Houston Symphony Magazine - November 2010

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Brett Mitchell, assistant conductor

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

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Read about our very special world premiére of the orchestral version of Kaddish.

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Opening Night 2010 celebrated Hans Graf’s Austrian roots. See more on page 6.

Features 6 Opening Night Gala

On Stage and Off 36 Backstage Pass 24 Chorus 3 Credits 27-35 Donors 7 From the Orchestra 4 Hans Graf 5 Letter to Patrons 25 Music Matters!

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Departments 9 Spotlight on Sponsors 23 Support Your Symphony 18 Upcoming Performances

Cover photo by Sandy Lankford.

Contents photos by Bruce Bennett and PWL Studio.

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Jones Hall wasn’t always Jones Hall. Learn about City Auditorium on page 25.

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

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Hans Graf............................................................................................................

Last month, Maestro Hans Graf led the Houston Symphony on a 12-day tour of the United Kingdom to perform The Planets—An HD Odyssey to sold-out crowds at 8 concerts in 7 cities. We would like to thank Maestro Graf for his expert leadership of our orchestra during its first international tour in 10 years. The photos below represent a tiny modicum of his time in the UK and celebrate his successes in helping garner international acclaim for our orchestra and our city. To view our complete tour scrapbook, please visit houstonsymphonyuktour.org.

< Hans Graf signs a program for a patron in Birmingham Photos by jami lupold

Photo by Sandy Lankford

^ Hans Graf with Houston Symphony Executive Director/ CEO, Mark C. Hanson (far left), a traditional Scottish Bagpiper and Houston Symphony Society President, Bobby Tudor (far right) at Edinburgh Castle

^ Hans Graf conducting the Houston Symphony in The Planets—An HD Odyssey at the Barbican in London

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Known for his wide range of repertoire and creative programming, dis- concert of the Aspen Music Festival and returned to Tanglewood and tinguished Austrian conductor Hans Graf – the Houston Symphony’s 15th Chicago’s Grant Park Festival.

Music Director – is one of today’s most highly respected musicians. He An experienced opera conductor, Graf first conducted the Vienna began his tenure here on Opening Night of the 2001-2002 season.

State Opera in 1981 and has since led productions in the opera houses Prior to his appointment in Houston, he was music director of the of Berlin, Munich, Paris and Rome, including several world premieres.

Calgary Philharmonic, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Recent engagements include Parsifal at the Zurich Opera and Boris the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra and the Iraqi National Symphony Godunov at the Opera National du Rhin in Strasbourg.

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Born in 1949 near A frequent guest Linz, Graf studied violin Hans Graf conducting the Houston Symphony at the Barbican in London on October 16, 2010 with all of the major piano as a child. He “Graf led his players in a brisk, decisive performance... and North American orchesearned diplomas in piano tras, Graf has developed and conducting from the the music never seemed less awesome than the a close relationship with Musikhochschule in Graz images. Mission accomplished.” the Boston Symphony and and continued his studRichard Sairman, The Financial Times appears regularly with the ies with Franco Ferrara, orchestra during the subSergiu Celibidache and scription season and at the Tanglewood Music Festival.

Arvid Jansons. His career was launched in 1979 when he was awarded He made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Houston Symphony in first prize at the Karl Böhm Competition.

January 2006 and returned leading the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in March His extensive discography includes recordings with the Houston 2007. He and the Houston Symphony were invited to appear at Carnegie Symphony, available through houstonsymphony.org: works by Bartók Hall in January 2010 to present the New York premiere of The Planets— and Stravinsky, Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony, Berg’s Three Pieces from An HD Odyssey. the Lyric Suite and a DVD of The Planets—An HD Odyssey.

Internationally, Graf conducts in the foremost concert halls Graf has been awarded the Chevalier de l’ordre de la Legion of Europe, Japan and Australia. Last month, he led the Houston d’Honneur by the French government for championing French music Symphony on a tour of the UK to present the international premiere around the world and the Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold for of The Planets—An HD Odyssey. He has participated in the Maggio Services to the Republic of Austria.

Musicale Fiorentino, Bregenz and Aix en Provence and appeared Hans and Margarita Graf have homes in Salzburg and Houston. at the Salzburg Festival. In summer 2010, he conducted the opening They have one daughter, Anna, who lives in Vienna.

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Bobby Tudor President Photo by bruce bennett

Welcome to Jones Hall for another month full of exciting and diverse Houston Symphony performances!

We are excited to report on our just-completed concert tour of the United Kingdom. Between October 8th and 16th, the Houston Symphony served as a highly effective cultural ambassador with sold-out concerts in Birmingham, Leeds, Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Basingstoke and London. Our musicians and Hans Graf further cemented the Houston Symphony’s international reputation with performances that garnered immediate return invitations and prolonged applause. A group of Symphony Board members, led by principal tour funders Bobby and Phoebe Tudor, cheered on the orchestra at the Edinburgh and London concerts and dined with Hans and Rita Graf in Edinburgh Castle. Please visit the tour section of our Website to read musician blogs and view pictures from our UK tour adventure!

You may have heard by now that we successfully reached agreement with the orchestra on a new four-year contract that will carry us through our 2013-2014 Centennial Season. This outcome, reached prior to the expiration of our former agreement, demonstrates a high level of trust and respect between the orchestra, staff and Board and a collective optimism about our institution’s future.

Finally, on November 23rd, we invite you to experience the outcome of a collaboration between Holocaust Museum Houston, the Houston Symphony and composer Lawrence Siegel.

Under the direction of Hans Graf, we will perform the world premiere of Kaddish “I Am Here!” as scored for full orchestra, soloists and chorus. This remarkable composition shares the heroic journeys and personal testimonies of 15 Holocaust survivors, four of whom reside in Houston.

As always, we warmly welcome you to Jones Hall and extend our sincere thanks to you for generously supporting the Houston Symphony.

Mark C. Hanson Executive Director/CEO

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The Houston Symphony League’s Opening Night Gala, A Vienna Soirée, raised more than $250,000 for the Symphony’s Music Matters! Education and Community Engagement programs. Led by chairs Nancy and Robert Peiser, the event honored longtime Symphony supporters Barbara and Ulyesse LeGrange. Two weeks earlier, underwriters for the Gala were honored at a cocktail party at the home of Houston Symphony League President Nancy Littlejohn.

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Opening Night Becomes A Vienna Soirée

^ Opening Night dance floor

^ Opening Night Gala chairmen Robert and Nancy Peiser

^ Opening Night Gala honorees Barbara and Ulyesse LeGrange

^ Christina and Executive Director/CEO Mark C. Hanson

^ Houston Symphony Board President Bobby Tudor (far right) and wife Phoebe with last year’s Gala chairmen Judy and Scott Nyquist www.houstonsymphony.org

^ Opening Night Gala Underwriting Committee chairmen David and Viviana Denechaud

^ Major Gala Underwriter Beth Madison (right) with Ralph Burch

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On behalf of the musicians of the Houston Symphony, it gives me great pleasure to welcome you back to our 97th season. Already this fall, we have seen the exciting introduction of our new concertmaster and the success of our first overseas tour in a decade, but many of the season’s highlights still lie ahead.

This month, in addition to the immortal music of Brahms, Ravel, Grieg and Mussorgsky, we are presenting a very special project in collaboration with the Holocaust Museum Houston – the full orchestra premiere of Lawrence Siegel’s Kaddish, set to the words and stories of Holocaust survivors living in Houston. Reflecting on how this music adds another layer of emotional connection to their spoken words, I am struck by the often overlooked power of music. Music is usually treated as simply another form of entertainment, and at its most basic level, it certainly is that. But great music has the power to reach a part of our being that words and information cannot.

During the Shoah (Holocaust), prisoners who were being starved and worked to death, many of whom were barely alive, would still gather in secret, spending the energy they needed just to live to perform music for each other. Why would someone risk their best chance at surviving simply to play and hear music? There must be a deeper human need than survival. In other officially permitted camp concerts, Nazi officers and prisoners came together to listen to the music, the only time oppressor and oppressed were briefly joined by a common bond of humanity.

Turning to our own lives, I think of the occasions when we instinctively feel the need for music.

Brinton Averil Smith When do we cry at a wedding or funeral, if not when the music begins? It connects with our most funPrincipal Cello damental and innermost feelings. Can you imagine our most dramatic movie scenes without the swelling music soundtrack? The emotional impact could never be the same.

I remember the New York Philharmonic’s presentation of Brahms’ Requiem a few days after 9/11, the first organized public expression of grief in that city, and the Houston Symphony’s performance for NASA days after we lost Columbia. We need music to express what we cannot express in any other way. Johannes Brahms came from a distant time and a foreign culture, but listen to his third symphony and you will find that you know something about him, and about yourself, that you could not describe. Music is entertainment, but great music reaches into our souls, moves us and changes us.

We are very happy to have you with us on the journey.

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Mark C. Hanson, Executive Director/CEO

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

Principal Pops Conductor

Associate Conductor

Sponsor, Cameron Management

Sponsor, Madison Charitable Foundation

Brett Mitchell,

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

Xiao Wong Myung Soon Lee James Denton Anthony Kitai

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

Piccolo: Allison Garza

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

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

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

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

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

Contrabassoon: J. Jeff Robinson

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

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

Steven Brosvik, General Manager Roger Daily, Director, Music Matters!

Kristin L. Johnson, Director, Operations Steve Wenig, Orchestra Personnel Manager Michael Gorman, Assistant Orchestra Personnel Manager Donald Ray Jackson, Stage Manager Kelly Morgan, Assistant Stage Manager Meredith Williams, Assistant to the General Manager Carol Wilson, Manager, Music Matters!

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

Aurelie Desmarais, Senior Director, Artistic Planning Merle N. Bratlie, Director, Artist Services Thomas Takaro, Librarian Amanda Tozzi, Director, Popular Programming and Special Projects Erik Gronfor, Assistant Librarian Michael McMurray, Assistant Librarian Rebecca Zabinski, Artistic Assistant

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

Jennifer R. Mire, Senior Director, Communications Jessica Taylor, Editor, Magazine Holly Cassard, Manager, Public Relations

Ron Fredman, Senior Director, Development Tara Black, Director, Individual Giving Vickie Hamley, Director, Volunteer Services Brandon VanWaeyenberghe, Director, Corporate Relations Peter Yenne, Director, Foundation Relations and Development Communications Jessica Ford, Patron Services Specialist Samantha Gonzalez, Patron Services Specialist Clare Greene, Associate Director, Events Abbie Lee, Patron Services Assistant Sarah Slemmons, Development Associate, Administrative Services Lena Streetman, Manager, Individual Giving Andrew Walker, Development Assistant

Spotlight on Sponsors......................................................................................

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Total has been established for more than half a century in the U.S. and employs more than 6,900 people here in exploration and production, natural gas trading and marketing, crude oil and refined products trading and shipping, refining, petrochemicals, renewable energies and specialty chemicals.

The company has 71 locations throughout the U.S. and manufacturing facilities in 24 states.

Total plays an important part in the communities in which it operates. Each Total facility, including our corporate headquarters in Houston, works hard to become a valued member of the community. Total supports initiatives with local organizations in a variety of areas, including community outreach, education and the arts.

As such, we are proud to sponsor the Houston Symphony and support its mission to foster excellence and innovation in the performance and presentation of great music.

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cess is linked to the well-being of the communities where we do business. Through grants and volunteer initiatives, UBS strengthens relationships with local organizations while focusing on education and creativity. Through our sponsorship of Kaddish, UBS is also supporting the Holocaust Museum of Houstonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s development of a unique program that teaches young people about the Holocaust. 2,700 students from Houston-area schools will attend a matinee performance, study the Holocaust, tour the museum and meet with Holocaust survivors to learn more about their experiences.

UBS draws on its 150-year heritage to serve private, institutional and corporate clients worldwide, as well as retail clients in Switzerland. We combine our wealth management, investment banking and asset management businesses with our Swiss operations to deliver superior financial solutions and manage CHF 2.2 trillion in invested assets.

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Listening closely to one another in pursuit of a common goal, the musicians of the Houston Symphony strive to set an unsurpassed standard of attention to detail, collaboration and excellence. These are the same qualities that we value in our relationships with our clients.

For UBS, partnerships with renowned arts and culture institutions reflect our firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dedication to supporting the communities where we live and work, as well as a philosophy of working collaboratively with our clients to deliver the customized strategies that help them pursue their goals. It is why the firm has a long history of supporting orchestral music worldwide. In addition to its sponsorship of this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kaddish performances at the Houston Symphony, the firm currently sponsors several other outstanding symphony orchestras worldwide, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

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Friday, November 12, 2010 8 pm Saturday, November 13, 2010 8 pm Sunday, November 14, 2010 7:30 pm Jones Hall

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Brett Mitchell, conductor

Now in his fourth season as Assistant Conductor of the Houston Symphony, Brett Mitchell is one of America’s most promising young conductors.

He has led the orchestra in nearly 100 performances; several of which have been broadcast nationwide on SymphonyCast and Performance Today. His position with the Houston Symphony has afforded him the opportunity to meet, observe in rehearsal and study with some of the world’s greatest conductors. He is the newly appointed music director of the Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra and serves as a regular cover conductor for The Philadelphia Orchestra.

Mitchell has led the London Philharmonic; Leipzig Gewandhaus; The Philadelphia Orchestra; Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Oregon, Memphis and Peoria Symphony Orchestras; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra; and the Northwest Mahler Festival Orchestra. He served as a musical assistant at the New York Philharmonic during the 2007-08 season and as cover conductor with the Cleveland Orchestra in 2009. He made his European debut in 2004 with Romania’s Brasov Philharmonic and his Latin American debut in 2005 with the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM in Mexico City.

Highlights of this season include his debuts with the National Symphony Orchestra and Da Camera of Houston, as well as preparing a production of Puccini’s Trittico for Lorin Maazel at the 2010 Castleton Festival.

Mitchell was assistant conductor of the Orchestre National de France, director of orchestras at Northern Illinois University and associate conductor of the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble. He has served as music director of numerous operas, including Igor Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, Mark Adamo’s Little Women and Robert Aldridge’s Elmer Gantry.

A Seattle native, Mitchell earned his bachelor of music in composition from Western Washington University and holds a doctorate from The University of Texas. He participated in the National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C. and received the inaugural American Friends of the Mendelssohn Foundation Scholarship.

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Brett Mitchell, conductor One O’Clock Lab Band Steve Wiest, director

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The One O’Clock Lab Band, directed by Grammy®-nominated composer/arranger Steve Wiest, is the premier performing ensemble of the internationally acclaimed University of North Texas (UNT) jazz studies program.

Recognized with six Grammy nominations, the One O’Clock Lab Band is noted for exceptional individual musicianship and tight ensemble performance. Its concerts feature music from the Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson libraries, original compositions by Grammy-nominated composers Neil Slater and Steve Wiest, and a wealth of compositions and arrangements written by current and former UNT students.

The band has toured in Russia, Mexico, England, Australia, Portugal, Finland, Norway, France, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, Poland and Thailand, and most recently, the major European jazz festivals. It has performed, by Presidential invitation, at the White House and frequently appears in major jazz venues and festivals.

Alumni of the UNT jazz program are virtually everywhere in the professional music industry as performing artists and educators.

The list of significant names includes Jimmy Giuffre; Herb Ellis; Bob Dorough, whose daughter, Aralee, is principal flute in the Houston Symphony; Steve Wiest; and Norah Jones.

Ongoing UNT traditions bring major jazz figures to campus to perform and interact with students: the Annual Fall Concert (since 1959), the Jazz Lecture Series (since 1982), the Gomez International Artist Endowment residency (since 1995) and various student-organized instrumental clubs. The list of legendary jazz artists who have shared their music and experience with students and faculty is formidable.

UNT’s jazz degree program began in 1947 under Dr. Gene Hall, gained national recognition under Dr. Leon Breeden and achieved international renown under Neil Slater. The jazz faculty, currently chaired by Dr. John Murphy, is the foundation of the UNT jazz studies division. Thirteen full-time faculty members provide students with an educational environment unparalleled among university programs.

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Wiest One O’Clock Lab Band

Celebrate the Holidays with the Sound of Music

Steve Wiest, director

Arabesque recording artist and Grammy®nominated arranger Steve Wiest is in demand as a soloist, composer/arranger and clinician. As director of the world-famous One O’Clock Lab Band and associate professor in the Jazz Studies Division of the College of Music at the University of North Texas, he coordinates the lab bands and teaches jazz conducting and trombone. He created and oversees the UNT jazz trombone band, The U-Tubes.

Wiest has performed extensively in the U.S., South America, Australia, Japan and Europe. His solo CD, Excalibur: The Steve Wiest Big Band was released in 2006 by Arabesque Jazz to wide critical acclaim; Out of the New was released in 2008. Wiest has a number of published arrangements and texts; the original compositions from Excalibur are available at Walrus Music.

Wiest was the featured trombonist and one of the arrangers for Maynard Ferguson’s Band when he recorded two CDs: Storm and Live from San Francisco, and one twovolume video, The Playboy Jazz Festival.

Ferguson’s final CD, One and Only, included Wiest’s arrangements of “Besame Mucho,” for which he was nominated for the Best Instrumental Arrangement Grammy Award, and “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone.”

After two years as assistant director of Jazz Studies at The University of Texas at Arlington, Wiest became director of Jazz Studies and Trombone at The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he was a regular member of the Doc Severinsen Big Band. He was appointed assistant professor of Jazz Composition and Trombone at UNT, and after one year as interim director, was named director of the One O’Clock Lab Band.

The One O’Clock was nominated for two Grammys: Best Large Jazz Ensemble for “Lab 2009” and Best Instrumental Composition for Wiest’s original work, “Ice-Nine.”

Wiest completed a master’s degree in Jazz Studies at UNT. He was lead trombonist and a featured arranger for the One O’Clock Lab Band.

^ Chair Jenny Staff Johnson, together with her husband, Mark, and their children, Joel, Clyde and Rosemary, invite you to join them at this year’s Magical Musical Morning on December 11.

Nothing marks the arrival of the holiday season better than Magical Musical Morning – the Houston Symphony’s annual children’s event. Mark your calendar now for Saturday, December 11 when a morning of music and activities will fill the ballroom of The Houstonian Hotel, Club and Spa. The kid-friendly atmosphere offers children a variety of musical experiences, including the Instrument Petting Zoo, interactive games and an opportunity to “write” music and hear it played.

“Our theme this year, The Sound of Music, sets the stage for celebrating the many ways music enhances all of our lives,” explains Jenny Staff Johnson, who will chair this event with co-chairs Julie Barrett and Katie Forney.

Magical Musical Morning supports the Houston Symphony’s Music Matters!

Education and Community Engagement programs, including student concerts in Jones Hall and the Sounds Like Fun! concerts in venues throughout the greater Houston area.

Make Magical Musical Morning a tradition for your family. For information on tables and tickets, contact Vickie Hamley, director, Volunteer Services, (832) 531-6701 or vickie. hamley@houstonsymphony.org.

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THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN, OPUS 19 Béla Bartók

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Born: Mar 25, 1881, Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary Died: Sep 26, 1945, New York, NY

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Work composed: 1918-19 Recording: Sir George Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony (London)

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Instrumentation: three flutes (two doubling piccolo), three oboes (one doubling English horn), three clarinets (second doubling E-flat clarinet, third doubling bass clarinet), three bassoons (two doubling contrabassoon), four horns (two doubling Wagner tubas), three trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, harp, piano, celesta (doubling organ) and strings

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If there is a watershed in Béla Bartók’s stylistic development, its mark is to be found in the violent pantomime tale of a Chinese mandarin coaxed into a brothel where he is robbed, suffocated, stabbed and hung by three thugs, but refuses to die until he has embraced the woman who lured him there.

Bartók encountered the libretto by Melchior Lengyel in a literary magazine in 1917 and was fascinated by this tale of an urban love-death.

In the final turbulent days of World War I, he sketched out a scenario and completed a piano sketch of the music by May 1919, during a time of political upheaval and human displacement in his native Hungary. But the work lay unperformed for the next seven years, partly because of his delay in orchestrating the piano version.

On November 27, 1926, the pantomime finally achieved a single performance at the Cologne Opera House, on a double-bill with Bartók’s opera, Bluebeard’s Castle. However, audience reaction was so violent that further performances were banned by the city’s mayor, Konrad Adenauer.

The pantomime was successfully produced in Prague the following year, but was never performed in Budapest during Bartók’s lifetime.

Modern productions have included former Houston Ballet artistic director Ben Stevenson’s realistic staging in 1985.

The work begins with an agitated portrayal of three thugs ordering the woman out into the street to attract customers. Her siren dancing is represented by elaborate clarinet solos, as she lures two penniless victims in quick succession – a ridiculous old rake and a student – both of whom are quickly thrown back out by the thugs.

When the mandarin enters after the third clarinet solo, the orchestra becomes convulsed in expressing the woman’s conflicting emotions.

She is under orders to entice him further, but is repelled by his fixed stare. She dances a seductive waltz, and he responds by chasing after her during a relentless Bartókian fugue. The final

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POÈME FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA, OPUS 25 Ernest Chauuson Born: Jan 20, 1855, Paris, France Died: Jun 10, 1899, Limay, near Mantes, Yvelines, France

Recording: Leila Josefowicz, violin; Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martin-inthe-Fields (Philips) Instrumentation: pairs of flutes (second doubling piccolo), oboes, clarinets, bassoons and horns, trumpet, percussion, harp, celesta and strings During the early 1920s, Maurice Ravel made several concert tours to England. Following one of his public appearances in July 1922, there was a private musicale where the composer met the young Hungarian violinist, Jelly d’Aranyi, who was the grand-niece of famed

19th-century violinist Joseph Joachim. Ravel scholar Arbie Ornstein recounts a story told by Gaby Casadesus, that Ravel repeatedly asked the violinist to play gypsy melodies – all night long; in fact, until the exhausted partygoers finally went home at 5 a.m.!

The seed of Ravel’s Tzigane was evidently sown in his mind that night, though this gypsy rhapsody did not take shape until two years later.

Like many of Ravel’s orchestral compositions, Tzigane originated with a keyboard accompaniment. Later that year, it was transcribed into the orchestral version heard tonight.

Work composed: 1896 Recording: Leila Josefowicz, violin; Sir Neville Marriner conducting the Academy of St. Martinin-the-Fields (Philips) Instrumentation: pairs of woodwinds, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, tuba, timpani, harp and strings Though Ernest Chausson’s music is infrequently heard in the concert hall, he is regarded as the most refined among the group of late French romantic composers who were influenced by the style of Richard Wagner. His works were composed with fastidious care, and the richness of his harmony was balanced by a sense of restraint and a blooming lyricism. The Poème for Violin and Orchestra was one of his later works, composed in 1896, just three years before his sudden, untimely death from a cycling accident at age 44. Noted Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe championed the work in several early performances following its completion.

The structure of this rhapsodic piece is well planned, but elusive to the ear. It is based on two thematic ideas. The first is presented by the solo violin and then by the orchestra during the slow introduction. The second theme is stated in the solo violin several measures after an elaborate cadenza leads into a faster section of the music. From there on, the work blends elements of rondo and sonata principles, spacing partial restatements of the two themes between transitional interludes that fragment and develop its melodic elements. Finally, the themes appear in a climactic ending to the Poème.

Interestingly, all these sections are subsumed into an ever-changing tide of music, flowing under a nearly continuous solo violin line that blends considerable technical display into its long, lyrical melody.

TZIGANE Maurice Ravel Born: Mar 7, 1875, Ciboure, Lower Pyrenees, France Died: Dec 28, 1937, Paris, France Work composed: 1924 November 2010 13

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The piece opens with a long, slow, guttural solo passage, the first half of which is played on the low G string of the violin. It continues through a gauntlet of other technical challenges before the tempo picks up speed and the orchestra joins in. Several of the thematic ideas presented in the opening violin solo are taken up and modified during later sections. The work comes to its climax in a long, perpetual-motion coda.

SYMPHONY NO. 3 IN F MAJOR, OPUS 90 Johannes Brahms Born: May 7, 1833, Hamburg, Germany Died: Apr 3, 1897, Vienna, Austria Work composed: 1883 Recording: Christoph Eschenbach conducting the Houston Symphony (Virgin Classics) Instrumentation: pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings Some scholars divide Brahms’ four symphonies into two general categories, ascribing a tragic/ heroic character to the C minor and E minor symphonies and a pastoral mood to the two middle symphonies in D major and F. Actually, the Third Symphony encompasses all these moods in a wondrous interplay of shadow and sunlight. Sig-

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nificantly, its broad range of expressive values is also contained within a shorter time span than any of Brahms’ other three symphonies.

Like Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and Dvorˇák’s Eighth Symphony, the first movement begins with a melodic motto, which is extensively developed and later serves as a milepost marking off the exposition, development, recapitulation and coda of the movement. The three-note motto, F, A-flat, F, not only poses the movement’s light-versus-darkness conflict between F major and F minor, but also symbolizes Brahms’ personal philosophy, “Frei aber froh”/”free but happy.” This musical acrostic served as Brahms’ response to the famed musical motto, F, A, E (“Frei aber einsam”/”free but alone”) adopted by his longtime friend, violinist/ conductor Joseph Joachim.

The tightly structured movement is full of the sinewy counterpoint that lends so much strength to Brahms’ music. Though the heaving polyphony of the opening set of themes gives way to a gentler, more relaxed subsidiary theme, struggle and tension dominate much of the development, recapitulation and the powerful coda, which surprisingly resolves the tonal conflict in a quietly descending F major arpeggio at the very end.

The slow movement is a marvel of gentle, deeply personal, even mysterious musical

ideas. Its opening clarinet theme has the deceptive simplicity of a folksong, but is belied by its highly irregular phrases and cadence patterns.

Stillness overtakes the music as clarinets and bassoons intone the modal theme of the middle section, which finally blooms into a soaring, richtextured melody. The opening theme returns in a much fuller orchestral arrangement and is followed by a quiet coda.

The character of the third movement is more akin to a wistful waltz or intermezzo than a scherzo or minuet. Its yearning cello theme is repeated by the violins and then the high winds.

A quaint wind trio section intervenes before the opening melody returns, this time featuring the solo horn, oboe and finally the strings.

The moody finale is the most dramatic of the four movements, reasserting the frowning tonality of F minor in a furtive introductory section that incorporates the middle theme of the second movement. The principal theme suddenly erupts in snarling melodic leaps, propelling almost the entire movement forward in a state of high agitation. As a golden sunset to this orchestral storm, the music finally calms itself in a shimmering, quasi-Wagnerian coda that yields up the symphony’s opening motto in a peaceful F major tonality. ©2010, Carl R. Cunningham Continued on page 23

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KADDISH The Kaddish Project was created to bring attention to the intentional and systematic destruction of individuals and entire cultures throughout the world. It illustrates a specific moment in history while illuminating the Holocaust as a profound human tragedy – one whose implications extend beyond the Jewish experience to concern all people everywhere.

As the years of the Holocaust – considered by many the emblematic genocide of human history – recede into the past and the youngest of those survivors approach their nineties, a door to history is closing. The opportunity to know of the Holocaust from the mouths of those who experienced it and to know survivors themselves, will inevitably dwindle and vanish over the next decade.

Written and composed by Lawrence Siegel, Kaddish is originally an hour-long oratorio for chorus, soloists and chamber orchestra, whose texts come verbatim from the testimony of Holocaust survivors. The work is intended to raise awareness and address the issue of genocide as an ongoing global crisis.

The original chamber orchestra composition was commissioned by the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College in New Hampshire in honor of its 25th anniversary, and debuted there in May 2008. Lead support was provided by the American Composers Forum as part of its Continental Harmony program. The world premiere of the chamber orchestra version of Kaddish was presented by VocalEssence in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 15th, 2008, and has been performed on the campuses of the University of New Hampshire and Florida Atlantic University.

The Houston Symphony has worked with composer Lawrence Siegel over the past two years to re-score the music for full symphony and chorus. This performance is the world premiere of the full-orchestra version commissioned by the Houston Symphony.

Leading up to tonight’s orchestral premiére, a series of workshops and presentations featuring the composer and survivors were held.

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L. Siegel Kaddish I The World Before 1. Where We Came From 2. Like Cherries in the Winter 3. My Father Bought Me a Horse 4. Hate Me Till Tuesday 5. Mutter Erd II The Holocaust 6. My Daughter’s Name Is Raysha 7. Arrival At Auschwitz 8. Himmler’s Aria (Decent Fellows) 9. What a Beautiful Place You Have Here 10. A Burden You Cannot Share 11. Is My Voice Too Loud?

III Tikkun Olam (Repair of the World) 12. Litany 13. Kaddish Prayer 14. Nothing Is As Whole As a Heart Which Has

Been Broken 15. So Here I Am

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OVERTURE ON HEBREW THEMES, OPUS 34 Sergei Prokofiev Born: Apr 23, 1891, Sontsovka, Yekaterinoslav district, Ukraine Died: Mar 5, 1953, Moscow, former USSR November 2010 15

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Work composed: 1919, 1934 (orchestral version) Recording: Claudio Abbado conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (Deutsche Grammophon) Instrumentation: pairs of woodwinds, horns and trumpets, percussion, piano and strings

Recording: Daniel Müller-Scott with Christoph Eschenbach and NDR Symphony Orchestra (Orfeo) Instrumentation: pairs of flutes, oboes, clarinets and bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani, harp and strings Bruch spent two separate periods of his life in Berlin, beginning in 1878 with conducting engagements that included directing a Jewish children’s chorus. That position put him in contact with the Aramaic prayer, “Kol Nidrei” (“All Vows”), sung on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. He was deeply moved by 16 www.houstonsymphony.org

Brinton Averil Smith, cello

Houston Symphony principal cellist Brinton Averil Smith’s performances have won rave reviews throughout the world.

His debut recording of Miklós Rózsa’s Cello Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra for Koch Classics received international critical acclaim. His recording of Fauré’s Piano Trio and Après un Rêve with Gil Shaham for Vanguard Classics was selected as one of BBC Music magazine’s best albums of the year.

Smith has appeared regularly as a soloist with the Houston Symphony since joining the orchestra in 2005. He has been a member of the New York Philharmonic and the principal cellist of the San Diego Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He is a faculty member of Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music and gives masterclasses throughout the United States. He co-founded and serves as artistic director of Restoration Chamber Music, a festival that pairs historic Galveston buildings with classical concerts to benefit the island’s preservation efforts.

An active chamber musician, Smith collaborates with leading musicians and performs in some of the nation’s top venues and festivals.

A prize winner in the Leonard Rose International Cello Competition and in several Juilliard and Aspen Music Festival concerto competitions, Smith received Juilliard’s Melini Award for excel-

Jessica Rivera is established as one of today’s most creatively inspired vocalists. She has collaborated with celebrated composers John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov and Nico Muhly, and such esteemed conductors as Bernard Haitink, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Robert Spano and Michael Tilson Thomas.

This season’s performances include John Adams’s El Niño, Golijov’s She Was Here, Britten’s Spring Symphony and Mahler’s Fourth Symphony.

Also in the 2010-11 season, Rivera will participate in the premieres of Nixon in China for the Metropolitan Opera, Hope: An Oratorio with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and San Francisco Performances’ Artist Residency Program.

She has performed with the Los Angeles and Berlin philharmonics, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the London, Saint Louis, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Chicago and San Francisco symphonies.

Margaret Lattimore, mezzo-soprano

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lence in performance. His performances have been broadcast on CBS’ Sunday Morning and on NPR’s Performance Today.

The son of a mathematician and a pianist, Smith began his musical studies at age 5. At age 10, he was admitted to Arizona State University and by age 17, completed a B.A. in mathematics. At the University of Southern California, he worked as a mathematics teaching assistant and completed an M.A. in mathematics at age 19. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Juilliard School. He and his wife, pianist Evelyn Chen, have one daughter, Calista.

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KOL NIDREI adagio on hebrew melodies FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA, OPUS 47 Max Bruch

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As World War One came to a close, bringing revolution to czarist Russia, Prokofiev followed many artists who opted to emigrate. In 1918, he traveled the entire breadth of the country from Petrograd through Central Russia and Siberia to Vladivostok, on a trip that brought him to America for four years. Possessing a brilliant keyboard technique, he gave concerts and struggled to establish himself with publishers, before resettling in Western Europe during the 1920s and early 1930s.

While living in New York, Prokofiev came into contact with numerous other Russian colleagues who were also immigrating to America.

They included a Jewish chamber music ensemble called Zimro, comprised of former classmates at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, according to biographer Harlow Robinson. They provided him a notebook containing a set of Jewish themes and asked that he compose a sextet for them. Prokofiev quickly wrote a brief piece for string quartet, clarinet and piano, using two of the melodies as its thematic material. The work apparently became quite popular and was published in 1919 under the title, Overture on Hebrew Themes. Prokofiev dismissed the piece as a trifle, according to Robinson, but published an orchestral version 15 years later, while living in Paris. Robinson aptly describes the two themes as rustic and soulful, and they are stated, examined and restated in a brief, sectionalized sonata-form movement. ©2010, Carl R. Cunningham

its ancient melody and that of a more modern prayer, “O weep for those that wept on Babel’s stream,” whose text is attributed to Lord Byron.

In fulfilling a long-standing request for a new work by the noted German cellist, Robert Hausmann, Bruch joined the two melodies together in a short, reverent three-part work that has become a favorite of concert cellists.

Each melody is initially presented in a relatively unadorned manner; then they continue with elaborate ornamentation. The harp is added to the orchestral accompaniment when the second melody enters and the piece is rounded off with a brief return of the opening Kol Nidrei melody. ©2010, Carl R. Cunningham

Grammy-nominated mezzo-soprano Margaret Lattimore has performed with countless opera

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She has sung the roles of Dorotea in Stiffelio, Meg Page in Falstaff, Jordan Baker in The Great Gatsby, Rosina in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the title role in La Cenerentola.

This season’s highlights include Rossini’s Stabat Mater with the San Antonio Symphony and Haydn’s Paukenmesse with the Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico. Last season, she performed in Beethoven’s Ninth with this orchestra and Messiah with the Alabama Symphony.

Lattimore attended the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam where she studied with Patricia Misslin. She won the Metropolitan National Council Auditions at 24, the Eleanor McCollum Award from the Houston Grand Opera Studio, a Jacobson Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation and the prestigious George London Award. She was a 2006 Grammy® nominee for the Koch International recording of John Harbison’s Motetti di Montale. She lives with her husband and son in New York.

Shelton Chad Shelton, tenor

Tenor Chad Shelton – a Texas native – garners acclaim for his characterizations of leading roles on national and international stages.

A frequent leading presence with Houston Grand Opera, Shelton has portrayed a wide range of roles with the company, including Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte. He created the role of Laurie in Mark Adamo’s Little Women with HGO; it was recorded for commercial release on the Ondine label and later telecast on PBS. Engagements during this season include Alfredo in La Traviata with Austin Lyric Opera, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Michigan Opera Theatre, Don Jose in Carmen with Opéra National de Lorraine and the Prince in The Love For Three Oranges with Grand Théâtre de Genève.

Shelton is a recipient of the Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant and a Richard F. Gold Career Grant. He holds a Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale University School of Music and earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Louisiana State University.

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James Maddalena, baritone

James Maddalena has appeared with leading opera companies and orchestras including Glyndebourne, the San Francisco, Santa Fe and Frankfurt Operas, the Chicago, Boston and London Symphony Orchestras, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. photo by Katrin talbot

Maddalena He is a frequent collaborator with director Peter Sellars in Mozart operas and the works of Haydn, Handel and Adams. He has premiered the works of John Harbison (Four Psalms, Chicago Symphony), Stewart Wallace (Harvey Milk, Houston Grand Opera; Bonesetter’s Daughter, San Francisco Opera), Paul Moravec (The Letter, Santa Fe Opera), Louis Spratlan (Life Is A Dream, Santa Fe Opera), Elliot Goldenthal (Fire Water Paper, Pacific Symphony) and Mark Adamo (Little Women, Houston Grand Opera).

Maddalena has recorded for Decca/London, BMG, Classical Catalyst, Nonesuch, Teldec, Sony Classical, Harmonia Mundi and EMI. He is on the Grammy® Award-winning recording of Nixon In China (Nonesuch) and the Emmy® Award-winning PBS telecast, now on DVD.

Lawrence Siegel, composer

Lawrence Siegel brings to the writing of Kaddish 25 years of experience in creating and directing music and music theatre projects using texts from oral histories, interviews and community dialogues.

As the artistic director of Tricinium, he takes his “Verbatim Project” to communities, schools and organizations around the world. He has written a great deal of choral music, including the comic oratorio “Do They Just Sing All Day?” for the American Boychoir, several widely performed anthems and many choral numbers for Verbatim and musical theatre projects.

HismusichaswonawardsfromtheMcKnight Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, among others. He has been a fellow in composition at the Tanglewood Music Center and three times at The Mac-Dowell Colony.

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Although Maurice Ravel’s name is often mentioned in the same breath as Claude Debussy’s, his musical style went considerably beyond musical Impressionism toward the emerging neoclassical era. Ravel’s dance suite, Le Tombeau de Couperin, is a reflection upon the ideals of 18th-century French classicism, fatefully timed to commemorate French soldiers who perished during World War I. The work was originally composed as a six-movement piano suite, much of which had been composed before the war began.

Because of his age and certain health problems, Ravel’s military service was limited to being a medical attendant during the war, and the suite was not completed until the conflict ended. Each movement was dedicated in memory of an acquaintance who had been killed during service, and four of the six movements were arranged into an orchestral suite.

As with most baroque-era preludes, the Prélude preceding the dances in Le Tombeau de Couperin is a large two-part movement, energized by a constant pattern of running notes. The second movement, Forlane, is actually a dance of ancient Italian origin, taken over by French composers during the 17th and 18th centuries. This piece, with its piquant harmonies, is characterized by a rocking meter and skipping, long-short rhythms. Its musical form also follows the pattern of certain French dances in which a recurrent refrain encloses and separates successive verses.

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PIANO CONCERTO IN A MINOR, OPUS 16 Edvard Grieg Born: Jun 15, 1843, Bergen, Norway Died: Sep 4, 1907, Bergen, Norway Work composed: 1868 Recording: Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist; Dimitri Kitayenko conducting the Bergen Philharmonic (Virgin Classics) Instrumentation: two flutes (one doubling piccolo), two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, timpani and strings Once among the most popular 19th-century piano concertos, the Grieg A minor Concerto is heard less frequently on symphonic programs today. It is his most extended orchestral work and the culmination of a youthful effort on the part of the 25-year-old Norwegian composer to

blend the large forms of German music with his growing nationalistic fervor and his remarkable gift for lyric, sentimental melody.

Some have noted similarities between Grieg’s concerto and Robert Schumann’s A minor Concerto in terms of their general structure and key relationships. Grieg heard Clara Schumann play her late husband’s concerto during his teenage years as a lonely, alienated student at the Leipzig Conservatory (1858 - 1862). Grieg’s concerto was largely composed in the summer of 1868, during a recuperative visit to the Danish resort of Sollerod with his wife and infant daughter. By then, he had become imbued with the nationalist influences of the famed Norwegian violinist, Ole Bull, and Norway’s less-known nationalist composer, Rikard Nordraak.

In their book, Edvard Grieg, The Man and the Artist, Grieg scholars Finn Benestad and Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe point to a bouncy transition before the lyrical second theme of the opening movement, and the main theme of the third movement as examples of a “halling dance,” often played by a Norwegian Hardanger fiddler. The third-movement theme transforms into a “springaar” with a quick 3/4 meter change toward the end of the movement.

Otherwise, the concerto is suffused with broad romantic themes, prominently featur-

ing the soloist while diminishing the orchestral interaction characteristic of Mozart-Beethoven era concertos. After an introductory timpani roll, the piano enters immediately with a jagged, cascading octave passage, then presents the martial opening theme, followed by another, more yearning melody and the leaping “halling” theme. The cellos briefly introduce the lyrical secondary theme before the piano takes it up in a florid, Chopinesque display. The opening theme dominates an episodic development section, followed by the return of all themes and an elaborate piano cadenza.

The slow movement is one of Grieg’s most song-like creations, set in the remote, haunting key of D-flat major and featuring another florid piano solo. The movement leads into the finale, whose dance tunes are cast in a very large three-part form, with a lyrical, florid solo at the center of the movement and a climactic coda for the pianist at the end.

TABLEAUX D’UNE EXPOSITION (PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION) Modest Mussorgsky Born: Mar 21, 1839, Karevo, Pskov, Russia Died: Mar 28, 1881, St. Petersburg, Russia Work composed: 1874; orchestrated by Maurice Ravel: 1922

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Recording: Mariss Jansons conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (RCO Live Holland) Instrumentation: three flutes (two doubling piccolo), three oboes (one doubling English horn), two clarinets, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, two bassoons, contrabassoon, four horns, three trumpets, three trombones, tuba (doubling tenor tuba), timpani, large percussion, two harps, celesta, piano and strings Mussorgsky’s famed piano suite was inspired by a posthumous exhibition of works by his friend, the designer-architect Victor Hartmann, in 1874.

Conductor Serge Koussevitsky became the cat-

alyst for Ravel’s orchestral version of the score, when he commissioned the composer in 1920 to make the transcription for an orchestral concert series he sponsored in Paris at the time. The score was completed and premiered in 1922.

The Promenade, which precedes and separates several of the movements, is set in constantly shifting meters, and is considered a wry self-portrait of the bulky, disheveled-looking Mussorgsky shambling between the 10 Hartmann artworks that he depicted in music.

Changes in tonality, tempo and orchestration at several repetitions reflect the composer’s chang-

ing moods as he viewed different pictures. The final promenade, a ghostly whispered statement for woodwinds and tremolo strings, follows the eighth movement describing the ancient Roman catacombs in Paris. This promenade bears the separate title, “Cum Mortuis in Lingua Mortua” (“With the Dead in the Language of the Dead”).

The ferocious “Gnome” opening the suite and the shrieking “Baba-Yaga, the Hut on Hen’s Legs” are fairy-tale subjects. The first was derived from Hartmann’s design for a gnomic Christmastree nutcracker ornament. Baba Yaga’s hut was designed as a grotesque kitchen clock with chicken-leg feet and lots of “gingerbread” wooden filigree decorating its peaked arch. The quarrelsome children playing in the gardens of “Tuileries” and the chattering, gossipy women in “The Marketplace at Limoges” represent Hartmann’s extended stay in Paris. His Parisian days also accounted for the spooky “Catacombs,” while an Italian leg of his journey inspired the lonely second movement, “The Old Castle,” featuring Ravel’s celebrated saxophone solo.

The lumbering, wooden-wheeled Polish cattle cart in “Bydlo” and Mussorgsky’s exquisite character contrasts in depicting two elderly Polish Jews in “Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle” resulted from Hartmann’s visit to Poland with his Polish-born wife on their return trip to Russia. Ravel ingeniously highlighted this piece with a triple-tongued trumpet solo for the babbling Schmuyle. Mussorgsky’s chirping high-pitched “Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks” is traced to Hartmann’s costume design for a ballet by famed choreographer Marius Petipa, showing dancers wearing eggshell-shaped costumes with arms, legs and canary heads poking out of various apertures. Hartmann’s fantastic medieval-helmeted cupola design for “The Knight’s Gate (in the Ancient Capital of Kiev)” inspired a magnificent closing processional from Mussorgsky, grandly clothed by Ravel in gleaming brass, chimes and, finally, the bejeweled costume of the full orchestra at his command. ©2010, Carl R. Cunningham

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Susanna Mälkki, conductor

Susanna Mälkki has become a much sought-after artist on the international conducting circuit. Her versatility and broad repertoire have taken her to symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras, contemporary music ensembles and opera houses around the world. She is currently music director of the Ensemble intercontemporain and served as artistic director of the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra until late 2005.

Mälkki has conducted prestigious orchestras, including the Berliner Philharmoniker, Münchner Philharmoniker, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the SWR 22 www.houstonsymphony.org

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Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg.

In addition to this debut with the Houston Symphony, highlights of coming seasons include debuts at La Scala and with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the San FranciscoandNationalSymphonyOrchestras.She will return to the Boston Symphony, Philharmonia and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestras, as well as L’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France.

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Mälkki In 2008, Mälkki conducted the American premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s La passion de Simone at Lincoln Center in New York, a work she premiered with Klangforum Wien in 2006.

She has conducted Thomas Ades’ Powder Her Face, Neither by Morton Feldman and Samuel Beckett, Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin and Der Rosenkavalier. In 2010, she conducted the world premiere of a ballet by Bruno Mantovani at Opéra National de Paris.

Mälkki debuted with the Ensemble intercontemporain at the Luzem Festival in 2004, resulting in her appointment as music director in 2006. She conducted the Ensemble’s 30th anniversary concert with Pierre Boulez and Peter Eötvös. She studied conducting at the Sibelius Academy after serving as a principal cellist of Sweden’s Göteborgs Symfoniker (1995-1998). In June 2010, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Stephen Hough, piano

Stephen Hough is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive pianists of his generation.

He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001 and is the 2008 winner of Northwestern University School of Music’s Jean Gimbel Lane prize in Piano Performance.

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Augustin Hadelich, violin

Winner of the 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant and gold medallist of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Augustin Hadelich has established himself as a rising star among the new generation of violinists.

In 2009, Hadelich debuted with the Cleveland Orchestra playing Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole; a return engagement to perform the Mendelssohn Concerto is scheduled for March 2011. Other upcoming highlights include his Paris recital debut at the Louvre, a BBC young artist’s debut recital at The Sage Gateshead, a debut with the Helsinki Philharmonic, a return engagement with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and debuts next season with the orchestras of Atlanta, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Seattle, Utah and Vancouver.

Hadelich made three Carnegie Hall appearances in 2008: his orchestral debut performing the Brahms Double, his recital debut in March, and a performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5 on Christmas Eve. He has performed with the Houston Symphony at Miller Outdoor Theater.

Internationally, he has performed with the Capetown Philharmonic, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie/Saarbrücken-Kaiserslautern, DresdenPhilharmonic,OrchestrePhilharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Museumsorchester Frankfurt, Nuremberg Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, São Paulo Symphony, Staatsorchester Stuttgart, Tokyo Symphony and chamber orchestras of Bavaria, Berlin, Budapest, Cologne, Hamburg, Kiel, Lucerne and Toulouse.

He has recorded two highly acclaimed CDs for Naxos and a CD of masterworks for solo violin for AVIE, with a second disc to be released in 2011.

An enthusiastic recitalist, Hadelich has appeared at leading venues in New York, Washington, D.C., Detroit, Los Angeles, Austin and Tokyo. As a chamber musician, he has participated at the Marlboro, Ravinia and Seattle festivals.

Born in Italy in 1984 to German parents, Hadelich holds a graduate diploma and Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School. He plays on the 1683 ex-Gingold Stradivari violin. For more information, please visit augustinhadelich.com.

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Houston Symphony Chorus..............................................................................

Photo by jeff fitlow

Hausmann Charles Hausmann, director

Dr. Charles S. Hausmann was named director of the Houston Symphony Chorus in 1986 and has prepared the group for more than 500 concerts and more than 40 acclaimed conductors, including Hans Graf, Christoph Eschenbach, Claus Peter Flor and Robert Shaw. His extensive repertoire includes most of the major choral/orchestral masterworks.

As director of choral studies and professor of conducting at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, Hausmann directs the master’s and doctoral programs in choral conducting and conducts the Moores School Choral Artists, a graduate chamber choir. He is especially interested in conducting pedagogy and choral/orchestral performance.

Current research activity on the use of dance pedagogy in teaching conducting resulted in co-authorship of an article, “The Dance of Conducting.”

Hausmann also serves as director of choral music at Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, where he led the Houston Symphony and Chorus in a special performance of Mendelssohn’s St. Paul in the spring of 2008.

During the 2010-2011 season, Hausmann will prepare the Chorus for Verdi’s Requiem, a very special concert with Andrea Bocelli, A Very Merry Pops, Messiah and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky.

Hausmann frequently appears as a guest conductor, lecturer and clinician, and has conducted numerous concert tours throughout the United States, Europe and Mexico. He led the Chorus on its fourth European tour in 2007, when he appeared as guest conductor during the Prague Spring Festival. He and the Chorus share a 23-year collaboration with Mexico City’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, recently performing Mendelssohn’s Elijah with former Associate Conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto.

The Houston Symphony Chorus, directed by Charles Hausmann, is made up of volunteer musicians from all parts of the Houston metropolitan area. Its members rehearse at Moores School of Music every Tuesday evening, motivated by the challenge and joy of performing great music and the opportunity to work with the Houston Symphony. For audition information, contact the Chorus manager at (713) 444-9221 or chorus@sbcglobal.net.

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Charles Hausmann, Director Paulo Gomes Assistant Director

Susan Scarrow Chorus Manager

Scott Holshouser Accompanist

Tony Sessions Librarian

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

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

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

Matt Neufeld Kevin Newman Gary Scullin Stephen Shadle Thom Sloan Mark Standridge Sam Stengler * • Paul Van Dorn Joe Villarreal Kevin Wallace

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

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

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

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

* Section Leader • Council Member

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Music Matters!....................................................... Biographies. ............... photo by Mark Corliss

November 17th marks the 100th anniversary of when the intersections of Louisiana, Texas, Milam and Capitol streets become the place to be in Houston. It was on that day in 1910 that the predecessor to Jones Hall – City Auditorium – opened its doors. It was designed as a multi-purpose facility and hosted a wide range of performances.

During City Auditorium’s photo courtesy of houston metropolitan 50 years, guests such as Elvis research center, houston public library Presley and Billy Graham attracted crowds in excess of the Auditorium’s 7,000 person capacity, and when Babe Ruth spoke from its stage, overenthusiastic young fans nearly tore his clothing off! Impresario Edna Saunders, whose painting now graces the Jones Hall Green Room, presented tenor Enrico Caruso, contralto Marian Anderson, pianist Ignace Paderewski and violinist Jascha Heifetz. City photo by Leah polkowske with elle studios Auditorium was home to Friday Night Wrestling, and one evening during a war bond fundraising event, the Houston Symphony played background music for the matches. The Houston Symphony Orchestra, as it was called at the time, called the auditorium home for more than 20 years.

Originally billed as the largest auditorium in the South, its first event was the No-Tsu-Oh (Houston spelled backward) Carnival. Similar to Mardi Gras, No-Tsu-Oh was celebrated annually from 1899 until World War I. Along with the Houston Public Library, the Auditorium was the first home of the Houston Museum of Natural History’s holdings. With adjustable seating and a flat main floor, the space allowed poultry exhibits, automobile shows, conventions, graduations, dances, receptions and concerts.

Unexpected history has been made in City Auditorium on many occasions. On Christmas Day 1954, R&B star Johnny Ace, best known for “Pledging My Love,” died while playing Russian roulette in the Auditorium’s dressing room during intermission of a performance Elvis attended. At a 1956 Fats Domino show, only blacks were allowed to dance. When white teenagers hit the dance floor anyway, authorities ordered blacks off the dance floor. “I won’t play if my people can’t dance,” said Domino in a rare, outspoken moment. When teens of every shade began to bop together, police stopped the show, provoking a riot.

In 1962, Houston Endowment offered to build a new hall as a gift to the city. In June 1963, work began on the state-of-the-art Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, which opened in 1966.

Each year, close to 400,000 audience members see the best artists from all over the world share the stage with the Houston Symphony. Initially, it was home not only to the Houston Symphony and the Society for the Performing Arts, but the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera as well.

The Watergate scandal took an interesting turn on the Jones Hall stage with an oftenquoted exchange. The National Association of Broadcasters hosted a news conference with then-President Richard Nixon and until this event, the President had enjoyed supportive audiences. Houstonian Dan Rather of CBS News introduced himself to thunderous applause and Nixon asked, “Are you running for something?” “No, Mr. President,” Rather responded.

“Are you?”

Houston has had a love affair with the performing arts from the very beginning. When the Allen Brothers founded the city in 1837, there was no jail or church, but by 1838 there was a theatre. Today, Houston has the second largest theatre district in the country, just behind New York. The cornerstone of that district is still the block bordered by Louisiana, Texas, Milam and Capitol streets.

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atre work with Paul Hodes, Dan Hurlin, Andrew Periale and Valeria Vasilevski; a symphonic tone poem with Edie Clark and many other collaborative projects. He has been composer in residence at the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference since 1999 and is a nationally known performer of traditional music.

He has lived primarily in Westmoreland, New Hampshire since 1986. For more information, please visit tricinium.com.

Siegel would like to dedicate the full symphonic version of Kaddish to the Holocaust survivors from Houston: Celina Fein, Walter Kase, Bill Morgan and Naomi Warren. He would also like to acknowledge the extraordinary effort and support given by the Board and personnel of the Houston Symphony and Holocaust Museum Houston.

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American and European orchestras and music festivals. Recent engagements include performances with the New York and London Philharmonics, the London and San Francisco Symphonies, a U.S. tour with the Russian National Orchestra and an internationally televised performance with the Berlin Philharmonic.

In 2009, Hough played recitals in the Royal Festival Hall and became the first British instrumentalist to give a solo recital on Carnegie Hall’s main stage in nearly 20 years. He performed all of Tchaikovsky’s works for piano and orchestra over four BBC Proms performances and returns to the Chicago Symphony this season to play the same cycle over six concerts.

An exclusive Hyperion recording artist, many of Hough’s CDs have won international prizes, including several Grammy® nominations and eight Gramophone Magazine Awards.

He has written for The Guardian and The Times and was invited by the Telegraph Media Group to start a cultural blog. Hough has written extensively about theology and has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s The Today Programme.

His book, The Bible as Prayer, was published by Continuum and Paulist Press in 2007.

Hough, who is a London resident, is a visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music and holds the International Chair of Piano Studies at his alma mater, the Royal Northern College in Manchester.

For more information visit stephenhough.com.

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Symphony Society Board. .................................................................................

Executive Committee...............................................................................................

President Bobby Tudor

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

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

Vice President, Artistic and Orchestra Affairs Brett Busby

Vice President, Finance and Board Governance Steven P. Mach

Vice President, Volunteers Barbara McCelvey

Vice President, Popular Programming Allen Gelwick

Vice President, Education Cora Sue Mach

Vice President, Development David Wuthrich

Vice President, Audience Development and Marketing Robert A. Peiser

General Counsel Paul R. Morico

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS

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

At-Large Members Gene Dewhurst Jay Marks Helen Shaffer

President, Endowment Ulyesse J. LeGrange

Governing Directors.....................................................................................................

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

Gary L. Hollingsworth Ulyesse LeGrange Rochelle Levit Nancy Littlejohn April Lykos Cora Sue Mach Steven P. Mach Beth Madison Rodney Margolis Jay Marks Mary Lynn Marks Barbara McCelvey Gene McDavid * Alexander K. McLanahan

Paul Morico Arthur Newman Robert A. Peiser Fran Fawcett Peterson Geoffroy Petit David Pruner Stephen Pryor Gloria Pryzant John Rydman Manolo Sanchez Helen Shaffer Jerome Simon David Steakley Mike Stude

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

Trustees. .................................................................................................................

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

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

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

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

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Past Presidents of the Houston Symphony Society

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

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

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

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

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

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

Annual Campaign Donors. ...............................................................................

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

Corporations........................................................................................................ * ExxonMobil Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. * JPMorgan Chase KPMG LLP * Marathon Oil Company Vinson & Elkins LLP

As of October 1, 2010

$ 100,000-$499,999

BBVA Compass

Continental Airlines Fidelity Investments Shell Oil Company

$50,000-$99,999

$10,000-$24,999

American Express

* Cameron Chevron ConocoPhillips * GDF SUEZ Energy North America The Methodist Hospital System Shell Oil Company TOTAL UBS * Weatherford International Ltd.

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

Chubbs Group of Insurance Companies Crown Castle

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Baker Botts L.L.P. * Bank of America Bracewell & Giuliani LLP * CenterPoint Energy Cooper Industries, Inc. * Devon Energy Corporation Ernst & Young * Fluor Corporation Frost Bank H. E. Butt Grocery Company Margolis, Phipps & Wright, P.C. * Macy’s Foundation Memorial Hermann

Northern Trust Spir Star, Inc. Star Furniture USI * Wells Fargo

$500-$9,999 Beck, Redden & Secrest, LLP * Beirne, Maynard & Parsons, LLP Bloomberg L.L.P. Ironshore Insurance Services, LLP Lockton Companies Oceaneering International, Inc. Porter & Hedges, LLP PricewaterhouseCoopers, Inc. * Randalls Food Markets, Inc. Seyfarth Show * Smith, Graham & Company * South Texas College of Law * Swift Energy Company Texas Children’s Hospital Wortham Insurance & Risk Management

Foundations. ......................................................................................................... $25,000-$49,999

As of September 8, 2010

$1,000,000 & above

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

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

$500,000-$999,999

$10,000-$24,999

* M. D. Anderson Foundation

$100,000-$499,999

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

$50,000-$99,999

The Alkek & Williams Foundation * Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo Educational Fund * John P. McGovern Foundation

* Bauer Foundation Carleen & Alde Fridge Foundation * George & Mary Josephine Hamman Foundation * Houston Symphony League Bay Area * The Powell Foundation Strake Foundation * Vaughn Foundation Warren Family Foundation

$2,500-$9,999

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

William E. & Natoma Pyle Harvey Charitable Trust Huffington Foundation Leon Jaworski Foundation William S. & Lora Jean Kilroy Foundation * Robert W. & Pearl Wallis Knox Foundation Lubrizol Foundation * Kinder Morgan Foundation * Lynne Murray, Sr. Educational Foundation The Helmle Shaw Foundation Susman Family Foundation

Government Donors * City of Houston through the Houston Downtown Alliance, Houston Arts Alliance & Miller Theatre Advisory Board National Endowment for the Arts State Employee Charitable Campaign * Texas Commission on the Arts * Sponsors of Houston Symphony Education & Outreach Programs

Corporate Matching Gifts.............................................................................................

Aetna Akzo Nobel AT&T Bank of America Boeing Caterpillar Chevron

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

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

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

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Leadership Gifts................................................................................................

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

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

Maestro’s Society – $50,000 - $74,999 Maestro Hans Graf & Mrs. Graf Rochelle & Max Levit Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Nancy & Robert Peiser Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor

Concertmaster Society – $25,000 - $49,999 Janice & Tom Barrow Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Mr. Michael H. Clark & Ms. Sallie Morian Gene & Linda Dewhurst Dr. Kelli Cohen Fein & Martin J. Fein Mr. & Mrs. Russell M. Frankel Stephen & Mariglyn Glenn Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Drs. M.S. & Marie-Luise Kalsi Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse J. LeGrange Cora Sue & Harry Mach Barbara & Pat McCelvey Mrs. Sybil F. Roos Ms. Louisa Stude Sarofim Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer Laura & Michael Shannon

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Patron Donor Society........................................................................................

Members of the Patron Donor Society support the Houston Symphony with gifts to the Annual Fund and Events.

Members of the Society are offered a wide array of benefits and recognition including invitations to special events and more. For more information on how to become a member of the Houston Symphony Patron Donor Society, please call the Development Department at (713) 337-8523.

Principal Musician Society $15,000 - $24,999 Anonymous (1) Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Bahr Mr. Richard Danforth Allen & Almira Gelwick - Lockton Companies Mrs. Aileen Gordon

Joella & Steven P. Mach Mr. & Mrs. David R. Pruner Ann & Hugh Roff Mrs. Maryjane Scherr David & Paula Steakley Paul Strand Thomas

Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Warren Mr. & Mrs. Conrad Weil Jr. Vicki & Paul West Dr. Jim T. Willerson

Musician Sponsor Society $7,500 - $14,999 Anonymous (1) Eric S. Anderson & R. Dennis Anderson Gary & Marian Beauchamp Mr. & Mrs. Karl H. Becker Captain & Mrs. W. A. “Cappy” Bisso III Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Black III Dr. & Mrs. Meherwan P. Boyce Ruth White Brodsky Ms. Terry Ann Brown Mr. & Mrs. J. Brett Busby Mrs. Lily Carrigan The Robert & Jane Cizik Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Gerald F. Clark Dr. Scott Cutler Roger & Debby Cutler Leslie Barry Davidson & W. Robins Brice Dr. & Mrs. Alexander Dell Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael Dokupil Mr. & Mrs. Chris Flood Angel & Craig Fox Mr. S. David Frankfort Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Hansen Christina & Mark Hanson

Mr. Harold E. Holliday Jr. & Hon. Anna R. Holliday Mr. & Mrs. David V. Hudson Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John A. Irvine Mr. Brian James Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Kaplan Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk Mr. & Mrs. Erik P. Littlejohn Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Lykos Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Paul M. Mann Dr. & Mrs. Michael Mann Mr. & Mrs. Rodney H. Margolis Jay & Shirley Marks Mr. & Mrs. J. Stephen Marks Dr. & Mrs. Malcolm L. Mazow Mr. & Mrs. Brian P. McCabe Betty & Gene McDavid Miss Catherine Jane Merchant Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Cameron Mitchell Mike & Kathleen Moore Mr. & Mrs. Lucian L. Morrison Jr. Sue A. Morrison Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Moynihan Bobbie & Arthur Newman

Mrs. Tassie Nicandros Hanni Orton Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan E. Parker Mr. & Mrs. Philip M. Peterson Gloria & Joe Pryzant Kathryn & Richard Rabinow Mr. Glen A. Rosenbaum Mrs. Helen B. Rosenbaum Mr. & Mrs. William J. Rovere Jr. Mr. & Mrs. William T. Slick Jr. Julia & Albert Smith Foundation Dr. Alana R. Spiwak & Sam Stolbun Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Springob, Laredo Construction, Inc. Alice & Terry Thomas Ann & Joel Wahlberg Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. Mr. & Mrs. Fredric A. Weber Mr. & Mrs. Steven Jay Williams Mr. & Mrs. Wallace S. Wilson Ms. Jennifer R. Wittman Cyvia & Melvyn Wolff Mr. & Mrs. Ed Wulfe

Ms. Bernice Feld Mr. & Mrs. Marvy A. Finger Mr. Edwin C. Friedrichs & Ms. Darlene Clark Mr. George B. Geary Dr. & Mrs. William D. George Mrs. James J. Glenn Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Gow Mr. & Mrs. Jo A. Graves William A. Grieves & Dorothy McDonnell Grieves Mr. & Mrs. Frank Herzog Debbie & Frank Jones Drs. Blair & Rita Justice

Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Katz Mr. & Mrs. Stephen A. Lasher Mr. Clyde Lea & Ms. Pamela Fazzone Mrs. Margaret H. Ley Mr. E. W. Long Jr. Mr. & Mrs. George McCullough Mrs. Beverly T. McDonald Sidney & Ione Moran Mary & Terry Murphree Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Nelson Mr. & Mrs. Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Ms. Peggy Overly & Mr. John Barlow Mr. Howard Pieper

Conductor’s Circle $5,000 - $7,499 Joan & Stanford Alexander Mr. Alan Aronstein Mr. Richard C. Bailey Mr. Ronald C. Borschow Mr. & Mrs. Walter V. Boyle Joe Brazzatti Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Burguieres Marilyn & Coleman Caplovitz William J. Clayton & Margaret A. Hughes Mr. & Mrs. David Denechaud Mr. & Mrs. Paul F. Egner Jr. Aubrey & Sylvia Farb Diane Lokey Farb

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Individual Donors........................................................................................................

Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Ms. Karen S. Pulaski Mrs. Lila Rauch Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ken N. Robertson Drs. Alejandro & Lynn Rosas Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Schissler Jr. Donna & Tim Shen Mr. & Mrs. Tad Smith Mr. & Mrs. Mark R. Smith Mr. & Mrs. John Speer Mr. & Mrs. Keith Stevenson Mr. & Mrs. Antonio M. Szabo Mr. Stephen C. Tarry Mr. Brian Teichman Shirley & David R. Toomim Gene Carlton & Ann Trammell C. Harold & Lorine Wallace Robert G. Weiner Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Woodard Jr. Woodell Family Foundation Winthrop A. Wyman & Beverly Johnson Nina & Michael Zilkha Erla & Harry Zuber

Grand Patron $2,500 - $4,999

Anonymous (1) Wade & Mert Adams Mr. & Mrs. John S. Arnoldy Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey B. Aron Mr. Jeff Autor Mr. & Mrs. John C. Averett Mr. A. Greer Barriault & Ms. Clarruth A. Seaton Mr. & Mrs. Ken Barrow Mr. & Mrs. Brad Beitler Ms. Dianne Bowman Jim & Ellen Box Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bratic The Honorable & Mrs. Peter Brown Mrs. George L. Brundrett Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Sean Bumgarner Alan & Toba Buxbaum Mr. & Mrs. W. T. Carter IV Mr. & Mrs. Thierry Caruso Margot & John Cater Mr. William Choice & Mrs. Linda Able Choice Mr. & Mrs. Allen Clamen Mr. & Mrs. Brandon Cochran Mr. & Mrs. Robert Creager Mr. & Mrs. James W. Crownover Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. DeLone J.R. & Aline Deming Mr. & Mrs. Jack N. Doherty Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Dror Mr. William Elbel & Ms. Mary J. Schroeder Mrs. Robin A. Elverson Mr. Parrish N. Erwin Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Larry Faulkner Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Ference Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fitzpatrick Ms. Sharin Shafer Gaille Thomas & Patricia Geddy Mrs. Lila-Gene George 30 www.houstonsymphony.org

Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Haas Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Hafner Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Tim W. Harrington Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Hayes Mr. & Mrs. W. R. Hayes Mr. & Mrs. Doug R. Hinzie Mr. & Mrs. James E. Hooks Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Kinder William & Cynthia Koch Mrs. Barry Lewis Kevin & Lesley Lilly Robert & Gayle Longmire Mr. Bradley H. Marks James & Mary McMartin Mr. & Mrs. William B. McNamara Stephen & Marilyn Miles Mr. & Mrs. Arnold M. Miller Mr. & Mrs. Robert Mitchell Paul & Rita Morico Julia & Chris Morton Mr. Austin M. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Toole & Ms. Valerie Sherlock Mr. & Mrs. Anthony G. Petrello Mr. Michael H. Price Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Pryor Mr. Peter A. Ragauss & Ms. Jennifer Smith Michael Richker & Vicky Pravda Mr. & Mrs. Dave Roberts Dr. & Mrs. Franklin Rose Linda & Jerry Rubenstein Mr. & Mrs. Clive Runnells Mr. and Mrs. Manolo Sanchez Beth & Lee Schlanger Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Simon Mr. Louis H. Skidmore Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael L. Tenzer Mr. & Mrs. Gene Van Dyke Mr. & Mrs. Wil VanLoh Stephen & Kristine Wallace Mrs. Naomi Warren Mr. David Ashley White Mr. & Mrs. C. Clifford Wright Mr. and Mrs. David J. Wuthrich Judge Clarease R. Yates & Mr. Cary Yates Dr. & Mrs. Robert Yekovich Edith & Robert Zinn Patron $1,000 - $2,499

Anonymous (6) David M. & Lisa B. Aaronson Dr. & Mrs. George J. Abdo Morrie & Rolaine Mrs. Nancy C. Allen, President Greentree Fund John & Pat Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Thurmon Andress Mr. Maurice J. Aresty Mr. & Mrs. John M. Arnsparger Dr. & Mrs. Roy Aruffo Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Asofsky Mr. & Mrs. Arnie Azios Edward & Joyce Backhaus Stanley & Martha Bair Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Balasco Dr. & Mrs. Alfonso Barrera Ms. Marion Barthelme & Mr. Jeff Fort Mr. & Mrs. Joshua L. Batchelor

Mr. & Mrs. John Bauer Betty Bellamy Ms. Sallymoon S. Benz Dr. & Mrs. Devinder Bhatia John Blomquist Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Boggio Dr. & Mrs. Milton Boniuk Mr. & Mrs. John F. Bookout Mr. & Mrs. James D. Bozeman Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Brackett Mr. & Mrs. Robert Bray Mrs. Catherine Campbell Brock & Dr. Gary Brock Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Brophy Susan & Richard Brown Mr. & Mrs. Laurence Burns Mrs. Anne H. Bushman Dr. & Mrs. William T. Butler Mr. & Mrs. Barent W. Cater Dr. Robert N. Chanon Mrs. Cielle Clemenceau Mr. & Mrs. James G. Coatsworth Mr. & Mrs. Charles Comiskey Mr. Mark C. Conrad Dr. & Mrs. James D. Cox Mr. David A. Coyle Mr. & Mrs. William C. Crassas Sylvia & Andre Crispin Mr. & Mrs. T. N. Crook Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Cullen Jr. Mr. Carl Cunningham Mr. & Mrs. Jerry H. Deutser Mr. & Mrs. Robert Deutser Mike & Debra Dishberger Dr. Burdett S. & Mrs. Kathleen C.E. Dunbar Mr. & Mrs. Edward N. Earle Carolyn & David Edgar Mr. Roger Eichhorn Mr. & Mrs. J. Thomas Eubank Mr. & Mrs. Donald Faust Sr. Mrs. Carolyn Grant Fay Dr. Judith Feigin Jerry E. & Nanette B. Finger Dr. & Mrs. Ronald Fischer Mr. Dale Fitz Mr. & Mrs. Vince D. Foster Mr. & Mrs. Edwin Freedman Ms. Beth Freeman Paula & Alfred Friedlander J. Kent & Ann Friedman Sally & Bernard Fuchs Mr. & Mrs. Todd Fuller Mr. & Mrs. Magnus Fyhr Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Gaynor Mr. & Mrs. John Gee Mr. Jerry George Mrs. Joan M. Giese Ms. Nancy D. Giles Mr. Walter Gilmore Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Glanville Mr. & Mrs. Morris Glesby Mr. & Mrs. Bert H. Golding Helen B. Wils & Leonard Goldstein Robert & Michele Goodmark Mr. & Mrs. Tony Gracely Ms. Joyce Z. Greenberg Mary & Paul Gregory Mr. Charles H. Gregory Ms. Christine R. Griffith Mr. & Mrs. Fred E. Haas Ms. Carmen C. Halden Mrs. Thalia Halen Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Hanna

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Ms. Margaret W. Hansen Marion & Jim Hargrove Dr. & Mrs. Eric J. Haufrect Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Hawk Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Heath Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Eric Heggeseth Mark & Ragna Henrichs Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Mr. & Mrs. Richard Hoffert Mr. Tim Hogan Dr. & Mrs. Robert Ivany Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Jankovic Mr. Eric S. Johnson & Dr. Ronada Davis Mr. & Mrs. John F. Joity Mr. & Mrs. Walter Kase Sam & Cele Keeper Linda & Frank S. Kelley Mr. & Mrs. Bill King Mary Louis Kister Dr. & Mrs. Russell W. Kridel Bobbie & Richard Kristinik Mr. Willy Kuehn Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Lane Ms. Joni Latimer Mr. & Mrs. Jack Lee Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Eugene Lehrer Mr. William W. Lindley Mr. & Mrs. Michael Linn Mr. & Mrs. H. Arthur Littell Ms. Nancey Lobb Dr. & Mrs. Fred R. Lummis Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Bill McCartney Mr. & Mrs. James W. McCartney Mr. & Mrs. Andrew McFarland Mr. & Mrs. David R. McKeithan Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Theron McLaren Ms. Jennifer R. Mire Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mithoff Dr. Florence M. Monroe Dr. Eleanor D. Montague Ms. Marsha L. Montemayor John & Ann Montgomery Mr. & Mrs. Gerarld Moynier Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Mueller Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Newman Mr. & Mrs. Charles G. Nickson John & Leslie Niemand Dr. & Mrs. Thomas Oley Mr. & Mrs. Patrick Olfers Steve & Sue Olson Jane & Kenneth Owen Mr. & Mrs. Robert Page Mr. & Mrs. Raul Pavon Michael & Shirley Pearson Mr. & Mrs. James D. Penny Mr. & Mrs. Gary Petersen Mr. & Mrs. Harry J. Phillips Jr. Mr. James D. Pitcock Mr. & Mrs. James Postl Mr. John Potts Clinton & Leigh Rappole Record Family Dr. Madaiah Revana, MD Hilda & Hershel Rich Mr. & Mrs. Allyn Risley Ms. Janice Robertson & Mr. Douglas Williams Minnette & Jerome Robinson Ms. Regina J. Rogers Mrs. Annetta Rose Mr. Charles K. Sanders Mary Louise & David Sanderson

Ms. Paula Santoski Mrs. Myrna Schaffer Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Schanzmeyer Dr. Philip D. Scott & Dr. Susan E. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Marc J. Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Russell Sherrill Mr. & Mrs. W. Allen Shindler Mrs. Camille Simpson Dean & Kay L. Snider Ms. Kelly Somoza Carol & Michael Stamatedes Mr. & Mrs. George Stark Mr. & Mrs. James R. Stevens Cassie B. Stinson & James H. Gibbons Mr. & Mrs. Toby Summers Ms. Jeanine Swift Mr. & Mrs. Albert S. Tabor Jr. Mr. Stephen Tangney Mr. Mark Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Taylor Mrs. Donna Teichman Jean & Doug Thomas Stephen & Pamalah Tipps Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Unger Matthew VanBesien & Rosanne Jowitt Mr. & Mrs. William Visinsky Mr. David Waddell Mr. & Mrs. Fred Wahrlich Mr. Danny Ward & Ms. Nancy Ames Ms. Joann E. Welton Mr. & Mrs. Eden N. Wenig Mr. & Mrs. Patrick J. Whelan Mr. Thomas H. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Russell Windham Dr. & Mrs. Jerry S. Wolinsky Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Wray Ms. Ellen A. Yarrell Mr. Sam M. Yates III Mr. & Mrs. Mark Yzaguirre Mr. & Mrs. Charles Zabriskie Mrs. Betsy I. Zimmer Mr. Terry Zmyslo

Composer’s Circle $500 - $999

Anonymous (4) Mr. & Mrs. N. T. Adams Ms. Joan Ambrogi Corbin & Char Aslakson Mr. & Mrs. Jerry Axelrod Mr. & Mrs. David M. Balderston Mr. & Mrs. Mark Berkstresser Carolyn & Arthur Berner Mr. & Mrs. George Boerger Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Bolam Mr. & Mrs. Giorgio Borlenghi Mr. & Mrs. Danny J. Bowers Jr. Ms. Sally Brassow Katherine M. Briggs Ms. Barbara A. Brooks Mrs. Vera Brown Dr. Bob Brown & Ms. Dena Rafte Fred & Judy Brunk Mrs. Shirley Burgher The Gertz Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Joseph L. Campbell Mrs. Marjorie Capshaw Mr. & Mrs. E. Thomas Chaney K.D. Charalampous, M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Kent Chenevert Janet F. Clark Virginia A. Clark

Jim R. & Lynn Coe Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Coffin Mrs. Barbora Cole Ms. Barbara A. Conte Mr. & Mrs. Byron Cooley Mr. H. Talbot Cooley Michael T. Coppinger Mr. & Mrs. Timothy J. Crull Mr. & Mrs. Jeremy Davis Ms. Anna M. Dean Dr. & Mrs. Clotaire D. Delery Ms. Aurelie Desmarais Bruce B. Dice Mr. & Mrs. Mark Diehl Mr. & Mrs. Mark W. Dobbins Mr. & Mrs. James P. Dorn Elizabeth H. Duerr Mr. Dan Dunham Drs. Gary & Roz Dworkin Mr. & Mrs. Peter Erickson Dr. Kenneth L Euler Mr. & Mrs. William Evans Dr. & Mrs. Louis A. Faillace Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan B. Fairbanks Linda & Ronny Finger Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Fleisher Mr. & Mrs. Charles Flourney Ms. Martha Garcia Martha & Gibson Gayle Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gendel Dr. & Mrs. Jack Gill William E. Gipson Gen. & Mrs. Melbern G. Glasscock Lee & Sandy Godfrey Mr. & Mrs. Herbert I. Goodman Dr. & Mrs. Harvey L. Gordon Mr. Dane Grenoble Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Griswold Zahava Haenosh Dennis B. Halpin Dr. & Mrs. Carlos R. Hamilton Ms. Vickie Hamley Rita & John Hannah Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Hansen Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Harbachick Bruce Harkness & Alice Brown Mr. & Judge Frank Harmon III Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Harrell Mr. & Mrs. David L. Haug Mr. & Mrs. Frank L. Heard Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Walter A. Hecht Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Herrmann Ms. Hilda R. Herzfeld Mr. & Mrs. Ross K. Hill Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Hogan Mr. Ronald Holley & Dr. Natasha Holley Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Holloway Mr. & Mrs. Roger Hurst Diane & Geoffrey Ibbott Mr. John Jansen & Mrs. Lori Sorcic Jansen Mrs. Paula Jarrett Mr. Mark Johansson Mr. & Mrs. Wesley A. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Okey B. Johnson Mr. Scot W. Johnson Dr. & Mrs. Robert E. Jordon Lucy & Victor Kormeier Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Krezer Jr. Mr. Rodney Kubicek Suzanne A. & Dan D. Kubin Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Lee II

Mr. Richard Leibman Ms. Golda K. Leonard H. Fred & Velva G. Levine Michael & Sharon Lewis Mr. James C. Lindsey Mr. Kelly Bruce Lobley Mrs. Sylvia Lohkamp Mr. Christopher Mancini Ms. Liz Markell Ms. B. Lynn Mathre & Mr. Stewart O’Dell Mr. & Mrs. Richard Mattix Mr. & Mrs. J.A. Mawhinney Jr. Lawrence McCullough & Linda Jean Quintanilla Mr. & Mrs. Kevin McEvoy Mr. George McKee Ms. Mary J. McKerall & Ms. Marilyn Flick Dr. & Mrs. John Mendelsohn Mr. Ronald A. Mikita Mr. Willis B. Mitchell Mr. Richard Murphy Daniel & Karol Musher Alan & Elaine Mut Ms. Jennifer Naae Mr. & Mrs. Geoffrey B. Newton Nils & Stephanie Normann Mrs. Morris Orocofsky Ms. Margie Ortega Mrs. Caroline Osteen Mr. Marc C. Paige Mr. Robert Pastorek Mr. & Mrs. James L. Payne Mrs. Preston A. Peak Dr. & Mrs. Joseph V. Penn Mr. & Mrs. William O. Perkins III Mr. John M. Petrosky Mr. & Mrs. W. Hugh Phillips III Ms. Meg Philpot Kim & Ted A. Powell Mr. Robert W. Powell Mr. Arthur Preisinger Doris F. Pryzant Mrs. Dana Puddy Dr. & Mrs. Henry H. Rachford Jr. Dr. Mike Ratliff Mr. & Mrs. William B. Rawl Mrs. Edith G. Reed Ms. Louisa B. Reid Dr. Alexander P. Remenchik & Ms. Frances Burford Mary & Jesse Roberts Mr. & Mrs. Fabrice Roche Ms. Franelle Rogers Milton & Jill Rose Mr. Edward Ross Dr. Raymond E. Sawaya Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Sherlock Mr. Barry E. Silverman & Ms. Shara Fryer Barbara & Louis Sklar Mr. & Mrs. Stephen N. Smith Dr. & Mrs. C. Richard Stasney Ms. Joyce Steensrud Dr. & Mrs. David Sufian Mrs. Louise Sutton Mrs. Mary Swafford Mr. Kerry Taylor Ms. Betsy Mims & Mr. Howard D. Thames Jacob & Elizabeth Thomas Mr. Daniel S. Trachtenberg Ms. Cathleen J. Trechter Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Tremant Mr. & Mrs. D.E. Utecht November 2010 31

Individual Donors........................................................................................................

Mr. & Mrs. Juan B. Vallhonrat Dr. & Mrs. Gage VanHorn Ms. Jana Vander Lee Mr. & Mrs. Bill Vaughn Jan & Don Wagner Mr. & Mrs. James A. Watt J. M. Weltzien Mr. & Mrs. Ben White Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Wilkomirski Nancy Willerson

Sustaining Member $250 - $499

Anonymous (16) Mr. & Mrs. W. Kendall Adam Mr. John Adkins Jr. Ms. Lina Amador Mr. William J. Anderson Mr. & Mrs. David Archibald Mr. Rudy Avelar c/o Houston Grand Opera Mr. & Mrs. David Baggett Mr. & Mrs. Gabriel Baizan Mr. & Mrs. James A. Baker III Mr. & Mrs. John Baker Ms. Virginia C. Ballard Mr. & Mrs. John A. Barrett Dr. David Barry Mrs. Terry Bassett Dr. & Mrs. Robert C. Bast Jr. Mr. Steve A. Bavousett Mr. Thomas Becker & Mr. Jim Rosenfeld Ms. Roberta Benson Mrs. Robert L. Berge Mr. & Mrs. Paul C. Berner Mr. & Mrs. Randall Beste James S. & Linda Birtwistle Mrs. Dorothy Bixler Mr. Arno S. Bommer Ms. Suzie Boyd Bob F. Boydston Ms. Tiffany Breeding Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Brooks Mr. & Mrs. Steven Brosvik Mr. J. W. Brougher Sally & Laurence Brown Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Buhler Mr. & Mrs. Rick A. Burris Mr. & Mrs. Raul Caffesse Mr. & Mrs. Dean L. Callender Virginia & William Camfield Mr. & Mrs. J. Scott Campbell Mr. Petros Carvounis Mr. & Mrs. Kevin J. Casey Mr. & Mrs. John M. Cavanaugh Mr. & Mrs. Thomas C. Cleveland Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Cohen Mr. Tulio Colmenares Ms. Erin Connally Mr. Cecil C. Conner Mr. William S. & Dr. Mary Alice Cowan Mr. Alan Dale Ms. Christina Daniels Leon Davis Ms. Elizabeth Del Pico Ms. Dora Dillistone Mr. & Mrs. James H. Dupree Mr. & Mrs. David Dybell Mr. William D. Eakes & Ms. Zola W. Cater Dr. & Mrs. David W. Edelstein Mr. Ramsay M. Elder Mr. Mike Ezzell Mr. Chris C. Fellows 32 www.houstonsymphony.org

Ms. Ursula H. Felmet Mrs. John T. Files Mr. & Mrs. Theodore C. Flick Mr. James B. Flodine & Ms. Lynne Liberato Mr. Richard L. Flowers Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Francisco Ms. Johnella V. Franklin Mr. Ralph F. Frankowski Ms. Diane L. Freeman Robert A. Furse, M.D. Ms. Martha Gardill Shifra & Terry Gardner Dr. & Mrs. Gary M. Gartsman Mr. & Mrs. Duane V. Geis Mr. & Mrs. James E. Gerhardt Mr. Fred Gesiorski Mr. Glen Gettemy Ms. Heidi Good Mr. Ned Graber Mr. & Mrs. Tim Graham Mrs. Howard Grekel Ms. Jo Ann C. Guillory Mr. Teruhiko Hagiwara Mr. & Mrs. Roy T. Halle Mr. & Mrs. Tod P. Harding Ms. Karen Harding Mr. Paul Harmon Dr. & Mrs. William S. Harwell Mr & Mrs. Dean Hennings Ms. Joy Herin R.A. Herring Mr. & Mrs. John R. Heumann Mr. & Mrs. John Heyburn Susan Hodge Mr. David Hoffman Jacque Holland Howard & Dorothy Homeyer Mr. & Mrs. John Homier S.y. & Y.j. Kim Hong Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Hopson John & Nancy Howard George E. Howe Mr. John Howenstine Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Howes Mr. & Mrs. George M. Hricik Mr. Tyler Hubbard Ms. Vicki Huff Mr. & Mrs. James R. Hutton Mr. Jacek Jaminski Ms. Sheila K. Johnstone Ms. Karen Juul-Nielsen & Mr. Rick Garnett Mr. Guido Kanschat Dr. & Mrs. Andrew P. Kant Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Kantor Mr. & Mrs. David Karohl Mr. & Mrs. Hugh R. Kelly Mr. & Mrs. I.H. Kempner III Dr. & Mrs. Sherwin Kershman Dr. Nora J. Klein Dr. & Mrs. Douglas D. Koch Mr. & Mrs. Sam Koster Dr. & Mrs. James H. Krause Mr. Vijay Kusnoor Mr. & Mrs. Phillip Ladin Ms. Bryn Larsen & Mr. Bertrand Fry Mr. & Mrs. Thomas S. Latham Mr. & Mrs. William Leighton Mr. & Mrs. Robert Leonard Mr. & Mrs. Earl L. Lester Jr. Ms. Lisa Linney

Louise & Oscar Lui Dr. Ellen Lumpkin Mr. & Mrs. Harry E. Mach III Tom & Kathleen Mach Mr. Kemp Maer Mrs. D.B. Marchant Mrs. Renee Margolin Mr. Mark Matovich Ms. Suzanne McCarthy Mr. R. Scott McCay Mrs. Alison McDermott & Mr. Adrian Glasser Ms. Judi McGee Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence McManus Odette & James McMurrey Ms. Laurie McRay Mr. & Mrs. Joseph R. Melanson Jr. Mrs. Dorri Melvin Dr. Robert A. Mendelson Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Michalski Ms. Georgette M. Michko Ellen Ochoa & Coe F. Miles Mr. Russell J. Miller & Mrs. Charlotte M. Meyer Mr. & Mrs. Herbert G. Mills Mr. John C. Molloy Mr. & Mrs. John H. Monroe Jr. Ms. Kathleen Moore & Mr. Steven T. Homer Mr. Joel Ray Needham Mr. & Mrs. David S. Neuberger Mr. Philip R. Neuhaus Mary Murrill North Mr. & Mrs. Charles Ofner Marjory & Barry Okin Mr. & Mrs. Enrique Ospina Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon I. Oster Julie & Chip Oudin III Mr. William Pannill Grace & Carroll Phillips Ms. Alice Phillips Mary H. & Lynn K. Pickett Mr. Verne Pignolet Ms. Peggy Powers Mr. & Mrs. Arthur H. Pratt Mr. Chip Purchase Ms. Nita D. Pyle Mr. & Mrs. Manuel E. Quintana Elias & Carole Qumsieh Mrs. Marjorie Rasche Loreta & Ronald Rea Ms. Joan Read Mr. & Mrs. John Q. Reans Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Redden Mr. & Mrs. Harry L. Reed Mr. & Mrs. Norman T. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. Walter Rhodes Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Rinehart Mrs. George Risman Mr. James L. Robertson Mr. Brian Rodgers & Mrs. Sally Evans Drs. Herbert & Manuela Roeller Mr. & Mrs. Keith A. Rogers Ms. Mirelle Rosca Brenda & Mansel Rubenstein Mr. John E. Ryall Dr. & Mrs. Barry Sachs Mr. Ed Schneider & Ms. Toni A. Oplt Mrs. Joan Schnitzer Levy Garry & Margaret Schoonover Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Schwaab Ms. Elizabeth Schwarze

Charles & Andrea Seay Mrs. Lenoir Seelhorst Mr. & Mrs. Charles O. Shearouse Art & Ellen Shelton Pamela & Richard Sherry Mr. Barrett Sides Mr. & Mrs. William Smith Mr. Stephen C. Smith & Mr. Ronald Jenson Mr. Marc Sofia Ms. Blanche Stastny Mr. & Mrs. Donald K. Steinman Mr. & Ms. Gary Stenerson William F. Stern Mr. Myron F. Steves Dr. & Mrs. Richard Strax Dr. John R. Stroehlein & Ms. Miwa Sakashita Mr. & Mrs. Hans Strohmer Ms. Lori Summa Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Symon Dr. Shahin Tavackoli Ms. Jessica M. Taylor Mr. Robert M. Taylor Mr. & Ms. Gary Teletzke Howard Tellepsen Jr. Ms. Gloria Tenenbown Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Thurmond Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thweatt David & Ann Tomatz Dr. & Mrs. Karl Tornyos Mr. & Mrs. Edmunds Travis Jr. Mr. Paul R. Tregurtha Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Trowbridge Ms. Martha Turner & Mr. Glenn Bauguss Dr. Robert Ulrich & Ms. June R. Russell Mr. John T. Unger & Ms. Kathy Welch Dr. & Mrs. Brad Urquhart Mr. Steven Valerius Mr. Viet Van Dr. Holly & Mr. Michael Varner Dr. Allen R. Vogt Dean B. Walker Ms. Sandria Ward Mr. Kenneth W. Warren Ms. Victoria Wendling Mr. & Mrs. G. Thomas Whitcomb Mr. & Mrs. Cornel Williams Miss Susan Wood Mr. & Mrs. Stephen R. Wood Mr. & Mrs. Byron Wright Mrs. Peggy J. Wylie Mr. & Mrs. Le Roy Yeager Mr. Ray Young Mrs. Barbara S. Young Mr. & Mrs. Paul J. Zohle

Principal Pops Conductorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Circle $5,000 or More Mr. & Mrs. Edward F. Blackburne Jr. Allen & Almira Gelwick Lockton Companies Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Katz Mr. & Mrs. Thomas J. Lykos Jr. Mary & Terry Murphree Mr. Robert J. Pilegge Mr. & Mrs. William K. Robbins Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Ken N. Robertson Mrs. Sybil F. Roos Mrs. Maryjane Scherr Mr. & Mrs. Donald E. Woodard Jr.

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

Ms. Dianne Bowman Jim & Ellen Box Mr. Christopher Buehler & Ms. Jill Hutchison Carol & Larry Fradkin Mrs. Barry Lewis Linda & Jerry Rubenstein

Pops Patron $1,500-$2,499

Anonymous (1) Rita & Geoffrey Bayliss Ms. Tara Black Ms. Sara J. Devine Mr. & Mrs. James E. Dorsett Mr. & Mrs. Byron F. Dyer Julius & Suzan Glickman Mr. Robert Grant Alice R. Mcpherson, M.D. & Anthony A. Mierzwa Paul & Rita Morico Mr. & Mrs. Allan Quiat Mr. & Mrs. Mark S. Rauch Mr. & Mrs. Ben A. Reid Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Leland Tate

Ms. Jody Verwers Mr. & Mrs. William B. Welte III Sally & Denney Wright

Headliner $1,000-$1,499

Rev. & Mrs. H. Eldon Akerman Stanley & Martha Bair Mr. & Mrs. Fred L. Gorman Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Hamaker Mr. & Mrs. George A. Helland Michael & Darcy Krajewski Mr. Anthony G. Ogden Mrs. Annetta Rose Mr. & Mrs. Steve Sims Ms. Virgina Torres Ms. Amanda Tozzi Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence D. Wallace

Producer $500-$999

Mr. & Mrs. H. Richard Alexander Mr. Stephen J. Banks Mr. Allen J. Becker Mr. John S. Beury W. M. Calvert Mr. & Mrs. Warren J. Carroll John & Joyce Eagle

Mr. Harold Jennison Mr. Don E. Kingsley Mr. & Mrs. Barry H. Margolis Mr. & Mrs. Joe T. McMillan Mr. Gerard & Mrs. Helga Meneilly Dr. & Mrs. Raghu Narayan W. R. Purifoy Mr. & Mrs. Philip Redding Mr. & Mrs. George A. Rizzo Jr. Mr. Morris Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Tim Shaunty Mrs. Mary Swafford Gene & Donna Tromblee

Director $250-$499

Anonymous (1) Mrs. Elsie Ameen Dr. & Mrs. R. L. Brenner Mr. Jay T. Brown Ms. Carol Brownstein Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Buhler Richard & Marcia Churns Mr. Robert A. Colton Marilyn & Tucker Coughlen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Demeter Mr. T. J. Doggett Richard & Mildred

Mr. & Mrs. Jim Gunther Mr. & Mrs. Dale Hardy Mr. Larry January Ms. Mary Keathley Mr. George S. Knapp Charles C. & Patricia Kubin Mr. Richard S. Ledermann Mr. & Mrs. Roger Lindgren Mr. & Mrs. James McBride Mr. & Mrs. Carrol R. McGinnis Ms. Edna F. Meyer-Nelson Ms. Cinda Schaffer Ms. Phyllis Schaffer Dr. & Mrs. A. Carl Schmulen Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Siegele Mr. & Mrs. David K. Smith Norbert F. Stang Mr. & Mrs. William G. Straight Mr. & Mrs. Carl N. Tongberg Mr. Roger Trandell Sandy Vander Kam Mr. & Mrs. Don Wilton

As of October 11, 2010

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Alexander’s Fine Portrait Design Baker Botts Be Friends Bergner & Johnson Bright Star Cognetic Mr. Carl R. Cunningham Darryl & Co. Deville Fine Jewelry

DocuData Solutions The Events Company Fiesta Mart Hilton Americas - Houston Houston Chronicle Jackson and Company JOHANNUS Organs of Texas Jim Benton of Houston LLC JR’s Bar & Grill KUHF 88.7 FM

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

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

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Making a tax-deductible donation to the Symphony has never been easier: • Donate online via houstonsymphony.org • Mail a check payable to: Houston Symphony 615 Louisiana Street, Suite 102 Houston, Texas 77002-2715 • Stop by one of our in-hall tables throughout the season during select concerts • Speak with a Houston Symphony representative through our Telemarketing Campaign • Speak with a League Volunteer during our calling campaigns • Visit the Symphony Store and pick up a membership brochure • Call (713) 337-8500 to give by phone

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Legacy Society. .................................................................................................

The Legacy Society honors those who have included the Houston Symphony in their long-term estate plans through bequests, life-income gifts or other deferred-giving arrangements. Members of the Legacy Society enjoy a variety of benefits, including an annual musical event with a renowned guest artist. The Houston Symphony extends its deepest thanks to the members of the Society, and with their permission, is pleased to acknowledge them.

Anonymous (10) Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Barrow George & Betty Bashen Dorothy B. Black Ermy Borlenghi Bonfield Ronald C. Borschow Anneliese Bosseler Joe Brazzatti Zu Broadwater Terry Ann Brown Dr. Joan K. Bruchas & H. Philip Cowdin Eugene R. Bruns Sylvia J. Carroll William J. Clayton Leslie Barry Davidson Harrison R. T. Davis Judge & Mrs. Harold DeMoss Jr. Jean & sJack Ellis Mrs. Robin A. Elverson The Aubrey and Sylvia Farb Family Ginny Garrett Michael B. George Stephen and Mariglyn Glenn Mr. & Mrs. Keith E. Gott Randolph Lee Groninger Marilyn & Robert M. Hermance Dr. Gary L. Hollingsworth Dr. Edward J. & Mrs. Patti Hurwitz Kenneth Hyde Mr. Brian James Drs. Rita & Blair Justice Dr. & Mrs. Ira Kaufman, MD John S. W. Kellett Ann Kennedy & Geoffrey Walker Dr. & Mrs. I. Ray Kirk

Mr. & Mrs. Ulyesse LeGrange Mrs. Frances E. Leland Dr. Mary R. Lewis E. W. Long Jr. Sandra Magers Mr. & Mrs. Jay Marks James Matthews Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm Mazow Mr. & Mrs. Gene McDavid Charles E. McKerley Mr. & Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan Miss Catherine Jane Merchant Dr. & Mrs. Robert M. Mihalo Ron Mikita Katherine Taylor Mize Ione Moran Sidney Moran Sue A. Morrison and Children Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Mueller Gretchen Anne Myers Edward C. Osterberg Jr. Joan D. Osterweil Imogen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Immyâ&#x20AC;? Papadopoulos Sara M. Peterson Mr. Howard Pieper Geraldine S. Priest Daniel F. Prosser Gloria & Joe Pryzant Mrs. Dana Puddy Walter M. Ross Mr. & Mrs. Michael B. Sandeen Charles K. Sanders Charles King Sanders Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Seay II Mr. & Mrs. James A. Shaffer

Dr. & Mrs. Kazuo Shimada Jule & Albert Smith Mr. & Mrs. Louis J. Snyder Mike & sAnita Stude Emily H. & Daniel K. Terry Stephen G. Tipps Mr. & Mrs. Jesse B. Tutor Dr. Carlos Vallbona & Children Margaret Waisman, M.D. & Steven S. Callahan, Ph.D. David M. Wax & Elaine Arden Cali Robert G. Weiner Geoffrey Westergaard Jennifer R. Wittman Mr. & Mrs. Bruce E. Woods Mr. & Mrs. David Wuthrich As of October 11, 2010

sDeceased

In Memoriam.....................................................................................................

We honor the memory of those who in life included the Houston Symphony in their estate plans.

Their thoughtfulness and generosity will continue to inspire and enrich lives for generations to come!

W. P. Beard Mrs. H. Raymond Brannon Anthony Brigandi Lawrence E. Carlton, M.D. Lee Allen Clark Jack Ellis Frank R. Eyler Helen Bess Fariss Foster Christine E. George Mrs. Marcella Levine Harris

General & Mrs. Maurice Hirsch Miss Ima Hogg Burke & Octavia Holman Mrs. L. F. McCollum Joan B. McKerley Monroe L. Mendelsohn Jr. Mrs. Janet Moynihan Constantine S. Nicandros Hanni Orton Stewart Orton, Legacy Society co-founder

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

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

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My Houston, My Symphony: Campaign for a Sound Future. .......................

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

Campaign Cabinet

Members

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

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

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

President

Ulyesse J. LeGrange

Trustees

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

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Mr. & Mrs. Jay Marks * Mr. & Mrs. Lucian L. Morrison Jr. Foundations......................

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

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

Individuals.......................

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

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

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

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

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

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Backstage Pass. .................................................................................................

Pat and Barbara McCelvey, musician sponsors

Adam Dinitz, oboe, English horn

Birthplace: Pat was born in Houston; Barbara in Pasadena, California.

Birthplace: Rockville, MD

Education: We met while earning graduate degrees in civil engineering from the University of Texas. Barbara received her undergraduate degree from Stanford and Pat earned his at UT.

Education: Northwestern University, BM; Rice University, MM

Favorite musical memory: My father singing “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” to me before bed.

All in the family: My grandmother was a fabulous pianist, and my aunt sang in church choirs and a semi-professional group in Oregon.

Current listening: We listen to all types of music.

Barbara: Vaughan Williams, Jethro Tull, and jazz pianist Pam Drews Phillips. Pat: the Monks of St. Antimo Abbey, guitarist John Mayer.

Looking forward to in the 2010-2011 Season: Barbara: I am most excited about the Mahler 10 exploration in May. I love Mahler and I love to learn, so the format is perfect for me. Also, my whole family is coming to the Led Zepplin concert, so I am looking forward to that.

Favorite part of the symphony experience: Barbara: I love coming to the concert hall and seeing friends, and now it’s even more thrilling to see musicians that I have gotten to know. I feel like a cheerleader for each of them. However, when the lights go down and the music starts, I am transported to a different place; my worries go, my stress goes and I just relax. What could be better than that?

Pastime and good company: Barbara: reading and hiking in Wyoming; Pat: racing cars.

Meeting your musician: We were “put in touch” with Adam Dinitz by staff who thought we would enjoy each other.

photo by jamie lupold

Joined the Houston Symphony: We began regularly attending performances in the 1990s. I (Barbara) joined the Houston Symphony League in 1997, and we became Musician Sponsors in 2007.

Joined the Houston Symphony: 2007 Looking forward to in the 2010-2011 Season: Scheherazade with Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos.

I worked with him when I was a student at Tanglewood; he is a phenomenal musician.

Beginnings: I began studying oboe at 12, but did not begin English horn until graduate school.

All in the family: My older brother is a percussionist in the U.S. Air Force Band.

Discovering my vocation: My first two career choices: NBA player and lottery winner, unfortunately, didn’t pan out.

Best thing about being a musician: Through music, I can express myself in ways that I would otherwise be incapable of communicating. I also particularly love the location of my chair in the orchestra; I am in between the brass, woodwinds and violas. There is an indescribable feeling that I get from sitting smack in the middle of the orchestra during an intense or beautiful moment of a performance that I wouldn’t trade for anything.

Current listening: I just listened to Willie Nelson’s Stardust. The simplicity of the writing on this album is impressive; Willie communicates in such an honest and clear way, that I can’t help but get a sense of the kind of person he is. I strive to find these characteristics in my own playing.

Keeping your music making fresh: I am constantly listening to all kinds of music and trying to incorporate it into my own playing. I try to grow as a musician and performer every day.

Special thoughts: Adam has been great fun to get to know. The best was when we rounded up a few other musicians and staff literally off the street as they were going home and went for drinks after a concert.

Finding the perfect instrument: Oboes and English horns only last me about five years, so when I need a new instrument, I have my oboe dealer (sounds dangerous, huh?), send me several at the same time. I play the exact same excerpt on each instrument and usually get a good “feel” from one of them. I then play each instrument for a colleague who, in most cases, picks the same one I liked the best.

All for a reason: The Houston Symphony is a key part of our lives. We love the music, but we also love the people we have met – musicians, staff, league members and patrons. We both had wonderful musical experiences as children, and we want more kids to have that opportunity. We feel that the Symphony is key to a rich cultural life in Houston, so when we heard about the opportunity to get to know a musician personally, we jumped at the chance. It is a completely different experience when you know the players, and it makes it that much more rewarding as a listener.

Also, you get to ask all of those silly questions that you always wanted to, such as, “What are in those boxes beside the bass players?”

Biggest challenge: The most difficult aspect for me is reed-making.

Few people realize that all professional oboists, English hornists and bassoonists make their own reeds. When making an English horn reed, I cut a tube of cane to size and then gouge out the middle until it is very thin. The cane is then soaked, bent in half, shaped to size with a razor blade and tied onto a staple. I then take a knife and scrape the reed until (hopefully) it makes a pleasant sound. On average, one out of four reeds is good enough for a performance, and each can take from an hour to several days to complete. They only last for one or two concerts, so needless to say, I am constantly working on reeds!

Pass it on: The musicians are a unique and talented group of fascinating people. They have so many other facets to them!

Pastime and good company: I enjoy golf, snowboarding, boxing, going to movies, eating at great restaurants and traveling.

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