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Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony

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THIS WEEK ’S PROGRAM

Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony Franz Welser-Möst, conductor PRO GR AM NOTE S:

Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, “Jupiter”

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • PAGE 10

Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103, “The Year 1905”

by Dmitri Shostakovich • PAGE 14

Conductor Biography • PAGE 21

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TCO SP OTLIG H T Inside The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

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I N T HE N EW S COVER: PHOTO OF FRANZ WELSER-MÖST BY YEVHEN GULENKO

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by Franz Welser-Möst

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WHEN CRAFTING A PROGRAM AS A CONDUCTOR , you typically face one of two choices:

build a cohesive throughline to tell a story, or embrace bold contrasts. For this program, I chose contrast: Mozart’s “Jupiter” Symphony on the first half juxtaposed with Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony on the second. In my mind, the pairing creates an effect similar to the two acts of Richard Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos — “das lustige und das traurige,” the happy and the sad.

There were also artistic and personal reasons I felt drawn to Mozart’s “Jupiter.”

When we performed The Magic Flute in Cleveland in 2024, I immersed myself in late Mozart. In the music world, we are often faced with questions of authentic performance — how big should an orchestra be when you play this music? In searching for answers, I returned to that beautiful letter in which Mozart writes to his father with palpable excitement that he had 40 violins and double woodwinds at his disposal.

And then, of course, there are the two letters in which he advocates for vibrato — one from 1778 and another from 1787, a few months before his father passed away — describing it as something that should occur naturally, like the human voice.

All of this inspired me to present a different perspective on the “Jupiter.” In the end, what a composer commits to the page is an act of expression. And when interpreted with that spirit in mind, the music can reveal a particular brilliance, especially in the extraordinary final movement of the symphony.

After experiencing the vast emotional landscape of Shostakovich’s symphony at the end of the concert, the memory of Mozart’s “Jupiter” inevitably shifts. The contrast reframes both works, allowing each to illuminate the other in unexpected ways. This is also why I felt compelled to program and conduct Shostakovich again. His music is so powerful, and with this formidable orchestra, it can receive a performance that is not only intense but deeply nuanced, one that speaks meaningfully and resonates beautifully alongside Mozart. clevelandorchestra.com

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Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony Thursday, January 8, 2026, at 7:30 PM Friday, January 9, 2026, at 7:30 PM Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 7:30 PM

Concert Preview with Michael Strasser Reinberger Chamber Hall one hour prior to performance

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)

Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, “Jupiter”

30 minutes

I. Allegro vivace II. Andante cantabile III. Menuetto: Allegretto — Trio IV. Molto allegro I N TERM IS SI ON

20 minutes

Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103, “The Year 1905”

55 minutes

I. The Palace Square: Adagio — II. The 9th of January: Allegro — III. Eternal Memory: Adagio — IV. Tocsin: Allegro non troppo — Allegro Total approximate running time: 1 hour 45 minutes

PHOTO BY YEVHEN GULENKO

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Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551, “Jupiter”

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart BORN : January 27, 1756, in Salzburg DIED : December 5, 1791, in Vienna

▶ COMPOSED: 1788 ▶ WORLD PREMIERE : The location and date of the first performance are not known. ▶ CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PREMIERE : November 30, 1922, led by Music Director Nikolai Sokoloff ▶ ORCHESTRATION : flute, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, timpani, and strings ▶ DURATION : about 30 minutes

WHEN WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

finished two new symphonies in the summer of 1788 (catalogued today as Nos. 39 and 40, respectively), he turned immediately to creating another one, which was destined to be his last. This one — the so-called “Jupiter” Symphony in C major — took Mozart no more than two weeks and two days to complete, and he entered it in his own catalog on August 10.

It was not unusual that Mozart should compose so fast, but it was odd that he should compose three substantial works without a performance in view. As far as we know, no impresario had invited him to present a concert series, and no publisher had asked him for symphonies (which were not as easy to market as concertos). Mozart was not competing 10 | 2025/2026 SEASON

with other composers, at least no more than usual, and in any case, he disdained such motives.

The only explanation, widely accepted by historians today, is that he planned to mount his own set of concerts in Vienna during the autumn and winter seasons, and would need new works to draw in the public. However, no mention of such plans is found in his letters or in the press, and there was little reason for such an idea to have progressed beyond a few discussions in Viennese cafés with possible collaborators and patrons.

Letters that survive from this period describe Mozart as either madly busy or desperate for money, both of which align This famous portrait of Mozart was painted

by Barbara Kraft in 1819, 31 years after the “Jupiter” Symphony.

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with planning future concerts. Still, no such events were given. In fact, in the three years that remained in his short life, Mozart offered no more public concerts in Vienna and composed no more symphonies. Thus, the great burst of symphonic composition in the summer of 1788 languished as an unrealized dream of entertaining enthusiastic Viennese audiences with regular concerts, as he had in 1783–84.

All three of these final symphonies had to wait until after Mozart’s death to be published and performed. No first performance of the “Jupiter” has been identified, although the parts were published in 1793. The nickname itself was conferred by Johann Peter Salomon, the German impresario who settled in London in 1781 and secured Haydn’s two long visits to the city. It is highly likely that Salomon presented the “Jupiter” in London sometime before his death in 1815.

All four movements of the symphony vie with one another for the greatness that the nickname “Jupiter” implies, but the finale stands out for its miraculous combination of fugue and symphonic form. The four notes that begin the finale are both a fugue subject and the first theme of the movement. Mozart then introduces new themes which turn out, in due course, to be counterpoints to the four-note subject. The movement gains further complexity in the development section, although not until the extended coda are all the counterpoints heard together in a magnificent tour de force. The energy and positive spirit 12 | 2025/2026 SEASON

of the finale provide a solid, satisfactory conclusion to the work.

The first three movements are scarcely less impressive. In particular, the innocent opening of the Andante cantabile generates a movement of great intensity, with harmony sometimes as dissonant as anyone could imagine in 1788, and figures in the winds which are by no means simply decorative.

The balance between winds and strings throughout the symphony is the most ingenious and resourceful that Mozart ever achieved, and he did it without calling for clarinets, an instrument he had begun using in his late orchestral writing.

At the time Mozart penned his last three symphonies, Haydn still had a dozen yet to write. As great as that composer’s “London” symphonies are, however, many musicians believe that it is Mozart’s “Jupiter” that crowned the Classical symphony’s enormous legacy in the 18th century, a legacy that Beethoven single-handedly transformed while resetting the stage for the Romantic era yet to come.

— Hugh Macdonald Hugh Macdonald is Avis H. Blewett Professor Emeritus of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. He has written books on Beethoven, Berlioz, Bizet, and Scriabin, as well as Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year.

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Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103, “The Year 1905”

by Dmitri Shostakovich BORN : September 25, 1906, in St. Petersburg DIED : August 9, 1975, in Moscow

▶ COMPOSED: 1956 – 57 ▶ WORLD PREMIERE : October 30, 1957, in Moscow, with Nathan Rakhlin conducting the USSR State Symphony Orchestra ▶ CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PREMIERE : March 13, 1997, led by Vladimir Ashkenazy ▶ ORCHESTRATION : 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 3 oboes (3rd doubling English horn), 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 3 bassoons (3rd doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (bass drum, chimes, cymbals, snare drum, tam-tam, triangle, xylophone), 2 (or 4) harps, celesta, and strings ▶ DURATION : about 55 minutes

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and his music have always revolved around politics. The Soviets used to maintain that the composer was loyal to the regime, while more recent literature suggests that he was deeply disillusioned with communism.

Yet if we ask whether Shostakovich was for or against the Soviet government, we must also voice the opposite question: Was the regime for or against Shostakovich? Surely, their treatment of the country’s greatest composer — with a seesaw of denunciations and rehabilitations, criticisms and honors — is no less ambiguous than Shostakovich’s own highly contradictory attitudes toward communism.

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The central question to ask about Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 is not whether it is an homage to officialdom or a work with a hidden dissident message.

It has been called both, allowing the symphony to be exploited by exponents of both pro- and anti-Soviet political agendas. The real questions are how Shostakovich treated his ostensible theme — the failed Russian Revolution of 1905 — and which elements of the music seem to cry out for an interpretation along political lines.

On the morning of January 9, 1905 (January 22 according to the current Gregorian calendar), a peaceful demonDmitri Shostakovich, seen here in 1950, several years before the composition of his Symphony No. 11.

PHOTO BY ROGER & RENATE RÖSSING / COURTESY OF DEUTSCHE FOTOTHEK | WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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stration of workers and peasants, led

by Father Georgy Gapon, appeared in front of the Winter Palace, the Czar’s residence in St. Petersburg. They wished to hand Nicholas II a petition requesting his help in alleviating their unbearable economic conditions.

Instead of accepting the petition, the Czar’s guards began to shoot at the crowd, killing hundreds of people. The event, which became known as “Bloody Sunday,” set off widespread strikes and protests all over the country (including a mutiny aboard the Potemkin, which

In this symphony, Shostakovich took special pains to make sure his message was clear to Soviet listeners. He adapted many of the principal themes from workers’ songs — which every resident of the Soviet Union would have learned in school — as well as from his own Ten Songs of Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary Poets (1951). He then weaves these themes together in a complex tapestry, creating what often resembles an opera without words. It portrays not just emotions and musical characters but definite places and actions.

[Shostakovich] weaves ... themes together in a complex tapestry, creating what often resembles an opera without words. was immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film Battleship Potemkin). The massive unrest led to some liberalization under Czarist rule, bringing the empire several steps closer to a constitutional monarchy during its last decade.

Because the events of 1905 were widely regarded as a prelude to the two revolutions of 1917 — which ultimately saw the rise of the Soviet Union — it can seem politically convenient that Shostakovich would have composed a symphony on such a subject. But the brutality of Bloody Sunday also arouses deeply human sentiments, so that the symphony can express not merely Soviet propaganda but also a cry against injustice everywhere.

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The eerie first movement, where a slow-moving melody is played in five simultaneous octaves by muted strings, is a striking depiction of the motionless Palace Square on that ice-cold January morning. This aural image is punctured by a trumpet call, a hint of an Orthodox chant (“Lord have mercy on us”), and two prison songs. The stasis clearly represents the “calm before the storm.”

The storm indeed breaks out in the second movement (The 9th of January).

Against an agitated accompaniment in the lower strings, we hear a defiant woodwind melody, first softly and then gradually rising in volume until a full orchestral fortissimo is reached. Eventually, after a brief recall of the “frozen”

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opening of the first movement, the most violent section of the symphony begins.

A ferocious fugue, started by cellos and basses, rapidly escalates into what must be seen as a graphic depiction of sheer horror — the entire orchestra pounding on a single, triplet rhythm at top volume. This, surely, is the moment where the Czarist guards open fire on the demonstrators. Then, all is silent and the sounds of the empty Palace Square return.

The title of the third movement (Eternal Memory) alludes to an Orthodox funeral chant, but its actual melodic basis is a workers’ funeral march, played by the violas to the sparsest of accompaniments. A second, less subdued section leads to an impassioned passage where the entire orchestra shrieks, as if recalling past atrocities.

The mood calms, but soon we hear the tocsin (alarm bell) that marks the start of the fourth movement. The relentless march rhythms grow more and more furious until they are swept aside by another memory of the horrors, played with great fervor by the full orchestra.

The glacial string music of the first movement then returns, complemented by a haunting English horn solo, before the final upsurge that, with its musical material taken from the second movement, seems to suggest that the struggle is not over.

In this work, Shostakovich conceded to Soviet tastes — a large-scale symphony on an official theme, using plenty of regime-sanctioned songs. But there were clevelandorchestra.com

In this dramatic depiction of “Bloody Sunday,” Father Gapon tries to appeal to the Imperial soldiers shortly before they open fire into the crowd.

enough disturbing overtones in the work for others to perceive a hidden meaning.

According to one report, Shostakovich’s son Maxim, aged 19 at the time of the premiere, whispered into his father’s ear during the dress rehearsal: “Papa, what if they hang you for this?” And the great Russian poet, Anna Akhmatova, said, when asked what she thought of all the song quotations: “They were like white birds flying against a terrible black sky.”

However one might interpret the work, it is clear that Shostakovich created neither a mere communist propaganda piece nor a coded anti-communist tract but a complex, dark score of exceptional dramatic power.

— adapted from a note by Peter Laki Peter Laki is a musicologist and frequent lecturer on classical music. He is a visiting associate professor of music, emeritus, at Bard College and was The Cleveland Orchestra’s program annotator from 1990 to 2007.

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NOW IN HIS 24TH SEASON , Franz Welser-Möst continues to shape an unmistakable sound culture as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra. Under his leadership, the Orchestra has earned repeated international acclaim for its musical excellence, reaffirmed its strong commitment to new music, and brought opera back to the stage of Severance Music Center. In recent years, the Orchestra also launched its own streaming platform, Adella.live, and a recording label. Today, it boasts one of the youngest audiences in the United States.

In addition to residencies in the US and Europe, Welser-Möst and the Orchestra perform regularly at the world’s leading international festivals. Welser-Möst will remain Music Director until 2027, making him the longest-serving music director of The Cleveland Orchestra.

Welser-Möst enjoys a particularly close and productive artistic partnership with the Vienna Philharmonic. He regularly conducts the orchestra in subscription concerts at the Vienna Musikverein, at the Salzburg Festival, and on tour in Europe, Japan, China, and the US, and has appeared three times on the podium for their celebrated New Year’s Concert (2011, 2013, and 2023). At the Salzburg Festival, WelserMöst has set new standards in interpretation as an opera conductor, with a special focus on the operas of Richard Strauss.

Among Welser-Möst’s many honors and awards, he was named an Honorary Member of the Vienna Philharmonic in 2024, one of the orchestra’s highest distinctions.

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NOW FIRMLY IN ITS SECOND CENTURY , The Cleveland Orchestra, under the leadership of Franz Welser-Möst since 2002, is one of the most sought-after performing ensembles in the world.

Year after year, the ensemble exemplifies extraordinary artistic excellence, creative programming, and community engagement. In recent years, The New York Times has called Cleveland “the best in America” for its virtuosity, elegance of sound, variety of color, and chamber-like musical cohesion.

Founded by Adella Prentiss Hughes, the Orchestra performed its inaugural concert in December 1918. By the middle of the century, decades of growth and

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The past decade has seen an increasing number of young people attending concerts, bringing fresh attention to The Cleveland Orchestra’s legendary sound and committed programming. More recently, the Orchestra launched several bold digital projects, including the streaming platform Adella.live and its own recording label. Together, they have captured the Orchestra’s unique artistry and the musical achievements of the Welser-Möst and Cleveland Orchestra partnership.

The 2025 – 26 season marks Franz Welser-Möst’s 24th year as Music Director, a period in which The Cleveland Orchestra has earned unprecedented acclaim around the world, including a series of residencies at the Musikverein in Vienna, the first of its kind by an American orchestra, and a number of celebrated opera presentations.

Since 1918, seven music directors — Nikolai Sokoloff, Artur Rodziński, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Lorin Maazel, Christoph von Dohnányi, and Franz Welser-Möst — have guided and shaped the ensemble’s growth and sound. Through concerts at home and on tour, broadcasts, and a catalog of acclaimed recordings, The Cleveland Orchestra is heard today by a growing group of fans around the world.

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This roster lists full-time members of The Cleveland Orchestra. The number and seating of musicians on stage varies depending on the piece being performed. Seating within the string sections rotates on a periodic basis.

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The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus This is a special year for The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, not only in the sheer volume of repertoire, but because they are hitting the road with The Cleveland Orchestra to perform in New York City and — for the first time since the pandemic — Florida. We got an inside scoop on preparation, touring, and the culture of the ensemble from three Chorus members: tenor Jonathan Fuller (a music educator and collaborative piano graduate student at CIM), second soprano Elisha Evanko (a music therapist and bereavement coordinator at a local hospice), and first soprano Emily Engle (an elementary music teacher).

Let’s start at the beginning. When did you each join The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus?

EMILY: I joined in the 2013 –14 season.

My first concert was Messiaen’s Trois Petites Liturgies de la présence divine, which is such a difficult piece. I had to work on it for hours, but it was amazing to start with a bang and then immediately go on tour to Europe.

ELISHA: I’m a newbie — I joined the

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Chorus about a year and a half ago. My first experience was performing with the Blossom Festival Chorus in Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances. I appreciated that it was from an opera; opera choruses are what made me fall in love with singing classically in the first place. l – r: Jonathan Fuller, Elisha Evanko, and Emily Engle are all smiles during a rehearsal for The Cleveland Orchestra’s Holiday Concerts in December.

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JONATHAN: I also started in summer

2024 with the Blossom Festival Chorus.

It was amazing last season to perform challenging new music like Saariaho’s Oltra Mar and America: A Prophecy by Thomas Adès. After singing Bernd Richard Deutch’s Urworte this past fall, it has also been great working on music by more straightforwardly tonal — but no less challenging — composers like Beethoven and Verdi.

There is certainly a big difference between Deutsch and Verdi! How do you feel about singing Verdi’s Requiem?

JONATHAN: One of the funny things about this season is that, because there is so much music for the Chorus, we spent the first half of rehearsals in November doing holiday music, and then we would switch to the Verdi.

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It was such an amazing vibe shift going from simpler Christmas carols to this very different, very intense music.

and I’m extra excited this year because I’ve got tickets to see two Broadway shows with some friends.

EMILY: I’ve never performed Verdi’s Requiem, but I think it’s lovely. As Jonathan said earlier, it’s very tonal music with a clear direction.

JONATHAN: I think that sometimes we take what we have here in Cleveland for granted, and to transplant all this into a different place and see the reaction from a different city’s audience is mindblowing. Obviously, there’s nowhere like Severance, but there’s also nowhere like Carnegie Hall.

This will be my first tour with the Chorus, but I’ve chaperoned high school choir tours before, and what so often happens is that the ensemble becomes a unit. The performances after those tours are magical because everybody has learned much more about each other.

ELISHA: For me, Verdi’s Requiem is that

once-in-a-lifetime, bucket-list piece.

He just has this gorgeous way of making you feel something from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. As someone working in hospice, there’s also something so profound about a Requiem Mass that hits on a deep level. Verdi’s in particular is so emotive and raw and human and spiritual.

It’s also funny that the Dies irae movement has become a viral TikTok sound. In that way, it’s been a great bridge for my family and the youth in my life, a way to pull them into my classical music world.

This piece is also special because you’ll be performing it in New York City and Florida. What are you most looking forward to about touring with the Chorus?

ELISHA: Yes, there’s something so amazing about an ensemble tour. Being able to spend time with everybody on the flights or the bus and exploring new places together really brings you closer as a community, which, in turn, brings you closer together as an ensemble.

And I have not sung at Carnegie before, so I’m thrilled.

EMILY: We’re so lucky to get to take the

show on the road for different audiences and see how The Cleveland Orchestra is respected around the world. I’ve been to Carnegie Hall twice with the Chorus and Florida twice as well, but we’ve never done New York City and Florida on the same trip in my time. It’s always nice to spend time with chorus mates, 28 | 2025/2026 SEASON

Being part of the Chorus has been a gorgeous reawakening of this part of myself that hasn’t had that community for a decade.

— Elisha Evanko

Emily poses in front of a poster announcing The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus’s performance of Schubert’s Mass No. 6 at Carnegie Hall in January 2023.

who I sit next to is a math teacher. But everyone is completely committed.

EMILY: It’s a great community. I usually sit in the same place, so I get to know the people immediately around me — there’s a lawyer, a doctor, someone who does finance, another music teacher like me.

People are coming from such different day jobs, but we all have this thing in common: we love to sing. Over my 13 seasons, I’ve made so many good friends.

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You’ve all touched on this, but what is the community of the Chorus like in general?

ELISHA: Through grade school and college, I had a regular musical community, but that evaporated after graduating. Being part of the Chorus has been a gorgeous reawakening of this part of myself that hasn’t had that community for a decade.

The amount of talent in the group is wild, especially considering that we’re not all professional performers. We have moms, dads, retired folks, people who just graduated from college. The woman

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JONATHAN: It’s funny, I actually joined the Chorus at the same time as one of my former students, but we didn’t know it at first. Having that bond made it easier to get to know people. She was getting to know her people, and I was getting to know my people, but then we were able to cross-pollinate. From Lisa Wong on down, everybody is just so respectful of everybody else.

Scan the QR code to read an extended version of this conversation on the Orchestra’s Content Hub.

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Terence Blanchard Announced as 2026 Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival Curator THE FOURTH ANNUAL Jack, Joseph and

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Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival returns in May with a bold lineup of music, visual and spoken art, and conversations. Held at Severance Music Center and partner locations from May 15 to 24, this year’s festival explores the theme of Courage and is anchored by three performances of Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst (May 16, 21 & 24).

For the first time, the festival welcomes a guest curator — trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, who is acclaimed for bridging classical music, jazz, and film. Audiences can experience his genre-bending artistry firsthand on May 15 at The World(s) of Terence Blanchard, a two-part evening that features music from his celebrated opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones, as well as a suite from his score for Spike Lee’s Malcolm X, with projections by Andrew F. Scott.

On May 18, renowned lawyer, advocate, and founder of the Equal Justice After his celebrated appearances in 2024 and 2025, trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard returns to Severance as guest curator of the 2026 Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival.

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Initiative Bryan Stevenson delivers the festival’s opening keynote address, reflecting on his life’s work in serving incarcerated individuals and the meaning of courage in the pursuit of justice. The evening prior, May 17, Grammy-winning spoken-word artist Tank Ball presents an intimate and uplifting evening of poetry and storytelling.

Throughout the festival, visitors to Severance can experience a special exhibition highlighting the work of visual artist Halim Flowers. Imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit and later exonerated, Flowers will create an original series of works inspired by the festival’s theme.

Returning festival-favorite events include United in Song! on May 16, bringing together voices from across the Greater Cleveland area, and The Moth Mainstage (May 19), featuring unforgettable true stories told live from Mandel Concert Hall.

Additional festival events will be announced in March.

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TCO Chorus Member Celebrates 52 Seasons

THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA Chorus’s

performances of Verdi’s Requiem mark the end of an era. After 52 remarkable seasons, Tremaine (“Trem”) Oatman is retiring from the Chorus.

Trem joined the Chorus in the 1974 – 75 season under Chorus Director

Robert Page and TCO Music Director Lorin Maazel. The following year, soprano Virginia (Ginny) Nesnidal joined the Chorus — she would later become his wife. Together, they built a beautiful life, raising two sons and welcoming two grandchildren.

Trem recently retired from his podiatry practice.

During his tenure, Trem participated in domestic and international tours, sang on many recordings, and appeared in countless performances. He retires as the second-longest-serving member in the Chorus’s history. His legacy is defined by exemplary musicianship, steadfast commitment, generosity of spirit, and enduring friendship.

Though Trem will be deeply missed, his enthusiasm and love for music — and for his Cleveland Orchestra family — will resonate within Severance for years to come.

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Sarah Hutchins. Each brings exceptional expertise, insight, and leadership that will help advance and strengthen the Orchestra’s mission and governance.

Scan the QR code to learn more about these new Trustees.

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FOLLOWING THE ELECTION of Richard J. Kramer as the new chair of The Cleveland Orchestra’s Board of Trustees in October, the Orchestra announced the appointment of six new Board members: Nancy Slocum Callahan, Bill Clawson, Lisa Fedorovich, Scott C. Mueller, Jes Warren, and

Education Gift from The Eric and Jane Nord Family Fund THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA is proud

to announce a significant step forward in its education vision, made possible by a generous gift from The Eric and Jane Nord Family Fund.

This latest gift establishes the Jane B. and Eric T. Nord Vice President of Education & Community Engagement position (currently held by Joan Katz Napoli) and creates the Jane B. and Eric T. Nord Education Leadership and Internship Endowed Fund, which will support two other leadership positions and establish a paid internship within the education department.

“I am deeply grateful to Mrs. Nord for her remarkable and continuous support of The Cleveland Orchestra,” Katz Napoli said. “Her gift is not just a commitment

to music education, it’s a source of inspiration, joy, and opportunity for every child in Northeast Ohio, who will continue to experience live, world-class orchestral music for years to come.”

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MLK Service Award Recipients THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA and the City of Cleveland are pleased to recognize the recipients of the 22nd annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Service in the Arts Awards: Honey Bell-Bey, poet, educator, and founder of The International Distinguished Gentlemen of Spoken Word; Prester Pickett, playwright, professor, and coordinator of the Howard A. Mims African American Cultural Center at Cleveland State University; Dianna

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Richardson, orchestra director at Cleveland School of the Arts; and the Greg L. Reese Performing Arts Center at the East Cleveland Public Library.

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CALE N DAR WINTER JAN 15, 17 & 18 VERDI’S REQUIEM Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Asmik Grigorian, soprano Deniz Uzun, mezzo-soprano Joshua Guerrero, tenor Tareq Nazmi, bass The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus VERDI Requiem

FEB 5 – 7 HADELICH PLAYS MENDELSSOHN Antonello Manacorda, conductor Augustin Hadelich, violin MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 2 SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”

FEB 12 & 14 HANNIGAN CONDUCTS GERSHWIN Barbara Hannigan, conductor Johanna Wallroth, soprano CRUMB A Haunted Landscape RUGGLES Sun-Treader BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915 GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture (arr. Bennett)

RECITAL FEB 17 MAO FUJITA IN RECITAL Mao Fujita, piano Works by Beethoven, Wagner, Berg, Mendelssohn, and Brahms

FEB 19 – 21 FRENZIED TANGO John Adams, conductor Aaron Diehl, piano IVES From Greenland’s Icy Mountains* TIMO ANDRES Made of Tunes JOHN ADAMS Frenzy: a short symphony PIAZZOLLA La Mufa (arr. Adams)* PIAZZOLLA Oblivion (arr. Adams)* PIAZZOLLA Libertango (arr. Adams)

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FEB 26 – 28 STRAUSS’S DON JUAN Alain Altinoglu, conductor Alisa Weilerstein, cello UNSUK CHIN Cello Concerto R . STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks R . STRAUSS Don Juan

MAR 5, 7 & 8 BRAHMS’S THIRD SYMPHONY Jakub Hrůša, conductor

SPRING APR 2 – 4 DEBUSSY’S LA MER Daniele Rustioni, conductor Paul Jacobs, organ FAURÉ Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande POULENC Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Timpani CASELLA Italia DEBUSSY La mer

BRAHMS Symphony No. 3 MARTINŮ Symphony No. 3 KAPRÁLOVÁ Military Sinfonietta

APR 9 – 11 SCHUBERT & SHOSTAKOVICH

MAR 12 – 15 BEETHOVEN’S FATEFUL FIFTH

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Sol Gabetta, cello

Elim Chan, conductor Michael Sachs, trumpet STRAVINSKY Suite from Pulcinella HAYDN Trumpet Concerto BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 5

RECITAL MAR 17 THE KANNEH-MASONS IN RECITAL Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano Works by Mendelssohn, N. Boulanger, R. Schumann, and Clarke

MAR 19 – 21 CHAN CONDUCTS BARTÓK Elim Chan, conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin DANIEL KIDANE Sun Poem* BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 1 BARTÓK Dance Suite* SCRIABIN The Poem of Ecstasy

SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 2 SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9, “The Great”

RECITAL APR 16 ALEXANDRE KANTOROW IN RECITAL Alexandre Kantorow, piano Works by J.S. Bach, Medtner, Chopin, Scriabin, and Beethoven

APR 23, 25 & 26 BRITTEN’S WAR REQUIEM Daniel Harding, conductor Tamara Wilson, soprano Andrew Staples, tenor Ludwig Mittelhammer, baritone The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus The Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus BRITTEN War Requiem

APR 30 & MAY 2 MENDELSSOHN’S REFORMATION SYMPHONY Jörg Widmann, conductor JÖRG WIDMANN Fanfare for Ten Brass Instruments JÖRG WIDMANN Con brio JÖRG WIDMANN Danse macabre MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”

clevelandorchestra.com RECITAL MAY 5 MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN & MARIA JOÃO PIRES IN RECITAL Marc-André Hamelin, piano Maria João Pires, piano Program to be announced

MAY 7 – 9 WAGNER’S GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Jörg Widmann, clarinet PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical” OLGA NEUWIRTH Zones of Blue* WAGNER Excerpts from Götterdämmerung

MAY 16, 21 & 24 BEETHOVEN’S FIDELIO

MAY 22 HERO’S SONG

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Malin Byström, soprano (Leonore) David Butt Philip, tenor (Florestan) Tomasz Konieczny, bass-baritone (Don Pizarro) Martin Summer, bass (Rocco) Dashon Burton, bass-baritone (Don Fernando) Ashley Emerson, soprano (Marzelline) Owen McCausland, tenor (Jaquino) The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Leila Josefowicz, violin Trina Struble, harp

BEETHOVEN Fidelio Opera presentation sung in German with projected supertitles

ADOLPHUS HAILSTORK Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed BACEWICZ Symphony No. 4 JÜRI REINVERE Concerto for Violin, Harp, and Orchestra DVOŘÁK Hero’s Song

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Mary Beauman Mr. Robert C. Beiter Ms. Pamela D. Belknap Anise Bell Lois Bell Kathy & Andrew Bemer Susannah Bender Daniel Bennett Thomas Bennett & Reva Levenstein David Benson Scott & Pamela Benson Michelle Benz David Bercheck Jared Berg Molly Berger Thomas M. Berger Mr. Kurt Berglund Dr. & Mrs. Rolf S. Bergman Ms. Cornelia Bergmann Sydney Bertei Mrs. Rosemarie A. Beyer Brian Bialik & Rhonda Richardson Oliver Bigelow Douglas Bjerre & Vera Buk-Bjerre Joanne Blanchard Nicholas Blasius Ann Bloom Ryan Boehm Scott Boehnen Lisa Borgia Drs. Robert & Constance Bouchard Viv & David Bowditch Matt Bowes Ramone Boyd Lisa & Ronald Boyko Stephanie Boyle Barbara Bradley Mr. Gary L. Brahler Dr. Eugene Brand Rick Breault Justin Brewer Constance Brewster Keith & April Brewster Sean Brewster Mr. Frank Brichacek & Mrs. Roseanna Lechner-Brichacek Mary Brigid Claudia Brobst Kathryn Brockway Linda L. Brown, Ph.D Mrs. Carole D. Brown Deborah Brown Erik Bruder Gayle Brun Nick Buchta Ms. Leslie Buck William Buckholtz Ryan Buckley Katharine Bucur Mr. & Mrs. John Budnik Brian Bugay Christopher & Elizabeth Burdick Brian & Cyndee Burke

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James Burkholder Alicia Burkle Nancy Burkle Davorka Butorac Gabrovsek Kathryn Button Jeffrey & Lynn Callahan Steve & Polly Canfield Phil Caris Robert Carlyon Marisa Carpenter John Carter Mr. & Mrs. William S. Carter Julie Caruso & Joe Ott Marilia Cascalho John & Pamela Caulkins Louisa Celebrezze John & Linda Chae Angel Chan Mary Jo Chastenet Alexandra Chu William & Jennifer Clawson Mr. & Mrs. Robert Claytor Ms. Sara Clem Mr. & Mrs. George J. Clessuras Josh & Cinda Coldwell Abigail Coleman-Kemp Ms. Kathleen Collins & Mr. Jonathan Fields Mrs.Barbara F. Colombi Mr. Carlton J. Conrad Jessica Conrad Sheila Cooley Ms. Judith Coolidge John & Colleen Cooney Esther Cooper Renee Copfer Dr. Christine M. & Mr. Vincent A. Cortese Ms. Jane Corteville Ella Corvin Joseph Cosentino Elizabeth Counsil Bridget Courtright Mr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Cowie Mrs. Barbara Coy Rodger Cram Nancy Cronig Joann Toth & Lon Cseplo William Curtin Joshua Curtis Mr. Robert & Mrs. Susan Curtis Sarah Curtis Dr. Christine A Hudak & Mr. Marc F. Cymes Mr. & Mrs. Paul Dahnke Carmen & Faye D’Amore Mr. James Damoulakis Ms. Barbara D’Angelo Jennifer Darling Holly Davies Jill Davis Ms. Marcia Davis Mr. Matthew Davis

Paul Davis Fred & Mary Deblasis Charles & Marion DeBrosse Suzanne DeBrosse Anita Bertin Degreen James & Kathleen Deily Alec Deitz Teresa Del Moral (Miami) Joan Delahay Richard DeLoof Vincent DeLuca Kathryn DeMerit Elaine R. DeMore William Dempsey & Beverly Sater Dempsey Austin Densmore L. Susan De Pould Roderick & Barbara Dibble Darlene Dimitrijevs Drs. Michael & Leslie Dingeldein Molly Dise Todd & Lynne Dixon Gregory Dobbins F. Paul & Nora C. Doerder Geoffrey Doering Mary Kay DeGrandis & Edward Donnelly James D’Orazio John & MaryAnn Doucette Dr. & Mrs. Michael B. Dowell Douglas & Amanda Droste L. M. Dunker Mr. & Mrs. Kevin D. Durham Clare Dyczkowski Adrienne Dziak Martha Eagleton Kate & Peter Eaton (Miami) Dr. Robert E. Eckardt Paul & Peggy Edenburn Bonnie Eggers Linda Eisenstein Mr. & Mrs. Edward A. Eiskamp Teresa Eland Dr. Mark D. Elderbrock Harald Ellers Matthew Ellis Marlene & Jon Englander Gary English Gail Eovito Marilyn Eppich Ted Esborn Ted Espenschied Louis* & Patricia Esposito Sharon & Nicholas Ezzone Robert Fabien Joe & Stephanie Fagan Conchy Fajardo-Hopkins & William Hopkins Jon & Mary Fancher Ava & Michel Farivar Lori Faust Mr. Cole Fauver John Fazio

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THAN K YOU Donald Ferfolia Tracy Ferguson Michael Ferraguto Alex Ferris Dylan Findley Mary Kay Fink & Nicholas Underhill Joan Firmin Melissa & Eliana Fittante Heather & Stewart Fitz Gibbon Ms. Susan Flowers Elizabeth Floyd Vera Fosnot Laura Fox Marianne Frantz John & Barbara Freshley Chris Frey Julie Frey Matthew Fritz Adam Fuller James Funk Katherine Funkner William Furfaro Alexandra Fushi Dennis Fyffe James Gaffney Mousse Gallardo Mike & Kay Galloway Margaret Gambill Juan Gamero Mr. Stefan Ganobcik Ms. Deborah A. Geier Joseph & Margaret Geiger Ms. Lesley Geldart Frank & Louise Gerlak Hollie Geyer-Rasnick Todd & Virginia Gibson Gary & Anna Gilbert Jennifer Gilles Nairn’ Gillet Patrick Giuffrida Michael Goe Pamela & Richard* Goetsch Mrs. Heather Goldberg Mr. Robert & Mrs. Lisa Goldberg Mr. John Goodell Andrew Gordon-Seifert John Gorman John & Ann Gosky Angela & Jeffrey Gotthardt Charlotte Gouveia Dr. Ruffin Graham Heather Grant Larraine Greeney Lawrence Greksa Ms. Sarah Gridley Emily Griffin Mr. & Mrs. Fred Grimm James Grover Dr. Ruth Gurd Genevieve Gurnick Matt Gurtatowski Ann Guthrie Mary Gutierrez

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Judge James & Bonnie Gwin The Adam and Loren Hackett Family Adam Hackett Meg Hackett Eleanor Hagan Karen Hale Yoshinori & Yukiko Hamamura Steven Hamilton Mr. Ray Hamlin, Jr. Amy Han Yong & Alice Han Shinya Handa Rebecca Hanigosky Karen Hanrahan Jill Harbaugh Delores Hargrove Jared Harp Shaun Harper Betty Harrell David Harrell Brian Harris Melody Joy Hart Gerald Harvey Scott Healy Drs. John & Brittany Heffernan Craig Heitger Mr. & Mrs. Wade F. Helms Candace & Jack Hendershot Kevin & Pam Hendryx Nathan Hensley Robert Hermanowski Eunice Hester Patti Hester James & Susan Hildebrandt Mr.* & Mrs. Richard A. Hiles Michael Hoffman Mary Holland Suzanne Holt Jon Horvath Xavier-Nichols Foundation/ Robert and Karen Hostoffer Rebecca Hoyt Phillip Huber Bradley Hughes & Claire Sonneborn Mr.* & Mrs. J. David Hunter Jesse & Rachel Hurst Todd & Joy Hutchinson Carmen Iozzia Ms. Anna Marie Irwin Todd & Shelley Ivary Cori Jackson Jasmine Lynn Jackson Ms. Rebecca Jackson David Jacob Thomas K. & Crystal R. James Scott James Amy & Kerry Janke Edward Janoch Allison Janocha Mr. Gary & Dr. Maita Jarkewicz Ms. Abigail Jasper Penny Jeffrey

Mr. Robert & Mrs. Patricia Jeffreys Sandra Jensen Jianhong Jin Dane Johansen Sandra John Mr. & Mrs. David Johnson Jalen Johnson Jeffrey & Amy Johnson Mr. Jeremy V. Johnson Kimberly Johnson Gennie S. Johnston Alex Jones John Jones Janet Jordan Mr. Robert & Mrs. Mary V. Kahelin Susan Kaiser George & Valerie Kanieski Kathleen Kash David Keep Rev. John S. Keller & Mr. Donald J. Jackson Valerie Kelly Joyce Kennedy Ryan Kerfoot Dr. Kristin A. Kerling David Keymer Amy Egle Carol Lee Kinsler Linda Kirkwood Dr. Jacobo & Mrs. Joana Kirsch Ms. Trudee Klautky Mr. Thomas J. Kniesner & Mrs. Deborah A. Freund Alicia Koelz & Christos Georgalis Tim & Linda Koelz James Koerner Paul Kohanski Mr. & Mrs. John C. Komperda Keisi Kotobelli Allison Kreiner Robert Sebulsky & Margaret H. Kreiner, Esq. David & Jarrett Krizan Mrs. Kristi Krueger Megan Krutsch Thomas* & Barbara Kuby Bill & Sue Kuczinski Drs. Steven & Carolyn Kuerbitz Tracy Kuhn Susan Kuilder Christopher & Chelsea Kulhanek Robert & Brenda Kunkel Kassandra Kuzma Katarzyma Lach Ms. Leslie Lahr Mr.* & Mrs. Robert J. Landgraf Dr. Richard S. Lang Sarah Lang Daniel Laskowski Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lavelle William & Lynn Lavezzi Dr. William Lavigna Mr. & Mrs. Brian A. Lawler

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Jonah Lawson Ms. Cynthia D. Leach Joshua Harris & Yun-Ting Lee Don & Jane Lennon Jasmine Lepir Donna Levy Juanita Lewis Shien Liao Ms. Kim E. Lindsey Mrs. Kay B. Lingafelter Mr. Jeff Litwiller Gina Lloyd Hannah Long Nikki Long Susana Lorenzo-Giguere Robert Lovicz & Kimberly Johnson Mike Lowden Alice Luddington-Cantor Phillip & Louise Luschek Judith Lyon Ms. Pamela MacWilliams Audra Mahon Margaret Mahoney Iryna Maitta Jeffrey Malashock Elena Manoli Jennifer Manthey Dr. Kandice Marchant Ashley Marchetta Jeanette Marks Gerald & Marilyn Martau Douglas Martin Ralph & Roberta Martin Kathleen Masis Robert & Gail Mastrangelo Ms. Judith E. Matsko Dr. Lee Maxwell* & Mr. Michael M. Prunty John McBratney Judge Alison McCarty Mr. David L. McCombs Kathryn McConnell Mrs. Pamela J. McConnell Caroline McCool Linda McCorkle Bruce & Karen McDiarmid Tim McDonnell Dr. Scott & Sonia McDonough Melissa McGregor Mary Ellen McLaughlin Ms. Luellen McMahon Nancy McMillin Paul & Elizabeth Meeker Cacia Meeks Anjali Mehta Melissa Becker Ms. Karen D. Melton Matthew Menger Ian Mercer Dr. Susan M. Merzweiler Dr. Michelle Messner Mr. Dave Metlicka Adam Meyers

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Mr. Gene Milford Amy Miller & Nikhil Rao Deborah Miller Duane Miller Michael & Evelyn Miller Sally Miller Valerie Miller Vickiey Milligan Taylor Logan Paula Mindes & George A. Gilliam Mr. Timothy Minnis Ioana Missits Michael Monter Kelsey Moore Barbara Morrison Angela Mortellaro & Michael Davies Ms. Joanne Mortimer Ronald & Mary Mortus Anna Maria Motta Ken & Sharon Mountcastle Demari & Terra Muff Nathan Mullen John Myers Melissa Nautiyal Dr. Anne & Mr. Peter Neff Ronald Neill & Ann Harlan Joyce & Jay Nesbit MaryAnne Nestor David & Karen Nevergall Nona Nichols George Niinisto Margaret Noll Jeffrey & Beverly Norris Jessica Norris Greg Nosan & Brandon Ruud Jo Manette Nousak Matt & Valerie Nousak Andres Nunez Devin OBryan David & Mary Jo Ockenga Kathleen O’Connor Mr. Karl E. Odenweller Andrew O’Donnell Christopher O’Donnell Ms. Mary M. Ogden Tonia Oglesby Vicki Ohl Thomas Okoben Elizabeth Oresanya Mia O’Riordan Mrs. Krysia Orlowski & Dr. Brian Harte Dr. Douglas Orr & Ms. Kimberley Barton Richard* & Elizabeth Osborne David Ottney Randall & Ann Over Robert Owen Allison Paine Stefanie Pallo Clayton Papenfus Jacqueline Pasek Steven Pastor

Hilary Patriok Denise Patterson David Pavlich & Cherie Arnold Ms. Sharon Pavlovich Victoria Peacock Jim & Barbara Pearce Dan Pedrotty Daniel Pendergast Tamara & Alec Pendleton Kyle Perisutti Dr. & Mrs. Bernard Perla Delores Perry Charles & Sharon Pervo Caleb Peters Ms. Catherine Peters Jennifer Petruzzi Mitchell Phillips Craig Piper James & Cheryl Piper Jonathan Pittman Thomas Poje Jane Pollis Greg Polyak & Marcia Snavely Polyak Joyce Pope Richard Popelmayer Carol Porter Sangeeta Prakash Rich Pranzarone & Karen Lincicome William & Millie Prebel Joshua Prest Christopher Przybycin Dr. Laurine Purola Katherine Rademacher Rika Rall Jeannine Ramsey Mrs. Amy Raubenolt Kristina Razek Mrs. Bridget Rechin Rebecca Reed Judy & Clifford Reeves Jr. Octavia Reid Michael Resnick Stephanie Resnick Carmen Rey Robert Rice Craig Rich & Victoria Gray Donna Richardson & Richard Burns Matthew Richardson Dr. & Mrs. Bradford Richmond Miss Melissa Richmond Albert Richner Marin Ridgway Cynthia Ries Mr. Kevin Roach Mr. D. Keith* & Mrs. Margaret B. Robinson Debra Robinson Janice & Roger Robinson Jeffrey Rodachy Michael & Laura Rogers Mr. Hans J. Rohr Dr. Bruce & Mrs. Jan Rose

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THAN K YOU Douglas H. & Kasia Gustaw Rothenberg Cristin Roush Deborah Rowe Drs. Jordi & David Rowe Jennifer Rozsa Marlon Rucker Roberta W. & Michael J. Rusek Mrs. Elisa J. Russo Mrs. Shelley Sabga Thomas Safford & Barbara Ague Alexa Sandmann Robert & Cathie Sankey Rick Santich & Paula Smith Erica Savage Anchal Saxena Bryan & Jenna Scafidi Adelaide Schaaf Charles Schaefer Floyd Schanbacher Susan Schapiro Charles & Susan Schenkelberg Mr. Matthew Schenz Jennifer Schiavone Henry Schilb Conner Schliffka John Schmoll Kevin Schrecengost Mr. Kim Schrock Edward Schroeder Dawn Schwartz Rachel Hersh Schwarz Tadd Schwarz Deborah Scolaro Barbara Scott Paul & Sarah Scott Tiffany Sedlacek Dr. W. David Sedwick June A. Seech Roslyn Seed Mr. Robert Sehein Peter Selover Caltha Seymour Ms. Melanie Shakarian & Dr. Peter Kvidera Ginger & Larry Shane Ms. Marlene Sharak Charles & Linda Shearouse Sarah Sheehan John & Myra Shen Maredith Sheridan & Norman Graubart Stuart & Gina Sheridan Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Sherwood Robert Shields Erin Shipley Toni Shreve Connetta Shringarpurey Christina Sibilla Richard Sicha & Marcia Moll Hassan Siddiki Destinee Siebe Ms. Barbara Sindyla

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Annie & Andrew Singer Daniel Singer-Sords Timothy Singer Robert Sisler Michal Sittek Jennifer Skinner Tom & Eve Sliwinski Molly Slota Alex & Elizabeth Smilovich Lauren Smit Brad & Leslie Smith Mr. Joshua Smith Mr. & Mrs. Larry E. Smith Maurice Smith Barb & Bill Snyder James Snyder Mr. Frank & Mrs. Nancy* Sobol Mr. Scott Soeder & Mr. James Riggs Patricia King Sommer Nick Sondag Cathy Soprano Mary Southards Stacey Souther Ms. Kelli Souvey James & Patricia Spayer Kate Spector Jill Spencer Lilith Spencer Tim & Marcia Splinter Mr. Michael Sprinker John & Tina St. John Deborah Stack Eugene & Claire Stair Barbara J. Stanford & Vincent T. Lombardo Mr. Michael Star Philip Star & Jane Peterson Mr. & Mrs. Kent O. Starrett Carol Stephens Dr. William H. Stigelman, Jr. Roger & Donna Stiller Carol Stojkov Melody Stolarsky Mr. & Mrs. Gary V. Stolcals William Stolicny Bethany Stone & Nicholas Campagna Mary Stone Elinore Marsh Stormer Mr. James D. Storry* & Mrs. Sidney Storry Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Strasser Trina Struble & John Bourne Kate Stuart Bobbi Sundman Viena Swierczek Christopher Switzer David Szabo Mr. David Szamborski Keven Tag Cameron Taylor Jill & Jim Taylor Kathryn Teng & Derek Abbott

Kevin Tennant Sharon Tesar Jenna Thomas Dr. Roland Thomas Dr. & Mrs. Ronald G. Thomas Dr. Stefanie Thomas Dustin Thompson Matt Thompson Jerry Thornburg Brian Thornton, Jennifer Woda, Maddi Woda, & Maya Thornton James & Joan Thwaite Andrew Tian Dr. Jane Timmons-Mitchell & Mr. Robert Mitchell Isabel Trautwein Joel Tscherne Peter Turkson Susan Tyler Kevin Ubert Anne Unverzagt Marissa Utterberg Dave Vacca Kenneth Vail Karen Valenti Dorothy Valerian Anthony & Connie Van Gilder Ms. Susan D. Van Vorst Kristina & Jason Vanderpool Leah VanLear Nick Vasko Elayna Duitman Ann VerWiebe David Viglione Kathryn Vine David S. & Rebecca Vineyard Mr. Gary & Mrs. Sandra Vinicky Nancy Virkhaus Wendy Voelker Philip Volpe Vincenzo Volpe Erika Wagner Tom Wagner & Melinda Smyth David Waldron Karen A. Waldron Iva L. Walker Leslie & Mark Walker Veronika Walter Jake Wang Jessica Ward Ginger & Bryan Ware Kent & Brenda Warner Mr. & Mrs.* Joseph F. Wasserbauer Tim & Jo Watson Jeffrey Webb Teagan Webb Dr. Leslie T. Webster, III, MD Martha Webster Mr. & Mrs. Charles E. Weil Mr. & Mrs. Chris Weinkamer Kenneth & Celine Weiss Dennis & Vicki Wert Elizabeth Wertz

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Julie West Margaret Wetzler Sarah Whalen-Cohen Adam Whanger Amy Wheeler Mr. Ronald White Patricia Whitson Michael Widenmeyer Pete Wieneke Martha Wiersma Carrie Wilcox Eleanora Willauer David & Janet Williams Patricia Willkomm Mr. Ronald Willner John & Tory Willoughby Richard Wills Benjamin Winters Susanne Wisor Nancy Wittig Lisa Wong Shari Wong Mr. Philip Woodcock & Ms. Virginia Benjamin Gayle Woodrow Anita Woodward Sandra Woolley Christina Woskobojnik Katherine Wulff Mr. David & Mrs. Mary Alice Wyatt Peijun Xu Thomas & Elizabeth Yakubik Simi Yogenthiran Dr. Charles & Mrs. Jennifer Young Ms. Libby M. Yunger Mrs. Valerie Zahirsky Denise Zakrajsek John Zanghi Gareth Zehngut Mr. Jeffrey A. Zehngut Rick Zhang Charles & Lauren Zollinger John & Jane Zuzek Anonymous (14)

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The Cleveland Orchestra Board of Trustees O FFI CERS Richard J. Kramer Chair André Gremillet President & CEO, Richard K. Smucker Chair Richard K. Smucker Immediate Past Chair Richard J. Bogomolny Chair Emeritus Dennis W. LaBarre Chair Emeritus Norma Lerner Honorary Chair David J. Hooker Secretary Victor Alexander Treasurer RES ID E N T TRUSTEES Victor Alexander Robin Dunn Blossom Yuval Brisker Helen Rankin Butler Nancy Slocum Callahan Irad Carmi Bill Clawson Matthew V. Crawford Lisa Fedorovich Michael Frank, MD JD Hiroyuki Fujita Robert Glick Arthur C. Hall III Iris Harvie Dee Haslam Stephen H. Hoffman David J. Hooker Michelle Shan Jeschelnig Sarah Liotta Johnston Elizabeth B. Juliano Nancy F. Keithley Douglas A. Kern John D. Koch Richard J. Kramer Dennis W. LaBarre Heather Lennox Cathy Lincoln Robert W. Malone Ben Mathews Nancy W. McCann Stephen McHale Scott C. Mueller Christine Myeroff Katherine T. O’Neill Hyun Park Alfred M. Rankin, Jr.

Charles A. Ratner Zoya Reyzis Richard K. Smucker James C. Spira R. Thomas Stanton Richard Stovsky Russell A. Trusso Daniel P. Walsh Thomas A. Waltermire Jes Warren Jeffery J. Weaver Anya Weaving Meredith Smith Weil Paul E. Westlake Jr. David A. Wolfort Anthony Wynshaw-Boris N ATIO N AL TRUSTEES Virginia Nord Barbato (NY) Mary Jo Eaton (FL) Michael J. Horvitz (FL) Thomas E Lauria (FL) Loretta Mester (PA) Benjamin N. Pyne (NY) Geraldine B. Warner (OH) Tony White (OH) I N TERN ATIO N AL TRUSTEES Wolfgang C. Berndt (Austria) Herbert Kloiber (Germany) E X-OFFIC IO TRUSTEES André Gremillet Todd Diacon Sarah Hutchins Eric Kaler Judith E. Matsko Beverly J. Schneider TRUSTEE EMERIT US Thomas F. McKee HO N O R ARY TRUSTEES FO R LIFE Richard J. Bogomolny Charles P. Bolton Robert D. Conrad Alexander M. Cutler Richard C. Gridley Norma Lerner Virginia Lindseth Alex Machaskee Robert P. Madison Milton S. Maltz Beth E. Mooney John D. Ong Audrey Gilbert Ratner Hewitt B. Shaw Luci Schey Spring

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