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Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 Franz Welser-Möst, conductor PRO GR AM NOTES:
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • PAGE 8
Grit. Grace. Glory. by Allison Loggins-Hull • PAGE 12
Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 112 by Sergei Prokofiev • PAGE 18
Conductor Biography • PAGE 27 PAG E 35
TCO SPOTLIG HT Feature articles & musician interviews PAG E 43
COVER: PHOTO OF FRANZ WELSER-MÖST BY ROGER MASTROIANNI
I N THE N EWS Noteworthy happenings at The Cleveland Orchestra PAG E 4 8
SN APSHOTS Photo highlights from recent Cleveland Orchestra events PAG E 50
THA N K YOU The community of supporters who bring the music to life clevelandorchestra.com
THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA
M AY 1 6 – 2 5 Join us for the third annual Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, which delves into how Reconciliation shapes relationships, societies, and cultures — highlighting its
APRIL 24 – MAY 25 Re-membering Community Bogomolny-Kozerefski Grand Foyer at Severance Music Center
This special exhibit seeks to highlight the creative voices shaping Cleveland’s cultural landscape, celebrating the ways art fosters dialogue, bridges differences, and reimagines what is possible. There will also be a panel discussion held on May 24.
SATURDAY, MAY 17 4:30 PM A Screening of Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums Cinematheque at Cleveland Institute of Art
Wes Anderson’s signature style frames this poignant story of a flawed father’s halting attempts at reconciliation with his family.
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FRIDAY, MAY 16 8:30 AM
FRIDAY, MAY 16 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, MAY 17 2 PM
A Symposium on Immigration & Reconciliation
The Moth Mainstage: Live from Severance
United in Song! A Community Choral Celebration
Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center
A dialogue on immigration, reconciliation, and their impact on our community, curated by Global Cleveland and the Cleveland Council on World Affairs.
Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center
Five masterful tellers share true, personal stories on the theme of reconciliation — stories of mending, healing, and finding common ground.
SATURDAY, MAY 17 | 7 PM THURSDAY, MAY 22 | 7 PM SUNDAY, MAY 25 | 3 PM
Janáček’s Jenůfa Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center
Franz Welser-Möst (above) leads The Cleveland Orchestra in a concert production of Janáček’s opera, a harrowing tale of forbidden love, desperation, and reconciliation.
Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center
An afternoon of joyous vocal performances at Severance Music Center representing the rich diversity of the Greater Cleveland choral community.
SUNDAY, MAY 18 4:30 PM Opera Curious? The World of Jenůfa Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center
This special event invites you to experience opera like an insider through the world of Jenůfa, with a thoughtfully curated discussion and musical interlude.
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challenges, triumphs, and enduring relevance in a fractured world.
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SUNDAY, MAY 18 7 PM
MONDAY, MAY 19 6 PM
TUESDAY, MAY 20 12 PM
TUESDAY, MAY 20 6 PM
Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet
The Women of Chicago’s Black Renaissance
Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center
Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center
Beyond Repatriation: Reconciliation through Cultural Cooperation with Cambodia
Sound of Ideas Community Tour: Re-entry & Reconciliation
Cuban pianist, composer, and arranger Chucho Valdés and his Royal Quartet bring their electrifying artistry to the Severance stage in a performance that speaks to the power of music as a force for connection and healing.
Pianist Michelle Cann brings the legacy of Chicago’s Black Renaissance to life in this compelling recital, celebrating the music and stories of pioneering women composers.
Gartner Auditorium at The Cleveland Museum of Art
Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library
Leaders from the National Museum of Cambodia and The Cleveland Museum of Art discuss the model relationship between their institutions and prospects for the future.
As part of the Sound of Ideas Community Tour, program host Jenny Hamel leads a discussion about the realities facing the formerly incarcerated as they re-enter society.
THURSDAY, MAY 22 11:30 AM
SATURDAY, MAY 24 4 PM
Reconciliation in America’s Museums: Understanding Cultural Patrimony & the Path to Rebuilding Trust
Framing Reconciliation: Visual Art as a Tool for Collective Healing
The City Club of Cleveland
Join us for a panel discussion with distinguished scholars and cultural leaders to explore how art can foster reconciliation in today’s society.
Hear from Smithsonian museum leadership on how American cultural institutions are charting a new path forward on reconciliation and repatriation.
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Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center
FRIDAY, MAY 23 | 7:30 PM SATURDAY, MAY 24 | 8 PM
Vox Humana Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center
The full range of human emotion is on display in this fascinating program curated by Franz Welser-Möst, with works by Poulenc, J.S. Bach, Ustvolskaya, and R. Strauss, and featuring soprano Sarah Aristidou (above).
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WE DON’T KNOW WHEN Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 was first
performed. Though the composer wrote copious letters to family and friends, which provide a remarkable record of his musical activities, he never mentioned any performances of this symphony in writing, leading some scholars to surmise that Mozart never heard it during his lifetime. More recent scholarship has proven more nuanced, revealing several occasions where Mozart could have heard the work. One of these is a 1790 concert in Frankfurt that featured a G-minor symphony by Mozart, during which organist Johann Wenzel reported that the composer “had to leave the room … because it was being played so incorrectly.” This could also explain why Mozart later revised the work, adding clarinets and tweaking some of the wind writing. As musicologist Neal Zaslaw concludes, this “must have resulted from his having heard the work and discovered an aspect needing improvement.” Whatever the case, one can hear in the 40th Symphony a work of total refinement. The second of only two symphonies Mozart wrote in a minor key — the other is No. 25, also in G minor — the music fluctuates between melancholic sighs and heart-on-sleeve tenderness, foreshadowing the emotional mood swings that would become a staple of the Romantic era. Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 4 also has a somewhat odd performance history. Adapted from music the composer penned for the 1928 ballet The Prodigal Son, the symphony was first performed in Boston in 1930. Seventeen years later, not entirely satisfied with the piece, Prokofiev reworked the symphony, creating an almost entirely new work in the process. The premiere of this version took place in 1950, in a radio broadcast by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. On the other hand, we do know for sure when Allison Loggins-Hull’s Grit. Grace. Glory. was first heard — this weekend! This brand-new work marks the culmination of Loggins-Hull’s three-year tenure as the Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow (see also page 35) and was specifically tailored to the musicians who comprise The Cleveland Orchestra. However, Grit. Grace. Glory. is also much bigger than that. It’s an homage to Cleveland itself, a musical portrait of the city, its history, its people, and, as Loggins-Hull writes, “its unwavering spirit.” — Kevin McBrien Kevin McBrien is The Cleveland Orchestra’s publications manager.
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Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 Thursday, May 8, 2025, at 7:30 PM Friday, May 9, 2025, at 11 AM * Saturday, May 10, 2025, at 8 PM
Concert Preview with Cicilia Yudha Reinberger Chamber Hall one hour prior to performance
Franz Welser-Möst, conductor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)
Allison Loggins-Hull (b. 1982)
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
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I. Molto allegro II. Andante III. Menuetto: Allegretto IV. Allegro assai
Grit. Grace. Glory.
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I. Steel — II. Shoreline Shadows III. Quip IV. Ode World Premiere; Co-commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra
Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953)
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20 minutes
Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 112
35 minutes
I. Andante — Allegro eroico II. Andante tranquillo III. Moderato quasi allegretto IV. Allegro risoluto
PHOTO OF FRANZ WELSER-MÖST BY ROGER MASTROIANNI
Total approximate running time: 1 hour 40 minutes * Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 4 does not appear on Friday’s program, which will be performed without intermission and in the following order: Allison Loggins-Hull’s Grit. Grace. Glory. followed by Mozart’s Symphony No. 40.
Thursday evening’s performance is dedicated to Brenda and Marshall B. Brown in recognition of their generous support of music. This concert is sponsored by Thompson Hine LLP. clevelandorchestra.com
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Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart BORN : January 27, 1756, in Salzburg DIED : December 5, 1791, in Vienna
▶ COMPOSED: 1788 ▶ WORLD PREMIERE : The work was possibly first heard in the fall of 1788, but there are no precise records of this performance. ▶ CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PREMIERE : November 20, 1919, led by Music Director Nikolai Sokoloff ▶ ORCHESTRATION : flute, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, and strings ▶ DURATION : about 25 minutes
THERE HAS BEEN a lot of speculation
as to precisely what went wrong in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life between 1785, the apex of his “golden years,” and the summer of 1788, when he wrote his last three symphonies. By 1788, the concert series where Mozart had presented his great piano concertos had been discontinued. In 1786 – 87, he had an immense success in Prague with his operas The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni (the latter written specifically for that city), but back home in Vienna, things were going downhill financially. Mozart’s appointment to the relatively minor position of Chamber Composer at the imperial court did little to improve matters. Mozart’s family life was also extremely difficult. Four of his children died in infancy, three of them between 1786 and 1788. Researchers have also cited 8 | 2024/2025 SEASON
the composer’s gambling habits, household mismanagement, and a general tendency of the Mozarts to live beyond their means. What is certain is that during the summer of 1788, Mozart started writing heart-rending letters to his friend and fellow Freemason, Michael Puchberg, imploring him for large sums of money. In one of these, he asked Puchberg for “a hundred gulden until next week, when my concerts in the Casino are to begin.” Since the letter was written at the time Mozart was working on what would prove to be his last three symphonies (39, 40, and 41), there is reason to believe that he intended them for concerts “in the Casino.” We don’t know exactly This unfinished portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was created between 1782 and 1783 by the composer’s brother-in-law, Austrian actor and painter Joseph Lange.
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Italian painter Bernardo Bellotto created this landscape of Vienna between 1758 and 1761. Mozart would call this city home for the last 10 years of his life.
two different manuscript versions — the first without clarinets, the later one with clarinets added and some other woodwind detailing changed — strongly suggests that Mozart either heard the original in performance (leading him to want to make changes) or that he prepared a second edition for a specific occasion when clarinets were going to be part of the ensemble.
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where in Vienna this “Casino” was, but Mozart had previously played some of his piano concertos there. There are also no known records of the premieres of these symphonies, so it was long believed that they were never heard in concert during the composer’s lifetime. However, there were in fact several opportunities for Mozart to present these works both in Vienna and in Germany, where he journeyed in 1789 and again in 1790. Most importantly, the fact that the G-minor Symphony (No. 40) exists in
The opening of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 is, in its quiet way, nothing short of a revolution. In the 18th century, symphonies usually started with a forceful downbeat whose function was somewhat similar to that of the rising curtain in the theater — to capture the attention of the audience. Dispensing with this opening gesture, Mozart starts with a lyrical melody, which is preceded by almost a full measure of accompanying eighth notes in the divided violas.
literally by Haydn in the “Winter” section of his oratorio The Seasons. But Mozart develops the idea differently, using it for a great buildup of tension in the middle of the movement. The third movement is one of the most irregular minuets ever written, combining rhythmic oddities with dissonant clashes and a pungent chromaticism. The trio section is more relaxed, but the musical articulation remains complex.
The [symphony] contains dissonances, modulations, and chromatic progressions that were extremely bold for their time and revealed new worlds of expressivity that had not previously been known to musicians.
Many writers have felt this symphony to be Romantic in spirit. The work contains dissonances, modulations, and chromatic progressions that were extremely bold for their time and revealed new worlds of expressivity that had not previously been known to musicians. At the same time, the symphony preserves a clarity of form and a balance that is entirely Classical. The theme of the second movement is intoned by the strings in successive entries (almost, though not quite, like a fugue). At the repeat of this theme, the woodwinds add a descending scale motive separated by rests — a special masterstroke that was quoted almost clevelandorchestra.com
Unlike many symphonies written in minor keys, Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 does not switch to the major mode for the fourth movement, but remains in minor to the end. This movement has few equals in the classical literature for sheer dramatic power and intensity. One of its most stunning moments occurs when a striking unison passage touches on 11 of the 12 tones of the Western chromatic scale, briefly confounding our sense of tonality. — Peter Laki
Peter Laki is a musicologist and frequent lecturer on classical music. He is a visiting associate professor of music at Bard College.
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Grit. Grace. Glory. by Allison Loggins-Hull BORN : November 27, 1982, in Chicago
▶ COMPOSED: 2024 – 25 Orchestra performances of Allison Loggins-Hull’s Grit. Grace. Glory., which was co-commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra. ▶ ORCHESTRATION : 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, percussion (snare drum, bass drum, tom-toms, xylophone, glockenspiel, crotales, chimes, cymbal, tam-tam), harp, and strings ▶ DURATION : about 20 minutes
GRIT. GRACE. GLORY. is the culminating
commission of Allison Loggins-Hull’s three-year tenure as The Cleveland Orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow, and effectively summarizes her approach to that role. Throughout her artistic life, Loggins-Hull has thrived on collaboration as a performing musician, composer, and educator; more than a mode of working, the collaborative instinct is integral in her creative life. Beyond the very personal give-and-take of working with other individual artists, her work also takes inspiration from history and social dynamics. Several of her works explore the many and nuanced meanings of being an American in America. One such work is Loggins-Hull’s Homeland for solo flute, which has become virtually a repertoire recital 12 | 2024/2025 SEASON
work for flutists. Drawing on layered perspectives on the nature of home and belonging — ranging from her reactions to the Syrian civil war and social unrest in the US to the inadequate response to Hurricane Maria’s devastation in Puerto Rico — Homeland illustrates the richness of Loggins-Hull’s inspiration. Incorporating a dreamlike allusion to The Star-Spangled Banner, Homeland would serve as the kernel for the orchestral version of the composer’s Can You See?, the first of her pieces performed by The Cleveland Orchestra. As with Homeland, much of LogginsHull’s expanding catalog of works originally resulted from her impressive Composer and flutist Allison Loggins-Hull has served as The Cleveland Orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow since 2022. Read more about her tenure on page 35.
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career as a performing flutist. Working with Nathalie Joachim in the innovative duo Flutronix, Loggins-Hull has collaborated in creating a repertoire that blurs the distinctions among classical, electronica, hip-hop, pop, and other styles, revealing an open-mindedness that continues to inform her music for more traditional concert ensembles such as the string quartet and the symphony orchestra.
the end of her composer’s note.) As she reveals in her own comments, even some of Grit. Grace. Glory.’s actual musical material evolved from these interactions, specifically via music created by students from the Cleveland School of the Arts in its second movement — used with the creators’ blessing. An interplay of shadow and light occurs within each movement, for example, as the driving, mechanistic
Taken as a whole, Grit. Grace. Glory. paints a cityscape that celebrates variety and nuance over easy stereotyping.
We can readily experience LogginsHull’s new Cleveland Orchestra commission, Grit. Grace. Glory., as a collaboration with — and portrait of — the city of Cleveland itself. She began planning for the piece as soon as she took on the role of Composer Fellow, immersing herself in learning not only about the musicians of the Orchestra but also about the city of Cleveland and its people. This exploration was far from abstract: the composer worked directly with Cleveland organizations beyond the walls of Severance Music Center, including the H.K. School of Bandura (a traditional Ukrainian string instrument), the Fatima Family Center, Karamu House, and others. (To further the point, LogginsHull thanks a long list of partners at 14 | 2024/2025 SEASON
patterns of the first movement (Steel) give way to “daydreaming” passages, or the as the finale (Ode) shifts from the chorale-like music to the “rocking out” of its second half. Taken as a whole, Grit. Grace. Glory. paints a cityscape that celebrates variety and nuance over easy stereotyping. This gives the piece the flexibility to reverberate not just in Cleveland but in Dallas or Detroit, Chicago or Seattle, or in the city of its co-commissioner, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. The optimism and empathy LogginsHull demonstrates in Grit. Grace. Glory. have become embedded characteristics of her music, even as her work continues to confront some of the difficult questions raised by our shared human and
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American history. From The Pattern to Can You See? to Grit. Grace. Glory., her music doesn’t shrink from touching on subjects such as the persistent inequities resulting from the legacy of slavery; xenophobic, gender-based, and socioeconomic tensions among different communities; or the effects of climate change on the world and its populations. What’s so powerful is that her music remains alive with the hope that shared commitment clevelandorchestra.com
Loggins-Hull takes a bow after the European premiere of Can You See?, which The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director Franz Welser-Möst presented in Berlin as part of their 2024 European tour.
and open discourse about such challenges can be a valuable catalyst for understanding and positive change. — Robert Kirzinger Boston-based composer and writer Robert Kirzinger is a longtime staff member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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Composer’s Note Grit. Grace. Glory. is a musical story inspired by the people and history of Cleveland, created during my residency as the Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow with The Cleveland Orchestra. While the stories and individuals that shaped this music are uniquely Cleveland, the values and sentiments I’ve absorbed — grit, grace, and glory — are qualities that resonate universally. These traits can inspire and teach us all, no matter where we come from.
I. S T E E L In summary, Steel serves as a powerful metaphor that links Cleveland’s vital roles in the Underground Railroad, transportation, and steel industries. It symbolizes strength, resilience, and the unyielding spirit of both those who sought freedom and those who helped them. Steel also embodies movement — representing the physical journey toward freedom and the industrial progress that reshaped the nation. In all its forms, steel reflects the dual nature of barriers and breakthroughs, as well as the strength of community and cooperation in the pursuit of a larger, shared goal. II . SHORE LI N E SHA D OWS The thematic material for this movement draws directly from students at the Cleveland School of the Arts. In the spring of 2023, I had the privilege of working with four groups of middle and high school students who created their own compositions. I gave them a single prompt: to be inspired by Cleveland, or by their experience of it. Together, we explored collaborative techniques and identified musical ways to tell their stories. Their pieces were titled The Lake, Gentrification Battle, Gun Violence, and New to Cleveland. Shoreline Shadows attempts to bring these four perspectives together, referencing both the literal and figurative “shadows” cast by the lake. It speaks to the hidden undercurrents of violence and gentrification, while also evoking the spirit of a community’s moments of kindness and resilience. This movement serves to tell the story of a place through the eyes of its youth. II I . Q U I P Cleveland is a city rich in excellence, yet its residents often approach that excellence with humility. I have encountered many Clevelanders who blend modesty with wit, quickness, and cleverness. Quip is inspired by this playful, “humble brag” spirit — celebrating both fun and excellence without the need for boasting. It serves as a musical nod to the clever heart of the city, featuring thematic material that is humble yet puts the virtuosity of the orchestra on display.
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While the stories and individuals that shaped this music are uniquely Cleveland, the values and sentiments I’ve absorbed — grit, grace, and glory — are qualities that resonate universally. These traits can inspire and teach us all, no matter where we come from.
I V. ODE Another core value I’ve found among Clevelanders is the importance of remembering where they come from — loyalty and groundedness. Ode begins by revisiting a familiar theme, symbolizing a return to one’s roots and the acknowledgment of the past. Last but certainly not least, Cleveland is the birthplace of rock and roll. The piece concludes with the full orchestra “rocking out” to anthemic material inspired by the roots of rock and roll, a fitting tribute to the city’s musical legacy and its unwavering spirit. — Allison Loggins-Hull Special thanks to the following partners and institutions for their profound influence: the Cozad-Bates House, Cleveland School of the Arts, Fatima Family Center, H.K. School of Bandura, Karamu House, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra, Global Cleveland, Ukrainian Museum-Archives, Cleveland History Center, and The Cleveland Orchestra.
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Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 112 by Sergei Prokofiev BORN : April 23, 1891, in Sontsivka, Ukraine DIED: March 5, 1953, in Moscow
▶ COMPOSED: 1929 – 30, first version (Op. 47); revised 1947 (Op. 112) ▶ WORLD PREMIERE : November 14, 1930, with Serge Koussevitzky leading the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The revised version premiered on March 11, 1950, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Adrian Boult. ▶ CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA PREMIERE : May 4, 2023, led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst ▶ ORCHESTRATION : 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 4 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion (triangle, woodblock, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, tambourine), piano, harp, and strings
IN 1947 , Stravinsky revised a number
of his earlier works by making small changes sufficient to allow him to renew the copyrights. In the same year, Sergei Prokofiev made a revision of his Fourth Symphony so radical that many commentators regard the revised version as a new work altogether. Its new opus number supports that view. But Prokofiev thought of both versions of this music as the natural outgrowth from his ballet The Prodigal Son, which he wrote in response to a commission from impresario Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes in 1928. The ballet was first performed in Paris with the composer conducting. At the same time, he was fashioning his 18 | 2024/2025 SEASON
Third Symphony out of the opera The Fiery Angel, frustrated by not being able to persuade any theater to stage it. He was also asked by Serge Koussevitzky to compose something for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, to be celebrated in 1930. His response was to offer a new symphony, which was already in his head, using The Prodigal Son along with music intended for, but not included in, the ballet. It is said that Prokofiev declined the commission because the fee was too low, but he nonetheless allowed the Boston
British artist Hilda Wiener created this sketch of Sergei Prokofiev in 1936, which depicts him performing his Third Piano Concerto.
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title of the original ballet) is here the Symphony Orchestra to purchase the plus side of the music’s loose structure. manuscript of the Fourth Symphony and Symphonic forms are present, but premiere it. Much of it was in fact hidden. In the first movement, there is composed in the US during a lengthy a startling contrast between the placid tour that Prokofiev undertook in the atmosphere which opens the work and early months of 1930. Its reception in the aggressive, noisy music that bursts November of that year, after Prokofiev in at regular intervals, strangely labeled had returned to Europe, was only lukewarm, a response that was shared in “eroico” (heroic). It is as if two alien musics are at war, with no resolution. Europe and the Soviet Union. As we know from Prokofiev’s ballets, On the other hand, the Fifth Symphony, composed in 1944 after his return there is a sweet and sometimes childish side to his music, and this is to be heard to the Soviet Union, was a success everywhere — and still is — which encour- here, especially in the middle two aged him to think again about the Fourth. movements. Prokofiev was never afraid to write cool, exposed, expressive Rather than simply revising the work, melodies, often high above the supporthe rewrote it, expanding the size of the ing accompaniment, or barely accomorchestra and adding nearly 15 minutes panied at all. to its duration. Its connection to the The finale recalls the Haydnesque original ballet was now remote, and it high spirits that inspired Prokofiev’s is in this form that the music has won First Symphony, the “Classical.” This is its place as an important part of the music reminding us that the rhythmic composer’s legacy. vitality possessed in full measure by both Soon after completing the “new” Stravinsky and Prokofiev is the essential symphony, Prokofiev was a victim mark of a great composer of ballet. of the infamous Zhdanov Decree, which The sequence of seven symphonies proscribed important works by most (eight, if you count the present work as of the leading Soviet composers. His two) reminds us that Prokofiev was a health was poor, and for the remaining master of large, abstract compositions, years of his life, he scarcely moved too. The neoclassical First, the mechafrom his Moscow apartment. He nistic Second, the busy, dramatic Third never heard the second version of his and Fourth, the perfectly balanced Fifth, Fourth Symphony. and the autumnally relaxed Sixth and The listener will be struck by the Seventh give ample proof of that mastery. abundance of musical ideas in this work. — Hugh Macdonald Symphonic style can be economical if the same material is repeatedly heard in Hugh Macdonald is Avis H. Blewett Professor Emeritus of Music at Washington University in St. Louis. He has written different contexts, whereas prodigality books on Beethoven, Berlioz, Bizet, and Scriabin, as well as (without any intentional reference to the Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year. 20 | 2024/2025 SEASON
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FOR 23 YEARS , Franz Welser-Möst has shaped an unmistakable sound culture as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra. Under his leadership, the Orchestra has been repeatedly praised by international critics for its musical excellence, continued its strong commitment to new music, and brought opera back to the stage of Severance Music Center. In recent years, the Orchestra also founded its own streaming platform (Adella.live) and recording label. In addition to residencies in the US, Europe, and China, Welser-Möst and the Orchestra are regular guests at all major international festivals. Welser-Möst will remain Music Director until 2027, making him the longest-serving music director of The Cleveland Orchestra.
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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, Welser-Möst has set new standards in interpretation as an opera conductor, with a special focus on the operas of Richard Strauss. Welser-Möst has been the recipient of several major honors and awards, including the Honorary Membership of the Vienna Philharmonic, bestowed upon him in 2024. | 27
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TH E CLEV EL A N D ORCHESTR A
Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director KELVIN SMITH FAMILY CHAIR FIRST VIOLINS
Eli Matthews1 Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J. Bogomolny Chair
Tanya Ell Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber Chair
Jeffrey Rathbun2 Everett D. and Eugenia S. McCurdy Chair
Sonja Braaten Molloy
Ralph Curry
Robert Walters
Carolyn Gadiel Warner Elayna Duitman
Brian Thornton William P. Blair III Chair
ENGLISH HORN
Ioana Missits
David Alan Harrell
Jeffrey Zehngut^
Martha Baldwin
Sae Shiragami
Dane Johansen
Stephen Tavani
Kathleen Collins
Paul Kushious
CLARINETS
ASSISTANT CONCERTMASTER
Beth Woodside
BASSES
Afendi Yusuf* Robert Marcellus Chair
Emma Shook Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr. Glenn R. Brown Chair
Maximilian Dimoff* Clarence T. Reinberger Chair
Liyuan Xie FIRST ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD, Chair Jung-Min Amy Lee ASSOCIATE CONCERTMASTER
Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair
Dr. Ronald H. Krasney Chair
Wei-Fang Gu Drs. Paul M. and Renate H. Duchesneau Chair Kim Gomez Elizabeth and Leslie Kondorossy Chair Chul-In Park Harriet T. and David L. Simon Chair Miho Hashizume Theodore Rautenberg Chair Jeanne Preucil Rose Larry J.B. and Barbara S. Robinson Chair Alicia Koelz Oswald and Phyllis Lerner Gilroy Chair Yu Yuan Patty and John Collinson Chair
Yun-Ting Lee Jiah Chung Chapdelaine Gawon Kim
VIOLAS Wesley Collins* Chaillé H. and Richard B. Tullis Chair
Derek Zadinsky2 Charles Paul1 Mary E. and F. Joseph Callahan Chair Mark Atherton
Daniel McKelway Stanley L. and Eloise M. Morgan Chair
Scott Dixon
Isabel Trautwein Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair
Eliesha Nelson^ Anthony and Diane Wynshaw-Boris Chair
Katherine Bormann
Joanna Patterson Zakany
Analise Handke Gladys B. Goetz Chair
William Bender Thomas Lauria and Christopher Lauria Chair
Amy Zoloto
E-FLAT CLARINET
Charles Carleton
Lembi Veskimets The Morgan Sisters Chair
Daniel McKelway2 Robert R. and Vilma L. Kohn Chair
Henry Peyrebrune Charles Barr Memorial Chair
Mark Jackobs Jean Wall Bennett Chair
Richard Waugh
Robert Woolfrey Victoire G. and Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Chair
Thomas Sperl
Stanley Konopka2
Lisa Boyko Richard and Nancy Sneed Chair
Robert Walters Samuel C. and Bernette K. Jaffe Chair
HARP Trina Struble* Alice Chalifoux Chair
FLUTES Joshua Smith* Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Chair
BASS CLARINET Amy Zoloto Myrna and James Spira Chair
BASSOONS John Clouser* Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair Gareth Thomas Jonathan Sherwin
Saeran St. Christopher Jessica Sindell2^ Austin B. and Ellen W. Chinn Chair
CONTRABASSOON Jonathan Sherwin
Mary Kay Fink
HORNS
Gareth Zehngut^
PICCOLO
Nathaniel Silberschlag* George Szell Memorial Chair
Genevieve Smelser
CELLOS
SECOND VIOLINS
Mark Kosower* Louis D. Beaumont Chair
Mary Kay Fink Anne M. and M. Roger Clapp Chair
Zhan Shu Youngji Kim Paul and Lucille Jones Chair
Stephen Rose* Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Chair Jason Yu2 James and Donna Reid Chair
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Richard Weiss1 The GAR Foundation Chair Charles Bernard2 Helen Weil Ross Chair Bryan Dumm Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair
OBOES Frank Rosenwein* Edith S. Taplin Chair Corbin Stair Sharon and Yoash Wiener Chair
Michael Mayhew§ Knight Foundation Chair Jesse McCormick Robert B. Benyo Chair Hans Clebsch Richard King Meghan Guegold Hege^
FRO M TH E PRESID E N T & CEO
TRUMPETS
BASS TROMBONE
LIBRARIANS
CONDUCTORS
Michael Sachs* Robert and Eunice Podis Weiskopf Chair
Luke Sieve
Michael Ferraguto* Joe and Marlene Toot Chair
Christoph von Dohnányi
EUPHONIUM & BASS TRUMPET
Donald Miller
Daniel Reith
Gabrielle Petek
ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR
Jack Sutte Lyle Steelman2^ James P. and Dolores D. Storer Chair
Richard Stout
Michael Miller
Yasuhito Sugiyama* Nathalie C. Spence and Nathalie S. Boswell Chair
CORNETS Michael Sachs* Mary Elizabeth and G. Robert Klein Chair
TIMPANI
Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair Clara G. and George P. Bickford Chair
Michael Miller
PERCUSSION
Sandra L. Haslinger Chair
TROMBONES
Marc Damoulakis* Margaret Allen Ireland Chair
Richard Stout Alexander and Marianna C. McAfee Chair Shachar Israel2
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KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Carolyn Gadiel Warner Marjory and Marc L. Swartzbaugh Chair
Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair
Lisa Wong DIRECTOR OF CHORUSES
Frances P. and Chester C. Bolton Chair
Blossom-Lee Chair
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Brian Wendel* Gilbert W. and Louise I. Humphrey Chair PHOTO BY ROGER MASTROIANNI
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ENDOWED CHAIRS CURRENTLY UNOCCUPIED
MUSIC DIRECTOR LAUREATE
Charles M. and Janet G. Kimball Chair Sunshine Chair Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Smucker Chair Rudolf Serkin Chair
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First Assistant Principal
2 Assistant Principal
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The Grit, Grace & Glory of
Allison Loggins-Hull The Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow reflects on three years with The Cleveland Orchestra and the premiere of her brand-new piece in May.
that he requested more scores from Loggins-Hull. A few months after sendfor the afternoon that would change ing some samples, Loggins-Hull learned her life. It was October 3, 2021 — unseashe had been selected as the Orchestra’s sonably humid, remembers Cleveland next Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow. Orchestra Principal Flutist Joshua Smith. He and other Orchestra members She’d had no idea she was even being considered. “They asked me if I wanted were putting on a “Porchestra” concert to do it, and I was like, ‘Come again?’” on the stoop of the Cozad-Bates House, she says, laughing in disbelief at the a pre–Civil War home believed to have memory. “I didn’t believe it; I didn’t acted as a safe house along the Undersee it coming.” ground Railroad. Loggins-Hull has written across solo, He’d decided to play Homeland, a chamber, and orchestral configurations. solo piece Loggins-Hull wrote in 2018. Much of her work strikingly incorporSmith had been besotted with the work ates electronics — samples, delay, since a friend introduced him to it some looping. Others, like Homeland and Can months before. “She knows how to You See? — her 2023 commission for exploit an in-betweenness with [instruthe Orchestra — mimic electronic effects ments], like the delicate bends that you but are purely acoustic. can get between notes,” Smith says of Loggins-Hull viewed her time in Loggins-Hull’s writing. Cleveland as an invitation to play in Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst attended that concert. a purely orchestral sandbox. And what better sandbox exists than The Cleveland He, too, was impressed — so much so Orchestra? “I’ve never heard an orchestra sound that great. That’s the truth,” Outside of her composing activities, Allison Loggins-Hull is an acclaimed flutist who co-founded the flute duo she says. “I’ve sat in on rehearsals; Flutronix and has collaborated with a stunning variety I’ve listened to so many concerts and of musicians, from Hans Zimmer to Lizzo.
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ALLISON LOGGINS-HULL WASN’T THERE
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Loggins-Hull congratulates Principal Flute Joshua Smith after his performance of Homeland at the 2022 Gala. This piece sparked Loggins-Hull’s appointment as the Orchestra’s 11th Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow.
three community partners: the Fatima Family Center in Hough; Karamu House, the city’s historical Black theater; and the Hryhory Kytasty Cleveland School of Bandura, a Ukrainian music school. Performers from all three organizations convened at Severance Music Center last May to play at a concert featuring Legacy’s premiere. Welser-Möst, reflecting on Loggins-Hull’s tenure, praised her as “an extraordinary person and a wonderful
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recordings. The opportunity to work with this orchestra has informed my concept of orchestration and color in a priceless way.” Arguably, Loggins-Hull’s tenure has been just as transformative for the Orchestra as it has for her. Previous Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellows held the fellowship for two years. LogginsHull asked that hers be extended to three so she could forge deeper connections with the city. Those connections later inspired Legacy, a string sextet commissioned by the Orchestra last season. The piece references concerts held onsite with
composer.” He continued, “The way she has reached out to the Cleveland community during her fellowship — she’s become a star. People have fallen in love with her in such a great way.” Still ahead is Loggins-Hull’s third and final commission for the Orchestra, premiering May 8–10. Titled Grit. Grace. Glory., she says the 20-minute piece is her most ambitious work to date and is
the slower, more meditative Shoreline Shadows. That movement incorporates improvisations by Cleveland School of the Arts students in response to Loggins-Hull’s prompt: “What does Cleveland mean to you?” She titled the exuberant third movement Quip, a celebration of the city’s self-deprecating humor. Throughout, instrument sections have to slot in
The opportunity to work with this orchestra has informed my concept of orchestration and color in a priceless way. — Allison Loggins-Hull
“informed by everything,” from the people she met in Cleveland to her own personal reflections following her father’s death last April. “I really wanted it to be a piece for The Cleveland Orchestra — this specific orchestra and this specific place, [with] its own energy and rhythm,” LogginsHull says. “I was able to include other people’s voices, stories, and histories but still do it in my voice, without overshadowing their narratives.” The driving first movement, Steel, nods to literal and metaphorical railways through Cleveland. In a full-circle moment, she was thinking about the Cozad-Bates House as she wrote it, pivotal not just to survivors of slavery but to Loggins-Hull’s own path to The Cleveland Orchestra. It’s followed by clevelandorchestra.com
intricately placed offbeats. “It’s a musical ‘humblebrag,’” she explains. “The material itself is not complicated, but it’s written in such a way that the Orchestra can show off.” The finale movement, Ode, opens with chorales referencing material from earlier in the piece. But it ends in a very different place altogether, on a hard-rocking tutti in the spirit of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir.” “I mean, how can I ignore rock n’ roll? That would be a huge oversight,” Loggins-Hull says with a giggle. “I even told them in the score: ‘Rock out.’” Spoken like a true rock star herself. — Hannah Edgar Hannah Edgar is a Chicago-based culture writer. Their work appears regularly in the Chicago Tribune Tribune, Chicago Reader Reader, Musical America America, DownBeat DownBeat, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Fanfare magazine.
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A Conversation Between
TCO and COYO AMONG ITS RANKS , The Cleveland Orchestra boasts six members
who are alums of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO). Two of these players — second violinist Jeffrey Zehngut and his brother, violist Gareth Zehngut — recently sat down with two current musicians in COYO: violinist Cyprus Foster and oboist Eliana Fittante. Their conversation ran the gamut, from what brought them to COYO to their advice for young musicians to what they like to do outside of music. ELIANA FITTANTE
GARETH
How did you end up in COYO? Was it a teacher recommendation or did you do independent research?
Yes, Jeff started the year before me. (We’re three years apart.) And then our younger sister, who’s a violinist, joined after us.
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For me, I had a brother’s recommendation to join COYO! ELIANA
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What was the most influential part of being in COYO for you? GARETH
Being on a stage with a bunch of kids like me who were taking music seriously and at a level you don’t find in most other youth orchestras. Also, getting the chance to receive coaching from Cleveland Orchestra players — my coach was Stan Konopka, who still plays in the Orchestra and coaches for COYO. Being in COYO is honestly where I learned how to play in an orchestra and what the role of a violist is. TCO members and COYO alums — Gareth (far left) and Jeffrey Zehngut (far right) — recently talked with two current members of the Youth Orchestra: Eliana Fittante and Cyprus Foster (middle l-r).
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JEFFREY ZEHNGUT
I went to Interlochen Arts Camp and met a violist from Cleveland who was in COYO. I was deciding between youth orchestras that year in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Cleveland, which are all about four hours from our hometown in Pennsylvania. Since I already had a friend in COYO and the group’s schedule was ideal, I ended up choosing that one. We’d leave around 8:30 in the morning, my parents would do some work in the library during rehearsal, and then we’d drive back and be home by 10.
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ELIANA
GARETH
Do either of you have a favorite piece that you love to perform?
Along the same lines, if going into music means just one thing, that can be dangerous. You can push yourself and might be fortunate enough to get to do what we’re doing. I can confidently say we both feel incredibly lucky to be where we are. But at the same time, not everybody gets to the NFL. You might not end up with the career that you dreamed of, but that doesn’t mean you won’t end up with the career that you love.
JEFFREY
There are a lot of amazing pieces, but I always go back to Mahler; I think that’s some of the repertoire we do best here. Sibelius’s Second Symphony was one that confirmed my decision to go into music and join COYO. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony was another one of those too.
It’s also inspiring to talk to younger musicians ... who are playing with this same level of commitment. It helps us to remember where we once were and how we felt back then. — Jeffrey Zehngut
ELIANA
JEFFREY
We played it at our concert last year! It’s amazing.
Exactly. Success in music can mean a lot of different things.
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CYPRUS
If there were one thing that you could tell yourself at our age, or someone who is considering going into music, what would that be?
That makes sense. What do you do to maintain your level of playing and further it?
JEFFREY
I spend a lot of time working on exercises that my former teachers gave me, and they’re still incredibly helpful. As far as improvement, being around people who inspire you and getting to play with them is a great way to continue to hear things in ways that you hadn’t thought about before.
Music is a wonderful thing. If you need music, if it speaks to you, then give it everything. If you’re interested in other things and can see yourself doing something else, that’s OK too! But do something you love.
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GARETH
JEFFREY
It’s also inspiring to talk to younger musicians, like yourselves, who are playing with this same level of commitment. It helps us to remember where we once were and how we felt back then. ELIANA
What do you like to do other than music?
Both Fittante and Foster participated in COYO’s winter concert with The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus on February 16, which featured works by Palestrina, J.S. Bach, Poulenc, Brahms, and Stravinsky.
JEFFREY
And every genre has its own traditions and history that’s passed down. I saw the Bob Dylan movie not too long ago and the music that he created is just amazing.
GARETH
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We like to travel a lot — anywhere and whenever we can — and to play soccer. My wife and I also got into vegetable gardening some years ago, which has been nice. When you see streaks of dirt on my tux, that’s the excuse!
ELIANA
What about Wicked? Have you seen that? JEFFREY
Not yet, but I’m sure you’ve heard that Cynthia Erivo is coming to Blossom this summer [July 27], which will be incredible.
CYPRUS
CYPRUS
Speaking of, do you exclusively listen to classical music?
Yes! You should see it before then.
GARETH
We are both musical fans, so we definitely will!
I love a variety of music. Plus, hearing other high-level performers and their different approaches to music can still translate to our work in a way. clevelandorchestra.com
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TCO Audio Producer Elaine Martone Receives Sixth Grammy Award stand up for myself,” Martone said in her heartfelt acceptance speech. She also on February 2, audio producer Elaine Martone was awarded the title Producer thanked her recording engineer and of the Year, Classical. This win marks her partner-in-production Gintas Norvila, who works on many Cleveland Orchestra third victory in the category and her projects, and her husband and fellow sixth Grammy overall. classical producer Robert Woods, who Martone’s relationship with The has 13 Grammy wins of his own. Cleveland Orchestra has been central Martone’s deep respect for the to her career. Over the years, she has worked with the Orchestra on numerous musicians and the institution has been a hallmark of her extensive body of work. recordings, developing a strong professional and personal connection. Her latest Grammy win was driven by her The Cleveland Orchestra work on four recent projects from The Cleveland Orchestra and Music Director is my favorite orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst — Bartók: String it’s not only because I live Quartet No. 3 & Suite from The Miraculous here. They are the very best. Mandarin, Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, — Elaine Martone Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6 6, and Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4. These recordings “I just couldn’t win Grammys without showcased both Martone’s exceptional all of you. This is the truth,” Martone production skills and the Orchestra’s said. “The Cleveland Orchestra is my world-class musicianship. “I must thank The Cleveland Orchestra, favorite orchestra and it’s not only because I live here. They are the very best.” Franz Welser-Möst, and the whole Her Grammy success further emphaadministration there who believes in sizes her unyielding dedication to the art me, stands by me, when I can hardly form, and with her ongoing relationship with The Cleveland Orchestra, it is Elaine Martone walks the red carpet in Los Angeles clear that Martone’s impact on classical on February 2 prior to her Grammy win. This Grammy marks the second time Martone has won Producer music will continue to resonate for years of the Year, Classical for recordings produced for to come. The Cleveland Orchestra.
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AT THE 67TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS
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TCO Chorus Fellowship Marks Anniversary TEN YEARS AGO ,
The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus lost a devoted, 25-year member of the Chorus and a passionate advocate for music education, Shari Bierman Singer (above). In her memory, the Shari Bierman Singer Fellowship was established to support the next generation of musicians by providing financial assistance to Chorus members pursuing full-time undergraduate or graduate
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studies in vocal performance, music education, conducting, or related fields. Director of Choruses Lisa Wong reflected on the profound impact of this Fellowship and Singer’s enduring legacy: “We are tremendously grateful to Shari Bierman Singer and the entire Singer family for their incredible foresight, generosity, and dedication to music education, all of which has afforded exceptional opportunities for our Shari Bierman Singer Fellows. And, of course, the Chorus has greatly benefited from our Fellows’ vibrant voices and dedicated musicianship!” As we celebrate this milestone, we are reminded of the countless lives Singer touched and the lasting contribution she will continue to make through the talented Chorus members who benefit from this Fellowship.
later be available to stream and purchase on all major platforms on May 9.
first digital audio release of 2025, featuring two second symphonies by two vastly different composers. The album opens with the moody Second Symphony by Julius Eastman — an elegy to lost love composed in 1983 — followed by the inspiring “Ukrainian” Symphony of Tchaikovsky. Both recordings were captured live at concerts led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst in May and October 2023, respectively. The album is now available as an Apple Music Classical exclusive; it will 44 | 2024/2025 SEASON
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MARCH SEES The Cleveland Orchestra’s
Members Club Receives Shoutout in The New York Times THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA ’s Members Club was recently featured in a New York Times article that poses the question: “What if Orchestras Were More Like Netflix?” (September 3, 2024). The piece highlights the Club’s innovative approach to audience engagement, noting that it has attracted over 1,000 members since its launch in 2016. This initiative reflects the Orchestra’s commitment to making world-class performances more accessible and to fostering a vibrant musical community.
The Members Club offers an allaccess pass to over 100 performances annually at Severance and Blossom Music Center for just $29 per month. Members can enjoy $10 tickets to nearly every concert, with flexible reservation options and the best available seating in the orchestra or balcony sections. Plus, they can receive 20% off additional tickets for friends and family. Interested in joining? Learn more at cleveland orchestra.com/membersclub and become part of this celebrated musical experience!
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IN MEMORIAM :
Clara Taplin Rankin
Orchestra’s Education Committee, she was a passionate advocate for the value of music as a lifelong pursuit for people of all ages. Clara’s legacy is also intertwined with her family’s relationship with the Orchestra. Her late husband, Alfred M. Rankin, served as president and chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1968 to 1983. Together, the Rankins made a lasting impact on the Orchestra, including their
FRIEND OF The Cleveland Orchestra Clara Taplin Rankin passed away on February 26 at age 107. Her commitment to the institution spanned more than eight decades. Clara’s connection with the Orchestra began as a teenager, attending concerts with her mother, and grew into a deep and enduring bond. Her formal involvement with the Orchestra began in the late 1950s, when she began volunteering. She was elected to the Board of Trustees in 1997 and became an Honorary Trustee for Life in 2021, contributing to major projects such as the Severance Renovation and the 75th Anniversary Challenge Fund. As a member of the
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endowment gifts to establish the Edith S. Taplin Principal Oboe Chair in 1975 and the Alfred M. and Clara T. Rankin Principal Second Violin Chair in 1980. Today, her son, Alfred Rankin, Jr., and granddaughter, Helen Rankin Butler, remain active and important members of the Board of Trustees. For her steadfast support, Clara was honored with The Cleveland Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award in 2011. She once expressed that the Orchestra was profoundly important to her because of her admiration for its high standards of excellence and beauty of sound. Clara’s impact on The Cleveland Orchestra is immeasurable, and her presence will be deeply missed. Our heartfelt condolences go out to the entire Rankin family, and we join them in celebrating an extraordinary life.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE RANKIN FAMILY
[Rankin] was a passionate advocate for the value of music as a lifelong pursuit for people of all ages.
Shaping the Future of Classical Music
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EVERY SPRING , The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO), comprising young musicians from across Northeast Ohio and beyond, holds auditions for new members. However, there are rarely enough candidates who audition on bassoon, since the starting age for bassoonists is often much later due to its difficulty and size. Access to adequate instruments can also create an additional barrier for both students and schools. Thankfully, Cleveland music lover Joan Y. Horvitz stepped in and made the decision to leave The Cleveland Orchestra in her will, with the wish that it would create new opportunities for young musicians from diverse backgrounds. “Joan was passionate about the Orchestra and wanted to cultivate this musical art form so that it would continue to be vibrant for future generations,” said Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz, Joan’s stepson and stepdaughter-in-law. Because of Horvitz’s estate gift, The Cleveland Orchestra was able to launch its Bassoon Farm (below) in fall 2022,
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creating a path for underrepresented students to audition for COYO. Students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District between grades 5 and 8 have the opportunity to develop skills on the instrument with instruction from Mark DeMio, a bassoon professor at the Cleveland Institute of Music. This year, there are nine students in the program who receive one private lesson and one group lesson per week. Participants have also received visits from many young musicians, like COYO alum and Shaker Heights High School graduate Joshua Elmore, who was recently appointed principal bassoon of the San Francisco Symphony. It is thanks to one loving donor, who thought about what she would like the future of classical music in Cleveland to look like, that we are able to offer this important learning program for young musicians in our community. If you want help making plans that support your love of classical music, reach out to us at legacy@clevelandorchestra.com or 216-456-8400.
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NEW YEAR, NEW CONCERTS 1) The Cleveland Orchestra rang in 2025 with a series of events, including the 45th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert, which featured ((l-r l-r)) soprano Laquita Mitchell, l-r chorus director Dr. William Henry Caldwell, and Associate Conductor Daniel Reith. 2) An offstage chorus — comprising members of The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and led by Lisa Wong — was just one of many fascinating effects in Ives’s Orchestral Set No. 2, which Thomas Adès conducted as part of his program with the Orchestra in February. 3) Attendees at the MLK Community Open House & Day of Music groove to the beats of DJ Lily Jade in Severance’s Grand Foyer. 4) Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra flutists (l-r) (l-r l-r) Cole Flores, Ashley Beall, and Sreehita Mudiraj smile proudly after their performance with the Youth Chorus on February 16. 5) The Cleveland Orchestra briefly escaped the Northeast Ohio cold in late January during its annual Florida Residency, which included four concerts at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami (two of which were led by conductor Kahchun Wong Wong). 6) TCO supporters Joana and Jacobo Kirsch (center) center) enjoy a post-concert reception in Miami center with Orchestra players, including first violinists Yu Yuan (left (left left)) and Zhan Shu (right (right). right).
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The Cleveland Orchestra Heritage Society The Heritage Society recognizes dedicated supporters who have entrusted their legacy with The Cleveland Orchestra by including the Orchestra in their estate plans. We extend our heartfelt gratitude for the generous support of these individuals.
Lois A. Aaron* Leonard Abrams* Gay Cull Addicott* Norman* & Marjorie Allison Mr. & Mrs. A. Chace Anderson Sarah May Anderson George N. Aronoff Herbert Ascherman, Jr. Jack & Darby Ashelman Mr. & Mrs. William Winfield Baker Ruth Balombin* Jack L. Barnhart Henry & Margaret Barratt* Rev. Thomas T. Baumgardner & Dr. Joan Baumgardner* Fred G. & Mary W. Behm Fran & Jules Belkin Bob Bellamy Carol Bergman Marie-Hélène Bernard Howard R. & Barbara Kaye Besser Dr.* & Mrs. Murray M. Bett Dr. Marie Bielefeld Raymond J. Billy (Biello) Mr. William P. Blair III* Doug & Barb* Bletcher Madeline and Dennis Block Trust Fund Robin Dunn Blossom Mrs. Flora Blumenthal Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny & Ms. Patricia M. Kozerefski Mr. & Mrs. Charles P. Bolton Ms. Katherine Bormann Drs. Christopher P. Brandt & Beth Brandt Sersig Mr. D. McGregor Brandt, Jr. David & Denise Brewster Richard F. Brezic* Robert W. Briggs Elizabeth A. Brinkman Dr. Jeanette Grasselli Brown & Dr. Glenn R. Brown* Thomas Brugger, MD* Joan & Gene* Buehler Douglas M. Bunker Gretchen L. Burmeister Milan & Jeanne* Busta
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Ms. Lois L. Butler Mr.* & Mrs. William C. Butler Gregory & Karen Cada Mary Freer Cannon* Mary Jane Hawn Cariens* Harry & Marjorie* M. Carlson Janice L. Carlson Dr.* & Mrs. Roland D. Carlson Barbara A. Chambers, D. Ed. Dr. Gary Chottiner & Anne Poirson NancyBell Coe Kenneth S. & Deborah G. Cohen Victor J. & Ellen E.* Cohn Robert & Jean* Conrad Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Conway* Alexander B. Cook* Tom & Anita Cook The Honorable Colleen Conway Cooney & Mr. John Cooney Marilyn Cotman* Dr. Dale & Susan Cowan Martha Wood Cubberley Tom & Susan Cucuzza William* & Anna Jean Cushwa Alexander M. & Sarah S. Cutler Karen & Jim Dakin Mr.* & Mrs. Don C. Dangler Mr. & Mrs. Howard J. Danzinger Barbara Ann Davis Ronald J Davis & Cheryl A. Davis* Carol J. Davis Charles & Mary Ann Davis William E. Dean Jr. & Gloria P. Dean* Mary Kay DeGrandis & Edward J. Donnelly Carolyn L. Dessin Mrs. Armand J. DiLellio James A. Dingus, Jr. Dr. & Mrs.* Richard C. Distad Maureen A. Doerner & Geoffrey T. White Henry & Mary* Doll Gerald & Ruth Dombcik Barbara Sterk Domski Dr. Doris Donnelly Mr.* & Mrs. Roland W. Donnem Nancy E. & Richard M. Dotson Mrs. John Drollinger
Drs. Paul M. & Renate H. Duchesneau* George* & Becky Dunn Mr. & Mrs. Robert Duvin Dr. Robert E. Eckardt Paul & Peggy Edenburn Mr. & Mrs.* Alfred M. Eich, Jr. Roger B. Ellsworth Oliver & Mary Emerson* Lois Marsh Epp Patricia Esposito C. Gordon & Kathleen A. Ewers* Patricia J. Factor Carl Falb Regis & Gayle Falinski Mrs. Mildred Fiening Gloria & Irving* Fine Joan Alice Ford Gil & Elle Frey* Arthur* & Deanna Friedman Mr.* & Mrs. Edward H. Frost Dr. Stephen & Nancy Gage Barbara & Peter* Galvin Mr. & Mrs. Steven B. Garfunkel Donald* & Lois Gaynor Albert I.* & Norma C. Geller Dr. Saul Genuth* Frank & Louise Gerlak Dr. James E. Gibbs S. Bradley Gillaugh* Mr.* & Mrs. Robert M. Ginn Fred & Holly Glock Ronald & Carol Godes* William H. Goff Mr.* & Mrs. Henry J. Goodman John & Ann Gosky In Memory of Margaret Goss Mr. Michael Gotwald Harry & Joyce Graham Elaine Harris Green* Tom & Gretchen Green Anna Zak Greenfield* Richard & Ann Gridley Nancy Hancock Griffith David E.* & Jane J. Griffiths Bev & Bob Grimm Candy & Brent Grover Thomas J. & Judith Fay Gruber* Henry & Komal Gulich Mr. & Mrs. David H. Gunning Mr. & Mrs. William E. Gunton* Richard* & Mary Louise Hahn Raymond G. Hamlin, Jr. Kathleen E. Hancock Norman C.* & Donna L. Harbert William L.* & Lucille L. Hassler Nancy Hausmann Virginia & George Havens* Barbara L. Hawley & David S. Goodman Gary D. Helgesen
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Clyde J. Henry, Jr. Ms. M. Diane Henry Wayne & Prudence Heritage T. K.* & Faye A. Heston Fred Heupler, MD Mr. & Mrs. Daniel R. High* Alvin Hinmam* Bruce F. Hodgson Amy & Stephen Hoffman Mary V. Hoffman David & Nancy Hooker Thomas H. and Virginia J. Horner Fund* Patience Cameron Hoskins Elizabeth Hosmer Dr. Christine A. Hudak & Mr. Marc F. Cymes Dr. Randal N. Huff Mrs. Marguerite B. Humphrey* Ann E. Humphreys & Jayne E. Sisson David & Dianne Hunt Karen S. Hunt Mr. & Mrs. G. Richard Hunter Gerri Hura Ruth F. Ihde* Pamela & Scott Isquick Mr. & Mrs. Donald M. Jack, Jr.* Carol S. Jacobs Pamela Jacobson Milton* & Jodith Janes Mr. Gary & Dr. Maita Jarkewicz Allan V. Johnson E. Anne Johnson Nancy Kurfess Johnson, MD Susan Albrecht Johnson* David* & Gloria Kahan Julian & Etole Kahan David George Kanzeg Bernie & Nancy Karr Milton & Donna* Katz Ms. Beverly Kaveney Nancy F. Keithley & Joseph P. Keithley Bruce* & Eleanor Kendrick Malcolm E. Kenney* Mr. & Mrs. Douglas A. Kern James & Gay* Kitson Mr. Clarence E. Klaus, Jr.* Fred* & Judith Klotzman Paul & Cynthia Klug Martha D. Knight Mr. & Mrs. Robert Koch* Mr. Clayton Koppes Susan Korosa Margery A. Kowalski* Janet L. Kramer Dr. Ronald H. Krasney Mr. James Krohngold* Mr. & Mrs. Gregory G. Kruszka Thomas* & Barbara Kuby Mr. & Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre James I. Lader
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Mr. & Mrs. David A. Lambros Mrs. Carolyn Lampl* Kenneth M. Lapine & Rose E. Mills Lee & Susan Larson Charles K. László & Maureen O’Neill-László Anthony T.* & Patricia Lauria Jordan R. & Jane G. Lefko Teela C. Lelyveld Mr. & Mrs. Roger J. Lerch Judy D. Levendula Dr. & Mrs. Howard Levine Bracy E. Lewis Mr. & Mrs.* Thomas A. Liederbach Rollin* & Leda Linderman Virginia M. & Jon A. Lindseth Dr.* & Mrs. William K. Littman Dr. Jack & Mrs. Jeannine Love Jeff & Maggie Love Dr. Alan & Mrs. Min Cha Lubin Linda* & Saul Ludwig Kate Lunsford* Patricia MacDonald Alex & Carol Machaskee Mrs. H. Stephen Madsen Mr. & Mrs. Donald Malpass, Jr. Clement P. Marion Dr.* & Mrs. Sanford E. Marovitz Mr. & Mrs. Anthony M. Martincic Kathryn A. Mates Dr. Lee Maxwell & Michael M. Prunty Alexander & Marianna* McAfee Nancy W. McCann Nancy B. McCormack Mr. William C. McCoy* Dorothy R. McLean James & Virginia Meil Brenda Clark Mikota Christine Gitlin Miles* Antoinette S. Miller Chuck & Chris Miller Edith & Ted Miller* Leo Minter, Jr. Mr. & Mrs.* William A. Mitchell Robert L. Moncrief Ms. Beth E. Mooney Beryl & Irv Moore Ann Jones Morgan George & Carole Morris Mr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Morris Ken & Sharon Mountcastle Susan B. Murphy Anne & Chris Myers Mr. Michael Napoli Dr. & Mrs. Clyde L. Nash, Jr Deborah L. Neale Mrs. Ruth Neides* Jay & Joyce Nesbit David & Judith Newell* Steve Norris & Emily Gonzales Bernadette Norwood*
Paul & Connie Omelsky William R. O’Connell* Katherine T. O’Neill The Honorable John Doyle Ong Henry Ott-Hansen Mr. J. William & Dr. Suzanne* Palmer R. Neil Fisher & Ronald J. Parks Nancy* & W. Stuver Parry Dr.* & Mrs. Donald Pensiero Mr. & Mrs. Peter Pfouts* Drs. Roland Philip & Linda Sandhaus Elisabeth C. Plax* Florence KZ Pollack Julia & Larry Pollock John L. Power* & Edith Dus-Garden Richard J. Price Ms. Rosella Puskas* Leonard* & Heddy Rabe M. Neal Rains Dr. James & Lynne Rambasek Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Sr.* James* & Donna Reid David J. Reimer & Raffaele DiLallo David & Gloria Richards James & Marguerite Rigby Larry J.B. & Barbara S. Robinson* Dwight W. Robinson Margaret B. Robinson Janice & Roger Robinson Amy & Ken Rogat Carol Rolf & Steven Adler Margaret B. Babyak & Phillip J. Roscoe* Audra & George Rose* Dr. Eugene & Mrs. Jacqueline Ross* Robert* & Margo Roth Howard & Laurel Rowen Professor Alan Miles Ruben & Judge Betty Willis Ruben Marc Ruckel Michael J. & Roberta W. Rusek Dr. Joseph V. Ryckman Marjorie Bell Sachs Dr. Vernon E. Sackman & Ms. Marguerite Patton* Mr. & Mrs.* James A. Saks John A Salkowski Larry J. Santon* Stanford* & Jean B. Sarlson Dorian Sarris & Scott Inglis James Dalton Saunders Patricia J. Sawvel Ray & Kit Sawyer Alice R. Sayre In Memory of Hyman and Becky Schandler Sandra J. Schlub Ms. Marian Schluembach Robert & Betty Schmiermund Richard B. & Cheryl A. Schmitz
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Mr.* & Mrs. Richard M. Schneider Jeanette L. Schroeder Frank Schultz Carol & Albert Schupp* Mr. Raymond B. Scragg Lawrence M. Sears & Sally Z. Sears Roslyn S. & Ralph M. Seed Nancy F. Seeley Meredith M. Seikel Reverend Sandra Selby Eric Sellen Holly Selvaggi Thomas & Ann Sepúlveda The Seven Five Fund B. Kathleen Shamp* Jill Semko Shane David Shank Helen & Fred D. Shapiro* Dr. & Mrs. William C. Sheldon John F. Shelley & Patricia Ann Burgess* Frank* & Mary Ann Sheranko Kim Sherwin* Mr. & Mrs. Michael Sherwin* Reverend & Mrs. Malcolm K. Shields Robyn Shifrin Mr. & Mrs. David L. Simon* Dr.* & Mrs. John A. Sims Lauretta Sinkosky* H. Scott Sippel & Clark T. Kurtz Ellen J. Skinner Ralph* & Phyllis Skufca Janet Hickok Slade Bartholomew Slak Drs. Charles Kent Smith & Patricia Moore Smith
Ms. Mary C. Smith Sandra & Richey* Smith Roy Smith Mr.* & Mrs. Ward Smith Myrna & James Spira Barbara J. Stanford & Vincent T. Lombardo George R. & Mary B.* Stark Sue Starrett & Jerry Smith Lois & Tom Stauffer* Elliott K. Stava & Susan L. Kozak Fund Saundra K. Stemen Dr. Myron Bud & Helene* Stern Mr. & Mrs. John M. Stickney Dr. & Mrs. William H. Stigelman, Jr. Mr.* & Mrs. James P. Storer The Strawbridge Family Foundation / Holly Strawbridge In Memory of Marjory Swartzbaugh Dr. Elizabeth Swenson Lorraine S. Szabo Nancy & Lee Tenenbaum Mr. Joseph F. Tetlak* Carol Tevis Dr. & Mrs. Friedrich Thiel Christina & Thomas Thoburn Gary & Beryl Tishkoff Mr. & Mrs. William M. Toneff Joe & Marlene Toot Alleyne C. Toppin Janice & Leonard Tower Dr. & Mrs. James E. Triner William & Judith Ann Tucholsky Mr. Jack G. Ulman Robert & Marti* Vagi Robert A. Valente
J. Paxton Van Sweringen* Mary Louise & Don VanDyke* Nicholas J. Velloney* Steven Vivarronda Hon. & Mrs. William F.B. Vodrey Pat & Walt* Wahlen Mrs. Clare R. Walker* John & Deborah Warner Mr. & Mrs. Russell Warren Joseph F. & Dorothy L.* Wasserbauer Richard & Barbara Watkins* Reverend Thomas L. Weber Lucile Weingartner Max W. Wendel William Wendling* & Lynne Woodman Robert C. Weppler Paul & Suzanne Westlake Marilyn J. White Yoash & Sharon Wiener Linda R. Wilcox Mrs. Alan H. Wilde* Helen Sue & Meredith Williams* Dr. Paul R. & Catherine Williams Carter & Genevieve* Wilmot Nancy L. Wolpe Mrs. Alfred C. Woodcock Katie & Donald Woodcock Dr.* & Mrs. Henry F. Woodruff Nancy R. Wurzel Michael & Diane Wyatt Tony & Diane Wynshaw-Boris Mary Yee Carol Yellig Libby M. Yunger William Zempolich & Beth Meany Anonymous (55)
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Whatever greatness The Cleveland Orchestra has achieved is because of all the people here in this community, who believe in what the power of music can do.
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Individual Support Behind every powerful performance is a community of supporters who bring the music to life. We are deeply thankful for the generosity of every member of The Cleveland Orchestra family. To learn more, visit clevelandorchestra.com/give Adella Prentiss Hughes Society Gifts of $1,000,000 & more Mr. & Mrs.* Geoffrey Gund Joan Y. Horvitz* Anne H. & Tom H. Jenkins Milton & Tamar Maltz Mrs. Jane B. Nord Mr. & Mrs.* Richard K. Smucker Gifts of $200,000 to $999,999 The Musicians of The Cleveland Orchestra (in-kind contribution for community programs & opportunities to secure funding) Mary Freer Cannon* Iris & Tom Harvie Haslam 3 Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Anthony T. Lauria Mrs. Norma Lerner Jan R. Lewis Robert Lugibihl* Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Ratner Jenny & Tim Smucker Anonymous Gifts of $100,000 to $199,999 Gay Cull Addicott* Art of Beauty Company, Inc. Mr. & Mrs.* Eugene J. Beer Mr. Yuval Brisker Alexander B. Cook* Rebecca Dunn Dr. Michael Frank & Patricia A.* Snyder Mr. & Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz The Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Dr. & Mrs. Herbert Kloiber (Europe) Mr. & Mrs. Dennis W. LaBarre Thomas E. Lauria (Miami) Ms. Beth E. Mooney Patrick & Milly Park Ilana & Chuck Horowitz Ratner James* & Donna Reid Jim & Myrna Spira Mr.* & Mrs. Donald W. Strang, Jr. Ms. Ginger Warner Mrs. Jayne M. Zborowsky Anonymous
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Lillian Baldwin Society Gifts of $75,000 to $99,999 Mr. & Mrs. Alexander M. Cutler Richard & Michelle Jeschelnig Mr. & Mrs. Douglas A. Kern Richard & Christine Kramer Ms. Cathy Lincoln Mr. & Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Anonymous George Szell Society Gifts of $50,000 to $74,999 Randall & Virginia Barbato Brenda & Marshall B. Brown Irad & Rebecca Carmi Dr. Hiroyuki & Mrs. Mikiko Fujita Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Gillespie JoAnn & Robert Glick Ms. Alexandra Hanna Mr. & Mrs. Donald M. Jack, Jr.* Elizabeth B. Juliano Mr. & Mrs. Ben Mathews Nancy W. McCann The Oatey Foundation (Cleveland, Miami) William J. & Katherine T. O’Neill Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin N. Pyne Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Sr.* Mr. & Mrs. James A. Ratner The Ralph and Luci Schey Foundation Astri Seidenfeld The Seven Five Fund Richard & Nancy Sneed R. Thomas & Meg Harris Stanton Dr. Russell A. Trusso Mr. & Mrs. Franz Welser-Möst Paul & Suzanne Westlake Barbara & David Wolfort Tony & Diane Wynshaw-Boris Anonymous Elisabeth DeWitt Severance Society Gifts of $25,000 to $49,999 Victor & Abby Alexander Mr. & Mrs. A. Chace Anderson Gerrie E. Berena Dr. & Mrs. Wolfgang Berndt (Europe)
Mr. William P. Blair III* Robin Dunn Blossom Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny & Ms. Patricia M. Kozerefski Jeanette Grasselli Brown & Glenn R. Brown* Dr. Robert Brown & Mrs. Janet Gans Brown Dr. Thomas Brugger* & Dr. Sandra Russ J. C. & Helen Rankin Butler Jim & Mary Conway Judith & George W. Diehl Elliot & Judith Dworkin Mary Jo Eaton (Miami) Mr.* & Mrs. Bernard H. Eckstein Drs. Wolfgang & Gabi Eder (Europe) Dr. & Mrs. Robert Ehrlich (Europe) Mrs. Connie M. Frankino David & Robin Gunning Sondra & Steve Hardis Mary & Jon* Heider (Cleveland, Miami) Mrs. Lynn Heisler Amy & Stephen Hoffman David & Nancy Hooker Richard Horvitz & Erica HartmanHorvitz (Cleveland, Miami) Mrs. Marguerite B. Humphrey* Allan V. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Keithley Cynthia Knight John D. & Giuliana C. Koch Jon A. & Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD Mr. Jeff Litwiller Mr. Stephen McHale Loretta J. Mester & George J. Mailath Randy & Christine Myeroff The Honorable John Doyle Ong Mr. J. William & Dr. Suzanne* Palmer Catherine & Hyun Park Douglas & Noreen Powers Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Ratner James & Marguerite Rigby Mr.* & Mrs. David A. Ruckman Mark & Shelly Saltzman Mr. Eric A. Seed & Ms. Ellen Oglesby Donna E. Shalala (Miami) Hewitt & Paula Shaw Dr. Elizabeth Swenson Herbert Wainer & Jody Bernon-Wainer Tom & Shirley* Waltermire Anya Weaving & Tom Mihaljevic Meredith & Michael Weil Anonymous (2)
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Robyn Shifrin Mr. & Mrs. Richard P. Stovsky Kathryn & Duncan Stuart Alan & Barbara Taylor Bruce & Virginia Taylor Philip & Sarah Taylor Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Umdasch (Europe) Karen Walburn Mr. Daniel & Mrs. Molly Walsh Mr. & Mrs. Jeffery J. Weaver Robert C. Weppler Katie & Donald Woodcock Max & Beverly Zupon Anonymous (4) Frank H. Ginn Society Gifts of $10,000 to $14,999 Dr. & Mrs. D. P. Agamanolis Laura & Jon Bloomberg Dr. & Mrs. William D. Carey Mr. & Mrs. Chester F. Crone Mr. & Mrs. Manohar Daga Mrs. Barbara Ann Davis Giles Debenham Allan* & Connie Dechert Peter & Sandy Earl Dr.* & Mrs. Lloyd H. Ellis Jr. Joan Alice Ford Dr. Edward S. Godleski Mr. Robert Goldberg Mr. & Mrs. Michael Gröller (Europe) Alfredo & Luz Maria Gutierrez (Miami) Ms. Marianne Gymer Robin Hitchcock Hatch Dr. Robert T. Heath & Dr. Elizabeth L. Buchanan Dr. Fred A. Heupler Ms. Mary Joe Hughes Donna Jackson Barbara & Michael J. Kaplan Andrew & Katherine Kartalis Jonathan & Tina Kislak (Miami) David C. Lamb Charles & Josephine Robson Leamy* Dr. Edith Lerner Dr. David & Janice Leshner Mr.* & Mrs. Arch J. McCartney Drs. Amy & James Merlino Claudia Metz & Thomas Woodworth Mr. William A. Minnich Mr. Bert & Dr. Marjorie Moyar Brian & Cindy Murphy Deborah L. Neale Patricia Perry Nock Mr. & Mrs. John Olejko Mr. David A. Osage & Ms. Claudia C. Woods Julia & Larry Pollock Ms. Rosella Puskas* Beth & Clay Rankin
Mr. & Mrs. Roger F. Rankin Mrs. Vicki Ann Resnick Kim Russel & Dirk Brom Dr. & Mrs.* Martin I. Saltzman Patricia J. Sawvel David M. & Betty Schneider Gary Schwartz & Constance Young Kenneth Shafer Rev. George Smiga Sandra & Richey* Smith Roy Smith Michalis & Alejandra Stavrinides Ryan & Melissa Stenger Mrs. Mary L. Sykora Taras Szmagala & Helen Jarem Joe & Marlene Toot Dr. Gregory Videtic & Rev. Christopher McCann Susanne Wamsler & Paul Singer (Europe) Mr. & Mrs. Fred A. Watkins Denise G. & Norman E. Wells, Jr. Sandy & Ted Wiese Sandy Wile & Sue Berlin Anonymous (7) The 1929 Society Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999 Ms. Nancy A. Adams Mr. & Mrs. Todd C. Amsdell Claudia Bacon Robert & Dalia Baker Thomas & Laura Barnard Dr. James Bates Fred G. & Mary W. Behm Deena & Jeff Bellman Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence R. Beyer Mr. & Mrs. Fred Bidwell Marilyn & Jeffrey Bilsky Dr. & Mrs. Eugene H. Blackstone Doug & Barbara* Bletcher Laurel Blossom Jeff & Elaine Bomberger Mitchell & Caroline Borrow Ms. Kristina E. Boykin Mr. & Mrs. David* Briggs James & Mary Bright Frank & Leslie Buck Mr. Gregory & Mrs. Susan Bulone James Burke Mrs. Catharina M. Caldwell Joseph & Susan Carney William & Barbara Carson Ms. Maria Cashy Victor A. Ceicys, MD & Mrs. Kathleen Browning Ceicys Mr. & Mrs. James B. Chaney Mr. & Mrs. Kerry Chelm Ellen Chesler & Matthew Mallow (Miami) Drs. Wuu-Shung & Amy Chuang Drs. Mark Cohen & Miriam Vishny
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Corporate, Foundation & Government Support The Cleveland Orchestra extends heartfelt gratitude to these generous organizations and partners who bring concerts and educational programs to life for our community. Learn more at clevelandorchestra.com/partners
Gifts of $300,000 & more The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. NACCO Industries, Inc. Gifts of $200,000 to $299,999 Jones Day Foundation Ohio CAT The J. M. Smucker Co. Gifts of $100,000 to $199,999 KeyBank White & Case (Miami) Gifts of $50,000 to $99,999 FirstEnergy Foundation NOPEC Parker Hannifin Foundation PNC Thompson Hine LLP Gifts of $15,000 to $49,999 Acme Fresh Market Foundation Akron Children’s Hospital BakerHostetler Buyers Products Company Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP Case Western Reserve University Cleveland Area BMW Centers Cleveland Clinic Cuffs Clothing Company Dealer Tire LLC DLR Group | Westlake Reed Leskosky Frantz Ward LLP The Giant Eagle Foundation Lake Effect Health Miba AG (Europe) Northern Haserot Northern Trust Olympic Steel, Inc. Park-Ohio Holdings RPM International Inc. RSM US LLP Welty Building Company Ltd. Westfield Insurance Anonymous Gifts of $2,500 to $14,999 BDI Blue Technologies, Inc. BNY Wealth
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Brothers Printing Company BWX Technologies, Inc. Callahan Carpet The Cedarwood Companies Citymark Capital The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation Consolidated Solutions Dollar Bank Foundation Eaton Evarts Tremaine The Ewart-Ohlson Machine Company FirstEnergy Foundation Gross Residential Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP Hunsicker Family Dental Karlie Newton II Insurance Agency Kohrman Jackson & Krantz, PLL KPMG LLP The Lincoln Electric Foundation McKinley Strategies Nordson Corporation Foundation The Sherwin-Williams Company Sikich Solich Piano & Music Thriveworks Ver Ploeg & Marino (Miami) Margaret W. Wong & Associates LLC Young Presidents’ Organization
FOUNDATION & GOVERNMENT SUPPORT Gifts of $1,000,000 & more The Brown and Kunze Foundation Mary E. & F. Joseph Callahan Foundation The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation David and Inez Myers Foundation State of Ohio The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Richard & Emily Smucker Family Foundation Timken Foundation of Canton Gifts of $500,000 to $999,999 The William Bingham Foundation Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Ohio Arts Council The Payne Fund
Gifts of $250,000 to $499,999 The Dr. M. Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc. (Miami) Gifts of $100,000 to $249,999 Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Cleveland Browns Foundation The Cleveland Foundation Haslam 3 Foundation Jewish Federation of Cleveland Myra Tuteur Kahn Memorial Fund of the Cleveland Foundation Kulas Foundation John P. Murphy Foundation Park Foundation Anonymous Gifts of $50,000 to $99,999 The George W. Codrington Charitable Foundation The Jean, Harry and Brenda Fuchs Family Foundation, in memory of Harry Fuchs GAR Foundation The Gerhard Foundation, Inc. The George Gund Foundation Martha Holden Jennings Foundation The Oatey Foundation Wesley Family Foundation Gifts of $15,000 to $49,999 The Abington Foundation Akron Community Foundation The Batchelor Foundation, Inc. (Miami) The Bruening Foundation The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust The Sam J. Frankino Foundation The Helen Wade Greene Charitable Trust The Catherine L. & Edward A. Lozick Foundation With the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor & Board of County Commissioners National Endowment for the Arts The Nord Family Foundation The PNC Charitable Trusts
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The Cleveland Orchestra Board of Trustees O FFI C ER S Richard K. Smucker Chair Richard J. Kramer Vice Chair & Treasurer André Gremillet President & CEO Dennis W. LaBarre Immediate Past Chair Richard J. Bogomolny Chair Emeritus Norma Lerner Honorary Chair David J. Hooker Secretary RES I DE N T TRUSTEES Victor Alexander Robin Dunn Blossom Yuval Brisker Helen Rankin Butler Nancy Slocum Callahan Irad Carmi Matthew V. Crawford Michael Frank, MD JD Hiroyuki Fujita Robert Glick Arthur C. Hall III Iris A. 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 Beth E. Mooney 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
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