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APRIL–MAY 2022 CONTENTS 5 Welcome from the President & CEO 6 Feature: Works from Across the Globe 10 Feature: Reflecting on 10 Years with Pops Conductor John Morris Russell

19 Spotlight: Classical Roots: Black Voices and Stories from American Music and Theater

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Spotlight: Livestreams: The CSO’s New Chamber Orchestra Inaugural Brady Neighborhood Concert Series Honoring Three Retiring Orchestra Musicians

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WELCOME FROM THE PRESIDENT AND CEO Dear Friends, As we near the end of the 2021–22 season, we reflect upon our first complete season of activity following the onset of the pandemic, and there is much to celebrate.

We welcomed fullcapacity audiences for performances by the full complement of Orchestra, May Festival Chorus and, in April, Classical Roots Community Choir.

We furthered our commitment to accessibility through free livestreamed performances that reached viewers in all corners of the world.

We established deeper roots within our community and built a pathway to help develop a more diverse cohort of arts professionals through the creation of the Andrew J. Brady Neighborhood Concert Series and Internship Program.

We honor those who have poured countless hours of service into the organization through the years, especially our three retiring musicians—Paul Frankenfeld, Susan Marshall Petersen and Matthew Zory, Jr.—who have served in the Orchestra for a combined 116 years.

In this issue, we welcome the Classical Roots Community Choir back to the Music Hall stage and explore the traditions and history of Black theater with music from opera, cantata, Broadway, and much more. In Ken Smith’s article, we learn about the new oboe concerto, written for our own Principal Oboe Dwight Parry, and a work by Mexican composer Gabriela

Ortiz, written in honor of her teacher and mentor, Mario Lavista. Anne Arenstein’s article gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the “chamber orchestra” of professionals working to deliver on every aspect of a livestreamed performance.

And, in David Lyman’s feature, “Reflecting on 10 years with John Morris Russell,” we catch a glimpse into John’s decade with our organization and the impact he has had on the community.

Although we are proud of John and the Cincinnati Pops for the success of Grammy-nominated albums, American Soundscapes and an international tour, what is most notable to each of us here in Cincinnati is the time, dedication and energy he brings to our community. His affinity for the history and people of Cincinnati is what sets our Pops orchestra apart—it is the Cincin- John Morris Russell nati Pops, not just in name, but in the music programmed, the stories told, the artists featured, and the conductor who leads. Thank you, John, for 10 remarkable years!

There is much to celebrate this season, including you, our audience and family. Thank you for joining us for each concert, livestream and event.

With gratitude,

Classical Roots Community Choir members rehearsing for the 2022 Classical Roots concert. Credit: Charlie Balcom

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FEATURE: Works from Across the Globe

Works from Across the Globe: The Premieres that Draw the CSO’s Season to a Close

by KEN SMITH

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s return to Music Hall this season has been jam-packed with premieres, some freshly written, others postponed from Covid-related cancellations.

In May, the Orchestra offers an example of each: Guillaume Connesson’s Les belles heures, a new oboe concerto featuring CSO Principal Oboe Dwight Parry, and Gabriela Ortiz’s Tzam, originally planned for the 2020–21 season finale, now bringing the 2021–22 season to a close.

As originally scheduled nearly a year ago, Ortiz’s piece will appear with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7—a pairing that CSO Music Director Louis Langrée admits was in the picture from the beginning. “I said, either make a link to Bruckner or absolutely no link—an ‘anti-link,’” he says.

Or as Ortiz recalls, “They all told me to write an orchestral piece around 20 minutes long that could be paired with Bruckner, which meant that I was supposed to use Bruckner’s instrumenta-

tion—except for adding percussion. I can’t do anything without percussion.”

The Mexico City-based composer, whose vibrant musical output has led to numerous awards and fellowships as well as two Latin Grammy nominations, is well aware of the pitfalls of cultural labels. “It’s easy to define Mexican music as mariachi, or Latin American as all rhythm with congas and maracas,” she says. “But there are so many composers, so many voices. My music is often associated with rhythm and Latin influences, but I have many sides to my esthetic.”

Tzam, Ortiz’s piece for the CSO, is one of those works that “doesn’t fit the stereotype,” she admits. Written in honor of Ortiz’s teacher and mentor, the Mexican composer Mario Lavista (see sidebar, next page) who died of cancer during the Covid pandemic, the piece actually fits the spirit (if not the sonorities or structure) of Bruckner’s Seventh, which was written in part continued, p. 8

Louis Langrée leads the CSO and May Festival Chorus in W.A. Mozart’s Mass in C Minor. Credit: JP Leong

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FEATURE: Works from Across the Globe

Gabriela Ortiz talks about the inspirations behind Tzam

by KEN SMITH

Even Gabriela Ortiz admits that her music is not an obvious pairing with Bruckner.

“I truly respect him as a composer,” she says. “But Bruckner’s music is very far from my own.”

Having grown up in Mexico City playing folk music (her classically trained parents founded the ensemble Los Folkloristas), Ortiz later studied piano and composition in Mexico’s Eurocentric classical music environment (“a world where the Arditti String Quartet is better known than the Kronos,” she says) before continuing her studies in the relatively open environment of the Guildhall School and the University of London.

From top: Carmen-Helena Téllez (Photo

by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame) and Mario Lavista

Her music, an amalgam of visceral energy and avant-garde rigor, has inspired audiences from Los Angeles to Paris, Caracas to Glasgow.

But Tzam, which receives its belated premiere with the CSO on May 14 and 15, is something of a departure. During the pandemic, Ortiz lost her father, her primary musical influence and Gabriela Ortiz. Credit: Gabriela Smith professional mentor. “Many brass and percussion in two people I knew had died of circular formations, their Covid, but fortunately, fanfare becoming a leitmotif he did not,” she says. “He for the entire first section. was 87; he had breakfast and After the Lavista-inspired simply closed his eyes.” central section, the work ends Ortiz was thinking about in a lyrical adagio for strings. how to honor his legacy “This piece has many different when she heard news of the atmospheres where the death of Mario Lavista, her harmonies and tone colors are composition teacher and later very important, like swimming faculty colleague at Mexico’s in an ocean with each wave Escuela Nacional de Música. bringing another harmony, Then three weeks later came another color, another the death of Carmen-Helena sonic quality,” she explains.

Téllez, the Venezuelan-born “This piece is quite unique American conductor and a in my catalogue, but I had great supporter of Ortiz’s to discover another side of work. Both had died from myself to express how I feel at cancer. this moment.”

“I was completely Tzam means “dialogue” in devastated,” she says. “Such Ayapaneco, a near-extinct a great loss—not only for me, dialect in the Mexican state of but for all Latin American Tabasco—a sentiment Ortiz music. I had already been says runs through her piece at looking for a musical way to every level. “The stereophonic honor my father, but when dialogue is right there in I started writing this piece, the brass, and the musical everything was all in my skin. material keeps developing at I am dedicating the piece to all times,” she says. “In this Mario, but it’s really for all of piece I’ve established not only them.” a dialogue with Mario, but In Tzam, Ortiz inserts a also a dialogue with myself.” near-quote from Lavista’s She pauses for a moment.

Cuaderno de Viaje, a piece “And because the piece is for solo cello using only very…well, not exactly Neoharmonics. “It’s there as a Romantic but very lyrical, I reminder of Mario’s delicate suppose it’s also a dialogue and refined musical world,” with Bruckner.” she says. Much more dramatic, she admits, is placing the FANFARE CINCINNATI | 7

FEATURE: Works from Across the Globe

Guillaume Connesson. Credit: Christophe Peus

in anticipation of the death of Richard Wagner.

“The Seventh is a sublime Mass without words,” Langrée says, though he balks at any suggestion that Ortiz’s music is anything like Bruckner with more percussion. “It’s difficult to have less percussion than Bruckner,” he says.

Percussion, though, was a central part of Langrée’s early Bruckner experience, when he first conducted the Seventh with an orchestra in France. Upon hearing of Wagner’s death, Bruckner had added a climactic (and controversial) cymbal crash in the second movement.

Some conductors honor the addition, others prefer to omit it.

Having chosen the version with the cymbal, Langrée was in the midst of a performance when he saw the percussionists moving into place too soon. After motioning them back, he noticed them listening intensely to the music— a bit too deeply, it turned out, since they later forgot to play at all.

“They were so taken with the lyrical playing in the string section that they forgot where they were in the score,” he recalls. “The one note they had, they forgot to play. They came backstage to me after the concert very apologetic. I told them, ‘Well, that was one possible version of the piece. Tomorrow, please get ready to play the other one.’”

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Unlike the belated world premiere of Ortiz’s Tzam, Connesson’s Les belles heures will indeed have its world premiere as its title indicates, at “the beautiful hour.” “This work is truly beautiful. Collaborating with Guillaume was a special and rewarding experience,” says CSO Principal Oboist Parry, Connesson’s soloist and musical collaborator for the piece (see sidebar, next page).

Langrée first conducted a work by Connesson with the CSO during an all-French gala program that opened the 2018–19 season, when Langrée added the composer’s Flammenschrift, a 10-minute orchestral piece from 2012, as a contemporary rejoinder to Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé, essentially marking an extension of French musical tradition.

“The main thing about the piece was its rich orchestration,” Langrée recalls. “Connesson certainly knows how to create an orchestral sound, not just in the variety of colors but also in creating a certain chemistry between those sounds and players themselves.”

That said, Langrée says he hesitates to wave the French flag excessively on the podium. “You know, I never feel more French than when I am abroad,” the Alsace native admits. “When I’m conducting Bernstein or Sebastian Currier or John Adams or Missy Mazzoli, I can see without question how they are American. But when I’m conducting in my mother language, musically speaking, I don’t feel how French pieces are specifically French. It’s just my language.”

Although both Langrée and Parry cite the range of musical timbres as central to Connesson’s appeal, the composer himself says he aims for a balance of tone color with rhythm, melody and harmony. “Even in Debussy’s most ethereal pieces, there’s a strong rhythmic idea,” he says.

Even in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, amidst its rhythmic force, there’s an extraordinary melodic discourse. This is what guides my own work: the quest for balance.”

A sense of balance, primarily in the placement of musical forces, also extends to the Music Hall stage. With an appropriate nod to the CSO’s “fanfare” tradition, Ortiz’s opening calls for placing brass instruments and percussion in a circular, quasi-stereophonic setting.

Taken together, the season’s final CSO commissions are a sign of returning to business as usual. “After the past two years, seeing antiphonal placement of brass and percussion is already very exciting,” Langrée says. “And having Dwight standing beside me, not just sitting in front of me, will be a great joy.”

FEATURE: Works from Across the Globe

Dwight Parry discusses Connesson oboe concerto

Connesson, a pianist with no personal experience playing wind instruments, credits “studying the great masters” for inspiration, but “direct communication with artists” for many significant corrections and practical modifications. “Working with Dwight has been very stimulating,” he says through a translator, “especially in going further with the solo part.

He was very responsive and committed, and that enriched my work considerably. In art, the only thing that matters is the result.”

by KEN SMITH

It was during Dwight Parry’s debriefing after performing Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto with the CSO in 2017 when talks turned to commissioning a new work for the orchestra’s principal oboist. “The list of composers was long and diverse,” says Parry. “It was a tough decision in every way, but for me the name that kept coming back was Guillaume Connesson.”

Connesson, one of the world’s most performed living French composers, had first come to Parry’s attention several years ago in South Africa, when the composer’s Sextour turned up on his music stand at the Stellenbosch International Chamber Music Festival.

“The piece just grabbed me—the instrumentation, the impressionistic colors,” he says. “I wound up becoming something of a leader in that ensemble. Later when the idea of a concerto came up in Cincinnati, I had this instinct that he would write superbly for solo oboe.”

Connesson’s Les belles heures (“The Beautiful Hours”), which the CSO will perform under Music Director Louis Langrée on May 6, 7 and 8, is the first concerto specifically commissioned for Parry. He is, however, no stranger to working with composers. Parry has performed a wide range of new chamber works, solo oboe pieces, and in larger ensembles where composers have turned to the wind players to better understand the performance aspect. “Especially in chamber music, it can be a very intimate creative relationship,” he says.

But when he received the first movement of the concerto,

Dwight Parry. Credit Roger Mastroianni

an expressive rumination evocatively titled L’heure bleue, Parry wondered if there was much need for collaboration. “The first movement was already fairly complete and, frankly, quite idiomatic for the oboe,” he says. “So, I thought, ‘Wow, maybe you don’t need my input.’”

After receiving the third movement, however—a propulsive showpiece titled L’heure fugitive—Parry thought the writing didn’t go quite far enough. “I wrote to him right away, telling him it could be a little…well, flashier,” Parry says. Connesson wrote back immediately, admitting that he had been “a little too conservative.” Within a few days, Parry received a second version he calls “considerably more acrobatic.”

Writing Les belles heures took nearly six months of solitary effort, Connesson says—rather like a pandemic lockdown, though the composer claims to avoid any specific commentary on news or conditions of the times.

Parry agrees that the piece seems unaffected by events of the past two years. “It‘s certainly not a programmatic response to the pandemic,” he says. “The first movement is quite introspective, though, and from my perspective the music tells a story of love, adventure and surrealism that I find palpably relatable. It’s hard to imagine any artist not being affected by our times, but Guillaume seems to have transcended that and crafted something timeless.”

CSO co-commission of Connesson’s Les belles heures is made possible

by Ann and Harry Santen.

Principal Oboe Dwight Parry performs Richard Strauss’ Oboe Concerto with the CSO and conductor Edo De Waart in February 2017. Credit: Lee Snow

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Photo: Claudia Hershner

Reflecting on 10 years with Pops Conductor

John Morris Russell

by DAVID LYMAN

JMR conducts the 2016 Classical Roots Concert. Credit: Mark Lyons

Ten years? John Morris Russell is celebrating 10 years as the conductor of the Cincinnati Pops?

It feels like it was just a minute ago when he arrived. But when I think it through a little better, I realize that John has been part of our lives for much, much longer. He’s been with us through countless musical milestones—from the 2017 Asian tour to Lumenocity, from the birth of Classical Roots to the World Choir Games. And Home for the Holidays. He’s marshaled us through countless Fourth of July holidays with “Red, White and Boom.” And then there was that incredible evening with Aretha. And American Originals. And the groundbreaking American Soundscapes partnership

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between the Pops and CET. And… well, there are more highlights than we could possibly list.

Of course, you have to remember that John has led a couple of different lives here in Cincinnati.

He’s pulled off something that is a rarity in the world of orchestral music. He first came to Music Hall in 1995 as the Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.

A year later, he became Associate Conductor.

“It was a great position,” says Russell. “And I had so much freedom within my small purview. I got to conduct all sorts of music.”

But when you’re an associate conductor, you are the go-to guy, “the chief cook and bottle washer,” in John’s words. You’re the conductor who gets handed all the “other” concerts, the ones that tend not to garner headlines or attract world-famous guest artists.

Think Lollipops Concerts. And Young People’s Concerts. And every manner of outreach performance you can imagine.

But JMR, who got his start leading youth orchestras in his hometown, Cleveland, welcomed every one of those opportunities.

“Every concert is a springboard for great creativity,” he says. And he’s not paying lip service when he says that. He is completely sincere about it. “It doesn’t make any difference who the audience is or what their ages or experiences are. They’re there to hear music. And we’re there to share it with them.”

Unfortunately, appointments as an assistant conductor are inclined to be short-term propositions, often as short as 3–4 years. We were fortunate that John stayed longer than most—11 seasons in all.

“When you’re in that position, at some point in time it’s expected that you’ll leave,” says Russell. “Off

you go—you’re out of the nest.

You’re expected to go on to some logical step up the ladder of progress.”

And he did just that. At the end of the 2005–2006 season, he left the CSO to devote himself full-time to the Windsor (Ontario) Symphony Orchestra, where he had been music director since 2001. By the time he departed from Music Hall, he was already well on the way to changing Windsor’s capable, but relatively cautious, orchestra into one with a sterling reputation— an ensemble that was willing to take chances.

A few years later, though, his career took a most unlikely turn. He returned to Cincinnati.

“You never really expect to come back,” says Russell. “The second time around has been even better than the first. It’s been immensely gratifying.”

It doesn’t make any difference who the audience is or what their ages or experiences are. They’re there to hear music.

And we’re there to share it with them.

That goes for us, too, John.

JMR was introduced as the new conductor of the Pops at the very end of 2010. There was a certain jubilance when the announcement was made. After all, here was a conductor we adored. Someone we knew and trusted. ``

Left to right: Music Director Louis Langrée with JMR at the CSO’s 2016 Hot Havana Nights gala.

Credit: Claudia Hershner One of JMR’s first concerts as Pops Conductor, Sweet Sounds of the 70’s, November 2011.

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But the position came with a challenge, too. A profound one that almost no one wanted to talk about.

Not openly, at least.

possibly engage that would engender the same sort of enthusiasm in audiences that Erich Kunzel had?

John came back to Cincinnati because Erich Kunzel, the conductor of the Cincinnati Pops for a remarkable 32 years, had died a year earlier.

The answer was right in front of them.

Paul Frankenfeld, the CSO’s associate principal viola and a member of the Orchestra since 1979, remembers the sense of despair that enveloped the Orchestra in the wake of Kunzel’s death on September 1, 2009.

“There was a real sense of urgency,” recalls Frankenfeld.

JMR seems to will a room of people into following along with him—even a room as large as Music Hall.

Or a mammoth park crowd.

After all, Kunzel was one of the foremost stars in the world of Pops orchestras. And over the course of more than 30 years, he had built the Cincinnati Pops into a household name. The very idea of trying to fill his shoes was daunting. Kunzel was a one-man juggernaut, conducting Pops concerts all over the country— he led the Boston Pops more than 100 times—and creating more than 90 recordings with the Cincinnati Pops. Who could the Orchestra

“When John was announced as the new Pops conductor, not only was the response among the musicians very positive,” says Frankenfeld, “but you could also feel that there was an enormous sense of relief throughout the whole organization.”

If we thought that Erich was a huge onstage personality, we hadn’t seen anything yet. JMR seems to will a room of people into following along with him—even a room as large as Music Hall. Or a mammoth park crowd. To say he is enthusiastic barely scratches the surface.

“He’s unlike any other musician I’ve ever known,” says Eric Oliver, one of the Classical Roots founders.

“He’s a listener—he gets it,” says Kathy Jorgensen-Finley, a member of the team that created Classical Roots.

“He’s always eager to learn—from anyone,” says Anne Cushing-

JMR conducts the Pops orchestra with vocalist Adia Dobbins at Riverbend, July 4, 2018.

Credit: Lee Snow

Reid, director of Preparatory and Community Engagement at the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music and another member of the group that launched Classical Roots.

think you do anyone any favors by dumbing it down. Whether you’re playing in someone’s church or a shopping mall or a major concert hall, you play the good stuff— always.”

They are phrases you hear over and over again when you ask about JMR. He may occasionally be overthe-top on the stage. But he is, in almost everyone’s estimation, sincere. Genuine. Authentic.

Finley, who has known JMR for more than 20 years, says that has been his attitude as long as she has known him.

“There is nothing fake about him,” says Finley. “He loves every single person regardless of socioeconomic status, regardless of where you live. He wants every person in the audience to feel like he has known them forever.”

Not unexpectedly, those are qualities that audiences find nearly irresistible. In an era where so much orchestral music has a reputation as being standoffish or elitist, JMR’s concerts are welcoming. Most important, he accomplishes all of this without compromising the Orchestra’s musical standards.

In a recent story in Cincinnati’s Movers and Makers magazine, he spoke of his “mantra for doing family concerts. You have to make sure to play the good stuff. I don’t

CSO Board member Edgar Smith, Toni Smith, John Morris Russell and Thea Tjepkema (JMR’s wife) celebrating after the March 2019 Classical Roots concert. Credit: Claudia Hershner

“He inspires everyone,” she says.

“And it never stops. As soon as you’re done with a performance he has conducted, he’s already planning how he can improve the program next year. It’s never good enough to be good enough. It always has to be better.”

When he returned to Cincinnati, John remembers the elation he felt when he was able to reap the benefits of some of the programs he had helped to launch as the CSO’s Associate Conductor.

“One never expects to harvest the seeds you planted 20 years ago,” he says. “You don’t think you’re actually going to get to see how the music you engender in audiences makes a difference. But I realized that many of those parents who had taken their kids to the Family Concerts were back at Pops `` FANFARE CINCINNATI | 15

concerts, singing along with artists they loved. Their kids were now off in college. And those parents were among our biggest fans. And, their kids who came to Music Hall for their first experiences are the same ones who are here on date night.”

We are going to find the voice of musicmaking of all kinds. And we are going to embrace it with our Orchestra.

Our time has come.

We’re closing in on the end of the Pops season at Music Hall. But JMR still has a couple of extraordinarily busy weeks before he wraps up the season.

First is the 2022 Classical Roots concert on April 22, featuring the Classical Roots Community Choir.

“We started Classical Roots more than 20 years ago,” says JMR. “We thought it was the right thing to do.”

Remember, the first Classical Roots took place just three months after the shooting of Timothy Thomas by Cincinnati Police and the civil unrest that followed it, leading to parts of the city being under curfew for four days. The racial tension in the city was palpable.

Into the middle of this came JMR and the CSO.

“And, as it turned out, it was the right thing to do,” he says. “But what is most telling, I think, is that we kept it going year after year.

It wasn’t just a one-time thing.

By keeping it going, we’ve had a chance to create this really beautiful relationship. We can see the difference, from our Nouveau kids going on to extraordinary things to our youth audiences and the music we perform. These relationships have affected everything.”

A week after Classical Roots comes the big celebration of JMR’s decade—“JMR’s Greatest Hits,” April 29–May 1.

In typical JMR fashion, the performances will have a little bit of everything, from Broadway to jazz, bluegrass, funk and pop. The Pops will be joined by vocalists Tatiana Mayfield and Brian Stokes Mitchell and Cincinnati’s favorite folk/blues/ Americana duo Over the Rhine.

To top it all off, the performances include a work commissioned from composer Eric Whitacre, winner of a Grammy Award for his Light & Gold album.

“It should be a wonderful salute to John,” says Julie Spangler, keyboard

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player in the Orchestra and a member of the Cincinnati Pops Poptet. She recalls how skillfully he navigated the complicated emotional situation when he took over the Pops baton from Kunzel: “He so humbly and beautifully paid respect to Erich and Erich’s audience when he stepped in. He didn’t turn the programming style upside down on day 1; instead, he used what had worked for a long time and added his personal touch to it all. As time went on, he put his stamp on his concerts more and more, and the audience showed up to listen.”

Over the course of that decade, the Pops has now become JMR’s orchestra.

So what’s next? How does JMR keep the repertory and the relevance fresh? As always, he is a font of ideas and big dreams.

Or—heaven forbid we even discuss this—will he stay?

“The thing is, I do have other plans,” he says, knowing how that must sound to the audiences who have grown to rely on him. “But they all revolve around Cincinnati. My heart and soul are here in the great

Midwest. To me, this is the cradle of American musical culture.”

By now, we have come to understand that JMR has affection and appreciation for many, many different types of music. But how will that eclectic taste manifest itself on the Music Hall stage? Or the Brady Music Center? Or any of the other dozens of venues where we might just bump into JMR and his musicians?

“Can I predict the future?” says Russell. “No. I wish I could. But I can tell you this much. When we think about what the Pops is going to be in the future, we want to be the voice of the people. This is music for everyone. And there are still many musical food groups that the Pops has yet to jump into. My great thrill is the thrill of discovery.

If it sounds good, it is good. We are going to find fantastic artists, in our local community across the country and around the world.

We are going to find the voice of music-making of all kinds. And we are going to embrace it with our Orchestra. Our time has come.”

Left to right: JMR at his first recording session as Pops Conductor for the 2012 Home for the Holidays album.

As Associate Conductor, JMR conducts the first-ever Classical Roots concert at Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church.

JMR conducts Pops in Space in January 2019.

Credit: Lee Snow

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SPOTLIGHT: Classical Roots

Classical Roots: Black Voices and Stories from American Music and Theater

by TYLER M. SECOR

This year’s Classical Roots concert explores the music and history of Black theater across different eras and from multiple dramatic forms. With such a broad topic, how did John Morris Russell narrow down the options? He started with inspiration from the rich musical history of Cincinnati.

Fresh from her Madison Square Garden debut performing to more than 75,000 people, Sissieretta Jones came to Cincinnati in March 1893 to sing at Music Hall.

Madame Jones’ performance won multiple ovations by the audience, and from a review of that concert, we know that she sang arias from Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma and Giacomo Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine but other details are unknown.

It is quite likely, however, that she performed her signature piece, “Sempre Libera” from Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata. Literally translated as “always free,” the aria undoubtedly spoke to her trailblazing career as the first internationally renowned African American operatic soprano. Grammynominated soprano Talise Trevigne joins the Orchestra and John Morris Russell on April 22 to Above: Sissieretta Jones, 1899, Metropolitan Printing Co., Library of Congress Left: August 1, 1926 advertisement for Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle.

recreate that moment. Trevigne also provides a sneak peek of the opera Castor and Patience with libretto by U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, which will have its world premiere this summer with Cincinnati Opera. Trevigne will sing the title role of Patience in this deeply relevant work that probes historical and continuing obstacles to Black land ownership in the U.S. Nearly 20 years after Madame Jones appeared in Cincinnati, Scott Joplin completed his uniquely American opera, Treemonisha (1910). Gilbert Chase writes in his book America’s Music that Joplin’s idea was to write “an opera that would be both ‘serious’ and entertaining, drawing on the ragtime idiom when appropriate…but otherwise adhering to the general style of opera.”

The opera that emerged is an amalgamation of early 20th-century styles such as Black folk songs and dances, spirituals and Western European opera that teaches a moral within the context of a fantastic tale. Chase goes on to write, “[in] about 1940 Aaron Copland was stating that for a long time there had existed ‘a strong desire for somebody to write a real American opera’; by 1910 that desire had already been fulfilled, although only one solitary voice proclaimed it amid a desert of indifference.” Joplin passed away before his opera was ever staged, and four years after its first complete performance in 1972 Joplin was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in music. The Orchestra’s performance of selections from the opera will provide just a taste of the opera’s mix of styles.

Classical Roots will bring the work of Margaret Bonds (1913–1972) to the Music Hall stage for the very first time with “Alleluia” from the cantata The Ballad of the Brown King. Cantata literally means “sung” and typically refers to a short narrative vocal work in several movements with instrumental accompaniment that often involves choir. Bonds’ cantata, with text written

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Album cover for the 1981 Grammy Award-winning record by James Cleveland and the Charles Fold Singers.

and tells the biblical Nativity story through the eyes of the Ethiopian King Balthazar, the Black “Wise Man.” After two long years, the Classical Roots Community Choir (CRCC) makes their triumphant return to sing this work.

The CRCC is also featured in a tribute to Cincinnati’s own Charles Fold Singers. The Grammy Award-winning ensemble founded

by Cincinnatian Dr. Charles Fold celebrated its 50th anniversary this season, and Classical Roots joins in this celebration with an arrangement of a few of their most popular gospel songs.

Dr. Fold, recently inducted into the Cincinnati Black Music Walk of Fame, was music minister at Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church when the very first Classical Roots concert was presented there 21 years ago.

The remainder of the concert is devoted to works from the Broadway stage, beginning with

the first full-length musical written by a Black composer to be performed at a major Broadway theater: Will Marion Cook’s In Dahomey from 1903. His collaboration with librettist Paul Lawrence Dunbar (born just up the road in Dayton) opened the door for productions like Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle’s 1921 musical Shuffle Along, which ran for 504 performances and is often cited as a touchstone for the Harlem Renaissance. Blake and Sissle were no strangers in Cincinnati; they performed at the Swiss Garden in Bond Hill, the Cox Theatre in downtown Cincinnati and the Music Hall Ballroom numerous times in the 1920s and 30s.

Acclaimed baritone Norm Lewis will share his experiences in film, television and Broadway through song. Lewis’ career has spanned over three decades and has included roles such as Phantom in Phantom of the Opera (the first African American actor to play the title role), Javert in Les Misérables (first African American Javert in an English production), King Triton in Broadway’s The Little Mermaid, Porgy in Porgy and Bess, Senator Edison Davis in Scandal, and Eddie in Spike Lee’s latest film, Da 5 Bloods.

Lewis is a founding member of Black Theatre United, whose mission is to inspire reform and combat systemic racism within the theater community and throughout the nation.

“It is always a joy to present our annual Classical Roots program,” says John Morris Russell.

“The blend of history, storytelling and remarkable music is unique among CSO concerts. There is always something new, profound, eloquent and thrilling we all discover together as we celebrate Black musical traditions, and it is an honor and privilege to share it with everyone.”

For more information about the history of the African American experience in Music Hall visit friendsofmusichall.org/blog.

Pianist Michelle Cann at the 2021 Classical Roots concert, conducted by John Morris Russell, performing the Florence Price piano concerto. Credit: Mark Lyons

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SPOTLIGHT: Livestreams

Livestreams: The CSO’s New Chamber Orchestra

by ANNE ARENSTEIN

“It’s been two months since we presented the Beethoven Akademie concert and it feels like two years. I miss you so much—we all miss you so much.”—Louis Langrée With those words, Louis Langrée launched the CSO’s digital presence on April 30, 2020, six weeks after the pandemic forced the season’s cancellation.

Seated in his living room and sporting a beard, Langrée shared insights, images and recorded excerpts with a virtual audience, joined by CSO President and CEO Jonathan Martin (from his home) serving as a moderator for the Q&A. Transmitting the digital signal to the virtual audience fell to staff members working from their individual homes.

It was far from state-of-the-art. Audio faded or cut out entirely and the video wasn’t pristine.

Just three weeks later, the production values dramatically improved with a digitally streamed performance of Mahler’s Piano Quintet and the world premiere of a fanfare for oboe by Matthias Pintscher livestreamed from Music Hall on May 16, 2020. With the reality of live audiences doubtful, at least for the 2020–21 season’s

opening months, the CSO fully committed to livestreamed performances as a necessary component for the Orchestra’s future.

“What began as a lifeline, our only way to connect, has evolved into a new separate experience,” said Jonathan Martin.

The CSO’s commitment to digital media as an effective outreach and marketing tool was grounded in ensuring that what went out to global audiences exceeded expectations.

Martin described it as ongoing drama. “Act I is livestreaming because your hall is closed.

Act II is taking that experience and making it more polished and compelling because it has to reflect the best your orchestra can give.”

“We had to up our game and we invested in a significant number of resources, from cameras to upgraded lighting systems and all the technical expertise that requires.”

The CSO was able to make that investment thanks to the generosity of the Carl Jacobs

Louis Langrée and Jonathan Martin answer audience questions on the first pandemic-era livestream in April 2020.

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A view from the booth during the CSO livestream, Freedom & Joy, in October 2021. Credit: JP Leong

Foundation, Ohio Valley Foundation, The Thomas J. Emery Memorial Fund, Jack and Marilyn Osborn, State of Ohio—CARES Act, The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust, PNC Charitable Trust, an anonymous donor, and many private donors.

And the CSO is on to the next act, moving from a breathtaking pivot into a new medium and strategizing how to engage and retain audiences both in the hall and digitally. In the summer of 2020, the CSO created the Digital Content and Innovation department and, in March 2021, hired as its director KC Commander, who had served as a digital media producer for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

“Our overarching goals for livestreaming include elevating the CSO and Pops as distinctive brands, while reflecting our core artistic strengths and values, including our commitment to diversity,” said Robert McGrath, the CSO’s Chief Operating Officer.

“Additionally, we’re looking for a balance of programming, a commitment to creating new works, highlighting composers and artists of color who have been historically under-represented as well as finding traditional repertory that reflects the CSO’s American and German roots,” he continued. “For this season [2021–22], it wasn’t easy to choose!”

Since livestreaming began in 2020, 24 concerts have been streamed and viewed by more than two million viewers on the CSO’s Facebook and YouTube channels. During the current season to date, a total of four CSO and Pops

livestreamed concerts attracted 29,000 viewers, 17,500 of whom watched a live broadcast.

If viewers could see behind the scenes, they would see the equivalent of a chamber orchestra working to deliver every aspect of the livestream. The work begins weeks before the broadcast and involves meticulous planning.

Very impressed with the camera work. Clearly the operator is familiar with the scores and keeps the melody section in frames.

—MB, livestream comment KC Commander is delighted to hear that. She works closely with the video director overseeing the livestream to ensure that musical and visual storytelling match up.

Even before meeting with the video director, performance licenses and rights must be cleared. Then the concert’s scores are developed into a “shot list,” in addition to camera angles and positions, followed by conversations between director and conductor to share insights and challenges on building the video component.

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Brian Schott (left) along with Director of Operations Heather Stengle at the onstage controls. Credit: Hannah Kenney

Livestream rehearsals are in sync with Orchestra rehearsals. Almost 30 microphones are suspended above the stage and placed on the stage, as many as 10 cameras are positioned throughout the hall, and a whole team of people are in place to run the various aspects of the stream.

“There can be as many as 20 people backstage running the show,” said Brian Schott, CSO lighting specialist, stage manager and crew steward for the CSO. The livestream presents challenges for lighting, he explained: “All of the lights are LED and some of the cameras have a hard time picking up bright colors, so I’m always talking with the operators to make sure the colors are true.”

That’s just one of the constant interactions between crew members that occurs throughout a stream. “That’s why the livestream crew rehearses at the same time the Orchestra does.

Just as the Orchestra needs to rehearse to make the concert perfect, so does the livestream crew,” Commander noted.

During a livestream, additional CSO staff watch the livestream on Facebook and YouTube to check on video and sound compression, the social media team interact with the audience in the chat, the stage manager watches via iPad and a dedicated monitor feed, and Philanthropy staff watch for donor interaction and follow-up.

This is in addition to the staff who are serving Music Hall’s in-person audience.

How does all this activity affect the Orchestra?

“In the beginning, we were very conscious of our movements, but we’re used to it now,” said Ilya Finkelshteyn, Principal Cello. “The crews try very hard to be inconspicuous so we can concentrate on our performance.”

Principal Clarinet Chris Pell agreed and added that performances are enhanced by the high quality of the technical staff. “This season especially, the audio quality has been great!”

“Kudos to the sound engineering crew.

The orchestra sounds FANTASTIC!” —MM, livestream comment.

Mark Donahue is a partner in the Bostonbased recording company Soundmirror and has more than 30 years of experience recording major orchestras in the U.S., along with Grammys for classical music production. He took over as

Behind the scenes with the camera operators for the CSO livestream, Freedom & Joy, in October 2021. Credit: JP Leong

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Drive Media House and the CSO film a conversation between Louis Langrée and composer Andrew Norman. Credit: Tyler Secor

the livestream sound engineer this fall, following the sudden deaths of Five-Four Productions producers Michael Bishop and Thom Moore.

His work begins when rehearsals start. “After I hang microphones, I’m up in the booth, listening and then recording. I have it relatively easy until I get back to Boston, where we do post-production for what goes up on YouTube.”

New works pose challenges for sound balancing but for Donahue, it’s an opportunity to be creative. “Everyone is feeling their way into the piece, and notes from the music staff help everyone achieve what will sound best.”

Donahue checks the edits with the conductor, sometimes daily. After editing, the sound is remixed and the video team of local company Drive Media House takes over, synchronizing video with the audio edits. Following color correction, the finished video is ready for the website and YouTube, as well as for promotional and educational purposes.

“…found this by accident tonight and just loving every minute of it.”

—ICP, livestream comment.

“An outstanding orchestra!”

—KWM, livestream comment

“I love the CSO and the Pops.

It is such a blessing to get to watch from Tennessee.”

—RGB, livestream comment.

Accessibility remains central to the CSO’s livestream strategy, which is why the livestreams are presented at no charge. Following the live broadcast, the concert is on the CSO’s website and YouTube for 24 hours at no charge. This strategy has enabled the CSO to engage with its growing global fan base as well as reaching out to the Greater Cincinnati community.

Robert McGrath noted that industry leaders, cultural influencers, music critics, conductors, composers and musicians seek out the CSO’s livestreams and provide their complimentary recognition and commentary on what the CSO is doing. “It’s a delight to see,” he added.

Another bonus is the viewing community and feedback created by the interactive chat function. The comments throughout this article are from livestream chats on Facebook and YouTube, moderated by CSO staff who answer questions and respond to comments from the virtual audiences. For Chris Pell, some comments proved serendipitous.

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The chat forum also provides the technical team with important information about sound and video. “If someone can’t hear a solo instrument or the video gets fuzzy, we hear about it!”

Commander said.

“I’ll be watching more of these in the future!”—AC, livestream comment Livestreamed concerts are now integral to the CSO’s future programming and initiatives as musicians and administration continue to study the impact on attendance, performance and outreach.

Ilya Finkelshteyn and Chris Pell agree that the livestreams are opportunities for them to critically listen and watch performances.

Robert McGrath and KC Commander are exploring platforms beyond Facebook and YouTube to expand the global reach of CSO concerts.

Everyone agrees that a livestream can never equal a live concert experience. In-person attendance does not appear to be affected by

livestreams; indeed, some concerts have been sold out. One of the goals is to encourage digital viewers to come to a live concert, which Martin and McGrath acknowledge will take time.

But analysis of viewer numbers showed that virtual viewers are spending more time on the livestream. In an age of diminishing attention spans, that’s encouraging.

“Oh the timing and precision and presentation of the orchestra is excellent! I would love to be in a professional orchestra someday.

Thank you SO much for livestreaming!”

—BK, livestream comment The CSO’s achievements in the digital realm are remarkable by any standard. As staff and musicians ponder livestreaming’s next act, Mark Donahue’s assessment is spot-on: “The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is a great organization with a great history. They tend to punch above their weight.”

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The Inaugural Brady Neighborhood Concert Series Join us for music in the community! In partnership with local community organizations, we are pleased to present a series of free public concerts inspired by the legacy of Andrew J. Brady, beloved Cincinnati music teacher and musician. Bring your family and friends to experience the sights and sounds of the full Orchestra in a neighborhood near you.

Sunday, June 19, 7pm Westwood Neighborhood Location: Maple Ridge Lodge 3040 Westwood Northern Blvd Community Partner: Westwood Works

Thursday, July 14, 6:30pm Bond Hill Neighborhood Location: TBA Community Partner: Crown Jewels of Jazz and Jazz Alive!

Sunday, June 26, 7pm Price Hill Neighborhood Location: Dunham Recreation Center Complex 4356 Dunham Ln. Community Partner: Cincinnati Recreation Commission

Saturday, July 16, 7pm West End Neighborhood Location: Laurel Park 500 Ezzard Charles Drive Community Partner: Seven Hills Neighborhood Houses

For more information visit cincinnatisymphony.org/ brady-series or point your phone’s camera at the QR code.

Saturday, August 6, 7pm Evanston Neighborhood Location: Owl’s Nest Park 1984 Madison Rd. Community Partner: Evanston Community Council

Audience members at the Crown Jewels of Jazz concert in August 2021. Credit: Mark Lyons

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ORCHESTRA RETIREMENTS

Honoring Three Retiring Orchestra Musicians

by MEGHAN ISAACS

With the conclusion of the 2021–22 season, the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestra congratulates three musicians on their retirements.

Violist Paul Frankenfeld, cellist Susan Marshall Petersen and bassist Matt Zory served the Orchestra for a combined 116 years. Each of them accompanied the Orchestra on several tours, recorded dozens of albums, and performed countless concerts in Music Hall. More importantly, each of these musicians brought thoughtful musicianship and unparalleled talent, helping to raise the caliber of the Orchestra with each performance. As they end their careers with the Orchestra in pursuit of the next chapter, they all share deep pride in their accomplishments and gratitude for their colleagues and supporters along the way.

Associate Principal Viola

Paul Frankenfeld Grace M. Allen Chair Paul Frankenfeld first heard the CSO perform at the age of 15. “There was a lunatic on the podium conducting the fastest Beethoven’s Fifth I’ve ever heard,” said Paul, revealing that said “lunatic” was actually Erich Kunzel. Just nine years later, he would be a full-time member of the Orchestra, despite a nearly disastrous audition. (The airline sent his viola to the wrong destination, so Paul played the audition on a borrowed viola.)

Paul describes the next 43.5 years as a “charmed existence.” His legendary “steel-trap” mind recalls nearly every detail of his career. He enjoyed performing under each of the four Music Directors of his tenure, with each bringing his own strengths to the benefit of the Orchestra.

In addition to his musical obligations, Paul served as President of the Cincinnati Musicians’ Association, beginning in 2010. “Playing has to be a reflection of all the other things in your life. I give great thanks to [the CSO’s leadership over the years]. We haven’t always sung ‘Kumbaya,’ but we’ve learned there’s nothing that isn’t insurmountable.”

Paul will continue his position with the union in retirement, meaning he will still be a regular figure at Music Hall. He looks forward to the freedom of learning and practicing whatever music he feels like playing. “I am really looking forward to being the consumer of music instead of the producer of it. I still get that thrill from live music.”

If Paul has one takeaway from his time with the CSO, it’s pride and awe for the history and the tradition of the Orchestra. “I really believe in this institution, and I think it is going to be revered for decades to come.”

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Cello

Susan Marshall Petersen Laura Kimble McLellan Chair Susan Marshall Petersen first joined the Orchestra in the 1977–78 season. Some of the highlights from her 44-year tenure in which she takes tremendous pride include the Orchestra’s prolific output of recordings, playing in some of the world’s greatest halls on tours, and soloing with the CSO in 1992 under Jesús López Cobos.

She recalls one special moment during the CSO’s performance of Mahler’s Third Symphony with legendary conductor Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. “He was sitting in a chair the whole time [due to his health], and reaching the end of the piece, he arose out of his chair to finish conducting. It was absolutely breathtaking, and I’ll never forget it.”

In addition to her work with the CSO and Pops, Susan has offered the Kol Nidre on Yom Kippur at Plum Street Temple for 36 years, and she has performed in the Chamber Players series since its inception in 1979. She played in the Arion Consort in residence at the Cincinnati Art Museum for several years. In 2013 she recorded an album, Swan Song, with her son.

Susan plans to travel with her husband across the country visiting U.S. national parks. She also hopes to give back to the community with grassroots volunteer work and spend time with her family.

“It has been an amazing opportunity to be a part of something larger than myself. The greatest memories I will take away are collaborating with outstanding artists, conductors and colleagues, and performing some of the greatest music ever written. I would like to believe I have participated in a collective endeavor which has made a difference in people’s lives around the world. It has been a privilege to be a part of this organization.”

Assistant Principal Bass

Matthew Zory, Jr. Trish & Rick Bryan Chair Since joining the CSO and Pops during the 1993–94 season, Matt Zory looks back at some of the highlights, which include fond memories performing certain repertoire with Jesús López Cobos. “There are very few conductors who could really tell the story of a Bruckner or Mahler symphony and create that long arc and make you feel like you’ve been on a journey,” said Matt.

Matt’s career was given a boost when Pops Founder Erich Kunzel asked him to play electric bass. Since then, audiences have heard Matt rocking out with his colleagues in the Pops rhythm section. “For him to give me that chance added so much quality to my job and quality of life.”

When reflecting on what aspects of his career he will miss, Matt considers the “spiritual connection” made with a stand partner when things are going well during a performance. “There’s an intimacy—they’ve heard every mistake you’ve made, every wart, and all the positive things, too.”

Matt’s retirement can be better thought of as a career change. He began moonlighting as a photographer in 2011, and many CSO fans will recall his work documenting the renovation of Music Hall that was published as a book in 2017. He has several photography gigs already lined up, including two solo shows. He also plans to travel to Europe and New York City with his wife, Shelly. “The rest is TBD. A few years ago when I started thinking about retirement it seemed like an abyss. Now I have a sense of promise and curiosity that has replaced the scary,” he said.

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MAC Music Innovator Antoine T. Clark Taking Steps to Change the Face of Classical Music in Cincinnati

by LIZ DONGES

Conductor Antoine T. Clark aims to be known as an innovator in the classical music world, and he is taking steps in the right direction. Recently named as the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s 2022 MAC Music Innovator, Clark, who is still considered an exception in an industry dominated by white men, hopes to serve as a role model for future generations of Black musicians who aspire to make a difference through orchestral music.

“My time playing in the orchestra prepared me to lead,” reminisced Clark. “Often, I was the only Black person in the room and, over the years, I developed ways to rise up and overcome adversity when it occurred. I hope to share my knowledge with young musicians who want to contribute to the orchestra field and change the face of the industry.”

During his MAC Music Innovator residency, Clark will work closely with the Cincinnati community to introduce students to the world of classical music through two major efforts— community engagement events, such as school visits to work with their student musicians, and workshops with the CSO’s Nouveau Program to amplify and support young, diverse musicians at various levels of proficiency. Seeing is believing, and Clark hopes that young musicians will see and realize that they can also rise to the pinnacle of their dreams, regardless of skin color.

As part of his residency, Clark will also conduct members orif the CSO in a culminating concert for his MAC Music Innovator Residency on June 11 at Word of Deliverance Ministries.

Featured artists include cellist Denielle Wilson, a 2019–21 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Diversity Fellow, and a spoken word artist from Elementz, Cincinnati’s premier hiphop cultural arts center.

“More than just being a Black conductor, I want to show the importance and influence of Black culture on classical music through folk music, social injustice, and spirituality,” said Clark.

The concert will trace these themes through five works. The program opens with the first

Antoine T. Clark. Credit: Jennifer Zmuda

movement of Symphony No. 9, From the New World by Antonín Dvořák, which includes folk melodies influenced by Indigenous American music and African American spirituals. Amer’ican

by James Lee III adds elements of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) spirituality and faith to the program. Then, the mood shifts with breathe/burn: an elegy by Joel Thompson, which draws on the emotions and disruptions of grief during the pandemic as told through the lens of social injustice. The piece, written in memory of Breonna Taylor, will feature cellist Denielle Wilson. The final works, Florence Price’s Adoration and Carlos Simon’s “Amen,” create a deeper sense of the role that faith plays in the Black American experience.

“Audience-goers will experience a multicultural landscape of music,” said Clark.

“Classical music is truly barrier-less and speaks to all. My hope is that people leave the concert transformed.”

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COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

New Collaboration with Chamber Music Cincinnati The CSO and Chamber Music Cincinnati (CMC) have embarked on a new collaboration this season where professional touring chamber musicians mentor and coach young musicians from the Nouveau Program and Diversity Fellowship.

CMC is the third longest-lived chamber music organization in the country and exclusively presents international touring chamber musicians. With six programs a year, the CMC brings concerts to churches in Cincinnati on a Sunday Members of the Thalea String Quartet coach members of the CSO/ CCM Diversity Fellowship.

afternoon and to Memorial Hall on a Tuesday evening. The CMC’s board saw an opportunity in this schedule for CMC to contribute to the goals of the CSO’s Nouveau Program and Diversity Fellowship. On the Monday in between the CMC concerts, the professional musicians mentor and coach young musicians who are part of the Nouveau Program and the CSO/ CCM Diversity Fellowship. These experiences provide additional opportunities for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) student musicians to continue their musical development with professional musicians who have walked the same paths. This season, our students are being coached by members of the Harlem Quartet, Thaela String Quartet and Díaz Trio, along with Awadagin Pratt, Zuill Bailey and Anthony McGill.

“It is critically important that musicians on all classical music stages represent our city as a whole,” said John Spencer, Vice President of CMC. This new collaboration is built with that goal in mind and ensures that each age group of young musicians receives the support, encouragement, skill and learning needed to succeed.

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Transcendent Bruckner Sponsor Landgren in the Spotlight “He knew the work intimately and loved it intensely,” read the review by Nancy Malitz (Cincinnati Enquirer) of the CSO’s February 18, 1977 concert. The “he” was visiting German conductor Klaus Tennstedt. The “work” was Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7. Peter Landgren, CSO Board member and, with his wife, Judith Schonbach Landgren, sponsor of this season’s Bruckner 7 concert, remembers the 1977 concert like it was yesterday. Why? Because the 20-yearold Landgren, halfway through his sophomore year at CCM, was sitting in the horn section next to his teacher and Principal French Horn Michael Hatfield for his first-ever performance with the CSO, which Landgren marks as a “pivot point” in his life. “Everything that I learned in my first year and a half at CCM doubled that week, absolutely doubled,” remarked Landgren. He recalls the experience sitting with 100 professional musicians for the first time: “I can tell you, to this day, things that went on in those rehearsals, specifics about the concerts, and minute details of Tennstedt’s interpretation. It was such an important memory in my development as a young musician.”

It was not long after this formative experience

that Landgren won an audition with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where he played for 29 years.

“Throughout my performing career, I played Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 several times. I was always influenced by that first performance with the CSO, and it affected how I, as a horn player, was Peter Landgren playing because of that experience.”

Tennstedt’s intense love of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony was infectious, and Landgren caught the bug, so to speak. What does Landgren love about the piece? “This piece is about big architecture. It’s not four movements, it’s 65 minutes of architecture. And so you have to slow down your life and let a piece like this take you over for that period of time. We are just so active these days, and what this symphony does is allow you to suspend life, and let this piece be life.”

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ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP

LOUIS LANGRÉE, Music Director

JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL, Pops Conductor

Louis Langrée has been Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since 2013. His two most recent CSO recordings, Transatlantic and Concertos for Orchestra, were Grammynominated for Best Orchestral Performance, and several of his other recordChris Lee 2021 ings have received awards, including Gramophone, Diapason d’Or and International Classical Music awards.

He is also Music Director of the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, recently appointed Director of Théâtre national de l’Opéra Comique, and is invited as a guest conductor by the most prestigious orchestras and opera houses, including the Berlin, Vienna, London, Tokyo and New York Philharmonic orchestras and the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, La Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Lyric Opera of Chicago and Bavarian State Opera. Louis Langrée is a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and Honorary Member of the Confrérie Saint-Étienne d’Alsace, an Alsatian wine-makers’ brotherhood dating back to the 14th century.

In his 11th year as conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, John Morris Russell continues to redefine the American orchestral experience, leading performances at Music Hall and concerts throughout the region, as well as domestic and international tours, cultivating the reputation of Greater Cincinnati as one of the world’s leading cultural centers. His visionary leadership of The Pops created the American Originals Project, which has garnered critical and popular acclaim in three landmark concert productions and subsequent recordings. JMR has contributed six albums to the recorded legacy of the Cincinnati Pops, including the latest, Voyage, which debuted at No. 6 on Billboard’s Classical Chart in August of 2019.

JMR also serves as Music Director of the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, Principal Pops Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and is Conductor Laureate of the Windsor (Ontario) Symphony Orchestra.

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LOUIS LANGRÉE, CSO Music Director Louise Dieterle Nippert & Louis Nippert Chair

JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL, Pops Conductor Louise Dieterle Nippert & Louis Nippert Chair

Matthias Pintscher, CSO Creative Partner Damon Gupton, Pops Principal Guest Conductor François López-Ferrer, CSO Associate Conductor Ashley and Barbara Ford Chair

Wilbur Lin, Pops Assistant Conductor Ashley and Barbara Ford Chair

FIRST VIOLINS Stefani Matsuo

CELLOS Ilya Finkelshteyn

CLARINETS Christopher Pell

TIMPANI Patrick Schleker

Concertmaster Anna Sinton Taft Chair

Principal Irene & John J. Emery Chair

Principal Matthew & Peg Woodside Chair

Charles Morey

Daniel Culnan*

Principal Emma Margaret & Irving D. Goldman Chair

Joseph Morris*

Acting Associate Principal

Associate Principal and E-flat Clarinet Robert E. & Fay Boeh Chair++

[OPEN]

Acting Associate Concertmaster Tom & Dee Stegman Chair

Philip Marten First Assistant Concertmaster James M. Ewell Chair++

Eric Bates

Ona Hixson Dater Chair

Norman Johns** Karl & Roberta Schlachter Family Chair

Matthew Lad§ Marvin Kolodzik Chair

Second Assistant Concertmaster Serge Shababian Chair

Susan Marshall-Petersen

Kathryn Woolley

Hiro Matsuo Theodore Nelson

Nicholas Tsimaras– Peter G. Courlas Chair++

Anna Reider Dianne & J. David Rosenberg Chair

Mauricio Aguiar§ Minyoung Baik James Braid Marc Bohlke Chair given

by Katrin & Manfred Bohlke

Michelle Edgar Dugan Rebecca Kruger Fryxell Gerald Itzkoff Jean Ten Have Chair

Lois Reid Johnson Anne G. & Robert W. Dorsey Chair++

Sylvia Mitchell Jo Ann & Paul Ward Chair

Luo-Jia Wu SECOND VIOLINS Gabriel Pegis Principal Al Levinson Chair

Yang Liu* Harold B. & Betty Justice Chair

Scott Mozlin** Henry Meyer Chair

Kun Dong Cheryl Benedict Evin Blomberg§ Rachel Charbel Ida Ringling North Chair

Elizabeth Furuta† Chika Kinderman Hyesun Park Paul Patterson Charles Gausmann Chair++

Stacey Woolley Brenda & Ralph Taylor Chair++

VIOLAS Christian Colberg Principal Louise D. & Louis Nippert Chair

Paul Frankenfeld* Grace M. Allen Chair

Julian Wilkison** Rebecca Barnes§ Christopher Fischer Stephen Fryxell Melinda & Irwin Simon Chair

Caterina Longhi Denisse Rodriguez-Rivera Joanne Wojtowicz

Laura Kimble McLellan Chair++

Peter G. Courlas– Nicholas Tsimaras Chair++

Alan Rafferty Ruth F. Rosevear Chair

BASSES Owen Lee Principal Mary Alice Heekin Burke Chair++

James Lambert* Thomas Vanden Eynden Chair

Matthew Zory, Jr.**+ Trish & Rick Bryan Chair

Boris Astafiev§ Ronald Bozicevich Donald & Margaret Robinson Chair

Rick Vizachero HARP Gillian Benet Sella Principal Cynthia & Frank Stewart Chair

Vicky & Rick Reynolds Chair in Honor of William A. Friedlander

BASS CLARINET Ronald Aufmann BASSOONS Christopher Sales

CONTRABASSOON Jennifer Monroe

Julie Spangler+

FRENCH HORNS Elizabeth Freimuth

CSO/CCM DIVERSITY FELLOWS~ Maalik Glover, violin Mwakudua waNgure, violin Tyler McKisson, viola Javier Otalora, viola Max Oppeltz-Carroz, cello Luis Parra, cello Samantha Powell, cello Luis Arturo Celis Avila, bass Amy Nickler, bass

James P. Thornton Chair

Principal Mary M. & Charles F. Yeiser Chair

[OPEN]* Ellen A. & Richard C. Berghamer Chair

Molly Norcross** Acting Associate Principal Sweeney Family Chair in memory of Donald C. Sweeney

Lisa Conway Susanne & Philip O. Geier, Jr. Chair

TRUMPETS Robert Sullivan

Mary & Joseph S. Stern, Jr. Chair

Principal Rawson Chair

Douglas Lindsay* Jackie & Roy Sweeney Family Chair

Steven Pride

Lon Bussell* Stephen P. McKean Chair

Emily Beare ENGLISH HORN Christopher Philpotts Principal Alberta & Dr. Maurice Marsh Chair++

Morleen & Jack Rouse Chair

KEYBOARDS Michael Chertock

Henrik Heide*† Haley Bangs

Principal Josephine I. & David J. Joseph, Jr. Chair

Michael Culligan* [OPEN]*

Martin Garcia* Hugh Michie

Charles Bell

OBOES Dwight Parry

Principal Susan S. & William A. Friedlander Chair

Marc Wolfley+

Principal Charles Frederic Goss Chair

Patricia Gross Linnemann Chair

PERCUSSION David Fishlock

Principal Emalee Schavel Chair++

Duane Dugger

PICCOLO [OPEN]

Morleen & Jack Rouse Chair

Ixi Chen

FLUTES Randolph Bowman

Jane & David Ellis Chair

Michael Culligan

Otto M. Budig Family Foundation Chair++

James P. Thornton Chair

LIBRARIANS Christina Eaton Acting Principal Librarian Lois Klein Jolson Chair

Elizabeth Dunning Acting Associate Principal Librarian

Adam Paxson Interim Assistant Librarian

STAGE MANAGERS Brian P. Schott Phillip T. Sheridan Daniel Schultz Andrew Sheridan

Christopher Kiradjieff TROMBONES Cristian Ganicenco Principal Dorothy & John Hermanies Chair

Joseph Rodriguez** Second/Assistant Principal

BASS TROMBONE Peter Norton

§ Begins the alphabetical listing of players who participate in a system of rotated seating within the string section. * Associate Principal ** Assistant Principal † One-year appointment ‡ Leave of absence + Cincinnati Pops rhythm section ++ CSO endowment only ~ Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

TUBA Christopher Olka Principal Ashley & Barbara Ford Chair

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TALISE TREVIGNE, soprano Career highlights for American soprano Talise Trevigne include her celebrated portrayal of Bess in Porgy and Bess at The Atlanta Opera (TAO); she returned as a TAO company principal artist in the 2020–21 season as Nedda in Pagliacci. She will star with Cincinnati Opera during their 2022 season as Mimì in La bohème and as Patience in Castor and Patience.

Enjoying a long collaboration with composer Jake Heggie, Trevigne sang the world premiere of his song cycle Pieces of 9/11—Memories from Houston at Houston Grand Opera, where she also inaugurated the role of Clara in It’s a Wonderful Life. Her solo CD, At the Statue of Venus (GPR Records), written by Heggie and Glen Roven, quickly climbed to the top of the U.S. charts; she is also featured on Heggie’s CD release here/ after, songs of lost voices. She established the role of Pip the cabin boy in Moby-Dick, which was written for her, in the world premiere at Dallas Opera in 2010 In concert, the artist’s appearances include Cantaloube’s Chants D’Auvergne, Satie’s Socrate, Mahler’s Second Symphony and Fourth Symphony, Barber’s Prayers of Kierkegaard, Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder, and Orff’s Carmina Burana.

Talise Trevigne studied at the Manhattan School of Music and graduated with her Master of Music degree. arbourartists.com

NORM LEWIS, baritone Emmy, Tony and SAG award nominee Norm Lewis recently starred in Spike Lee’s critically acclaimed Da 5 Bloods and in the groundbreaking FX series Pose. Additionally, Lewis can be seen starring in ABC’s new series Women of the Movement. Offscreen, his voice can be heard in the latest season of Apple TV’s animated series Central Park. He was also seen as Caiaphas in the award-winning NBC television special Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert! alongside John Legend, Sara Bareilles and Alice Cooper.

Lewis returned to Broadway in the fall of 2021, starring in Chicken and Biscuits at the Circle in the Square Theatre. He previously appeared in the

Broadway revival of Once on this Island and as Sweeney Todd in the Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre, receiving the AUDELCO Award for his performance. In May of 2014, he made history as The Phantom of the Opera’s first African American Phantom on Broadway.

Lewis is a proud founding member of Black Theatre United, an organization which stands together to help protect Black people, Black talent and Black lives of all shapes and orientations in theatre and communities across the country.

He received Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for his performance as Porgy in the Broadway production of The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess.

Norm Lewis’ albums The Norm Lewis Christmas Album and This is the Life can be found on Amazon.com as well as cdbaby.com. normlewis.com

WILLIAM HENRY CALDWELL Resident Conductor William Henry Caldwell is resident conductor of the CSO’s Classical Roots Community Mass Choir and of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Chorus for The Cleveland Orchestra; he also is Artistic Director for the Vocal Arts Mastery Program, a special after-school program for the city of Cleveland sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation and the Tri-C Creative Arts Division. He maintains an active schedule as a lyric baritone with recent engagements with The Cleveland Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic, and Bach Society of Dayton.

He is an active board member for the Dayton Performance Arts Alliance, the Rosenthal Foundation for the Arts, Cincinnati Youth Choir, Dayton Public Radio WDPR, and the May Festival. He is music director at historic First Baptist Church of Dayton.

A native of Demopolis, Alabama, Caldwell attended Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, where he graduated magna cum laude with degrees in Music and English. He did graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin for the Master of Music in Vocal Performance degree, and continued study for the doctorate at The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music with a cognate in choral conducting.

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NOUVEAU PROGRAM Marion Peraza de Webb, Artistic Advisor and Coach Felipe Morales-Torres, Coach (bio on p. 40) The Nouveau Program supports increased participation in classical music by African American and Latine student musicians by providing equitable opportunities for music study and performance. The Nouveau Program includes several groups, and students must audition to participate. Nouveau members receive weekly chamber coaching, perform throughout the season, and participate in age-appropriate workshops and activities. Nouveau ensembles include Novice, Apprentice, Chamber Players, and Winds. The Nouveau Program is supported by the D’Addario Foundation; the CSO’s Multicultural Awareness Council; Queen City (OH) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated; PricewaterhouseCoopers; and The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation.

A roster of Nouveau Program performers will appear in the Apr. 22 program supplement.

Violinist Marion Peraza de Webb began her musical career as a member of Venezuela’s Youth Orchestra System, El Sistema. As a member of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, she has toured Japan, France, Spain, Mexico, Colombia

and Brazil, among others, and has performed on seven recordings. At her teaching studio, Peraza Music Workshop (PMW), she teaches private violin lessons, coaches her awardwinning chamber ensembles, and offers theory classes. The PMW is a Founding School of the Carnegie Hall Royal Conservatory Achievement Program. As a guest teacher/clinician, she has taught at the Western Springs Suzuki Talent Education and Elmhurst College in Chicago, University of Vermont, University of Louisville, University of Southern Maine, Bermuda Music School, Conservatorio de Bogotá and Simón Bolívar Conservatory in Venezuela. Her principal teachers are José Francisco Del Castillo (Simón Bolívar Conservatory), Margaret Pardee (Juilliard School), the Tokyo Quartet, and the Vermeer Quartet.

CLASSICAL ROOTS COMMUNITY CHOIR For two decades, Classical Roots has been a Cincinnati community staple, and what started as a small concert series in 2001 has grown into a diverse community of music lovers, united in celebration of the rich legacy of African American music and the African American experience. At its center is the all-volunteer Classical Roots Community Choir, led by Resident Conductor William Henry Caldwell and made up of singers from more than 50 churches who perform in

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concerts and other collaborations throughout the year.

A roster of Classical Roots Community Choir members will appear in the Apr. 22 program supplement.

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season funded by both the Arts Council of Taipei and the Taiwanese Ministry of Culture.

Lin held the position of Lord Rhodes Scholar 2013–14, was a two-time recipient of the Mortimer Furber Prize for Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music, and is a doctoral candidate at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

WILBUR LIN CSYO Philharmonic Conductor

FELIPE MORALES-TORRES CSYO Concert Orchestra Conductor

Appointed Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in 2019, Wilbur Lin serves as assistant conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra and conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestras, in addition to continuing his work as the artistic director of the summer seasons of the Chamber Philharmonic Taipei.

Lin began his musical education at the age of five. In 2008, the Taiwanese-American conductor founded a student orchestra, the Chamber Philharmonic Taipei, which is now a professional chamber orchestra with an active annual summer

Felipe Morales-Torres is an award-winning conductor and educator with a passion for inspiring the next generation of musicians. Morales coaches the Nouveau Apprentice group, serves as Conductor of the CSYO Concert Orchestra, and is the Orchestra Director for Anderson High School. He is also an active guest conductor and clinician for student orchestras in the U.S. and Latin America, traveling to Costa Rica each summer to teach and conduct for the Foundation for the Advancement of Strings Education (FASE).

Morales started his musical life as a violist, and later pursued bassoon studies as an undergraduate at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. In 2019, he completed a master’s degree in Music Education and Orchestral Conducting, earning the University’s Excellence in Teaching Award for his work with undergraduate music education majors.

ARI WEBB, cello CSYO Philharmonic Concerto Competition Winner

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Ari Webb, age 16, is a Venezuelan-American cellist from Cincinnati. He made his solo debut at Carnegie Hall after winning the AFA International String Competition at age 6 and the American Protégé International String Competition at age 8. Webb is the first chair of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra (CSYO) and also of the Wyoming High School Philharmonia Orchestra. He is also part of the CSO Nouveau Chamber Players and the Peraza Music Workshop Ensemble.

Webb made his orchestra solo debut at age 12 with the Blue Ash-Montgomery Symphony Orchestra under Michael Chertok as first place winner, Junior Division, of the 2018 Jack and Lucille Wonnell Young Artists Concerto Competition.

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Webb made his international solo debut in April 2019 at the Amphithéatre Philharmonie in Paris after winning first place at the International Music Competition “Grand Prize Virtuoso.”

In 2021 Webb won the State of Ohio Buckeye Auditions and was selected to perform on NPR’s From the Top in a performance with artists Tessa Lark and Peter Dugan.

Webb has studied with renowned teachers such as Laurence Lesser (NEC), Hans Jørgen Jensen (Northwestern University), Steven Doane (Eastman School of Music), Joel Krosnick (Juilliard), Richard Aaron (Juilliard) and Clara Kim (Juilliard), among others.

Ari Webb began playing cello at age 3 with Helen Ford at Indiana University. He studies with Alan Rafferty and Dr. Sarah Kim. APRIL 29–MAY 1: POPS | JMR’s GREATEST HITS

TATIANA “LADYMAY” MAYFIELD, vocalist Refreshing and beautiful are how many have described the voice and persona of Tatiana “LadyMay” Mayfield, a jazz vocalist, musician, composer and educator from Fort Worth, TX. LadyMay (as she has been named) has been singing and playing jazz music since the ten-

der age of 13. Since then, she has performed in various venues and festivals throughout the U.S., which in turn have earned her rave reviews from listeners and musicians in addition to numerous awards. Her appeal has also reached listeners abroad in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, France, Nigeria and Brazil.

Mayfield has opened for several well-known artists such as Kirk Whalum, Will Downing, Randy Brecker, Dave Valentin, Bobbi Humphrey, and The Main Ingredient. LadyMay also performed in three concerts between 2016 and 2018 with the legendary Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

LadyMay has recorded three albums, From All Directions (2009), A Portrait of LadyMay (2012), and The Next Chapter (2018).

As an educator, Mayfield is an adjunct instructor of jazz voice for the University of North Texas in Denton and an adjunct professor of commercial voice at Cedar Valley College in Lancaster, TX. Mayfield is currently seeking a master’s degree in jazz composition from the University of Texas at Arlington. tatianamayfield.com

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BRIAN STOKES MITCHELL, vocalist

OVER THE RHINE

Dubbed “the last leading man” by The New York Times, Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell has enjoyed a career that spans more than 40 years in Broadway, television, film, recordings, and concert appearances with the country’s finest conductors and orchestras.

Stokes (as he prefers to be called) received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for his star turn in Kiss Me, Kate. He also gave Tony-nominated performances in Man of La Mancha, August Wilson’s King Hedley II, and Ragtime. Other notable Broadway shows include Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jelly’s Last Jam, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and, most recently, Shuffle Along. Stokes was four days from opening Love Life at City Center Encores when all of Broadway, and most of the country, shut down due to the pandemic.

However, that didn’t stop him completely. Even while recovering from Covid in March of 2020, he received unexpected additional acclaim and attention for singing “The Impossible Dream” from his apartment window every night for a number of weeks during the pandemic, in honor of the essential workers.

His extensive screen credits began with a guest starring role on Roots: The Next Generations, which led to a seven-year stint on Trapper John, MD. His 40-year TV/film run continued with memorable appearances on everything from PBS’ Great Performances to Frasier, The Prince of Egypt (singing “Through Heaven’s Eyes”), Glee, Jumping the Broom, Madam Secretary, The Blacklist, Bull, Elementary, Prodigal Son, and recurring roles on series including Mr. Robot, The Path and Evil. This season, Stokes hosts a live-streamed talk show called Crossovers (available at StellarTickets.com).

His newest recording is Plays with Music, an album of classic Broadway tunes that have been musically reimagined but still retain the spirit of the originals. brianstokes.com

When you listen to Over the Rhine, the supremely talented musical couple composed of Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler, you quickly fall under the spell of Karin’s timeless voice “which has the power to stop the world in its tracks” (Performing Songwriter). But then the songs start hitting you. Paste Magazine writes, “Over the Rhine creates true confessional masterpieces that know neither border nor boundary” and included Bergquist and Detweiler in their list of 100 Best Living Songwriters. Rolling Stone recently wrote, Over the Rhine is a band “with no sign of fatigue, whose moment has finally arrived.” That’s quite a sentiment for a band celebrating 30 years of writing, recording and life on the road. But as Karin Bergquist states, “There is still so much music left to be made.”

Love & Revelation, the brand new album from Over the Rhine, is a record for right now. The songs have been rigorously road tested and burst at the seams with loss, lament, and resilient hope. The LA Times writes, “The Ohio based husband and wife duo has long been making soul-nourishing music, and the richness only deepens.”

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ERIC WHITACRE, composer Grammy-winning composer and conductor Eric Whitacre is among today’s most popular musicians.

His works are programmed worldwide and his groundbreaking Virtual Choirs have united singers from more than 145 countries.

Born in Nevada in 1970, Whitacre is a graduate of The Juilliard School. He completed his second and final term as Artist-inResidence with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 2020 following five years as Composer-inResidence at the University of Cambridge (UK).

In 2021 Whitacre was named a Yamaha Artist.

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His compositions have been widely recorded and his debut album as a conductor, Light & Gold (Universal), went straight to the top of the charts, earning him a Grammy. As a guest conductor he has drawn capacity audiences to concerts with many of the world’s leading orchestras and choirs in venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles), the Royal Albert Hall and Buckingham Palace.

In 2018 his composition for symphony orchestra and chorus, Deep Field, became the foundation for a collaboration with NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute, Music Productions and 59 Productions. His long form work for choir, cello and piano, The Sacred Veil, was premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2019, conducted by the composer, and released on Signum Records in 2020.

Widely considered to be the pioneer of Virtual Choirs, Whitacre created his first project as an experiment in social media and digital technology. Virtual Choir 1: Lux Aurumque was published in 2010 and featured 185 singers from 12 countries. Ten years later in 2020, Virtual Choir 6: Sing Gently—written for the Virtual Choir during the global pandemic—featured 17,562 singers from 129 countries. ericwhitacre.com

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DWIGHT PARRY, oboe Dwight Parry has been the principal oboist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra since his appointment in 2007. Previously, he held the same position with the San Diego Symphony and was a Fellow with the New World Symphony. He has performed as guest prin©Roger Mastroianni cipal oboist with groups including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Deutsches Symphonie of Berlin. Originally from coastal Southern California, he found his passion for music studying piano, voice and jazz saxophone. It was not until late in high school, however, that he began playing the oboe, taking lessons from Joel Timm, and truly found his calling. He received his master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music with John Mack and his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California with Allan Vogel and David Weiss, a gentleman who also taught him to surf!

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Parry performs and teaches internationally in concertos, recitals, masterclasses and chamber music. Past appearances have featured the works of Mozart, Goossens, Haydn, Bach, Strauss, Vivaldi, Albinoni, Barber, Françaix and Marcello. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Oboe at the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music. Dwight Parry is a Loreé Artist. dwightparry.com

GUILLAUME CONNESSON, composer Guillaume Connesson, born in 1970, is one of the world’s most widely performed French composers.

Commissions are at the origin of most of his works (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, among others), including Pour sortir au jour, commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2013) and Les Trois Cités de Lovecraft, a cocommission of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestre National de Lyon.

Moreover, his music is regularly played by numerous orchestras, including the Brussels Philharmonic, Orchestre National de France, National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

He won a Victoire de la Musique award in 2015 and 2019, as well as the Sacem Grand Prize in 2012. His discography includes, among others, two monographs of chamber music and three symphonic monographs on the Deutsche Grammophon label. The first, Lucifer, and the third, Lost Horizon, obtained a “Choc” from Classica magazine. The second, Pour sortir au jour, earned numerous critical distinctions such as the Diapason d’Or de l’Année and the Classica Choc de l’Année.

After studies at the Conservatoire National de Région in Boulogne-Billancourt (his birthplace) and the Paris Conservatoire, he obtained premiers prix in choral direction, history of music, analysis, electro-acoustic and orchestration.

He has been professor of orchestration at the Aubervilliers-La Courneuve Conservatory since 1997. From 2016 to 2018, he was in residence

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with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra as well as with the Orchestre National de Lyon. From 2019 to 2021, he was in residence with the Orchestre National d’Île-de-France. en.guillaumeconnesson.net MAY 14–15: TRANSCENDENT BRUCKNER

GABRIELA ORTIZ, composer Latin Grammy-nominated Gabriela Ortiz is one of Mexico’s foremost composers and one of the most vibrant musicians emerging on the international scene.

Ortiz has written music for dance, theater and cinema, and has actively collaborated with poets, playwrights and historians. Her creative process focuses on the connections between gender issues, social justice, environmental concerns and the burden of racism, as well as the phenomenon of multiculturality caused by globalization, technological development, and mass migrations.

She has composed three operas, for all of which interdisciplinary collaboration has been a vital experience. Notably, these operas are framed by political contexts of great complexity, such as the drug war in Only the Truth, illegal migration between Mexico and the United States in Ana and Her Shadow, and the violation of university autonomy during the student movement of 1968 in Firefly.

Ortiz is based in Mexico, and her music has been commissioned and performed all over the world by prestigious ensembles, soloists and orchestras. Recent premieres include Yanga and Téenek, both commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel.

Ortiz has been honored with the National Prize for Arts and Literature, the most prestigious award for writers and artists granted by the government of Mexico, and she has been inducted into the Mexican Academy of the Arts, among other honors.

Ortiz currently teaches composition at UNAM in Mexico City and is a visiting professor at Indiana University. Her music is currently published

by Schott, Ediciones Mexicanas de Música, Saxiana Presto and Tre Fontane. gabrielaortiz.com

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JOHN MORRIS RUSSELL, conductor CLASSICAL ROOTS COMMUNITY CHOIR, William Henry Caldwell, resident conductor Soloists Ciara Harper and Noël Walton TALISE TREVIGNE, soprano NORM LEWIS, baritone MEMBERS OF THE NOUVEAU PROGRAM, Marion Peraza de Webb, artistic advisor and coach, and Felipe Morales-Torres, coach Outburst Michael Abels Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing James Weldon Johnson “Sempre Libera” from La traviata Giuseppe Verdi In Dahmoney Suite Will Marion Cook Selections from Treemonisha Scott Joplin “I’m Just Wild About Harry” from Shuffle Along Eubie Blake Charles Fold Suite James Cleveland/Charles Fold This Too Will Pass • Tell It • May the Lord Bless You Real Good INTERMISSION

“Alleluia” from The Ballad of the Brown King “Think You Know this Man” from Castor and Patience “Peculiar Grace” from Fire Shut Up in My Bones “The Wheels of a Dream” from Ragtime “Make Them Hear You” from Ragtime “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera “Home” from The Wiz “Brand New Day” from The Wiz

Margaret Allison Bonds Gregory Spears Terence Blanchard Stephen Flaherty Stephen Flaherty Andrew Lloyd Webber Charlie Smalls Luther Vandross

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Jeffrey & Jody Lazarow and Janie & Peter Schwartz Family Fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

The Classical Roots concert was made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.

Steinway Pianos, courtesy of Willis Music, is the official piano of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops.

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CSYO CONCERT ORCHESTRA | POETIC EPICS 2021–2022 Season SUN APR 24, 2 pm, Music Hall FELIPE MORALES-TORRES, conductor AIK KHAI PUNG, hammered dulcimer Gustav MAHLER

Symphony No. 1 in D Major

(1860–1911) arr. Morales-Torres

II. Kräftig bewegt, doch nicht zu, Recht gemächlich

Jean SIBELIUS

En Saga, Op. 9

(1865–1957)

Modest MUSSORGSKY

“Great Gate of Kiev” from Pictures at an Exhibition

(1839–1881) arr. Reibold

Zoltán KODÁLY

Háry János Suite

(1882–1967)

CSYO PHILHARMONIC | ESSENCE OF HOME 2021–2022 Season SUN APR 24, 7 pm, Music Hall WILBUR LIN, conductor ARI WEBB, cello Samuel COLERIDGE-TAYLOR

Rhapsodic Dance for Orchestra, Op. 75

(1875–1912)

Antonín DVOŘÁK (1841–1904)

Concerto in B Minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 104 I. Allegro

INTERMISSION

Bedřich SMETANA

Vltava (“The Moldau”), No. 2 from Má vlast

(1824–1884)

Franz LISZT

Les Préludes

(1811–1886)

ZHOU Tian

Rise

(b. 1981)

The CSO thanks Coney Island for its generous sponsorship of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestras.

The Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestras is a program of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and receives generous support in the form of rehearsal space from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Walnut Hills High School.

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Today is the day to see the world in a whole new way.

Music lives within all of us regardless of who we are or where we come from. That’s why PNC is proud to be the Pops Series Sponsor and to support the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops.

©2020 The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. All rights reserved. PNC Bank, National Association. Member FDIC CON PDF 0618-0106

2021–2022 SEASON FRI APR 29, 7:30 pm | SAT APR 30, 7:30 pm | SUN MAY 1, 2 pm Music Hall

JMR’S GREATEST HITS John Morris Russell, conductor Brian Stokes Mitchell, vocalist Over the Rhine Tatiana Mayfield, vocalist It’s Your Thing

The Isley Brothers

I’m Just Wild About Harry

Eubie Blake

Birdland

Joe Zawinul

There’s No Business Like Show Business

Irving Berlin

Gershwin Medley George Gershwin S’Wonderful • I Got Rhythm • Fascinatin’ Rhythm • Our Love is Here to Stay Manhã de Carnaval (“Carnival Morning”)

Luiz Bonfá

Trouble

Karin Bergquist

Fever

Eddie Cooley

Foggy Mountain Breakdown

Flatt & Scruggs

INTERMISSION

Strutter’s Ball

Shelton Brooks

Bounce WORLD PREMIERE

Eric Whitacre

All I Need is Everything

Karin Bergquist

Welcome Home

Karin Bergquist

Swing Along

Will Marion Cook

Feeling Good

Anthony Newley

The Impossible Dream

Mitch Leigh

Program subject to change For additional details about this concert and full artist biographies, visit cincinnatipops.org/jmr-hits-program, or point your phone’s camera at the QR code:

The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra is grateful to Pops Season Sponsor PNC. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

WVXU is the Media Partner for these concerts.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.

Steinway Pianos, courtesy of Willis Music, is the official piano of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops.

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FORT WASHINGTON IS A PROUD PARTNER OF THE CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Fort Washington Investment Advisors, Inc., a member of Western & Southern Financial Group, is honored to help preserve the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s mission to seek and share inspiration.

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Brad Hunkler Senior Vice President, &KLHI )LQDQFLDO 2IƓFHU Western & Southern Financial Group, CSO Board Member

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Gerry Ulland, FSA Managing Director, Private Client Group, Fort Washington

CONNESSON PREMIERE & RACHMANINOFF | 2021–2022 SEASON FRI MAY 6, 11 am SAT MAY 7, 7:30 pm SUN MAY 8, 7:30 pm Music Hall

LOUIS LANGRÉE, conductor DWIGHT PARRY, oboe Guillaume CONNESSON

Les belles heures

(b. 1970)

WORLD PREMIERE | CSO CO-COMMISSION L’heure bleue L’heure exquise L’heure fugitive

INTERMISSION

Sergei RACHMANINOFF (1873–1943)

Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 27 Largo. Allegro moderato Allegro molto. Meno mosso. Allegro molto Adagio Allegro vivace

These performances will end at approximately 12:45 pm Friday, 9:15 pm Saturday and Sunday.

For program notes and full artist biographies, please visit cincinnatisymphony.org/connesson-rach-program, or point your phone’s camera at the QR code:

The CSO is grateful to CSO Season Sponsor Western & Southern Financial Group, Presenting Sponsor Johnson Investment Counsel and Artist Sponsor Thompson Hine.

The CSO co-commission of Les belles heures by Guillaume Connesson is made possible by Ann and Harry Santen.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.

WGUC is the Media Partner for these concerts.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.

Steinway Pianos, courtesy of Willis Music, is the official piano of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops.

Listen to this program on 90.9 WGUC July 10, 2022 at 8 pm.

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State and federal dollars through the Ohio Arts Council supported your arts experience today.

ForWHERE more information about theYOU Ohio Arts WILL THE ARTS TAKE NEXT ? Council’s grants, VISIT ARTSINOHIO.COM programs, resources, and events, visit oac.ohio.gov.

CSO CHAMBER PLAYERS | 2021–2022 SEASON

Chamber Players

Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756–1791)

FRI MAY 6, 7:30 pm Harry T. Wilks Studio, Music Hall

String Quintet No. 1 in B-flat Major, K. 174 Allegro moderato Adagio Menuetto ma Allegro Allegro Rebecca Kruger Fryxell, violin Rachel Charbel, violin Paul Frankenfeld, viola Christopher Fischer, viola Max Oppeltz, cello

Dmitri SHOSTAKOVICH (1906–1975) arr. Atovmian

Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano Prelude • Gavotte • Elegy • Waltz • Polka Anna Reider, violin Mauricio Aguiar, violin Dror Biran, piano

INTERMISSION

Morton GOULD (1913–1996)

Ronald Aufmann, clarinet James Lambert, double bass

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882–1971)

Benny’s Gig

Suite from L’Histoire du soldat (“The Soldier’s Tale”) The Soldier’s March Airs by a Stream Pastorale The Royal March The Little Concert Three Dances: Tango, Valse, Ragtime The Devil’s Dance The Great Chorale Triumphant March of the Devil Christopher Pell, clarinet Christopher Sales, bassoon Robert Sullivan, trumpet Cristian Ganicenco, trombone Michael Culligan, percussion Charles Morey, violin Boris Astafiev, double bass This performance will end at approximately 9:15 pm.

For program notes, please visit cincinnatisymphony.org/ soldier-program, or point your phone’s camera at the QR code:

YOU’RE INVITED to greet the musicians after the concert.

The CSO Chamber Players series has been endowed in perpetuity by the ELEANORA C.U. ALMS TRUST, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee.

Steinway Pianos, courtesy of Willis Music, is the official piano of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops.

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TRANSCENDENT BRUCKNER | 2021–2022 SEASON SAT MAY 14, 7:30 pm SUN MAY 15, 2 pm Music Hall

LOUIS LANGRÉE, conductor Gabriela ORTIZ

Tzam WORLD PREMIERE

(b. 1964)

INTERMISSION

Anton BRUCKNER (1824–1896)

Symphony No. 7 in E Major Allegro moderato Adagio: Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam Scherzo: Sehr schnell Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht schnell

These performances will end at approximately 9:30 pm Saturday, 4 pm Sunday.

For program notes and full artist biographies, please visit cincinnatisymphony.org/bruckner-program, or point your phone’s camera at the QR code:

The CSO is grateful to CSO Season Sponsor Western & Southern Financial Group and Concert Sponsor Peter E. Landgren and Judith Schonbach Landgren.

This performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 is made possible through the generosity of Peter E. Landgren and Judith Schonbach Landgren.

Peter E. Landgren & Judith Schonbach Landgren

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra is grateful for the support of the Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation and for the thousands of people who give generously to the ArtsWave Community Campaign. This project was supported in part by the Ohio Arts Council, which receives support from the State of Ohio and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Pre-Concert Talks are made possible by an endowed gift from Melody Sawyer Richardson.

WGUC is the Media Partner for these concerts.

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in-orchestra Steinway piano is made possible in part by the Jacob G. Schmidlapp Trust.

Steinway Pianos, courtesy of Willis Music, is the official piano of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops.

Listen to this program on 90.9 WGUC July 17, 2022 at 8 pm.

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DIRECTORS & ADVISORS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers Robert W. McDonald, Chair Dianne Rosenberg, Chair-elect Francie S. Hiltz*, Immediate Past Chair Sue McPartlin, Treasurer and Vice-Chair of Finance Usha C. Vance, Secretary Gerron L. McKnight, Esq., Vice-Chair of Volunteerism Anne E. Mulder, Vice-Chair of Community Engagement Timothy J. Maloney and Charla B. Weiss, Vice-Chairs of Institutional Advancement Melanie Healey, Vice-Chair of Leadership Development

Directors Lars C. Anderson Randi S. Bellner Michael P. Bergan Kate C. Brown Ralph P. Brown, DVM Trish Bryan* Otto M. Budig, Jr.* Melanie M. Chavez Michael L. Cioffi Gabe Davis Kelly M. Dehan Alberto J. Espay, M.D. Dr. Maria Espinola Shaun Ethier Dara Fairman Mrs. Charles Fleischmann III* Susan S. Friedlander* Timothy Giglio Lawrence Hamby

Delores Hargrove-Young Joseph W. Hirschhorn* Brad Hunkler Lisa Diane Kelly Patrick G. Kirk, M.D. Florence Koetters Peter E. Landgren John Lanni Lisa Lennon Norman Spencer Liles* Edyth B. Lindner* Will Lindner Mark Luegering Holly Mazzocca James P. Minutolo Laura Mitchell John A. Moore Jennifer J. Morales Theodore Nelson Marilyn J. Osborn

Thanh T. Pham Bradford E. Phillips, III Thomas H. Quinn, Jr James B. Reynolds* Stanley E. Romanstein Jack Rouse Lisa M. Sampson Dennis Schoff Digi France Schueler Edgar L. Smith, Jr. Stephanie A. Smith Robert Sullivan Kari Ullman David R. Valz Daniel Wachter Randolph L. Wadsworth, Jr.* Sheila Williams *Director Emeritus

WELCOME TO APR–MAY GROUPS! (as of Mar. 9, 2022) Classical Roots Apr 22 Baldwin Grove City of Forest Park Friends & Family of Ms. Felicia Brown Friends & Family of Ms. Thelma Thomas Lincoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church The Cotton Family The Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church The Links, Incorporated, Queen City Chapter JMR’s Greatest Hits Apr 29–May 1 Anderson Senior Center Berkeley Square Cincinnati Police

Northern Kentucky Institute for Arts Education (NKIAE) Seasons Retirement Community The Kenwood by Senior Star CSO May 6–8: Connesson Premiere & Rachmaninoff Maple Knoll Village Seasons Retirement Community The Kenwood by Senior Star The Knolls of Oxford Twin Lakes at Montgomery CSO May 14–15: Transcendent Bruckner Otterbein Retirement Community

ENJOY THE MUSIC, TOGETHER! • Groups of 10+ save 25% on most concerts and seniors and students save even more!

• Curate your own event with a private reception, guided tour or meet and greet— the possibilities are endless.

Contact CSO Group Sales: 513.864.0196 or groupsales@cincinnatisymphony.org cincinnatisymphony.org/groups

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2021–22 FINANCIAL SUPPORT INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT Local and national foundations, businesses, and government agencies are integral to the Orchestra’s vibrant performances, community engagement work, and education activities. We are proud to partner with the following funders.

SERIES SPONSORS

CSO Season

Pops Season

Lollipops Series

PLATINUM BATON CIRCLE ($50,000+)

SILVER BATON CIRCLE ($15,000–$24,999)

ArtsWave City Of Cincinnati Charles H. Dater Foundation The Thomas J. Emery Memorial Trust The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation Hamilton County Carl Jacobs Foundation H.B., E.W., F.R. Luther Charitable Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dr. John & Louise Mulford Fund for the CSO National Endowment for the Arts Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation Ohio Arts Council PNC Bank Margaret McWilliams Rentschler Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation John J. & Mary R. Schiff Foundation Harold C. Schott Foundation / Francie and Tom Hiltz, Trustees Marge and Charles J. Schott Foundation The John A. Schroth Family Charitable Trust The Louise Taft Semple Foundation Skyler Foundation US Small Business Administration Western & Southern Financial Group Anonymous

Drive Media House Graeter’s Ice Cream HORAN The Jewish Federation of Cincinnati The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati Jewish Cincinnati Bicentennial Johnson Investment Counsel League Of American Orchestras Ohio National Financial Services Oliver Family Foundation The Rendigs Foundation Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP Wodecroft Foundation

GOLD BATON CIRCLE ($25,000–$49,999)

Coney Island The Cincinnati Symphony Club Fifth Third Bank Foundation Jeffrey & Jody Lazarow and Janie & Peter Schwartz Family Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation George and Margaret McLane Foundation Ohio Valley Foundation, Fifth Third Bank, Agent The Ladislas & Vilma Segoe Family Foundation United Dairy Farmers & Homemade Brand Ice Cream The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation

CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($10,000–$14,999)

Bartlett Wealth Management Chemed Corporation The Crosset Family Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation Kelly Dehan and Rick Staudigel Peter E. Landgren and Judith Schonbach Landgren Mariner Wealth Advisors Messer Construction Co. The Daniel & Susan Pfau Foundation The Procter & Gamble Company US Bank Foundation CONCERTMASTER’S CIRCLE ($5,000–$9,999)

AARP Ohio Frost Brown Todd, LLC Levin Family Foundation The Willard & Jean Mulford Charitable Fund Pyro-Technical Investigations, Inc. Queen City (OH) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated Thompson Hine LLP U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management Scott and Charla Weiss YOT Full Circle Foundation ARTIST’S CIRCLE ($2,500–$4,999)

D’Addario Foundation d.e. Foxx and Associates, Inc. Mayerson Jewish Community Center PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Charles Scott Riley III Foundation BUSINESS & FOUNDATION PARTNERS (up to $2,499)

Harold and Gwen Brown Cincinnati USA Convention & Visitors Bureau Albert B. Cord Charitable Foundation Diversified Facility Solutions Earthward Bound Foundation Kathleen M. Grote Hixson Architecture Engineering Interiors Integrity Development Robert A. & Marian K. Kennedy Charitable Trust Frances L. P. Ricketts Sullivan Memorial Fund Sheila Williams & Bruce Smith The Voice of Your Customer Toi and Jay Wagstaff

Join this distinguished group!

Contact Sean Baker at 513.744.3363 or sbaker@cincinnatisymphony.org to learn how you can become a supporter of the CSO and Pops. This list is updated quarterly.

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT

2021 ARTSWAVE PARTNERS The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops acknowledge the following Partner Companies, Foundations and their employees who generously participate in the Annual ArtsWave Community Campaign at the $100,000+ level. Your support helps make our community vibrant and connects people across our region through the arts. Thank you!

P&G Fifth Third Bank and the Fifth Third Foundation GE Aviation Cincinnati Bell Western & Southern Financial Group Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center The Cincinnati Insurance Companies City of Cincinnati Enquirer Media Great American Insurance Group Ohio National Financial Services

U.S. Bank The H.B., E.W. and F. R. Luther Charitable Foundation, Fifth Third Bank and Narley L. Haley, Co-Trustees Macy’s Cincinnati Business Courier The Kroger Co. PNC The E.W. Scripps Company and Scripps Howard Foundation Duke Energy HORAN Cincinnati Reds

PERMANENT ENDOWMENTS Endowment gifts perpetuate your values and create a sustainable future for the Orchestra. We extend our deep gratitude to the donors who have provided permanent endowments in support of our programs that are important to them. For more information about endowment gifts, contact Kate Farinacci, Director of Special Campaigns & Legacy Giving, at 513.744.3202.

ENDOWED CHAIRS Grace M. Allen Chair Ellen A. & Richard C. Berghamer Chair Robert E. & Fay Boeh Chair The Marc Bohlke Chair Given by Katrin & Manfred Bohlke Trish & Rick Bryan Chair Otto M Budig Chair Family Foundation Chair Mary Alice Heekin Burke Chair Peter G. Courlas - Nicholas Tsimaras Chair Ona Hixon Dater Chair The Anne G. & Robert W. Dorsey Chair+ Jane & David Ellis Chair Irene & John J. Emery Chair James M. Ewell Chair Ashley & Barbara Ford Chair for Associate Conductor, CSO Ashley & Barbara Ford Chair for Assistant Conductor, Pops Ashley & Barbara Ford Chair for Principal Tuba Susan S. & William A. Friedlander Chair+ Charles Gausmann Chair Susanne & Philip O. Geier, Jr. Chair+ Emma Margaret & Irving D. Goldman Chair Charles Frederic Goss Chair Jean Ten Have Chair Dorothy & John Hermanies Chair Lois Klein Jolson Chair Michael L. Cioffi & Rachael Rowe— the Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Josephine I. & David J. Joseph, Jr. Chair Harold B. & Betty Justice Chair Marvin Kolodzik Chair+ Al Levinson Chair Patricia Gross Linnemann Chair+ Alberta & Dr. Maurice Marsh Chair Stephen P. McKean Chair Laura Kimble McLellan Chair The Henry Meyer Chair Louise Dieterle Nippert & Louis Nippert Chairs Ida Ringling North Chair Rawson Chair The Vicky & Rick Reynolds Chair in honor of William A. Friedlander+ Donald & Margaret Robinson Chair Dianne & J. David Rosenberg Chair+ Ruth F. Rosevear Chair The Morleen & Jack Rouse Chair+ Emalee Schavel Chair Karl & Roberta Schlachter Family Chair Serge Shababian Chair

Melinda & Irwin Simon Chair+ Anna Sinton Taft Chair Tom & Dee Stegman Chair+ Mary & Joseph S. Stern, Jr. Chair+ Cynthia & Frank Stewart Chair The Jackie & Roy Sweeney Family Chair The Sweeney Family Chair in memory of Donald C. Sweeney Brenda & Ralph Taylor Chair James P. Thornton Chair Nicholas Tsimaras - Peter G. Courlas Chair Thomas Vanden Eynden Chair Jo Ann & Paul Ward Chair Matthew & Peg Woodside Chair Mary M. & Charles F. Yeiser Chair

Educational Concerts Rosemary & Frank Bloom * Cincinnati Financial Corporation & The Cincinnati Insurance Companies The Margaret Embshoff Educational Fund Kate Foreman Young Peoples Fund George & Anne Heldman+ Macy’s Foundation Vicky & Rick Reynolds*+ William R. Schott Family** Western-Southern Foundation, Inc. Anonymous (3)+

OTHER NAMED FUNDS

Ruth Meacham Bell Memorial Fund Frank & Mary Bergstein Fund for Musical ENDOWED PERFORMANCES Excellence+ Jean K. Bloch Music Library Fund & PROJECTS Eleanora C. U. Alms Trust, Fifth Third Bank, Trustee Cora Dow Endowment Fund Corbett Educational Endowment** Rosemary and Frank Bloom Endowment Fund*+ Belmon U. Duvall Fund Cincinnati Bell Foundation Inc. Ewell Fund for Riverbend Maintenance Mr. & Mrs. Val Cook Linda & Harry Fath Endowment Fund Nancy & Steve Donovan* Ford Foundation Fund Sue and Bill Friedlander Endowment Fund*+ Natalie Wurlitzer & William Ernest Griess Mrs. Charles Wm Anness*, Cello Fund Mrs. Frederick D. Haffner, Fred L. & Katherine H. Groll Trust Mrs. Gerald Skidmore and the Music Director Fund for Excellence La Vaughn Scholl Garrison Fund William Hurford and Lesley Gilbertson Fred L. & Katherine H. Groll Fund for Family Fund for Guest Pianists Musical Excellence The Mary Ellyn Hutton Fund for Excellence Fred L. & Katherine H. Groll Fund for Great Artists in Music Education Fred L. & Katherine H. Groll Trust Pianist Fund The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr. Foundation Josephine I. & David J. Joseph, Jr. Scholarship Fund Endowment Fund Richard & Jean Jubelirer & Family Fund* Anne Heldman Endowment Fund** Elma Margaret Lapp Trust Mr. and Mrs. Lorrence T. Kellar+ Jésus López-Cobos Fund for Excellence Lawrence A. & Anne J. Leser* Mellon Foundation Fund Mr. & Mrs. Carl H. Lindner** Nina Browne Parker Trust PNC Financial Services Group Dorothy Robb Perin & Harold F. Poe Trust The Procter & Gamble Fund Rieveschl Fund Vicky & Rick Reynolds Fund for Diverse Artists+ Thomas Schippers Fund Melody Sawyer Richardson* Martha, Max & Alfred M. Stern Ticket Fund Rosemary and Mark Schlachter Mr. & Mrs. John R. Strauss Student Ticket Fund Endowment Fund*+ Anna Sinton & Charles P. Taft Fund The Harold C. Schott Foundation, Lucien Wulsin Fund Francie and Tom Hiltz Endowment Fund+ Wurlitzer Season Ticket Fund Peggy Selonick Fund for Great Artists CSO Pooled Income Fund Dee and Tom Stegman Endowment Fund*+ CSO Musicians Emergency Fund Mr. & Mrs. Joseph S. Stern, Jr. Fund for Great Artists *Denotes support for Annual Music Program Fund U. S. Bank Foundation* **Denotes support for the 2nd Century Campaign Sallie and Randolph Wadsworth +Denotes support for the Fund for Musical Endowment Fund+ Excellence FANFARE CINCINNATI | 57

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

HONOR ROLL OF CONTRIBUTORS The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops are grateful to the following individuals that support our efforts by making a gift to the Orchestra Fund. We extend our heartfelt thanks to each and every one and pay tribute to them here. You can join our family of donors online at cincinnatisymphony.org/donate or by contacting the Philanthropy Department at 513.744.3271.

G. Franklin Miller and Carolyn Baker Miller Joseph A. and Susan E. Pichler Fund* Gifts of $50,000 and above Mrs. Theodore Striker Mr. and Mrs. Frederick E. Bryan, III § Sarah Thorburn Sheila and Christopher C. Cole Dale Uetrecht Susan Friedlander § Mrs. James W. Wilson, Jr. Mrs. Philip O. Geier § Mr. and Mrs. James M. Zimmerman § Healey Liddle Family Foundation, Mel & Bruce Healey CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE Harold C. Schott Foundation, Gifts of $10,000–$14,999 Francie & Tom Hiltz Mr. and Mrs. Lars C. Anderson, Sr. Dr. Lesley Gilbertson and Mr. and Mrs. John Becker Dr. William Hurford Michael P Bergan and Florence Koetters Tiffany Hanisch M. Drue Lehmann Robert D. Bergstein Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. McDonald Edward Castleberry Jo Anne and Joe Orndorff Ms. Melanie M. Chavez Marilyn J. and Jack D. Osborn § Stephen J Daush Vicky and Rick Reynolds Dianne Dunkelman Dianne and J. David Rosenberg Dr. and Mrs. Alberto Espay Mike and Digi Schueler Ms. Sarah Evans Irwin and Melinda Simon L. Timothy Giglio Tom and Dee Stegman Clifford J. Goosmann and Jackie and Roy Sweeney Andrea M. Wilson § Family Fund* Mr. and Mrs. Scott Gruner Mr. Randolph L. Wadsworth Jr. § Mr. and Mrs. Brian E. Heekin Mrs. Harry M. Hoffheimer GOLD BATON CIRCLE Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hone Gifts of $25,000–$49,999 Patrick and Mary Kirk Michael L. Cioffi Mr. John Lanni Dr. and Mrs. Carl G. Fischer Will and Lee Lindner Patti and Fred Heldman Mrs. Robert Lippert Karlee L. Hilliard § Whitney and Phillip Long Mr. and Mrs. Terence Horan § Mr. Michael E. Phillips Mr. Mace C. Justice § David and Jenny Powell Edyth B. Lindner Terry and Marvin Quin Calvin and Patricia Linnemann Melody Sawyer Richardson § Mrs. Susan M. McPartlin Mark S. and Rosemary K. Moe and Jack Rouse § Schlachter § Ann and Harry Santen § Mr. Dennis Schoff and In memory of Mary and Ms. Nina Sorensen Joseph S. Stern, Jr Doug and Laura Skidmore Scott and Charla Weiss Kelly Dehan and Rick Staudigel Ralph C. Taylor § SILVER BATON CIRCLE Pamela and Paul Thompson Tomcinoh Fund* Gifts of $15,000–$24,999 Mr. and Mrs. JD Vance Dr. and Mrs. John and DeeDee and Gary West § Suzanne Bossert § Anonymous (1) Mr. Gregory D. Buckley and Ms. Susan Berry-Buckley Robert and Debra Chavez CONCERTMASTER’S Mrs. Thomas E. Davidson § CIRCLE Mr. and Mrs. John C. Dupree Gifts of $5,000–$9,999 Mrs. Charles Fleischmann Dr. Charles Abbottsmith Ashley and Bobbie Ford § Thomas P. Atkins CCI Design, Molly and Tom Garber Mrs. Thomas B. Avril Tom and Jan Hardy § Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn § Kathleen and Michael Ball Robert and Janet Banks Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Joffe Dava Lynn Biehl § Marvin P. Kolodzik § Louis D. Bilionis and Ann Hubbard Mrs. Erich Kunzel Mr. Henry Boehmer Peter E. Landgren and Robert L. Bogenschutz Judith Schonbach Landgren Mr. and Mrs. Larry Brueshaber Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Maloney

PLATINUM BATON CIRCLE

The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation K.M. Davis Dennis W. and Cathy Dern Jean and Rick Donaldson Nancy and Steve Donovan Connie and Buzz Dow Mrs. Diana T. Dwight David and Kari Ellis Fund* Mr. Shaun Ethier and Empower Media Marketing Mrs. Nancy Finke Mr. and Mrs. James T. Fitzgerald Marlena and Walter Frank Dr. and Mrs. Harry F. Fry Anne E. Mulder and Rebecca M. Gibbs Mrs. Michael H. Giuliani Kathy Grote in loving memory of Robert Howes § Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hamby Mr. and Mrs. John B. Hansen William and Jo Ann Harvey Dr. James and Mrs. Susan Herman Mr. and Mrs. Bradley G. Hughes Mr. Marshall C. Hunt, Jr. Linda Busken and Andrew M. Jergens § Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Keenan Mr. and Mrs. Lorrence T. Kellar Dr. and Mrs. Lionel King Michael and Marilyn Kremzar Richard and Susan Lauf Mrs. Jean E. Lemon § Mark and Tia Luegering Elizabeth and Brian Mannion Alan Margulies and Gale Snoddy David L. Martin Mr. Jonathan Martin Mandare Foundation Rhoda Mayerson Eleanor S. McCombe Mary Ann Meanwell Linda and James Miller Mr. and Mrs. James Minutolo Jennifer Morales and Ben Glassman Mr. and Mrs. David W. Motch Miami University College of Creative Arts Arlene Palmer Dr. Manisha Patel and Dr. Michael Curran Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Quinn, Jr. Ellen Rieveschl § Elizabeth and Karl Ronn § James Rubenstein and Bernadette Unger James and Mary Russell Bill and Lisa Sampson Dr. E. Don Nelson and Ms. Julia Sawyer-Nelson Martha and Lee Schimberg Elizabeth Schulenberg Sandra and David Seiwert Sue and Glenn Showers § Elizabeth C. B. Sittenfeld §

Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Skidmore § Michael and Donnalyn Smith Nancy Steman Dierckes § Brett Stover § Mr. and Mrs. David R. Valz Christopher and Nancy Virgulak Dr. Barbara R. Voelkel Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Wachter Nancy C. Wagner and Patricia M. Wagner § Mrs. Ronald F. Walker Mrs. Paul H. Ward § M. L. Wells Donna A. Welsch Cathy S. Willis Irene A. Zigoris Anonymous (2)

ARTIST’S CIRCLE Gifts of $3,000–$4,999 Mr. and Mrs. Richard N. Adams Drs. Frank and Mary Albers William Albertson Mr. and Mrs. Gérard Baillely Glenn and Donna Boutilier Thomas A. Braun, III § Dr. Ralph P. Brown Janet and Bruce Byrnes Mr. Raul Chabali Miss Norma L. Clark § Susan and Burton Closson Dr. Thomas and Geneva Cook Sally and Rick Coomes Mr. and Mrs. John Cover Mr. and Mrs. James Dealy Bedouin and Randall Dennison Jim and Elizabeth Dodd Patricia Dudsic Dr. and Mrs. Stewart B. Dunsker Ann A. Ellison Hardy and Barbara Eshbaugh Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fencl Mrs. Michelle Finch Gail F. Forberg § Yan Fridman Frank and Tara Gardner Mrs. James R. Gardner Naomi Gerwin Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Giannella Thomas W. Gougeon Lesha and Samuel Greengus John and Elizabeth Grover Dr. and Mrs. Jack Hahn Dr. and Mrs. T. R. Halberstadt Dr. Donald and Laura Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Heidenreich Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Hicks Ruth C. Holthaus In Memory of Benjamin C. Hubbard § Karolyn Johnsen Dr. Robert W. Keith and Ms. Kathleen Thornton Don and Kathy King Jeff and Mary Ann Knoop Mr. Frank P. Kromer Dr. Carol P. Leslie

From left: Guests of the Dr. John & Louise Mulford Fund for the CSO attend New Year’s Eve at Music Hall. Vocalists Ron Bohmer and Capathia Jenkins, John Morris Russell, and guests of PNC Bank following New Year’s Eve at Music Hall.

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT Dr. and Mrs. Lynn Y. Lin Adele Lippert Merlanne Louney Mr. and Mrs. Julian A. Magnus Mr. and Mrs. Donald Marshall Lynn and Glen Mayfield Barbara and Kim McCracken § Ms. Amy McDiffett Ms. Sue Miller Mrs. Patricia Misrach Mr. and Mrs. David E. Moccia § Mrs. Sally A. More George and Sarah Morrison III Ms. Mary Lou Motl David and Beth Muskopf Phyllis Myers and Danny Gray Dr. and Mrs. Richard Park § Poul D. and JoAnne Pedersen Alice Perlman Ms. Thienthanh Pham Alice and David Phillips Mark and Kim Pomeroy Mr. Aftab Pureval Michael and Katherine Rademacher Marjorie and Louis Rauh Sandra Rivers Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Rose Mr. & Mrs. Peter A. Schmid Rev. Dr. David V. Schwab Mr. Rick Sherrer and Dr. Lisa D. Kelly Rennie and David Siebenhar Jacqueline M. Mack and Dr. Edward B. Silberstein William A. and Jane Smith Elizabeth A. Stone Margaret and Steven Story Lora and Scott Swedberg Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Tinklenberg Mr. Richard Uhle Robert and Audrey Varley § Dr. and Mrs. Galen R. Warren Jonathan Weaver Jim and George Ann Wesner Jo Ann Wieghaus

Sheila Williams and Bruce Smith Ronna and James Willis Matt and Lindsay Willmann Andrea K. Wiot Steve and Katie Wolnitzek Carol and Don Wuebbling Anonymous (4)

SYMPHONY CIRCLE Gifts of $1,500–$2,999 Jeff and Keiko Alexander § Mr. and Mrs. Rob Altenau Mrs. Gail Bain Joe and Patricia Baker Lois G. Benjamin David and Elaine Billmire Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Bixler Dr. and Mrs. William Bramlage Mrs. Jo Ann C. Brown Peter and Kate Brown Rachelle Bruno and Stephen Bondurant Chris and Tom Buchert Ms. Deborah Campbell § Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Carothers Tom Carpenter and Lynne Lancaster Dr. Alan Chambers Catharine W. Chapman § Randy K. and Nancy R. Cooper Marjorie Craft Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Curran, III § George and Joan Daumeyer Mr. Louis M. Dauner and Ms. Geraldine N. Wu George Deepe and Kris Orsborn Ms. Laura Doerger-Roberts Mrs. Jack E. Drake Mrs. Shirley Duff Mr. and Mrs. John G. Earls § Harry J. Finke IV Charles Frank and Jan Goldstein Richard Freshwater § Carol S. Friel Linda P. Fulton §

Mrs. Jay N. Gibbs John B. Goering Ms. Arlene Golembiewski Dr. and Mrs. Glenn S. Gollobin Drew Gores and George Warrington Mr. and Mrs. Gary Greenberg Jim and Jann Greenberg Bill and Christy Griesser Esther B. Grubbs § Mr. and Mrs. Byron Gustin Suzanne and Frank Hall Ms. Delores Hargrove-Young Mrs. Jackie Havenstein Howard D. and Mary W. Helms Donald and Susan Henson Mr. Fred Heyse Ms. Lisa Hillenbrand Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Hughes Mr. Bradley Hunkler Mr. and Mrs. Paul Isaacs Heidi Jark and Steve Kenat Barbara M. Johnson Lois and Kenneth Jostworth Holly H. Keeler Bill and Penny Kincaid Lynn Klahm Marie and Sam Kocoshis Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kovarsky Carol Louise Kruse Mrs. John H. Kuhn § Jo Ann and George Kurz Patricia Lambeck Evelyn and Fred Lang Charles and Jean Lauterbach Mary Mc and Kevin Lawson Alexander and Emily Levatte Mr. Peter F. Levin § Elizabeth Lilly* Mr. Arthur Lindsay Paula and Nick Link Drs. Douglas Linz and Ann Middaugh Mr. and Mrs. Clement H. Luken, Jr. Allen-McCarren

Mr. Bernard McKay Mr. Gerron McKnight Stephanie McNeill Charles and JoAnn Mead Becky Miars John and Roberta Michelman Michael V. and Marcia L. Middleton Terence G. Milligan Dr. Stanley R. Milstein § Regeana and Al Morgan Kevin and Lane Muth Mr. William Naumann Susan E. Noelcke Rick Pescovitz and Kelly Mahan Sandy Pike § Patsy & Larry Plum James W. Rauth § Beverly and Dan Reigle Diane and Alex Resly Drs. Christopher and Blanca Riemann Nancy and Raymond Rolwing Jens G Rosenkrantz Marianne Rowe § Nancy Ruchhoft Dr. and Mrs. Michael Scheffler George Palmer Schober James P. Schubert Mark M. Smith (In memory of Terri C. Smith) Stephanie A. Smith Stephen and Lyle Smith David Snyder § Bill and Lee Steenken Christopher and Meghan Stevens Lowella B. Stoerker Mrs. Donald C. Stouffer Shannon Michael Taylor Mr. Fred Tegarden Kathy Teipen Rich and Nancy Tereba Janet Todd Neil Tollas and Janet Moore Barbie Wagner

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CSO BOARD OF DIRECTORS DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION (DE&I) COMMITTEE and COMMUNITY ADVISORY COUNCIL In May 2020 the realities of systemic inequity, injustice and racism in America were once again laid bare by the murder of George Floyd. That summer, the CSO created a 10-point DEI Action Plan to prioritize the Orchestra’s work to better represent and serve the entirety of the Cincinnati community. Action items included the continued amplification of BIPOC artists on stage and in education programs; a review of hiring and compensation practices; organization-wide implicit bias training; increased mentorship opportunities; and the creation of a standing CSO Community Advisory Council (CAC) to strengthen ties to the community. We thank our many partners on the CAC and on our standing DE&I committee who are helping us with this important work.

CSO Board of Directors DE&I Committee

Community Advisory Council

Charla B. Weiss, Lead Dr. Ralph P. Brown Dr. Maria Espinola Dara Fairman Delores Hargrove-Young Dr. Lisa D. Kelly David Kirk* Lisa Lennon Norman Gerron L. McKnight Anne E. Mulder Thanh T. Pham Dianne Rosenberg Jack Rouse Lisa M. Sampson Edgar L. Smith, Jr. Stephanie A. Smith Daphney Thomas* Sheila Williams

Christopher Miller Daniel Betts Desiree Bennett Jackie Taggart Boyd Joele Newman John P. Scott Rickell Smith Tia Brown Leslie Rich

*Community Volunteer Staff Liaisons: Harold Brown, Tiffany Cooper Staff Members: Carol Dary Dunevant, Kyle Wynk-Sivashankar, Mary McFadden Lawson

Staff: Tiffany Cooper, Harold Brown

Multicultural Awareness Council Dara Fairman, Chair Susan Carlson Andria Carter Piper Davis Bob Freer Carlos Garcia Leon Alverna Jenkins Beverley Lamb Quiera Levy-Smith Aurelia “Candie” Simmons Daphney Thomas Alford West FANFARE CINCINNATI | 59

FINANCIAL SUPPORT Mr. and Mrs. James L. Wainscott Dr. and Mrs. Matthew and Diana Wallace Michael L. Walton, Esq Mr. Robert and Mrs. Leslie Warnock Ted and Mary Ann Weiss Maryhelen West David F. and Sara K. Weston Fund Virginia Wilhelm Rev. Anne Warrington Wilson Robert and Judy Wilson Jeff Yang David and Sharon Youmans Andi Levenson Young and Scott Young Ms. Nancy Zimpher John and Mary Ann Zorio Anonymous (11)

CONCERTO CLUB

Gifts of 500–$1,499 Christine O. Adams Judith Adams Romola N. Allen § Mr. and Mrs. Jay Allgood Lisa Allgood Mr. Thomas Alloy & Dr. Evaline Alessandrini Mr. Brian Anderson Paul and Dolores Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Frank Andress Dr. Victor and Dolores Angel Nancy J. Apfel Mr. and Mrs. Keith Apple Carole J. Arend § Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomas Arnold Judy Aronoff and Marshall Ruchman Bruce and Jeanine Aronow Ms. Laura E. Atkinson Mr. David H. Axt and Ms. Susan L. Wilkinson Ms. Patricia Baas Dr. Diane S. Babcock § Mrs. Mary M. Baer Beth and Bob Baer Todd and Ann Bailey Jerry and Martha Bain Mr. and Mrs. Carroll R. Baker Mr. Sean D. Baker Jack and Diane Baldwin Terry Bangs William and Barbara Banks Chris and Jeanne Barnes Peggy Barrett § Mrs. Polly M. Bassett Michael and Amy Battoclette Ms. Shirley Bear Mr. Jerome D. Becker Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Bell Fred Berger Dr. Allen W. Bernard Dr. David and Cheryl Bernstein Glenda and Malcolm Bernstein Melanie Garner and Michael Berry Ms. Marianna Bettman Sharon Ann Kerns and Mike Birck Walter B. Blair § Dabby Blatt Randal and Peter Bloch Mr. Peter Block Ava Jo Bohl Ms. Sandra Bolek Ms. Sandra Bolek Ron and Betty Bollinger Clay and Emily Bond Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Borisch Towne Properties Dr. Carol Brandon Marilyn and John Braun Mr. Hunter Bridewell Briggs Creative Services, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brinkmeyer § Robert and Joan Broersma Ms. Kathleen Albers Mr. and Mrs. Don H. Brown Marian H. Brown Dr. Rebeccah L. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Brown Ralph and Diane Brueggemann Ms. Jaqui Brumm Jacklyn and Gary Bryson Mr. Steven G. Buchberger Dr. Leanne Budde Bob and Angela Buechner Alvin W. Bunis, Jr.

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Donald L. and Kathleen Field Burns Daniel A. Burr Jack and Marti Butz John and Terri Byczkowski Harold and Dorothy Byers § Ms. Cindy Callicoat Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Canarie Amy and Robert Catanzaro Mr. and Mrs. James Cauhorn Denise and Martin Chambers Mike and Shirley Chaney Paul and Deborah Chellgren Gordon Christenson Ms. Sunjoo Chun Dee and Frank Cianciolo Fund* James Civille Bob and Tisha Clary James Clasper and Cheryl Albrecht Beverly Kinney and Edward Cloughessy Ms. Vivian Cochrane Mr. Robert Cohen and Ms. Amy J. Katz Carol C. Cole § Dr. George I. Colombel Fred W. Colucci Dr. Pearl J. Compaan Marilyn Cones Dr. Margaret Conradi Jean and Gene Conway Janet Conway Robin Cotton and Cindi Fitton Dennis and Patricia Coyne Martha Crafts Mrs. Linda D. Crozier Mr. and Mrs. Brendon Cull Susan and John Cummings Lynne Curtiss Jacqueline Cutshall Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Dabek, Jr. Donald and Victoria Daiker Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Lori Dattilo Diane Kolleck Loren and Polly DeFilippo Stephen and Cynthia DeHoff Robert B. Dick, Ph.D. Ms. Rhonda Dickerscheid John and Maureen Doellman Roger and Julie Doughty Jack and Diane Douglass David and Kelley Downing Meredith and Chuck Downton Mr. James Doyle Emilie and David Dressler Tom and Leslie Ducey Tom and Dale Due David and Linda Dugan Mr. Corwin R. Dunn Ken and Melodie Dunn Mr. Bernie Dwertman Joseph and Kristi Echler Mr. and Mrs. James Eigel Ms. Ruth Engel Barbara Esposito-Ilacqua Barry and Judy Evans Mr. Robert Faelten Dr. Douglas K. Fairobent and Dr. Paulette M. Gillig Dr. and Mrs. William J. Faulkner Walter & Mary Ann Feige Ms. Barbara A. Feldmann Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fender Richard and Elizabeth Findlay Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Fischer Michael and Bonnie Fishel William and Carol Fisher Anne Feczko and Daniel Flynn Ms. Nancy B. Forbriger Mr. and Mrs. James Foreman Janice and Dr. Tom Forte Mr. and Ms. Bernard Foster Mr. and Mrs. William Fotsch Susan L. Fremont Mr. Gregrick A. Frey In memory of Eugene and Cavell Frey Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fricke Mr. and Mrs. Fred Friedman Michael and Katherine Frisco Michael Frye and Chris Schoeny Mr. and Mrs. James Fryman Marjorie Fryxell Dudley Fulton Christophe Galopin Justin R. Garabedian Drusilla Garms

Ms. Jane Garvey Mark S. Gay Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Geier Dr. Michael Gelfand Jean R. Gerhardt Mrs. Theresa C. Deters Gerrard A. Franklin Gibboney V Kathleen Gibboney David J. Gilner Mary and Jack Gimpel Louis and Deborah Ginocchio Dr. and Mrs. Charles J. Glueck Donn Goebel and Cathy McLeod Dr. and Mrs. Richard Goetz Mr. Ken Goldhoff Mr. and Mrs. Jim Goldschmidt Robert and Cynthia Gray Carl and Joyce Greber Mary Grooms Dr. Janet C. Haartz and Kenneth V. Smith Alison and Charles Haas Mrs. R. C. Haberstroh Mary and Phil Hagner Peter Hames Ham and Ellie Hamilton Walter and Karen Hand In memory of Dr. Stuart Handwerger Mr. Kevin Harshberger Mariana Belvedere and Samer Hasan Amy and Dennis Healy Kenneth and Rachel Heberling Mrs. Betty H. Heldman § Mrs. E. J. Hengelbrok, Jr. Michelle and Don Hershey Curtis & Katrina Hinshaw Ms. Leslie M. Hoggatt Mr. and Mrs. Sam R. Hollingsworth Richard and Marcia Holmes Stanley A. Hooker, III Ms. Susan K. Hopp Noel and Angela Horne Mr. Joe Hoskins Mr. Mike Hostetler and Ms. Erica Pascal Mr. Thomas J. Hotek Deanna and Henry Huber Melissa Huber Karen and David Huelsman Dr. and Mrs. G. Edward Hughes Nada Christine Huron Dr. Maralyn M. Itzkowitz Mrs. Charles H. Jackson, Jr. Mr. William K. Jackson Mr. Thaddeus Jaroszewicz Mark and Caitlin Jeanmougin Marcia Jelus Dale and Cheri Jenkins Mr. David Jester Mr. and Mrs. Scott Johncox Ms. Sylvia Johnson Frank Jordan § Tom and Geneva Jordan Scott and Patricia Joseph Jay and Shirley Joyce Mr. and Mrs. Robert Judd Dr. Jerald Kay Dr. James Kaya and Debra Grauel John and Molly Kerman Dr. and Mrs. Richard Kerstine Mr. and Mrs. Dave Kitzmiller Carol Grasha and Christopher Knoop Georgianne and Tom Koch Pamela Koester-Hackman Paul and Carita Kollman Juri Kolts Carol and Scott Kosarko Mr. Robert Kraus Kathleen B. and Michael C. Krug Fund* Dr. Diane Krumanaker, DVM Patricia and Randolph Krumm § Mr. and Mrs. John L. Kuempel Mark Kuhlman Everett and Barbara Landen Asher Lanier Ms. Sally L. Larson Mrs. Julie Laskey Joe Law and Phil Wise Mr. Alvin R. Lee Mr. Nathan C. Lee Mrs. Judith A. Leege in memory of Philip B. Leege Dr. Margaret Lemasters

Patricia E. Leo Donna Levi Mr. and Mrs. Lance A. Lewis Mrs. Maxine F. Lewis Ms. Presley Lindemann Mr. and Mrs. James A. Link Mrs. Marianne Locke Mrs. Mary Long Mr. Steven Kent Loveless Dr. and Mrs. Robert R. Lukin Timothy and Jill Lynch Edmund D. Lyon Marshall and Nancy Macks Neil B. Marks Andrew and Jean Martin Ms. Cynthia Mason David Mason § Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Mason Dave and Nancy Masters Mr. and Mrs. Dean Matz Dr. Janet P. McDaniel Tim and Trish McDonald Robert and Heather McGrath Ms. Mary McKeown Mark McKillip and Amira Beer Mrs. Karin McLennan Ms. Carol M. Meibers Ms. Nancy Menne Arnold and Nancy Merrow Dr. and Mrs. Richard A. Meyer Dr. Karen Meyers and Mr. Bill Jones Rachel and Charlie Miller Mr. Roger Miller Ms. Terry S. Miller Sonia R. Milrod Ms. Laura Mitchell Mr. Steven Monder Eileen W. and James R. Moon Mr. Jason Moore Dr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Moravec Mrs. Ivan Morse Mr. Scott Muhlhauser Mrs. and Mr. Katie Murry Alan Flaherty and Patti Myers § Ms. Henryka Bialkowska-Nagy Mr. and Mrs. Norman Neal Mr. Ted Nelson and Ms. Ixi Chen Mr. Gerald Newfarmer Jim and Sharon Nichols Mr. and Mrs. John Niehaus Ms. Jane Nocito Jane Oberschmidt § Maureen Kelly and Andrew O’Driscoll Dr. Brett Offenberger and Mr. Douglas Duckett Mr. Gerardo Orta Mrs. Janet K. Osborn Nan L. Oscherwitz Elizabeth Osterburg Marilyn Z. Ott Mr. and Mrs. Michael Palmer Eric Paternoster Don and Margie Paulsen John and Francie Pepper * EXAIR Corporation Ken and Linda Phelps Mr. Mark Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Paul Piazza Martin and Pamela Popp Mr. and Mrs. Richard Post Mr. Robert Przygoda Glenn and Jane Rainey Jerry Rape Ms. Mary Redington Dr. and Mrs. Robert Reed Mrs. Hera Reines Catherine E. Rekers In Memory of Reverend Robert Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Brian T. Rhame Dr. Robert Rhoad and Kitsa Tassian Rhoad Stephanie Richardson Roz and Jeff Robbins Mr. David Robertson Stephen and Betty Robinson Laurie and Dan Roche Ms. Jeanne C. Rolfes Stanley & Shannon Romanstein Bob and Mary Ann Roncker Catherine Calko Dr. and Mrs. Gary Roselle Amy and John Rosenberg Mr. and Mrs. G. Roger Ross Patricia Rouster Dr. Deborah K. Rufner J. Gregory and Judith B. Rust

FINANCIAL SUPPORT Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Ruthman The Saenger Family Foundation Cheryl A Sallwasser Dr. Richard S. Sarason and Ms. Anne S. Arenstein David and Judy Savage Mr. Christian J. Schaefer Mr. Joseph Schilling Ms. Carol Schleker Jane and Wayne Schleutker Marcia A. Banker and Jeffrey S. Schloemer Mr. and Mrs. William C. Schmidter, III Jacqueline K. Schneider Mr. Timothy H. Schoonover Glenda C. Schorr Fund* Carol J. Schroeder § Mr. and Mrs. Mark Schultheis Mary D. Schweitzer Joe Segal and Debbie Friedman Ms. Beverly Seibert Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Semancik Saira Shahani and Rick Warm Judith Sharp Drs. Mick and Nancy Shaughnessy The Shepherd Chemical Company Michael Shepherd Alfred and Carol Shikany Dr. and Mrs. Donald E. Shrey Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Skirtz Ms. Martha Slager Susan and David Smith

Ms. Margaret Smith Dr. and Mrs. Eugene Somoza Mr. and Mrs. Phil Spiewak Paula Spitzmiller Marian P. Stapleton Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Stautberg Ms. Ruth M. Stechschulte Mr. Jason V. Stitt Stephanie and Joseph Stitt Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stradling, Jr. Nancy and Gary Strassel Margaret L. Straub Ms. Susan R. Strick Mr. George Stricker, Jr. Patricia Strunk § Ms. Judi Sturwold Kathryn Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Sullivan Ann Swanson Mr. and Mrs. William R. Talbot, Jr. Thomas and Keri Tami Dr. Alan and Shelley Tarshis Carlos and Roberta Teran Tom and Sue Terwilliger Linda and Nate Tetrick Dr. Rachel Thienprayoon George and Pamela Thomas Joyce and Howard Thompson Mr. and Mrs. J. Dwight Thompson Matthew M and Anne N Thompson Cliff and Diane Thornsburg Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thrailkill Greg Tiao and Lisa Kuan

Torey and Tom Torre Dr. Ilse van der Bent William and Bonnie VanEe Dr. Judith Vermillion Rev. Francis W. Voellmecke Jacob Wachtman Ms. Barbara Wagner Mike and Diane Wagner Mary and Jack Wagner § Jane A. Walker Sarella Walton Herman & Margaret Wasserman Music Fund* Mrs. Louise Watts Mr. Gerald V. Weigle, Jr. David and Sandy Westerbeck Mr. Donald White Ms. Elizabeth White Ms. Lisa Williams Mr. Dean Windgassen and Ms. Susan Stanton Windgassen § Rebecca Seeman and David Wood Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wylly III Mr. John M. Yacher Ms. Dona Young Judy and Martin Young Mr. David Youngblood and Ms. Ellen Rosenman Dr. Cynthia Yund Mr. and Mrs. Dan Zavon Dr. and Mrs. Daryl Zeigler Meg Zeller and Alan Weinstein Ms. Joan Zellner

Moritz and Barbara Ziegler Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Zierolf Thomas and Joyce Zigler John and Shannon Zimmerman Mr. Richard K. Zinicola and Ms. Linda R. Holthaus Ms. Jayne Zuberbuhler Mrs. Beth Zwergel Anonymous (29)

GIFTS IN-KIND

Drive Media House Mr. and Mrs. Ted Gibboney In Honor of Mary Ellen Hutton Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Jensen Jones Day Mr. John M. Russell and Ms. Thea Tjepkema List as of February 28, 2022 * Denotes a fund of The Greater Cincinnati Foundation. § Denotes members of The Thomas Schippers Legacy Society.

Individuals who have made a planned gift to the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Pops Orchestra are eligible for membership in the Society. For more information, please contact Kate Farinacci at 513.744.3202.

GIFT OF MUSIC: October 31, 2021–February 28, 2022 The following people provided gifts to the Gift of Music Fund to celebrate an occasion, to mark a life of service to the Orchestra, or to commemorate a special date. Their contributions are added to the Orchestra’s endowment. For more information on how to contribute to this fund, please call 513.744.3271.

In Honor of Mrs. Gail Bain Mr. Sinjin Bain and Ms. Clair Solot

In Honor of Matthew Williamson Bruce Williamson

In Memory of Thomas Kuelbs Mrs. Mary Fisher

In Honor of Haley Bangs Terry Bangs

In Memory of Judy Berman Fried Anonymous

In Memory of Polk Lafoon Susan Friedlander

In Honor of Dan and Rebecca Culnan Joan Van Loozenoord

In Memory of Ruth Brush Ralph and Judith Gray

In Memory of Carol Feiser Laque Greater Cincinnati Handball Association Anonymous

Prentice and Susan Spradley John and Kathy Sprague Dr. Tariq Sultan Chris Thoresen and Melissa Easterday TriHealth Hospitals TriHealth Heart Institute— Good Samaritan Campus Anonymous

In Memory of Adeline Maday Anonymous

In Memory of Anne Siebert Ms. Deborah Campbell

In Memory of Carlos William Moreno Dr. Michael Gelfand Michael Timmons Marina Lyn Beckhard and Alan Luberda

In Memory of Larry Stillpass Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn

In Honor of Damon Gupton SMS Talent/Brookside Management In Honor of Alan Heitner Steven Turek In Honor of Jean Holland Mr. and Mrs. Murray Holland In Honor of John W. and Olivia Faye Kegg Anonymous In Honor of Spencer Liles Walter C. Frank Nancy C. Wagner and Patricia M. Wagner In Honor of Cortland Meader Samuel Ajizian In Honor of Christian Merkel Sarah Merkel In Honor of Joe Morris Mr. and Mrs. Ted Beilman

In Memory of Mary Alice Heekin Burke Thomas and Madeline Burke In Memory of Dr. David Clyne Celia Bart and Josefina Kenyon Brad Lauch Rebecca Algenio Messenger In Memory of Jane Ellis Adam Cannon In Memory of Shirley Fingerman Mr. and Mrs. James K. Votaw In Memory of Ruth Heldman Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn In Memory of Frank Edward Hibrandt Judy Hibrandt-Robin In Memory of Theresa and John Holubeck Drs. Thomas and Laurie Holubeck Bruce and Deborah Humphrey

In Honor of Robin Radin’s birthday David and Kari Ellis Fund*

In Memory of Robert O. Johnson Nina S. Campbell Sharon Downing Ms. Shirley A. Stikeleather Tristate German American School

In Honor of Patrizia Stabile Ugo Coppola

In Memory of Dr. Rena Kay Dr. Jerald Kay

In Honor of Rev. Francis W. Voellmecke Stephen F. Voellmecke Family

In Memory of Elizabeth “Betty” Jane Kitrick Rita M Javorina

In Honor of Richard and Barbara Welch Michael and Terry Welch

In Memory of Ben Kovarsky Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kovarsky The Leiman Family

In Honor of Dan Oscherowitz Robert and Gretchen Dinerman

In Honor of George Wilkinson’s Birthday Minda Matthews-Smith Molly Wilkinson

In Memory of Dr. David C. Reed Leah Adams Elizabeth Alexander Bethesda North CVICU colleagues and friends of Dr. David C. Reed Susan and Douglas Brengle In loving memory of Dr. David C. Reed, Christy Crampton Kathy Dunn & Kathleen Houser (Bethesda Hospital) Rachael Flatt & Eric Iwashita Joann and Mark Gillming Good Samaritan Hospital Western Ridge Cardiac Rehabilitation Department The Guidehouse Supply Chain Team Ms. Deborah Halvonik Theresa Herbst Elizabeth Kuck Kevin and Susie Kushman Mrs. Mary Beth McWilliams Oxford Pulmonary and Rheumatology Department at Tri-Health Dr. and Mrs. Timothy Miller Patricia Nutgrass Phillip and Erin Oblinger Virginia O’Halloran The Patels Dr. and Mrs. Ali Razavi

In Memory of Lowella Stoerker Jeanine and Steven Wailsala In Memory of Dr. Theodore “Ted” W. Striker Charlotte Brooks George and Mary Croog Anne and Ron DeLyons John and Susan Frank Richard and Adrianne Freiberg Susan Friedlander Jennifer Goldschneider Dr. and Mrs. Juan Gutierrez Steve and Patricia Hall Mrs. Barbara Kreines Richard and Susan Lauf Michael L. Leventhal, Jr and Adele De Mooy Mr. Peter F. Levin Leah & Ed Levy The Kenneth Mack Family Timothy W. Martin, MD John and Roberta Michelman Mrs. Alice M. Perlman Ms. Natalie Schwab Mark and Hannah Shapiro Jacqueline M. Mack and Dr. Edward B. Silberstein Barbie Wagner Susan Wilson Eric and Kim Wittkugel Moritz and Barbara Ziegler Anonymous (2) In Memory of Eunice M. Wolf Ms. Deborah Campbell

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT

THE THOMAS SCHIPPERS LEGACY SOCIETY Thomas Schippers was Music Director from 1970 to 1977. He left not only wonderful musical memories, but also a financial legacy with a personal bequest to the Orchestra. The Thomas Schippers Legacy Society recognizes those who contribute to the Orchestra with a planned gift.

We thank these members for their foresight and generosity. For more information on leaving your own legacy, contact Mary McFadden Lawson at 513.744.3272.

Mr. & Mrs. James R. Adams Jeff & Keiko Alexander Mrs. Robert H. Allen Paul R. Anderson Mrs. Charles William Anness Carole J. Arend Donald C. Auberger, Jr. Dr. Diane Schwemlein Babcock Henrietta Barlag Peggy Barrett Jane* & Ed Bavaria Dava Lynn Biehl David & Elaine Billmire Walter Blair Lucille* & Dutro Blocksom Rosemary & Frank Bloom Dr. John & Suzanne Bossert Mollie H. Hollon Ronald Bozicevich Thomas A. Braun, III Joseph Brinkmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Bryan, III Harold & Dorothy Byers Deborah Campbell & Eunice M. Wolf Myra Chabut Catharine W. Chapman Michael L. Cioffi & Rachael Rowe Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Norma L. Clark Lois & Phil* Cohen Leland M.* & Carol C. Cole Grace A. Cook Jack & Janice Cook Mr. & Mrs. Charles Cordes Peter G. Courlas & Nick Tsimaras* Mr. & Mrs. Charles E Curran III Amy & Scott Darrah, Meredith & Will Darrah & children Caroline H. Davidson Harrison R.T. Davis Amy & Trey Devey Robert W. Dorsey Jon & Susan Doucleff Mr. & Mrs. John Earls Barry & Judy Evans Linda & Harry Fath Alan Flaherty Mrs. Richard A. Forberg Ashley & Barbara Ford Guy & Marilyn Frederick Rich Freshwater & Family Susan Friedlander Mr. Nicholas L. Fry Linda P. Fulton H. Jane Gavin Mrs. Philip O. Geier Kenneth A. Goode Clifford J. Goosmann & Andrea M. Wilson Mrs. Madeleine H. Gordon J. Frederick & Cynthia Gossman Kathy Grote Esther Grubbs, Marci Bein & Mindi Hamby William Hackman Vincent C. Hand & Ann E. Hagerman

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Tom & Jan Hardy William L. Harmon Bill Harnish* & John Harnish Dr. & Mrs. Morton L. Harshman Mary J. Healy Frank G. Heitker Anne P. Heldman Betty & John* Heldman Ms. Roberta Hermesch Karlee L. Hilliard Michael H. Hirsch Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Hirschhorn Daniel J. Hoffheimer Kenneth L. Holford Mr. George R. Hood Mr. & Mrs. Terence L. Horan Mrs. Benjamin C. Hubbard Susan & Tom Hughes Carolyn R. Hunt Dr. William Hurford & Dr. Lesley Gilbertson Mr. and Mrs. Paul Isaacs Julia M. F. B. Jackson Michael & Kathleen Janson Andrew MacAoidh Jergens Jean C. Jett Frank Jordan Margaret H. Jung Mace C. Justice Karen Kapella Dr. & Mrs.* Steven Katkin Rachel Kirley & Joseph Jaquette Carolyn Koehl Marvin Kolodzik Randolph & Patricia Krumm Theresa M. Kuhn Warren & Patricia Lambeck Owen and Cici Lee Steve Lee Mrs. Jean E. Lemon Mr. Peter F. Levin George & Barbara Lott Mr.* & Mrs. Ronald Lyons Marilyn J. Maag Margot Marples David L. Martin Allen* & Judy Martin David Mason Mrs. Barbara Witte McCracken Laura Kimble McLellan Dr. Stanley R. Milstein Mrs. William K. Minor Mr. & Mrs. D. E. Moccia Kristin & Stephen Mullin Christopher & Susan Muth Patti Myers Susan & Kenneth Newmark Dr. & Mrs. Theodore Nicholas Patricia Grignet Nott* Jane Oberschmidt Marja-Liisa Ogden Julie & Dick* Okenfuss Jack & Marilyn Osborn Dr. & Mrs. Richard E. Park, MD Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Pease Poul D. & JoAnne Pedersen Sandy & Larry* Pike Mrs. Harold F. Poe Anne M. Pohl Irene & Daniel Randolph James W. Rauth Barbara S. Reckseit Melody Sawyer Richardson

Ellen Rieveschl Elizabeth & Karl Ronn Moe & Jack Rouse Marianne Rowe Ann & Harry Santen Rosemary & Mark Schlachter Carol J. Schroeder Mrs. William R. Seaman Dr. Brian Sebastian Mrs. Mildred J. Selonick Mrs. Robert B. Shott Sue & Glenn Showers Irwin and Melinda Simon Betsy & Paul* Sittenfeld Sarah Garrison Skidmore Adrienne A. Smith David & Sonja* Snyder Marie Speziale Mr. & Mrs. Christopher L. Sprenkle Michael M. Spresser Barry & Sharlyn Stare Cynthia Starr Bill & Lee Steenken Barry Steinberg Nancy M. Steman John and Helen Stevenson Mary* & Bob Stewart Brett Stover Dr. Robert & Jill Strub

Patricia M. Strunk Ralph & Brenda* Taylor Conrad F. Thiede Minda F. Thompson Carrie & Peter Throm Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Todd Nydia Tranter Dick & Jane Tuten Thomas Vanden Eynden and Judith Beiting Mr. & Mrs. Robert Varley Mr. & Mrs. James K. Votaw Mr. & Mrs.* Randolph L. Wadsworth Jr. Jack K. & Mary V. Wagner Nancy C. Wagner Patricia M. Wagner Mr.* & Mrs. Paul Ward Jo Anne & Fred Warren Anne M. Werner Gary & Diane West Charles A. Wilkinson Susan Stanton Windgassen Mrs. Joan R. Wood Alison & Jim Zimmerman * Deceased New Schippers members are in bold

ADMINISTRATION OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT & CEO Jonathan Martin President & CEO Andrea Maisonpierre Hessel Executive Assistant

ARTISTIC PLANNING & PRODUCTION Robert McGrath Chief Operating Officer Shannon Faith Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer

Artistic Planning Nate Bachhuber Vice President of Artistic Planning Kristin Hill Assistant, Artistic Planning and Music Director Sam Strater Senior Advisor for Cincinnati Pops Planning Marissa Goodman Manager, Artistic Administration and Special Projects

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT | DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION

Amanda Franklin Community Engagement Manager Ian McIntyre Volunteer & Community Engagement Coordinator

M. Todd Bezold Director of Marketing

Bhavya Nayna Channan Corporate Relations Manager

Stephen Howson Director of Web and Audience Insight

Catherine Hann, CFRE Assistant Director of Individual Giving

Penny Hamilton Philanthropy Assistant

Carol Dary Dunevant Director of Learning Jasmine Watkins Sound Discoveries Teaching Artist Emily Jordan Sound Discoveries Teaching Assistant Emily Damelio CSYO Ensemble Coordinator

COMMUNICATIONS Felecia Tchen Kanney Vice President of Communications Tyler Secor Communications Content Manager Charlie Balcom Social Media Manager Liz Donges Communications Intern

Jon Dellinger Copywriter/Marketing Manager Stephanie Lazorchak Graphic Designer Amber Ostaszewski Director of Audience Engagement

Michelle Lewandowski Director of Sales Nic Bizub Group Sales Manager Kyle Lamb Box Office Manager Carmen Granger Assistant Box Office Manager

PATRON SERVICES Supervisors Sean Bussell Ellisen Blair Hannah Kaiser Abigail Karr

Representatives Daria Denysenko Brandon Dodge Grace Kim Hayley Maloney Wendy Marshall Eva Reyes-Smith Laura Ruple Emily Schaub Aspen Stein CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CINCINNATI POPS Music Hall, 1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202 Administrative Offices: 513.621.1919 | hello@cincinnatisymphony.org

Katelyn Conway Philanthropy Communications Manager

KC Commander Director of Digital Content & Innovation

Learning

Michael Frisco Vice President of Marketing

Sean Baker Director of Institutional Giving

Hanna Walker Donor Engagement Coordinator

Kaitlyn Driesen Digital Production Manager

Jenny Ryan Human Resources Manager

MARKETING

Mary McFadden Lawson, CAP® Chief Philanthropy Officer

Digital Content & Innovation

Corinne Wiseman Digital Content Manager

Megan Inderbitzin-Tsai Payroll Manager

PHILANTHROPY

Leslie Hoggatt, CFRE Director of Individual Giving and Donor Services

Lee Snow Digital Content Technology Manager

Vice President of Human Resources

Natalia Lerzundi Payroll Specialist

Production

Carlos Javier Production Manager, Pops

Tara Williams Data Services Manager

Camryn Morrow Community Engagement Intern

Crystal St Jacques Institutional Giving Coordinator

Alex Magg Production Manager, CSO & May Festival

Sharon D. Grayton Data Services Manager

Harold Brown The Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer Kathleen Curry Data Entry Clerk Tiffany Cooper Director of Community HUMAN RESOURCES Engagement and Diversity Kyle Wynk-Sivashankar

Olivia Cleri Artistic Planning Intern Paul Pietrowski Vice President of Orchestra & Production

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In the CSO’s 126 years, Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique has been performed 93 times, including for a commercial recording in 2001 conducted by Paavo Järvi. In the “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath,” the fifth movement of Symphonie fantastique, Berlioz calls for two off-stage giant church bells—one in C and the other in G. These giant bells are not part of the regular arsenal of percussion instruments and are usually rented or borrowed for each performance. Thanks to the generosity of donors, we were able to have Cincinnati’s own Verdin Company cast our own set of “Berlioz Bells” (pictured) in preparation for the March 25–27, 2022 concerts. The bells are cast with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra name along with the famous Music Hall rose window.

The Multicultural Awareness Council has announced its 2022 MAC Award Honorees.

Kick Lee, Executive Director and founder of the Cincinnati Music Accelerator, an organization dedicated to and focused on the development of music creatives, fostering and fueling placemaking, and striving for economic development and impact within the community it serves through the musical arts. Only 34 years old, Lee has had his musical works licensed and placed in advertisements with brands such as Disney, Toyota, Samsung, Puma, 64 | FANFARE CINCINNATI

Xbox, and many others. Lee also operates KL Studios Inc., which specializes in audio recording, audio production, post-production and music licensing for TV, film, trailers and commercials.

Yah’El Abiyah Yisra’el will be posthumously honored.

Yisra’el was a beloved music educator, administrator, sister, mother and friend to her community. During her high school years, Yisra’el was a member of the CSYO and went on to earn degrees from the College of Mount St. Joseph and CCM. After her studies, Yisra’el was employed by Cincinnati Public Schools, teaching music classes that incorporated dance, composition, Orff instruments, and singing, and she conducted choirs and instrumental ensembles. During her tenure as a Music Specialist, she taught at Shroder Paideia Critical Thinking Academy, Frederick Douglass Elementary, and North Avondale Montessori School. She then moved on to serve as Consulting Teacher for Music Education, created the role of Fine Arts Curriculum Manager, and was a school principal for 10 years.

The League of American Orchestras has selected Kyle Wynk-Sivashankar, Vice President of Human Resources, to serve on its inaugural LGBTQIA+ leadership committee. The affinity group’s first official gathering will occur at the League’s June 2022 national conference.

The CSO Music Educator Award recognizes K–12 music educators for their excellence in the field. This year’s award winners creatively and strategically addressed the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on music education in their schools. Award winner Paul Glader from BethelTate Middle School effectively mitigated the effects of a year with no in-person band/choir to encourage one-third of the middle school to opt-in to band/choir participation. Glader also started an after-school music club to address learning gaps created by a year of no instruction.

Award winner Allison Marshall from Norwood Middle and High Schools secured funds for new elementary music education instruments at three elementary schools and secured new band and string instruments for students in need of instruments. Marshall also created a high school level course for students who have never before played an instrument.

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