Cloud Anthem | 2022-23 Season

OLIVER

CLOUD ANTHEM

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022

8:00 PM EDT

GRANOFF MUSIC CENTER AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

+ BROADCAST LIVE ON YOUTUBE

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2022

4:00 PM EDT

COLONIAL THEATER LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Music by Oliver Caplan (b. 1982)

Cloud Anthem (2020)

Night Migrations (2022)*

Roots and Wings (2012)

Worth the Wait (2020)*

INTERMISSION

Great Trees (2021)

Every Iridescent Chip of Ice (2021)

We Exist (2018)

Poetry by Richard Blanco

Poetry by Hannah Fries

Poetry by Meghan Guidry

Poetry by Meghan Guidry

Poetry by Maya Angelou

Poetry by Meghan Guidry

Poetry by Naseem Rakha

* World Premiere

New Hampshire Master Chorale, Dan Perkins, Music Director

Juventas New Music Ensemble, Oliver Caplan, Artistic Director

Generously supported by

NEW HAMPSHIRE MASTER CHORALE

Celebrating its 20th season, the New Hampshire Master Chorale is a non-profit chamber organization established in the spring of 2003. Members of the group are musicians, auditioned from throughout New England, who have performed as soloists and in choral ensembles throughout the world.

The mission of the New Hampshire Master Chorale is to produce passionate choral performances that reach high standards of excellence. Through educational outreach and collaboration, we bring inspiration to our audiences and enrich the cultural community of New Hampshire. The ensemble is committed to the performance and commissioning of new music and to bringing new life to music from all eras.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kendra Goodwin President Mark Yasewicz Treasurer AJ Coppola Secretary Cheryll Andrews Jenny Cooper Lisa Cooper David Goodwin Kate Klingel Richard Knox Dan Perkins ex officio

JUVENTAS NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Juventas’s 2022-23 season is generously sponsored by John A. Carey.

Juventas New Music Ensemble is a contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices. Juventas shares classical music as a vibrant, living art form. We bring audiences music from a diverse array of composers that live in today’s world and respond to our time.

Since its founding in 2005, Juventas has performed the music of over 300 living composers. The ensemble has earned a reputation as a curator with a keen eye for new talent. It opens doors for composers with top-notch professional performances that present their work in the best possible light.

Recognition for the ensemble’s work includes the American Prize Ernst Bacon Award for Performance of American Music and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Boston Foundation. Juventas is featured on albums by Innova Recordings, Parma Records and New Dynamic Records, and has held residencies at Boston Conserva tory, Harvard University, Longy School of Music, Middlebury College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Juventas has a storied history of dynamic collaboration with artists in other media, including dancers, painters, scientists, poets, puppeteers and robotics engineers. A leader in the field, Juventas also facilitates the Boston New Music Festival, a weeklong showcase of Boston’s contemporary music scene.

John Carey President

Meghan Guidry Clerk

Carson Cooman Leslie Jacobson Kaye Rachel M. Rivkind Karen Ruymann Drew Wilkins Oliver Caplan ex officio

STAFF

Oliver Caplan Artistic Director

Chris Petre-Baumer Director of Design Joseph Sedarski Marketing Coordinator Saskia Den Boon Communications Coordinator Rozime Lindsey Arts Administration Intern

Rachel Rivkind has generously sponsored Chris Petre-Baumer’s position for the 2022-23 Season.

FUTURA PRODUCTIONS LIVESTREAM PRODUCERS

John Weston

Production Director & Audio Engineer Daniel Schwartz Director of Photography & Editor Nick Papps Camera Operator Travis Karpak Assistant Engineer & Video Playback Engineer Jacob Steingart Assistant Engineer

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Imagining a Better World: The Music of Oliver Caplan

By Richard Knox

When Oliver Caplan first encountered “Cloud Anthem” – Richard Blanco’s poem reimagining humans as clouds, rain, lightning, fog, hail and rainbows abiding “as one together in one single sky” – he felt it as a physical experience. “It just made my whole body resonate,” Caplan says. “I felt, ‘I just have to set this to music.’”

That’s the kind of thing that moves Caplan to compose these days. His music expresses a yearning toward oneness that’s especially piercing at a time when our political weather tears at the possibility of unity.

Caplan’s themes dovetail with the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s mission. In recent years the Chorale has performed other pieces from his expanding choral output and commissioned him to compose new works.

Master Chorale director Dan Perkins says Caplan’s music is “quite tonal, perhaps neo-romantic.” The composer considers that a fair characterization: “I’m definitely a melodist with a romantic sensibility,” he says. He gravitates to poetry with strong imagery, as in “Cloud Anthem,” that gives him scope for colorful musical text painting.

The idea of pulling together a concert showcasing Caplan’s music has been incubating for several years. The project is a collaboration with Juventas New Music Ensemble, of which Caplan is artistic director. These performances are the first of four “Stories of Our Time” concerts Juventas is planning to address critical issues -- mental health and healing, racial injustice and visions of a better, more peaceful world. “That’s a good description of Oliver – his life, his music, his style,” Perkins says.

Caplan has been composing professionally for 13 years, but it wasn’t until five years ago that he started grappling with socially and politically oriented themes through his music. The spark was racial violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was shocked to see such an open display of white supremacy. “It was a turning point for me as an artist. Merely voting wasn’t enough anymore; I needed to speak up.”

The first result was “We Exist,” a Master Chorale-commissioned piece that ends these concerts. With lyrics by Oregon-based writer Naseem Rakha, it’s a paean to positivity – to the power of collective action.

After its 2018 premiere, Caplan recalls, “a high school student came up to me who

was transgender. This kid said how much it meant to him when the chorus sang ‘all genders’ – how much that made him feel seen. That was worth the entire effort!”

“We Exist” was the closest Caplan had come to what he calls “the third rail of politics.” It no longer feels as risky. It’s now a major part of his artistic identity.

But writing and performing music that alludes to in-the-moment issues requires a judicious balance -- between the deeply felt and the sentimental, thought-provoking and didactic, timely and enduring.

“Whatever we intend to convey has to be genuine, it can’t be preachy,” Perkins says. “I am full of so much anger, frustration and conflict about many things these days, as I suspect many people are. Inhabiting these poems and their musical settings is a partial antidote to that.”

Here’s a rundown of the pieces in this program:

CLOUD ANTHEM sets a 2019 poem of that name by Richard Blanco, a Maine based engineer-turned poet whom Barack Obama invited to compose a poem for his second inaugural – the first immigrant, Latino and openly gay poet chosen for that honor. The inaugural poem, “One Today,” is kin to “Cloud Anthem” in its expansiveness; it captures the infinite mosaic of a day in the life of America under “one sky,” and the way it adds up (we like to think) to one nation.

In 41 densely packed lines, “Cloud Anthem” unfolds a reverie that imagines how humans might coexist as the shifting shapes of clouds and multitudinous states of weather do. The key word is “until.” Until “we soften our hard edges,” until “we… band together,” until “we learn to listen to one another,” until “we tame the riot of our tornadoes,” and so on. Only then, Blanco writes and the chorus sings, will we be able to

…move boundlessly without creed or desire and share

…a kingdom with no king, a city with no walls, a country with no name, a nation without any borders or claim.

“I wish our national anthem could be more like ‘Cloud Anthem,’” Perkins says (with tongue firmly in cheek). “But it would take too long to sing at sporting events.”

NIGHT MIGRATIONS is the newest composition on the program, completed earlier this month. The lyric is by poet Hannah Fries, who grew up in New Hampshire. It shares the aerial perspective of “Cloud Anthems,” in this case evoking the long distance migration that birds undertake twice a year, sensing microsecond-by-microsecond changes in the Earth’s magnetic field to stay on course. It’s a totally ordinary yet magical phenomenon unseen and usually uncontemplated by sleeping humans below.

“I wanted to convey the sense that birds could do this remarkable thing, migrating at night, thousands of miles,” Fries says, “despite whatever obstacles we keep throwing at them, despite whatever else is happening in the human world.”

The four sections of the piece are linked by the sonorous and sometimes uneasy setting of the words “we sleep,” contrasting with the fluttering, buzzing, whistling, avian highway in the sky. The only intimation that all may not be well down on Earth are the lines

…cities curled in grief. We close our windows, Bury our faces…

Fill in the blank of that “grief” with your own nighttime worries!

ROOTS AND WINGS brings us down to Earth with a meditation, voiced by the frequent Caplan collaborator Meghan Guidry, on the meaning of “home.” It’s not so much a place, or not only, but a set of formative relationships and experiences we carry with us through life -- “a heart that lives beneath our skin,” as Caplan puts it. The Handel Society of Dartmouth College, his alma mater, commissioned it in 2018 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

Caplan says the piece is about growing up and leaving home. “From childhood dwellings to beloved alma maters, it speaks to the bittersweet idea that if a parent or teacher has done his job well, we are always meant to say good-bye.”

For Perkins the piece carries associations of meeting Caplan more than 20 years ago when he was an undergraduate singer in the Dartmouth Handel Society, with Perkins conducting as a sabbatical replacement. “The roots of our friendship have connected us through the years,” Perkins says, “allowing our professional lives to intersect frequently, but now in a big and meaningful way – a homecoming of sorts.”

WORTH THE WAIT is the most personal and romantic piece on the program. The lyrics, again by Guidry, was a poetic gift to Caplan and his husband Chris Beagan, read at their wedding in 2015. Caplan set it to music to commemorate their fifth anniversary.

The lyric is a series of snapshots from their relationship, set in lush harmonies and soaring melodies. The title is a clue to a meta-meaning. “I don’t think there are a lot of choral pieces telling the story about same-sex love,” Caplan says, adding that he and Beagan came of age in a time of few role models and plenty of stigma. He came out as a Dartmouth undergrad; during his senior year the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court made same-sex marriage legal. But it wasn’t until three weeks after his marriage that the US Supreme Court legalized it nationally. It was, ultimately, worth the wait.

Now Caplan worries about backsliding. “The overturning of Roe v Wade is a reminder we can’t be complacent about civil rights,” he says. “That makes it even more important to share the message of love.”

In other words, the personal is political, in the broadest sense of that word.

GREAT TREES was inspired by an event both personal and universal: the (ongoing) coronavirus pandemic.

Angelou’s poem equates the death of great trees with the loss of great souls. She wrote it in 1987 after hearing of the death of writer James Baldwin and read it at his funeral as a tribute to him and four other great Black artists. Her estate granted Caplan permission to set it as an elegy for the millions of souls lost to COVID-19.

Their loss has shattered the reality of those who knew and loved them, just as the toppling of a great old tree stuns the very rocks and silences forest creatures. With time, grief recedes, leaving – perhaps – a resolve to honor their memory in our carrying on. That thought is crystallized in the repeated musical phrase:

We can be. Be and be better.

EVERY IRIDESCENT CHIP OF ICE for four-part women’s voices, reminds us to hope that even dark and barren nights eventually give way to light and life. The text, by Guidry, evokes the winter solstice, the longest and darkest night, when the “sun stands still.”

Out of this lifeless world, illuminated by distant stars, a “new beginning” is born, “when our world turns to light.”

Caplan’s music is moody, by turns sparse and sparkling, dissonant and sometimes eerie, contrasting with celebratory outbursts of hope. Guidry’s poetry reminds us, Caplan says, “that even in shadows, new light is churning.” For those of us in these wintry latitudes, hope requires patience…and the memory of last spring.

WE EXIST concludes this one-composer show, circling back to the place where Caplan was first inspired to compose with a message. His music paints the text literally, beginning with one voice, adding more and more – and again invoking

…a multitude of murmuring birds flying together

A savant wave of wings

Filling the sky with sound And human minds with meditations on migrations.

See a pattern here? There are wings, birds, trees and migration. But also ugly words and dissonant tones:

…the blood push of fear the shrapnel stabs of hate

But in the end, we – young, old, dark, light, all races, all faiths, all genders – exist

…not to divide but to join not to blame but to build

It’s a fitting way to conclude the arc – the libretto, as it were – of these concerts. Dan Perkins sums it up: “This is how musicians and artists fight injustice.”

Richard Knox, the Master Chorale’s program annotator, sings baritone in the group and serves on its board. He lives in Sandwich, New Hampshire.

Cloud Anthem Poetry by Richard Blanco

Until we are clouds that tear like bread but mend like bones. Until we weave each other like silk sheets shrouding mountains, or bear gales that shear us. Until we soften our hard edges, free to become any shape imaginable: a rose or an angel crafted by the breeze like papier-maché or a lion or dragon like marble chiseled by gusts. Until we scatter ourselves— pebbles of grey puffs, but then band together like stringed pearls. Until we learn to listen to each other, as thunderous as opera or as soft as a showered lullaby. Until we truly treasure the sunset, lavish it in mauve, rust, and rose. Until we have the courage to vanish like sails into the horizon, or be at peace, anchored still. Until we move without any measure, as vast as continents or as petite as islands, floating in an abyss of virtual blue we belong to. Until we dance tango with the moon and comfort the jealous stars, falling. Until we care enough for the earth to bless it as morning fog. Until we realize we’re muddy as puddles, pristine as lakes not yet clouds. Until we remember we’re born from rivers and dewdrops. Until we are at ease to dissolve as wispy showers, not always needing to clash like godly yells of thunder. Until we believe lightning roots are not our right to the ground. Though we collude into storms that ravage, we can also sprinkle ourselves like memories. Until we tame the riot of our tornadoes, settle down into a soft drizzle, into a daydream. Though we may curse with hail, we can absolve with snowflakes. We can die valiant as rainbows, and hold light in our lucid bodies like blood. We can decide to move boundlessly, without creed or desire. Until we are clouds meshed within clouds sharing a kingdom with no king, a city with no walls, a country with no name, a nation without any borders or claim. Until we abide as one together in one single sky

From How to Love a Country: Poems by Richard Blanco. Copyright © 2019 by Richard Blanco. Reprinted by permission of Beacon Press, Boston

Night Migrations Poetry by Hannah Fries

We sleep, stumbling through doorless dreams, while over our rooftops sky shivers with wings— warblers, cuckoos, herons and sparrows— waves rising on night’s cool breath.

We sleep as they follow the stars (hummingbird and wren) high over shadowed earth, trees clinging to rock, cities curled in grief. We close our windows, bury our faces—

Roots and Wings Poetry by Meghan Guidry

Our arches learned to trod cold brick, crushed pine, common ground with fire, an afterglow of golden green and clockwork stir, a time beneath the skin, wherever we may go.

One voice calls us home

We marked our paths in autumn’s fallen flame where feet scatter birds from the branch, this fan of feathers and flight, the route is the same: A shared beginning for every coming plan.

we sleep and they speak: buzz and whistle, secret names through air tying each to each.

We sleep as they fly (imagine being lifted) by moon and magnet, over undulating sea toward a place (remember) that echoes in hallowed clearings, in hollowed bones, the song that pulls them home.

One voice calls us home

The cold cannot erase a home, akin, to lines of lives like roots in distant ground. And though dispersed, we hold our kindred skin for future warmth, for friends and common sound.

One voice calls us home

A purr spreads the arms of this single star, weaves where we were to where we always are.

Worth the Wait Poetry by Meghan Guidry For Oliver Caplan and Christopher Beagan

I knew you every spring when the cherry blossoms bloomed. Pink petals strewn on marble white.

I knew you in the rhythms of city grids, footfall symphonies that swelled on summer nights.

I knew you in the currents of Cayuga Lake, where willows dipped to deeper blues like shrines.

I knew you on top of Giles Tower where starlight sang your name through red maples and pitch pine.

I knew you every time I held my hands in the soil and heard you in the reverberation of the roots.

I knew you in every new melody taking shape, the fade of piano keys to quiet truths.

I knew you in every single step.

So when we met, I had known you forever.

Suffering from Back

When great trees fall Poetry by Maya Angelou

When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety.

When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken.

Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves.

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.

“Ailey, Baldwin, Floyd, Killens, and Mayfield (When Great Trees Fall)” from I SHALL NOT BE MOVED by Maya Angelou, copyright © 1990 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Every Iridescent Chip of Ice Poetry by Meghan Guidry

Days contract by seconds. World tilts from the sun.

Time counted on leaves fallen and brown. Another year near-ended. Growing time is done.

And tonight we await the stars’ arrival on the ground.

Dusk spreads across horizon. The night-scape grows silent. And begin this dance with darkness, stars and snow.

Silver shadows wait in folds of smoked dusk, they must be the darker side of light. This night, when the planet exhales slow to show celestial beams that cover bare trees, fallen leaves frosted branches crystalline.

But silver streams from night’s twilit eyes, surveys the earth, this time when darkness consummates this dance.

So give us twilight, starlight moon-fall, dark light make this place an altar built of snow.

Build it out of bare twigs, sharp winds starsong and darkness give praise to this night that beats so long.

By which we see our silver-gilded planet, twilight, enchanted this communion that’s attempted every night.

Once a year this task’s completed when sun stands still.

And we hear this new beginning sung from snow.

Silver starfire, break blue on ice below and this we know builds green from blazing white.

This moment, in shadow when the world turns to light.

When stars and snow sparkle in sequence, earth mirrors the sky, the ground transforms to silver shade to remind us of the life that begins, that this night has made.

Silver starfire, break blue on ice below and this we know builds green from blazing white. This moment, in silver, when the world turns to light.

In nightscape unending the earth reflects the stars in every iridescent chip of ice and glitter sparks a message, surface to the sky:

It’s time.

We have been waiting, will remember silver spectrum. It’s time.

We sing beginnings: green stalks to seeds, toothed leaves to trees as this we know builds life each time.

Now that stars in earth, in sky have had this chance, this dance, there’s time.

Still this night, this silver light defying darkest space of year. Days over horizon to wake green from snowy white.

Darkness unfolds here to re-reveal the light.

Silver starfire, break blue on ice below and this we know builds green from blazing white. This moment, in solstice, when our world turns to light.

We Exist Poetry by Naseem Rakha

It begins with one

A hundred

A thousand

A hundred thousand

A million.

A multitude of murmuring birds flying together

A savant wave of wings

Filling the sky with sound And human minds with meditations on migrations.

We exist not in parts but wholes.

Whole bodies

Whole hearts

Whole generations With whole dreams about their whole and holy future

We exist not to flash but to sizzle to fight with a heat and love with a heat and live with a heat so strong it propels us upwards

despite the downdrafts of doubt the blood push of fear the shrapnel stabs of hate

We exist

Meditating on migration

The age of trees

The wisdom of whales

The majesty of seas

It begins with one

A hundred

A thousand

A hundred thousand

A million

A multitude of murmuring humans

Old young dark light

All faiths

All genders

All races

We exist not to divide but to join not to blame but to build not to surrender but to lift up our arms

A savant wave of wings flying upward and onward and forward beyond today.

It begins with you.

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THE DIRECTORS

OLIVER CAPLAN b.1982 Medford, MA

Award-winning American composer Oliver Caplan writes melodies that nourish our souls, offering a voice of hope in an uncertain world. Inspired by the resiliency of the human spirit and beauty of the natural world, his music celebrates stories of social justice, conservation and community.

Mr. Caplan’s works have been performed in over 200 performances nationwide. He has been commissioned by the Atlanta Chamber Players, Bella Piano Trio, Bronx Arts Ensemble, Brookline Symphony Orchestra, Columbia University Wind Ensemble and New Hampshire Master Chorale, among others. Winner of a Special Citation for the American Prize in Orchestral Composition, additional recognitions include two Veridian Symphony Competition Wins, the Fifth House Ensemble Competition Grand Prize, eight ASCAP Awards, and fellowships at Ragdale, VCCA and the Brush Creek Foundation. Recordings of Mr. Caplan’s music include his 2017 release You Are Not Alone, which has been featured on Apple Music’s Classical A-list and streamed over 200,000 times; 2021 album Watershed; and tracks on Trio Siciliano’s Exploring Music (2018, U07 Records) and the Sinfonietta of Riverdale’s New World Serenade (2016, Albany Records).

A leader in the field of contemporary classical music, Mr. Caplan is the Artistic Director of the American Prize-winning Juventas New Music Ensemble, the only professional ensemble of its kind devoted specifically to the music of emerging composers. He also serves on the Ragdale Foundation’s Curatorial Board and is a voting member of the Recording Academy.

Mr. Caplan holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the Boston Conservatory. He resides in Medford, Massachusetts.

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Conductor/music director Dan Perkins is Professor Emeritus at Plymouth State University, where he was professor of music and director of choral activities for 29 years and in 2007 was honored with the Stevens-Bristow Distinguished Professorship. Perkins is also music director of the Manchester Choral Society and the New Hampshire Friendship Chorus and has served as the principal guest conductor of the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet in Hanoi, New Hampshire Music Festival, guest conductor of the Dartmouth Concertato Singers, Dartmouth Handel Society, and as the music director of the Hanover Chamber Orchestra. He is director and pianist for Trio Veritas and cofounder, with Dr. Patricia Lindberg, of the Educational Theatre Collaborative.

Perkins’ choirs have performed and studied in Canada, England, Peru, Chile, Vietnam, South Africa, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Slovak Republic, Austria, South Korea, Brazil, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Morocco, Portugal, Bulgaria, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Ireland, Georgia, Armenia, Spain, Iceland, and throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.

A passionate advocate for new music, Perkins has premiered over 30 works by Jonathan Santore, Oliver Caplan, Michael Bussewitz-Quarm, John Ratledge, and Kim Andre Arnesen.

He holds the degrees Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in Choral Music from the University of Southern California and Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Brigham Young University. He continued his studies as a Fulbright scholar in Helsinki, Finland. While there, he worked as the associate conductor of the Finnish Chamber Choir and associate conductor of the Savonlinna Opera Festival Chorus.

DAN PERKINS b.1960

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dear nightingale…”

Piano Trios with Clarinet

Kevin Kondrad and Eileen Curran Kondrad Jesse Lewis Sid Lovett Rebecca Mansfield Angela Matthews Katie Meloro Kenneth and Linda Miller Kirsten Mohring Jackie Morin and Shawn Holmes Krystal Morin Kendric and Nancy Munsy Alice O’Connor Helen Perkins Judy Perrier Michael Petrovic Tim Platt William Propp Joan Rosenberg (in memory of Dubravko Matije Kuftinec) David and Maryellen Sakura Virginia Seng Liz Sheil Jennifer Zarutskie Sieczkiewicz Karyl Silva Shirley Splaine Abigail Theberge (Dedicated to Krystal Morin)

Patrick Toy Cynthia Treadwell Kathleen Van Engelen Lisa Wardlaw Binnie and Bob Wells Mary Williams Nancy Ann Wilson Mark Yasewicz

A program celebrating the clarinet in two stellar chamber works: Beethoven’s own arrangement of his popular op.20 septet, and Brahms’ late sumptuous Trio in A minor, scored for clarinet, cello, and piano.

Saturday, November 19 at 7:30pm - Cambridge

Sunday, November 20 at 3:30pm - Lexington

Tickets $25, subscriptions and discounts available

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Lexington Council for

JUVENTAS NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE SUPPORTERS

$5,000 and Above

Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture

John A. Carey

Jon Saxton and Barbara Fox

Massachusetts Cultural Council

New Music USA

U.S. Small Business Administration

$1,000–$4,999

Bill and Paula Luria Caplan

Oliver Caplan and Chris Beagan

Carson Cooman

Leslie Jacobson Kaye and Richard Kaye

Medford Arts Council

The Ripley-Steinemann Family Fund

Nora Roberts Foundation

Karen and Fred Ruymann

Andrew Wilkins

$300–$999

Jonathan Aibel and Julie Rohwein

Charles Anderson

Boylston Cultural Council

Casey Elia

Michael Emanuel and Christie Gibson Janet Giovanniello

Meghan Guidry Mary Humphrey

MaryBeth Manca

May Marquebreuck

Katherine & Bryce Remesch

Rachel M. Rivkind

Geoffrey Smith

Theodor Weinberg and Eric Hyett

$200–$299

Minda Berbeco

Alexandra Bowers and James Liu Eric Darling

Lauren Downing and Roseanne Luvisi Jerry and Joanne Dreher Yukiko Egozy

Ann Ferentz

Margaret Fuchs

Moriah Freeman

Myra and Roy Gordon

Patricia Henry Kenneth Krause and Maura McEnaney Ian Lai

Stella Lee Joshua Levit

Kathryn Ritcheske

Chuck Sheketoff and Naseem Rakha

Ben Sweetser

Emma Wine

$100–$199

Lawrence Banks

Laura Basford

Lee Binnig

Andrew Caplan and Elise Viebeck

Heidi Carell

Laurence Cohen and Susan Worst Jaclyn Dentino

Alfreid Doig Susan Dolan

Anne Drogula Maggie Edinger

Lynn Eustis Andy Foery Michael Gandolfi

Maureen Hollis Beth Jacob

Laurie Jacobs and Steven Levine

Jim Kane and Sharon Williams

Mari and Denys Kotskyy

Matthew Kusulas

Douglass Lee Steven Lewis Ann MacDonald Honor McClellan Reeva Meyer

Christine Mortensen Susan Hall Mygatt Alice and Joe Noble

Robert Page

Richard Pasquarelli Andrew Reiss Jill Rapperport and Ian Reiss Randy Reiss

John Resig Lindsey Rogers Harshita Sahu

Lori K. Sanders

Gordon and Shannon Shannon Benjamin Smith & Sarah Boehm Cathy and Jerry Smith Trisha Solio

Tina Strunk

Sharon Daniels Sullivan Ann Teixeira

Megan Tompkins Andy Vores Murray Woolf Laura Yoo

$50–$99

Simon Andrews

Oscar Arce

Susan Axe-Bronk

Kenneth Bigley

Anne Bilder

Saskia Den Boon Margaret Cain Julia Scott Carey and Richard Mitrano

Lucy Chapman Szu-Chiao Chen

Rachel Ciprotti

Theodora Colburn

Carrie Conaway

Deanne McCredie Coolidge

Sheri Dean

Mary Chris DeBelina Doyle

BJ Dunn

Isadel Eddy Andrew Elliott and John Varone Jay Emperor Roy Epstein Shaun Eyring Anthony Ferello Steven Finley Geoffrey Frank Irene Hermann Jacob Hilley Anne Howarth Wolcott Humphrey Joseph Hutcheson Catherine Hyson Elizabeth Igleheart Emlyn Johnson Jerry Johnson James and Amie Jones Leonard and Terry Kahn Rebecca Krouner Jane Parkin Kullmann Ludmilla Leibman Harold Lichtin Xiomara Lorenzo and Cara Herbitter Linda Markarian Libby Meyer Donna Migdal Herbert Motley Divya Narayan William Neely Jason Newman Angela Ng Linda Ng Loretta Notareschi Ayumi Okada Sarah Peck

Dan Perkins Karen Poggi Cashman Kerr Prince and Bryan Burns Stephen Quan Kathleen Quigley Beverly Rivkind Alexis Ruegger Richard Samuels Thomas Schmidt Daron Sharps Ken Silber Kyle Simpson Deborah Smith Arlene Stevens Josh Thomas Kelsey Thompson Barbara Turen

J.M. Vrtilek Elaine Walsh Dalit Warshaw Beverly Woodward and Paul Monsky

Up to $49

Samuel Adams

Jaime Alberts

Katherine Alden Aaron Alon

Tatev Amiryan Jason Atsales

Kingdon Barrett

Thomas Barth Gail Barry Robert Bawn

Sebastian Baverstam Robert Bawn Erica Beade Lisa Beade Robert Beagan Lauren Bilello

Deborah Bohn Gatean Bouchard

Rosemary Bramante Julianna Braun Bruce Brolsma Elizabeth Bukey Trudy Chan Grace Chua Minjin Chung

Jane Ciesielski Linda Ciesielski Jennifer Clapp Charles Coe

Nell Shaw Cohen Burton Cohen Jean Collins

Elizabeth Dean

Ashley Dennis

Abigail Dusseldorp Reggie Edmonds Sandra Eldred Rebecca Entel

Corinne Espinoza

Evan Fein

Ellen Feingold David Feltner

Celine Ferro Mitch FitzDaniel Ellen Fries

Anna Galavis Joshua Glassman Tina Goel Kendra Goodwin Nancy Goodwin Tamara Grant

Alkis Hadjiosif

Julianna Hall

Andy Hanson-Dvoracek

Amanda Harberg Hikari Hathaway

Beth Hayes Rose Hegele Susanna Hoglund

Kelley Hollis Scott Humes

Marie Hutchings Joseph Jackson Jennifer Jean Jason Jeong Todd Johnson Dan Jost

Masashi Kato

Caroline Keinath

Jennifer Kern-Kaminsky Caroline Kerr Rakesh Khetarpal

Brian Kiernan Gareth King Phil Kohlmetz Bruce Kozuma

Abigail Krawson

Sasha Kuftinec Gulce Kureli

Ursula Kwong-Brown Rozime Lindsey George Lockhart Zev Lowe Jiayin Lu Rachel Luria Lizzy MacDonald Carol McAdam Maggie McKee Taylor McNulty Samantha Meeker Juston Mog Jennifer Montbach Erin Nelson Yayoi Narita Carolyn Oberting Erik Oschsner Elliot Olshansky Karen Parrott Olga Patramanskaya Jason Pavel & Marie Walcott Andrew Pease Nadya Peresleni Charisse Pickron

Gretchen Pineo Christopher Porter Raymond Raad Laura Ramsey Helen Ray Phoebe Reeves Jordan Reiss Christopher Reiss Jeffrey Reiss Elie Reiss Ginny Remedi-Brown Cole Reyes Irene Riney Roberta Ritcheske Joan Rothman Jason Rubin Christina Rusnak Seulgee Ryals Aleida Sanabria-Gil Adam Sapp Maya Schiek Margot and Andrew Schmolka Kristen Schroeder Joseph Sedarski Josh Sedarski Dennis Shafer Ryan Shannon Jospehine Stein Imogene Stulken Ryan Suleiman Lisa Vaas Brent Whelan Christopher Wicks Erin Williams William Williams

We are also extremely thankful to the dedicated volunteers who gave their time and talents to Juventas in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 concert seasons:

Sherene Aram Meg Hastings Spencer Klein Mona McKindley Sheila Murphy Evan Perry Elaine Walsh Ella Weber

ANGELINA SAVOIA harp

LU YU viola

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