InTune — The Houston Symphony Magazine — June 2017

THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY MAGAZINE

JUNE 2017

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HELLO LETTER TO PATRONS

JUNE 2017

Welcome to your Houston Symphony and the start of our 2017-18 season! It has become a longstanding annual tradition –77 years to be exact — ­­ for the Houston Symphony to travel to Miller Outdoor Theatre at Hermann Park every summer to bring joy to thousands of people and their families.

An estimated 5,000 people attend each ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights classical performance.

Additionally, an average of 25,000 people come to our annual Star-Spangled Salute celebration! We’re grateful for the continued support and the opportunity to perform at such an iconic venue as it brings us closer to our community and allows us to share the power of orchestral music with more people!

These dynamic performances begin June 23 with a classical program led by Houston favorite Robert Franz featuring Beethoven’s thrilling Eroica and Barber’s lushly melodic Violin Concerto interpreted by Sphinx Competition winner Annelle Gregory.

We return the next day with a rhythmic program featuring Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López’ high-energy orchestral showpiece, Fiesta!, along with Dvořák’s melodic Symphony No. 8 and Mozart’s sunny Horn Concerto by our own Principal Horn William VerMeulen.

On June 30, you are in for a treat when Tchaikovsky Competition Silver Medalist George Li performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a deeply emotive work that has become the most popular piano concerto in history. The program begins with a lively overture by one of Tchaikovsky’s musical idols and concludes with Mendelssohn’s precocious Symphony No. 1, written when the composer was just 15 years old.

The last two summer concerts at Miller Outdoor Theatre will be held on July 1 and 4 and will feature Brahms’ Symphony No. 4 and patriotic classics respectively. This year’s highly anticipated Star-Spangled Salute showcases vocalist Ryan Shaw’s soulful sound and the spirited leadership of the Houston Symphony’s new Principal POPS Conductor, Steven Reineke. The booming 1812 Overture and magnificent fireworks will make for a patriotic Independence Day celebration.

We hope to see you at every performance, and look forward to seeing you again at Jones Hall in July as we bring you Video Games Live, the Music of Prince, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in Concert. Tickets are on sale to the general public by visiting houstonsymphony.org or calling 713-224-7575.

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8 Community-Embedded Musician Anthony Parce brings a student's composition to life.

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Houston Symphony Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada began his tenure in the 2014–15 season.

He immediately established a dynamic presence on the podium and a deep bond with the musicians of the orchestra. Andrés carefully curates his programs to feature engaging combinations of classical masterworks paired with the music of today, significant artistic collaborations with composers and guest artists, and innovative use of multimedia and visual effects, all in order to make meaningful connections with the audience.

In the 2016–17 season, Andrés continued to engage with audiences both with casual commentary from the stage and discussions with guests in “Behind the Scenes with Andrés” videos. On the recording front, Andrés and the Symphony released the third disc in their critically acclaimed series featuring Dvořák’s last four symphonies. The series marks Andrés’ first commercial recording project with the orchestra.

Born in Medellín, Colombia, Andrés began his musical studies on the violin and started conducting at age 15. At 19, he entered the Vienna Music Academy, where he studied with Uroš Lajovic (pupil of the legendary Hans Swarowsky) and completed his degree with distinction conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Musikverein. Andrés burst on the international scene with two substitutions with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: the first, his debut in 2010, standing in for Esa-Pekka Salonen, and then in 2012, substituting for Riccardo Muti at the Musikverein. Andrés now regularly appears with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Vienna Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic and Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestras, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome and the Orchestre National de France.

Recent debuts have included the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic in New York. In the summer of 2014, he also made his debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera conducting Don Giovanni, which immediately led to an invitation to conduct La traviata in 2017. The 2016–17 season included debuts with the San Francisco Symphony, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

In addition to his post in Houston, Andrés is chief conductor of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

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ORCHESTRA Andrés Orozco-Estrada Music Director Roy and Lillie Cullen Chair FIRST VIOLIN Eric Halen, Co-Concertmaster Ellen E. Kelley Chair Qi Ming, Assistant Concertmaster Fondren Foundation Chair Marina Brubaker Tong Yan MiHee Chung Sophia Silivos Rodica Gonzalez Ferenc Illenyi Si-Yang Lao Kurt Johnson Christopher Neal Sergei Galperin Anastasia Sukhopara* Evgenia Zharzhavskaya*

DOUBLE BASS Robin Kesselman, Principal David Malone, Associate Principal Mark Shapiro Eric Larson Burke Shaw Donald Howey Michael McMurray FLUTE Aralee Dorough, Principal General Maurice Hirsch Chair Matthew Roitstein, Associate Principal Judy Dines Kathryn Ladner PICCOLO Kathryn Ladner

SECOND VIOLIN MuChen Hsieh, Principal Rebecca Reale, Associate Principal Hitai Lee Mihaela Frusina Annie Kuan-Yu Chen Jing Zheng Martha Chapman Tianjie Lu Lisa Ji Eun Kim Tina Zhang Jenna Barghouti* Jordan Koransky*

OBOE Jonathan Fischer, Principal Lucy Binyon Stude Chair Anne Leek, Associate Principal Colin Gatwood Adam Dinitz

Community-Embedded Musicians David Connor, double bass Rainel Joubert, violin Anthony Parce, viola Hellen Weberpal, cello

HORN William VerMeulen, Principal Robert Johnson, Associate Principal Jesse Clevenger*, Assistant Principal Brian Thomas Nancy Goodearl Ian Mayton TRUMPET Mark Hughes, Principal George P. and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Chair John Parker, Associate Principal Robert Walp, Assistant Principal Caroline Schafer TROMBONE Allen Barnhill, Principal Bradley White, Associate Principal Phillip Freeman BASS TROMBONE Phillip Freeman TUBA Dave Kirk, Principal

ENGLISH HORN Adam Dinitz

VIOLA Wayne Brooks, Principal Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Legacy Society Chair Joan DerHovsepian, Associate Principal George Pascal, Assistant Principal Wei Jiang Linda Goldstein Sheldon Person Fay Shapiro Daniel Strba Jarita Ng Phyllis Herdliska CELLO Brinton Averil Smith, Principal Janice and Thomas Barrow Chair Christopher French, Associate Principal Anthony Kitai Louis-Marie Fardet Jeffrey Butler Kevin Dvorak Xiao Wong Myung Soon Lee James R. Denton** Yewon Ahn*

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CLARINET Mark Nuccio, Principal Thomas LeGrand, Associate Principal Christian Schubert Alexander Potiomkin

TIMPANI Ronald Holdman, Principal Brian Del Signore, Associate Principal PERCUSSION Brian Del Signore, Principal Mark Griffith Matthew Strauss

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BUILDING ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS THROUGH MUSIC

BY EMILY NELSON, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION & COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

Community-Embedded Musician Anthony Parce leads students in active listening activities in preparation for their class composition project.

Creativity, communication and teamwork are essential skills for success in school and the 21st-century job market. “These are skills the Houston Symphony has helped ingrain in our students at a deeper level,” asserted Auden Sarabia, principal of Crespo Elementary, the Symphony’s partner in its three-year in-depth residency program presented by BBVA Compass.

In the classrooms, Houston Symphony Community-Embedded Musicians introduce students to orchestral music and encourage creativity, communication and teamwork through musical activities.

One particularly compelling example of how CommunityEmbedded Musicians Anthony Parce and David Connor helped Crespo students develop these important skills is the final project of the 2016–17 school year. Students were taught how to listen actively to classical music and create unique class compositions.

Students composed their own musical phrases and, working as a team, decided how their class composition would be performed. “It was awesome creating music for the first time,” Yaretzi, a 4th grade student, remarked. “I had never done this before.”

Anthony helps students develop their individual musical voices.

“To me, the class composition project demonstrates the many ways the students developed as musicians and thinkers throughout the year,” reflected Anthony. “Students were making personal decisions about proportion, balance, teamwork, leadership and individuality.”

All 420 students in the residency program contributed to the class composition and performed their melodies on recorders during the final class. “I wanted my classes to feel like music was not only something they could understand and enjoy, but something they can create,” David said. “The cool thing about the class composition project is that each student could contribute one unique element to the larger work, making it a real musical democracy.”

“It is through the artistic and musical approaches brought by the Community-Embedded Musicians that our students not only experience essential 21st-century skill sets at a deeper level, but that they do so in an engaging, authentic and expressive manner,” said Principal Sarabia. “This ties in wholly to our mission as a Fine Arts magnet school to educate the whole child, or in my own personal view, to educate the whole soul.”

The Community-Embedded Musicians initiative is supported in part by a generous grant from the American Orchestras’ Futures Fund, a program of the League of American Orchestras made possible by funding from the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation.

Students perform their own melodies in their class compositions.

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Community-Embedded Musician David Connor visits with enthusiastic students after their final class composition project.

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The Houston Symphony’s 2017–18 subscription season begins in the fall, but you can still hear the Symphony this summer, thanks to the return of the Bank of America Summer Series at Jones Hall. The 2017 Summer Series includes four performances that are sure to delight fans of blockbuster movies, video games and legendary pop music.

On June 15 and 16, the orchestra performs the great John Williams’ score to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, accompanying Spielberg’s thrilling sciencefiction adventure. Then, on July 14, gamers won’t want to miss the return of the multimedia Video Games Live, with exclusive video footage from Final Fantasy, Zelda, Skyrim, Warcraft, Pokémon and more, featuring the orchestra and Houston Symphony Chorus. On July 15, the orchestra pays tribute to Prince and his astonishing, eclectic legacy of hits including “Purple Rain” and “When Doves Cry.” Bank of America’s generosity in supporting these concerts continues its long partnership with the Houston Symphony and service to Greater Houston.

The company has been a leading supporter of the Symphony since 1993, sponsoring activities ranging from the Symphony’s Annual Fund, special events supporting education and community programming, and the Young Associates Council. Bank of America Houston president Hong Ogle says, “The arts are important for their ability to foster great thinking, great learning and great civilizations, but they are equally important to creating economic value.”

The Houston Symphony is grateful to Bank of America for its outstanding support. Please join us in thanking them by attending one of the thrilling concerts of the Bank of America Summer Series at Jones Hall.

Summer Series at Jones Hall

JURASSIC PARK— FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA June 15 & 16 | 7:30pm Constantine Kitsopoulos, conductor

VIDEO GAMES LIVE July 14 | 7:30pm BRAND NEW SHOW! Emmanuel Fratianni, conductor Tommy Tallarico, host and guitar Houston Symphony Chorus

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THE MUSIC OF PRINCE July 15 | 7:30pm Brent Havens, conductor Marshall Charloff, vocalist

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ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights

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elcome to the ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights at Miller Outdoor Theatre! An annual tradition since 1941, the Houston Symphony’s free performance series at Miller brings the orchestra to you. While it is a lot of work to transport the orchestra from Jones Hall to Miller Outdoor Theatre, the musicians and staff of the Symphony especially look forward to the unique and creative programming of these concerts, as well as to introducing Houstonians to some of the most exciting rising stars in classical music.

Indeed, the Symphony’s summer series at Miller has introduced Houston audiences to many emerging conductors and musicians over the years. Chances are, you’re familiar with the pianist Lang Lang, one of today’s most recognizable contemporary performers of classical music. But did you know his debut performance with the Houston Symphony was in the summer of 1999 at Miller Outdoor Theatre? Houston Symphony Senior Artistic Advisor Aurelie Desmarais first heard about Lang Lang from former Music Director Christoph Eschenbach. Recognizing his prodigious talent, Aurelie immediately invited Lang Lang to debut with the

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Houston Symphony at the 1999 summer series. On June 30, Lang Lang performed Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 under the baton of conductor Peter Oundjian. Remarkably, Houstonians were treated to this performance just weeks before Lang Lang’s breakthrough performance at the internationally renowned Ravinia Festival under the baton of Eschenbach in August 1999.

Rebecca Zabinski, Houston Symphony Artistic Administrator, remarked of Lang Lang’s debut, “That is a great example of how important it is to not only introduce audiences to emerging artists at Miller, but also for the Houston Symphony to forge bonds with these amazing young talents. Miller Outdoor Theatre is an impressive venue, and the crowds of Houstonians that flock to enjoy and support the musicians and classical music leave a lasting impression. Lang Lang, for example, has since returned to perform with our orchestra on five separate occasions.”

The summer concerts at Miller also give Houstonians an exclusive introduction to outstanding young musicians at the start of their careers by featuring the Silver Medalist of the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition as the soloist one evening. This year’s 2nd

The summer concerts at Miller also afford opportunities for the Houston Symphony’s extraordinary musicians to shine as featured soloists. This year, for example, Principal Horn Bill VerMeulen will perform Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 2 on Saturday, June 24, in a concert that introduces Houston audiences to Austrian conductor David Danzmayr, chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, music director of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and artistic advisor of the Breckenridge Music Festival.

Also on June 24, the Houston Symphony will perform an exciting work, Fiesta!, by Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López. This will be the first performance of one of Jimmy’s works by the orchestra since beginning his three-year tenure with the Houston Symphony this summer. Jimmy remarked, “I can’t imagine a better introduction to Houston and its audiences than by sharing Fiesta! at Miller.” (Read more about Jimmy’s techno-musicinspired composition on page 24.)

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Place winner, Rainer Crosett, will perform his competitionwinning cello concerto with the orchestra on Saturday, July 1 (see page 30). Several previous winners of the prestigious Ima Hogg Competition have gone on to successful performance careers, including the Houston Symphony’s own Principal Keyboardist, Scott Holshouser. “I have a fondness for Miller Outdoor Theatre,” said Scott, “because I played my first solo (Grieg’s Piano Concerto) with the Houston Symphony there in 1978 as an Ima Hogg Competition prizewinner. Since then, I have performed more than 10 solo concerti at Miller, and I have played every Fourth of July concert since 1980!”

In addition to conductor David Danzmayr, this year’s ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights introduce Houston audiences to two more amazing conductors: Ben Gernon, who in August will become the principal guest conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, and Alexander Prior, who is the newly appointed chief conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Here to kick off the concert series on June 23 is Houston’s favorite Associate Conductor, Robert Franz. To program these concerts, the Symphony’s artistic staff collaborates closely with each conductor. Said Rebecca, “It’s important that we work together to select repertoire that each individual conductor feels passionate about and can bring something new. Over the course of the Miller concerts, we also strive for variety in the programming, so there is something for everyone: the conductors, the musicians and the audience.”

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We hope you enjoy tonight’s concert—whether you’re picnicking on the hill or listening from under the canopy—as much as we’ve enjoyed bringing it to you!

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New CenturyforSArtistic ociety Excellence and Innovation The New Century Society for Artistic Excellence and Innovation recognizes the Houston Symphony’s most committed and loyal supporters who have pledged their leadership support over a three-year period to help secure the orchestra’s financial future.

Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Margaret Alkek Williams Janice Barrow Rochelle & Max Levit Cora Sue & Harry Mach John & Lindy Rydman / Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods/Spec’s Charitable Foundation Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Clare Attwell Glassell Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Mike Stude Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

Robin Angly & Miles Smith Gary & Marian Beauchamp Barbara J. Burger The Hearst Foundation, Inc. The Joan and Marvin Kaplan Foundation Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Barbara & Pat McCelvey Houston Methodist Ron Franklin & Janet Gurwitch Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Nancy & Robert Peiser Rand Group Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. / The Robbins Foundation Steven & Nancy Williams

Baker Botts L.L.P. Beauchamp Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Viviana & David Denechaud/ Sidley Austin LLP Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III / WoodRock & Co. Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Dignity Memorial Funeral Homes and Cemetaries of the Greater Houston Area Dave & Alie Pruner Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan Jr. / Houston Baptist University Wells Fargo

For more information or to pledge your support for New Century Society, please contact: Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO, 713.337.8540 David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, 713.337.8525

Leadership COUNCIL Leadership Council donors have committed $45,000 or more in support of the Annual Fund, special projects and fundraising events over a three-year period ($15,000+ annually).

Graham & Janet Baker Danielle & Josh Batchelor Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Justice Brett & Erin Busby Janet F. Clark Billy & Christie McCartney The Estate of Terence Murphree Mr. Richard Danforth Gene & Linda Dewhurst The Elkins Foundation Angel & Craig Fox Allen & Almira Gelwick – Lockton Companies Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Christina & Mark C. Hanson Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis

The Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation Rita & Paul Morico Mr. John N. Neighbors Susan & Edward Osterberg Gloria & Joe Pryzant Roman & Sally Reed Ken & Carol Lee Robertson Michael J. Shawiak Donna & Tim Shen Lisa & Jerry Simon Nancy & David Tai Stephen & Kristine Wallace Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Robert G. Weiner & Toni Blankmann Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr.

For more information or to pledge your support for the Leadership Council, please contact: David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, 713.337.8525 Molly Simpson, Director, Individual Giving and Major Gifts, 713.337.8526

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EARLY ADOPTERS Vision 2025 Implementation Fund Vision 2025, the Houston Symphony’s ten-year Strategic Plan, will allow the Houston Symphony to be America’s most relevant and accessible top-ten orchestra by 2025.

Vision 2025 was kick-started by early adopters in 2015. The Houston Symphony recognizes and thanks the following Early Adopters for their initial investments in support of our ambitious vision.

Vision 2025 Implementation Fund The Vision 2025 Implementation Fund will catalyze the transformative growth outlined within Vision 2025. The Houston Symphony recognizes and thanks the following supporters of the Vision 2025 Implementation Fund.

OPERATING SUPPORT Rochelle & Max Levit Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Barbara J. Burger John & Lindy Rydman/ Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods/ Spec’s Charitable Foundation Anonymous C. Howard Pieper Foundation Clare Attwell Glassell Janet F. Clark The Brown Foundation, Inc. The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Mr. John N. Neighbors Barbara & Pat McCelvey Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Joella & Steven P. Mach Clive Runnells in memory of Nancy Morgan Runnells Beauchamp Foundation Lisa & Jerry Simon League of American Orchestras' Futures Fund Drs. Dennis & Susan Carlyle LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation Jay & Shirley Marks Nancy & Robert Peiser Dave & Alie Pruner Michael J. Shawiak BBVA Compass Robin Angly & Miles Smith Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan

The Boeing Company Justice Brett & Erin Busby Carol & Michael Linn and The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Beth Madison Rita & Paul Morico Mr. Jay Steinfield & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop Ms. Ellen A. Yarrell, in memory of Virginia S. Anderson and in honor of Cora Sue Mach Robert G. Weiner & Toni Blankmann Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Evan B. Glick Viviana & David Denechaud Christina & Mark C. Hanson Debbie & Frank G. Jones Dr. Stewart Morris Donna & Tim Shen Tad & Suzanne Smith Judith Vincent Vicki West & Mrs. Liv Estrada BB&T / Courtney & Bill Toomey Marzena & Jacek Jaminski Cora Sue & Harry Mach Catherine & Bob Orr Mrs. Sybil F. Roos Shirley Wolff Toomim Daisy S. Wong / JCorp Brad & Joan Corson Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Estate of Freddie L. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Marvy A. Finger Eugene Fong

Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Kenneth J. Hyde Mr. Jackson D. Hicks Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Gary Mercer Mike Stude Stephen & Kristine Wallace Texas Commission on the Arts PLANNED AND ENDOWMENT GIFTS Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Robin Angly James Barton Paul M. Basinski Michael J. Shawiak C. Howard Pieper Foundation Dr. James E. & Betty W. Key The Hon. Stella G. & Richard C. Nelson Tad & Suzanne Smith Susan Gail Wood The Estate of Dorothy H. Grieves The Estate of David L. Hyde

Robin Angly & Miles Smith Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation The Hearst Foundation, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Baker Botts L.L.P. Nancy & Robert Peiser Barbara & Pat McCelvey The Robert & Janice McNair Foundation / Palmetto Partners, Ltd. John & Lindy Rydman / Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods/ Spec’s Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Billy & Christie McCartney Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Danielle & Josh Batchelor BBVA Compass Dave & Alie Pruner

EARLY ADOPTERS Margaret Alkek Williams Janice Barrow The Brown Foundation, Inc. Cora Sue & Harry Mach Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Joella & Steven P. Mach Rochelle & Max Levit Steven & Nancy Williams

For more information or to pledge your support for Vision 2025, please contact: Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO, 713.337.8540 David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, 713.337.8525

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Donna and Max Chapman

The Houston Symphony launches the 2017-18 season in style, in the company of Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, one of the world’s leading opera singers and a native Texan. Graham’s roles span four centuries, from the title role in Monteverdi’s Poppea to Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, a part written exclusively for her. The evening begins with a champagne reception followed by the Opening Night Concert at Jones Hall featuring Graham and guest conductor Gustavo Gimeno. Following the concert, the celebration continues with dinner by Jackson and Company and sensational entertainment.

The Opening Night Concert and Gala are generously supported by ConocoPhillips, the lead concert sponsor and corporate gala underwriter.

For further information contact Houston Symphony Special Events at specialevents@houstonsymphony.org or 713-337-8585.

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FEATURED PROGRAM

BEETHOVEN'S EROICA Friday

June 23, 2017

8:30pm

Miller Outdoor Theatre

Robert Franz, conductor *Annelle Gregory, violin *Houston Symphony debut

H. Willan/G. Coles Barber

Overture to an Unwritten Comedy

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Violin Concerto, Opus 14 I Allegro moderato II Andante III Presto in moto perpetuo

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Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Opus 55 (Eroica) I Allegro con brio II Marcia funebre: Adagio assai III Scherzo and Trio: Allegro vivace IV Finale: Allegro molto

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Did you know?

• Associate Conductor Robert Franz programmed AngloCanadian composer Healey Willan’s Overture to an Unwritten Comedy as the opener to tonight’s concert in tribute to Canada’s sesquicentennial celebration.

Beethoven's Eroica | Program Biographies

EXXONMOBIL SUMMER SYMPHONY NIGHTS

Program BIOGRAPHIES

These performances are generously supported in part by:

Robert Franz | conductor Robert Franz, acclaimed as a first-rate conductor and award-winning educator, is recognized as a creative force by critics, composers and audiences of all ages. Composer Bright Sheng praised Robert for his “extremely musical and passionate approach towards music making,” and critics hail his “masterly pace, emphasis and technical control.”

Guarantor City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board

Appearances by Robert Franz are sponsored by Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge.

The Houston Symphony's Miller Outdoor Theatre concerts are supported in part by an endowed fund from The Brown Foundation, Inc. in memory of Stewart and Hanni Orton.

The Houston Symphony's sound shell ceiling is made possible through the generosity of the Beauchamp Foundation and the Fondren Foundation.

Houston Public Media is the media sponsor of the Miller Outdoor Theatre series.

This concert is being recorded for future broadcasts on Houston Public Media News 88.7 airing on Sundays at 8pm and streaming online at houstonpublicmedia.org.

MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE Since it opened in 1923, Miller Outdoor Theatre has been Houston’s premiere venue for free, professional-caliber outdoor performances.

Located in Hermann Park, it is the only proscenium theatre in America that offers an eight-month season of outstanding artistry, including classical music, jazz, dance, drama, films and more. The Miller Theatre Advisory Board (MTAB) stewards public and private funds to ensure that Miller Outdoor Theatre can serve Houstonians from throughout the city and all walks of life.

The Houston Symphony’s partnership with Miller Outdoor Theatre dates back to the summer of 1940. Last summer, the six-concert ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights Series, including the annual Star-Spangled Salute on July 4, drew audiences of more than 49,000. The histories of Miller and the Symphony have been closely connected, including the opening performance of the new theatre in 1968, the Symphony’s 100th Birthday Concert in 2013 and Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada’s first performance as the Houston Symphony’s Music Director in 2014.

JEFF FITLOW

Underwriter ExxonMobil

This season, Robert celebrates his 10th year as Associate Conductor of the Houston Symphony.

A tireless ambassador for children’s musical education, he continues to work toward the Symphony’s goal of serving more than 100,000 students by the year 2025. His steady progress has almost doubled attendance during his tenure. Last season, he was the first member of the Symphony’s conducting staff honored with the Raphael Fliegel Award for Visionary Leadership, in recognition of his success in advancing the Symphony’s educational and community engagement activities. He leads the orchestra in a broad range of creative educational and family concerts, including its summer neighborhood concert series and an outreach program dedicated to bringing music to all Houston communities.

Robert’s expressive and incisive style has placed him in increasing demand as a guest conductor, with appearances including The Cleveland Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis and Victoria Symphonies, and Italy’s Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina.

ASCAP has recognized Robert on two occasions for his advocacy in arts education. Under his direction, both the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra were awarded the Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational Programming. The Louisville Orchestra’s award led to the creation of Creating Music and Stories, an education program for Kentucky Educational Television.

Robert’s expertise in music education was recognized by the Idaho Legislature when he was invited to speak about its importance to the education committee.

He was also invited to speak at the League of American Orchestra conference on the topic of New Music: Opportunities to Broaden Audiences.

In addition to his current post in Houston, he is music director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Orchestra.

Robert also served as music director of the Boise Philharmonic (2008–16) and the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra in Ohio (2003–10), resident conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (2005–09) and associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra (1997-2006).

Robert received his Master of Music degree in conducting and his Bachelor of Music degree in oboe performance from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

Please visit robertfranz.com.

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Annelle Gregory | violin Annelle Kazumi Gregory is First Prize and Audience Choice award winner of the 2017 Annual Sphinx Competition and a Laureate of the 2013 Stradivarius International Violin Competition. She also won First Prize in the 2017 Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition, the 2016 American Protégé International Concerto Competition, the 2015 Beverly Hills National Auditions and Gold Medal in the 2012 National NAACP ACT-SO Competition.

She won First Prize in the 2014–16 Musical Merit Competitions, 2016 Classics Alive Young Artist Auditions, 2013 La Jolla Symphony Young Artists Competition, 2013 San Diego Symphony Young Artist Competition, 2013 Grossmont Community Concert Association Competition, 2012 Jester Hairston Competition and 2012 NANM Georgia Laster Branch Competition, as well as competitions of the ASTA, MTAC and MTAC-VOCE organizations.

She was awarded the 2014 Glenn Dicterow Music Scholarship, has received scholarships from the League of Allied Arts and the Musical Merit Foundation, and has been supported in part by a Sphinx MPower Artist grant.

Annelle has released a CD (Bridge Records) with Russian pianist Alexander Sinchuk, Rachmaninoff: Complete Works & Transcriptions for Violin & Piano. This is her second CD with Sinchuk. She can be heard on Carol Williams’ CD, Just Carol Compositions.

From 2012 to 2015, she was concertmaster and featured soloist for the California International Music Festival Orchestra at Namedy and Weikersheim Castles in Germany. She has performed with the orchestras of Detroit, La Jolla, San Diego, Chicago Sinfonietta, Nashville, Santa Monica, California Chamber Orchestra, Torrance and the Long Beach Mozart Festival, among others. She was a featured soloist in the 2016 iPalpiti Festival and, in 2013, opened for the Moscow Ballet, performing a solo with the principal ballerina.

Annelle has performed at numerous venues in Russia, the U.K., Germany and Portugal as well as throughout the United States (Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts). She has been featured on BBC radio, American Public Media, KUSC, WQXR and others as well as on German television and Detroit Public Television. Her teachers have included Glenn Dicterow and Michael Tseitlin.

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Program NOTES Overture to an Unwritten Comedy Healey Willan (1880-1968)

Healey Willan was a Canadian musical institution. The Toronto Conservatory brought him from his native England in 1913 to head its music theory department, and he worked tirelessly as a teacher, Anglican church musician and composer for the next half-century.

Encyclopedia of Music in Canada says Willan was the most prolific composer of sacred music after J.S. Bach, but he also created two symphonies, an opera and other theatrical works. One of his life’s high points came in 1953, when Westminster Abbey’s choir sang his anthem O Lord, Our Governor during the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Though some of Willan’s works had to be solemn, his personal demeanor was anything but, according to his daughter, Mary Willan Mason. “He laughed uproariously and often chuckled,” she recalls.

When she suggested that her father feature the harp, he declined, “saying that harps solos reminded him of angels picking their teeth. … He once described some rather pedantic piece as like taking a reluctant puppy on a walk with a rubber leash.”

Overture to an Unwritten Comedy, dedicated to a friend “with whom I have often exchanged the merry quip,” harks back to the gusto and warmth of British icon Edward Elgar, Willan’s older contemporary.

A violin flourish pulls in the rest of the orchestra, and the strings launch into a surging, optimistic tune that would fit right into one of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches. After the woodwinds’ interjections add a perkier note, the solo violin leads a handful of other strings in a few moments of coziness. Then, the woodwinds’ brightness returns, and even the strings scamper a bit. The trombone adds a spirited solo, and the main tune’s glow returns.

The Instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, percussion, harp and strings

Violin Concerto, Opus 14 Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Samuel Barber won the music world’s attention at age 28, when the NBC Symphony Orchestra performed his Adagio for Strings on a nationwide radio broadcast. The next year, a young violinist named Iso Briselli commissioned Barber to compose a violin concerto.

He pocketed the $500 advance and got to work, and the first two movements landed in Briselli’s hands a few months later. Then the situation turned dicey.

Briselli’s violin coach pushed for changes. He complimented the music's “beautiful romantic moods” but declared “it is not a composition gratifying for a violinist to perform.” After Barber submitted the whirlwind finale, Briselli’s coach demanded a rewrite, declaring it a mistake for the ending to be “a race with many notes without a breath of rest.” Barber, believing in his work’s value, dug in his heels, and Briselli gave back the score. Not only did Barber get to keep the $500, but history came out on his side: A better-known violinist premiered the concerto, whose lyricism has earned it a place among the most compelling violin concertos of any period.

Beethoven's Eroica | Program Notes

As in Barber’s Adagio for Strings, long-breathed melody is the concerto’s heart. But the Adagio’s gravity gives way here to tenderness, ardor and dash.

The soloist launches right into a gentle, sinuous melody whose emotional temperature will rise as the first movement unfolds. The orchestra’s soft shadings enhance the wistfulness, then the clarinet steps up with a buoyant, rhythmic theme that points in a more dance-like direction. But the violin immediately puts songfulness back in the forefront, and the orchestra’s strings give the opening melody a new fullness. Now the violin injects a more impulsive note, and for the rest of the movement, the strings’ lyricism and the woodwinds’ urge to dance play off against one another, each growing passionate. The violin finally takes a brief turn with the woodwinds’ theme, then leads to a quiet close.

The strings’ glow sets a new scene, and the oboe sings out the spacious melody whose yearning drives the slow movement. After the strings bring it their fuller voice, the French horn’s mellowness sets up a moment of repose. Then the solo violin enters. Rather than take up the main tune right away, though, it delivers a soliloquy that almost sounds improvised—beginning simply, then gaining urgency as it draws in the orchestra. It injects that fervor into the big melody, and when the orchestra joins in, the music reaches its climax.

The soloist takes off at top speed, and from that moment on, the finale lives up to its label of in moto perpetuo—in perpetual motion.

Sometime the orchestra taps out a quiet, crisp accompaniment, and the music suggests an extra-lively jig. Despite what Briselli’s violin coach claimed, the soloist does get two brief rests: During the first, the orchestra’s strings take over the high-speed dash; during the second, the woodwinds chatter and scramble. Then the violin sprints to the close, with the orchestra’s walloping chords as an accent.

The Instruments: 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, percussion, piano and strings

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Opus 55 (Eroica) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Napoleon Bonaparte held a powerful place in Beethoven’s thoughts.

Having risen from humble beginnings thanks to talent and drive, Beethoven admired France’s corporal-turned-ruler for doing the same, and the idealistic composer dreamed that Napoleon would advance the French Revolution’s goals of liberty and equality. As Beethoven composed his Symphony No. 3 in 1803-04, he clung to his vision of Napoleon as an enlightened leader. On the front of the new work’s score, Beethoven added the title Bonaparte. Soon afterward, the news that Napoleon had declared himself emperor led to one of the most-repeated anecdotes about Beethoven’s life: He denounced the French ruler as a tyrant and obliterated the title from the manuscript. Yet Beethoven’s idealized image didn’t entirely fade. He left the words “written about Bonaparte” on the title page. Two years later, he added the title we know today—Sinfonia Eroica—and the subtitle “Composed to celebrate the memory of a great man.”

The Eroica starts with a bang: two short, forceful chords. The cellos set off into the striding theme that plays the movement’s leading

role, and within moments, the music’s other driving forces appear.

The winds’ gentler sidelights show that Beethoven’s musical incarnation of confidence and vigor also embraces grace, and rhythm plays a role as syncopations—accents that go against the music’s basic pulse—heighten the energy. Only after the strings’ muscle-flexing drives a crescendo does the orchestra finally trumpet the main theme fortissimo.

As the music unfolds, turbulence appears, and the orchestra unleashes dissonant chords that must have shocked Beethoven’s contemporaries. When the tension subsides, Beethoven throws in another bold stroke: As the strings quietly tap out one chord, the French horn contradicts them, bringing in the main theme outlining a different harmony. (When one of Beethoven’s friends heard this and assumed it was a mistake, the trailblazing composer all but threw him out of the room.) But order returns, and the movement builds to an exuberant finish.

The symphony’s memorial role comes to the fore in the second movement, a funeral march. The violins begin it with a somber minor-key melody that sounds even more plaintive when the oboe sings it out. Underneath it, the cellos and double basses add a haunting ingredient: Their short, quick strokes hark back to the drum flourishes that accompany somber military marches. After the violins introduce another solemn melody, a sudden turn to a major key brings a glow. The music builds to a ringing climax—a salute, perhaps, to the departed hero. Then the lamenting lyricism returns, and the final fade suggests a procession disappearing into the distance.

Dynamism returns in the third movement, where bustling strings propel a breezy woodwind melody that soon explodes with excitement. The French horns, one of Beethoven’s favorite symbols of strength and nobility, take a sonorous turn in the spotlight. And the finale, a theme and variations, brings the symphony another mood: joviality. The music begins with the theme’s crisp bass line, then adds the lilting melody, and it grows more and more lusty before taking a surprise turn. The tempo slows, and the theme takes a lyrical, eloquent form. Then the exuberance bursts out again, and it has the last word.

The Instruments: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings —Steven Brown

FEATURED PROGRAM

MOZART & DVORˇÁK Saturday

June 24, 2017

8:30pm

Miller Outdoor Theatre

*David Danzmayr, conductor William VerMeulen, horn *Houston Symphony debut

J. López

Mozart

Fiesta!

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Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, K.417 I Allegro II Andante III Rondo: Allegro

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Symphony No. 8 in G major, Opus 88 I Allegro con brio II Adagio III Allegretto grazioso—Molto vivace IV Allegro, ma non troppo

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Did you know?

• Jimmy López launches his three-year tenure as the Houston Symphony’s Composerin-Residence with tonight’s performance of Fiesta!

• As did previous Composer-in-Residence Gabriela Lena Frank for her Conquest Requiem, Jimmy has collaborated with Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright Nilo Cruz for his opera Bel Canto.

Mozart & Dvořák | Program Biographies

EXXONMOBIL SUMMER SYMPHONY NIGHTS

These performances are generously supported in part by:

Program BIOGRAPHIES David Danzmayr | conductor

Guarantor City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Underwriter ExxonMobil The Houston Symphony's Composer-in-Residence and commissioning initiatives are supported in part by Robin Angly and Miles Smith, The Brown Foundation Inc. and Michael J. Shawiak.

The Houston Symphony's Miller Outdoor Theatre concerts are supported in part by an endowed fund from The Brown Foundation, Inc. in memory of Stewart and Hanni Orton.

The Houston Symphony's sound shell ceiling is made possible through the generosity of the Beauchamp Foundation and the Fondren Foundation.

Houston Public Media is the media sponsor of the Miller Outdoor Theatre series.

This concert is being recorded for future broadcasts on Houston Public Media News 88.7 airing on Sundays at 8pm and streaming online at houstonpublicmedia.org.

David Danzmayr is chief conductor of the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. The first to hold this title in seven years, he is following in the footsteps of famous conductors like Lovro von Matačić, Kazushi Ono and Dmitri Kitayenko. Last season, he led the orchestra in a highly successful tour to the Salzburg Festspielhaus where they performed the prestigious New Year’s concert and received an invitation to return.

In the United States, David is music director of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and artistic advisor of the Breckenridge Music Festival. Previously, he was music director of the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, the only conductor in the Chicago area who programmed a piece of American music on every concert.

David has won prizes at some of the world´s most prestigious conducting competitions, including a second prize at the International Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition and prizes at the international Malko Competition for Young Conductors. For his extraordinary success, he has was awarded the Bernhard-Paumgartner Medal by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum.

Propelled by early successes into a far-reaching international career, David has quickly become a sought-after guest conductor for orchestras around the globe, from San Diego to Salzburg and from Indianapolis to Iceland. Besides numerous re-invitations, future engagements will include concerts with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Essener Philharmoniker and Hamburger Symphoniker.

David frequently appears in the world´s major concert halls, such as Vienna’s Musikverein and Konzerthaus, Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg, Usher Hall Edinburgh and Chicago’s Symphony Hall.

He has served as assistant conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, which he conducted in more than 70 concerts, performing in all the major Scottish concert halls and in the prestigious Orkney-based St Magnus Festival.

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In addition to meeting communities’ cultural needs, BBVA Compass also strives to meet its clients’ needs through innovative and industry-leading products and services. It is interested in building long-term relationships with its clients and takes the same approach with its nonprofit partnerships.

David received his musical training at the University Mozarteum of Salzburg where, after initially studying piano, he studied conducting in the class of Dennis Russell Davies. He finished his studies with highest honors.

David Danzmayr was strongly influenced by Pierre Boulez and Claudio Abbado in his time as conducting stipendiate of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and by Leif Segerstam during additional studies in the conducting class at the Sibelius Academy. Subsequently, he gained significant experience as assistant to Neeme Järvi, Stéphane Denève, Carlos Kalmar, Sir Andrew Davis and Boulez, who entrusted David with the preparatory rehearsals for his own music.

BBVA Compass understands that a mutual dependence exists between business and society, and it generously lends its support to the Houston Symphony as a cornerstone of Houston culture.

Please visit bbvacompass.com.

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William VerMeulen | horn World-renowned hornist William VerMeulen leads a varied musical life of soloist, orchestral principal, chamber musician, master teacher and music publisher. Since he began his career in 1979 at age 18 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he has emerged as America’s leading horn soloist and preeminent teacher.

As an orchestral principal, Bill has been Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony since 1990 and has appeared as guest principal with many of the world’s leading orchestras.

Equally regarded for orchestral and chamber music performance and teaching, Bill performs at the world’s leading festivals and has taught hundreds of masterclasses worldwide. As professor of horn at Rice University, he is one of the most influential horn teachers of all time, with students in most of America’s leading orchestras.

Close to 300 positions have been offered to his students. He is also brass artist-in-residence at The Glenn Gould School in Toronto and visiting professor of horn at the Eastman School of Music and on the faculty at the New World Symphony in Miami.

Bill was awarded the Distinguished Teacher of America Certificate of Excellence by President Reagan and The Commission on Presidential Scholars. Among his dozens of recordings are the Mozart Horn Concerti with Christoph Eschenbach conducting the Houston Symphony and The Christmas Horn (Summit Records), on which he is featured with his Rice University students, The Rice Horn Crew. He is president of VerMeulen Music, LLC, which provides music and products for horn players.

Program NOTES Fiesta!

Jimmy López (1978-) Jimmy López is the Houston Symphony’s new Composer-inResidence. A native of Peru, he studied at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima and then earned a master’s degree from the Sibelius Academy in Finland. A doctorate in music from the University of California, Berkeley capped off his training, and California remains his home.

Leading music groups on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra, have performed Jimmy’s work. In January, PBS’ Great Performances telecast his opera Bel Canto, which Lyric Opera of Chicago premiered in 2015. The Houston Symphony first spotlighted López last fall, when Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada conducted his América Salvaje during the annual Fiesta Sinfónica concert.

Jimmy’s first commission for the orchestra will be Aurora, a violin concerto Andrés and the group will premiere September 22-24.

Eclecticism is a key part of Jimmy’s style. He relishes the challenge of creating “musically sensible” works out of seemingly incompatible ingredients. Subtitled Four Pop Dances for Orchestra, Fiesta! draws on elements of classical, Latin American, AfroPeruvian and contemporary popular music. As a precedent, he cites 18th-century composers who transformed the jig and other dances into classical-music genres. Fiesta! draws on today’s techno music (“a form of electronic dance music that generally makes use of hypnotic and repetitive rhythms,” as described by López) and its offshoot, trance. “I believe they have enough potential to justify further development, but always keeping the primeval dancing forces present in them.”

Fiesta! comprises four compact movements. Jimmy says the titles of Trance 1 and Trance 2, the first and third movements, relate not only to techno music’s repetition, but to trance’s original meaning: He’s “trying to convey the hypnotizing state achieved while listening to a constantly shifting melody against a static background.”

Kicked off by a drum roll, Trance 1 begins with staccato instrumental lines that establish the music’s pulse. A crisp, angular violin melody takes the lead, and the strings tackle a lustier theme. Then the music quiets, and smoother lines help create the dreamy effect.

Countertime sports a title Jimmy coined. Just as counterpoint refers to multiple melodies that overlap, he says, this points to rhythms that crisscross the basic beat. The movement begins rowdily, propelled by driving percussion and flashing brasses. A soft theme that floats up from the cellos takes over briefly, then the music erupts again.

Buoyant rhythms tapped out by drums open Trance 2. The strings sneak in, and the music gains force as a short, quick rhythmic motif—da-da-da-DAA—galvanizes the orchestra. The music suddenly quiets, and the strings pulsate in the background as the winds jump in and out of the spotlight. A brass-and-percussion salvo opens Techno, which unleashes the merengue and other propulsive Latin rhythms to drive Fiesta! to a booming finish.

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Mozart & Dvořák | Program Notes

The Instruments: 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings

Horn Concerto No. 2 in E-flat major, K.417 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

As a celebrated prodigy, the young Mozart was introduced to several of Europe’s leading musicians. As a 7-year-old, he met Joseph Leutgeb, a Viennese horn player acclaimed far beyond his native Austria. After Leutgeb debuted in France, a Paris journal declared he could “sing an Adagio as perfectly as the most mellow, interesting and accurate voice.” Even though Leutgeb was a generation older, he and Mozart became friends, and they remained close for the rest of Mozart’s life.

Mozart composed four horn concertos as vehicles for Leutgeb.

Outside the concert hall, they had a jovial relationship. Leutgeb goodnaturedly put up with Mozart’s ribbing, such as this inscription in the score of Mozart’s Horn Concerto No. 2: “W.A. Mozart took pity on Leutgeb, ass, ox and fool, in Vienna on 27 May 1783.”

The orchestra opens the concerto with a sunny, flowing theme that leads to a mellower tune. A crescendo leads to a cadence that practically calls out to the soloist, “Take it away!” The horn steps forth with its own decisive theme, whose ascending scales provide the soloist’s first chance to display some nimbleness.

After repeating the orchestra’s second theme and engaging in a little cross play, including more flourishes, the horn joins the orchestra in a new, buoyant tune. A shadow comes over the music, and the soloist spins out a quiet but restless melody above the orchestra’s unsettled harmony. The music then brightens again, and cheerfulness holds sway for the rest of the movement.

The Andante invites soloists to show they, like Leutgeb, can make the horn sing. A serene melody from the orchestra opens it. After echoing the theme, the horn adds another lilting tune, and the orchestra replies gracefully. As everyone continues savoring the lyricism, the music never raises its voice, and tension never intrudes.

The horn launches the finale with a theme that dances the jig, and the orchestra joins in with gusto. After introducing another spirited theme, the soloist adds a seemingly innocuous bit of byplay—a giddyap rhythm on one note—that contributes to the fun for the rest of the movement. The horn keeps adding ingredients to the mix: First, a quiet, droll theme accompanied by a staccato violin part like laughter; later, a mellifluous tune that complements the hijinks. A sudden burst of speed signals the finish is near, and the horn bows out with burst of the giddyap motif before the orchestra brings down the curtain.

The Instruments: 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns and strings

Symphony No. 8 in G major, Opus 88 Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

Antonín Dvořák’s career boomed when he was in his 40s, and his success enabled him to buy property in the Czech countryside. He had a farm building converted into a house as his summer retreat.

It contained one room set up as a studio, and Dvořák tucked himself away in the summer of 1889 to compose his Symphony No. 8.

His rural surroundings may have helped inspire the symphony’s freshness and lyricism. For instance, sunny flute solos whose freeas-a-bird feel almost amount to tone-painting. Regardless of any extra-musical urges, Dvořák wanted to break free of music’s “usual, universally applied and recognized forms,” he said. His Symphony No. 8 bears out his words, especially in its first movement.

Even though the symphony’s overall key is G major, it begins in G minor, as cellos, clarinets and French horns intone a pensive, yearning melody. Unlike many symphonies’ opening gambits, this isn’t the first movement’s main theme; rather, it stands apart. A jaunty flute solo moves the music to G major, and the orchestra forgets the cello melody for a while as cheeriness takes hold. The orchestra cuts loose lustily, and after it transforms the flute’s solo into a jubilant proclamation, the strings bring a few moments of coziness. A buoyant woodwind tune perks the music up again, and another woodwind melody leads to a new burst of excitement. But when that dies down, the melancholy cello theme returns. When the flute replies this time, it can’t banish the shadows. The music grows restless, and a storm breaks out, driven in part by a fierce transformation of the flute’s tune. The climax comes as the trumpets cry out the cello theme above churning, fortissimo strings. After that catharsis, the winds help bring back warmth and vigor, and the movement sweeps to an exuberant close.

The Adagio begins meditatively, as the strings’ quiet introduction gives way to a gentle duet for clarinets. Then the music breaks out of its shell. The winds launch into a soaring melody that exudes sweetness, and the solo violin supplies a gleaming reply. The orchestra adds a ringing affirmation, but soon, turbulence intrudes.

The soaring tune reappears, and serenity reigns.

The mellow, flowing third movement hints at a waltz’ lilt, and an interlude complements that with one of Dvořák’s most delicious melodies. A trumpet fanfare opens the finale, a set of variations on a glowing, optimistic theme introduced by the cellos. Excitement quickly takes hold. A glittering flute solo adds its sunshine, and the music overflows with gusto. After the strings serve notice that the theme embraces eloquence, too, the excitement returns.

The Instruments: 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes (1 doubling English horn), 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani and strings —Steven Brown

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FEATURED PROGRAM

TCHAIKOVSKY & MENDELSSOHN Friday

June 30, 2017

8:30pm

Miller Outdoor Theatre

*Ben Gernon, conductor *George Li, piano *Houston Symphony debut

Glinka Tchaikovsky

Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila

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Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23 I Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso II Andantino semplice III Allegro con fuoco

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• Mikhail Glinka was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and per the New York Times, he is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music.

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Mendelssohn

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Opus 11 I Allegro di molto II Andante III Menuetto: Allegro molto IV Allegro con fuoco

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• From 1835 to 1847, Felix Mendelssohn served as conductor of the historic Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Tchaikovsky & Mendelssohn | Program Biographies

Program BIOGRAPHIES EXXONMOBIL SUMMER SYMPHONY NIGHTS

These performances are generously supported in part by:

Guarantor City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Underwriter ExxonMobil

The Houston Symphony's Miller Outdoor Theatre concerts are supported in part by an endowed fund from The Brown Foundation, Inc. in memory of Stewart and Hanni Orton.

The Houston Symphony's sound shell ceiling is made possible through the generosity of the Beauchamp Foundation and the Fondren Foundation.

Houston Public Media is the media sponsor of the Miller Outdoor Theatre series.

This concert is being recorded for future broadcasts on Houston Public Media News 88.7 airing on Sundays at 8pm and streaming online at houstonpublicmedia.org.

SIMON ANNAND

Ben Gernon | conductor Ben Gernon first attracted international attention when he won the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductor’s Award in 2013 following a unanimous decision by the jury led by Ingo Metzmacher, and soon after became a Dudamel Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has since conducted extensively across the United Kingdom, Europe, Japan and the United States.

He has been praised repeatedly for his effortless authority on the podium, his drive and command of the orchestra and his incisive, heart-felt and evocative interpretations. In January 2017, in recognition of the excellent rapport he has built with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra over recent seasons, he was named its principal guest conductor for the 2017-18 season, one of the youngest conductors to have held a titled position with a BBC orchestra.

Alongside his work with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Ben works regularly with most of the UK orchestras. He has conducted two BBC Proms: in 2012 in a composer portrait of Tansy Davies and in 2014 on the occasion of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ 80th birthday with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Highlights of his 2016-17 season in Europe included debuts with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Swedish Radio Symphony and Stuttgart Staatstheater orchestras.

Ben made two major U.S. debuts last summer: at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Phil and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival.

Following his 2015-16 debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, he made an immediate return the following season. He has conducted the National Philharmonic of Russia and the New Japan and Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestras.

A keen opera conductor, he made his debuts in the 2016-17 season with the Glyndebourne Touring Opera conducting Don Giovanni, and with Oper Stuttgart conducting The Marriage of Figaro. Previous productions have included a specially-crafted arrangement of Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail with the Young Singers Project at the Salzburg Festival; and further ahead, he looks forward to conducting The Magic Flute and Barber of Seville.

Ben Gernon studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Sian Edwards, with whom he still works closely, and with Sir Colin Davis, who was a profoundly influential figure in Ben’s musical development.

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George Li | piano Praised by the Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command and depth of expression,” pianist George Li possesses brilliant virtuosity and effortless grace far beyond his years.

He captured the Silver Medal at the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition and received the 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Among George’s many prizes, he was the First Prize winner of the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2012 Gilmore Young Artist Award.

Recent and upcoming highlights include multiple performances with the Mariinsky Orchestra and Valery Gergiev; St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra with Yuri Temirkanov; The Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra with Manfred Honeck; Seattle Symphony and Verbier Festival Orchestra with Emmanuel Krivine; Utah Symphony with Robert Spano; and additional performances with Lucerne Festival Orchestra, DSO Berlin, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Grafenegg Festival, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Malmö Symphony Orchestra and the opening night concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Gustavo Dudamel.

Recital highlights include the Mariinsky Theatre, Munich’s Gasteig, The Louvre, Emil Gilels Festival in Freiburg, Seoul Arts Center, Vladivostok Festival, Tokyo’s Asahi Hall and Musashino Hall, National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Ravinia Festival, Festival de Lanaudière, Schloss Elmau, Edinburgh International Festival and Montreaux Jazz Festival.

George Li gave his first public performance at Boston’s Steinway Hall at age 10; and in 2011, he performed for President Obama at the White House in an evening honoring Chancellor Angela Merkel.

George is currently in the Harvard University / New England Conservatory dual degree program studying with Wha Kyung Byun.

Program NOTES Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)

Mikhail Glinka grew up hundreds of miles from Russia’s cultural capitals, but his hometown in a western province exposed him to a rich variety of music. He heard his nanny singing folksongs. He absorbed Russian religious music his grandfather helped fund at their church. And he fell in love with European classical music thanks to an uncle who maintained a small orchestra on his estate.

Music, Glinka decided, was his calling.

Glinka’s mixture of experiences helped change the course of Russian music. Until he came along, Europeans and the styles they brought with them had held sway in Russia. But Glinka’s works melded Russia’s folk music with Western sounds and forms. His 1842 opera Ruslan and Ludmila, the tale of a knight’s quest to rescue his sweetheart from a sorcerer, helped open a new path for Russian composers. Its luxurious textures returned in the likes of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Its fairy-tale story opened the way for other works based on Russian lore, such as Igor Stravinsky’s The Firebird.

Ruslan and Ludmila’s rousing overture is by far Glinka’s best-known work. The bulk of it comes from the opera’s happy ending, where the orchestra’s virtuosity heightens the excitement as the chorus cries, “Glory to our holy fatherland! Glory to Ruslan and his princess! May our fatherland be blessed with glory and happiness forever!”

The orchestra springs into action with salvos of powerful staccato chords. Each burst leads to a flourish from the strings—the entire section, all the way down to the double basses. Then the lower strings switch to a background role, and the violins and violas launch into the overture’s dashing main theme. After showing off their virtuosity, they get to catch their breath when the winds move into the spotlight, volleying back and forth with the main theme’s first few notes. As a contrast to the bustle, the cellos step forth with a catchy, long-breathed melody. Full-throated though it is, the tune maintains the breezy pace, so the excitement continues.

After the violins lend their own exuberant voice to the cello tune, the orchestra brings the overture’s other themes back into the mix.

As they morph into new forms and resume their original ones, their cross play propels the overture to its exultant finish.

The Instruments: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and strings

Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Opus 23 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

The tunefulness and excitement of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 have long made it an audience magnet. The composer originally faced a very different reaction, though. Soon after completing it, the 34-year-old played it for three friends, including one of Russia’s most important musicians, Nikolai Rubinstein, a piano virtuoso and head of the Moscow Conservatory. After the first movement, the composer looked up. No response. Tchaikovsky 28 | Houston Symphony

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continued to the end. Then, Rubinstein unleashed “a stream of words, quiet at first, but subsequently assuming more and more the tone of Jove the Thunderer,” Tchaikovsky reported. “It appeared that my concerto was worthless, that it was unplayable, that passages were trite, awkward and so clumsy that it was impossible to put them right, that as a composition it was bad and tawdry.”

Tchaikovsky was mortified at first, but he stuck by his work. The concerto found its first champion in a German pianist-conductor who premiered it in Boston. The work caused a sensation there, as it eventually did everywhere. In 1947, Houston earned a place in the work’s history. A Texas 12-year-old named Van Cliburn, who would grow up to electrify the music world with his performances of the concerto, tackled it for his first time, playing the first movement with the Houston Symphony.

Fortissimo French horns open the way for the rest of the orchestra, hinting at the first theme which soon arrives: Violins and cellos launch into the majestic theme, which has become a Tchaikovsky calling card. The piano first adds its heft to the tune’s accompaniment. Then it takes center stage, and its ringing chords give the melody even more grandeur. After the soloist’s first round of muscle-flexing—flourishes that span the keyboard—the music simmers down. The famous theme has done its job, raising the curtain on the concerto in style, and it won’t return.

The piano launches the first movement proper, springing into a brisk, taut theme based on a Ukrainian folk song. After another burst of keyboard virtuosity, the orchestra supplies a couple of contrasts. The winds, led off by the clarinet, sing out a melody that rises yearningly; silky strings complement that with a more peaceful theme. As the piano stirs up the music’s passions, it and the orchestra transform the themes into fiery new forms. For instance, the French horns seize on the string melody’s first notes, turning them into an outcry. The piano’s solo leads to a pair of soliloquies that embrace storminess, brooding and poetry. The orchestra brings lyricism back to the fore, and the movement surges to its close.

Plucked strings set the scene for the slow movement, where simplicity and charm reign. A lilting melody moves from the flute to the piano, and the winds introduce a more sinuous theme. The piano suddenly takes flight, and a dashing interlude features a breezy, swirling waltz. Then, the main tune’s sweetness returns. The piano bounds into action in the finale with another Ukrainian folk theme.

The orchestra adds a lusty dance of its own, and the violins add a sleek, surging melody. After the piano and orchestra revel in more fun and excitement, the violin tune returns in triumphant form.

The Instruments: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani and percussion

Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Opus 11 Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

When the 20-year-old Mendelssohn’s burgeoning career first took him to England, his debut concert included his Symphony No. 1, which he had composed at 15. Its multi-talented creator conducted, and even the first rehearsal had an audience. “After every movement, the people present applauded, and so did the orchestra,” Mendelssohn reported home. “After the last movement, they made a

great to-do. I had to repeat the finale because it went badly, and again there was great approval…. I had to go down to the audience and bow my thanks right and left. I must have shaken 200 hands. It was one of my happiest moments.”

After long being eclipsed by the scintillating works Mendelssohn began unveiling later in his teens, the Symphony No. 1 has peeked out from the shadows. It sometimes echoes the works of Mendelssohn’s musical forebears. But its combination of drive and sweetness reveals the family resemblance to Mendelssohn’s betterknown works.

The opening’s hard-charging violins and bold chords hark back to Mozart’s and Beethoven’s tempestuous moments. But the woodwinds respond with a smooth, sweet theme that transforms the mood. An airy melody shared by violins and winds hints at the graceful contours that become a Mendelssohn hallmark in later works. A passage for bustling, staccato strings offers yet another glimpse of the future. The turbulence returns, though. The melodies that were first so cheerful take on darker shadings, and slashing strings help propel the movement to a taut, impassioned finish.

The Andante revolves around a mellifluous tune whose beginning sounds a bit like a hymn. The strings introduce it, and the woodwinds reply harmoniously. Even though the music periodically hints at tension, that always subsides, and the orchestra embroiders the melody more richly each time it returns.

The minuet opens boldly, then becomes more genial. It grows even cozier when the winds spin out a mellifluous melody as an interlude.

As the music rouses again, the buildup is reminiscent of the one that leads to the finale of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, complete with taps on the kettledrums. Mendelssohn’s finale is dynamic and fiery from the start. After a breezy theme for pizzicato strings lightens the mood, the turbulence resumes, and it sets off a couple of bursts of counterpoint. But rousing trumpets and drums herald another change of tone. As the symphony ends, jubilation reigns.

The Instruments: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani and strings —Steven Brown

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FEATURED PROGRAM

BRAHMS’ SYMPHONY NO. 4 Saturday

July 1, 2017

8:30pm

Miller Outdoor Theatre

*Alexander Prior, conductor Rainer Crosett, cello, Silver medal winner, 2017 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition *Houston Symphony debut

Verdi TBA

Overture to I Vespri Siciliani

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Concerto TBA I N T E R M I S S I O N

Brahms

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Opus 98 I Allegro non troppo II Andante moderato III Allegro giocoso IV Allegro energico e passionato

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• Tonight’s soloist is the 2017 Silver Medal Winner of the prestigious Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition, hosted by the Shepherd School at Rice University on June 3.

Brahms' Symphony No. 4 | Program Biography

Program BIOGRAPHY EXXONMOBIL SUMMER SYMPHONY NIGHTS

These performances are generously supported in part by:

Alexander Prior | conductor

Guarantor City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Underwriter ExxonMobil

The Houston Symphony's Miller Outdoor Theatre concerts are supported in part by an endowed fund from The Brown Foundation, Inc. in memory of Stewart and Hanni Orton.

The Houston Symphony's sound shell ceiling is made possible through the generosity of the Beauchamp Foundation and the Fondren Foundation.

Houston Public Media is the media sponsor of the Miller Outdoor Theatre series.

This concert is being recorded for future broadcasts on Houston Public Media News 88.7 airing on Sundays at 8pm and streaming online at houstonpublicmedia.org.

DIANA UNT

In the 2017-18 season, 24-year-old Alexander Prior begins his tenure as chief conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. Last season, he conducted that orchestra, Elektra with the Edmonton Opera, Hänsel und Gretel with the Vancouver Opera and Swan Lake with The Royal Danish Orchestra. He has conducted throughout Europe and, in the United States, the Seattle Symphony and New World Symphony.

Equally committed to the stage, Alexander's recent operatic engagements have included Carmen with the Royal Danish Opera; La traviata with Oper Leipzig, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Romanian National Opera; and Mirandolina with the Bayerische Staatsoper. His debut with the Staatstheater Braunschweig led to a continued relationship and a re-invitation to premiere a new production of Rigoletto in the 2015-16 season. Immediately following the premiere, the orchestra awarded him its rare Louis Spohr Medal “in recognition of his musicality and leading role in the arts.”

Alexander Prior’s catalogue of compositions is substantial in its share of high-profile commissions. His ballet Mowgli, commissioned by the Moscow State Ballet and first performed at the Kremlin Ballet Theatre in 2008, secured international critical acclaim and has now been running for almost 10 consecutive years. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra recently premiered his latest work, Putl’lt, a large symphonic work inspired by the eponymous Nuxalk word meaning “everything belongs to those generations that are not yet born.”

Other landmark works include Distant Calls for voice and piano quintet; Elegy in Memory of Ligeti for cello and piano; Horizons: An American Crescendo for four soloists and orchestra, premiered by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Prior’s direction at the Barbican Centre; Symphony No. 4, Gogol, commissioned by the cultural committee of St. Petersburg for the St. Petersburg State Academic Symphony Orchestra and Choir; Symphony No. 6, premiered by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; and the triple concerto That Which Must Remain Unspoken for piano, violin and cello, commissioned by the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong.

A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Alexander was the James Levine Fellow at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Music Center and was awarded a Conducting Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and School. In the 2009-10 season, he served as assistant conductor at the Seattle Symphony.

His mentors include Thomas Dausgaard, Robert Spano, Michael Tilson Thomas, Andrew Manze, Nicholas McGegan and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.

Please visit alexprior.co.uk.

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Program NOTES Overture to I Vespri Siciliani Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Giuseppe Verdi won an operatic trifecta with Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata, consecutive works that became instant classics.

His next work was a five-act extravaganza: I Vespri Siciliani (The Sicilian Vespers), set on the Italian island of Sicily while the French occupied it during the 1200s. The title derives from the opera’s climax, when church bells announcing the vespers service signal Sicilian patriots to attack their French occupiers.

The story’s combination of romance, Italian patriotism and filial devotion (a Sicilian patriot turns out to be the French governor’s son) inspired Verdi to create a rich and powerful score. But the opera’s size and demands, including a half-hour ballet depicting the four seasons, have kept it from becoming an opera-house staple.

The patriot leader’s salute to his hometown of Palermo is a recital warhorse for basses, though. And the overture, based on themes from the opera, gives orchestras a concise, rousing showpiece for the concert hall.

The music begins somberly. The strings and drums establish the slow, muffled tread of a funeral march, and the winds foreshadow a prayer that monks will intone for patriots sentenced to death. The music suddenly warms when a broad, major-key melody wells up from the winds, which comes from the heroine’s prayer for calm seas in the first scene. The rugged march rhythm continues under it, sustaining the overture’s tension, which suddenly flares up in a drum roll.

Tumultuous music from the opera’s climactic massacre explodes from the orchestra, whose brasses blaze. When the violence dies down, the cellos sing out another of the opera’s big tunes. This one belongs to the duet that reveals the father-son link between the French governor and a Sicilian patriot. A crescendo leads to more turbulence, driven by an amped-up version of the monks’ chant.

Then the strings bring yet another contrast. They whisper the music of the heroine’s goodbye to Sicily as she awaits her execution. The cellos’ melody surges again, growing more fervent than ever as it draws in the rest of the orchestra. Its momentum helps propel the overture to a fiery close.

The Instruments: flute, piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion and strings

Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Opus 98 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Johannes Brahms summoned some of his closest friends to a Vienna piano shop in the fall of 1885 to display the results of his annual working vacation in the Austrian countryside. After he and a fellow pianist played a two-keyboard version of his Symphony No. 4, the group was unmoved. Compared to the tunefulness and glow of his previous two symphonies, the new work’s relative

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soberness left listeners cold. One urged Brahms to jettison the last two movements and try again. The rejection stung, but Brahms stuck by his work. When the symphony premiered, benefiting from an orchestra’s color and power, audiences cheered.

Brahms’ final symphony has continued to win over listeners. Some analysts label it tragic; others call it elegiac. But no one word can sum up a symphony that covers so wide a range, from mystery to ferocity to jubilation.

The opening doesn’t hint that such extremes are in store. The pensive main theme floats along as a lilting series of two-note phrases, and the murmuring accompaniment enhances its inwardness. It gains fervor, and the cellos reach out with a bolder theme. After the winds counter that theme with lyricism, the music’s gusto returns. But just where many symphonies’ first movements reach a peak of tension, this one pulls back, and Brahms gives tradition a twist. When the opening theme reappears, it begins in hushed slow motion, bringing introspection back to the fore.

As the movement’s close approaches, turbulence finally erupts, injecting an intensity that will help drive the rest of the symphony.

Lyricism and agitation collide in the slow movement. Full-throated winds hint at the main theme, but the long-breathed melody turns out to be gentler when the clarinets finally voice it. The winds, united in emphatic staccato chords, add a restless note, but the cellos answer with a broad, ardent melody that epitomizes Brahms’ emotional directness. When the winds’ pounding theme returns, it works up a fierce impact. The tension gives way, though, as the cello melody wells up again, now carrying the full power and fervor of the entire string section.

The third movement is a bounding dance that Brahms marks Allegro giocoso (fast and playful). The French horns introduce a mellower theme, but the jubilation soon sweeps it aside. Storminess then returns with a vengeance in the last movement. It’s a chaconne, the most compact kind of theme and variations, in which a short theme undergoes an unbroken stream of transformations.

The winds and brasses plunge right into the stern, eight-measure theme. Thirty concise variations flow from there. Bearing out Brahms’ marking of energico e passionate (energetic and passionate), the first few variations quickly catch fire. Then the music eases, and a quiet, sinuous flute solo brings introspection.

The key changes from minor to warmer major, and the trombones’ broad, hymn-like melody marks the opposite pole from the earlier turbulence. Then the winds cry out the theme again, yanking the music back to the minor key. Agitation flares anew, and the music builds to a walloping finish.

The Instruments: 2 flutes (1 doubling piccolo), 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, percussion and strings —Steven Brown

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June 4 News 88.7 June 7 Classical

Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Sir Ben Kingsley, narrator Rossini: Overture to The Thieving Magpie Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf R. Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

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DECEMBER 2016

VERY MERRY POPS

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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

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TRIFONOV PLUS RACHMANINOFF

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I LOVE A PIANO

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November 11, 12, 13 November 25, 26, 27

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Film with Live Orchestra December 9 December 15, 16, 17, 18

JANUARY 2017

CIRQUE GOES TO THE MOVIES

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January 6, 7, 8

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LIVE

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BEETHOVEN’S EMPEROR CONCERTO

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GERSHWIN & RACHMANINOFF

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Coral Kingdoms & Empires of Ice January 10 January 12, 14, 15

January 27, 28, 29

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online!

This month’s Houston Symphony broadcasts on Houston Public Media let you relive, or hear for the first time, some of the orchestra’s most recent and fun concerts from this past season. Step back in time to Opening Night, when Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley narrated Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Hear Michael Krajewski’s special farewell concert as long-time Principal POPS Conductor, recorded just last month. Also, we salute emerging artists—from the finalists of the 2017 Ima Hogg Competition to young composers Víctor Agudelo and Ben Krause, whose winning pieces were performed last fall.

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Andrés Orozco–Estrada, Music Director

Did you know you can read about upcoming performances and guest artists online each month? Before you head to the concert, check out artist biographies and program notes, as well as our editorial features!

To view the current issue of InTune, visit us online: houstonsymphony.org/magazine

June 11 News 88.7 June 14 Classical

2017 Ima Hogg Competition Finals Concert

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June 3, 2017

June 18 News 88.7 June 21 Classical RECORDED:

May 26-28, 2017

Michael Krajewski, conductor Lisa Vroman, vocalist Doug LaBrecque, vocalist Rachel York, vocalist Houston Symphony Chorus— Betsy Cook Weber, director Classic Broadway

June 25 News 88.7 June 28 Classical

Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Agudelo: El Sombrerón* Krause: Pathways* Mahler: Symphony No. 1

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*Winning work of the Houston Symphony Young Composer Competition

September 23-25, 2016

Award winners supported by Michael J. Shawiak and Ellen A. Yarrell

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FEATURED PROGRAM

STAR-SPANGLED SALUTE Saturday

July 4, 2017

8:30pm

Miller Outdoor Theatre

Steven Reineke, conductor Ryan Shaw, vocalist Sean Holshouser, vocalist (Star-Spangled Banner)

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM WILL BE ANNOUNCED FROM THE STAGE. THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION.

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Star-Spangled Salute | Program Biographies

Program BIOGRAPHIES

EXXONMOBIL SUMMER SYMPHONY NIGHTS

These performances are generously supported in part by:

Guarantor City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Underwriter ExxonMobil

The Houston Symphony's Miller Outdoor Theatre concerts are supported in part by an endowed fund from The Brown Foundation, Inc. in memory of Stewart and Hanni Orton.

The Houston Symphony's sound shell ceiling is made possible through the generosity of the Beauchamp Foundation and the Fondren Foundation.

Houston Public Media is the media sponsor of the Miller Outdoor Theatre series.

This concert is being broadcast live on Houston Public Media News 88.7 and streamed online at houstonpublicmedia.org.

Guest Conductor Evan B. Glick

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Steven Reineke | conductor Steven Reineke has established himself as one of North America's leading conductors of popular music. In addition to being Principal POPS Conductor at the Houston Symphony, Steven is the music director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, principal pops conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and principal pops conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. He previously held the posts of principal pops conductor of the Long Beach and Modesto Symphony Orchestras and associate conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.

Steven is a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on the podium with the Boston Pops Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. His extensive North American conducting appearances include San Francisco, Seattle, Edmonton, Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Ottawa (National Arts Centre), Detroit, Milwaukee and Calgary.

On stage, Steven has created programs and collaborated with a range of leading artists from the worlds of hip hop, Broadway, television and rock, including Common, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Cheyenne Jackson, Wayne Brady, Peter Frampton and Ben Folds, among others. In 2017, he was featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered leading the National Symphony Orchestra—in a first for the show’s 45-year history—performing live music excerpts between news segments.

As the creator of more than 100 orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Steven’s work has been performed worldwide and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in North America, including performances by the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic. His Sun Valley Festival Fanfare was used to commemorate the Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s pavilion, and his Festival Te Deum and Swan’s Island Sojourn were debuted by the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops Orchestras. His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands worldwide.

A native of Ohio, Steven is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned Bachelor of Music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition. He currently resides in New York City with his husband, Eric Gabbard.

The Houston Symphony thanks Evan B. Glick, Board of Trustees member, for his winning bid at the 2017 Symphony Ball, giving him the chance of a lifetime to conduct the orchestra tonight alongside Principal POPS Conductor Steven Reineke.

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Program BIOGRAPHIES , continued

Ryan Shaw | vocalist Ryan Shaw, born December 25, 1975, in Decatur, Georgia, grew up in a deeply religious Pentecostal family.

He began singing in church at age 5 and later formed a family group, the Shaw Boys, with four of his brothers.

“We didn’t listen to secular or pop music either in or out of our house,” he explains. “So my early musical influences are all from the gospel world—singers like Darryl Coley, Keith Brooks, James Moore and The Anointed Pace Sisters.”

After briefly attending Georgia State University, Ryan successfully auditioned for the gospel musical A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Part 2). In 1998, he joined the cast of I Know I’ve Been Changed, written and directed by Tyler Perry. Ryan went to New York with this production and performed to sold-out crowds at the Beacon Theatre.

He soon joined the resident cast of the Motown Café on West 57th Street where he performed Detroit soul favorites by the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye. Later, he found another steady gig with a group that played music from the fifties and sixties. In 2004, Ryan was recruited into the Fabulous Soul Shakers, a vocal group specializing in classic soul and doo-wop. Two years later, along with guitarist Johnny Gale and percussionist Jimmy Bralower, he recorded “Do the 45” and “I Found a Love.” The collaboration proved to be heaven-sent.

Ryan delivers every song with the kind of emotional commitment and vocal panache that have nearly vanished from the mainstream musical landscape. On stage, he brings it all together with a combination of Southern warmth and New York vitality. Using a small rhythm section and two male backing vocalists, he effectively reproduces the sound of his album while stretching some tunes into full-on vocal rave-ups. Ryan’s thrilling voice and charismatic presence are all he needs to win an audience.

Visit ryanshaw.com.

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ExxonMobil’s philanthropic support is focused on education, health and human services, and the arts. ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights provides patrons with the opportunity to enjoy the complimentary Houston Symphony concert series under the stars starting June 17 at Miller Outdoor Theatre, concluding with the spectacular Star-Spangled Salute on the Fourth of July. Additionally, ExxonMobil supports the Symphony’s Summer Community Concerts, welcoming kids and families to experience performances in communities across the Houston area.

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Board of DIRECTORS

(2017-18 SEASON)

Executive Committee Janet F. Clark President Steven P. Mach Immediate Past President

Bobby Tudor Chairman Paul R. Morico General Counsel

Mike S. Stude Chairman Emeritus Barbara McCelvey Secretary

Danielle Batchelor Chair, Popular Programming Barbara J. Burger Chair, Finance Justice Brett Busby Chair, Artistic & Orchestra Affairs Mary Kathryn Campion, Ph.D. Chair, Pension Brad W. Corson Chair, Governance & Leadership Viviana Denechaud Chair, Development Tracy Dieterich Chair, Community Partnerships Mary Lynn Marks Chair, Volunteers & Special Events

Billy McCartney Chair, Education Alexandra Pruner^ President, Houston Symphony Endowment David Pruner Chair, Strategic Planning Manolo Sánchez Chair, Marketing & Communications Jesse B. Tutor Immediate Past Chair, Chair, Audit Beth Wolff^ President, Houston Symphony League

Mark C. Hanson^ Executive Director/CEO Andrés Orozco-Estrada^ Music Director Adam Dinitz^ Musician Representative Sergei Galperin^ Musician Representative Mark Hughes^ Musician Representative Christine Kelly-Weaver^ Assistant Secretary ^Ex-Officio

GOVERNING DIRECTORS Farida Abjani Marcia Backus Janice Barrow** Danielle Batchelor Gary Beauchamp Marie Taylor Bosarge Ralph Burch Barbara J. Burger Justice Brett Busby Andrew Calder Michael H. Clark Janet F. Clark Brad W. Corson Viviana Denechaud Gene Dewhurst Michael Doherty Julia Anderson Frankel

David Frankfort Ronald G. Franklin Stephen Glenn Joan Kaplan Sippi Khurana, M.D. Rochelle Levit, Ph.D. Cora Sue Mach ** Steven P. Mach Paul M. Mann, M.D. Jay Marks ** Mary Lynn Marks David Massin Rodney Margolis** Billy McCartney Barbara McCelvey Alexander K. McLanahan ** Paul R. Morico

Kevin O’Gorman Robert Orr Cully Platt David Pruner Ron Rand John Rydman** Manolo Sánchez Helen Shaffer ** Jerry Simon Jim R. Smith Miles O. Smith Mike S. Stude ** William J. Toomey II Bobby Tudor ** Betty Tutor ** Jesse B. Tutor ** Judith Vincent

Margaret Alkek Williams ** Barbara Winthrop Scott Wulfe David Wuthrich

Allen Gelwick Evan B. Glick Julianne K. Gorte Susan Hansen Eric Haufrect, M.D. Gary L. Hollingsworth, M.D. Brian James Rita Justice I. Ray Kirk, M.D. Ulyesse LeGrange ** Carlos J. Lopez Michael Mann, M.D. Jack Matzer Jackie Wolens Mazow Gene McDavid ** Gary Mercer Marilyn Miles Janet Moore Jud Morrison Bobbie Newman Tassie Nicandros

Scott Nyquist Edward Osterberg Jr. Robert A. Peiser** Greg Powers, Ph.D. Gloria G. Pryzant Richard A. Rabinow Roman Reed Gabriel Rio Richard Robbins, M.D. J. Hugh Roff Jr. ** Miwa Sakashita Ed Schneider Michael E. Shannon ** Donna Shen Robert Sloan, Ph.D. Tad Smith David Stanard Ishwaria Subbiah, M.D. David Tai Brian J. Thomas L. Proctor (Terry) Thomas

Shirley W. Toomim Andrew Truscott Margaret Waisman, M.D. Fredric Weber Mrs. S. Conrad Weil Robert Weiner Vicki West Steven J. Williams Beth Wolff Ed Wulfe ** Ellen A. Yarrell Robert Yekovich Frank Yonish

Ex-Officio Mary Kathryn Campion Tracy Dieterich Adam Dinitz Sergei Galperin Mark Hughes Martha McWilliams Robert A. Peiser** Gloria Pryzant Donna Shen **Lifetime Trustee

TRUSTEES William L. Ackerman Philip Bahr Devinder Bhatia, M.D. James M. Bell Anthony Bohnert Nancy Shelton Bratic Terry Ann Brown** Cheryl Byington Dougal Cameron Mary Kathryn Campion, M.D. John T. Cater ** Evan Collins, M.D., MBA Andrew Davis, Ph.D. Tracy Dieterich Terry Elizabeth Everett Kelli Cohen Fein, M.D. Jeffrey B. Firestone Eugene Fong Craig Fox Betsy Garlinger

Ex-Officio Alexandra Gottschalk Alexandra Pruner Art Vivar Jessie Woods **Lifetime Trustee

PAST PRESIDENTS OF HOUSTON SYMPHONY 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

THE SOCIETY E.C. Vandagrift Jr. 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 Robert B. Tudor III Robert A. Peiser Steven P. Mach

PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY LEAGUE Miss Ima Hogg Mrs. W. Harold Sellers Mrs. John F. Grant Mrs. Harry H. Gendel Mrs. J. R. Parten Mrs. Robert M. Eury Mrs. Andrew E. Rutter Mrs. E. C. Vandagrift Jr. Mrs. Aubrey Leno Carter Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Mrs. Stuart Sherar Terry Ann Brown Mrs. Julian Barrows Nancy Strohmer Ms. Hazel Ledbetter Mary Ann McKeithan Mrs. Albert P. Jones Ann Cavanaugh Mrs. Ben A. Calhoun Mrs. James A. Shaffer Mrs. James Griffith Lawhon Lucy H. Lewis Mrs. Olaf LaCour Olsen Catherine McNamara Mrs. Ralph Ellis Gunn Shirley McGregor Pearson Mrs. Leon Jaworski Paula Jarrett Mrs. Garrett R. Tucker Jr. Cora Sue Mach Mrs. M. T. Launius Jr. Kathi Rovere Mrs. Thompson McCleary Norma Jean Brown Mrs. Theodore W. Cooper Barbara McCelvey Mrs. Allen W. Carruth Lori Sorcic Jansen Mrs. David Hannah Jr. Nancy B. Willerson Mary Louis Kister Jane Clark Mrs. Edward W. Kelley Jr. Nancy Littlejohn Mrs. John W. Herndon Donna Shen Mrs. Charles Franzen Dr. Susan Snider Osterberg Mrs. Harold R. DeMoss Jr. Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein Mrs. Edward H. Soderstrom Vicki West Mrs. Lilly Kucera Andress Mrs. Jesse Tutor Ms. Marilou Bonner Darlene Clark PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE HOUSTON SYMPHONY LEAGUE BAY AREA Fran Strong Dana Puddy Selma Neumann Angela Buell Pat Brackett Julia Wells Joan Wade Dagmar Meeh Yvonne Herring Priscilla Heidbreder Deanna Lamoreux Harriett Small Glenda Toole Nina Spencer Carole Murphy Elizabeth Glenn Patience Myers Ebby Creden James Moore Charlotte Gaunt Mary Voigt Norma Brady Cindy Kuenneke Helen Powell Sharon Dillard Diane McLaughlin Roberta Liston Suzanne Hicks Sue Smith Shirley Wettling Jo Anne Mills Phyllis Molnar Pat Bertelli Emyre B. Robinson

FRIENDS OF JONES HALL REPRESENTATIVES Justice Brett Busby

Ronald Franklin

Steven P. Mach

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Houston Symphony ENDOWMENT The Houston Symphony Endowment is a separate nonprofit organization that invests contributions to earn income for the benefit of the Houston Symphony Society.

TRUSTEES Alexandra Pruner, President Gene Dewhurst

James Lee William J. Toomey II

Fredric A. Weber

An endowed fund can be permanently established within the Houston Symphony Society through a direct contribution or via a planned gift such as a bequest. The fund can be designated for general purposes or specific interests.

For more information, please contact: Patrick T. Quinn, Director, Planned Giving 713.337.8532, patrick.quinn@houstonsymphony.org

GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUNDS  to support operational and annual activities Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Fund Accenture (Andersen Consulting) Fund Jay & Shirley Marks Fund AIG American General Fund Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Fund/ M.D. Anderson Foundation Fund The Marks Charitable Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Philip Bahr Fund Marian & Speros Martel Foundation Fund Janice H. & Thomas D. Barrow Fund Barbara & Pat McCelvey Fund Mrs. Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield Fund The Menil Foundation Fund Jane & Robert Cizik Fund Monroe Mendelsohn Jr. Estate Mr. Lee A. Clark Fund Sue A. Morrison & Children Fund Cooper Industries, Inc. Fund National Endowment for the Arts Fund Gene & Linda Dewhurst Fund Stewart Orton Fund DuPont Corporation Fund Elkins Charitable Trust Agency Fund Papadopoulos Fund Nancy & Robert Peiser Fund The Margaret & James A. Elkins Foundation Fund Rockwell Fund, Inc. Fund Virginia Lee Elverson Trust Fund Charles Engelhard Foundation Fund Mr. & Mrs. Clive Runnells Fund William Stamps Farish Fund Estate of Mr. Walter W. Sapp Fund Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein & Martin J. Fein Fund Mr. & Mrs. Matt K. Schatzman Fund Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Fund The Schissler Foundation Fund Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves Fund Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Fund Mr. & Mrs. William T. Slick Jr. Fund George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Fund Texas Eastern Fund Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Ken Hyde Fund Dorothy Barton Thomas Fund Houston Arts Combined Endowment Fund Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Fund Drs. M.S. & Marie-Luise Kalsi Fund Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Fund Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kaplan Fund Dede & Connie Weil Fund Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Fund The Wortham Foundation Fund Martha Kleymeyer Fund Anonymous (5) Rochelle & Max Levit Fund Mr. E. W. Long Jr. Fund DESIGNATED FUNDS  to support annual performance activity The Brown Foundation Guest Pianist Fund The Houston Symphony Chorus Endowment Fund The Cullen Foundation Maestro’s Fund Fayez Sarofim Guest Violinist Fund General & Mrs. Maurice Hirsch Memorial Concert Fund through The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts in memory of Theresa Meyer and Jules Hirsch, beloved parents The Wortham Foundation Classical Series Fund of General Maurice Hirsch, and Rosetta Hirsch Weil and Josie endowed in memory of Gus S. & Lyndall F. Wortham Hirsch Bloch, beloved sisters of General Maurice Hirsch 38 | Houston Symphony

to support the Houston Symphony’s annual education and community engagement activities

ENDOWED CHAIRS  to assist the Houston Symphony in attracting, retaining and supporting world-class conductors, musicians, guest artists and executive leadership

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Margarett & Alice Brown Endowment Fund for Education Lawrence E. Carlton, M.D. Endowment Fund for Youth Programs Richard P. Garmany Fund for the Houston Symphony League Concerto Competition The William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs Selma S. Neumann Fund Spec’s Charitable Foundation Salute to Educators Concert Fund

Janice & Thomas Barrow Chair Brinton Averil Smith, principal cello Roy & Lillie Cullen Chair Andrés Orozco-Estrada, music director Fondren Foundation Chair Qi Ming, assistant concertmaster General Maurice Hirsch Chair Aralee Dorough, principal flute Ellen E. Kelley Chair Eric Halen, co-concertmaster Max Levine Chair George P. & Cynthia Woods Mitchell Chair Mark Hughes, principal trumpet Tassie & Constantine S. Nicandros Chair Alexander Potiomkin, bass clarinet Lucy Binyon Stude Chair Jonathan Fischer, principal oboe Winnie Safford Wallace Chair Margaret Alkek Williams Chair Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO

to support new commissions and innovative artistic projects



The Micajah S. Stude Special Production Fund

to support access and expand geographic reach

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The Alice & David C. Bintliff Messiah Concert fund for performances at First Methodist Church The Brown Foundation’s Miller Outdoor Theatre Fund in memory of Hanni and Stewart Orton Mach Family Audience Development Fund George P. & Cynthia Woods Mitchell Summer Concerts Fund

ENDOWED FUNDS  to assist the Houston Symphony in attracting, retaining and supporting world-class conductors, musicians and guest artists American General Fund Speros P. Martel Fund Stewart Orton Fund Dan Feigal Prosser Fund

to support electronic media initiatives

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Nancy B. Willerson Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. 

to support piano performance

Mary R. Lewis Fund for Piano Performance C. Howard Pieper Foundation

LEGACY COMMITMENTS  through The Brown Foundation Challenge to support artistic excellence Janet F. Clark Gloria Goldblatt Pryzant Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Legacy Society Chair Wayne Brooks, principal viola Ms. Vicki West in honor of Hans Graf Anonymous (1)

LEADERSHIP GIFTS OF WORKING CAPITAL

provided as part of the Campaign for the 20th Century, Campaign for Houston Symphony and My Houston, My Symphony— Campaign for a Sound Future 

Hewlett Packard Company Fund The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Neva Watkins West Fund Gift in memory of Winifred Safford Wallace for the commission of new works

The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Fund for Creative Initiatives

CHORUS ENDOWMENT DONORS



$500 or more

Mr. & Mrs. Terry L. Henderson Beth Weidler & Stephen James Nobuhide Kobori Natalia Rawle Gabriel & Mona Rio Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Rodenberger Ms. Carolyn Rogan

Janice Barrow Eldo Bergman, Family Literacy Network, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Chavanelle Roger & Debby Cutler Steve Dukes Robert Lee Gomez

CAPITAL INVESTMENTS

to support the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition

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Michael J. Shawiak Susan L. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Frederic A. Weber David G. Nussmann Anonymous (2)

The Houston Symphony thanks the generous donors who, since 2012, have made possible infrastructure additions to further enhance the sound and quality of our orchestral performances.

Beauchamp Foundation Miller Outdoor Theatre Sound Shell Ceiling and Portativ Organ Berlioz bells Orchestra Synthesizer Adam's Vibraphone Zildjian Crotales Waterphone Small percussion and other instruments

Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Piccolo Timpano

The Fondren Foundation Miller Outdoor Theatre Sound Shell Ceiling

Silver Circle Audio Enhancements to Jones Hall Recording Suite

Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation Enhancements to Jones Hall Video System

Beverly Johnson, Ralph Wyman and Jim Foti, and Thane & Nicole Wyman in memory of Winthrop Wyman Basset Horns and Rotary Trumpets

Houston Symphony League Steinway Concert Grand Piano and Instrument Petting Zoo

LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation Lyons & Healy Harp Vicky & Michael Richker Family Adolfo Sayago, Orquestas Sybil F. Roos Rotary Trumpets

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Sustainability

FUND

The Houston Symphony pays special tribute to the 137 donors who made transformational gifts to complete the Sustainability Fund.

On December 31, 2015, the Houston Symphony celebrated an extraordinary achievement: the completion of a five-year, $15 million Sustainability Fund, which has transformed the orchestra’s financial position.

The Symphony was able to close out the campaign thanks to challenge grant funds totaling $1,050,000 provided by Bobby & Phoebe Tudor, Cora Sue & Harry Mach, Janice Barrow, Steve & Joella Mach and Robert & Jane Cizik. The Ciziks provided the final $500,000 to allow the Symphony to reach its $15 million Sustainability Fund goal.

Houston Endowment Estate of Jean R. Sides Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Janice Barrow Margaret Alkek Williams Jane & Robert Cizik

Clare Attwell Glassell Mrs. Kitty King Powell* The Cullen Foundation The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts The Brown Foundation, Inc. Cora Sue & Harry Mach The Wortham Foundation, Inc.

John & Lindy Rydman / Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods / Spec’s Charitable Foundation MD Anderson Foundation Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

Barbara J. Burger Ron Franklin & Janet Gurwitch The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Barbara & Pat McCelvey Estate of Mary Ann Holloway Phillips Sybil F. Roos

Steven & Nancy Williams Robin Angly & Miles Smith Gary & Marian Beauchamp Laura & Michael Shannon Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Bahr Nancy & Walter Bratic Janet F. Clark Linda & Gene Dewhurst

Bert & Joan Golding Mr. & Mrs.* Robert M. Griswold Marilyn & Robert Hermance C. Howard Pieper Foundation Tad & Suzanne Smith Alice & Terry Thomas Shirley W. Toomim Janet & Tom Walker

Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Billy & Christie McCartney Dr. Rita Justice Mr. & Mrs. Anthony W. Bohnert Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Geo. H. Lewis & Sons

Ms. Judith Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. Ralph Burch Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Evan D. Collins Erika & S. David Frankfort Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange

Mrs. Carolyn & Dr. Michael Mann Jay & Shirley Marks James D. Stein Clive Runnells in memory of Nancy Morgan Runnells BB&T / Courtney & Bill Toomey Scott & Lori Wulfe Anonymous (1)

Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Manolo Sánchez Robert G. Weiner & Toni Blankmann Tyler & Kat Murphy Justice Brett & Erin Busby Laurie & Ryan Colburn Mr. & Mrs. Bradley Corson Susan & Dick Hansen Christina & Mark C. Hanson Mr. & Mrs. John N. Matzer III Ann & Hugh Roff Vicky & Michael Richker Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Gloria & Joe Pryzant Margot & John Cater Virginia A. Clark Mr. Andrew Davis & Ms. Corey Tu Viviana & David Denechaud Amanda & Adam Dinitz David & Heidi Massin Bobbie Newman

Lisa & Jerry Simon Vicki West The Brodsky Foundation David Chambers & Alex Steffler Vicky Dominguez Mr. Colin C. Gatwood & Ms. Aralee Dorough Mr. Jonathan Fischer Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Julianne & David Gorte Mr. & Mrs. Frank Yonish Dr. Ronald DePinho & Dr. Lynda Chin Mr. & Mrs. Allen Barnhill Pam & Chad Blaine Mr. Wayne Brooks Terry Ann Brown Aurelie Desmarais & Ed Struzynski Mr. & Mrs. Michael Doherty Martin & Kelli Cohen Fein Ms. Megan Conley Rian & Sean Craypo Brian & Leah Del Signore Eric & Angelea Halen Mark & Marilyn Hughes

Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Mr. Robert E. Johnson & Ms. Ariella Perlman Mary Beth Mosley Scott & Judy Nyquist Mr. Matthew D. Roitstein Mr. Brinton Averil Smith & Ms. Evelyn Chen Mr. & Mrs. Eric A. Arbiter Mrs. Shirley Burgher Mr. Erik T. Gronfor & Ms. Joan DerHovsepian Mr. & Mrs. Thomas LeGrand Mr. & Mrs. Harvin Moore IV Mr. & Mrs. Scott Holshouser Mr. Robin Kesselman Dr. & Mrs. Robert Ivany Ms. Anne C. Leek Mr. & Mrs. William K. VerMeulen Martha & Stanley* Bair Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Brewer Ms. Joyce Perkins David & Tara Wuthrich Anonymous (3)

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*Deceased

Legacy SOCIETY The Legacy Society honors those who have included the Houston Symphony Endowment in their long-term estate plans through bequests, lifeincome gifts or other deferred-giving arrangements. If you would like to learn more about ways to provide for the Houston Symphony Endowment in your estate plans, please contact Patrick T. Quinn, Director, Planned Giving, at 713.337.8532 or patrick.quinn@houstonsymphony.org.

Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron Daniel B. Barnum George* & Betty Bashen Dr. Joan Hacken Bitar Dorothy B. Black Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield Kerry Levine Bollman Zu Broadwater Joan K. Bruchas & H. Philip Cowdin Mr. Christopher & Mrs. Erin Brunner Eugene R. Bruns Sylvia J. Carroll Dr. Robert N. Chanon William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. Byron Cooley The Honorable & Mrs. William Crassas Patricia Cunningham Dr. Lida S. Dahm Leslie Barry Davidson Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Ginny Garrett Lila-Gene George Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Mr. Robert M. Griswold Randolph Lee Groninger

Jacquelyn Harrison & Thomas Damsgaard Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mrs. Gloria Herman Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Timothy Hogan & Elaine Anthony Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Dr. Edward J. & Mrs. Patti Hurwitz Dr. Kenneth Hyde Brian & Catherine James Dr. & Mrs. Ira Kaufman, M.D. John S. W. Kellett Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Dr. James E. & Betty W. Key Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mrs. Frances E. Leland Mrs. Lucy Lewis E. W. Long Jr. Sandra Magers David Ray Malone & David J. Sloat Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Jay & Shirley Marks James G. Matthews Mr. & Mrs. John H. Matzer III Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan

Dr. Tracey Samuels & Mr. Robert McNamara Mr. & Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Catherine Jane Merchant Dr. Georgette M. Michko Katherine Taylor Mize Richard & Juliet Moynihan Gretchen Ann Myers Patience Myers Mr. John N. Neighbors, in memory of Jean Marie Neighbors Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Nelson Bobbie Newman John & Leslie Niemand Dave G. Nussmann John Onstott Macky Osorio Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Imogen “Immy” Papadopoulos Christine & Red Pastorek Peter & Nina Peropoulos Sara M. Peterson Darla Powell Phillips Geraldine Smith Priest Dana Puddy Patrick T. Quinn Lila Rauch Ed & Janet Rinehart

Mr. Floyd W. Robinson Evie Ronald Walter Ross Dr. & Mrs. Kazuo Shimada Lisa & Jerry Simon Tad & Suzanne Smith Sherry Snyder Marie Speziale Emily H. & David K. Terry Stephen G. Tipps Steve Tostengard, in memory of Ardyce Tostengard Jana Vander Lee Bill & Agnete Vaughan Dean B. Walker Stephen & Kristine Wallace David M. Wax* & Elaine Arden Cali Geoffrey Westergaard Nancy B. Willerson Jennifer R. Wittman Daisy S. Wong / JCorp Lorraine & Ed Wulfe David & Tara Wuthrich Katherine & Mark Yzaguirre Edith & Robert Zinn Anonymous (7)

Ione Moran Sidney Moran Sue A. Morrison & children in memory of Walter J. Morrison Robert A. Peiser Gloria G. Pryzant Clive Runnells, in memory of Nancy Morgan Runnells Mr. Charles K. Sanders Donna Scott Charles & Andrea Seay Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Michael J. Shawiak Jule* & Albert Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mike & Anita* Stude Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Elba L. Villarreal Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Robert G. Weiner Vicki West in honor of Hans Graf Jo Dee Wright Susan Gail Wood Ellen A. Yarrell Anonymous (2)

CRESCENDO CIRCLE $100,000+ Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Priscilla R. Angly Janice Barrow James Barton Paul M. Basinski Joe Brazzatti Terry Ann Brown Drs. Dennis & Susan Carlyle Janet F. Clark Mr. William E. Colburn Darrin Davis & Mario Gudmundsson Harrison R.T. Davis Jean & Jack* Ellis The Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Family

Eugene Fong Michael B. George Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Evan B. Glick Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves Dr. Rita Justice Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Joella & Steven P. Mach Bill & Karinne McCullough Betty & Gene McDavid Dr. & Mrs.* Robert M. Mihalo Mr. Ronald Mikita & Mr. Rex Spikes

*Deceased

In MEMORIAM We honor the memory of those who in life included the Houston Symphony Endowment in their estate plans. Their thoughtfulness and generosity will continue to inspire and enrich lives for generations to come.

Mr. Thomas D. Barrow George Bashen W. P. Beard Ronald C. Borschow Mrs. H. Raymond Brannon Anthony Brigandi Lawrence E. Carlton, M.D. Mrs. Albert V. Caselli Lee Allen Clark Jack Ellis Mrs. Robin A. Elverson Frank R. Eyler Dr. & Mrs. Larry L. Fedder Helen Bess Fariss Foster

Christine E. George Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Gott John Wesley Graham Dorothy H. Grieves Mrs. Marcella Levine Harris Gen. & Mrs. Maurice Hirsch Miss Ima Hogg Burke & Octavia Holman David L. Hyde Dr. Blair Justice Mr. Max Levine Dr. Mary R. Lewis Mrs. L. F. McCollum Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. McKerley

Doretha Melvin Monroe L. Mendelsohn Jr. Mrs. Janet Moynihan Terrence Murphree Arthur Newman Constantine S. Nicandros Hanni Orton Stewart Orton, Legacy Society co-founder Dr. Michael Papadopoulos Miss Louise Pearl Mary Anne H. Phillips Mr. Howard Pieper

Walter W. Sapp, Legacy Society co-founder J. Fred & Alma Laws Lunsford Schultz Ms. Jean R. Sides Blanche Stastny John K. & Fanny W. Stone Dorothy Barton Thomas Dr. Carlos Vallbona Mrs. Harry C. Weiss Mrs. Edward Wilkerson

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you

THANK

Our DONORS ANNUAL SUPPORT

The Houston Symphony gratefully acknowledges those who support our artistic, educational and community engagement programs through their generosity to our Annual Fund and our Special Events.

For more information, please contact: Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO, 713.337.8540 David Chambers, Chief Development Officer, 713.337.8525 Molly Simpson, Director, Individual Giving and Major Gifts, 713.337.8526

Ima Hogg Society $150,000 or more 

Janice Barrow Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge Barbara J. Burger Jane & Robert Cizik Janet F. Clark Rochelle & Max Levit

Centennial Society Mr. Monzer Hourani Barbara & Pat McCelvey

Founder’s Society

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Maestro’s Society

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Cora Sue & Harry Mach Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. John N. Neighbors John & Lindy Rydman / Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods / Spec's Charitable Foundation

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$100,000-$149,999

Sybil F. Roos Clive Runnells in memory of Nancy Morgan Runnells

Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

$75,000-$99,999

Robin Angly & Miles Smith

Billy & Christie McCartney

$50,000-$74,999

Jana & Scotty Arnoldy Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Bahr Gary & Marian Beauchamp Drs. Dennis & Susan Carlyle Ron Franklin & Janet Gurwitch Lila-Gene George Clare Attwell Glassell Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Mr. Jackson Hicks / Jackson and Company The Estate of Miss Ima Hogg

Concertmaster’s Society Mr. John Barlow Dr. & Mrs. Devinder Bhatia Darlene & Cappy* Bisso Mr. Anthony W. Bohnert Nancy & Walter Bratic Ralph Burch Justice Brett & Erin Busby Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Viviana & David Denechaud Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III / WoodRock & Co. Linda & Gene Dewhurst Mr. & Mrs. Russell M. Frankel Mr. & Mrs. M. G. Glasscock Evan B. Glick Bert & Joan Golding Mr. & Mrs.* Robert M. Griswold Susan & Dick Hansen 42 | Houston Symphony

Mike Stude Bobby & Phoebe Tudor Margaret Alkek Williams

The Joan & Marvin Kaplan Foundation Dr. Sippi & Mr. Ajay Khurana Carol & Michael Linn & The Michael C. Linn Family Foundation Beth Madison Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Jay & Shirley Marks Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Janice & Robert McNair Nancy & Robert Peiser Dave & Alie Pruner 

Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. / The Robbins Foundation Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Mr. & Mrs. Jim R. Smith Mr. Jay Steinfeld & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop Alice & Terry Thomas Ms. Judith Vincent Steven & Nancy Williams Ms. Ellen A. Yarrell

$25,000-$49,999

Christina & Mark Hanson Marilyn & Bob Hermance Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth & Dr. Ken Hyde Dr. Rita Justice Drs. M.S. & Marie-Luise Kalsi Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Mrs. Carolyn & Dr. Michael Mann Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Mrs. Mary Catherine Miller Rita & Paul Morico Dr. Stewart Morris Catherine & Bob Orr Mr. Jason Poon / Marine Foods Express, Ltd. Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Louisa Stude Sarofim Laura & Michael Shannon Michael J. Shawiak

Donna & Tim Shen Lisa & Jerry Simon Dr. & Mrs. Robert B. Sloan Jr. / Houston Baptist University Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Springob, Laredo Construction, Inc. James D. Stein Nancy & David Tai Shirley Wolff Toomim Janet & Tom Walker Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Robert G. Weiner & Toni Blankmann Vicki West Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. Scott & Lori Wulfe

Conductor’s Circle

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Platinum Baton

Ms. Farida Abjani Graham & Janet Baker Danielle & Josh Batchelor James M. Bell Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Dr. M.K. Campion Donna & Max Chapman Coneway Family Foundation Mr. Richard Danforth Dr. Alex Dell Mrs. William Estrada

Conductor’s Circle

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Gold Baton

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J.R. & Aline Deming Valerie Palmquist Dieterich & Tracy Dieterich Archie & Linda Dunham Terry Everett & Eric Cheyney Mr. & Mrs. Marvy A. Finger Eugene Fong Ms. Nan Garrett Michael B. George Mauro H. Gimenez & Connie A. Coulomb Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Gongre Jo A. & Billie Jo Graves Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mrs. James E. Hooks Catherine & Brian James Jacek & Marzena Jaminski Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mr.* & Mrs. Gordon Leighton Drs. Golda Anne & Robert Leonard Marilyn G. Lummis Mr. & Mrs. Kurt Martin Dr. & Mrs. E. K. Massin

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Abraham Mrs. Nancy C. Allen Mr. & Mrs. Adam Altsuler Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron Ann & Jonathan Ayre Mr. & Mrs. Ed Banner Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman Ruth Brodsky Mr. Ken D. Brownlee & Ms. Caroline Deetjen Dr. & Mrs. William T. Butler Dougal & Cathy Cameron Marilyn Caplovitz Mrs. Lily Carrigan Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Carter IV Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Clark William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Mr. William E. Colburn Mr. & Mrs. Byron Cooley Mr. & Mrs. Larry Corbin

Hugh & Ann Roff Mr. & Mrs. Manolo Sánchez Carol & Kamal Sandarusi Mr. & Mrs. Paul S. Thomas Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Stephen & Kristine Wallace Dede & Connie Weil Jeanie Kilroy Wilson & Wallace S. Wilson Ms. Vivan Wise

Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Gene & Betty McDavid Martha & Marvin McMurrey Mr. Gary Mercer Sami & Jud Morrison Scott & Judy Nyquist Toni Oplt & Ed Schneider Rochelle & Sheldon Oster Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Parker Mr. & Mrs. Anthony G. Petrello Radoff Family Lila Rauch Kathy & Wayne Richards Vicky & Michael Richker Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scherr Mr. Wolfgang Schmidt & Mrs. Angelika Schmidt-Lange Mr. & Mrs. Shalin Shah Tad & Suzanne Smith Alana R. Spiwak & Sam L. Stolbun Carol & Michael Stamatedes Mr. & Mrs. Trent Tellepsen

Ms. Laura Codman & Mr. John F. Terwilliger Mrs. Jennifer Chang & Mr. Aaron J. Thomas Pamalah & Stephen Tipps Courtney & Bill Toomey Susan & Andrew Truscott Ms. Hallie A. Vanderhider Birgitt van Wijk Mr. & Ms. Frank Verducci Mr. & Mrs. Sean Waggoner Shirley & Joel Wahlberg Dr. Jim T. Willerson Ms. Beth Wolff Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Daisy S. Wong / JCorp Lorraine & Ed Wulfe Mr. & Mrs. Edward R. Ziegler Nina & Michael Zilkha Anonymous (2)

April Lykos David & Heidi Massin Terry & Kandee McGill Mr. & Mrs. William B. McNamara Dr. Robert M. Mihalo Dr. Cameron Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Michael P. & Shirley Pearson Mr. & Mrs. King Pouw Jean & Allan Quiat Ed & Janet Rinehart Mr. Glen A. Rosenbaum

Mr. & Mrs. Rufus S. Scott Mr. & Mrs. Lee H. Staley Kimberly & David Sterling Dr. John R. Stroehlein & Miwa Sakashita Candace & Brian Thomas Dr. Robert Wilkins & Dr. Mary Ann Reynolds Wilkins Nancy B. Willerson Mr. & Mrs. Frank Yonish

Mr. & Mrs. Steven J. Gibson Mr. Alan Goodrich Dorothy* & Bill Grieves Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Haas Dr. & Mrs. Carlos R. Hamilton Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Hardison Stephen Jeu & Susanna Calvo Beverly Johnson Mr. & Mrs. John F. Joity Mr. & Mrs. Steve Jones Mr. & Mrs. Dan Kellogg Mary Louis Kister Mr. & Mrs. Jason T. Klein William & Cynthia Koch Mr. William L. Kopp Mr. & Mrs. John P. Kotts Willy Kuehn Michael & Kelley Lang Mrs. Nancy Lease Jim & Amy Lee Barbara J. Manering

Mr. William McDugald Alice R. McPherson, M.D. Mr. Ronald A. Mikita & Mr. Rex Spikes Mr. & Mrs. William Monteleone Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Montz Mr. & Mrs. Harvin Moore IV Sidney & Ione Moran Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Moynier Richard & Juliet Moynihan Mr. & Mrs. Tyler Murphy David G. Nussman John & Kathy Orton Mr. & Mrs. C. Robert Palmer Dr. & Mrs. Robert Parker Christine & Robert Pastorek Mr. Doug D. Perley & Ms. Eileen M. Campbell Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Tim & Katherine Pownell Ms. Emily Reaser

$7,500-$9,999

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Roger & Debby Cutler Dr. Ronald DePinho & Dr. Lynda Chin Mr. Stephen Elison Scott Ensell & Family Henry & Doe Florsheim Ms. Darlene Clark & Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs Jennifer & Joshua Gravenor Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herzog Maureen Y. Higdon Ms. Emily Keeton

Bronze Baton

Stephen & Marilyn Miles/ Steven Warren Miles & Marilyn Ross Miles Foundation The Estate of Terence Murphree Bobbie Newman Susan & Edward Osterberg Gary Petersen Gloria & Joe Pryzant Ron & Demi Rand Gabriel & Mona Rio Ken & Carol Lee Robertson

$10,000-$14,999

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Silver Baton

Lilly & Thurmon Andress Anne Morgan Barrett Beth & Jim Barton Mrs. Bonnie Bauer Mr. & Mrs. David J. Beck Mr. & Dr. Karl-Heinz Becker Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Black Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bookout III Lilia Khakimova & C. Robert Bunch David Chambers & Alex Steffler Albert & Anne Chao Molly & Jim Crownover

Conductor’s Circle

$15,000-$24,999

Kelli Cohen Fein & Martin Fein Angel & Craig Fox Erika & S. David Frankfort Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Debbie & Frank Jones Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Michelle & Jack Matzer

Mr. William L. Ackerman, Kero-Jet Corporation Frances & Ira Anderson Edward H. Andrews III Nina Andrews & David Karohl Dr. Angela R. Apollo Sr. Judge Mary Bacon Consurgo Sunshine Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Astley Blair Anne & George Boss Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Terry Ann Brown Cheryl & Sam Byington Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Calder Mr. & Mrs. Bernard F. Clark Jr. Virginia A. Clark Laurie & Ryan Colburn Dr. Evan D. Collins Brad & Joan Corson Dr. Scott Cutler Leslie Barry Davidson & W. Robins Brice

Conductor’s Circle

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$5,000-$7,499

Ms. Miquel A. Correll Lois & David Coyle Andrew Davis & Corey Tu Bob & Mary Doyle Connie & Byron Dyer Mr. William P. Elbel & Ms. Mary J. Schroeder Hon. & Mrs. John D. Ellis Mr. Parrish N. Erwin Jr. Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Diane Lokey Farb Ms. Carolyn Faulk Jerry E. & Nanette B. Finger Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fluor Mr. & Mrs. Trent Foltz Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Francisco Mr. Shane T. Frank Mr. & Mrs. James E. Furr Kevin & Sherrill Garland Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gendel Wm. David George, Ph.D.

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Our DONORS continued Mr. & Mrs. Claud D. Riddles Allyn & Jill Risley

Mr. & Mrs. Reginald Smith Mr. & Mrs. Paul G. Somerville Mr. David Stanard & Ms. Beth Freeman Mr. & Mrs. Hans Strohmer Mr. & Mrs. Antonio M. Szabo Tellepsen Family Ann Trammell Mr. John G. Turner & Mr. Jerry G. Fischer

Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Mr. Robert T. Sakowitz Carole & Barry Samuels Dr. & Mrs. Todd Scheyer Mrs. Richard P. Schissler Jr. Mr. & Ms. Steven Sherman Mr. & Mrs. William T. Slick Jr.

Grand Patron’s Circle

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Mr. & Mrs. Neil A. Wizel Woodell Family Foundation Sally & Denney Wright Mr. & Mrs. David Wynne Mr. R. Brent Young & Ms. Sue Schwartz Edith & Robert Zinn Erla & Harry Zuber Anonymous (4)

Annette & Knut Eriksen Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank Kimberly Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Carolyn Grant Fay Ms. Ursula H. Felmet Mr. & Mrs. Tom Fitzpatrick Mrs. Ronald Fischer James H. & Beverly W. Fish Mr. & Mrs. Gary Fritzhand Mr. & Mrs. Neil Gaynor Thomas & Patricia Geddy Robert Lee Gomez Mr. & Mrs. Herb Goodman Mr. Danny A. Granados Mrs. Holly Haire Eric & Angelea Halen Dr. & Mrs. Eric J. Haufrect Mr. & Mrs. Houston Haymon Ms. Christine Heggeseth Dr. & Mrs. William C. Heird Mark & Ragna Henrichs Ann & Joe Hightower Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Hoffer Dr. Matthew Horsfield & Dr. Michael Kauth Mark & Marilyn Hughes Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Jankovic Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Jee Mrs. Ann B. Jennings Stacy & Jason Johnson Shamika Johnson Van Cleef & Arpels Mr. & Mrs. John Juneau Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kades Kiri & Jeffrey Katterhenry Mr. Joseph Kemble

Hoole & Kramr CPAs Samantha & Chris Kramr Jane & Kevin Kremer Mr. Alfred Lasher III Ms. Leslie Siller & Mr. Jeff H. Lippold Ms. Sylvia Lohkamp Ms. Brenda Love Dr. & Mrs. Paul M. Mann Brian McCulloch & Jeremy Garcia Mr. & Mrs. Michael McGuire Will L. McLendon Mr. & Mrs. D. Bradley McWilliams Ernie & Martha McWilliams Mr. Shane Miller Ms. Trazanna Moreno Julia & Chris Morton Mary Beth Mosley Melissa L. Nance Franci Neely Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey B. Newton Dr. Thomas D. Nichols Mr. Kevin O'Gorman Pat & Sarah Olfers Mr. & Mrs. Steven Owsley Mr. & Mrs. Robert Page Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Palmer Mr. & Mrs. Anant Patel Mr. & Mrs. Raul Pavon Mr. David Peavy & Mr. Stephen McCauley Darla & Chip Purchase Mr. & Mrs. David Pustka Mr. & Mrs. Cris Pye Mr. & Mrs. Henry Rachford Dr. & Mrs. Albert Raizner Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Rawson Brooke & Nathaniel Richards

Doug Williams & Janice Robertson Drs. Alex & Lynn Rosas Mr. & Mrs. Yasuhiko Saitoh Gina & Saib Saour Susan D. & Fayez Sarofim Dr. Susan Gardner & Dr. Philip Scott Dr. Paulina Sergot & Dr. Theo Shybut Hinda Simon Molly Simpson Dr. & Mrs. John Slater Steve & Judy Sohn Rebeca & Chad Spencer Richard & Mary Spies Walter O. Stanford* Georgiana Stanley Mr. & Mrs. Timothy M. Stastny Drs. Ishwaria & Vivek Subbiah Mr. & Mrs. Garry Tanner Dr. & Mrs. Van W. Teeters Ms. Georgeta Teodorescu Dan C. & Kimberly Tutcher Mr. & Mrs. Gene Van Dyke Dr. & Mrs. Gage Van Horn Ms. Jana Vander Lee Dr. & Mrs. Carl V. Vartian Mr. & Mrs. David Walstad Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Walt Ms. Karen M. Whitlock Dr. & Mrs. Rudy C. Wildenstein Mr. & Mrs. Tony Williford Ms. Jennifer R. Wittman Jerry S. & Gerlind Wolinksy Mr. & Mrs. David J. Wuthrich Robert & Michele Yekovich Anonymous (3)

Dr. & Mrs. Alfred C. Coats Jimmy & Lynn Coe Mr. John P. Cogan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Coronado Crystal & Mike Cox Brian & Leah Del Signore Catherine Delano & Wirt Blaffer Dr. & Ms. Peter J. Dempsey Ms. Elisabeth DeWitts Mike & Debra Dishberger Charles Dishman Mr. & Mrs. James P. Dorn Ms. Emily Duncan Drs. Rosalind & Gary Dworkin Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Earle Mr. & Mrs. Gary Edwards Sally Evans & Brian Rodgers Paula & Louis Faillace Christine Falgout Island Operating Co., Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Nijad I. Fares Ms. Marcia Fiman Mr. Jonathan Fischer Mr. & Mrs. Harvey O. Fleisher Patrick & Jeannine Flynn

Michelle & Deane Foss Mrs. Aggie L. Foster Elizabeth & Ralph Frankowski Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Frautschi Mr. & Mrs. Phil Frederickson Ms. Aralee Dorough & Mr. Colin C. Gatwood Mrs. Karl Gautschi Ms. Lucy Gebhart Mr. & Mrs. John Gee Joan M. Giese Mr. & Ms. Robert W. Goldman Dr. John Gomez & Dr. Cora Mihu Mr. Allen Goodling Dr. & Mrs. Bradford S. Goodwin Jr. Julianne & David Gorte Alexandra & Daniel Gottschalk Rebecca & Andrew Gould Mr. Jeff Graham Timothy & Janet Graham Kendall & Pauline Gray Mr. & Mrs. Joe Greenberg Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Gregory Dennis Griffith & Louise Richman Claudio Gutierrez

Jarod Hogan Mr. & Mrs. Don H. Haley Mr. & Mrs. William R. Hamm Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hampton Mr. & Mrs. Dwight Hasler Mr. Michael Heath John Heiny Mr. & Mrs. William T. Heller IV Mr. & Mrs. David J. Hemenway Ms. Arianda Hicks Jeannette & Brodrick Hill Dr. Suzanne M. Hite Susan Hodge & Mike Stocker Mr. Robert Hoff Dr. Holly Holmes & Mr. Paul Otremba Mr. & Mrs. John Homier George E. Howe Mickie & Ron Huebsch Mr. & Mrs. Burdette Huffman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Humphries Dr. & Mrs. Robert Ivany / University of St. Thomas Jay Jackson & Barbara Waugh Arlene J. Johnson

$2,500-$4,999

Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Dr. Genevera Allen Mr. & Mrs. Roy Allice Lindley & Jason Arnoldy John Arnsparger & Susan Weingarten Ms. Marcia Backus Mr. & Mrs. Carlos Barbieri Dr. & Mrs. Philip S. Bentlif Mr. & Mrs. Lloyd M. Bentsen III Ganesh H. Betanabhatla Drs. Henry & Louise Bethea Mrs. Pat Biddle & Mr. Ron Kahl Drs. Desmond & Tiffany Bourgeois James & Judy Bozeman Mr. & Mrs. Sverre Brandsberg-Dahl Ting & John Bresnahan Mr. Chester Brooke & Dr. Nancy Poindexter Divya & Chris Brown Mr. Eric Brueggeman Dr. & Mrs. Fred Buckwold Mr. & Mrs. Bruce G. Buhler Nicole & Rueben Cásarez Margot & John Cater Dr. Robert N. Chanon Rhoda & Allen Clamen Mr. Mark C. Conrad Mr. & Mrs. Ray G. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Joffre J. Cross II Mr. & Mrs. John Crum Mr. Darrin Davis & Mr. Mario Gudmundsson Mandy & Rafael Diaz Amanda & Adam Dinitz Mr. & Mrs. Michael Doherty Ms. Victoria E. Dominguez David & Carolyn Edgar

Patron

Mr. Brooks Tutor Mr. & Mrs. Paolo Valente Jeanine Van Wagenen Mr. & Ms. Luciano Vasconcellos Ms. Becky Cottrell & Mr. Thomas Warden Ms. Joann E. Welton Mr. & Mrs. Clint S. Wetmore Ms. Ibolya Ernyey Weyler Ms. Barbara Williams

$1,500-$2,499

Mr. & Mrs. Truett B. Akin Joan & Stanford Alexander Dr. & Mrs. Scott Allison Dr. Hesham M. Amin & Dr. Lara Ferrario Pat & John Anderson Carol Ann & Bill Anderson Michael Arlen Mr. Jeff Autor Mr. & Mrs. Samih Baaklini Dr. Saul & Ursula Balagura Mr. & Mrs. Philippe Berteaud Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bickel George & Florence Boerger Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Bolam Joe Brazzatti Mr. & Mrs. Ronald A. Brownlee Mr. & Mrs. Raul Caffesse Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Campbell Jr. Louise Carlson & Richard Larrabee Mrs. Mary Ann Carrico Mr. Steve Carroll & Ms. Rachel Dolbier Ms. Barbara A. Clark Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Clarke 44 | Houston Symphony

Kurt Johnson & Colleen Matheu Ms. Sheila K. Johnstone Mr. & Mrs. Thorro Jones Dr. & Mrs. Robert Jordon Mr. & Mrs. Alan Kelly Sara Kelly Mr. David O. Kem & Mrs. Judith L. Raines Kendall R. Kessel & Harlan Johnson Ms. Carla Knobloch Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Knudson Lucy & Victor Kormeier Ann & Sam Koster Michael & Darcy Krajewski Connie Kwan-Wong Mr. Thomas D. Lane Dr. Nashat Latib & Dr. Vinodh Kumar Ms. Joni Hartgraves Latimer John & Suzy Lattin Mr. Joshua Lee & Ms. Julie Van Dr. Daniel Lemke Dr. & Mrs. Morton Leonard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leonard Mr. William W. Lindley Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Littell Dr. & Mrs. James R. Lloyd Cynthia & Richard Loewenstern Ms. Marilyn Maloney & Mr. Paul F. Longstreth Mr. & Mrs. Bob J. Lunn Kathleen & Tom Mach

Ms. Barbara Manna Catherine & Matt Matthews Linda & Jim McCartney Mr. & Mrs. Rob McKee Mr. Andrew McKinney Mr. & Mrs. Lance McKnight Ms. Jennifer McLaughlin Doug & Sarah McMurrey Ms. Ashley McPhail Mr. Adam Miller & Ms. Michelina Cairo Mr. & Mrs. Arnold M. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Thomas L. Molloy Ms. Marsha L. Montemayor Mrs. Alette K. Morch Mr. & Mrs. Marvin H. Mueller Dr. D. Patricia Nelson The Hon. Stella G. & Richard C. Nelson Leslie & John Niemand Mr. & Mrs. Anthony J. Nocella Courtney & Jose Obregon Mr. & Mrs. John Oehler Mr. & Mrs. John Ogren Steve & Sue Olson Valerie J. Sherlock Mr. & Mrs. Marc C. Paige Ms. Martha Palmer George & Elizabeth Passela Girija & Anant Patel Peter & Nina Peropoulos Linda Kay Peterson

Mr. Andrew A. Pidgirsky Ms. Erin Pikoff Mr. & Mrs. Alex Popp Mr. & Mrs. Matthew Porter Ms. Linda Posey Mr. & Mrs. King Pouw Penny Prater Rosemin Premji Mrs. Dana Puddy Mr. & Mrs. David Pursell Patrick T. Quinn Clinton & Leigh Rappole Mr. & Mrs. T.R. Reckling III Mr. Serge G. Ribot Mr. & Mrs. Jim Roach Kate & Christopher Robart Beth Robertson Mr. James L. Robertson Mr. Floyd W. Robinson Ms. Regina J. Rogers William J. Rovere & Kathi F. Rovere Kent Rutter & David Baumann Mr. & Mrs. John Ryder Ramon & Chula Sanchez Harold H. Sandstead, M.D. Dr. & Mrs. David Sapire Mr. & Mrs. Raymond E. Sawaya Mr. Lawrence Schanzmeyer Ms. Sally Schott Liana & Andrew Schwaitzberg Donna Scott & Mitch Glassman Charles & Andrea Seay

Mr. Victor E. Serrato Art & Ellen Shelton Justin & Caroline Simons Barbara & Louis Sklar Mr. Brinton Averil Smith & Ms. Evelyn Chen Mr. Hilary Smith & Ms. Lijda Vellekoop Sherry Snyder Richard P. Steele & Mary J. McKerall Mr. & Mrs. John Steen Drs. Carol & Michael Stelling Mr. & Mrs. James R. Stevens Mr. & Dr. J. Michael Stinson Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Stone Skipper & Betsy Strong Mrs. Mary Swafford Mr. Clifford A. Swanlund Jr. Carol Tai Stephen A. Tew, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Steven M. Theede Jean & Doug Thomas Ms. Susan L. Thompson Eric & Carol Timmreck Mr. & Mrs. Dale M. Tingleaf Mr. Joel Towner Dr. Shilpa Trivedi Jovon Tyler Mr. & Mrs. Duane Utecht Susan J. & Gary W. Valka Mr. & Mrs. Donn K. Van Arsdall Mr. & Mrs. Alexander Van Veldhoven

YOUNG ASSOCIATES COUNCIL

YOUNG ASSOCIATES COUNCIL

The Houston Symphony’s Young Associates Council is a philanthropic membership group for young professionals, music aficionados and performing arts supporters interested in exploring symphonic music within the confines of Houston’s flourishing artistic landscape. YAC members are afforded exclusive opportunities to participate in musically focused events that take place not only in Jones Hall, but also in the city’s most sought-after venues, private homes and friendly neighborhood hangouts.

From behind-the-scenes interactions with the musicians of the Houston Symphony to jaw-dropping private performances by world-class virtuosos, the Houston Symphony’s Young Associates Council offers incomparable insight and accessibility to the music and musicians that are shaping the next era of orchestral music.

Young Associate Premium Farida Abjani Ann & Jonathan Ayre James M. Bell Ganesh Betanabhatla Eric Brueggeman David Chambers & Alex Steffler Darrin Davis & Mario Gudmundsson

Young Associate

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$2,500 or more

Valerie Palmquist Dieterich & Tracy Dieterich Amanda & Adam Dinitz Vicky Dominguez Terry Everett & Eric Cheyney Jennifer & Joshua Gravenor Ms. Mandi Hunsicker-Sallee Kiri & Jeffrey Katterhenry

Brian McCulloch & Jeremy Garcia Sami & Jud Morrison Melissa L. Nance Toni Oplt & Ed Schneider Dr. Paulina Sergot & Dr. Theo Shybut Tony Shih – Norton Rose Fulbright

Molly Simpson Judy & Steve Sohn Drs. Ishwaria & Vivek Subbiah Georgeta Teodorescu Candace & Brian Thomas

Sara Kelly Connie Kwan-Wong Dr. Nashat Latib & Dr. Vinodh Kumar Joshua Lee & Julie Van Gerrit Leeftink Catherine & Matt Matthews Ashley McPhail Shane Miller Courtney & Jose Obregon Girija & Anant Patel Rosemin Premji Brooke & Nathaniel Richards Kate & Christopher Robart

Liana & Andrew Schwaitzberg Justin & Caroline Simons Rebeca & Chad Spencer Carol Tai Joel Towner Dr. Shilpa Trivedi Jovon Tyler Elise Wagner

$1,500 - $2,499

Dr. Genevera Allen Michael Arlen Drs. Laura & William Black Drs. Tiffany & Desmond Bourgeois Sverre & Carrie Brandsberg-Dahl Ting & John Bresnahan Divya & Chris Brown Jacquelyn & Kevin Coronado Crystal & Mike Cox Nina Delano & Wirt Blaffer Jennifer & Steve Dolman Emily Duncan Christine Falgout – Island Operating Co., Inc.

Kimberly Falgout – Island Operating Co., Inc. Mark Folkes & Christopher Johnston Alexandra & Daniel Gottschalk Rebecca & Andrew Gould Jeff Graham Claudio Gutierrez Jarod Hogan Monica & Burdette Huffman Kurt Johnson & Colleen Matheu Shamika Johnson – Van Cleef & Arpels Stacy & Jason Johnson

The Young Associates Council is supported in part by BB&T. For more information, please contact: Molly Simpson, Director, Individual Giving and Major Gifts, 713.337.8526 Liam Bonner, Development Officer, Individual Giving, 713.337.8536.

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Our DONORS continued Mr. & Mrs. William A. Van Wie Ms. Elise Wagner H. Richard Walton Ms. Nancy Ames & Mr. Danny Ward Mr. & Mrs. Peter S. Wareing Beth Weidler & Stephen James Mr. Michael Weir & Mrs. Melanie Ford Weir Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Weiss Hon. & Mrs. Bill White Mrs. Deanne White Tom & Jackie Wilcox Charline & Bill Wilkins Gene & Sandra Williams Loretta & Lawrence Williams Mr. & Mrs. Arthur A. Williford Dr. Alice Gates & Dr. Wayne Wilner Ms. Charlene Wright Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Mr. & Mrs. Bret Zorich Anonymous (8)

Director

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$1,000-$1,499

Dr. & Mrs. Hugh D. Allen Tara Maria Amavi Mr. & Mrs. Greg Anderson Paul H. & Maida M. Asofsky Mr. Matthew Assiff Jerry Axelrod Mr. & Mrs. David M. Balderston Trace Trahan Bannerman Mr. & Mrs. Allen Barnhill Mr. A. Greer Barriault & Ms. Clarruth A. Seaton Ms. Deborah S. Bautch Dr. & Mrs. Arthur L. Beaudet Carole Shivers Mr. & Mrs. Frank R. Benton Eldo Bergman, Family Literacy Network Ms. Nancy H. Bihlmaier Dr. Joan Hacken Bitar Mr. Paul Bitner Mr. & Mrs. Chad Blaine Mr. Jay Blinderman Mr. Tony Bradfield & Mr. Kevin Black James & Dale Brannon Breland Law Firm Dr. Patrick Briggs & Ms. Helene Harding Mr. Wayne A. Brooks Sally & Laurence Brown Anne H. Bushman Mrs. Ann Cavanaugh Mr. F. Martin Caylor Ms. Debbie Chance Mr. & Mrs. Chris Chandler Mr. & Ms. Daniel Chavanelle Mrs. Victoria Chin Dr. & Mrs. Gary Clark Dr. & Mrs. Martin Cohen Donna M. Collins Shawn & Megan Conley George W. Connelly Mr. & Mrs. Sam Cooper Nigel Curlet Mr. & Mrs. Michael Curry Mr. & Mrs. James D. Dannenbaum Joyce & Arthur Dauber Mr. Darryl de Mello Mr. & Mrs. Rene Degreve Mr. & Mrs. E. E. Deschner Ms. Aurelie Desmarais & Mr. Ed Struzynski Mr. John F. Dorn Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Duncan 46 | Houston Symphony

Mrs. William H. Dwyer III Mr. & Mrs. Warren Ellsworth Lee & Christie Eubanks Ms. Caroline Fant Dale & Anne Fitz Bill & Diana Freeman Dr. & Mrs. Robert H. Fusillo Mr. & Mrs. David B. Garten Ms. Margaret Wendy Germani Mr. & Mrs. Mark Gladstein L. Rusty Goetz Susan & Kevin Golden Kathy & Marty Goossen Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Gossett Joyce Z. Greenberg Mr. & Mrs. Paul Hanson Terry L. & Karen G. Henderson Dean & Beth Hennings Eliane Herring & Jim Goltz Mr. & Mrs. Donald Herron Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hickey Dr. Volker Hirsinger Mr. Stanley Hoffberger Mr. & Mrs. John Horstman Mr. John Horstman Patricia P. Hubbard Mrs. Kerry Incavo Mr. & Mrs. Paul M. Janicke Mr. Robert E. Johnson & Ms. Ariella Perlman Catherine & Andrew Kaldis Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Katz Ms. Carolyn C. Keeble Lynda & Frank Kelly Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Mr. & Mrs. James L. Ketelsen Dr. & Mrs. Michael F. Koehl Deborah Kosich Dr. & Mrs. James H. Krause Ms. Dawn Krieg Ms. Mary Leba Velva G. & H. Fred Levine James C. Lindsey Priscilla L. List Dr. & Mrs. Kelly B. Lobley Mr. & Mrs. Paul Loyd Kimberly Lucas Mr. & Mrs. David Martin Mr. & Mrs. Mark Matovich Dr. A. McDermott & Dr. A. Glasser Ellen Ochoa & Coe Miles Mr. Russell J. Miller & Mrs. Charlotte M. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Mireles Mr. & Mrs. William Morgan Mr. & Mrs. Richard Murphy Daniel & Karol Musher Musicians of the Houston Symphony Inc. Ms. Jennifer Naae Mr. Cliff Nash & Dr. Lee Bar-Eli Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Neumann Mr. & Mrs. Jimmy W. Nokes Mr. & Mrs. Eric L. Oshlo Linda Popkin-Paine & Stephen Paine Mrs. Kusum Patel Grace & Carroll Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Phillips Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sam Philpot Mrs. Ruth Newberry Porterfield Mr. & Mrs. William B. Rawl Mr. Cameron Ray Mr. Vince Reina Ms. Ann Rhoads H. John & Diane Riley Robertson Wealth Management Mr. Matthew D. Roitstein Mrs. Evie Ronald

Jill & Milt Rose Mr. & Mrs. Paul A. Ross Brenda & Mansel Rubenstein Mr. David Ruiz John & Zhanna Russo Mr. & Mrs. Carl W. Sandlin Mrs. Holly Sansing Ms. Janet Schaumburg Mr. & Mrs. Gary Schiefelbein Beth & Lee D. Schlanger Ms. Monica Simon Mr. & Mrs. Lance Smith Dean & Kay Snider Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Standish Mr. & Mrs. Alan Stein Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Street David & Beverly Sufian Mr. & Mrs. John F. Sullivan Mr. & Mrs. Donald Sweeney Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Tabor Jr. Mr. Monsour Taghdisi Mr. & Mrs. Leonard Tallerine Andrea & Trent Tellepsen Mr. & Mrs. James G. Theus Mrs. Glenda C. Toole Ms. Chung-Nan N. Tsai Dr. & Mrs. Michael Underbrink Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Unger Dr. & Mrs. Brad Urquhart Mr. & Mrs. David Vannauker Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Veith Mr. James Walker Betty & Bill Walker Mr. & Mrs. James A. Watt Mark Wawro & Melanie Gray General & Mrs. Jasper Welch Bryony J. Welsh Mr. & Mrs. Brian K. Westfall Ms. Amy E. Whitaker Ms. Sara E. White Carlton Wilde Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Wilkerson Ms. Laurie Williams Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Winkle Ms. Susan G. Wood Marvin & Terry Woskow Family Fund Anonymous (8) *Deceased The Houston Symphony thanks the 1985 donors who gave up to $999 over the past year. To note any errors or omissions, please contact Tiffany Bourgeois, Development Associate, Annual Fund at 713.337.8559.

POPS DONORS Centennial Society

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$100,000-$149,999

Sybil F. Roos

Concertmaster’s Society

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$25,000-$49,999

Darlene & Cappy* Bisso Evan B. Glick Dr. Rita Justice Mr. & Mrs. U. J. LeGrange Rita & Paul Morico Michael J. Shawiak Shirley Wolff Toomim Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Jr. Conductor’s Circle Platinum Baton  $15,000-$24,999 Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mrs. Gloria Pepper & Dr. Bernard Katz Ms. Nancey G. Lobb Michelle & Jack Matzer Ken & Carol Lee Robertson

Conductor’s Circle Gold Baton  $10,000-$14,999 Consurgo Sunshine Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Anne & George Boss Brad & Joan Corson Mr. & Mrs. Eric J. Gongre Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Martha & Marvin McMurrey Radoff Family Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Walter Scherr Shirley & Joel Wahlberg Anonymous (1)

Conductor’s Circle Silver Baton  $7,500-$9,999 Beth & Jim Barton Lilia Khakimova & C. Robert Bunch Scott Ensell & Family Ms. Darlene Clark & Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs Terry & Kandee McGill Dr. Cameron Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Jean & Allan Quiat

Conductor’s Circle Bronze Baton  $5,000-$7,499 Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Bowman Ms. Miquel A. Correll Connie & Byron Dyer Mrs. Jane Egner Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fluor Mr. & Mrs. Edd C. Hendee Mr. & Mrs. Dan Kellogg Michael & Kelley Lang Mrs. Nancy Lease Alice R. McPherson, M.D.

Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Mr. & Ms. Steven Sherman Jeanine Van Wagenen Sally & Denney Wright Anonymous (1)

Grand Patron’s Circle  $2,500-$4,999 Mr. & Mrs. J. Emery Anderson Mrs. Peggy Armstrong Donald & Dottie Bates John S. Beury Drs. Laura & William Black Robert & Gwen Bray Ms. Barbara A. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Brady F. Carruth Joseph & Rebecca Demeter Jo Lynn & Gregg Falgout / Island Operating Company Mark Folkes & Christopher Johnston Julius & Suzan Glickman Mr. & Mrs. Charles R. Hall Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Margolis William D. & Karinne McCullough Mr. & Mrs. David R. McKeithan Jr. Shirley & Marvin Rich Dr. & Mrs. Richard Robbins Douglas & Alicia Rodenberger Mr. Morris Rubin Mr. & Mrs. James Schulz Mr. & Mrs. Karl Strobl Dean B. Walker Doug & Kay Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Thomas H. Wilson Dr. & Mrs. Frank S. Yelin

Patron’s Circle  $1,500-$2,499 Suan Angelo Sue Sue & Don Aron Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Banks Dr. & Mrs. William S. Banks III James Barton Mr. & Mrs. Ron Bertus Michael & Diana Bonin Mr. Thomas N. Britton & Ms. Debra A. Ewing Mr. & Mrs. William V. Conover II Mr. & Mrs. Michael F. Cook Mrs. Jeanette Coon & Mr. Thomas Collins Cynthia & Robert Creager Jennifer & Steve Dolman Mr. & Mrs. David Dybell Mr. & Mrs. J. Richard Espinosa Carol & Larry Fradkin

Mr. & Mrs. Franklin J. Harberg Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Kemper Rex & Marillyn King Gerrit Leeftink Mr. & Mrs. Barry I. Levine Sue Ann Lurcott Ms. Nancy Ann Mann Mr. & Mrs. Michael L. Mason Steve & Linda Massie Mr. & Mrs. Danny Mei Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Nilson Joy & Gary Noble Ms. Kathryn O'Brien Mrs. Kay Onstead Mr. & Mrs. Kim Parker Ms. Darla P. Phillips Mr. & Mrs. Gary Prentice Judy & Bill Pursell Venu & Elsie Rao Mr. & Mrs. John T. Riordan Rosemarie & Jeff Roth Mrs. Lynda G. Seaman Mr. & Dr. Adrian D. Shelley Mr. & Mrs. Nick Stratigakis Jonathan & Susan Symko Dr. & Mrs. Brad Wertman Anonymous (3)

Director  $1,000-$1,499 Ms. Patricia K. Boyd Dr. & Mrs. Larry Brenner Ms. Deborah Butler Vicki Buxton Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Chapman Kelly & Julie Conner Marilyn & Tucker Coughlen Barbara Dokell & Larry Finger Paula & Alfred Friedlander Betsy Garlinger Gary T. Leach Ms. Joyce Lindler Mr. & Ms. Hubert Magee Mr. & Mrs. Alan May Jr. Mr. William Mendel Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Mosbacher Terri & Bert Neece Kim & Ted A. Powell Roland & Linda Pringle Dr. & Mrs. Michael Rasmussen Chris & Don Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Carl N. Tongberg Ms. Jody Verwers Anonymous (2)

Principal  $500-$999 Mrs. Linda Anderson Mr. & Mrs. David Archibald Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Armes Ms. Stephanie Ayala Martha C. Bair Mr. & Mrs. Robert Balhoff Mr. & Mrs. John P. Beall Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Beard Betty & Gerald Beathard Ms. Dorothy G. Blackwell Mr. & Mrs. Rick A. Burris Mr. & Mrs. Ray Butler Bill & Marion Calvert Dorothy E.F. Caram, Ed.D Mr. & Mrs. Jim Chandler Ms. Donna J. Charleson Richard & Marcia Churns Carlo & Vicki Corso Jeanette & John DiFilippo

John & Daryl Dunn Mr. Ramsay M. Elder Mildred & Richard Ellis Dr. & Mrs. Charles Ericsson Mr. John Eymann Mr. & Mrs. John R. Farina Lynne Liberato & James B. Flodine Ms. Dawn Folsom Jessica Ford Mr. James E. Gerhardt Robert J. Grant Mr. & Mrs. Dale Hardy Ann & Bill Heim Richard & Beverly Hickman Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Don Hubbard Mr. & Mrs. George C. John Elizabeth Kaufman & David Goeken Ms. Leslie King Dave & Laura Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Joe D. Koshkin Mr. & Mrs. Wilfred M. Krenek Mr. & Mrs. Theo Lawrence Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Levinson Dr. & Mrs. James Lewis Mr. Khambrel Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Joe T. McMillan Mr. & Mrs. Richard S. Moen Ms. Wynona Montgomery Paul & Molly Mugnier Mr. & Mrs. Dan Neskora Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Noland Joe & Ann Palm Mr. & Mrs. Gary L. Parkey Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Reid Ms. Stacey Saunders & Mr. Jeff Smith Les & Lyn Schmaltz Ms. Roc'C Semmelbeck Claudette & Tim Shaunty Mr. William Siegel Jerry Siemers Mr. Lawrence C. Smith Thomas W. Snodgrass Mr. & Mrs. Gregg Stephens Mr. & Mrs. Edward Stuart Dr. & Mrs. Frank C. Sung Mr. Roger Trandell Larry & Cheryl Walter Wear Family Douglas & Carolynne White Mrs. Elizabeth White Mr. & Mrs. George R. Williams Roland & Charlene Wise Mr. Eric Wooten Mr. & Mrs. Alan Young Anonymous (3) *Deceased The Houston Symphony thanks the 548 donors who gave up to $499 over the past year. To note any errors or omissions, please contact Tiffany Bourgeois, Development Associate, Annual Fund, at 713.337.8559.

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Education & Community Engagement DONORS The Houston Symphony acknowledges those individuals, corporations and foundations that support our education and community engagement initiatives. Each year, these activities impact the lives of more than 97,000 children and students and provide access to our world-class orchestra for more than 150,000 Houstonians free of charge.

Principal Guarantor $250,000+

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John & Lindy Rydman / Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods / Spec’s Charitable Foundation

Guarantor

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$100,000+

BBVA Compass Ms. Marie Taylor Bosarge City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board Houston Endowment Houston Symphony Endowment Mr. John N. Neighbors

Underwriter

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$50,000+

Cameron International Corporation Chevron The Elkins Foundation ENGIE Exxon Mobil Corporation The Hearst Foundations, Inc. League of American Orchestras' Futures Funds Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo The John P. McGovern Foundation Occidental Petroleum Corporation Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr./ The Robbins Foundation Shell Oil Company The Robert & Janice McNair Foundation

Sponsor

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$25,000+

The Boeing Company Mr. & Mrs. John P. Dennis III/ WoodRock & Co. Sterling-Turner Foundation Wells Fargo

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Partner

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$15,000+

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Ruth and Ted Bauer Family Foundation The Melbern G. and Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation H-E-B Tournament of Champions The Newfield Foundation Mr. Jay Steinfeld & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop Texas Commission on the Arts Ellen A. Yarrell in memory of Virginia S. Anderson and in honor of Cora Sue Mach

Supporter

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$10,000+

CenterPoint Energy George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation Houston Symphony League Nancy & Robert Peiser The Powell Foundation TPG Capital Vivian L. Smith Foundation

Benefactor

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$5,000+

Houston Symphony League Bay Area LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation Macy’s Marathon Oil Corporation Nordstrom Randalls Food Markets Strake Foundation

Donor

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$1,000+

Lilly & Thurmon Andress Diane & Harry Gendel Kinder Morgan Foundation Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Cora Sue & Harry Mach Karinne & Bill McCullough Tricia & March Rauch

Support by Endowed Funds Education and Community programs are also supported by the following endowed funds, which are a part of the Houston Symphony Endowment: Margarett & Alice Brown Endowment Fund for Education Spec’s Charitable Foundation Salute to Educators Concert Fund The Brown Foundation's Miller Outdoor Theatre Fund in honor of Hanni & Stewart Orton The William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs Lawrence E. Carlton M.D. Endowment Fund for Youth Programs Richard P. Garmany Fund for Houston Symphony League Concerto Competition Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition Endowed Fund Selma S. Neumann Fund

Support for Symphony Scouts Cora Sue & Harry Mach in honor of Roger Daily’s 13 years of service as Director of the Houston Symphony’s Education and Community Programs

Support for the CommunityEmbedded Musician Initiative The Community-Embedded Musicians Initiative is supported in part by a generous grant from the American Orchestras' Future Fund, a program of the League of of American Orchestras made possible by funding from the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation.

The Houston Symphony residency at Crespo Elementary is presented by BBVA Compass and the BBVA Compass Foundation. We are also thankful to HISD and these lead supporters of the Community-Embedded Musician program: Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Medistar Spec’s Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods / Spec’s Charitable Foundation Nancy & Robert Peiser Mr. Jay Steinfeld & Mrs. Barbara Winthrop H-E-B Tournament of Champions LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation

Corporate, Foundation & Government PARTNERS

The Houston Symphony is proud to recognize the leadership support of our corporate, foundation and government partners that allow the orchestra to reach new heights in musical performance, education and community engagement for Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast Region.

For more information on becoming a foundation or government partner, please contact Mary Beth Mosley, Director, Institutional Giving and Stewardship, at 713.337.8521 or marybeth.mosley@houstonsymphony.org.

For more information on becoming a Houston Symphony corporate donor, please contact Leticia Konigsberg, Director, Corporate Relations, at 713.337.8522 or leticia.konigsberg@houstonsymphony.org.

HOUSTON SYMPHONY BUSINESS COUNCIL The Houston Symphony is grateful for the philanthropic support of its Corporate Partners. With the foresight of Houston’s business community, our organization will fulfill its vision of becoming America’s most relevant and accessible topten orchestra by 2025.

If your company is interested in deepening its connection with the Houston Symphony, consider our Business Council.

Co-Chairs Ralph Burch, ConocoPhillips David Wuthrich, Civic/Cultural Leader

Business Council Host Committee

Prentiss Burt, JP Morgan Chase Justice Brett Busby, Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District Janet F. Clark, Marathon Oil Corporation (retired) Bradley Corson, Exxon Mobil Corporation Gene Dewhurst, Falcon Seaboard Diversified Mike Doherty, Frost Bank David Frankfort, Deutsche Bank Ron Franklin, McGuireWoods, LLP Allen Gelwick, Lockton Companies, LLC Steven P. Mach, Mach Industrial Group, LP Michael Mann, Mann Eye Institute Paul Mann, Mann Eye Institute David Massin, Wells Fargo

Open to current subscribers, donors and Board members affiliated with a business, the council provides opportunities to increase corporate participation by offering networking and special behind-the-scenes events.

To learn more about how to get involved, please contact Leticia Konigsberg, Director, Corporate Relations, at 713.337.8522 or leticia.konigsberg@houstonsymphony.org.

Billy McCartney, Flat Rock Development, LLC Paul Morico, Baker Botts L.L.P. Ed Osterberg, Mayer Brown, LLP Robert A. Peiser, Parkton Group Greg Powers, Halliburton David Pruner, Heidrick & Struggles Ron Rand, Rand Group, LLC John Rydman, Spec’s Wines, Spirits and Finer Foods Manolo Sánchez, BBVA Compass Jerry Simon, Northern Trust L. Proctor Thomas, Baker Botts L.L.P. (retired) William J. Toomey, BB&T Bobby Tudor, Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Company Jesse B. Tutor, Accenture (retired) Margaret Waisman, Affiliated Dermatologists of Houston Fredric A. Weber, Norton Rose Fulbright Beth Wolff, Beth Wolff Realtors Ed Wulfe, Wulfe & Co. Frank Yonish, Bank of Texas

Corporate, Foundation & Government PARTNERS continued

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CORPORATE PARTNERS

(as of March 1, 2017)

Principal Corporate Guarantor  $250,000 and above *Spec’s Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods / Spec’s Charitable Foundation Grand Guarantor  $150,000 and above BBVA Compass ConocoPhillips *Houston Public Media— News 88.7 FM; Channel 8 PBS *KTRK ABC-13 Phillips 66 *Oliver Wyman Guarantor  $100,000 and above Bank of America Chevron *Houston Methodist Medistar Corporation PaperCity *Rand Group, LLC *Telemundo *United Airlines Underwriter  $50,000 and above *Baker Botts L.L.P. *BB&T Cameron International Corporation *Cameron Management *Dignity Memorial Funeral Homes and Cemetaries ENGIE *The Events Company Exxon Mobil Corporation Frost Bank Houston Baptist University Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo *Jackson and Company Kirkland & Ellis LLP The Lancaster Hotel Mann Eye Institute Occidental Petroleum Corporation Palmetto Partners Ltd./The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation Shell Oil Company Vinson & Elkins LLP

Sponsor  $25,000 and above Bank of Texas The Boeing Company *Bright Star *Bulgari Enterprise Product Partners L.P. *Gittings Goldman, Sachs & Co. *Houston Chronicle *Houston First Corporation JPMorgan Chase Kalsi Engineering KPMG LLP Marine Foods Express, Ltd. McGuireWoods, LLP *Neiman Marcus Northern Trust Norton Rose Fulbright Sidley Austin LLP *Silver Circle Audio SPIR STAR, Ltd. The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center Wells Fargo WoodRock & Co. Partner  $15,000 and above Anadarko Petroleum Corporation *City Kitchen *Glazier’s Distributors Gorman’s Uniform Service Halliburton H-E-B Tournament of Champions Heart of Fashion Independent Bank Laredo Construction, Inc. Locke Lord LLP Lockton Companies of Houston The Newfield Foundation Republic National Distributing Company, LLP USI Southwest Supporter  $10,000 and above *Abraham’s Oriental Rugs *Agua Hispanic Marketing

CORPORATE MATCHING GIFTS Aetna Aon Apache Corporation Bank of America BBVA Compass BHP Billiton The Boeing Company BP Foundation Caterpillar Chevron Chubb Group Coca-Cola 50 | Houston Symphony

CenterPoint Energy Emerson Enbridge Energy Company EOG Resources Marathon Oil Corporation *Silver Eagle Distributors Star Furniture Union Pacific Foundation *Zenfilm Benefactor  $5,000 and above Barclay’s Wealth and Investment Management Beck Redden LLP Louis Vuitton Macy's Nordstrom Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, L.L.P. Plains All American *Randalls Food Markets Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc. Spectra Energy *University of St. Thomas Wortham Insurance and Risk Management Patron  Gifts below $5,000 Adolph Locklar, Intellectual Property Law Firm Amazon Baker Hughes Bering's Beth Wolff Realtors Burberry Dolce & Gabbana USA, Inc. Intertek Kinder Morgan Foundation Lisle Violin Shop Quantum Bass Center* SEI, Global Institutional Group Smith, Graham & Company Stewart Title Company TAM International, Inc. The Webster * Includes in-kind support

(as of March 1, 2017)

ConocoPhillips Eli Lilly and Company EOG Resources Exxon Mobil Corporation Freeport – McMoRan Oil & Gas General Electric General Mills Goldman, Sachs & Company Halliburton Hewlett-Packard Houston Endowment IBM

ING Financial Services Corporation KBR Merrill Lynch NAACO Industries, Inc. Neiman Marcus Northern Trust Occidental Petroleum Corporation Phillips 66 Shell Oil Company Williams Companies, Inc.

FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT AGENCIES Diamond Guarantor  $1,000,000 and above Houston Symphony Endowment Houston Symphony League The Wortham Foundation, Inc. Premier Guarantor  $500,000 and above The Brown Foundation, Inc. City of Houston and Theater District Improvement, Inc. Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation The C. Howard Pieper Foundation Grand Guarantor  $150,000 and above City of Houston through the Miller Theatre Advisory Board The Cullen Foundation The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Guarantor  $100,000 and above Houston Endowment MD Anderson Foundation Underwriter  $50,000 and above The Elkins Foundation The Fondren Foundation The Hearst Foundations

IN-KIND DONORS

(as of March 1, 2017)

Houston Symphony Chorus Endowment League of American Orchestras' Futures Fund The Humphreys Foundation LTR Lewis Cloverdale Foundation John P. McGovern Foundation The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation / Palmetto Partners Ltd. The Robbins Foundation Sponsor  $25,000 and above Beauchamp Foundation Ray C. Fish Foundation Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation Sterling-Turner Foundation Texas Commission on the Arts Partner  $15,000 and above Ruth & Ted Bauer Family Foundation The Melbern G. & Susanne M. Glasscock Foundation The Hood-Barrow Foundation Houston Symphony League Bay Area William S. and Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Vaughn Foundation

Supporter  $10,000 and above The Carleen & Alde Fridge Foundation Petrello Family Foundation The Powell Foundation Radoff Family Foundation The Schissler Foundation The Vivian L. Smith Foundation Anonymous Benefactor  $5,000 and above William E. & Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable Foundation The Scurlock Foundation Keith & Mattie Stevenson Foundation Strake Foundation Patron  Gifts below $5,000 The Cockrell Foundation Diamond Family Foundation First Junior Woman’s Club of Houston The Helmle-Shaw Foundation Huffington Foundation Leon Jaworski Foundation Lillian Kaiser Lewis Foundation Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation The Lubrizol Foundation State Employee Charitable Campaign

(as of March 1, 2017)

A Fare Extraordinaire Aker Imaging Alexander’s Fine Portrait Design Alpha-Lee Enterprises, Inc. Aspire Executive Coaching, LLC Baanou Bergner & Johnson Design Bering’s Bistro Menil BKD, LLP Boat Ranch Burberry Classical 91.7 FM Cognetic Complete Eats Cullnaire Carl R. Cunningham Donoho's Jewellers DLG Research & Marketing Solutions Elaine Turner Designs Elegant Events by Michael Elsie Smith Design Festari Foster Quan LLP

Grotto in the Woodlands Gucci Hermann Park Conservancy Hilton Americas – Houston Hotel Granduca Hotel Icon Houston Astros Houston Grand Opera Houston Texans InterContinental Hotel Houston JOHANNUS Organs of Texas John L. Worthan & Son, L.P. John Wright/Textprint JW Marriott Houston Downtown Kuhl-Linscomb LG Entertainers Limb Design Martha Turner Properties Meera Buck & Associates Michael’s Cookie Jar Minuteman Press – Post Oak Momentum Jaguar Music & Arts New Leaf Publishing, Inc.

Nos Caves Vin Pax Americana Pro/Sound Randalls Food Markets Rice University Richard Brown Orchestra Saint Arnold’s Brewery Saks Fifth Avenue Shecky’s Media, Inc. Singapore Airlines Staging Solutions Stewart Title The Parson Family in memory of Dorothy Anne Parson Tony’s Tootsies Valobra Jewelry & Antiques Versace Village Greenway VISION Yahama

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THE HOU ST O N SYMPHONY AT MILLER OUTDOOR THEATRE What does it take to bring the Houston Symphony from Jones Hall to Miller Outdoor Theatre for ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights and the Star-Spangled Salute? We’re glad you asked! We’ve compiled a few of the stats here to illustrate the mighty tasks undertaken every year by the stage crews of both the Houston Symphony and Miller Outdoor Theatre.

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STAGE TECHNICIANS RITABAN GHOSH JOSE RIOS RYAN SAMUELSON DAVID STENNIS

HOUSTON SYMPHONY OPERATIONS STAFF MEMBERS BECKY BROWN, Director, Operations LAUREN MOORE, Operations Assistant KELLY MORGAN, Stage Manager MEREDITH WILLIAMS, Associate Director, Operations

TRUCKS

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GUEST ARTISTS AND CONDUCTORS making their Houston Symphony debuts at Miller this summer.

All of the equipment you see on the Miller stage was trucked here from Jones Hall!

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TRUCKS 2 • Semi-Trailer Trucks (1 refrigerated, 1 standard) 1 • Bobtail Truck

STAGE EQUIPMENT In addition to musical instruments, the Houston Symphony crew transports chairs, music stands and conductor podium from Jones Hall to Miller.

105

MUSIC STANDS

1 125

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conducting podium chairs

LOAD-IN The equipment doesn't get from the trucks to the stage by itself!

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STAGE HANDS 6 • Miller staff 6 • Houston Symphony crew members HOURS to load equipment into Miller

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MICS

3.3

hours of setup

SOUND SETUP Testing…1…2…3. Many microphones capture the music for recording and broadcast on Houston Public Media.

TEMPERATURE The temperature on stage is important not only to our musicians, but it is critical to maintain the integrity of their instruments.

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IDEAL TEMPERATURE locations onstage where temperature is measured times temperature is checked during each performance

NOURISHMENT! For the past 6 seasons, Houston Symphony Director of Information Technology and Business Analytics, Brandon VanWaeyenberghe, has delivered frozen treats to Miller for the crew.

That doesn’t spoil their appetite for BBQ, though!

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ICE CREAM BARS & POPSICLES consumed by the crew during the Miller concert series. Their favorite is Klondike bars!

POUNDS

On the Fourth of July, the crew celebrates America's independence by devouring this amount of Demeris BBQ, along with 30 cookies and 30 brownies.

GAFF TAPE Gaff tape is the go-to tool for marking positions of equipment onstage and taping down electrical and sound cables. Gaff tape is to a stage hand what Duct tape is to a do-it-yourself handyman.

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