbetter Ellyn Stuart Jenny Topilow°°

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 Martha Geissler Margie Sakira Harley

Principal The Zoe Bunten Merrill Principal Viola Chair Assistant Principal

Ellen Ferdon Cynthia Frank Nancy Marsh Levine Viara Stefanova Ning Zhao

Principal The Blumenthal Foundation Chair

PICCOLO Erinn Frechette

OBOES Hollis Ulaky

Principal The Leo B. Driehuys Chair‡

CELLOS Alan Black

Erica Cice Terry Maskin

Jonathan Lewis

ENGLISH HORN

Principal The Kate Whitner McKay Principal Cello Chair Assistant Principal

Marlene Ballena* Jeremy Lamb Sarah Markle Janis Nilsen

DOUBLE BASSES Kurt Riecken Principal

Judson Baines

Assistant Principal

Jeffrey Ferdon Jason McNeel

Terry Maskin

CLARINETS Taylor Marino

Principal The Gary H. & Carolyn M. Bechtel Chair

Samuel Sparrow Allan Rosenfeld

E♭ CLARINET Samuel Sparrow

BASS CLARINET

HARP Andrea Mumm Trammell Principal The Dr. Billy Graham Chair

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Allan Rosenfeld

musicians BASSOONS

TRUMPETS

TUBA

Olivia Oh*

Alex Wilborn

Vacant

Jonathan Kaplan Gabriel Slesinger

TIMPANI

Principal

Hunter Gordon† Acting Principal

Joshua Hood Lori Tiberio

CONTRABASSOON Lori Tiberio

HORNS

Principal The Betty J. Livingstone Chair

Associate Principal The Marcus T. Hickman Chair

TROMBONES John Bartlett Principal

Thomas Burge

Byron Johns

Principal The Mr. & Mrs. William H. Van Every Chair

Andrew Fierova Robert Rydel Richard Goldfaden Philip Brindise†

BASS TROMBONE Scott Hartman Principal

Principal The Governor James G. Martin Chair

Jacob Lipham

Principal The Robert Haywood Morrison Chair

PERCUSSION Brice Burton Principal

° 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

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.

MUSICIAN SPOTLIGHT Alex Wilborn, Principal Trumpet A native of Baxter, Tennessee, Principal Trumpet Alex Wilborn joined the Charlotte Symphony in the 2018–19 season. As a graduate of The Juilliard School he studied with trumpet legends Raymond Mase and Mark Gould. Alex won 2nd place in 2018 National Trumpet Competition Graduate Solo Division and was winner of the 2017 International Trumpet Guild Orchestral Excerpts Competition.

Alex has a personal connection to Mahler 1 as it was the first symphony he ever heard live. He says, “It really introduced me to the power and passion of not only Gustav Mahler’s music, but classical music as a whole.”

Watch Alex and his CSO colleagues, Jon Kaplan and Associate Principal Trumpet Gabe Slesinger play Rafael Méndez’s “Tré-Méndez Polka” in their home studios from March 2020. (click image to play) For more information about Charlotte Symphony musicians, visit charlottesymphony.org.

spotlight

HOW HELPED KEEP THE MUSIC PLAYING Katie Passaretti, MD Medical Director of Infection Prevention at Atrium Health

As Medical Director of Infection Prevention at Atrium Health, Dr. Katie Passaretti has been on the frontlines of the war against the spread of COVID-19 in our community. She’s also worked closely with the Charlotte Symphony to advise on safety protocols; keeping our staff, musicians, and audiences safe and keeping the music playing throughout the pandemic.

What was your path to becoming the Medical Director of Infection Prevention?

I think it started when my mom was a home health care nurse and took me on patient visits from a young age. I was always drawn to and excelled at math and science, so going into the field of healthcare seemed like a natural path for me. I studied biology at Johns Hopkins and ended up staying there for medical school, residency and an infectious disease fellowship -- a total of 16 years. I found that infectious disease and hospital epidemiology had a great mix of patient care, interesting stuff, data nerdiness, detective work and the ability to impact larger populations. In 2011, I left Hopkins and came to Atrium Health to take a health system role as medical director of Infection Prevention and never looked back. It’s been a wild, but gratifying ride.

How has your day-to-day changed since the pandemic began?

No one day has been the same for the past year – it’s been a whirlwind of activity without a doubt! There have been more meetings, emails, phone calls and media interviews than I can count, combined with caring for patients with COVID and other infectious diseases. The days and months have been long and emotional, but worthwhile, and the support and commitment of my leaders at Atrium Health to do what’s best for patients, teammates and our community has been inspiring every step of the way!

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spotlight How have you been helping the Charlotte Symphony ensure a safe environment for staff, musicians, and audience?

My specialty is how to prevent the spread of infections, so I’ve helped serve as a subject matter expert on reopening safely. That work includes everything from when to start letting people back in, testing symphony staff, masking requirements and ways to make the experience as safe as possible in this time of COVID.

“A huge part of healing our community is to bring the arts back.”

- Dr. Passaretti Dr. Passaretti was the very first person in North Carolina to be vaccinated for COVID-19

Why do you feel it’s important for performing arts institutions to continue their work during this time?

Artists and the institutions that showcase them and their works are the heart and soul of our community. While the steps taken this past year were necessary to protect our community, there have been tremendous losses and the lack of access to the arts is very much one of those losses. While reopening performing arts institutions must continue to be done safely, a huge part of healing our community is to bring the arts back.

Learn more about the everyday heroes at Atrium Health here.

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about us

The Charlotte Symphony connects and strengthens its community through exceptional musical experiences. A cornerstone of Charlotte’s arts and cultural landscape, the CSO is a full-time orchestra that performs more than 130 concerts annually and supports bold, robust community engagement and education efforts.

Founded in 1932 and led by internationally celebrated Music Director Christopher Warren-Green, we are the most longstanding performing arts organization in the region. We are responsive to and engaged in the narrative of our people. We employ music as a tool for building community and even are a change agent.

Core programming runs September to May and includes Classical, Pops, and Family series performances, plus special events ranging from movies-in-concert to our annual Magic of Christmas concerts. Longstanding Summer Pops at Symphony Park rounds out each season.

We perform everywhere from community parks and schools to breweries, places of worship, and senior care centers. We are deeply committed to the notion that music, accessible to all and experienced in many forms, enriches our community.

our music director Now in his eleventh season with the Charlotte Symphony, Music Director Christopher Warren-Green also serves as Music Director of the London Chamber Orchestra.

Key engagements have included The Philadelphia Orchestra; the Detroit, Houston, St. Louis, Toronto, Seattle, and Vancouver symphony orchestras; the Minnesota Orchestra; Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra; the Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra amongst others.

Warren-Green returns to Charlotte to open this season with virtual concerts featuring works by Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Brahms, and Dvořák. A product of community music education, Warren-Green plays a key role in the CSO’s educational efforts, including two youth orchestras and Project Harmony, an afterschool program serving high-need areas.

In addition to his international commitments, Warren-Green was invited to conduct at the wedding services of TRH The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall in 2011 and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at St George’s Chapel in 2018.

For more on Maestro Warren-Green and the CSO, visit charlottesymphony.org.

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concert notes BÉLA

BARTÓK born: March 25, 1881, Sânnicolau Mare, Romania died: September 26, 1945, New York, NY

Romanian Folk Dances Sz. 56 (1915) Béla Bartók maintained a lifelong affection for the folk music of his native Hungary. As a young man, Bartók made the first of many journeys to the Hungarian countryside. On several of these trips, Bartók was joined by his friend, contemporary, and fellow Hungarian composer, Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967). Bartók and Kodály used manuscript paper and a phonograph recorder to document thousands of Hungarian folk melodies. Bartók and Kodály believed these melodies were important not only in the context of ethnomusicology, but as the basis for concert works.

Bartók’s use of folk music in his own compositions encompassed other nationalities as well. In 1915, Bartók composed the Romanian Folk Dances, a brief work for solo piano. Two years later, Bartók arranged the Romanian Folk Dances for small orchestra. There have been several other arrangements for various combinations of instruments, including this one by Arthur Willner.

The dances, played without pause, are: I. Joc cu bâtă (Stick Dance): Allegro moderato II. Brâul (Sash Dance): Allegro III. Pê-loc (Stamping Dance): Andante IV. Buciumeana (Hornpipe Dance): Moderato V. Poargă românească (Romanian Polka): Allegro VI. Mărunţel (Fast Dance): Allegro

In 1940, Bartók and his wife fled Hungary to escape the Nazis.

Bartók lived in New York for the brief remainder of his life.

Notes on the Program by Ken Meltzer

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concert notes ERWIN

SCHULHOFF born: June 8, 1894, Prague, Bohemia died: August 18, 1942, Weißenburg in Bayern, Germany

Hot-Sonate (1930) Composer and pianist Erwin Schulhoff was born in Prague on June 8, 1894.

When Erwin was seven, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák advised the Schulhoff family that the boy was quite gifted and should pursue professional music studies. Young Schulhoff studied in Prague, Vienna, Leipzig, and Cologne. In Berlin, he received the Mendelssohn Prize, both for his achievements as a pianist and composer.

During the First World War, Schulhoff served in the Austrian army. After the War, Schulhoff worked in Dresden, where he organized a concert series that featured avant-garde music. Dissatisfaction with the situation in Germany led Schulhoff to return to Prague, where he was active as a teacher and pianist.

In 1924, NY Times music critic Olin Downes attended a Salzburg performance of a chamber piece composed by Schulhoff. After the concert, Downes reported that Schulhoff “betook himself to a certain inn and played American ragtime on the piano till the walls tottered.”

In the early 1930s Schulhoff, in response to the horrors of Nazi Germany, embraced Communism.

Schulhoff received Soviet citizenship and attempted to remain incognito in Czechoslovakia. However, in 1941 Schulhoff, of Jewish birth, was arrested by the Nazis, and sent to the Wülzbourg concentration camp in Bavaria. Erwin Schulhoff died there of tuberculosis on August 18, 1942, at the age of 48.

Schulhoff’s compositions from around 1920 through the early 1930s reflect his keen interest in the avant-garde and jazz. Schulhoff was himself an accomplished jazz pianist, and the Hot-Sonate (1930) is a captivating example of the composer’s affinity for that art form. Originally scored for alto saxophone and piano, the Hot-Sonate is in four movements. In the first movement, a jaunty refrain accompanies the saxophone’s triplet-oriented serpentine melody. The brief quick-tempo second movement showcases the saxophone’s lively passagework. In the third movement, the saxophone, over the accompaniment’s repeated tread, plays an insinuating melody characterized by Schulhoff as lamentuoso ma molto grottesco (“plaintive, but very grotesque”). The finale is in A—B—A form, with two quick-tempo episodes framing a more relaxed sequence that echoes the first movement.

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concert notes GEORGE

GERSHWIN born: September 26, 1898, Brooklyn, New York died: July 11, 1937, Los Angeles, California

Lullaby for String Orchestra (ca. 1919-1920) When George Gershwin composed Lullaby, he was barely twenty years old, but already a success on Tin Pan Alley and Broadway. At the time, Gershwin was studying with the Hungarian émigré Edward Kilenyi. Gershwin wrote Lullaby as a composition exercise, scoring the work for string quartet.

This concert features Lullaby in its arrangement for string orchestra that retains many lovely individual moments from the original quartet. Cast in A—B—A form, the brief Lullaby features the beguiling melodic genius and masterful blending of classical and jazz elements found in such Gershwin masterpieces as Rhapsody in Blue (1924), An American in Paris (1928), and Porgy and Bess (1935).

The premiere of Gershwin’s Lullaby for string quartet did not take place until 1967, performed by the Juilliard String Quartet at the Library of Congress.

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concert notes JACQUES

IBERT

born: August 15, 1890, Paris, France died: February 5, 1962, Paris, France

Concertino da camera for Alto Saxophone and Eleven Instruments (1935) French composer Jacques Ibert’s first studies were not in music, but in the dramatic arts. As a youth, Ibert was able to combine his love of the stage and music by playing the piano for screenings of silent films at the AmericanTheater cinema in Paris. Ibert entered the Paris Conservatoire, although military service during the First World War interrupted his studies. In 1919, Ibert won the Prix de Rome for his cantata Le Poète et la Fée.

As a composer, Ibert embraced a wide variety of Jacques Ibert: “I genres and styles, both instrumental and vocal. It’s have given to my not surprising that Ibert composed prolifically for the instruments, in my theater, with numerous operas, ballets, incidental concertos, themes appropriate to their music, and film and radio scores to his credit. sonorous qualities, Jacques Ibert’s approach to music was refreshingly and which respect devoid of pedantry. As he once observed: “All their expressive systems are valid, provided one derives music from possibilities.” them.” Ibert further emphasized: “I want to be free— independent of the prejudices that arbitrarily divide the defenders of a certain tradition and the partisans of a certain avant garde.”

Ibert dedicated his Concertino da camera (1935) to the German-born American saxophonist Sigurd Raschèr (1907-2001). The Concertino da camera is scored for solo alto saxophone and an ensemble of eleven instruments (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, two violins, viola, cello, bass).

The work is in two movements. In the brief first movement (Allegro con moto), the ensemble’s vigorous introduction leads to the entrance of the soloist, with music notable for its energy, wide range, and brilliant passagework.

The second movement opens in broad tempo (Larghetto) with a mournful solo for the saxophone, soon joined by the ensemble. The strings launch the concluding quick-tempo section (Animato molto) with a scurrying refrain, soon adopted by the soloist. A cadenza for the saxophone leads to the dashing final bars.

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Tony & Susan Abbott Ann & Bob Abel Mark Abrams & Iris Prandi Mr. Manuel Arrese Mauro Atalla JWD Atchison Jeff Ballast Mr. & Mrs. William B. Barnhardt Mr. & Mrs. Lincoln A. Baxter Mrs. Natascha A. Bechtler Dr. & Mrs. Andreas H. Bechtler Matthew Beck & Chadwick Smith Bob & Cathy Becker Dr. & Mrs. Michael J. Bell Dr. John L. Bennett & Mr. Eric T. Johnson Kristine E. Benshoff Mortimer & Josephine Cohen Fund Robert Black Betsy & Scott Bodien Steve Bost Mary & Charles Bowman Mr. & Mrs. John Bradley James Broadstone Aram & Scott Bryan Ronald Bryson David H. & Barbara J. Burns Nancy Butzek Greg & Mary Lou Cagle Barbara F. Caine Jennifer Callahan Ms. Lisa Callen Dianne & Jan Cates Joe & Janet Cauley Young & Kana Chin Mr. & Mrs. Bei T. Chu Richard & Kay Cline Mrs. Anne S. Close Mr. Thomas E. Collins, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Cook Sondra Cooney Ragnhild Daasvand Peter De Arcangelis Jon Merkert & Bernadette Donovan-Merkert Cheryl Drake-Bowers Claude Duet Thomas & Kris Duffy Mark Eckert Rebecca Elliott Dr. & Mrs. J. Murray Fadial Dr. Rezvan Rafi & Dr. Saeed Fatenejad Mark Ficken Betsy & Jeff Freeman Christopher Friesen Mr. & Mrs. Eugene H. Frost George Gabel Melisa & Frank Galasso Mark Gibbs Sara E. Gibson Tom & Tracey Gillespie

supporters Mr. Walter H. Goodwin, Esq. Ms. Cynthia Greenlee Ms. Merry Hartrick Patrick & Johanne Hawk Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Heafner Logan & Jennifer Henderson Brian & Juliet Hirsch Jesse Hite Ben & Christy Hume Nilse Hurwitz Joan Irwin Jean Jackson Dr. Nish Jamgotch, Jr. Joann B. Johnson Tim & Kathryn Johnson Pete & Phyllis Johnson E. Joann Jones Mr. & Mrs. Harold G. Karn Dick & Nancy Karr Steven & Mary Kesselman Shawn King Joan Kirschner Nancy H. Kiser Donna Knowlton John & Ardis Koch David & Francine Kors Dr. & Mrs. Jack Kramer Theodore & Dorothy Kramer Sharon & David Lacy Jonathan Lamb Tom & Mary Last Mr. & Mrs. Michael Leonowicz Jerome & Barbara Levin George Linfors Donald Liotta Agus Loekman Dr. & Mrs. William W. MacDonald Stuart & Allison Malter Joan W. Martin & Pat Burgess Veronica McComb Juliette & Joseph McLelland Tom & Sandy Meckley Mr. & Mrs. Kiran H. Mehta Roy H. Michaux Eric Miller Krivitsky Family Cricket Weston & David Molinaro Tom & Sally Moore Mr. & Mrs. Kent Moore Kimbrel & Tripp Morris David H. Nance & Jennifer Nance Dr. & Mrs. Michael E. Norman Carmen Odom Nancy Olah & Bill Pace Ynez Olshausen Mr. Robert H. Osborn & Mrs. Nancy Osborn Christopher Parides Cookie & Jerry Parnell Rachel Parsons Charles Payet

John H. Pickett Mr. & Mrs. Rodney C. Pitts Mr. & Mrs. Steve M. Proffitt Dr. & Mrs. James E. Pugh Jeanine & Naeem Qasim Dr. & Mrs. R. Pinkney Rankin, Jr. Betty Chafin Rash Morry Alter & Joan Rasmussen Casey Rentch Jay Reynolds Ms. Lynn Rogers Ms. Margaret Rogers & Mr. John R. Willis Nancy Rutledge & Jim Rutledge Robert & Christine Rydel Dr. Stephen P. Schultz & Donna Dutton William Scullin & Bretynn Race Harriet Seabrook Mr. & Mrs. William Seifert Robert Semrad Mr. & Mrs. Pope A. Shuford Mr. & Mrs. Eric Sklut Alan Slonim Judy Smith Dr. & Mrs. Henry L. Smith II Ken Spielfogel & Richard Withem Bill & Mary Staton Robert & Maxine Stein Mr. & Mrs. Larry Stern Michael Steuerwald William & Catherine Stone Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Stubbs Wesley & Claudia Sturges Faye F. Sultan & Kenneth Essex Dr. & Mrs. Thiedeman Nancy & Dick Thigpen Gretchen & Jean-Claude Thill Kelly Thomas Frances & Bill Thompson Cynthia Thomson Gary & Pennie Thrower Denise Tidball Melissa M. Tolin Brent & Claire Trexler Sarah & Tim Turner James & Melanie Twyne Drs. Iris Cheng & Daniel Uri Dana Vaden David Walters Jin Wang Erik Weghorst Mr. & Mrs. Tom Weidman Pam & Steve West Zelda White Dr. & Mrs. Thomas H. White Bryan Wilhelm Jarrett I. Wyant Barbara Yarbrough David Yardley Wai Yau Maureen Young

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$250 – $499

Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Andrew A. Adair, Esq. Bruce Anderson Jan & Jim Anderson Jackie Ardis Ms. J. C. Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. Arndt Linda Arnold Ms. Barbara J. Avard Edwin & Cheryl Bagley Mr. & Mrs. Carl Barlow Tanja Bauer Bob & Elise Beaven Curtis Beck Mr. & Mrs. Carl Belk Mr. & Mrs. Irving Bienstock Stuart Blackmon Renee Boger Nicholas Bonevac Joan Booth Dr. & Mrs. Thor-Erik Borresen Tara Box Nan Bracy Mary E. Bruno Lesley Burke Beth Burke Maggie Callen Christina Cantrell Amy Cathey Catherine Chew John Clapp John H. Clark Michele T. Classe Ms. Dorothy Cole Walter N. Coley Mr. Kilian Cooley Mrs. Suzanne B. Coonen Carolyn Cooper Neil & Claire Cotty Mrs. Judy Crozier Mr. John J. Crymes Rennie Cuthbertson William W. Daniel, Jr. Joseph Delmaster Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Dennis Norcott Desterre Doug & Diane Doak April & Joseph Dodge Janice Dodge Mike Dyer Mr. & Mrs. Clifton E. Edmondson Eleanor C. Edwards Carolyn & Tim Eichenbrenner Gainor Eisenlohr Mr. Martin Ericson Mark & Joan Erwin Richard Fairclough Sarah Fatherly Kenny Faulkner

supporters Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Faut The Federico Family Tom & Gail Fennimore Stacey Ferraro Heidi & Lee Fite Evelyn & Norman Fortson Jeanette Freedman Mary & John Gaertner Alexandra Gautraud Albert Gebhardt Dr. & Mrs. Richard Gellar Stephen C. & Jean S. Geller Alan & Ruth Goldberg Mr. & Mrs. Larry Goodgame Bill Gorelick Richard Greenberg Kevin Greene Mr. Bruce Harned Bruce Harned Bette Harris Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Harver Abigail He Mr. & Mrs. Hemenway Dr. Eugene Hermitte Phyllis Herschenfeld Cris Hill Kelli Hopp-Michlosky Barbara Horstmann Lis & James Hoveland Pierce Howard Karin & Robert Hudson Danielle Huffman-Hanni Peter Humphery & Juliann Bannon Linda Hutchinson Katherine Jakubowski Dr. Peter Judge Margot Kaiser George Kaperonis John J. Kelly, Jr. Carol Koball Alejandro Lanza Rick Lee Jerry & Teri Licari John J. Locke Dr. & Mrs. Thomas T. Long III Suzanne Lowry Lucinda Nisbet Lucas Donald Lueder John Lyon Bob & Mary Anne MacCaughelty Robert A. & Kathryn S. Majeski Theodore & Katherine Martinez Michael Matier Tammy & Steve Matula Judy & John Mayo Glenn McConnell Nydia McCrohan Ann P. McDermott Dorothy McGavran Mr. & Mrs. James W. McQuiston

Jack & Pat Meckler Manuel V. Medeiros Jeffrey F. Meyer Marcus & Katherine Miller Anne & Brad Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Moline Fred Morgenstern Ann Morris Fran & Gary Morrison David Munger Amy Murphy Darrell P. Nelson Jill & Edwin Newman Mary Newsom Carol Nicholson David Nix Bruce Norton William Olson Dr. Samuel L. Orr & Ms. Margaret Errington Kimberly Padgett James Parks Ms. Carolyn Parrington Rose & Bailey Patrick Mr. & Mrs. Gerard W. Peer Lisa & Tom Phillips Catherine Philpott Barbara Pierce Christopher Polk Frank & Maria Portone Brent Prater Kathleen Prevost Stephen Primost Mr. Conrad Puckett Claire & J. Scott Purdy David & Leah Randall Joann Rautenberg Helen Ray R. Kent & Marsha Rhodes Mekel Rogers Stanley & Louise Rose Pamela Rowland Katherine Schorr Rosalind & Joseph Seneca Mr. & Ms. Peter Shankey John Sherrill Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Sink Frances Snepp Craig Snyder Helen S. Solitario Nancy & Richard Stark Deborah Steiner Ann Stigall Larry Stratemeyer Mr. & Mrs. Warren W. Sturm Jack & Mary Kay Szczepek Molly Tarr Mr. & Mrs. Robert Thomas David Thomason Robert & Mary Thornberry

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Mr. Mark Thornberry & Ms. Kay Thompson Tim Timson Nancy & David Townsend Scott Tozier Patti Tracey & Chris Hudson Joan Vogen Luther & Marlyn Wade Hallam Walker Catherine A. Walton Minyan Wang Mr. & Mrs. Ronald M. Weiner Barnet & Harriet Weinstock Lyman Welton Mr. & Mrs. James M. White John & Jill White Karla Williams Ms. Mary Lindeman Wilson Jo Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Duncan M. Witte Mitchell Wolff Karen & Charles Wolff

supporters

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

Charles & Peggy Dickerson Dr. & Mrs.† Jerry H. Greenhoot 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 Albert Rogat Nancy W. Rutledge Mike Rutledge Harriet Seabrook Mr. & Mrs. William Seifert Bob & Maxine Stein Dr. Ben C. Taylor III Mr. & Mrs. Hans Teich Cordelia G. Thompson Tim Timson J. Mason Wallace† † Deceased

Leave a lasting legacy of great music through your planned gift.

For more information, contact Leslie Antoniel at 704.714.5139.

Support your CSO. With your gift, the Charlotte Symphony uplifts, entertains, and educates the diverse communities of Charlotte-Mecklenburg and beyond through exceptional musical experiences.

Every gift makes a difference.

Make your contribution today:

charlottesymphony.org/give-today

supporters

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS We are grateful for the following outstanding corporate, foundation, and government funders: $100,000 +

$50,000-$99,999 The Trexler Foundation

$20,000-$49,999 D G Brungard Foundation

$10,000-$19,999

$5,000-$9,999

$2,500-$4,999

Albemarle Foundation Blumenthal Foundation William & Patricia Gorelick Family Foundation Mariam and Robert Hayes Charitable Trust King & Spaulding LLP John S. & James L. Knight Foundation Maurer Family Foundation Reemprise Foundation

George & Ruth Baxter Foundation The Charlotte Assembly Charlotte Eye Ear Nose & Throat Associates Dunspaugh-Dalton Foundation US Bank Foundation

The Springs Close Foundation, Inc. Stanly County Community Foundation

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administration BOARD OF DIRECTORS Kimberly Q. Parker Chairperson

David J. L. Fisk President & CEO

Linda McFarland Farthing Ellen Fitzsimmons Reginald Henderson Richard Krumdieck David Leitch Yih-Han Ma Alex McKinnon Ulrike W. Miles

Glenn Mincey Torsten Pilz Mike Rutledge Robert Rydel* Melinda Snyder John D. Williams Shanté Williams, PhD

John Barquin Vice Chairperson

Debbie Abels* Mick Ankrom Brian Bridgford Thomas Burge* Wilton Connor Mary Delk*

Brian Cromwell Alvaro & Donna de Molina Peggy & Richard Dreher Lisa Hudson Evans David Furr Todd Gorelick Janet Haack Mark & Whitney Jerrell David L. Kors Jeff Lee Laszlo & Anna Littmann Gov. James G. Martin

Jane & Hugh McColl Susan McKeithen Elizabeth J. McLaughlin George McLendon Patrick J. O’Leary Debbie & G. Patrick Phillips Paul Reichs Peggy & Wayne Reynolds Nancy & Charles Robson Patricia A. Rodgers M.A. Rogers

Dan & Sara Garces Roselli JD Schurter Carolyn Shaw Emily & Zach Smith Bob & Marsha Stickler Scott Syfert Cynthia Tyson Braxton Winston Richard Worf

EXECUTIVE

DEVELOPMENT

HUMAN RESOURCES

David J. L. Fisk President & CEO

Leslie Antoniel Director of Donor Engagement

EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD Immediate Past Chairperson Kevin Walker Treasurer

*ex-officio

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Richard Osborne, Chair Ruth & Richard Ault Kat Belk Arlene & Milton Berkman Jason & Tiffany Bernd Frank Bragg Margarita & Nick Clements Derick & Sallie Close Robin Cochran Catherine Connor Jeanie & T. Thomas Cottingham III

ADMINISTRATION

Chris Stonnell Micah Cash Individual Giving Senior Manager Director of Education & Community Engagement Holly Blackman Heather Münch ARTISTIC Government & Institutional School & Community OPERATIONS Relations Manager Programs Manager John Clapp Senta Harvey Vice President of Artistic Development Coordinator YOUTH ORCHESTRA Operations & General Manager Stewardship & Events PROGRAMS Samantha Hackett Executive Assistant

Sara Gibson Director of Operations

Teil Buck Orchestra Personnel Manager Carrie Graham Director of Artistic Planning Nixon Bustos Principal Music Librarian John Jarrell Stage Manager

Amanda LoCascio Director of Corporate Engagement

Aram Kim Bryan Director of Youth Orchestra Programs

FINANCE

Dylan Lloyd Youth Orchestra Program Coordinator – CSYO

Kirsten Morris Vice President of Human Resources & Administration MARKETING Candace Sykes Vice President of Marketing & Patron Experience Deirdre Roddin Director of Communications Chad Calvert Visual Communications Manager Nicole Glaza Digital Marketing Manager Tiffany Spaulding Patron Communications Manager

Wendy Laxton (CREO, Inc.) Fractional Vice President Meghan Squier Emily Gordon of Finance Ticket Services Manager Youth Orchestra Program Chazin & Company Coordinator – Project Harmony Financial Services Trey McKinney Staff Accountant

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