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Official Program Magazine of the Houston Symphony 615 Louisiana, Suite 102, Houston, Texas 77002 (713) 224-4240 • www.houstonsymphony.org

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Programs 10 April 8-10 13 April 14, 16, 17 16 April 15 17 April 21-23 20 April 26 23 April 29-30, May 1

On Stage and Off 5 Credits 27-35 Donors 7 From the Orchestra 4 Hans Graf 25 Houston Symphony Chorus 4 Letter to Patrons 8 Orchestra and Staff 26 Symphony Society

Features 36 Backstage Pass 6 Spotlight on Sponsors 33 Support Your Symphony 18 Upcoming Performances 9 Young Artist Competition

Ashley Brown brings her awardwinning vocals to the Jones Hall stage this month!

Learn how you can help the Symphony reach its Annual Fund goal this year!

Save the Date!

2011 Maestro’s Wine Dinner: A Symphony of Wine and Food Sunday, May 22, 2011, 6 pm Jones Hall stage Wine aficionados will enjoy a multi-course meal paired with wines personally selected by Maestro Hans Graf and John Rydman, president and owner of Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods. Chaired by Michael and Melissa Mithoff, the evening includes an auction featuring an array of fine wines, wine-related trips and other items. To donate a favorite red, white or sparkling or to learn more about tickets and tables, please contact Samantha Gonzalez, manager, Events, at (713) 238-1487 or samantha.gonzalez@houstonsymphony.org.

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Hans Graf Biography..........................................................................................

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Known for his wide range of repertoire and creative programming, distinguished Austrian conductor Hans Graf—the Houston Symphony’s 15th Music Director—is one of today’s most highly respected musicians. He began his tenure here on Opening Night of the 2001-2002 season. Prior to his appointment in Houston, he was music director of the Calgary Philharmonic, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra. A frequent guest with all of the major North American orchestras, Graf has developed a close relationship with the Boston Symphony and appears regularly with the orchestra during the subscription season and at the Tanglewood Music Festival. He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Houston Symphony in January 2006 and returned leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in March 2007. He and the Houston Symphony were invited to appear at Carnegie Hall in January 2010 to present the New York premiere of The Planets—An HD Odyssey. Internationally, Graf conducts in the foremost concert halls of Europe, Japan and Australia. In October 2010, he led the Houston Symphony on a tour of the UK to present the international premiere of The Planets— An HD Odyssey—a project that has been picked up by the Cleveland, Seatlle and Sydney Symphony Orchestras. He has participated in the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bregenz and Aix en Provence and appeared at the Salzburg Festival. In summer 2010, he conducted the opening concert of the Aspen Music Festival and returned to Tanglewood and Chicago’s Grant Park Festival. An experienced opera conductor, Graf first conducted the Vienna State Opera in 1981 and has since led productions in the opera houses of Berlin, Munich, Paris and Rome, including several world premieres. Recent engagements include Parsifal at the Zurich Opera and Boris Godunov at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg. Born in 1949 near Linz, Graf studied violin and piano as a child. He earned diplomas in piano and conducting from the Musikhochschule in Graz and continued his studies with Franco Ferrara, Sergiu Celibidache and Arvid Jansons. His career was launched in 1979 when he was awarded first prize at the Karl Böhm Competition. His extensive discography includes recordings with the Houston Symphony, available through houstonsymphony.org: works by Bartók and Stravinsky, Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, Berg’s Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite and a DVD of The Planets—An HD Odyssey. Graf has been awarded the Chevalier de l’ordre de la Legion d’Honneur by the French government for championing French music around the world and the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for Services to the Republic of Austria. Hans and Margarita Graf have homes in Salzburg and Houston. They have one daughter, Anna, who lives in Vienna.

Letter to Patrons................................................................................................. Photo by Alexander Portraits

Bobby Tudor President Photo by bruce bennett

Mark C. Hanson Executive Director/CEO

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This month, we are launching a new campaign to help us reach our important financial goals by the end of the fiscal year. “A Million Reasons to Give” is an appropriate title for this effort because—if we meet our Annual Fund goals by May 31—the Houston Endowment will give an additional $1 million to the Symphony! We are already 80 percent towards our Annual Fund goal of $8 million. If you haven’t yet pledged your support, please consider making an Annual Fund gift to the Houston Symphony. If you have already generously supported the Annual Fund this season, please consider making an additional pledge. Every new or increased gift gets us closer to this exciting challenge goal. Your gift does make a difference, now more than ever. The Houston Symphony League will play host to the 2011 conference for the Association of Major Symphony Orchestra Volunteers (AMSOV). Led by Helen Shaffer, conference chair, Houston Symphony League members have put together an exciting three-day itinerary for the “Listen, Learn, Launch” conference, which includes a visit to Jones Hall on Friday, April 29 to hear our orchestra in the Alexander Nevsky concert with guest conductor Mark Wigglesworth. The League is also hosting a fundraising event this month—the 2nd Annual Children’s Spring Fashion Show at The Junior League of Houston on Saturday, April 16. Young people on the catwalk will model the latest Neiman Marcus fashions. We thank Mary Ann McKeithan and Betty Tutor for spearheading this event again—a grand success in 2010. For tickets or more information, please call (832) 531-6701 or e-mail vickie. hamley@houstonsymphony.org. You may have heard that the Houston Symphony is expanding our geographic reach into Fort Bend County next season. A Houston Symphony brass quintet performance in Sugar Land’s Oyster Creek Park on Sunday evening, April 10 will help to set the stage for our new Sugar Land concert series that begins in September. Please visit our Web site for additional information on these Sugar Land concerts. Finally, be sure to join us next month on May 13, 14 and 15 for a special, interactive performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 10 with commentary and analysis provided on stage by Maestro Hans Graf and American Public Media’s Brian Newhouse. As always, we appreciate your support of our wonderful Symphony and look forward to seeing you in Jones Hall again soon.

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Mark C. Hanson Executive Director/CEO Jessica Taylor Editor Carl Cunningham Program Annotator Elaine Reeder Mayo Editorial Consultant

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LATE SEATING In consideration of audience members, the Houston Symphony makes every effort to begin concerts on time. Ushers will assist with late seating at pre-designated intervals. You may be asked to sit in a location other than your ticketed seat until the end of that portion of the concert. You will be able to move to your ticketed seat at the concert break. CHILDREN AT CONCERTS In consideration of our patrons, we ask that children be 6 years and older to attend Houston Symphony concerts. Children of all ages, including infants, are admitted to Weatherford Family Concerts. Any child over age 1 must have a ticket for those performances. CAMERAS, RECORDERS, CELL PHONES & PAGERS Cameras and recorders are not permitted in the hall. Patrons may not use any device to record or photograph performances. Please silence cell phones, pagers and alarm watches and refrain from texting during performances. April 2011

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that creates a meaningful impact and aligns with our core values and culture. Volunteerism is part and parcel of Cameron corporate culture, and the spirit and generosity of our employees make it happen. Long a hallmark of Cameron, volunteerism now thrives on a greater scale than ever before. Wherever we are around the globe, you will find Cameron employees donating time and expertise to help people and organizations in need. In addition, our employees step up to the plate with individual gifts to charities of their choice, and Cameron encourages charitable giving through its employee Matching Gifts and Matching Volunteer Hours programs. Like Cameron, the Houston Symphony is forged of tradition and refined by experience. The Symphony plays a vital role in the Houston community by enriching our cultural lives and educating our students through a variety of programs and concerts. We are pleased and excited to be a sponsor of the Cameron Explorer Concert Series. Visit www.c-a-m.com.

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On behalf my colleagues in the Houston Symphony, welcome to another exciting month of concerts! Our 97th concert season is going by quickly, but there is still plenty of great repertoire left to cover, including Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved Scheherazade, Mendelssohn’s stirring Scottish Symphony, Stravinsky’s famous Firebird suite and, on the Pops side, a salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein. As musicians, it’s often difficult for us to see what we do through the eyes of the general public— many of whom have never been to a live symphonic concert. It is always fascinating to hear stories of how our audience members first came to a symphonic concert. Research has shown that the biggest barrier for many potential concert-goers is simply coming to the hall for the first time, as there are many misconceptions of the concert experience. Many expect to find themselves trapped for hours sitting silently in the dark amongst a formally-attired audience that knows exactly when to clap and how to behave (and frown on those who don’t) while watching rituals they can’t comprehend. In an age when we are bombarded by cheap, easy and ubiquitous forms of entertainment—all competing to be the least challenging to our patience and intellect—this can seem like an intimidatingly tall order. But, an amazing thing can happen once you actually coax someone into the hall: previously-held reservations are overwhelmed by the power, beauty and majesty of the greatest music ever composed. I am constantly inspired by stories from audience members who had never imagined themselves becoming Brinton Averil Smith concert-goers and yet, when they finally came to the hall, were so moved by what they heard that it Principal Cello became a regular part of their lives. Most of us have friends who we think would love the symphony if they were to attend, but have never made it to the hall. Often, people need a friendly hand to guide them through their first experience, and what better gift could there be than to share great art with great friends? This month, we are launching a special “Bring a Friend to the Symphony” program that will provide both you and your first-time guest with a generous discount to help you share your love of music with your friends. (See page 18 for details) Like great literature, a classical concert can be an intimidating experience for the uninitiated, but those who are returning know that the two hours spent in silent meditation listening to compositions of such brilliance give perspective to the rest of our week. The music heals our souls and the more we listen, the more depth we find. Our mission is to ensure that this opportunity is open to all of the people of our city today—and for generations to come. Enjoy the concert.

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Orchestra and Staff. .......................................................................................... Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO

Hans Graf, Music Director Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair Michael Krajewski, Robert Franz,

Principal Pops Conductor

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Assistant Conductor First Violin: Frank Huang, Concertmaster Max Levine Chair Eric Halen, Associate Concertmaster Ellen E. Kelley Chair Assia Dulgerska, Assistant Concertmaster Cornelia and Meredith Long Chair Qi Ming, Assistant Concertmaster Fondren Foundation Chair Marina Brubaker, Hewlett-Packard Company Chair Alexandra Adkins MiHee Chung Sophia Silivos Rodica Gonzalez Ferenc Illenyi** Si-Yang Lao Kurt Johnson Christopher Neal Sergei Galperin Quan Jiang*

Xiao Wong Myung Soon Lee James Denton Anthony Kitai

Second Violin: Jennifer Owen, Principal Charles Tabony, Associate Principal Hitai Lee Kiju Joh Ruth Zeger Margaret Bragg Martha Chapman Kevin Kelly Mihaela Oancea Christine Pastorek Amy Teare Geoffrey Applegate*

Piccolo: Allison Garza**

double Bass: David Malone, Acting Principal Janice H. and Thomas D. Barrow Chair Mark Shapiro, Acting Associate Principal Eric Larson Robert Pastorek Burke Shaw Donald Howey Michael McMurray Flute: Aralee Dorough, Principal General Maurice Hirsch Chair John Thorne, Associate Principal Judy Dines Allison Garza**

Oboe: Robert Atherholt, Principal Lucy Binyon Stude Chair Anne Leek, Associate Principal Colin Gatwood Adam Dinitz English Horn: Adam Dinitz Clarinet: David Peck, Principal Thomas LeGrand, Associate Principal Christian Schubert Alexander Potiomkin***

Viola: Wayne Brooks, Principal Joan DerHovsepian, Associate Principal George Pascal, Assistant Principal Wei Jiang Linda Goldstein Fay Shapiro Daniel Strba Thomas Molloy Phyllis Herdliska Joshua Kelly*

E-Flat Clarinet: Thomas LeGrand Bass Clarinet: Alexander Potiomkin*** Tassie and Constantine S. Nicandros Chair Bassoon: Rian Craypo, Principal Stewart Orton Chair Eric Arbiter, Associate Principal American General Chair Elise Wagner J. Jeff Robinson

Cello: Brinton Averil Smith, Principal Christopher French, Associate Principal Haeri Ju Jeffrey Butler Kevin Dvorak

Contrabassoon: J. Jeff Robinson

Horn: William VerMeulen, Principal Wade Butin, Acting Associate Principal* Brian Thomas Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Chair Nancy Goodearl Philip Stanton Julie Thayer Trumpet: Mark Hughes, Principal George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Chair John DeWitt, Associate Principal Robert Walp, Assistant Principal Anthony Prisk Speros P. Martel Chair Trombone: Allen Barnhill, Principal Bradley White, Associate Principal Phillip Freeman Bass Trombone: Phillip Freeman Tuba: Dave Kirk, Principal Timpani: Ronald Holdman, Principal Brian Del Signore, Associate Principal Percussion: Brian Del Signore, Principal Mark Griffith Matthew Strauss Harp: Paula Page, Principal Keyboard: Scott Holshouser, Principal Neva Watkins West Chair Orchestra Personnel Manager: Steve Wenig Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager: Michael Gorman Librarian: Thomas Takaro Assistant LibrarianS: Erik Gronfor Michael McMurray Stage Manager: Donald Ray Jackson Assistant Stage Manager: Kelly Morgan

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Martha GarcĂa, Assistant to the Executive Director Meg Philpot, Director of Human Resources Amanda Tozzi, Director, Executive Operations

Steven Brosvik, General Manager Roger Daily, Director, Music Matters! Kristin L. Johnson, Director, Operations Steve Wenig, Orchestra Personnel Manager Michael Gorman, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Donald Ray Jackson, Stage Manager Kelly Morgan, Assistant Stage Manager Jessica Williams, Fidelity Partnership Coordinator Meredith Williams, Assistant to the General Manager Carol Wilson, Manager, Music Matters!

Michael D. Pawson, Chief Financial Officer Sally Brassow, Controller Philip Gulla, Director, Technology Amed Hamila, Director, Database Support Heather Fails, Manager, Ticketing Database Janis Pease LaRocque, Manager, Patron Database Kay Middleton, Receptionist Maria Ross, Payroll Manager Armin (A.J.) Salge, Network Systems Engineer Chris Westerfelt, Manager, Accounts Payable and Special Projects

Aurelie Desmarais, Senior Director, Artistic Planning Merle N. Bratlie, Director, Artist Services Thomas Takaro, Librarian Erik Gronfor, Assistant Librarian Michael McMurray, Assistant Librarian Rebecca Zabinski, Artistic Assistant

Glenn Taylor, Senior Director, Marketing Allison Gilbert, Director of Marketing, Subscription & Group Sales Melissa H. Lopez, Director of Marketing, Special Projects Carlos Vicente, Director of Marketing, Single Tickets Jenny Zuniga, Director, Patron Services Natalie Ferguson, Graphic Designer Jeff Gilmer, Group Representative, Inside Sales Jason Landry, Senior Manager, Patron Services Erin Mushalla, Marketing Assistant Melissa Pate, Assistant Manager, Patron Services Representatives Tim Richey, Manager, VIP Patron Services Derrick Rose, Group Representative, Outside Sales Melissa Seuffert, Assistant Marketing Manager, Digital Media/Young Audience Engagement

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2011 Young Artist....... Competition presented by Fidelity Investments Meet the Winners! Following 24 live auditions on March 5th at Jones Hall, seven students from the greater Houston area—three vocalists, a cellist, a flutist and a pianist—have been named winners of the 2011 Young Artists Competition presented by Fidelity Investments. The winners make up five solo and ensemble acts that will receive private one-on-one coaching from Symphony musicians later this spring, culminating in featured performances during the “Houston Symphony Pops featuring Fidelity Investments Young Artists Competition Winners” concert on Wednesday, June 29 at Miller Outdoor Theatre.

^ Tenth grade vocalist, Maddie Marlow received the news of her competition win via a surprise visit to her school. See photos of the other six 2011 competition winners at houstonsymphony.org. 2011 Young Artists Competition Winners: • Nicole Copeland, vocals, 11th grade, Kingwood Park High School • Cayman Harris, alto saxophone, 9th grade, Sterling High School • Ashley Hunter, flute, 11th grade, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts • Zachary Lacy, vocals, 12th grade, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts • Auburn Lee, piano, 10th grade, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts • Maddie Marlow, vocals, 10th grade, George Ranch High School • Erik Wheeler, cello, 11th grade, High School for the Performing and Visual Arts To learn more about the 2011 Competition and concert, please visit houstonsymphony.org.

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SERENADE NO. 6 IN D MAJOR, K.239 (SERENATA NOTTURNA) Wolfgang Amadè Mozart

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Born: Jan 27, 1756, Salzburg, Austria

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Fidelity Investments Classical Series

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Died: Dec 5, 1791, Vienna, Austria Work composed: 1776

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Friday, April 8, 2011 8 pm Saturday, April 9, 2011 8 pm Sunday, April 10, 2011 2:30 pm Jones Hall

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Recording: Jesús López-Cobos, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (Cascavelle)

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Instrumentation: two solo violins, solo viola, solo bass, timpani and strings Mozart produced a significant amount of music for parties and important family celebrations as a young man. The familiar Serenata notturna is no exception, although there is no record indicating the occasion for which it was written. Its specialized instrumental ensemble—string orchestra and kettledrums pitted against a solo string quartet—is similiar to baroque concertos combining large and small ensembles, but the style and informal character of the music have much more to do with Mozart’s era. The contrast in volume between the full ensemble and the solo quartet is apparent in successive phrases of the mock-pompous march opening. Mozart scholar Neal Zaslaw notes the numerous short-long “Scotch snap” rhythms that spice up this movement’s melody and the following minuet. Other quaintly colorful features include strummed chords in the strings set over an accompaniment of thumping kettledrums. Snapping rhythms and staccato chords give the minuet a crisp, starchy feel. This bold piece exudes a full sound as it is scored for the large ensemble. In contrast, its tricky central trio section is set only for the solo quartet. Its melody involves syncopated rhythms that keep the listener searching for the basic pulse, while bubbling triplets in the accompanying part suddenly melt into other rhythmic groupings. The serenade’s folk character comes to its fullest expression in the closing Rondeau, with dances of different types and tempos set next to one another. Chirping grace notes embellish the beginning theme, and after its contrasting section and return, the tempo brakes for a serious adagio interlude. However, the spirit of jollity soon returns in a quick-step country dance dominating the center of the movement. It comes to a climax in a fanfare by the string orchestra and timpani, leading the music back to the main grace-note theme. But the country dance returns in another interruption, played pizzicato in the solo quartet, before its return in the coda.

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Scheherazade

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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Aralee Dorough, flute

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Mozart Serenade No. 6 in D major, K.239 (Serenata notturna) I Marcia: Maestoso II Menuetto and Trio III Rondeau: Allegretto—Adagio—Allegro

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Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, K.314 I Allegro aperto II Andante ma non troppo III Allegro INTERMISSION Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Opus 35 I Largo e maestoso—Allegro non troppo II Recitative: Lento—Andantino—Allegro molto III Andantino quasi Allegretto IV Allegro molto—Recitative, Lento—Vivo

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Shell Favorite Masters Saturday’s concert is generously sponsored by Bracewell & Giuliani LLP. Sunday’s concert is generously sponsored by Mariglyn and Stephen Glenn.

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Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos’ Sunday evening performance is generously sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Fredric A. Weber.

The printed music for Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major was donated by Ms. Carol Brownstein.

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The printed music for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade was donated by Ms. Helen R. Viereck. Pre-concert lectures are sponsored by Fluor.

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The Houston Symphony currently records under its own label, Houston Symphony Media Productions, and for Naxos. Houston Symphony recordings also are available on the Telarc, RCA Red Seal, Virgin Classics and Koch International Classics labels.

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The Classical Season is endowed by The Wortham Foundation, Inc. in memory of Gus S. and Lyndall F. Wortham.

These concerts are being recorded for future broadcast on KUHF 88.7 FM, the Radio Voice of the Houston Symphony and Classical Season media sponsor.

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Aralee Dorough’s Friday evening performance is sponsored by Leslie Barry Davidson and her daughter, Noblet Germaine Davidson, in loving memory of Dr. Patrick Ross Davidson and Patrick Ross Davidson Jr.

FLUTE CONCERTO NO. 2 IN D MAJOR, K.314 Wolfgang Amadè Mozart Work composed: 1777 Recording: Sir James Galway, with Sir Neville

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.................................................................................................................... Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (RCA) Instrumentation: pairs of oboes and horns, and strings Mozart’s two flute concertos owe their existence to Johann Wendling, flutist of the celebrated Mannheim Orchestra in 18th-century Rhineland Germany. When Mozart visited there in 1777 on his way to Paris, Wendling befriended the young composer and secured Mozart a commission from a wealthy Parisian amateur flutist for several orchestral and chamber music works. Alas, Mozart procrastinated, fulfilling the commission late in 1778, after resorting to arranging his earlier oboe concerto for flute to satisfy the request for two flute concertos. He delivered only half the works commisioned and received only half the amount of money promised. The oboe concerto—originally composed for the principal oboist of the Salzburg orchestra—is a prized work in its original version. Mozart only enhanced it by transposing the concerto from C major to D major and adding a few acrobatic ornaments to the solo line for the more nimble flute. The concerto has a very lyrical character, with several long-held notes and gently sighing melodic lines in the solo part. It follows the standard format for such concertos: a well-ordered opening sonata movement followed by a poignant adagio, full of gorgeous melody, and concluding with a sprightly but tightly unified rondo. There are also several cadenzas and unaccompanied flourishes for solo players to show off their special talents.

or Arabic. Various tales suggest people and places as far as China, Turkey or Greece. Multiple authors and a word-of-mouth folk tradition are suggested sources for these tales, popularly known as the Arabian Nights, but all versions are connected by a common thread. After discovering his wife has been unfaithful, Sultan Shahryar kills her and her lovers, then marries a new wife each night only to kill her the next day. However, Shahrazad, the daughter of his adviser, devises a plan to stop the executions. She offers herself as the sultan’s wife-fora-night, and then begins a very fascinating story

which she doesn’t finish until the following evening. And so it goes until the ever-curious sultan gives up his murderous ways. Rimsky-Korsakov associated the titles of four tales with respective movements of the suite – I: “The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship”; II: “The Story of the Kalendar Prince”; III: “The Young Prince and the Young Princess”; IV: “Festival at Baghdad, The Sea, The Ship smashes against a Rock surmounted by a Bronze Horseman.” But he made it clear in his autobiography that he did not attempt to depict events from those stories in the music. And while he associated certain

SCHEHERAZADE, OPUS 35 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Born: Mar 18, 1844, Tikhvin near Novgorod, Russia Died: Jun 21, 1908, Liubensk near St. Petersburg, Russia Work composed: 1888 Recording: Neeme Järvi conducting the Scottish National Orchestra (Chandos) Instrumentation: piccolo, two flutes (one doubling second piccolo), two oboes (one doubling English horn), two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp and strings The inspiration for Rimsky-Korsakov’s famed symphonic suite, Scheherazade, came from the early 18th-century French translation of One Thousand and One Nights by the linguistic scholar, orientalist and archeologist Antoine Galland. Various versions and translations exist, emanating from Egypt, Iraq and Syria, though most of the names or settings are Indian April 2011 11

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Maestro Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos is a regular guest with North America’s top orchestras. He will return to the New York Philharmonic for the third time since 2005 and conduct the Philadelphia, Boston, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Montreal and Cincinnati orchestras this season. He appears annually at the Tanglewood Music Festival and regularly with the National, Chicago and Toronto symphonies. Born in Burgos, Spain (1933), Frühbeck studied violin, piano, music theory and composition at conservatories in Bilbao and Madrid, and conducting at Munich’s Hochschule für Musik, where he graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Richard Strauss Prize. He is chief conductor and artistic director of the Dresden Philharmonic. Frühbeck has made extensive tours with the Philharmonia of London, the London Symphony Orchestra, the National Orchestra of Madrid and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. He toured North America with the Vienna Symphony, the Spanish National Orchestra and the Dresden Philharmonic. 12 www.houstonsymphony.org

Frühbeck Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor

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A member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando since 1975, he has been awarded the Gold Medal of the City of Vienna, the Bundesverdienstkreutz of the Republic of Austria and Germany, the Gold Medal from the Gustav Mahler International Society and the Jacinto Guerrero Prize—Spain’s most important musical award. Frühbeck was appointed “Emeritus Conductor” by the Spanish National Orchestra (1998), and he has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Navarra (Spain). Frühbeck has recorded extensively for EMI, Decca, Deutsche Gramophon, Spanish Columbia and Orfeo. Several of his recordings are considered classics, including his interpretations of Mendelssohn’s Elijah and St. Paul, Mozart’s Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Bizet’s Carmen and the complete works of Manual de Falla.

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themes with characters mentioned in the titles, he re-used the themes in later movements where those characters have no connection with the corresponding story. Thus, Scheherazade is not a descriptive piece in the organized way that some Berlioz, Liszt, Wagner and Richard Strauss works are. The thematic motives are repeated purely as unifying devices in the sprawling suite, particularly the opening trombone theme depicting the Sultan and the beguiling violin solo depicting Shahrazad. These themes recur as introductions to the second and fourth movements and as an interlude for solo violin in the third movement. Scheherazade is not a symphony as it lacks the notions of argument and thematic evolution. This diffuse, often repetitive piece is cast in four movements, including a scherzo, a lyrical slow movement and a dance movement at the end. Its charm lies in a wealth of colorful themes and the opulent orchestration. ©2011, Carl R. Cunningham

Aralee Dorough, flute

Aralee Dorough began her tenure with the Houston Symphony as second flute in 1985, becoming the orchestra’s principal flutist in 1991. Dorough teaches orchestral repertoire at the Texas Music Festival and the Festival Institute at Round Top, and is an Affiliate Artist on the faculty of the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston. Solo appearances with the Symphony include Mozart’s Concerto in C major for Flute, Harp and Orchestra (1992); Mozart’s concerto in G major (1993) for a triple CD set (1994, IMP Records); and again in concert (2004). This performance completes her personal “Mozart cycle” by adding the third of the Mozart flute concertos, the very popular D major. Dorough gave the world premiere of Bright Sheng’s concerto, Flute Moon (1999) and the U.S. premiere of a Salvador Brotons concerto (2003). She has played with the Houston Symphony Chamber Players; the Da Camera Society of Houston; The Foundation for Modern Music; Musiqa; the Festival Institute at Round Top; and in Europe, Japan and at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival. She can be heard on more than 20 Houston Symphony recordings and in performances aired on PBS and NPR’s Performance Continued on page 19

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Valentin Silvestrov’s Elegie was composed in memory of Ukrainian composer Ivan Karabits, Silvestrov’s greatly admired colleague and father of Kirill Karabits, who conducts this Houston Symphony program. According to annotator Tatjana Frumkis, Silvestrov’s Elegie is based on a penciled theme Karabits sketched out and took along during his hospital stay preceding his death. The string ensemble is divided into as many as 14 different parts, but they are deployed sparingly and with great sensitivity. Despite sudden loud bursts of tone, softer dynamic levels prevail, changing volume levels several times within a motive or phrase. Many times, a phrase simply floats away into nothingness. Tiny thematic fragments gently revolve in a descending pattern suggesting a given harmony, or extend themselves on a single note— either held at great length or repeated many times. When the melody suddenly ascends, sometimes to great heights, it is a rare, dramatic event. Somehow, Silvestrov’s gentle, deeply expressive Elegie reminds the listener of a person’s last few precious breaths before they pass on to eternity.

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Recording: Christoph Poppen conducting the Munich Chamber Orchestra (ECM New Series)

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Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Opus 47 I Allegro moderato II Adagio di molto III Allegro, ma non tanto INTERMISSION Mendelssohn Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Opus 56 (Scottish) I Andante con moto—Allegro un poco agitato— II Scherzo: Vivace non troppo— III Adagio— IV Allegro vivacissimo—Allegro maestoso assai

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VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MINOR, OPUS 47 Jean Sibelius

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Before Jean Sibelius became a composer, he dreamed of being a violin virtuoso. He might have succeeded if he had a teacher skilled in grooming virtuosi and if he had begun studies before age 14. As it turned out, the great Finnish composer acquired a thorough understanding of violin technique and left generations of young violinists one of the most challenging, formidable concertos in the standard repertoire. For all its demands, the Sibelius Violin Concerto is a dark-hued work with abrupt mood

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featuring lovely woodwind duets and a haunting horn quartet accompanying a throaty violin solo. The dazzling finale, a technical tour de force for the soloist, gained fame when Sir Donald Tovey dubbed it “a polonaise for polar bears.” SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN A MINOR, OPUS 56, (SCOTTISH ) Feliz Mendelssohn Born: Feb 3, 1809, Hamburg, Germany Died: Nov 4, 1847, Leipzig, Germany Work composed: 1842

Recording: Kurt Masur conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Apex) Instrumentation: pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, timpani and strings The 1829 visit to the British Isles that inspired Felix Mendelssohn to compose his famed Hebrides Overture also inspired the beginnings of his A minor Symphony. Following concerts in London, the 20-year-old composer and his friends headed to Scotland. There, they visited the abbey of Holyrood and the ruined chapel where Mary Stuart was crowned Queen of Scotland. “Everything is broken and the bright sky shines in,” Mendelssohn wrote. “I believe I found today in that old chapel the beginning of my Scotch Symphony.” However, Mendelssohn’s travels continued on to Italy, inspiring the famed Italian Symphony. He did not complete his A minor Symphony for another 13 years making it the last of five mature symphonies, although labeled No. 3 according to the order published. (Incidentally, although his letters referred to the work as his “Scotch” Symphony, he never wrote that label or the term “Scottish” on the completed score’s manuscript.) Like the Italian Symphony, the A minor is very tightly organized, with all four movements written in sonata form. This includes the Scherzo, which has a development section in place of the customary Trio at its center. Mendelssohn’s placement of the Scherzo as the second, rather than the third movement was also slightly novel, although this order had already been used by Schumann, Beethoven and Haydn. Of greater significance was his effort to link all four movements with virtually no break— again building upon experiments by Schumann and Beethoven. The slow introductory theme’s return at the close of the first movement is also noteworthy. Beyond that, Mendelssohn tightened thematic relationships throughout. While there are no specific descriptive implications to the music, some commentators have noted a bit of “Charlie is My Darlin’” tied onto the highland-fling theme of the Scherzo. Mendelssohn claimed that designating the tempo and character of the finale with the term “Allegro guerriero,” suggests the warlike bravery of the Scottish people. Apart from the work’s fame as an orchestral symphony, its final three movements gained a new dimension as the musical score for George Balanchine’s ballet, Scotch Symphony (1952). ©2011, Carl R. Cunningham

Biographies. ............... Kirill Karabits, conductor

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is a strong advocate of new music—a characteristic reflected in her diverse programs and enthusiasm for premiering new works, including concertos written for her by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Steve Mackey and Colin Matthews. In recognition of her passionate advocacy and commitment to today’s music, Josefowicz was awarded a 2008 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Past and future North American engagements include those with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Minnesota orchestras; the National, Baltimore, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New World and Cincinnati symphonies, among others; the Los Angeles

and St. Paul chamber orchestras; in recitals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, St. Paul, Philadelphia and at Zankel Hall; and at the Aspen Music and Ravinia Festivals. Recent and upcoming European engagements include those with the Royal Concertgebouw and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras; the London, Munich and Czech philharmonics; the London Symphony and Finnish Radio orchestras; performances of the new Salonen concerto; and a fifth London Proms appearance. Her 1994 debut recording was awarded Continued on page 22

Karabits made his North American debut guest-conducting the Houston Symphony, and has since appeared with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Washington National Symphony, Minnesota and San Francisco orchestras; and at the Grant Park and Aspen festivals. Internationally, he has conducted the Danish National Symphony; the Netherlands Radio, Rotterdam and London philharmonics, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and SWRSinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg, among others. In 2010, he debuted with the Bamberger Symphoniker with Vadim Repin and with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. Equally established as an opera conductor, Karabits has led productions of Un Ballo in Maschera, Idomeneo, Pique Dame, Eugene Onegin and Janácˇek’s The Adventures of Mr. Broucek. He made his Opéra National de Lyon debut with Shostakovich’s Mosvka Cheryomushki and recently debuted with the English National Opera in Don Giovanni. In summer 2012, he returns to Glyndebourne Festival Opera for a production of La Bohème. As part of his ongoing doctoral studies in Vienna, Karabits researches hitherto unperformed or forgotten works that make up part of the recently rediscovered archive of Berliner Singakademie, including his transcription of C.P.E. Bach’s Johannes Passion—written in Hamburg in 1784 and previously considered lost. His research led to the modern premiere of Telemann’s unknown (and probably earliest existing opera) Pastorelle en Musique, which he recorded for Capriccio. Karabits studied conducting and composition at the Lysenko Music School (Kiev), the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy (Kiev) and at the Vienna Hochschule für Musik. He has been principal guest conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, and associate conductor of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and the Budapest Festival Orchestra.

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The Music of Led Zeppelin

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Berklee-trained arranger/conductor Brent Havens has written music for orchestras, feature films and television networks including ABC, CBS, ESPN and ABC Family Channel. In addition to Houston Symphony appearances, orchestral collaborations have included those with the Royal Philharmonic; the Cincinnati and Indianapolis symphony orchestras; the Minnesota Orchestra; and the Baltimore and San Diego symphonies, among others. Havens recently completed the score for the film Quo Vadis, a Premier Pictures remake of Gladiator (1956). He is arranger and guest conductor for six Windborne Productions symphonic rock programs.

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Windborne Productions began its classic rock symphony venture in 1995, when Conductor/ Arranger Brent Havens, top notch studio musicians and Randy Jackson were brought together to create the Music of Led Zeppelin. The show was brought to Atlanta’s Chastain Amphitheater (1996) and from there, began its North American tour across the country and into Canada. Featuring an array of songs from the Led Zeppelin catalog—many of which already had some orchestration—the music is a perfect fit for orchestras. The driving tunes allow the symphony musicians to rock with the band or play counterpoint melodies to the guitar solos or vocals. Keeping as close to the original recordings as possible, the show integrates the orchestra in with the band and features an electric violinist, rock lighting and a mirror ball for that rock concert feel!

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Rodgers & Hammerstein and More

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Robert Franz, conductor Ashley Brown, vocalist

Since beginning his tenure as associate conductor in June 2008, Robert Franz has led a broad range of creative educational and family concerts and is emerging as one of the most talented conductors of his generation. With a vast knowledge of symphonic and operatic works, Franz has worked with today’s finest artists, including Sir James Galway, Joshua Bell, Rachel Barton, Chris Botti, Chaka Kahn and Judy Collins. He holds the posts of music director of the Boise Philharmonic and music director emeritus of the Carolina Chamber Symphony Orchestra. He previously served as music director of the Mansfield Symphony (2003-2010), resident conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (2005-2009) and associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra (1997-2006). Conducting opera, ballet and musical theater, he has appeared with the Asheville Lyric Opera, Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival, Portland Symphony (ME), Idaho Ballet, and the South Bend and Idaho Falls symphonies this season. A champion of new music, Franz has conducted world premieres, works by living composers, the ASCAP new music concert series and co-hosted In a Different Key—a weekly contemporary music radio program. A nationally recognized leader of arts education, Franz has forged partnerships with leading arts organizations and educational institutions, and maintains a continuing relationship with Radio Disney®. He twice received the ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational Programming, received the BPO/ECMEA Music Educators Award for Excellence, created the Kentucky Educational Television’s Creating Music and Stories program, and participated in Children’s Center and Enrichment Center chamber music residencies that provide arts enrichment experiences for disabled persons. Franz received his masters degree in conducting and a bachelors in oboe performance from North Carolina School of the Arts. He has participated in conducting workshops in the Czech Republic, St. Petersburg and Nashville, and was a participant in the 1997 National Conductor Preview (ASOL).

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Carnival Overture, Opus 92 I Cain’t Say No from Oklahoma! lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Getting To Know You from The King and I lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II My Funny Valentine from Babes In Arms lyrics by Lorenz Hart So In Love from Kiss Me, Kate lyrics by Cole Porter The Carousel Waltz from Carousel You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

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Rodgers/Bennett Suite from Victory At Sea 5. Victory At Sea (Mare Nostrum) Rodgers/Bennett A Wonderful Guy from South Pacific lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Rodgers/Bennett The Sound of Music from The Sound of Music lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II H. Hupfeld/L. Musiker- As Time Goes By Livesay lyrics by Herman Hupfeld Alford Colonel Bogey March Arr. F. Barton With a Song In My Heart/Just In Time Menken Beauty and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast lyrics by Howard Ashman Menken/Barton The Disney Medley

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Exploring Mahler 10

May 13, 14, 15, 2011 Fidelity Investments Hans Graf, conductor Classical Series Brian Newhouse, host Mahler/Cooke: Symphony No. 10 Through musical examples and images, Hans Graf and Brian Newhouse—host of American Public Media’s SymphonyCast—explore Deryck Cooke’s completion of Mahler’s unfinished final masterpiece. Shell Favorite Masters Tickets: from $25

Dvorˇák’s Cello Concerto

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Tribute to Ray Charles with Ellis Hall

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pops

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Brown Ashley Brown, vocalist

Acclaimed vocalist Ashley Brown received Best Actress nominations from Outer Critics, Drama League and Drama Desk for her origination of Mary Poppins on Broadway. Brown appeared in Los Angeles in the title role in Disney’s® national tour of Mary Poppins where she received a 2010 Garland award for “Best Performance in a Musical.” Other Broadway credits include Belle in Beauty and the Beast and the title role in the national tour of Disney’s® On the Record. Brown has performed with orchestras including the Boston Pops, the New York Philharmonic, The Hollywood Bowl and BBC orchestras, The Pittsburgh and Indianapolis symphonies, and the Cincinnati and New York Pops. Other projects include a feature in a PBS special to be released this June, her Kennedy Center debut this month and previous engagements with the Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Oklahoma City and Memphis symphonies. Brown recently made her highly acclaimed cabaret debut at Feinstein’s at the Regency and starred in Limelight at the la Jolla playhouse last fall. Her long-awaited debut album of American Songbook standards was released nationwide in 2010 (Ghostlight/Sony).

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Today. She has worked with distinguished artists, including Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Slatkin, Yo Yo Ma and her father, jazz artist and Schoolhouse Rock composer, Bob Dorough, on “The Houston Branch” CD project (2005). Dorough received her undergraduate degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (1983),—where she met her future husband, Houston Symphony oboist Colin Gatwood— before continuing as a graduate student at the Yale School of Music. Along with their son, Corin, Dorough and her husband enjoy traveling, most recently on the Houston Symphony’s The Planets—An HD Odyssey UK tour. This summer, they will participate in the Walled City Music Festival (Derry, Ireland). For a complete biography, visit houstonsymphony.org. April 2011 19

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Now in his fourth season as Assistant Conductor of the Houston Symphony, Brett Mitchell is one of America’s most promising young conductors. He has led the orchestra in nearly 100 performances; several of which have been broadcast nationwide on SymphonyCast and Performance Today. His position with the Houston Symphony has afforded him the opportunity to meet, observe in rehearsal and study with some of the world’s greatest conductors. He is the newly appointed music director of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra and serves as a regular cover conductor for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Mitchell has led the London Philharmonic; Leipzig Gewandhaus; The Philadelphia Orchestra; Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Oregon, Memphis and Peoria Symphony Orchestras; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; and the Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra. He served as a musical assistant at the New York Philharmonic during the 2007-08 season and as cover conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2009. He made his European debut in 2004 with Romania’s Brasov Philharmonic and his Latin American debut in 2005 with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM in Mexico City. Highlights of this season include his debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra and Da Camera of Houston, as well as preparing a production of Puccini’s Trittico for Lorin Maazel at the 2010 Castleton Festival. Mitchell was assistant conductor of the Orchestre National de France, director of orchestras at Northern Illinois University and associate conductor of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. He has served as music director of numerous operas, including Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry. A Seattle native, Mitchell earned his bachelor of music in composition from Western Washington University and holds a doctorate from The University of Texas. He participated in the National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C. and received the inaugural American Friends of the Mendelssohn Foundation Scholarship.

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Triumphal March from Aida

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Selections from The King and I

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An American in Paris

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have been recognized by the United Nations through Bennett’s receipt of the Humanitarian and Citizen of the World awards. He and his wife, Susan, founded “Exploring the Arts” to support arts education in public schools and the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, which Bennett founded in honor of his great friend. © San francisco chronicle/polaris

chart in every decade since the 1950s. He has introduced multitudes of songs into the Great American Songbook and earned 15 Grammy® Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. Bennett has been named a Kennedy Center Honoree (2005) and an NEA Jazz Master (2006). The disc released in honor of his 80th birthday, Tony Bennett Duets: An American Classic (2006), became a multi-platinum hit, won three Grammys® and is the singer’s best selling recording to date. A multiple Emmy winner, his most recent TV outing, Tony Bennett: An American Classic, won seven Emmy Awards (2007). His career-spanning humanitarian efforts

Bennett

Tony Bennett is a singer’s singer who moves the hearts and touches the souls of his audiences. The son of a grocer and Italian-born immigrant, Anthony Dominick Benedetto was born August 3, 1926, in the Astoria section of Queens, New York. He sang while waiting tables as a teenager and performed with military bands throughout his overseas Army duty during World War II before being discovered by comedian Bob Hope in 1949. The string of Columbia singles that followed in the early 1950s brought his initial fame. With two-dozen songs in the Top 40, Bennett is one of only a few artists to have albums

A dedicated painter, even while touring. Bennet has exhibited work around the world, and three of his original paintings are part of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent collection. Bennett will be releasing a new CD in honor of his 85th birthday this fall. For more information, please visit houstonsymphony.org.

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a Diapason d’or Award. Subsequent releases include Solo, Bohemian Rhapsodies, For the End of Time, Americana, and the Mendelssohn, Glazunov and Prokofiev concertos with the Montreal Symphony, among others. Her most recent recording of The Dharma at Big Sur is available on iTunes. A recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant (1994) and a United States Artists Cummings Fellowship (2007), she is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Jaime Laredo and Jascha Brodsky. Josefowicz performs on a Del Gesu made in 1724. For more information, please visit leilajosefowicz.com.

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Sergei Prokofiev’s historic collaboration with director Sergei Eisenstein on the epic film, Alexander Nevsky, is largely known to concert audiences today through the cantata Prokofiev extracted from his film score. The story of Alexander Nevsky celebrates the deeds of the 13th-century Russian warrior, Prince Alexander of Novgorod, who was canonized a saint in the Russian Orthodox Church for twice saving the Russian homeland from foreign invasions. In 1240, he defeated invading Swedish armies at the Neva River, earning the name Alexander Nevsky. However, the script for the film and cantata deals with a later battle in which Alexander’s armies defeated the Teutonic Knights of Germany on the frozen Lake Peipus after the Germans had sacked the nearby city of Pskov, south of St. Petersburg in the western part of Russia. That battle forms the longest and most climactic section of the work, taking up more than half the pages in Prokofiev’s score to the cantata version of Alexander Nevsky. Apart from a brooding orchestral prelude, most of the remaining music in the cantata version involves the chorus praising Nevsky’s past deeds, chanting medievalist Latin songs representing the invading Teutonic knights, or folk-like Russian songs calling upon the people to rise up against the invaders. Following “The Battle on Ice,” Prokofiev composed a song of mourning for a mezzo-soprano soloist, surveying this scene of death on the battlefield and a closing choral/ orchestral number celebrating Alexander’s victorious entry into the city of Pskov. Prokofiev’s biographer, Harlow Robinson, calls attention to the parallel lives of the composer and the film director, both of whom traveled and worked in Western Europe and America during the 1920s and 1930s, and actually met each other in Paris before returning at separate times to Russia. By the time Prokofiev returned, Stalinist nationalism and Soviet realism had begun to politicize Russian culture. Having run afoul of Soviet authorities on an earlier film, Eisenstein proposed Alexander Nevsky

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Born: Apr 23, 1891, Sontsovka, Yekaterinoslav district, Ukraine

The printed music for Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite was donated by Ms. Marilyn Holtz and Mr. Terence Barr.

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This weekend’s concerts are generously sponsored by Helen and James Shaffer, Betty and Jesse Tutor, and Andrews Kurth LLP.

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The printed music for Wagner’s Prelude to Parsifal was donated by Mr. H. Wayne Hodge.

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Notes continued..................................................... Biography................... SUITE FROM L’OISEAU DE FEU (THE FIREBIRD) (1919 version) Igor Stravinsky

PRELUDE TO PARSIFAL Richard Wagner

It was perhaps pure luck that brought impresario Serge Diaghilev to hear a concert including two works by the fledgling St. Petersburg composer, Igor Stravinsky, in February 1909. Diaghilev’s exposure to Stravinsky’s music resulted in a historic commission to compose the musical score to choreographer Michel Fokine’s new ballet, The Firebird. Diaghilev planned the ballet for his fifth season of Russian cultural exports to Paris during the spring and summer of 1910. The ballet was based on the Russian fairytale of Ivan Tsarevich, a young prince who uses a magic feather given him by the Firebird to break the spell of the evil monster, Kaschei, thus freeing a group of captive princesses and marrying one of them. Though Stravinsky expressed doubts about his ability to complete so large a project, he was persuaded by Diaghilev and Fokine, and began work that fall, completing the score in the spring of 1910. Stravinsky made his first visit to Paris for final rehearsals in May, and won critical acclaim and sudden fame at the June 25 premiere. The ballet was scored for a huge orchestra and included 19 scenes, from which Stravinsky extracted three orchestral suites employing various numbers from the full 45-minute score in 1911, 1919 and 1945. The 26-minute second suite, scored for a standard symphonic ensemble, is the most popular. According to Stravinsky scholar Eric Walter White, its five numbers illustrate the composer’s method of setting apart the ballet’s magical characters, the Firebird and Kaschei, by writing their music in unsettling chromatic harmonies, while the human characters, Ivan Tsarevich and the princesses, are given easily recognizable tonal music. The Round of the Princesses—second in the suite—is taken from an old Russian folksong, “In the Garden.” The piece acquired independence in 1946 when lyricist John Klenner turned it into a pop song, “Summer Moon.” The ballet’s shimmering, brassy finale is also derived from an old Russian folksong, “By the Gate.” ©2011, Carl R. Cunningham

Born: May 22, 1813, Leipzig, Germany Died: Feb 13, 1883, Venice, Italy Work composed: Prelude, 1878; complete opera, 1882 Recording: Giuseppe Sinopoli conducting the Dresden Staatskapelle (Deutsche Grammophon) Instrumentation: three flutes, three oboes, English horn, three clarinets, three bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani and strings As with most of Wagner’s stage works, ideas for his final opera, Parsifal, began gestating decades earlier, about the time he was composing Lohengrin during the late 1840s. He combined legends from various late medieval sources in fashioning his tale pitting Christian Knights protecting the Holy Grail—the chalice Jesus drank from at the Last Supper—against the forces of paganism and sensuality. Given the religious nature of the story, the music of Parsifal is highly ethereal, beginning with the lengthy Prelude. It is divided into three large sections, beginning with a reverent melody associated with the sacrament of the Eucharist in the opera. When this melody has had several repetitions, set against opulent orchestral accompaniments, the orchestra takes up numerous statements of the famed Dresden Amen—a majestic ascending theme composed by the 18th-century Dresden court composer, Jacob Naumann, and subsequently used by numerous composers, notably Mendelssohn in his Reformation Symphony. In the Parsifal Prelude, it is quickly followed by a short prayerful theme built of four descending notes. The eucharistic theme returns in the troubled closing section, set contrapuntally against music representing the suffering of the wounded knight, Amfortas. Finally, the theme emerges in a seraphic closing statement. 24 www.houstonsymphony.org

Born: Jun 17, 1882, Oranienbaum (now Lomonosov), Russia Died: Apr 6, 1971, New York, New York Work composed: 1909-10 Recording: David Zinman conducting the Baltimore Symphony (Telarc) Instrumentation: two flutes (one doubling piccolo), two oboes (one doubling English horn), two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, celesta/piano and strings

Wigglesworth

to Prokofiev as an appealing patriotic project that would rise above political considerations of the time. It was the first Eisenstein film to employ sound and was an early sound film in the Soviet film industry, as well. Eisenstein and Prokofiev collaborated closely on each segment of the film, and the director soon became amazed at the speed and punctuality with which the composer worked. Prokofiev would view the rushes taken from a day’s film shoot, go home— sometimes late at night—and return precisely at noon the following day with the music to that segment. “Prokofiev works like a clock,” Eisenstein commented. “This clock isn’t fast and it isn’t slow.”

Mark Wigglesworth, conductor

Born in Sussex, England, Mark Wigglesworth studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music (London) and won the Kondrashin Conducting Competition in Amsterdam (1989). He has since worked with leading European orchestras including the Berlin, London, Oslo, Stockholm and Israel philharmonics; the Royal Concertgebouw and Budapest Festival orchestras, the London Symphony; Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome; and the Orchestra of La Scala (Milan). He has appeared at the Salzburg and Amsterdam Mahler festivals; the BBC Proms; worked with the Sydney and Melbourne symphonies; and held positions as music director (BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Opera Factory) and principal guest conductor (Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra). Since making his Dallas Symphony debut (1992), he has appeared in North America with the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras; the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics; and the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal and Cincinnati symphonies. He regularly conducts the Minnesota Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony, and has an ongoing relationship with the New World Symphony. Wigglesworth led his first opera production in 1991 conducting Cosí fan tutte. He has since conducted Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Peter Grimes, La Bohéme, Le Nozze di Figaro, Lady MacBeth of Mtzensk, Falstaff, Cosí fan tutte, The Rake’s Progress, Elektra, Tristan und Isolde and Katya Kabanova. This season, Wigglesworth returns to the Aspen Music Festival and the Toronto, Indianapolis and Minnesota orchestras; makes his Seattle symphony debut; conducts the Stockholm and Netherlands Radio philharmonics, and the Sydney and Melbourne symphonies; and leads a production of Parsifal in London. He makes his Houston Symphony debut with these concerts. Wigglesworth is completing recording a cycle of the Shostakovich Symphonies (Netherlands Radio Philharmonic) for BIS.

Houston Symphony Chorus.............................................................................. Photo by jeff fitlow

Hausmann Charles Hausmann, director

Dr. Charles S. Hausmann was named director of the Houston Symphony Chorus in 1986. He has prepared the group for more than 600 concerts, led them on numerous tours to Mexico and Europe, and worked with more than 40 acclaimed conductors including Hans Graf, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor and Robert Shaw. His extensive repertoire includes most of the major choral/orchestral masterworks. As director of graduate choral studies and professor of conducting at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music since 1985, Hausmann supervises the master’s and doctoral programs in choral conducting, teaches choral conducting and literature and conducts the Moores School Choral Artists—a graduate chamber choir. An active church musician, he has conducted church choirs in Colorado, Kentucky, New Jersey and Texas. He currently serves as Director of Choral Music at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston where he led the Houston Symphony and Chorus in a performance of Mendelssohn’s St. Paul (spring 2008). Hausmann frequently appears as a guest conductor, lecturer, clinician and soloist. He led the Chorus on its fourth European tour in 2007, appearing as guest conductor during the Prague Spring Festival. He and the Chorus share a 24year collaboration with Mexico City’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, recently performing Mendelssohn’s Elijah with former Associate Conductor, Carlos Miguel Prieto. This season, Hausmann has prepared the Chorus for Verdi’s Requiem, A Very Merry Pops, Handel’s Messiah, Pops Knockouts and this month’s performance of Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, among others.

Support the Houston Symphony Chorus Endowment The Houston Symphony Chorus Endowment supports activities that enrich Houston’s musical life and enhance the high professional standards of the all-volunteer Chorus. For more on how you can help ensure the artistic future of the Chorus, call the Symphony’s Development office at (713) 3378528 or visit hschorus.org.

Charles Hausmann, Director Paulo Gomes Assistant Director

Susan Scarrow Chorus Manager

Scott Holshouser Accompanist

Tony Sessions Librarian

First Soprano Ramona Alms Alice Beckstrom Robyn Branning Monica M. Davis Kathleen Forbes Clarice Gatlin Marta Giles Becky Hamilton Amanda Harris Sarah Keifer Youngjee Kim Veronica Lorine * • Pamela Magnuson Sarah Michels Lydia Musher Theresa Olin Megan Owen Karen Rennar Wendy Ridings Rhonda Ryan Jennifer Klein Salyer Heidi Sanders Beth Slaughter Deborah Spencer Lisa Trewin Tania Van Dongen Beth Anne Weidler Megan Welch Jessica L. Williams

First Alto Krista Borstell Jami Bruns Patricia Bumpus Barbara Bush Thea Chapman Nancy Christopherson Robin Clarkson Christine Economides Mary Gahr Susan Hall Judy Hill Kristin Hurter Berma Kinsey Joyce Lewis * • Mary Lopushansky Ashley Maack Heather Maclaughlin Garbes Lisa Morfin Cynthia Mulder Thao Pham Jennifer L. Phan Linda Renner Linda Richardson Carolyn Rogan Holly Rubbo June Russell Maria Schoen Andrea Slack Vicki Westbrook Patsy Wilson Shelby Wilson

First Tenor Robert Browning James R. Carazola Patrick Drake Richard Field Timothy Foster Robert Gomez James Patrick Hanley Steven Hazel Donald Howie Francisco J. Izaguirre Frank Lopez Darrell Mayon * • Jim Moore Christopher M. Ortiz Peter Peropoulos Douglas Rodenberger David Schoen Tony Sessions Aaron Verber Adam White

* • Jay Lopez Clemente Mathis William McCallum Chris Ming Matt Neufeld Kevin Newman Gary Scullin Stephen Shadle Thom Sloan Mark Standridge Sam Stengler Paul Van Dorn Joe Villarreal Kevin Wallace

Second Soprano Yoset Altamirano Lisa Anders Laura Bohlmann Nancy Bratic Anne Campbell Debby Cutler Vickie Davis Corita Dubose Karen Fess-Uecker Lorraine Hammond • Debbie Hannah • Megan Henry Sylvia Hysong Yukiko Iwata Natalia Kalitynska * • Amy Mobley • Carol Ostlind Linda Peters Susan Scarrow Vicki Seldon Paige Sommer Veronica A. Stevens Cecilia Sun Caryssa Treider • Nancy Vernau

Second Alto Melissa Bailey Adams Sarah Wilson Clark M. Evelyn Clift Rochella Cooper Andrea Creath Robin Dunn Holly Eaton Rachel El-Saleh Thi Ha Juli Herbert Nancy Hill Denise Holmes Catherine Howard Lois Howell Crystal Meadows • Lynne Moneypenny Nina Peropoulos Laurie Reynolds Holly Soehnge * • Mary Voigt Kaye Windel-Garza

Second Tenor * • Bob Alban Randy Boatright Harvey Bongers William Cole Donn Dubois Jorge Fandino Mark Ferring Joseph Frybert John Grady Craig Hill Philip Lewis William L. Mize Dave Nussmann Greg Railsback Lesley C. Sommer Dewell Springer Jonathan Vaughan Tony Vazquez Leonardo Veletzuy Lee Williams First Bass Joe Anzaldua Greg Barra Justin Becker John Bond Bruce Boyle Christopher Burris Shawn Carnley Peter Christian Kevin Coleman II Steve Dukes Leigh Fernau Taylor Harper Stephen M. James

Second Bass Steve Abercia * • Wilton T. Adams Bill Cheadle John Colson Roger Cutler Paul Ehrsam Tom Everage Chris Fair Ian Fetterley David M. Fox Yevgeny Genin Matt Henderson Terry Henderson George Howe Chuck Izzo Cletus Johnson Nobuhide Kobori • Ken Mathews Scott Mermelstein Clyde L. Miner Rob Morehead Greg Nelson Bill Parker John Proffitt • Robert Reynolds Daniel Robertson Rick Tegeler Richard White

* Section Leader • Council Member

As of March 15, 2011

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Symphony Society Board. ................................................................................. Executive Committee............................................................................................... President Bobby Tudor

Chairman of the Board Ed Wulfe Immediate Past President Jesse B. Tutor

Executive Director/CEO Mark C. Hanson Chairman Emeritus Mike Stude

Vice President, Artistic and Orchestra Affairs Brett Busby

Vice President, Finance and Board Governance Steven P. Mach

Vice President, Volunteers Barbara McCelvey

Vice President, Popular Programming Allen Gelwick

Vice President, Education Cora Sue Mach

Vice President, Development David Wuthrich

Vice President, Audience Development and Marketing Robert A. Peiser

General Counsel Paul R. Morico

President, Endowment Ulyesse J. LeGrange

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS

Nancy Littlejohn, President, Houston Symphony League Martha GarcĂa, Secretary Mark Hughes, Orchestra Representative Rodney Margolis Burke Shaw, Orchestra Representative Brinton Averil Smith, Orchestra Representative

At-Large Members Gene Dewhurst Jay Marks Helen Shaffer

Governing Directors..................................................................................................... Terry Ann Brown Prentiss Burt Brett Busby * John T. Cater Janet Clark Michael H. Clark Scott Cutler Lorraine Dell Viviana Denechaud Gene Dewhurst Kelli Cohen Fein Julia Frankel Allen Gelwick Stephen Glenn

Gary L. Hollingsworth Ryan Krogmeier Ulyesse LeGrange Rochelle Levit Nancy Littlejohn April Lykos Cora Sue Mach Steven P. Mach Beth Madison Rodney Margolis Jay Marks Mary Lynn Marks Billy McCartney Barbara McCelvey

Gene McDavid * Alexander K. McLanahan Kevin Meyers Paul Morico Arthur Newman Robert A. Peiser Fran Fawcett Peterson Geoffroy Petit David Pruner Stephen Pryor Gloria Pryzant John Rydman Manolo Sanchez Helen Shaffer

Jerome Simon David Steakley Mike Stude Bobby Tudor * Jesse B. Tutor Margaret Waisman Fredric A. Weber Vicki West Margaret Alkek Williams Ed Wulfe David Wuthrich Robert A. Yekovich

Trustees. ................................................................................................................. Philip Bahr * Janice Barrow Darlene Bisso Meherwan Boyce Walter Bratic Nancy Bumgarner Lynn Caruso Jane Clark Brandon Cochran Louis Delone Susanna Dokupil Tom Fitzpatrick Chris Flood Craig A. Fox

David Frankfort Susan Hansen Kathleen Hayes Brian James Joan Kaplan I. Ray Kirk Carolyn Mann Paul M. Mann Judy Margolis Brad Marks Jackie Wolens Mazow Elisabeth McCabe Marilyn Miles Tassie Nicandros

Scott Nyquist Edward Osterberg Jr. J. Hugh Roff Jr. Kathi Rovere Michael E. Shannon Jule Smith Michael Tenzer L. Proctor (Terry) Thomas Stephen G. Tipps * Betty Tutor Mrs. S. Conrad Weil David Ashley White James T. Willerson Steven J. Williams

Ex-Officio Martha GarcĂa Mark C. Hanson Mark Hughes Deanna Lamoreux Burke Shaw Brinton Averil Smith * Life Trustee

............................................................................................................................ Past Presidents of the Houston Symphony Society

Mrs. Edwin B. Parker Miss Ima Hogg Mrs. H. M. Garwood Joseph A. Mullen, M.D. Joseph S. Smith Walter H. Walne H. R. Cullen Gen. Maurice Hirsch Charles F. Jones Fayez Sarofim John T. Cater Richard G. Merrill Ellen Elizardi Kelley John D. Platt E. C. Vandagrift Jr.

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J. Hugh Roff Jr. Robert M. Hermance Gene McDavid Janice H. Barrow Barry C. Burkholder Rodney H. Margolis Jeffrey B. Early Michael E. Shannon Ed Wulfe Jesse B. Tutor Past Presidents of the Houston Symphony League

Miss Ima Hogg Mrs. John F. Grant Mrs. J. R. Parten Mrs. Andrew E. Rutter

Mrs. Aubrey Leon Carter Mrs. Stuart Sherar Mrs. Julian Burrows Ms. Hazel Ledbetter Mrs. Albert P. Jones Mrs. Ben A. Calhoun Mrs. James Griffith Lawhon Mrs. Olaf La Cour Olsen Mrs. Ralph Ellis Gunn Mrs. Leon Jaworski Mrs. Garrett R. Tucker Jr. Mrs. M. T. Launius Jr. Mrs. Thompson McCleary Mrs. Theodore W. Cooper Mrs. Allen H. Carruth

Mrs. David Hannah Jr. Mary Louis Kister Ellen Elizardi Kelley Mrs. John W. Herndon Mrs. Charles Franzen Mrs. Harold R. DeMoss Jr. Mrs. Edward H. Soderstrom Mrs. Lilly Kucera Andress Ms. Marilou Bonner Mrs. W. Harold Sellers Mrs. Harry H. Gendel Mrs. Robert M. Eury Mrs. E. C. Vandagrift Jr. Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Terry Ann Brown Nancy Strohmer

Mary Ann McKeithan Ann Cavanaugh Mrs. James A. Shaffer Lucy H. Lewis Catherine McNamara Shirley McGregor Pearson Paula Jarrett Cora Sue Mach Kathi Rovere Norma Jean Brown Barbara McCelvey Lori Sorcic Nancy Willerson Jane Clark

Annual Campaign Donors. ............................................................................... The Houston Symphony expresses appreciation to the donors listed on this and the following pages for their generous contributions in support of Symphony programs. More information is available from the Individual Giving Department at (713) 337-8500, the Corporate Support Department at (713) 337-8520 or at houstonsymphony.org.

Corporations........................................................................................................ Chubb Group of Insurance Companies Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. JPMorgan Chase KPMG LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP

As of March 15, 2011

$ 100,000-$499,999

BBVA Compass

Fidelity Investments United Airlines

$10,000-$24,999

$50,000-$99,999 American Express

* Cameron Chevron ConocoPhillips Exxon Mobil Frost * GDF SUEZ Energy North America Marathon Oil Corporation The Methodist Hospital System Shell Oil Company Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods TOTAL UBS * Weatherford International Ltd.

$ 25,000-$49,999 Andrews Kurth, LLP Baker Botts LLP

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation * Bank of America * Boeing Bracewell & Giuliani LLP * CenterPoint Energy Cooper Industries, Inc. * Devon Energy Corporation Ernst & Young * Fluor Corporation H. E. Butt Grocery Company Margolis, Phipps & Wright, P.C. Memorial Hermann Northern Trust The Rand Group, LLC Spir Star, Inc. Star Furniture St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital USI Insurance Services LLC

* Vitol Inc. * Wells Fargo * Wood Group Management Services $500-$9,999 Beck, Redden & Secrest, LLP * Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP * Bloomberg L.L.P. GEM Insurance Agencies, L.P. Ironshore Insurance Services, LLP Lockton Companies Neiman Marcus Oceaneering International, Inc. Porter & Hedges, LLP * Randalls Food Markets, Inc. Seyfarth Shaw LLP * Smith, Graham & Company * South Texas College of Law Stewart Title Company * Swift Energy Company Texas Children’s Hospital Wortham Insurance & Risk Management * Sponsors of Houston Symphony Education & Outreach Programs

Foundations. .........................................................................................................

As of March 15, 2011

* John P. McGovern Foundation

$1,000,000 & above

$25,000-$49,999

* Houston Endowment, Inc. * Houston Symphony League The Wortham Foundation Inc.

Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation The Humphreys Foundation * Sterling-Turner Foundation

$500,000-$999,999

$10,000-$24,999

* M. D. Anderson Foundation

$100,000-$499,999

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation * The Brown Foundation The Cullen Foundation The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation Madison Charitable Foundation * Spec’s Charitable Foundation

$50,000-$99,999

Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation The Alkek & Williams Foundation * Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Educational Fund

* Bauer Family Foundation Carleen & Alde Fridge Foundation * George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation * Houston Symphony League Bay Area * The Powell Foundation * Vivian L. Smith Foundation The Schissler Foundation * Vaughn Foundation Warren Family Foundation

$2,500-$9,999

Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation * The Becker Family Foundation * Ray C. Fish Foundation * The Melbern G. & Susanne M. Glasscock

Foundation William E. & Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable Trust Huffington Foundation Leon Jaworski Foundation William S. & Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation * Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation Lubrizol Foundation * Kinder Morgan Foundation * Lynne Murray, Sr. Educational Foundation The Helmle Shaw Foundation Strake Foundation Susman Family Foundation Government Donors * City of Houston through the Houston Downtown Alliance, Houston Arts Alliance & Miller Theatre Advisory Board National Endowment for the Arts State Employee Charitable Campaign * Texas Commission on the Arts * Sponsors of Houston Symphony Education & Outreach Programs

Corporate Matching Gifts........................................................................................ Aetna Akzo Nobel AT&T Bank of America Boeing Caterpillar Chevron

Coca-Cola El Paso Corporation Eli Lilly and Company ExxonMobil Fannie Mae General Electric General Mills

Goldman, Sachs & Co. Halliburton Hewlett-Packard IBM ING Financial Services Corporation JPMorgan Chase KBR

Kirby Corporation Occidental Petroleum SMART Modular Technologies, Inc. Spectra Energy

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Leadership Gifts................................................................................................ The Houston Symphony gratefully acknowledges those individuals who support our artistic, educational and community engagement programs with Leadership Gifts at the highest levels. Donors at these levels set the standard for supporting the Symphony and we are proud to list them here.

Ima Hogg Society – $150,000 or More Lieutenant Governor David H. Dewhurst Ms. Beth Madison Madison Benefits Group Inc. Mr. George P. Mitchell Mr. M. S. Stude Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Tudor III President’s Society – $75,000 - $99,999 Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Mrs. Margaret Alkek Williams

Maestro’s Society – $50,000 - $74,999 Gene & Linda Dewhurst Maestro Hans Graf & Mrs. Graf Rochelle & Max Levit Nancy & Robert Peiser Laura & Michael Shannon

Concertmaster Society – $25,000 - $49,999

Anonymous (1) Janice Barrow Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Blackburne Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein & Martin J. Fein Mr. & Mrs. Russell M. Frankel Ms. Sharin Shafer Gaille Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Ken Hyde Drs. M.S. & Marie-Luise Kalsi Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse J. LeGrange Cora Sue & Harry Mach Jay & Shirley Marks Barbara & Pat McCelvey Mr. & Mrs. David R. Pruner Ann & Hugh Roff Mrs. Sybil F. Roos Ms. Louisa Stude Sarofim Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Springob, Laredo Construction, Inc. 28 www.houstonsymphony.org

Patron Donor Society........................................................................................ Members of the Patron Donor Society support the Houston Symphony with gifts to the Annual Fund and Events. Members of the Society are offered a wide array of benefits and recognition including invitations to special events and more. For more information on how to become a member of the Houston Symphony Patron Donor Society, please call the Development Department at (713) 337-8523. Principal Musician Society $15,000 - $24,999 Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Bahr Gary & Marian Beauchamp Mr. & Mrs. J. Brett Busby Janet F. Clark Dr. Scott Cutler Mr. Richard Danforth Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dokupil Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies

Mrs. Aileen Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kaplan Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Sue A. Morrison Mr. Glen A. Rosenbaum Mr. & Mrs. Clive Runnells Mrs. Maryjane Scherr

David & Paula Steakley Paul Strand Thomas Alice & Terry Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Weil Jr. Vicki & Paul West Dr. Jim T. Willerson Mr. & Mrs. Steven Jay Williams

Artist/Conductor Sponsor $10,000 - $14,999 Mr. & Mrs. Karl H. Becker Captain & Mrs. W. A. “Cappy” Bisso III Ruth White Brodsky Marilyn & Coleman Caplovitz Mrs. Lily Carrigan Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Clark Ms. Jan Cohen Leslie Barry Davidson & W. Robins Brice Mrs. William Estrada Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Mr. George B. Geary Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Hansen Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herzog Mr. Harold E. Holliday Jr. &

Hon. Anna Holliday, R. Mr. & Mrs. David V. Hudson Jr. Debbie & Frank Jones Drs. Blair & Rita Justice Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Katz Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Brian P. McCabe Betty & Gene McDavid Mrs. Beverly T. McDonald Mr. Cameron Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Lucian L. Morrison Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Moynihan Mary & Terry Murphree Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Parker Mr. Howard Pieper

Musician Sponsor Society $7,500 - $9,999 Anonymous (1) Eric S. Anderson & R. Dennis Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Black III Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Mr. & Mrs. Walter Bratic Ms. Terry Ann Brown Mrs. George L. Brundrett Jr. The Robert & Jane Cizik Foundation William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Roger & Debby Cutler Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Dell Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Chris Flood Angel & Craig Fox Mr. S. David Frankfort Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs & Ms. Darlene Clark

Christina & Mark Hanson Mr. & Mrs. John A. Irvine Mr. Brian James Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Kinder Mrs. Margaret H. Ley Mr. & Mrs. Erik P. Littlejohn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Lykos Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Paul M. Mann Dr. & Mrs. Michael Mann Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Mr. & Mrs. Bill McCartney Miss Catherine Jane Merchant Mike & Kathleen Moore Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Bobbie & Arthur Newman Mrs. Tassie Nicandros Ms. Peggy Overly & Mr. John Barlow

Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Gloria & Joe Pryzant Mrs. Lila Rauch Mr. & Mrs. Ken N. Robertson Julia & Albert Smith Foundation Mr. Stephen C. Tarry Stephen & Pamalah Tipps Ann Trammell & Gene Carlton Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Ms. Jennifer R. Wittman Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Mr. & Mrs. Ed Wulfe Erla & Harry Zuber

Mrs. Philip M. Peterson Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Mrs. Helen B. Rosenbaum Mr. & Mrs. William J. Rovere Jr. Donna & Tim Shen Mr. Louis H. Skidmore Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William T. Slick Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tad Smith Dr. Alana R. Spiwak & Sam Stolbun Mr. & Mrs. Keith Stevenson Ann & Joel Wahlberg Stephen & Kristine Wallace C. Harold & Lorine Wallace Nancy Willerson Mr. & Mrs. Wallace S. Wilson Nina & Michael Zilkha

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Individual Donors........................................................................................................ Conductor’s Circle $5,000 - $7,499 Anonymous (1) Joan & Stanford Alexander Mr. Alan Aronstein Mr. Richard C. Bailey Mr. Ronald C. Borschow Ms. Dianne Bowman Joe Brazzatti Mrs. Catherine Campbell Brock & Dr. Gary Brock Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Burguieres Alan & Toba Buxbaum Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Carter IV Mr. & Mrs. Rodney Cutsinger Mr. & Mrs. James D. Dannenbaum J.R. & Aline Deming Mr. & Mrs. David Denechaud Ms. Sara J. Devine Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Egner Jr. Diane Lokey Farb Ms. Bernice Feld Mr. & Mrs. Marvy A. Finger Thomas & Patricia Geddy Mrs. Lila-Gene George Dr. & Mrs. William D. George Mrs. James J. Glenn Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Gow Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves William A. Grieves & Dorothy McDonnell Grieves Mr. & Mrs. James E. Hooks Mary Louis Kister William & Cynthia Koch Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Lasher Mr. Clyde Lea & Ms. Pamela Fazzone Mr. E.W. Long Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George McCullough Sidney & Ione Moran Paul & Rita Morico Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Mr. Michael H. Price Ms. Karen S. Pulaski Michael & Vicky Richker Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. Drs. Alejandro & Lynn Rosas Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Manolo Sanchez Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Schissler Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Simon Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. John Speer Mr. & Mrs. Antonio M. Szabo Mr. Brian Teichman Shirley & David R. Toomim Robert G. Weiner Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Woodard Jr. Woodell Family Foundation Winthrop A. Wyman & Beverly Johnson Edith & Robert Zinn

Grand Patron $2,500 - $4,999

Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. N. T. Adams Mr. & Mrs. John S. Arnoldy Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron 30 www.houstonsymphony.org

Mr. Jeff Autor Mr. & Mrs. John C. Averett Mr. A. Greer Barriault & Ms. Clarruth A. Seaton Mr. & Mrs. Ken Barrow Mr. & Mrs. John Bauer Mr. & Mrs. Brad Beitler Jim & Ellen Box Mr. & Mrs. James D. Bozeman The Honorable & Mrs. Peter Brown Mr. Christopher Buehler & Ms. Jill Hutchison Mr. & Mrs. Sean Bumgarner Mr. & Mrs. Thierry Caruso Margot & John Cater Mr. William Choice & Mrs. Linda Able Choice Mr. & Mrs. Allen Clamen Mr. & Mrs. James G. Coatsworth Mr. & Mrs. Brandon Cochran Mr. William E. Colburn Mr. & Mrs. Robert Creager Mr. & Mrs. James W. Crownover Mr. & Mrs. Louis F. DeLone Mr. Jim Denton Mr. & Mrs. Jack N. Doherty Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Dror Mr. Roger Eichhorn Mr. William Elbel & Ms. Mary J. Schroeder Mrs. Robin A. Elverson Mr. Parrish N. Erwin Jr. Mary Ann & Larry Faulkner Mrs. Carolyn Grant Fay Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ference Jerry E. & Nanette B. Finger Mr. & Mrs. Tom Fitzpatrick Ron & Tricia Fredman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Glanville Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Haas Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Hafner Jr. Marion & Jim Hargrove Mr. & Mrs. Tim W. Harrington Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Hayes Mark & Ragna Henrichs Mr. & Mrs. Doug R. Hinzie Mr. Tim Hogan Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Jankovic Mr. & Mrs. John F. Joity Mrs. Barry Lewis Kevin & Lesley Lilly Mr. James Lokay Robert & Gayle Longmire Mr. Bradley H. Marks Mr. & Mrs. Andrew McFarland James & Mary McMartin Mr. & Mrs. William B. McNamara Mr. & Mrs. Kevin O. Meyers Stephen & Marilyn Miles Mr. & Mrs. Arnold M. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mitchell Julia & Chris Morton Mr. Austin M. O’Toole & Ms. Valerie Sherlock Mr. & Mrs. James D. Penny Mr. & Mrs. Anthony G. Petrello Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Pryor Mr. Peter A. Ragauss & Ms. Jennifer Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Dave Roberts Ms. Janice Robertson & Mr. Douglas Williams Mrs. Annetta Rose Beth & Lee Schlanger Dr. Philip D. Scott & Dr. Susan E. Gardner Joel V. & Mary M. Staff Carol & Michael Stamatedes Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Tenzer Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Unger Mr. & Mrs. Gene Van Dyke Mr. & Mrs. Wil VanLoh Mrs. Naomi Warren Mr. David Ashley White Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Wray Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Mr. & Mrs. David J. Wuthrich Judge Clarease R. Yates & Mr. Cary Yates Dr. & Mrs. Robert Yekovich Mrs. Betsy I. Zimmer Patron $1,000 - $2,499

Anonymous (8) Mr. & Mrs. Elliot Abramson John & Pat Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Thurmon Andress Mr. Maurice J. Aresty Mr. John M. Arnsparger Corbin & Char Aslakson Mr. & Mrs. Arnie Azios Stanley & Martha Bair Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Balasco Ms. Marion Barthelme & Mr. Jeff Fort Mr. & Mrs. Joshua L. Batchelor Ms. Deborah S. Bautch Ms. Sallymoon S. Benz Dr. & Mrs. Devinder Bhatia Ms. Joan H. Bitar John Blomquist Mr. & Mrs. George Boerger Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Boggio Dr. & Mrs. Milton Boniuk Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bookout Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Brackett Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bray Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Bresenhan Ms. Barbara A. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Brophy Susan & Richard Brown Mrs. Anne H. Bushman Dr. & Mrs. William T. Butler Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Campbell Mr. William Caudill Dr. Robert N. Chanon Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Clarke Mrs. Cielle Clemenceau Mr. & Mrs. Charles Comiskey Mr. Mark C. Conrad Mr. H. Talbot Cooley Mr. William S. & Dr. Mary Alice Cowan Dr. & Mrs. James D. Cox Mr. David A. Coyle Mr. & Mrs. T. N. Crook Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Cullen Jr. Mr. Carl Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Davis Mr. & Mrs. Jerry H. Deutser Mr. & Mrs. Robert Deutser

..................................................................................................................................... Mr. & Mrs. Mark Diehl Mike & Debra Dishberger Drs. Gary & Roz Dworkin Mr. & Mrs. Donald Faust Sr. Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Fischer John C. Fitch Mr. & Mrs. Vince D. Foster Ms. Beth Freeman Paula & Alfred Friedlander J. Kent & Ann Friedman Sally & Bernard Fuchs Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Gaynor Mr. & Mrs. John Gee Mr. Jerry George Mr. Michael B. George Mrs. Joan M. Giese Ms. Nancy D. Giles Dr. & Mrs. Jack Gill Mr. Walter Gilmore Mr. & Mrs. Bert H. Golding Helen B. Wils & Leonard Goldstein Dr. & Mrs. Brad Goodwin Mr. & Mrs. Tony Gracely Ms. Joyce Z. Greenberg Mary & Paul Gregory Mr. Charles H. Gregory Ms. Christine R. Griffith Ms. Carmen C. Halden Mrs. Thalia Halen Gaye Davis & Dennis B. Halpin Dr. & Mrs. Carlos R. Hamilton Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hanna Ms. Margaret W. Hansen Mr. & Judge Frank Harmon III Dr. & Mrs. Eric J. Haufrect Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Hawk Mr. & Mrs. Eric Heggeseth Mr. & Mrs. David Hemenway Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Herrmann Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hoffert Mrs. Holly Holmes Mr. & Mrs. Norman C. Hoyer Eileen & George Hricik Mr. & Mrs. R. O. Hunton Mr. Eric S. Johnson & Dr. Ronada Davis Mr. & Mrs. Walter Kase Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Katz Sam & Cele Keeper Linda & Frank S. Kelley Mr. & Mrs. Bill King Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Krezer Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Russell W. Kridel Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Krogmeier Mr. Willy Kuehn Mr. & Mrs. Jack Lee Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Eugene Lehrer Mr. William W. Lindley Mr. & Mrs. Michael Linn Ms. Barbara Lister Mr. & Mrs. H. Arthur Littell Ms. Nancey Lobb Dr. & Mrs. Fred R. Lummis Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James W. McCartney Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGuire Mr. & Mrs. David R. McKeithan Jr. Ms. Mary J. McKerall & Ms. Marilyn Flick Mr. & Mrs. Lance McKnight Alice R. McPherson, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. David A. Mire Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mithoff Dr. Florence M. Monroe Dr. Eleanor D. Montague

Ms. Marsha L. Montemayor Mr. & Mrs. Gerarld Moynier Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Mueller Mr. Richard Murphy Daniel & Karol Musher Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Newman Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Nickson Nils & Stephanie Normann Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Olfers Mr. & Mrs. Morris Orocofsky Jane & Kenneth Owen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Page Mr. & Mrs. Raul Pavon Mr. & Mrs. James L. Payne Michael & Shirley Pearson Mr. & Mrs. Gary Petersen Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Phillips Jr. Mr. James D. Pitcock Dr. & Dr. Eduardo Plantilla Mr. & Mrs. James Postl Mr. John Potts Mrs. Dana Puddy Dr. & Mrs. Henry H. Rachford Jr. Clinton & Leigh Rappole Record Family Dr. Madaiah Revana, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Allyn Risley Dr. & Mrs. Franklin Rose Mr. Kent Rutter Mary Louise & David Sanderson Ms. Paula Santoski Dr. Raymond E. Sawaya Mrs. Myrna Schaffer Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Schanzmeyer Mr. & Mrs. Marc J. Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Russell Sherrill Mr. & Mrs. W. Allen Shindler Mr. & Mrs. Wesley Smith Mr. & Mrs. William A. Smith Dean & Kay L. Snider Ms. Kelly Somoza Cassie B. Stinson & Dr. R. Barry Holtz Mrs. Louise Sutton Mrs. Mary Swafford Ms. Jeanine Swift Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Tabor Jr. Mr. Mark Taylor Jean & Doug Thomas Ms. Virginia Torres Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Vallee Mr. & Mrs. William Visinsky Mr. David Waddell Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wahrlich Mr. Danny Ward & Ms. Nancy Ames Mr. & Mrs. James A. Watt Mr. & Mrs. Eden N. Wenig Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Whelan Carlton & Marty Wilde Dr. & Mrs. Rudy C. Wildenstein Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson Dr. & Mrs. Jerry S. Wolinsky Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Yankowsky Ms. Ellen A. Yarrell Mr. Sam M. Yates III Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Mr. Terry Zmyslo

Composer’s Circle $500 - $999

Anonymous (6) Wade & Mert Adams Ms. Henrietta K. Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Steve Ameen

Julie Ann & Matthew Baker Mr. & Mrs. David M. Balderston Ms. Bernice Beckerman Mrs. Robert L. Berge Mr. & Mrs. Mark Berkstresser Carolyn & Arthur Berner Mr. Arno S. Bommer Mr. & Mrs. Giorgio Borlenghi Ms. Joan Boss Mr. & Mrs. Danny J. Bowers Jr. Bob F. Boydston Ms. Sally Brassow Katherine M. Briggs Mr. J. W. Brougher Dr. Bob Brown & Ms. Dena Rafte Sally & Laurence Brown Fred & Judy Brunk Mrs. Shirley Burgher Mr. & Mrs. Rick A. Burris Mrs. Marjorie Capshaw Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Chaney Virginia A. Clark Jim R. & Lynn Coe Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Coffin Mrs. Barbora Cole Mr. & Mrs. Todd Colter Mr. Robert A. Colton Ms. Mary H. Cook & Mr. Scott R. Spencer Mr. & Mrs. Byron Cooley Michael T. Coppinger Mr. & Mrs. William C. Crassas Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Crull Ms. Ann Currens Ms. Anna M. Dean Dr. & Mrs. Clotaire D. Delery Ms. Aurelie Desmarais Bruce B. Dice Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Dobbins Mr. & Mrs. James P. Dorn Elizabeth H. Duerr Dr. Burdett S. & Mrs. Kathleen C.E. Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Earle Mildred & Richard Ellis Dr. Kenneth L Euler Mr. & Mrs. William Evans Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan B. Fairbanks Ms. Ursula H. Felmet Mr. Dale Fitz Mr. James B. Flodine & Ms. Lynne Liberato Ms. Martha Garcia Martha & Gibson Gayle Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gendel Gen. & Mrs. Melbern G. Glasscock Mr. & Mrs. Morris Glesby Lee & Sandy Godfrey Ms. Heidi Good Mr. & Mrs. Herbert I. Goodman Dr. & Mrs. Harvey L. Gordon Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Griswold Zahava Haenosh Ms. Vickie Hamley Rita & John Hannah Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Hansen Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Harbachick Bruce Harkness & Alice Brown W. Russel Harp & Maarit K. Savola-Harp Dr. & Mrs. William S. Harwell Mr. & Mrs. William Haskins Mr. & Mrs. Brian Haufrect Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Heard Jr. Mr & Mrs. Dean Hennings

Ms. Hilda R. Herzfeld Mr. & Mrs. John R. Heumann Mr. & Mrs. Ross K. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Hogan Mr. Ronald Holley & Dr. Natasha Holley Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Holloway Mr. & Mrs. John Homier S.y. & Y.j. Kim Hong Ms. Vicki Huff Mr. & Mrs. James R. Hutton Diane & Geoffrey Ibbott Mrs. Paula Jarrett Mr. & Mrs. Okey B. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Wesley A. Johnson Mr. Scot W. Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Andrew P. Kant Ms. Karen Kelley Dr. & Mrs. Sherwin Kershman Lucy & Victor Kormeier Mr. Rodney Kubicek Ms. Joni Latimer Mr. James Leatherby Mr. Richard Leibman Ms. Golda K. Leonard Mr. James C. Lindsey Lisle Violin Shop Mrs. Sylvia Lohkamp Louise & Oscar Lui Tom & Kathleen Mach Mr. Kemp Maer Mr. & Mrs. Stevens Mafrige Mr. Christopher Mancini Ms. B. Lynn Mathre & Mr. Stewart O’Dell Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mattix Mr. & Mrs. J.A. Mawhinney Jr. Lawrence McCullough & Linda Jean Quintanilla Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McEvoy Mr. George McKee Mrs. Dorri Melvin Dr. & Mrs. John Mendelsohn Mrs. Diane Merrill Ms. Georgette M. Michko Mr. Ronald A. Mikita Mr. Willis B. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. John C. Molloy John & Ann Montgomery Alan & Elaine Mut Ms. Jennifer Naae Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey B. Newton Mr. Robert Nichols Marjory & Barry Okin Ms. Margie Ortega Mr. & Mrs. Enrique Ospina Mrs. Caroline Osteen Mr. & Mrs. Marc C. Paige Mr. Robert Pastorek Rachel & Michael Pawson Mrs. Preston A. Peak Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Penn Mr. John M. Petrosky Grace & Carroll Phillips Mr. & Mrs. W. Hugh Phillips III Ms. Meg Philpot Ms. Erin Pleva Kim & Ted A. Powell Mr. Robert W. Powell Mr. Arthur Preisinger Doris F. Pryzant Elias & Carole Qumsieh Dr. Mike Ratliff Loreta & Ronald Rea Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Reans April 2011 31

Individual Donors........................................................................................................ Mrs. Edith G. Reed Ms. Louisa B. Reid Dr. Alexander P. Remenchik & Ms. Frances Burford Mrs. Constance Rhebergen Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Rinehart Mr. & Mrs. Fabrice Roche Drs. Herbert & Manuela Roeller Mr. & Mrs. Keith A. Rogers Ms. Franelle Rogers Ms. Regina J. Rogers Mr. Edward Ross Mr. & Mrs. Vic Shainock Mr. Barrett Sides Mr. Barry E. Silverman & Ms. Shara Fryer Mrs. Camille Simpson Barbara & Louis Sklar Ms. Marcia Smart Mr. & Mrs. William Smith Dr. & Mrs. C. Richard Stasney Mr. Myron F. Steves Dr. & Mrs. David Sufian Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Taylor Mr. Kerry Taylor Ms. Betsy Mims & Mr. Howard D. Thames Jacob & Elizabeth Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thweatt Mr. Daniel S. Trachtenberg Ms. Cathleen J. Trechter Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Tremant Mr. & Mrs. D.E. Utecht Mr. Viet Van Dr. & Mrs. Gage VanHorn Ms. Jana Vander Lee Jan & Don Wagner Betty & Bill Walker Dean B. Walker Mr. & Mrs. William B. Wareing Mr. Kenneth W. Warren J. M. Weltzien Mr. Le Roy Yeager Mr. Ray Young Mr. William A. Young

Sustaining Member $250 - $499

Anonymous (14) Mr. & Mrs. W. Kendall Adam Mr. John E. Adkins Jr. Ms. Lina Amador Dr. & Mrs. Roy Aruffo Mr. Rudy Avelar Mr. & Mrs. David Baggett Mr. & Mrs. James A. Baker III Mr. & Mrs. John Baker Ms. Jane Baker Ms. Virginia C. Ballard Mr. & Mrs. Don Barnhill Mr. & Mrs. John A. Barrett Mr. & Mrs. Seth Barrett Dr. David Barry Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Bast Jr. Mr. Steve A. Bavousett Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Bertrand Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Beshears Mr. & Mrs. Randall Beste Mr. & Mrs. Ed Billings James S. & Linda Birtwistle Ms. Suzie Boyd Dr. Arthur W. Bracey Ms. Tiffany Breeding 32 www.houstonsymphony.org

Mrs. Barbara Britt Ms. Zu Dell Broadwater Mr. & Mrs. Steven Brosvik Ms. Courtney Brynes Mr. & Mrs. William Bumpus Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Burns Ms. Jodi Byerly Mr. Eugene Byrd Mrs. Miriam Byrd Mr. Gary Cacciatore Mr. & Mrs. Raul Caffesse Ronald & Carolyn Cambio Virginia & William Camfield Mr. & Mrs. J. Scott Campbell Ms. Sandra Campos Mr. Petros Carvounis Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Casey Mr. Kenneth Chin Dr. Diana S. Chow Mr. & Mrs. William L. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Tulio Colmenares Mr. & Mrs. Clayton A. Compton Ms. Erin Connally Mr. Cecil C. Conner Ms. Barbara A. Conte Ms. Jeanne A. Cox Ms. Mary Joe Danquard Leon Davis Mr. & Mrs. Rene Degreve Ms. Elizabeth Del Pico Ms. Kay S. Derry Patrick & Risha Dozark Mr. & Mrs. Clifford C. Dukes Ms. Delores Dunham Mr. & Mrs. James H. Dupree Mr. Ramsay M. Elder Mr. & Mrs. Peter Erickson Mr. Mike Ezzell Ms. Ann S. Farrell Mr. Chris C. Fellows Mr. & Mrs. James Flannigan Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Flick Mr. Richard L. Flowers Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John M. Forney Mr. Joe Fowler Joyce & David Fox Ms. Johnella V. Franklin Mr. Ralph F. Frankowski Ms. Diane L. Freeman Robert A. Furse, M.D. Dr. Abdel K. Fustok Mrs. Holly Garner Dr. & Mrs. Gary M. Gartsman Mr. & Mrs. James E. Gerhardt Mr. Glen Gettemy William E. Gipson Mr. Bert Gordon Mrs. Howard Grekel Mr. Steve K. Grimsley Ms. Jo Ann C. Guillory Mr. Teruhiko Hagiwara Mr. & Mrs. Roy T. Halle Mr. J. Richard Hammett Mr. & Mrs. Tod P. Harding Ms. Karen Harding Mr. Paul Harmon Mrs. Clora B. Heath Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Hecht Mr. John Heiny Jess Hines Jr. Susan Hodge Mr. David Hoffman

Mr. Franklin Holcomb Jacque Holland Howard & Dorothy Homeyer Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hopson Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Howes Mr. Tyler Hubbard Mr. James M. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ingham Mr. & Mrs. Edwin R. Janes Mr. & Mrs. Mark Johnson Ms. Sheila K. Johnstone Mr. Raymond Jones Mr. Guido Kanschat Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kantor Dr. & Mrs. Richard A. Kasschau Mr. & Mrs. Curtis R. Kayem Dr. Helen K. Kee Ms. Arlette Keene Mr. & Mrs. James A. Keller Mr. & Mrs. Hugh R. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. David Kendall Dr. James Killian Ms. Nora J. Klein M.D.P.A. Dr. & Mrs. Douglas D. Koch Mr. & Mrs. Sam Koster Ms. Cynthia Kretlow Ms. Anna Kuo Mr. Vijay Kusnoor Mr. Kent Lacy Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Ladin Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Latham Mr. & Mrs. Brian Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leonard Mr. & Mrs. Earl L. Lester Jr. Mr. Philip Lewis Joan Herrin Lyons Mr. & Mrs. Peter MacGregor Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Mach III Mrs. D.B. Marchant Ms. Renee Margolin Mr. & Mrs. Laban Marsh Mr. & Mrs. J. H. Marten Mr. Mark Matovich Mr. & Mrs. James McBride Ms. Suzanne McCarthy Mrs. Alison McDermott & Mr. Adrian Glasser Dr. Mary McElroy Ms. Judi McGee Mr. Daniel McHenry Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence McManus Mr. & Mrs. James L. McNett Dr. Robert A. Mendelson Mr. Russell J. Miller & Mrs. Charlotte M. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Herbert G. Mills Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Mireles Mr. & Mrs. John H. Monroe Jr. Ms. Kathleen Moore & Mr. Steven T. Homer Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Morgan Ms. Lauren Morgan Joyce & Owen Morris Mr. & Mrs. Ryan Moss Mr. Joel Ray Needham Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ofner Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon I. Oster Julie & Chip Oudin III Mr. William Pannill Mary H. & Lynn K. Pickett Ms. Deborah Posso Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Pratt

Mr. & Mrs. Harold Preston Mr. Chip Purchase Mr. & Mrs. Larry & Nita Pyle Mr. & Mrs. Manuel E. Quintana Mr. & Mrs. Paul Ramirez Ms. Joanna Raynes Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Redden Mr. & Mrs. Norman T. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Walter Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Claud D. Riddles Mr. & Mrs. William F. Rike Mrs. George Risman Mr. James L. Robertson Mr. & Mrs. Mervin Rosenbaum Mr. & Mrs. Norman Rosenthal Mr. John E. Ryall Mr. & Mrs. Michael Scherer Mr. Ed Schneider & Ms. Toni A. Oplt Garry & Margaret Schoonover Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Schwaab Ms. Elizabeth Schwarze Charles & Andrea Seay Pamela & Richard Sherry Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Shumaker Mr. Stephen C. Smith & Mr. Ronald Jenson Mrs. Lynn Snyder Hans C. Sonneborn Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Spindler Ms. Georgiana Stanley Ms. Blanche Stastny Mr. & Mrs. Michael Stelling Mr. Philip A. Stemmler William F. Stern Ms. Jean Stinson Dr. & Mrs. Richard Strax Mr. & Mrs. Hans Strohmer Ms. Lori Summa Ms. Cili Sun Ms. Barbara Swartz Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Symon Dr. Shahin Tavackoli Mr. Robert M. Taylor Ms. Jessica M. Taylor Howard Tellepsen Jr. Mr. & Mrs. P. H. G. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Thurmond David & Ann Tomatz Mr. Tom Tomlinson Mr. & Mrs. Louis E. Toole Dr. & Mrs. Karl Tornyos Mr. & Mrs. Edmunds Travis Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Trowbridge Mr. Robert C. Updegrove Dr. & Mrs. Brad Urquhart Mr. David Vannauker Mr. & Mrs. Louis Vest Mr. Eugene Wagenecht Mr. & Mrs. Mark J. Wanamaker Mr. & Mrs. Bill Warburton Ms. Sandria Ward Mr. & Mrs. John Wardell Ms. Bryony Jane Welsh Ms. Victoria Wendling Drs. A. & J. Werch Mr. Richard White Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Wilkomirski Mr. & Mrs. Cornel Williams Mr. & Mrs. Russell R. Williams Miss Susan Wood Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Clifford E. Woodward

..................................................................................................................................... Robert & Rhoda Workin Mrs. Peggy J. Wylie

Principal Pops Conductor’s Circle $5,000 or More Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Allen & Almira Gelwick - Lockton Companies Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Katz Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Lykos Jr. Paul & Rita Morico Mary & Terry Murphree Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ken N. Robertson Mrs. Sybil F. Roos Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mrs. Maryjane Scherr Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Woodard Jr.

Grand Patron Pops $2,500-$4,999

Ms. Dianne Bowman Mr. Christopher Buehler & Ms. Jill Hutchison Mr. & Mrs. Byron F. Dyer Mrs. Barry Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Allan Quiat Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Rauch

Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Reid Mr. & Mrs. Leland Tate Sally & Denney Wright

Pops Patron $1,500-$2,499

Mr. John S. Beury Ms. Tara Black Jim & Ellen Box Ms. Sara J. Devine Mr. & Mrs. James E. Dorsett Carol & Larry Fradkin Mr. Robert Grant Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Reid Shirley & Marvin Rich Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Mr. Morris Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Ms. Jody Verwers Mr. & Mrs. William B. Welte III

Headliner $1,000-$1,499

Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Carroll Mrs. Alan Gaylor Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mr. & Mrs. George A. Helland Michael & Darcy Krajewski

Mr. & Mrs. Joe T. McMillan Dr. & Mrs. Raghu Narayan W. R. Purifoy Roman & Sally Reed Mr. & Mrs. John T. Riordan Mr. & Mrs. Steve Sims Ms. Amanda Tozzi Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence D. Wallace

Producer $500-$999

Rev. & Mrs. H. Eldon Akerman Mr. Allen J. Becker Mr. Jay T. Brown Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Buhler Barbara Dokell John & Joyce Eagle Mr. & Mrs. Dale Hardy Mr. Larry January Mr. Don E. Kingsley Mr. & Mrs. Barry H. Margolis Mr. Gerard & Mrs. Helga Meneilly Ms. Phyllis Schaffer Mr. & Mrs. Tim Shaunty Mr. & Mrs. David K. Smith Mr. & Mrs. Carl N. Tongberg Mr. Roger Trandell Mr. & Mrs. Don Wilton

Director $250-$499

Ann B. Beaudette Richard & Marcia Churns Marilyn & Tucker Coughlen Mr. T. J. Doggett Mr. & Mrs. Charles Grant Mr. & Mrs. Jim Gunther Ms. Mary Keathley Charles C. & Patricia Kubin Mr. Richard S. Ledermann Mr. & Mrs. Roger Lindgren Mr. & Mrs. Carrol R. McGinnis Patrick & Peggy Mc Kinney Mr. James Miner Judy & Bill Pursell Mr. & Mrs. Philip Redding Dr. & Mrs. A. Carl Schmulen Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Siegele Ms. Beth Stegle Mr. & Mrs. William G. Straight Donna Tromblee Dr. Holly & Mr. Michael Varner Dr. & Mrs. William C. Watkins As of March 7, 2011

In Kind Donors......................................................................................................... As of January 10, 2011

Alexander’s Fine Portrait Design Baker Botts Be Friends Bergner & Johnson BKD, LLP Bright Star Casi Cielo Productions Cognetic Mr. Carl R. Cunningham

Darryl & Co. Deville Fine Jewelry DocuData Solutions The Events Company Hilton Americas - Houston Houston Chronicle Jackson and Company JOHANNUS Organs of Texas Jim Benton of Houston LLC JR’s Bar & Grill

KUHF 88.7 FM The Lancaster Hotel Limb Design Morton’s The Steakhouse Music & Arts Neiman Marcus New Leaf Publishing, Inc. PaperCity Pride Houston Pro/Sound

Saint Arnold’s Brewery Saks Fifth Avenue Shecky’s Media, Inc. Silver Eagle Distributors Sky Bar Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods Strip House Valobra Jewelry & Antiques John Wright/Texprint

Support Your Symphony A MILLION REASONS TO GIVE There are a million reasons to support the Symphony: • Renowned guest artists and our outstanding Symphony give you an extraordinary experience • More than 35,000 children attend our Music Matters! education concerts annually—for many, this is their first time hearing an orchestra • Our musicians perform nearly 230 concerts for more than 350,000 Houstonians, many free of charge • Innovations such as The Planets—An HD Odyssey and the upcoming Orbit—An HD Odyssey bring Houston to the world stage • Our 84 Symphony musicians live, work and teach in Houston, enhancing the city’s cultural fabric and economic strength The Houston Endowment has challenged the Symphony to increase our annual fund contributions to $8 million and our donor base to 4,000 by May 31. If successful, the Endowment will gift us $1 million. We are 80% of the way there, but need your help! Would you please consider a gift to the Houston Symphony—even if you’ve already given this season? Every gift gets us that much closer to the challenge goal. Your gift does make a difference, now more than ever. Please make it today. To make your gift today, please contact Jessica Ford in the Symphony Development office at (713) 238-1488 or jessica.ford@houstonsymphony.org. Thanks a million!

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Legacy Society. ................................................................................................. The Legacy Society honors those who have included the Houston Symphony in their long-term estate plans through bequests, life-income gifts or other deferred-giving arrangements. Members of the Legacy Society enjoy a variety of benefits, including an annual musical event with a renowned guest artist. The Houston Symphony extends its deepest thanks to the members of the Society, and with their permission, is pleased to acknowledge them. Anonymous (10) Mrs. Jan Barrow George & Betty Bashen Dorothy B. Black Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield Ronald C. Borschow Anneliese Bosseler Joe Brazzatti Zu Broadwater Terry Ann Brown Dr. Joan K. Bruchas & H. Philip Cowdin Eugene R. Bruns Sylvia J. Carroll William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Leslie Barry Davidson Harrison R. T. Davis Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Jean & sJack Ellis Mrs. Robin A. Elverson The Aubrey and Sylvia Farb Family Ginny Garrett Michael B. George Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Gott Randolph Lee Groninger Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Dr. Edward J. & Mrs. Patti Hurwitz Kenneth Hyde Mr. Brian James Drs. Rita & Blair Justice

Dr. & Mrs. Ira Kaufman, M.D. John S. W. Kellett Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse LeGrange Mrs. Frances E. Leland Dr. Mary R. Lewis E. W. Long Jr. Sandra Magers Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Jay Marks James Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mazow Mr. & Mrs. Gene McDavid Charles E. McKerley Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Miss Catherine Jane Merchant Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Ron Mikita Katherine Taylor Mize Ione Moran Sidney Moran Sue A. Morrison and Children Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Moynihan Gretchen Anne Myers Bobbie & Arthur Newman Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Joan D. Osterweil Imogen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Immyâ&#x20AC;? Papadopoulos Sara M. Peterson Mr. Howard Pieper

Geraldine S. Priest Daniel F. Prosser Gloria & Joe Pryzant Mrs. Dana Puddy Walter M. Ross Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Sandeen Charles K. Sanders Charles King Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Seay II Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Dr. & Mrs. Kazuo Shimada Jule & Albert Smith Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mike & sAnita Stude Emily H. & David K. Terry Stephen G. Tipps Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Dr. Carlos Vallbona & Children Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. David M. Wax & Elaine Arden Cali Robert G. Weiner Geoffrey Westergaard Jennifer R. Wittman Mr. & Mrs. Bruce E. Woods Mr. & Mrs. David Wuthrich As of March 10, 2011 sDeceased

Houston Symphony Chorus Endowment Donors........................................... Paul & Vickie Davis ExxonMobil David & Joyce Fox

Robert Lee Gomez Philip & Audrey Lewis Dave Nussmann

Remora Energy Susan Scarrow

In Memoriam..................................................................................................... We honor the memory of those who in life included the Houston Symphony in their estate plans. Their thoughtfulness and generosity will continue to inspire and enrich lives for generations to come! Mr. Thomas D. Barrow W. P. Beard Mrs. H. Raymond Brannon Anthony Brigandi Lawrence E. Carlton, M.D. Mrs. Albert V. Caselli Lee Allen Clark Jack Ellis Frank R. Eyler Helen Bess Fariss Foster

Christine E. George Mrs. Marcella Levine Harris General & Mrs. Maurice Hirsch Miss Ima Hogg Burke & Octavia Holman Mrs. L. F. McCollum Joan B. McKerley Monroe L. Mendelsohn Jr. Mrs. Janet Moynihan Constantine S. Nicandros

Hanni Orton Stewart Orton, Legacy Society co-founder Dr. Michael Papadopoulos Miss Louise Pearl Perkins Walter W. Sapp, Legacy Society co-founder J. Fred & Alma Laws Lunsford Schultz John K. & Fanny W. Stone Dorothy Barton Thomas Mrs. Harry C. Wiess Mrs. Edward Wilkerson

For more information on creating a legacy for the benefit of the Symphony, please contact the Planned Giving Office at (713) 337-8524 or e-mail plannedgiving@houstonsymphony.org. 34 www.houstonsymphony.org

My Houston, My Symphony: Campaign for a Sound Future. ....................... Artistic excellence, strong leadership, robust ticket sales and growing philanthropic support are vital, but they alone cannot guarantee the Houston Symphony’s future. To do so, its endowment must be increased. My Houston, My Symphony: Campaign for a Sound Future has two major goals: add $60 million to the Symphony’s endowment and raise $15 million in working capital. We are proud to recognize those who have already made commitments to this campaign and invite others to join them as we build an artistically and financially sound Houston Symphony.

Campaign Cabinet

Members

George Mitchell, Honorary Chair M. S. Stude, Chair Gene Dewhurst, Vice Chair Jesse B. Tutor, Vice Chair Mike McLanahan, Vice Chair Ulyesse J. LeGrange, Vice Chair

Jan Barrow Daniel Dror Rochelle Levit Rodney H. Margolis Jay Marks J. Stephen Marks

Houston Symphony Endowment Harry J. Phillips Jr. Robert B. Tudor III Wallace S. Wilson

President

Ulyesse J. LeGrange

Trustees

Prentiss Burt Janet Clark J. Cole Dawson III Gene Dewhurst Jesse B. Tutor

............................................................................................................................ Mr. & Mrs. Jay Marks * Mr. & Mrs. Lucian L. Morrison Jr. Foundations...................... Mrs. Sue A. Morrison & Children Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Newman $10,000,000 The Brown Foundation, Inc. * $1,000,000 - $4,999,999 Anonymous The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts * Houston Endowment Inc. Spec’s Charitable Foundation The Wortham Foundation, Inc. $500,000 - $999,999 The Fondren Foundation $100,000 - $499,999 M. D. Anderson Foundation The Cullen Foundation The Margaret & James A. Elkins, Jr. Foundation The William Randolph Hearst Foundation Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Mach Family Fund The Marks Charitable Foundation $25,000 - $99,999 Dror Charitable Foundation The Kayser Foundation The Nightingale Code Foundation

Corporations. ................... $100,000 - $250,000 Baker Botts L.L.P. Chevron ConocoPhillips Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Marathon Oil Company Foundation $50,000 - $99,000 Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP $25,000 - $49,999 Amegy Bank of Texas Goldman Sachs $10,000 - $24,999 Sterling Bank

Individuals....................... Founder Anonymous Grand Guarantor Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Bahr * Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Barrow * Lieutenant Governor David H. Dewhurst Barbara & Patrick McCelvey Phoebe and Bobby Tudor Guarantor Estate of Lawrence E. Carlton, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kaplan Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis

Estate of Mr. Walter W. Sapp * Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Shannon Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor * Major Benefactor Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Dell Levit Family/Grocers Supply Dr. & Mrs. Michael Mann Benefactor Anonymous * Linda & Gene Dewhurst Mrs. Robin A. Elverson Mr. & Mrs. Marvy A. Finger Houston Symphony Chorus Drs. Blair & Rita Justice Drs. M.S. & Marie-Luise Kalsi * Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Mr. & Mrs. Stephen G. Tipps *

Major Sponsor Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. David J. Beck Mrs. Ruth White Brodsky Mr. & Mrs. John T. Cater Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian * Mr. Martin J. Fein & Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein in memory of Jean Viney Mr. & Mrs. Russell M. Frankel Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Ms. Martha Kleymeyer Mr. & Mrs. Gene McDavid Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Moore * Mr. & Mrs. Scott S. Nyquist Kathy & Harry Phillips Fund Gloria & Joe Pryzant Mr. & Mrs. J. Hugh Roff Jr. Ms. Charlotte A. Rothwell Mr. & Mrs. Paul N. Schwartz Ms. Ann Trammell Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Ed Wulfe Sponsor Anonymous (2) Mr. Clayton Baird Mr. & Mrs. Gary Beauchamp * Mrs. Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield Ms. Catherine Campbell-Brock & Dr. Gary Brock Ms. Janet F. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Early Mr. & Mrs. Craig A. Fox * Mr. Frank T. Garcia & Dr. Elizabeth M. Spankus Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hermance Mr. Jack Holmes * Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse J. LeGrange Dr. & Mrs. Daniel E. Lehane Mr & Mrs. Harry Mach Ms. Judi McGee Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan *

Mr. & Dr. Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Nancy & Bob Peiser Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Quoyeser Mr. & Mrs. Albert J. Smith Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber *

Major Patron Mr. Thomas Becker & Mr. Jim Rosenfeld * Mr. Gordon B. Bonfield Mr. Anthony Brigandi Ms. Terry Ann Brown Mr. & Mrs. John R. Dennis III Mr. & Mrs. Osborne J. Dykes III Mr. & Mrs. Frank J. Hevrdejs Mr. & Mrs. Frank G. Jones Mr. E. W. Long Jr. The MacDonald-Peterson Foundation Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Tommy O. Mann Mr. & Mrs. C. W. Merchant Mr. & Mrs. James M. Mercurio * Mr. & Mrs. Kirk B. Michael Mrs. Hanni Orton * Mr. & Mrs. J. Dale Ramsey Mr. & Mrs. William J. Rovere Jr. Dr. Margaret Waisman & Dr. Steven S. Callahan Vicki & Paul S. West Mr. & Mrs. Melvyn Wolff Mr. David Zerhusen & Mrs. Kathy Schoff Patron Mr. & Mrs. Willie J. Alexander Mrs. Marty Ambrose Ms. Martha Z. Carnes Dr. Scott Cutler Mrs. Benjamin Danziger Ms. Leslie B. Davidson & Mr. W. Robins Brice Paul & Vickie Davis Mr. & Mrs. Patrick M. Dreckman The Estate of Emma Sue B. Frank Dr. Susan E. Gardner & Dr. Philip D. Scott Robert Lee Gomez Mr. Robert Grant Mr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Hall Jr. Susan & Dick Hansen Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Harrell Mr. & Mrs. Fraser A. McAlpine Mr. & Mrs. John S. Orton Mr. & Mrs. P. C. Peropoulos Mrs. Helen Rosenbaum * Joseph & Holly Rubbo Susan Scarrow Estate of Dorothy Barton Thomas Mr. David Ashley White Mr. & Mrs. David J. Wuthrich * Donor to endowment and working capital Listing as of August 9, 2010

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Backstage Pass. ................................................................................................. Scott Cutler, musician sponsor Birthplace: New Haven, Connecticut Education: B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from MIT Joined the Houston Symphony: I began attending concerts when I moved to Houston in 1998. I joined the Board of Trustees in 2000 and have served on the main board and the Executive Committee. I currently serve as a governing director and a member of the Finance and popular programming committees. Earliest musical memory: Although I had piano and trumpet lessons in grade school, my first real memories came from my time in college. I will never forget the terror I felt while turning pages for a professor when he performed at a school concert. I still have nightmares from that evening! All in the family: Both of my parents are musical; my mother plays the piano and my father plays the organ—all amateur for their own enjoyment. Current listening: A jazz piano CD by Taylor Eigsti recorded during a concert at my home. Looking forward to in the 2011-2012 Season: Associate Concertmaster Eric Halen performing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, although the season is so strong that I have many favorites! Favorite Symphony experiences: Being immersed in live classical music. Pastime and good company: I host a classical chamber music series at my home in The Woodlands which provides much joy (www. WoodlandsSalonSeries.org). We typically have six concerts per year— at least half of which are performed by Houston Symphony musicians. I also enjoy flying small airplanes, fine dining and digital gadgets. Became a Musician Sponsor: 2001—when I joined the Board of Trustees. Meeting your musician: I have been fortunate to have Scott Holshouser participate in a number of the Woodlands Salon Series concerts as a solo performer and accompanist.

^ Holshouser (far left) was one of four pianists to perform on two concert grand Steinway pianos for the Jon Kimura Parker and Friends concert marking the 10th anniversary and 50th concert of Cutler’s (center) Woodlands Salon Series on February 19, 2010. (Additional musicians pictured, from left: Andrew Staupe, Jon Kimura Parker and Patti Wolf)

Scott Holshouser, keyboard Birthplace: Lexington, Kentucky Education: I attended Florida State University before leaving to take a position with the Houston Grand Opera. Joined the Houston Symphony: I officially joined the Houston Symphony in 1985, but had been playing in Symphony concerts prior to that. Looking forward to in the 2011-2012 Season: Stravinsky’s Petrouchka is always challenging—I actually don’t know if I’m looking forward to it! All in the family: Growing up, there weren’t any other family members with musical inclinations. Now, however, my son, Sean is a boy soprano, and has performed with the Houston Symphony and Houston Grand Opera. My wife, Eileen, is a lady soprano and former member of the Houston Symphony Chorus. Discovering my vocation: I enjoyed working on music for myself and with others, so playing in a Symphony is a natural fit!

Memories with your musician: I love Paganini. So, it was very special when—at one concert—Eric Halen performed Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 in A minor followed by Scott playing the sixth of Liszt’s Grandes études de Paganini, which is based on the caprice Eric had just performed. Magical!

Best thing about being a musician: You get to play music as a profession, which is nice, and many times better to listen to than machinery noise!

What the Symphony means to you: It sounds sappy, but having a Symphony means we can hear great live music performed locally by phenomenal musicians. I am also pleased to have had so many musicians become personal friends over the years.

Current listening: I have been listening to quite a bit of piano concerti as I was recently an accompanying pianist for a competition.

Favorite Performance Piece: Rhapsody in Blue is fun to play because of the tendency for repeated performances.

Finding your perfect Instrument: I have found a few great instruments in various locations. As a pianist, you have to take what you can get!

All for a reason: I am a sponsor because I know that ticket prices cover only a small fraction of the true cost of funding a quality symphony and want to do my part to help.

The daily grind: As a pianist, there are often a lot of notes to play. Trying to read and play all of the notes on the page can be challenging!

Pass it on: I absolutely recommend becoming a musician sponsor for the same reason I became a supporter. Plus, getting to know some of the musicians and having them become personal, long-term friends makes the experience even more special.

Notable Moments: I am thrilled that our son, Sean, got to sing with the Symphony several time in December, and continues to do concerts. I also actually met my wife, Eileen, while she was a member of the Houston Symphony Chorus!

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