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Beethoven’s Ode to Joy

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

P R O G R A M N O T E S : Tapiola, Op. 112 by Jean Sibelius • PA G E 1 0

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, “Choral” by Ludwig van Beethoven • PA G E 1 4

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F E W M E L O D I E S A R E M O R E I C O N I C than the “Ode to Joy” from Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Many young instrumentalists struggle through this familiar tune on ﬁrst recitals and beginning band and orchestra concerts for halls full of dewy-eyed parents. But the joy of these proud (or amused) family members is not quite the emotion Beethoven had in mind when composing his unprecedented ﬁnal symphony

While many music historians project Beethoven’s own feats of overcoming onto this piece, one individual’s suﬀering is dwarfed in comparison to the proportions of the collective human spirit celebrated in Friedrich Schiller’s poetry. (A similar spirit was captured in Gustav Klimt’s 1902 Beethoven Frieze (above), located in Vienna’s Secession Building. Inspired by Beethoven’s setting of Schiller’s poem, this particular panel depicts the divine “kiss” for humanity, accompanied by a heavenly chorus.) The ﬁrst symphony to incorporate chorus and vocal soloists, Beethoven’s Ninth is both deeply human and experimental to the point that contemporary audiences perceived it as otherworldly.

It was exactly this otherworldly spirit realm that Finnish composer Jean Sibelius sought to evoke in his tone poem Tapiola. While Sibelius never reached the international sanctity aﬀorded to Beethoven, he was (and still is) a national emblem of Finland in much the same way as Beethoven was for Germany. Sibelius drew his inspiration from a literary source much like Beethoven’s incorporation of Schiller though Tapiola has no sung text. As with many of his works, Sibelius turned to the Kale vala, a collection of national mythology that was as much a product of its Romantic, nationalist moment as it was of actual historical folklore. The program he wrote to accompany Tapiola conjures dark woods, powerful gods, and mischievous sprites.

By combining these two works, Music Director Franz Welser-Möst facilitates a program of transcendent themes, celebrating the triumph of the human spirit and the wisdom of the natural world. Ellen Sauer Tanyeri

Ellen Sauer Tanyeri is The Cleveland Orchestra’s archives & editorial assistant and is a PhD candidate in musicology at Case Western Reserve University

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Beethoven’s Ode to Joy

Thursday, October 23, 2025, at 7:30 PM

Friday, October 24, 2025, at 7:30 PM

Saturday, October 25, 2025, at 7:30 PM

Sunday, October 26, 2025, at 3 PM

Franz Welser -Möst

, conductor

Jean Sibelius (1865–1957)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

Tapiola, Op. 112

Concert Preview with Ellen Sauer Tanyeri Mandel Concert Hall one hour prior to performance

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I N T E R M I S S I O N 20 minutes

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 65 minutes Op. 125, “Choral”

I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso

II. Molto vivace

III. Adagio molto e cantabile

IV. Presto Allegro assai Allegro assai vivace

Joélle Harvey, soprano

Taylor Raven, mezzo-soprano

Miles Mykkanen, tenor

Dashon Burton, bass-baritone

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

Total approximate running time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Thursday evening’s concert is dedicated to Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. Ratner and Mrs. Norma Lerner in recognition of their generous support of music.

Saturday evening’s concert is dedicated to Brenda and Marshall B. Brown in recognition of their generous support of music.

This concert is sponsored by NACCO Industries

Support for The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus is provided by the Wesley Family Foundation, Robin Hitchcock Hatch, The Shari Bierman Singer Family, and Charles M. Hoppel and Marianne Karwowski Hoppel.

Tapiola, Op . 112

by Jean Sibelius

B O R N : December 8, 1865, in Hämeenlinna , Finland

D I E D : September 20, 1957, in Järvenpää , Finland

▶ C O M P O S E D : 1926

▶ W O R L D P R E M I E R E : December 26, 1926, by the New York Symphony Orchestra and conductor Walter Damrosch

▶ C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A P R E M I E R E : October 18 , 1934, led by Music Director Artur Rodziński

▶ O R C H E S T R AT I O N : 3 flutes (3rd doubling piccolo), 2 oboes , English horn , 2 clarinets , bass clarinet , 2 bassoons , contrabassoon , 4 horns , 3 trumpets , 3 trombones , timpani, and strings

▶ D U R AT I O N : about 20 minutes

D E E P I N T H E W O O D S O F F I N L A N D , among the trees and fauna, an ancient presence presides Tapio, the forest spirit, is the embodiment of the woodland, its essence personiﬁed. The Kale vala, the Finnish national epic, even refers to the forest itself as “Tapiola” the realm of Tapio.

Composer Jean Sibelius was deeply inspired by the mythologies and characters of the Kale vala, incorporating them into several of his works. In 1926, he composed the symphonic tone poem Tapiola, a musical portrayal of Tapio and the spirit of Finland’s wilds. It was Sibelius’s last major orchestral work, even though he would live for another three decades.

Sibelius prefaced the score with the following epigraph:

Widespread the y stand, the Northland’s dusky forests, Ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams;

Within them dwells the Forest’s mighty god, And wood-sprites in the gloom weave magic secrets.

This atmospheric stanza sets the poetic tone for the work, a single continuous movement of organic development not unlike the forests of Finland

Although Sibelius composed Tapiola with his trademark ﬂuidity, there is a structural arc to the work: a quiet, mysterious opening section that introduces the

Jean Sibelius, photographed in 1939 during his self-imposed creative silence. Though these final decades brought periods of depression and self-doubt , he wrote to his son-in-law Jussi Jalas, “I am never alone I have my fantasies ”

initial motives; a “development” section that evokes restless wildlife and stormlike surges; and a coda whose climax eerily dissolves into stillness, like a shadow retreating into the trees. Part of Sibelius’s ingenuity is the way in which a few musical “cells” create something akin to a force of nature a whisper that swells into a ravaging storm before impassively returning to silence.

In the spirit of the score’s epigraph, Tapiola opens with a mysterious and brooding atmosphere, rooted in the minor mode. As a motivic fragment materializes, it is passed around the orchestra, played alternately by strings and winds, with sporadic hints of a storm brewing in the

Part of Sibelius’s ingenuity is the way in which a few musical “cells” create something akin to a force of nature — a whisper that swells into a ravaging storm before impassively returning to silence . of storm in whisper that swells

The all-encompassing nature of the forest seems encapsulated by this interplay of background and foreground, the balance of organic transformation and grounded support, and the ﬂow of transient ideas across broad timescales. By the time Tapiola concludes, there is a lingering sense that the woodlands of Finland are both ancient and widespread, encompassing an endless variety of terrain and atmosphere from wet peatlands to dry pine heaths; vast silver birch suﬀused with light, their slender trunks casting long shadows over the moss and soil; and rocky ridges punctuated by glacial erratics and jack pine roots.

distance. Monolithic background chords provide both stability and stillness underneath the restless and repetitive motion of the thematic material. The background sonorities soon rise to the foreground as the initial motive fades away. Other wisps of melody are soon introduced, which organically ﬂow in and out of the piece, and cover wide-ranging moods: bittersweet, unnerving, longing, sprightly.

After Tapiola was published in 1926, Sibelius eﬀectively ended his career as a composer. He began writing an eighth symphony, but only fragments exist the rest were lost or destroyed. While it is unknown why Sibelius stopped writing music for the last 30 years of his life, it is diﬃcult to imagine a more appropriate end to his catalog than Tapiola. Throughout his life, Finland embraced Sibelius for crafting a distinctive musical “voice”

for the country founded on Finnish folklore, landscape, and language At a time when modernism was in fashion across Europe and Finland was establishing its cultural and political autonomy separate from long-held Russian inﬂuence Sibelius’s nurturing of Finland’s musical identity was invaluable.

Although Sibelius’s career ended with Tapiola, the work stands as both a ﬁtting

Sibelius’s friend, the artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela, painted this image of Finland’s Lake Keitele in 1905. Dramatic natural scenes like this inspired much of Sibelius’s music, including Tapiola

conclusion to a singular musical voice and a testament to the living, breathing forests that make up the soul of Finland.

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Symphony No . 9 in D minor, Op . 125, “Choral”

by Ludwig van Beethoven

B O R N : December 16, 1770, in Bonn

D I E D : March 26, 1827, in Vienna

▶ C O M P O S E D : 1822 – 24

▶ W O R L D P R E M I E R E : May 7, 1824, at Vienna’s Theater am Kärntnertor, with the composer and Michael Umlauf leading the combined orchestras of the Kärntnertor and Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, chorus , and soloists

Henriette Sontag, Caroline Unger, Anton Haizinger, and Joseph Seipelt

▶ C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A P R E M I E R E : April 22 , 1924, in a runout performance at Oberlin College, with Arthur Shepherd conducting the Orchestra , soloists

Jeannette Vreeland, Mildred Bryars, Robert Q uait, Norman Jolliffe, and the chorus of the Oberlin Musical Union

▶ O R C H E S T R AT I O N : 2 flutes , piccolo, 2 oboes , 2 clarinets , 2 bassoons , contrabassoon , 4 horns , 2 trumpets , 3 trombones , timpani, percussion (triangle, cymbals , bass drum), and strings , plus soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone soloists and mixed chorus

▶ D U R AT I O N : about 65 minutes

W I T H T H E N I N T H , Ludwig van Beethoven created more than a symphony Almost as soon as it was written, the Ninth Symphony became an icon of Western culture for at least two important reasons: its message affirms the triumph of joy over adversity like no other piece of music had ever done; and its revolutionary form its unprecedented size and complexity and, above all, the introduction of the human voice in a symphony changed the history of music forever. The work’s import and the means by which it is expressed are both unique: each explains and justifies the other

Everything in Beethoven’s career seems to have prepared the way for this exceptional composition. It is the culmination of his so-called “heroic style,” known from the Third and Fifth symphonies, among others. But it is also the endpoint of a series of choral works with all-embracing themes, including the 1808 Choral Fantasy, which is certainly the most direct precursor of the Ninth Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven contemplates the mysteries of nature in this imagined scene from a c 1925 lithograph by the Austrian painter Julius Schmid

Friedrich Schiller’s poem An die Freude (Ode to Joy) had preoccupied Beethoven since at least 1792. In that year, an acquaintance of the composer’s informed Schiller’s sister that “A young man of this place whose talents are universally praised ... proposes also to compose Schiller’s Freude. … I expect something perfect for as far as I know him he is wholly devoted to the great and the sublime.”

Thus, musical and literary roads converge in the Ninth Symphony. In a way, Beethoven was getting ready to write this work all his life. The actual compositional work took about a year and a half, from the summer of 1822 through February 1824

Beethoven’s plans to set Schiller’s An die Freude began to take a new shape in 1816 –17, around the time he received a commission for a symphony from the Philharmonic Society of London. He long hesitated over whether or not the last movement of a symphony was the proper place for such a setting. He felt that the introduction of voices needed special justification At one point, for instance, the rejection of the themes from the first three movements was entrusted to a singer (not the cellos and basses as in the final version) The singer, after

In December 1989, to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall, Leonard Bernstein led a multinational orchestra and chorus in a performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, replacing the word Freude (joy) in Schiller’s original poem with Freiheit (freedom).

dismissing the scherzo as Possen (farce) and the Adagio as “too tender,” exclaimed: “Let us sing the song of the immortal Schiller!”

The opening of the symphony, with its open fifths played in mysterious string tremolos (rapid, repeated notes), has been described as representing the creation of the world, as a theme emerges from what seems an amorphous, primordial state The atmosphere of intense expectancy continually grows until the main theme is presented, fortissimo, by the entire orchestra. The Allegro follows the outlines of a sonata form, but the individual stages do not quite function in the usual way. In a traditional Classical sonata form, the tensions that build up in the middle development section are resolved in the recapitulation. But in Beethoven’s Ninth, the tensions keep increasing to the end. The movement’s lengthy coda contains highly dramatic material; it ends on a climactic point, without a feeling of resolution.

The first movement is followed by a scherzo, although Beethoven refrained from labeling it as such Here, the mood is dramatic rather than playful. It is based on a motive of only three notes, played in turn by strings, timpani, and winds The motive is developed in a fugal fashion, with subsequent imitative entrances. The central trio switches from triple to duple meter, and from D minor to D major, anticipating not only the key of the finale but the outline of the “Ode to Joy” theme as well. This is soon brushed aside by the repeat of the

dramatic Molto vivace. At the end, Beethoven reintroduces the trio a second time but abruptly breaks it off to end the movement with two measures of octave leaps in unison. According to one commentator, this ending suggests an “open-ended” form that could “move back and forth between scherzo and trio endlessly.” In other words, we cannot at this point tell for sure whether the finale will be tragic or joyful.

But before we reach the finale, there is one more movement: the sublime Adagio, one of Beethoven’s most transcendent creations. It has two alternating melodies: one majestic, the other tender. Each recurrence of the first theme is more ornate than the preceding one, while the second theme does not change. The movement culminates in a powerful brass fanfare, followed by a wistful epilogue.

We are jolted out of this idyll by what 19th-century ears must have heard as the most jarring dissonance ever written. Wagner referred to this sonority as the Schreckensfanfare (fanfare of horror), and it opens the finale at a point where all previous rules break down; what follows had absolutely no precedent in the history of music up to that point.

After the Schreckensfanfare, Beethoven evokes the past: the themes of the first three movements appear in the orchestra, only to be emphatically rejected by a dramatic recitative in the cellos and basses.

A two-measure fragment of the “Ode to Joy” theme, however, is greeted by a recitative in a completely different tone as the tonality changes to a bright D major.

The “Ode to Joy” theme is ﬁrst played by the cellos and double basses without any accompaniment. It is subsequently joined by several countermelodies and ﬁnally repeated triumphantly by the entire orchestra. Then the Schreckensfanfare suddenly returns, followed by the entrance of the bass soloist who, in a solution to Beethoven’s earlier dilemma of how to introduce voices into the symphony, declares words the composer himself wrote as a lead-in to Schiller’s

In the third section, the tenors and basses introduce a new theme on the words Seid umschlungen, Millionen! (Be embraced, you millions!). If the beginning of the “Ode” celebrates the divine nature of Joy, this melody represents the Deity in its awe-inspiring, cosmic aspect. Whereas the ﬁrst theme proceeded entirely in small steps, the second one is characterized by wide leaps, conjuring a sense of the inﬁnite and God’s throne above the starry skies.

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Whereas the first theme proceeded entirely in small steps , the second one is characterized by wide leaps , conjuring a sense of the infinite and God’s throne above the starry skies .

poem: “O friends, not these sounds! Let us sing more pleasant and more joyful ones instead!” The rest of the soloists and chorus then enter with an exuberant call-and-response presentation of Schiller’s text.

After a shocking interruption on the words vor Gott (before God), the second major section of the movement starts, with a jaunty march for tenor solo and percussion. Featuring a musical style inﬂuenced by Turkish janissary bands popular in Vienna at the time, its theme is a variation on the “Ode to Joy” melody. This episode is followed by an orchestral interlude in the form of a fugue, also based on the ubiquitous theme. The melody is repeated in its original form by the orchestra and chorus, and then the music stops again.

The last section begins with the two themes heard simultaneously in what musicologist David Benjamin Levy calls a “symbolic contrapuntal union of the sacred and the profane.” The vocal soloists return to the ﬁrst strophe of Schiller’s poem, and the music starts to rise to new heights of joyful energy. Though three slow sections intervene to delay this ascent including a cadenza for the four soloists nothing can stop the music from reaching a ﬁnal state of ecstasy. After the last unison note in the orchestra, the journey is completed, and there is nothing left to say. adapted from a note by Peter Laki

Peter Laki is a musicologist and frequent lecturer on classical music He is a visiting associate professor at Bard College

The Cleveland Orchestra rehearses under the baton of guest conductor Bernard Labadie

Symphony No . 9 in D minor, Op . 125, “Choral”

by Ludwig van Beethoven

F O U RT H M O V E M E N T

Text adapted from An die Freude (Ode to Joy) by Friedrich Schiller

English translation by Eric Sellen

B A S S - B A R I T O N E

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!

Sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen, Und freudenvollere.

B A S S - B A R I T O N E & C H O R U S

Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.

D eine Zauber binden wieder

Was die Mode streng geteilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

S O L O I S T S & C H O R U S

Wem der grosse Wurf gelungen, Eines Freundes Freund zu sein, Wer ein holdes Weib errungen, Mische seinen Jubel ein!

Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele

Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!

Und wer’s nie gekonnt, der stehle

Weinend sich aus diesem Bund

O friends, not these sounds!

Let us sing more pleasant And more joyful ones instead.

Joy, beautiful divine spark, Daughter of Paradise, We enter, drunk with fire, Heavenly One, into your sanctuary. Your magic reunites what daily life Has rigorously kept apart, All men become brothers Wherever your gentle wings abide.

Anyone who has been greatly fortunate To be a true friend to a friend, Each man who’s found a gracious wife, Should rejoice with us!

Yes, anyone who can claim but a single soul

As his or her own in all the world!

But anyone who has known none of this, must steal away, Weeping, from our company.

Freude trinken alle Wesen

An den Brüsten der Natur, Alle Guten, alle Bösen Folgen ihrer Rosenspur.

Küsse gab sie uns und Reben, Einen Freund, geprüft im Tod, Wollust ward dem Wurm gegeben, Und der Cherub steht vor Gott.

T E N O R & C H O R U S

Froh, wie seine Sonnen fliegen

D urch des Himmels prächt’gen Plan, Laufet, Brüder, eure Bahn, Freudig, wie ein Held zum Siegen

C H O R U S

Freude, schöner Götterfunken …

Seid umschlungen, Millionen!

D iesen Kuss der ganzen Welt! Brüder, überm Sternenzelt

Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen.

Ihr stürzt nieder, Millionen?

Ahnest du den Schöpfer, Welt?

Such’ ihn überm Sternenzelt!

Über Sternen muss er wohnen.

S O L O I S T S & C H O R U S

Freude, Tochter aus Elysium, D eine Zauber binden wieder Was die Mode streng geteilt, Alle Menschen werden Brüder Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

Seid umschlungen, Millionen! … Freude, schöner Götterfunken …

All beings drink of Joy

At Nature’s breasts, All good creatures, all evil creatures Follow her rosy path.

She has given us kisses and vines, A friend loyal unto death, Pleasure was given to the worm, And the angel stands before God

Happily as the sun flies

Across the sky’s magnificent expanse, Hurry, brothers, along your path, Joyfully, like a hero to the conquest.

Joy, beautiful divine spark …

Be embraced, you millions!

This kiss for the entire world! Brothers, beyond the starry canopy

A loving Father must dwell.

Do you fall to your knees, you millions? Do you sense the Creator, world? Seek Him above the starry canopy! Beyond the stars He must dwell.

Joy, daughter of Elysium, Your magic reunites what daily life

Has rigorously kept apart, All men become brothers Wherever your gentle wings abide.

Be embraced, you millions! …

Joy, beautiful divine spark

Franz Welser -Möst, Music Director

N O W I N H I S 2 4 T H S E A S O N , 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.

Joélle Harvey soprano

A native of Bolivar, New York, American soprano

Joélle Harvey has built a reputation as one of the finest singers of her generation.

The 2025 – 26 season is anchored by the operas of Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro with the Bayerische Staatsoper and The Magic Flute with Santa Fe Opera and the Metropolitan Opera. She also performs Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with The Cleveland Orchestra, Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with The Philadelphia Orchestra, and J.S. Bach’s Easter O ratorio and Magnificat with the San Francisco Symphony.

An in-demand vocal soloist, Harvey regularly appears with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society, and The English Concert. On the operatic stage, she has performed at the Glyndebourne Festival, Royal Opera House, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Houston Grand Opera, among others.

Harvey received Second Prize in Houston Grand Opera’s Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers. She received degrees in vocal performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Taylor Raven mezzo -soprano

Taylor Raven is a “vocal sensation” (Washington Classical Re vie w) and is quickly establishing herself in opera, concert, and recital.

In the 2025 – 26 season, Raven makes her house debut with the English National Opera in Così fan tutte and returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a staged production of D ie Walküre. Highlights on the concert stage include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with The Cleveland Orchestra, Mozart’s Requiem with the New Jersey Symphony, and her debut with the North Carolina Symphony for Handel’s Messiah.

In recent seasons, Raven debuted with the Metropolitan Opera in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra and performed Julia Perry’s Stabat Mater with the Duisburger Philharmoniker. Other recent engagements include performances with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Opera, and Houston Grand Opera

Raven is a graduate of the Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera and holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Colorado Boulder.

Miles Mykkanen tenor

The career of exuberant FinnishAmerican tenor Miles Mykkanen was launched with a national win of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition in 2019. He has since impressed with a series of important debuts on the world’s major stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Bayerische Staatsoper, Canadian Opera Company, and Royal Opera House.

In a pivotal 2025 – 26 season, Mykkanen opens the Metropolitan Opera’s season in Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. He returns to the Met later this season for Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence. Elsewhere, Mykkanen appears in Richard Strauss’s D aphne at Seattle Opera and The Magic Flute at Los Angeles Opera. He also returns to The Cleveland Orchestra for Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and sings Handel’s Messiah with Chicago’s Music of the Baroque. In addition, he will perform with piano duo Lucas and Arthur Jussen at the Maastricht Festival, and at The Juilliard School’s annual Alice Tully Vocal Recital at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall

Dashon Burton bass-baritone

Bass-baritone

Dashon Burton’s 2025 – 26 season highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Fidelio with The Cleveland Orchestra, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the New Jersey Symphony, Britten’s War Requiem with the Erie Philharmonic, and Handel’s Messiah at Augustana College. He also appears in recital at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

A three-time Grammy Award winner, Burton earned Best Classical Solo Vocal Album in 2021 for Ethyl Smyth’s The Prison with the Experiential Orchestra, and has twice won with the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, of which he is a founding member. His discography also includes Songs of Struggle & Redemption: We Shall O vercome, Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road, and Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

Burton holds degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory and Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. He is assistant professor of voice at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music

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“ a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess ”

Lisa Wong, Director of Choruses

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C O N D U C T O R A N D E D U C AT O R , serves as Director of Choruses for The Cleveland Orchestra, where she has prepared The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Blossom Festival Chorus for acclaimed performances under conductors Franz WelserMöst, Klaus Mäkelä, John Adams, Jane Glover, Susanna Mälkki, and Eric Whitacre, among others.

Wong served for 16 years as the Olive Williams Kettering Professor of Music at

The College of Wooster. As director of the award-winning Wooster Chorus, she elevated the ensemble to national prominence through annual tours, performances at state and regional conferences, and the premieres of 15 new works. Her expertise in music education is informed by 32 years of classroom experience and extensive work as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor.

A sought-after leader in the field, Wong has served as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and Chorus America and presented at state and national conferences on varied topics She is President-Elect of the Ohio Choral Directors Association and served as the Repertoire and Resource Chair for World Music and Cultures and on the Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Ohio Music Education Association. With degrees from West Chester University and the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Wong’s academic foundation is complemented by a rich career dedicated to inspiring and nurturing musicians of all ages.

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

Now in its 74th season , The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus is celebrated for its versatility and refined musicianship, appearing regularly with The Cleveland Orchestra at Severance and Blossom Music Center. As one of the few all-volunteer, professionally trained choruses affiliated with a major American orchestra , it received the 2019 – 20 Distinguished Service Award, recognizing extraordinary service to the Orchestra .

Visit cochorus .com for more information on the Chorus and auditions .

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Amy Foster Babinski

Claudia Barriga

Jesse Bobbitt

Emily Carlson

Signe Carlson

Caitlin DiFranco

Maddie Dirrim

Maryssa Duncan

Emily Engle

Lisa Fedorovich

Emily Flood

Jennifer Gilles

Elisha Gugliotta

Julia Halamek

Rebecca S. Hall

Casey Hasen

Sarah Henley

Lisa Hrusovsky

Rachel Imhoff

Shannon R . Jakubczak

Kiersten Johnson

Sarah Jones- Gould

Katie Kitchen

Hope Klassen-Kay

Brianna Knapp*

EvaCecilia Koh

Kate Macy

Gracie Mino

Sarah Moldover

Julie Myers-Pruchenski

Jennifer Heinert O’Leary

Caitlin Overton

Katie Paskey

Victoria Peacock

Elizabeth Stockton Perkins

Sarah Peterson

Grace Prentice

Jylian Purtee

Lisa M. Ramsey

Cara Rovella

Emma Russell

Ellie Kleber Smith

Megan Tettau

Meagan Ulery

Sharilee Walker

A LT O S

Emily Austin

Laurel Babcock

Debbie Bates

Riley Beistel

Kristina Bodnar

Carla Cashman

Barbara J. Clugh

Amber Dimoff

Shannon Dunning*

Brooke Emmel

Colleen Endrizzi

Megan Fought

Shawna Hill

Karen S. Hunt

Sarah Hutchins

Kayla Kim

Kristi Krueger- O’Grady

Jacob Rumelfanger

Nathan A . Russell

John Sabol

Andrew Stamp

J.R . Tomkinson

B A S S E S

Simon Beck

Nicholas Campagna

Nick Connavino

Ronnie Dailey

Christopher Dewald

Jeffrey Duber

Andrew Fowler

Jeffrey D. Gershman

Kurtis B. Hoffman

Kim Jacoby

James Johnston

Kevin Kutz

Elise Leitzel

Danielle S. McDonald

Karla McMullen

Peggy A . Norman

Dawn Ostrowski

Abigail Patton

Toni Arnold Shreve

Ina Stanek-Michaelis

Melanie Tabak

Rachel Thibo

Kristen Tobey

Laure Wasserbauer

Haley Wheeler

Maggie Fairman Williams

Caroline Willoughby

Leah Wilson

Jennifer R . Woda

Debra Yasinow

T E N O R S

Christian Bush

Rong Chen

Jonathan Fuller

Richard Hall

Michael Heid

Corey Hill

Daniel M. Katz

Adam Kilo

Peter Kvidera

Adam Landry

Christian Maric

David McCallum

Matt Rizer

Jason Levy

Michael N. Lutkus

Tyler Mason

Tremaine Oatman

Glenn Obergefell

Eddie Papp

John Philipps

Francisco Prado

Brandon Randall

Charles Tobias

Matt Turell

Bob Winters

Ryan Yonek

Martin Young

Paul Zito

* Shari Bierman Singer Fellow

Daniel J. Singer

Assistant Director

Daniel Overly

Collaborative Pianist

Jill Harbaugh

Director of Choral Operations

Victoria Peacock

Chorus Coordinator

Sarah Hutchins

Chair, Operating Committee

N O W F I R M LY I N I T S S E C O N D C E N T U RY ,

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 Ne w 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 sustained support had turned the ensemble into one of the most admired around the world.

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.

Franz Welser -Möst, Music Director

K E LV I N S M I T H FA M I LY C H A I R

F I R S T V I O L I N S

Joel Link

C O N C E RT M A S T E R

Blossom-Lee Chair

Liyuan Xie

F I R S T A S S O C I AT E

C O N C E RT M A S T E R

Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD, Chair

Jung-Min Amy Lee

A S S O C I AT E

C O N C E RT M A S T E R

Gretchen D. and Ward Smith Chair

Stephen Tavani

A S S I S TA N T

C O N C E RT M A S T E R

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

Isabel Trautwein

Trevor and Jennie Jones Chair

Katherine Bormann

Analise Handke

Gladys B Goetz Chair

Zhan Shu

Youngji Kim

Paul and Lucille Jones Chair

Genevieve Smelser

S E C O N D V I O L I N S

Stephen Rose*

Alfred M and Clara T Rankin Chair

Eli Matthews1

Patricia M. Kozerefski and Richard J Bogomolny Chair

Jason Yu2

James and Donna Reid Chair

Sonja Braaten Molloy

Carolyn Gadiel Warner

Elayna Duitman

Ioana Missits

Jeffrey Zehngut^

Kathleen Collins

Beth Woodside

Emma Shook

Dr Jeanette Grasselli Brown and Dr Glenn R Brown Chair

Yun-Ting Lee

Deborah L . Neale Chair

Jiah Chung Chapdelaine

Gawon Kim

V I O L A S

Wesley Collins*

Chaillé H and Richard B

Tullis Chair

Stanley Konopka2

Mark Jackobs

Jean Wall Bennett Chair

Lisa Boyko

Richard and Nancy Sneed Chair

Richard Waugh

Lembi Veskimets

The Morgan Sisters Chair

Eliesha Nelson^

Anthony and Diane

Wynshaw-Boris Chair

Joanna Patterson Zakany

William Bender

Thomas Lauria and Christopher Lauria Chair

Gareth Zehngut^

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

C E L L O S

Mark Kosower*

Louis D Beaumont Chair

Richard Weiss1

The GAR Foundation Chair

Charles Bernard2

Helen Weil Ross Chair

Bryan Dumm

Muriel and Noah Butkin Chair

Tanya Ell

Thomas J and Judith Fay

Gruber Chair

Ralph Curry

Brian Thornton

William P. Blair III Chair

David Alan Harrell

Martha Baldwin

Dane Johansen

Marguerite and James Rigby Chair

Paul Kushious

B A S S E S

Maximilian Dimoff*

Clarence T. Reinberger Chair

Charles Paul1

Mary E . and F. Joseph

Callahan Chair

Derek Zadinsky2

Mark Atherton

Thomas Sperl

Henry Peyrebrune

Charles Barr Memorial Chair

Charles Carleton

Scott Dixon

Brandon Mason

H A R P

Trina Struble*

Alice Chalifoux Chair

F LU T E S

Joshua Smith*

Elizabeth M. and William C.

Treuhaft Chair

Saeran St. Christopher

Jessica Sindell2^

Austin B and Ellen W Chinn Chair

Mary Kay Fink

P I C C O L O

Mary Kay Fink

Anne M and M Roger Clapp Chair

O B O E S

Frank Rosenwein*

Edith S Taplin Chair

Corbin Stair

Sharon and Yoash Wiener Chair

Jeffrey Rathbun2

Everett D. and Eugenia S .

McCurdy Chair

Robert Walters

E N G L I S H H O R N

Robert Walters

Samuel C and Bernette K

Jaffe Chair

C L A R I N E T S

Afendi Yusuf*

Robert Marcellus Chair

Robert Woolfrey

Victoire G and Alfred M

Rankin, Jr Chair

Daniel McKelway2

Robert R and Vilma L Kohn Chair

Amy Zoloto

E-F L AT C L A R I N E T

Daniel McKelway

Stanley L and Eloise M

Morgan Chair

B A S S C L A R I N E T

Amy Zoloto

Myrna and James Spira Chair

B A S S O O N S

John Clouser*

Louise Harkness Ingalls Chair

Gareth Thomas

Jonathan Sherwin

C O N T R A B A S S O O N

Jonathan Sherwin

H O R N S

Nathaniel Silberschlag*

George Szell Memorial Chair

Michael Mayhew§ Knight Foundation Chair

Jesse McCormick

Robert B. Benyo Chair

Hans Clebsch

Richard King

Meghan Guegold Hege^

T RU M P E T S

Michael Sachs*

Robert and Eunice Podis

Weiskopf Chair

Jack Sutte

Lyle Steelman2^

James P and Dolores D Storer Chair

Michael Miller

C O R N E T S

Michael Sachs*

Mary Elizabeth and G Robert Klein Chair

Michael Miller

T RO M B O N E S

Brian Wendel*

Gilbert W and Louise I

Humphrey Chair

Richard Stout

Alexander and Marianna C .

McAfee Chair

Shachar Israel2

B A S S T RO M B O N E

Luke Sieve

E U P H O N I U M &

B A S S T RU M P E T

Richard Stout

T U B A

Yasuhito Sugiyama*

Nathalie C Spence and Nathalie S Boswell Chair

T I M PA N I

Zubin Hathi*

Otto G. and Corinne T. Voss Chair

Peter Nichols2

Mr and Mrs Richard K

Smucker Chair

P E RC U S S I O N

Marc Damoulakis*

Margaret Allen Ireland Chair

Thomas Sherwood

Tanner Tanyeri

Peter Nichols

K E Y B OA R D

I N S T RU M E N T S

Carolyn Gadiel Warner

Marjory and Marc L

Swartzbaugh Chair

L I B R A R I A N

Michael Ferraguto*

Joe and Marlene Toot Chair

E N D O W E D C H A I R S

C U R R E N T LY

U N O C C U P I E D

Clara G and George P

Bickford Chair

Sandra L Haslinger Chair

Charles M and Janet G

Kimball Chair

Sunshine Chair

Rudolf Serkin Chair

Christoph von Dohnányi †

Taichi Fukumura A

Elizabeth Ring and William Gwinn Mather Chair

James Feddeck

Sidney and Doris Dworkin Chair

Lisa Wong

P and Chester C Bolton Chair * Principal

Associate Principal

First Assistant Principal

Assistant Principal ^ Alum of The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra † In Memoriam

A Conversation with Robert Walters Solo English Horn

S A M U E L C . A N D B E R N E T T E K . J A F F E C H A I R

In early November, the English horn receives the spotlight as The Cleveland Orchestra’s own Robert Walters performs the US premiere of Geoffrey Gordon’s Mad Song (November 13 – 15). We caught up with Walters to learn more about this fascinating concerto, the preparation involved, and what makes the English horn such a unique instrument .

T C O : How did you come across Geoffrey Gordon and his music? Why did you pick this concerto specifically?

RO B E RT : He actually came across me! He reached out and said, “I’ve got this new English horn concerto Would you be interested in giving the US premiere?” I had heard his name but didn’t know his music, so I said, “Sure, I’ll listen.” I was immediately struck by how well he writes not just for my instrument, but also for the orchestra. It’s masterful the way he uses every section. Usually, with new music, it takes me a while to form an opinion, but I was taken with this piece right away and knew I wanted to play it.

What has your preparation process looked like?

Preparation is very important to me. My family has a house in upstate New York, and I spent a lot of time this summer immersing myself in the music. The first stage is to learn the piece, but you also have to practice performing it. Gordon made me a piano reduction so I can play it in various settings and identify problem areas before the first rehearsals with the Orchestra.

Leading up to the Severance performances, I’ve played it for a Bard College masterclass, for my studio at Oberlin, and for several friends and colleagues. I even played it for my yoga studio. My daughter calls my yoga instructor my “breathing teacher.” She had me perform the concerto for the class so they could see my breath control. It was my yoga studio debut!

Principal Trumpet Michael Sachs (left) and Robert Walters (right) share a bow after a performance of Copland’s Quiet City with John Adams and The Cleveland Orchestra in fall 2018

What makes the English horn stand out as an orchestral instrument and also as a solo voice?

The English horn is sort of the cello version of an oboe. One of the things I love about my job is that my seat on stage is almost part of the cello section. I have a lot of melodies in unison with the cellos; I watch their bows and the way they vibrate as my model

In Italian opera houses, an early version of the English horn was called voce umana the human voice. There is something very human and vocal about the instrument. In general, it’s used for slow, mournful melodies. My mother used to jokingly call it the “anguish horn” there’s a lot of pain and pathos that the English horn range is particularly good at expressing.

What I love about this concerto is that there are heartbreaking melodic gestures that are typical for English horn, but there’s also ﬂeet, technical material that breaks out of our typecast

The construction of the work feels like the William Blake poem it’s based on (Mad Song). There are three stanzas in the poem and three movements in the piece, but it’s through-composed like a Wagner opera. It’s almost like a storyboard for a ﬁlm there’s a real sense of narrative and journey

What are some of the other solo works you’ve played with the Orchestra?

You hear English horn solos a lot if you come to Severance, but you don’t hear it as a concerto instrument that often.

In Italian opera houses , an early version of the English horn was called voce umana — the human voice . There is something very human and vocal about the instrument .

What can audience members listen for in this work? How does it complement the rest of the program?

When I learned the concerto would be paired with Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, I was thrilled. Mahler is one of the undisputed masters of orchestration; his music is fantastic, gripping, and immediate. There’s a similarity with how Gordon writes for orchestra that I think the audience will really hear.

The ﬁrst concerto I played in Cleveland was by Ned Rorem, and I did a beautiful concerto by Pēteris Vasks in 2011. Another career highlight occurred 10 years ago: Oberlin commissioned Bernard Rands to write a concerto for me on the occasion of the Conservatory’s 150th anniversary. I premiered it with The Cleveland Orchestra and then recorded it with the Oberlin Orchestra a few months afterward.

I love the chance to stand in front of the Orchestra, and the work I put into a concerto certainly raises the level of what I do when I sit inside the Orchestra. The week after this concerto, we’re performing Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony [November 20–23]. I’m sure playing that famous English horn solo is going to feel much better than usual, having just done the concerto.

Besides this concert, what other ones are you looking forward to this season?

Definitely Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 in Cleveland [January 8 – 10, 2026] and then at Carnegie Hall [January 21, 2026] There’s a huge English horn solo,

which is one of the great moments in the repertoire. And we’re also doing Sibelius’s The Swan of Tuonela in Miami [March 27 – 28, 2026]. It’s one of the biggest English horn solos there is, almost like a mini concerto It’s funny: When I joined The Cleveland Orchestra, I came from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. At that point, I hadn’t played in a symphony orchestra for a long time, and The Swan of Tuonela was on the first rehearsal of my first week on the job in Cleveland! I’m very excited to revisit it again.

Robert Walters playing the prominent oboe d’amore solo in Ravel’s Boléro, as seen during the recent Adella broadcast of The Cleveland Orchestra’s season-opening concert .

Richard K . Smucker

Honored with 2025–26

Distinguished Service Award & Named Leadership Chair

T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A I S P RO U D

to honor Richard K. Smucker, Chairman Emeritus of The J.M. Smucker Company, with the 2025 – 26 Distinguished Service Award, recognizing his extraordinary leadership as he concludes his tenure as Chairman of the Orchestra’s Board of Trustees. Established in 1996, the institution’s highest award celebrates individuals whose exceptional commitment and service have shaped the Orchestra’s success.

Smucker has served as a Trustee of The Cleveland Orchestra since 1989, contributing his expertise to numerous committees, including Finance, Blossom Board of Overseers, Personnel, Campaign Steering, Nominating and Governance, and Patron Experience. In 2017, he was elected the Orchestra’s 13th Board Chair, succeeding Dennis W. LaBarre, and has since worked in close partnership with the Board’s officers, Executive Committee, and Trustees to provide steady guidance and direction.

As he steps down as Board Chair following a remarkably successful nine-

As Richard K . Smucker concludes his tenure as Chairman of the Board of Trustees , The Cleveland Orchestra honors his decades of leadership and dedicated service with its Distinguished Service Award

year tenure, The Cleveland Orchestra also recognizes Smucker’s inspirational stewardship and generosity by creating the Richard K. Smucker President & CEO Chair, its first-ever permanently

P R E V I O U S R E C I P I E N T S

1996 – 97 Dorothy Humel Hovorka, trustee

1997 – 98 David Zauder, trumpet and Orchestra personnel manager

1998 – 99 Ward Smith, trustee

1999 – 2000 Christoph von Dohnányi, music director emeritus

2000 – 01 Gary Hanson, executive director

2001 – 02 John Mack, oboe

2002 – 03 Richard J. Bogomolny, trustee

2003 – 04 Thomas W. Morris, executive director

2004 – 05 Alex Machaskee, trustee

2005 – 06 Klaus G. Roy, program editor and annotator

2006 – 07 Amb. John D. Ong, trustee

2007 – 08 Gerald Hughes, chorus

2008 – 09 Louis Lane, assistant conductor

2009 – 10 Clara Taplin Rankin, trustee

2010 – 11 Robert Conrad, trustee and president of WCLV

2011 – 12 Richard Weiner, percussion

2012 – 13 Milton and Tamar Maltz, trustees

2013 – 14 Pierre Boulez, conductor

2014 – 15 James D Ireland III, trustee

2015 – 16 Rosemary Klena, assistant to the executive director

2016 – 17 Robert Vernon, viola

2017 – 18 Dennis W. LaBarre, trustee

2018 – 19 Franz Welser-Möst, music director

2019 – 20 The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

2021 – 22 Joela Jones, keyboard

2022 – 23 Jane B Nord, philanthropist

2023 – 24 Robert P Madison, architect and entrepreneur

2024 – 25 Nancy McCann, cultural arts activist

named staff position. This endowed chair will forever associate the position of Cleveland Orchestra President & CEO, currently held by André Gremillet, with Smucker’s name and honor his remarkable service, philanthropy, and transformative impact on The Cleveland Orchestra.

“It has been a privilege to work alongside Richard. His passion for music and steadfast belief in the importance of The Cleveland Orchestra, both locally and internationally, have inspired us all He has guided this institution with wisdom, generosity, and a deep commitment to our musicians, our audiences, and our community Establishing this chair in his name in perpetuity is our

way of thanking him for his outstanding leadership and decades of support,” said Gremillet.

Smucker’s leadership and philanthropy have left a lasting impact on the Orchestra’s artistic excellence, financial strength, and deep connection to the community.

Katherine T. O’Neill, chair

Richard J Bogomolny

Helen Rankin Butler

David J. Hooker

Richard J Kramer

Dennis W. LaBarre

Nancy W. McCann

Meredith Smith Weil

I N M E M O R I A M : S . Lee Kohrman

S . L E E KO H R M A N , Honorary Trustee for Life of The Cleveland Orchestra, passed away on August 20, just shy of his 98th birthday.

Lee joined the Board of the Musical Arts Association in 2002 and offered guidance as a member of its Investment Committee (since 2003), Audit Committee (since 2005), and Finance Committee (since 2005). He was elected Trustee Emeritus in 2019 and named Honorary Trustee for Life in 2022.

Lee was not only a dedicated and trusted steward of this institution but also a cherished member of the Cleveland community. His integrity, wisdom, and leadership left lasting impressions on all who crossed his path. We extend our deepest condolences to Lee’s family and join them in celebrating his legacy

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O C T 2 9

B E AT R I C E R A N A

I N R E C I TA L

Beatrice Rana, piano

Works by Prokofiev, Debussy, and Tchaikovsky

O C T 3 0 & N OV 1 – 2

O H L S S O N P L AY S

M O Z A RT

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Garrick Ohlsson, piano

T Y L E R TAY L O R Permissions

M O Z A RT Piano Concerto No. 23

R . S C H U M A N N Symphony No 3, “Rhenish”

N OV 1 3 – 1 5

M A H LE R ’ S S I X T H

S Y M P H O N Y

Tugan Sokhiev, conductor

Robert Walters, English horn

G E O F F R E Y G O R D O N Mad Song

M A H L E R Symphony No. 6, “ Tragic”

N OV 2 0 – 2 3

DVO Ř Á K ’ S N E W

W O R LD S Y M P H O N Y

Dalia Stasevska, conductor

R E V U E LTA S La Noche de los Mayas*

D V O Ř Á K Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”

N OV 2 8 – 3 0

Y U J A WA N G P L AY S

R AV E L

Petr Popelka, conductor

Yuja Wang, piano

R AV E L Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

L I G E T I Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

M U S S O R G S K Y/ R AV E L Pictures at an Exhibition

D E C 4 – 6

H A N D E L’ S M E S S I A H

Bernard Labadie, conductor

Liv Redpath, soprano

Tim Mead, countertenor

Andrew Haji, tenor

Philippe Sly, bass-baritone

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

H A N D E L Messiah

W I N T E R

J A N 8 – 10

M O Z A RT ’ S J U P I T E R

S Y M P H O N Y

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

M O Z A RT Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”

S H O S TA KO V I C H Symphony No. 11, “ The Year 1905”

J A N 1 5 , 1 7 & 1 8

V E R D I ’ S R E Q U I E M

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Asmik Grigorian, soprano

Deniz Uzun, mezzo-soprano

Joshua Guerrero, tenor

Tareq Nazmi, bass

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

V E R D I Requiem

F E B 5 – 7

H A D E LI C H P L AY S

M E N D E L S S O H N

Antonello Manacorda, conductor

Augustin Hadelich, violin

M E N D E L S S O H N Violin Concerto S C H O E N B E R G Chamber Symphony No. 2

S C H U B E RT Symphony No 8, “Unfinished”

F E B 1 2 & 14

H A N N I G A N C O N D U C T S

G E R S H W I N

Barbara Hannigan, conductor

Johanna Wallroth, soprano

C R U M B A Haunted Landscape

R U G G L E S Sun-Treader

B A R B E R Knoxville: Summer of 1915

G E R S H W I N Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture (arr. Bennett)

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F E B 1 7

M AO F U J I TA I N R E C I TA L

Mao Fujita, piano

Works by Beethoven, Wagner, Berg, Mendelssohn, and Brahms

F E B 1 9 – 2 1

F R E N Z I E D TA N G O

John Adams, conductor

Aaron Diehl, piano

I V E S From Greenland’s Icy

Mountains*

T I M O A N D R E S Made of Tunes

J O H N A D A M S Frenzy: a short symphony

P I A Z Z O L L A La Mufa (arr. Adams)*

P I A Z Z O L L A Oblivion (arr. Adams)*

P I A Z Z O L L A Libertango (arr. Adams)

F E B 2 6 – 2 8

S T R AU S S ’ S D O N J UA N

Alain Altinoglu, conductor

Alisa Weilerstein, cello

U N S U K C H I N Cello Concerto

R . S T R A U S S Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

R . S T R A U S S Don Juan M A R 5 , 7 & 8

B R A H M S ’ S T H I R D

S Y M P H O N Y

Jakub Hrůša, conductor

B R A H M S Symphony No. 3 M A RT I N Ů Symphony No. 3 K A P R Á L O VÁ Military Sinfonietta

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M A R 1 2 – 1 5

B E E T H OV E N ’ S

FAT E F U L F I F T H

Elim Chan, conductor

Michael Sachs, trumpet

S T R AV I N S K Y Suite from Pulcinella

H AY D N Trumpet Concerto

B E E T H O V E N Symphony No. 5

R E C I TA L

M A R 1 7

T H E K A N N E H - M A S O N S

I N R E C I TA L

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

Works by Mendelssohn, N. Boulanger, R. Schumann, and Clarke

M A R 1 9 – 2 1

C H A N C O N D U C T S

B A RTÓ K

Elim Chan, conductor

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin

D A N I E L K I D A N E Sun Poem*

B A RT Ó K Violin Concerto No. 1

B A RT Ó K Dance Suite*

S C R I A B I N The Poem of Ecstasy

S P R I N G

A P R 2 – 4

D E B U S S Y ’ S L A M E R

Daniele Rustioni, conductor

Paul Jacobs, organ

FA U R É Suite from Pelléas et Mélisande

P O U L E N C Concerto for Organ, Strings , and Timpani

C A S E L L A Italia

D E B U S S Y La mer

A P R 9 – 1 1

S C H U B E RT &

S H O S TA KOV I C H

Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor Sol Gabetta, cello

S H O S TA KO V I C H Cello Concerto No. 2

S C H U B E RT Symphony No. 9, “ The Great”

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A P R 1 6

A LE X A N D R E K A N TO RO W I N R E C I TA L

Alexandre Kantorow, piano

Works by J.S. Bach, Medtner, Chopin, Scriabin, and Beethoven

A P R 2 3 , 2 5 & 2 6

B R I T T E N ’ S WA R

R E Q U I E M

Daniel Harding, conductor

Tamara Wilson, soprano

Andrew Staples, tenor

Ludwig Mittelhammer, baritone

The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus

The Cleveland Orchestra Children’s Chorus

B R I T T E N War Requiem

A P R 3 0 & M AY 2

M E N D E L S S O H N ’ S

R E F O R M AT I O N

S Y M P H O N Y

Jörg Widmann, conductor J Ö R G W I D M A N N Fanfare for Ten Brass Instruments

J Ö R G W I D M A N N Con brio

J Ö R G W I D M A N N Danse macabre

M E N D E L S S O H N Symphony No 5, “Reformation”

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M AY 5

M A RC - A N D R É H A M E LI N & M A R I A J OÃO P I R E S I N R E C I TA L

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Maria João Pires, piano

Program to be announced

M AY 7 – 9

WAG N E R ’ S

G ÖT T E R DÄ M M E RU N G

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Jörg Widmann, clarinet

P RO KO F I E V Symphony No. 1, “Classical”

O L G A N E U W I RT H Zones of Blue*

WA G N E R Excerpts from Götterdämmerung

M AY 1 6 , 2 1 & 24

B E E T H OV E N ’ S F I D E LI O

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

B E E T H O V E N Fidelio Opera presentation sung in German with projected supertitles

M AY 2 2

H E RO ’ S S O N G

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Leila Josefowicz, violin

Trina Struble, harp

A D O L P H U S H A I L S T O R K Epitaph for a Man Who Dreamed

B A C E W I C Z Symphony No. 4 J Ü R I R E I N V E R E Concerto for Violin, Harp, and Orchestra D V O Ř Á K Hero’s Song

* Not performed on the Friday matinee concert

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

Haslam 3 Foundation

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 and opportunities to secure funding)

Bruce* & Eleanor Kendrick

Dr.* & Mrs . Anthony T. Lauria

Mrs . Norma Lerner

Jan R . Lewis

Robert Lugibihl

Deborah L . Neale

Mr & Mrs Albert B Ratner

Jenny & Tim Smucker

Richard & Nancy Sneed

Roy C Waas*

Gifts of $100,000 to $199,999

Art of Beauty Company, Inc.

Mr. Yuval Brisker

Rebecca Dunn

Dr. Michael Frank & Patricia A . * Snyder

Dr. Hiroyuki & Mrs . Mikiko Fujita

Mr. & Mrs . Michael J. Horvitz

The Walter and Jean Kalberer

Foundation

Dr & Mrs Herbert Kloiber (Europe)

Thomas & Jessica Lauria (Miami)

Ms Beth E Mooney

Estate of Bernadette Norwood

Jim & Myrna Spira

Mr.* & Mrs . Donald W. Strang, Jr.

Ms . Ginger Warner

Paul & Suzanne Westlake

Tony & Diane Wynshaw-Boris

Anonymous (3)

Lillian Baldwin Society

Gifts of $75,000 to $99,999

Mr. & Mrs . Alexander M. Cutler

Mr.* & Mrs . Bernard H. Eckstein

JoAnn & Robert Glick

Mr. & Mrs . Douglas A . Kern

Richard & Christine Kramer

Mr. & Mrs . Dennis W. LaBarre

Ms Cathy Lincoln

Mr & Mrs Alfred M Rankin, Jr

George Szell Society

Gifts of $50,000 to $74,999

Randall & Virginia Barbato

Brenda & Marshall B. Brown

Mr.* & Mrs . Robert W. Gillespie

Ms . Alexandra Hanna

Richard & Michelle Jeschelnig

Elizabeth B. Juliano

Cynthia Knight

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 *

Ilana & Chuck Horowitz Ratner

Saul & Mary Sanders (Miami)

Astri Seidenfeld

The Seven Five Fund

R . Thomas & Meg Harris Stanton

Holly Strawbridge (Miami)

Mr. & Mrs . Franz Welser-Möst

Barbara & David Wolfort

Mrs . Jayne M. Zborowsky

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)

Robin Dunn Blossom

Mr. Richard J. Bogomolny & Ms . Patricia M. Kozerefski

Dr. Ben H. & Julia Brouhard

Jeanette Grasselli Brown* & Glenn R . Brown*

Dr. Robert Brown &

Mrs . Janet Gans Brown

J. C. & Helen Rankin Butler

Irad & Rebecca Carmi

Jim & Mary Conway

Judith & George W. Diehl

Budd & Judy Dworkin

Mary Jo Eaton (Miami)

Drs Wolfgang & Gabi Eder (Europe)

Peter & Christina Gold (Miami)

David & Robin Gunning

Sondra & Steve Hardis

Iris & Tom Harvie

Mary & Jon* Heider (Cleveland, Miami)

Mrs . Lynn Heisler

Amy & Stephen Hoffman

David & Nancy Hooker

Richard Horvitz & Erica Hartman-Horvitz (Cleveland, Miami)

Mrs Marguerite B Humphrey*

Allan V Johnson

Mr & Mrs Joseph P Keithley

Rob & Laura Kochis

Jon A . & Virginia M. Lindseth, PhD

Mr. Stephen McHale

Loretta J. Mester & George J. Mailath

Randy & Christine Myeroff

Jennifer & Alexander Ogan

The Honorable John Doyle Ong

Mr. J. William & Dr. Suzanne* Palmer

Catherine & Hyun Park

Douglas & Noreen Powers

Mr & Mrs James A Ratner

James & Marguerite Rigby

Mark & Shelly Saltzman

The Ralph and Luci Schey Foundation

Mr. Eric A . Seed & Ms . Ellen Oglesby

Donna E . Shalala (Miami)

Dr. Elizabeth Swenson

Dr. Russell A . Trusso

Herbert Wainer & Jody Bernon-Wainer

Tom & Shirley* Waltermire

John & Deborah Warner

Anya Weaving & Tom Mihaljevic

Meredith & Michael Weil

Tony & Christine White

Anonymous (2)

Dudley S. Blossom Society

Gifts of $15,000 to $24,999

Mr & Mrs William Winfield Baker

Ms Viia R Beechler

Mr & Mrs Jules Belkin

Mel Berger & Jane Haylor

Mr. & Mrs . C. Perry Blossom

Mr. & Mrs . Charles P. Bolton

Dr. Christopher P. Brandt & Dr. Beth Sersig

Mr. D. McGregor Brandt , Jr.

Meghan & Trent Brown

Mr. & Mrs . Timothy J. Callahan

Ellen E . * & Victor J. Cohn

Kathleen A . Coleman

Ted & Donna Connolly

Mr & Mrs Kevin C Conway

Mrs Barbara Cook

Mr & Mrs Matthew V Crawford

Maureen A Doerner & Geoffrey T. White

Nancy & Richard Dotson

Peter & Sandy Earl

Dr. & Mrs . Robert Ehrlich (Europe)

Mr. Brian L . Ewart & Mr. William McHenry

Mr. & Mrs . Richard C. Fedorovich

Friends of The Cleveland Orchestra

Richard & Ann Gridley

Gary L . & Cari T. Gross

Mr. & Mrs . Harley I. Gross

Ms Marianne Gymer

Kathleen E Hancock

Jack Harley & Judy Ernest

Matthew & Elizabeth Horvitz

Gerald Hughes

Mr. & Mrs . Brinton L . Hyde

Sarah Liotta Johnston & Jeff Johnston

Eeva & Harri Kulovaara (Miami)

Mr. & Mrs . S. Ernest Kulp

Ms . Heather Lennox

In honor of Emma Skoff Lincoln

Linda Litton

Mr. Jeff Litwiller

Anne R . & Kenneth E . Love

Mr & Mrs Alex Machaskee

Mr & Mrs Robert W Malone

Alan Markowitz MD & Cathy Pollard

Mr. Fredrick W. Martin

Mr.* & Mrs . Arch J. McCartney

Miba AG and Dr. & Mrs . Peter Mitterbauer (Europe)

Ann Jones Morgan

Sally S. & John C. Morley*

Mr. & Mrs . Scott C. Mueller

Richard Organ & Jamie Nash

Mr. Winthrop Quigley & Ms . Bonnie Crusalis

Dr Isobel Rutherford

Rachel R Schneider

Dr & Mrs James L Sechler

Meredith M. Seikel

Hewitt & Paula Shaw

Robyn Shifrin

Roy Smith

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

Sandy* & Ted Wiese

Katie & Donald Woodcock

Max & Beverly Zupon

Anonymous (3)

Frank H. Ginn Society

Gifts of $10,000 to $14,999

Dr & Mrs D P Agamanolis

Mr & Mrs * Eugene J Beer

Deena & Jeff Bellman

Laura & Jon Bloomberg

Mrs . Catharina M. Caldwell

Mr. & Mrs . Chester F. Crone

Mr. & Mrs . Manohar Daga

Allan* & Connie Dechert

Gregory Dobbins

Michael Dunn

Dr.* & Mrs . Lloyd H. Ellis Jr.

Joan Alice Ford

Dr. Edward S. Godleski

André & Ginette Gremillet

Calvin & Sherry Griffith

Mr & Mrs Michael Gröller (Europe)

Alfredo & Luz Maria Gutierrez (Miami)

Robin Hitchcock Hatch

Dr. Robert T. Heath & Dr. Elizabeth L . Buchanan

Dr. Fred A . Heupler

Donald* & Joyce Ignatz

Donna Jackson

Barbara & Michael J. Kaplan

Jonathan & Tina Kislak (Miami)

John D. & Giuliana C. Koch

David C Lamb

Dr Edith Lerner

Dr David* & Janice Leshner

Drs Amy & James Merlino

Claudia Metz & Thomas Woodworth

John & Rebecca Minnillo

Mr. Bert & Dr. Marjorie Moyar

Brian & Cindy Murphy

Patricia Perry Nock

Mr. & Mrs . John Olejko

Mr. David A . Osage & Ms . Claudia C. Woods

Dr. Roland S. Philip & Dr. Linda M. Sandhaus

Julia & Larry Pollock

Ms . Rosella Puskas*

Beth & Clay Rankin

Mr. & Mrs . Roger F. Rankin

Mrs . Vicki Ann Resnick

Amy & Ken Rogat

Kim Russel & Dirk Brom

Dr. & Mrs . * Martin I. Saltzman

David M. & Betty Schneider

Gary Schwartz & Constance Young

Kenneth Shafer

Rev George Smiga

Sandra & Richey* Smith

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 Wile* & Sue Berlin

Anonymous (7)

The 1929 Society Gifts of $5,000 to $9,999

Ms Nancy A Adams

Mr. & Mrs . Todd C. Amsdell

Mr. James Babcock

Claudia Bacon

Robert & Dalia Baker

Thomas & Laura Barnard

Dr. James Bates

Fred G. & Mary W. Behm

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

Dr. Thomas Brugger* & Dr. Sandra Russ

Frank & Leslie Buck

Mr. Gregory & Mrs . Susan Bulone

Douglas M. Bunker

James Burke

Michael & Linda Busta

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

Diane Lynn Collier & Robert J. Gura

Marjorie Dickard Comella

Mr * & Mrs Ralph Daugstrup

Ronald J Davis & Cheryl A Davis

Pete & Margaret Dobbins

Henry & Mary* Doll

Brian & Renae Durdle

Carl Falb

Regis & Gayle Falinski

Dagmar & Frederick Fellowes

Mr. & Mrs . Mark Filippell

Bruce* & Nancy Fisher

Jan & John Fitts

Ms . Nancy Flogge

Mr. & Ms . Dale Freygang

Barbara & Peter* Galvin

Joy E Garapic

Mr James S Gascoigne & Ms Cynthia Prior

Anne* & Walter Ginn

Brenda & David Goldberg

Mrs . Florence Goodman

Barbara H. Gordon

Nancy Hancock Griffith

Candy & Brent Grover

The Thomas J. and Judith Fay Gruber

Charitable Foundation

Nancy* & James Grunzweig

Agnes Gund

Graham* & Ann Gund (Miami)

Mr. Arthur C. Hall III

Mr Newman T Halvorson, Jr

Mr * & Mrs David P Handke, Jr

Gary Hanson & Barbara Klante

Clark Harvey & Holly Selvaggi

Mr. & Mrs . Jonathan Hatch

Barbara L . Hawley & David S. Goodman

Matthew D. Healy & Richard S. Agnes

Anita & William Heller

Ms . Susan K . Hemry

Malcolm & Vivian Henoch

Mr. & Mrs . Jerry Herschman

Mr. & Mrs . Martin R . Hoke

Dr Keith A & Mrs Kathleen M Hoover

James* & Claudia Hower

Elisabeth Hugh

Ms . Mary Joe Hughes

David & Dianne Hunt

Ms . Kimberly R . Irish

Dr. & Mrs . Paul C. Janicki

Richard & Jayne Janus

Robert & Linda Jenkins

Mr. David* & Mrs . Cheryl Jerome

Mr. Jeremy V. Johnson

Karmendot Fund

Andrew & Katherine Kartalis

Rod Keen & Denise Horstman

Mr & Mrs Kenneth H Kirtz*

Audrey Knight

Mr & Mrs S Lee Kohrman*

Dr Ronald H Krasney & Vicki Kennedy*

Douglas & Monica Kridler

Peter* & Cathy Kuhn

Dr. Jeanne Lackamp

Mr & Mrs * Arthur J Lafave, Jr

Dr & Mrs John R Lane

Kenneth M Lapine & Rose E Mills

John N.* & Edith K . Lauer

Charles & Josephine Robson Leamy*

Michael Lederman & Sharmon Sollitto

Joan & Young Sei Lee

Mr. & Mrs . Roger J. Lerch in Memory of Carl J. & Winifred J. Lerch

Judith & Morton Q . Levin

Dr. Stephen B. & Mrs . Lillian S. Levine

Dr. Alan & Mrs . Joni Lichtin

Drs Todd & Susan Locke

Eric Logan

David & Janice* Logsdon

Joan C Long

Caetano R . Lopes (Miami)

Neil & Susan Luria

Peter & Pamela Luria (Miami)

Dr. Kalle J. Lyytinen

David Mann & Bernadette Pudis

Janet A . Mann

Diann & Tom Mann

Mr. Ryan T. Marrie

Mr. & Mrs . Christopher J. McKenna

Ms . Nancy L . Meacham

Dr. & Mrs . Kevin Meany

Dr * & Mrs Dale Meers

James & Virginia Meil

Dr Susan M Merzweiler

Lynn & Mike Miller

Drs . Terry E . & Sara S. Miller

Mr. & Mrs . Andy Moock

Ms . Nancy C. Morgan

Amy & Marc Morgenstern

Elizabeth Morris

Eudice M. Morse

Mr. Raymond M. Murphy

Mr. & Mrs . Stephen Myers

Richard & Kathleen Nord

Mr. & Mrs . Forrest A . Norman III

Courtney & Michael Novak

Thury O’Connor

Richard* & Elizabeth Osborne

Mr & Mrs Peter R Osenar

Mr. Henry Ott-Hansen

Dale & Susan Phillip

Dr. Marc A . & Mrs . Carol Pohl

Dr. & Mrs . John N. Posch

Mr. Robert & Mrs . Susan Price

Sylvia Profenna

Pysht Fund

Lute & Lynn Quintrell

James* & Donna Reid

Mr. & Mrs . * Robert J. Reid

David J. Reimer & Raffaele DiLallo

Mr D Keith* &

Mrs Margaret B Robinson

Dr. & Mrs . Ronald Ross

Robert* & Margo Roth

Dr. Adel S. Saada

Dr. Vernon E . Sackman & Ms . Marguerite Patton*

Mr. & Mrs . Lowell Satre

Sandra Sauder

Bob & Ellie Scheuer

Ms Beverly J Schneider

John* & Barbara Schubert

Sally & Larry Sears

John Sedor & Geri Presti

Deborah Sesek

Mr.* & Mrs . Michael Shames

Mr. Philip & Mrs . Michelle Sharp

Elizabeth & Timothy Sheeler

Mr. John F. Shelley &

Ms . Karen P. Fleming

Paul & Betsy Shiverick (Miami)

Zachary & Shelby Siegal

Howard & Beth Simon

Mr James S Simon

The Shari Bierman Singer Family

Drs Charles Kent Smith & Patricia Moore Smith

Mrs . Gretchen D. Smith

Mr. & Mrs . William E . Spatz

Diane M. Stack

Maribeth & Christopher Stahl

George & Mary* Stark

Sue Starrett & Jerry Smith

Bill & Trish Steere

Ms . Lorraine S. Szabo

Robert & Carol Taller

Mr. John R . Thorne & Family

Bill & Jacky Thornton

Brian & Elizabeth Tierney

Mr & Mrs Gary B Tishkoff

Mr. Christopher Towe

Mr.* & Mrs . Robert N. Trombly

Steve & Christa Turnbull

Dr. & Mrs . Wulf H. Utian

Robert & Marti* Vagi

Bobbi & Peter* van Dijk

Mr*. & Mrs . Lee Vandenberg

Mr. & Mrs . Les C. Vinney

Kenneth Kirtz*

George & Barbara von Mehren

Mr. Randall Wagner

Randall E Wagner

Ron Wakser

John & Jeanette Walton

Greg & Lynn Weekley

Tilles-Weidenthal Foundation

Mr. & Mrs . Mark Allen Weigand

Paul & Nancy Wellener

Dr. Edward L . & Mrs . Suzanne Westbrook

Dr. Paul R . & Catherine Williams

Ms . Linda L . Wilmot

Bob & Kat Wollyung

Mr. Graham Wood

Anonymous (3)

Composer’s Circle

Gifts of $2, 500 to $4,999

Mr & Mrs Paul R Abbey

Mr. Leonard H. Abrams*

David & Sharon Anderson

Sarah May Anderson

Gabrielle Aryeetey

Jack & Darby Ashelman

Ronen Avinir (Miami)

Ms . Bonnie M. Baker

Don Baker*

Eric Barbato & Elisha Swindell

Lucy Battle

Kathryn & Gerald Berkshire

Mr Jeffrey & Dr Sheila Berlin

Margo & Tom Bertin

Zeda W Blau

Marilyn & Lawrence Blaustein

Ms . Pamela M. Blemaster

Blossom Friends of The Cleveland Orchestra

Howard & Arlyne Bochnek

Dr. & Mrs . Timothy Bohn

Mr. & Mrs . Richard H. Bole

David & Julie Borsani, in memory of Marissa I. Borsani

Dwight Bowden

Lisa & Ronald Boyko

William & AnnaMarie Brancovsky

Adam & Vikki Briggs

Matthew D Brocone

Mr & Mrs Dale R Brogan

Dale & Wendy Brott

Bennett Brown

Mrs . Nancy E . Brown

Mr. & Mrs . Henry G. Brownell

Mr. Felix Brueck &

Ms . Ann Kowal Smith

Mrs . Frances Buchholzer

William Busta & Joan Tomkins

Dr. & Mrs . William E . Cappaert

Peter & Joanna Carfagna

Mr.* & Mrs . John J. Carney

Dr Ronald Chapnick* & Mrs Sonia Chapnick

Gertrude Kalnow Chisholm & Homer D W Chisholm

Dr. Gary Chottiner & Anne Poirson

Mr. & Mrs . Edward A . Chuhna

Natalie Cipriano

Robert & Judy Ciulla

Pete Clapham & Anita Stoll

Mr. & Mrs . David Clark

Richard J. & Joanne Clark

Drs . John* & Mary Clough

Mary* & Bill Conway

Mr. John Couriel & Dr. Rebecca Toonkel (Miami)

Laura Cox

Jane Cronin

Dr Lucy Ann Dahlberg

Karen & Jim Dakin

Mrs Jane Dangler

Dr & Mrs Thomas M Daniel

Mrs . Lois Joan Davis

Jeffrey Dean and Barbara & Karen Claas

Prof. George & Mrs . Rebecca Dent

Michael & Amy Diamant

Dr. & Mrs . Howard Dickey-White

Ms . Marlene Dirksen

Do Unto Others Trust (Miami)

Carl Dodge

Jack & Elaine Drage

Ms . Mary Lynn Durham

Mr & Mrs Robert P Duvin

Mr & Mrs Ronald E Dziedzicki

Erich Eichhorn & Ursel Dougherty

Mr Mike S Eidson, Esq & Dr. Margaret Eidson (Miami)

S. Stuart Eilers

Peter & Kathryn Eloff

Louis* & Patricia Esposito

Andy & Leigh Fabens

Anne Ferguson & Peter Drench

Mr. William & Dr. Elizabeth Fesler

Joan & Philip Fracassa

Mr. & Mrs . Larry Frankel

Howard Freedman & Rita Montlack

Marvin Ross Friedman & Adrienne bon Haes (Miami)

Robert Friedman & Elizabeth MacGowan

Mr. William Gaskill & Ms . Kathleen Burke

Mr. & Mrs . Bengt Gerborg

Mr. & Mrs . M. Lee Gibson

Daniel & Kathleen Gisser

Holly & Fred Glock

Dr.* & Mrs

. Victor M. Goldberg

Lawrence Goodman & Stephanie Betts

Ms . Aggie Goss

Mr. Robert Goss

Dr & Mrs Ronald L Gould

Bob Graf & Mia Zaper

Mr James Graham & Mr David Dusek

Dr. Ruffin Graham

Robert K . Gudbranson & Joon-Li Kim

Mr. & Mrs . John E . Guinness

Mr. Davin & Mrs . Jo Ann Gustafson

Mr. Ian S. Haberman

Mary Louise Hahn

Dr. James O. Hall

Megan Hall & James Janning

Dr. Haifa & Dr. Michael A . Hanna

John Hannon

Mrs . Martha S. Harding

Mr. Samuel D. Harris

Thomas & Darlene Hawkins

Dr. Toby Helfand

In Memory of Hazel Helgesen

Drs Gene & Sharon Henderson

T K * & Faye A Heston

Eric & Karen Hillenbrand

Richard & Jean Hipple

Arnold & Janice Hirshon

Mr. & Mrs . Stephen J. Holler

Charles M. Hoppel & Marianne Karwowski Hoppel

Lois Krejci-Hornbostel & Roland Hornbostel

Xavier-Nichols Foundation / Robert & Karen Hostoffer

Phillip Huber

Dr. Diane Huey

Mr. Brooks G. Hull & Mr. Terry Gimmellie

Dr. & Mrs . Grant Hunsicker

Mrs . Laura Hunsicker

Mr.* & Mrs . J. David Hunter

Ms . Melanie Ingalls

Bruce & Debbie Jarosz

Dylan Jin

Eric & Susan Johnson

Joela Jones & Richard Weiss

Steven Jones

Dr Eric Kaler

Mr Donald J Katt & Mrs . Maribeth Filipic-Katt

Dr. Richard* & Roberta Katzman

The Kendis Family Trust: Hilary & Robert Kendis and Susan & James Kendis

Joanne Kim & Jim Nash

Mrs . Judith A . Kirsh

Steve & Beth Kish

Mr. & Mrs . Stuart F. Kline

Michael Kluger & Heidi Greene

Stewart Kohl

Mr Ronald & Mrs Kimberly Kolz

Ursula Korneitchouk

Margaret Kotz & Ed Covington

Dr. & Mrs . John P. Kristofco

Mr. & Mrs . David S. Kushner

Alfred & Carol Lambo

Mr. & Mrs . John J. Lane, Jr.

Dr.* & Mrs . Roger H. Langston

Mrs . Susan D. LaPine

Mr. & Mrs . Richard L . Larrabee

Mrs . Sandra S. Laurenson

Richard & Barbara Lederman

Mr. Elliot & Mrs . Christine Legow

Michael & Lois Lemr

Robert G Levy

Mr & Mrs * Thomas A Liederbach

Eva & Rudolf Linnebach

Mr Henry Lipian

Dr & Mrs Jack Lissauer

Dr George I Litman

Ms . Agnes Loeffler

Mary Lohman

Mr. & Mrs . Carlos Lopez- Cantera (Miami)

Virginia Lovejoy

Linda* & Saul Ludwig

Elsie* & Byron Lutman

Mr. & Mrs . * Robert P. Madison

Herbert L . & Ronda Marcus

Dr.* & Mrs . Sanford E . Marovitz

Ms . Dorene Marsh

Kevin Martin & Hansa Jacob-Martin

Ms Amanda Martinsek

Ms Judith E Matsko

Stephen & Christine McClure

Bruce & Karen McDiarmid

Mr. & Mrs . Sandy McMillan

Mr. James E . Menger

Leah Merritt-Mervine

Dr. Miloslava Mervart

Mr. & Mrs . Gerald A . Messerman

Mr. Glenn A . Metzdorf

David Michel & Lynne Killgore

Beth M. Mikes

Amy Miller & Nikhil Rao

Mr & Mrs David S Miller

Dr & Mrs Leon Miller

Mr Tom Millward

Anton & Laura Milo

Michael Milo

Jon Morrell

Mr. & Mrs . Thomas W. Morris

Ken & Sharon Mountcastle

Susan B. Murphy

Dave & Nancy Murray

Karen & Bernie Murray

Joan Katz Napoli & August Napoli

Dr. Anne & Mr. Peter Neff

Karen Nemec

Andrea Nobil (Miami)

Mark & Paula Nylander

Richard & Jolene O’Callaghan

Robert & Mary Ann Olive

Dr & Mrs Paul T Omelsky

Harvey* & Robin Oppmann

Dr. Douglas Orr &

Ms . Kimberley Barton

George Parras & Mary Spencer

Drs . James & Marian Patterson

Dr. Lewis E . & Janice B. Patterson

David Pavlich & Cherie Arnold

Matt Peart

Alan & Charlene Perkins

John Perko

Robert S Perry

Mark & Eve Pihl

Mr Richard W Pogue

Mr & Mrs Frank Porter

Patrick J. Holland

Drs . Raymond R . Rackley & Carmen M Fonseca

Dr James & Lynne Rambasek

Mr Todd J Reese

Dr Robert W Reynolds

David & Gloria Richards

Joan & Rick Rivitz

Mr. & Mrs . Jay F. Rockman

Michael & Jodi Rogoff

David & Mitsuko Rosinus (Miami)

Steven & Ellen Ross

Drs . Edward & Teresa Ruch

Nathan & Marie Rutherford

Anne Sagsveen

Ms . Patricia E . Say

Bryan & Jenna Scafidi

Don Schmitt & Jim Harmon

Richard B & Cheryl A Schmitz

Mr Don Schriver &

Mrs . Jane Schriver

Mr. James Schutte

Nicklaus Schwenk

Ms . Kathryn & Mr. Michael Seider

Mr. & Mrs . Joseph Selden

Dr. Judith Sewell & Mr. Donald Sewell

Caltha Seymour

Lee Shackelford

Donald Shafer & Katherine Stokes-Shafer

Steve & Marybeth Shamrock

Ginger & Larry Shane

Harry & Ilene Shapiro

Ms Frances L Sharp

Larry Oscar & Jeanne Shatten

Charitable Fund of the Jewish Federation

Dr. & Mrs . William C. Sheldon

Mr. Richard Shirey

MindCrafted Systems

Jim Simler & Dr. Amy Zhang

Dr. Edward & Mrs . Barbara Sivak

G. Michael & Kathy* Mead Skerritt

Bruce L . Smith

Mr. Christopher &

Mrs Michelle Smith

David Kane Smith

Mr Joshua Smith

Mr. Eugene Smolik

Drs . Nancy & Ronald Sobecks

Drs . Thomas & Terry Sosnowski

SPÄNGLER PRIVATSTIF T UNG

Edward R . & Jean Geis Stell

Foundation

Ryan & Melissa Stenger

Ronald & Lauren Sterbank

Janet Stern

Ms Natalie Stevens

Frederick & Elizabeth Stueber

Nancy & Patrick Sullivan

Mike & Wendy Summers

Mr Marc L Swartzbaugh

Mr Robert D Sweet

Mrs . Mary L . Sykora

Mr. & Mrs . Michael Taipale

Rebecca & Jeffrey Talbert

Eca & Richard Taylor

Dr. James Taylor & Ms . Susan Slugg

Jill & Jim Taylor

Caroline Theus

Ms . Aileen Thong-Dratler

Dr. & Mrs . Thomas* A . Timko

Dr. & Mrs . Michael B. Troner (Miami)

Drs . Anna* & Gilbert True

Ms Christeen Tuttle

Dr Doug Van Auken & Mr John Corlett

Mr & Mrs Steven M Venezia

Teresa Galang-Viñas & Joaquin Viñas (Miami)

Philip Volpe

Neha & Sanjay Vyas

Mr. & Mrs . Eric Wald

Jessica & James Warren

Margaret & Eric* Wayne

Mr. Peter & Mrs . Laurie Weinberger

Emily Westlake & Robertson Gilliland

Mr. & Mrs . John W. Wilhelm

John & Nancy Woelfl

Mr James M Wood Sr

Dale & Cynthia Woodling

Ms . Jennifer Wynn

Rad & Patty Yates

Ms . Carol A . Yellig

Dr. Rosemary Gornik & Dr. William Zelei

Mr. Paul Zraik

Mr. Kal Zucker & Dr. Mary Frances Haerr

John & Jane Zuzek

Anonymous (8)

Cheers! To Our Gala Supporters

We thank the following donors for their generous and continued support of The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2025 Gala .

D I A M O N D S P O N S O R

Mrs . Norma Lerner

Mr and Mrs Albert B Ratner

Mr. and Mrs . * Richard K . Smucker

G O L D S P O N S O R

Haslam 3 Foundation

KeyBank Foundation

Richard and Christine Kramer

Milton and Tamar Maltz

S I LV E R S P O N S O R

Randall and Virginia Barbato

J. C. and Helen Rankin Butler

Mr. and Mrs . Alexander M. Cutler

Dr. Michael Frank

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling , NACCO Industries , Inc

Richard and Michelle Jeschelnig

Park- Ohio Holdings

Parker Hannifin Foundation

R . Thomas and Meg Harris Stanton

Suzanne and Paul Westlake

B R O N Z E S P O N S O R

Meghan and Trent Brown

Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP

Case Western Reserve University

Peter and Sandy Earl

Dr. Hiroyuki and Mrs . Mikiko Fujita

Matthew and Elizabeth Horvitz

Jones Day Foundation

Elizabeth B. Juliano

Mr. and Mrs . Douglas A . Kern

Nancy W. McCann

Mr and Mrs Scott C Mueller

Catherine and Hyun Park

Mr. and Mrs . Benjamin N. Pyne

Thompson Hine LLP

Astri Seidenfeld

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

C O R P O R AT E S U P P O RT

Gifts of $300,000 & more

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Hyster-Yale, 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

Quality Electrodynamics

Thompson Hine LLP

Anonymous

Gifts of $15,000 to $49,999

Acme Fresh Markets

Akron Children’s

BakerHostetler

Buyers Products Company

Calfee, Halter & Griswold LLP

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

Olympic Steel, Inc.

Park- Ohio Holdings

RPM International Inc.

RSM US LLP

Welty Enterprises

Westfield

Anonymous

Gifts of $2, 500 to $14,999

BDI

Berkadia

Blue Technologies, Inc.

BNY Wealth

Brothers Printing Company

The Cedarwood Companies

The Cleveland- Cliffs Foundation

Consolidated Solutions

Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote

Eaton

Evarts Tremaine

The Ewart- Ohlson Machine Company

GPD Group

Gross Residential

Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP

Hunsicker Family Dental

Jones Group Interiors Inc.

Karlie Newton II Insurance Agency

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz, LLP

KPMG LLP

The Lincoln Electric Foundation

MGM Resorts Foundation

Nordson Corporation Foundation

Northern Trust

Ohio Real Title

The Sherwin-Williams Company

Sikich

Ver Ploeg & Marino (Miami)

Warby Parker

Young Presidents’ Organization

Gifts of $1,000,000 & more

The Brown and Kunze 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

Mary E . & F. Joseph Callahan Foundation

Cuyahoga County residents through Cuyahoga Arts & Culture

Ohio Arts Council

The Payne Fund

Gifts of $250,000 to $499,999

Kulas Foundation

John P Murphy Foundation

The Dr M Lee Pearce Foundation, Inc (Miami)

Gifts of $100,000 to $249,999

Paul M. Angell Family Foundation

The Louise H. and David S. Ingalls Foundation

Park Foundation

Wesley Family 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 George Gund Foundation

Martha Holden Jennings Foundation

Myra Tuteur Kahn Memorial Fund of the Cleveland 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 Gerhard Foundation, Inc.

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 and Board of County Commissioners

The Nord Family Foundation

PWC Foundation

The Esther and Hyman Rapport Philanthropic Trust

The Reinberger Foundation

Albert G. & Olive H. Schlink Foundation

The Sisler McFawn Foundation

The Veale Foundation

The George Garretson Wade Charitable Trust

The Welty Family Foundation

The Thomas H White Foundation, a KeyBank Trust

Anonymous

Gifts of $2, 500 to $14,999

The Bernheimer Family Fund of the Cleveland Foundation

The C.R .E .W. Foundation

The Frances G. and Lewis Allen Davies Endowment

James Deering Danielson Foundation

Dorn Family Foundation

Fisher-Renkert Foundation

The Harry K . Fox and Emma R . Fox Charitable Foundation

The Hankins Foundation

The Muna & Basem Hishmeh Foundation

The Kirk Foundation (Miami)

The Laub Foundation

The Lehner Family Foundation

The Fred A . Lennon Charitable Trust

The G. R . Lincoln Family Foundation

Elizabeth Ring Mather and William Gwinn Mather Fund

The Eric & Jane Nord Family Fund

The M. G. O’Neil Foundation

The O’Neill Brothers Foundation

Paintstone Foundation

The Perkins Charitable Foundation

Charles E & Mabel M Ritchie Memorial Foundation

SCH Foundation

Lloyd L . and Louise K . Smith

Memorial Foundation

The South Waite Foundation

Sterling Chamber Players

Third Federal Foundation

Uvas Foundation

The Edward and Ruth Wilkof Foundation

The Wuliger Foundation

Anonymous (2)

The Cleveland Orchestra Board of Trustees

O F F I C E R S

Richard J. Kramer

Chair

André Gremillet

President & CEO

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

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

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)

Wolfgang C. Berndt (Austria)

Herbert Kloiber (Germany)

André Gremillet

Todd Diacon

Sarah Hutchins

Eric Kaler

Judith E . Matsko

Beverly J Schneider

Thomas F. McKee

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

L AT E S E AT I N G

As a courtesy to audience members and musicians , late-arriving patrons are asked to wait quietly until the first convenient break in the program. These seating breaks are at the discretion of the House Manager in consultation with the performing artists .

C E L L P H O N E S , WAT C H E S &

O T H E R D E V I C E S

To ensure a quiet and respectful listening environment , please silence all electronic devices .

P H O T O G R A P H Y, V I D E O G R A P H Y & R E C O R D I N G

Audio recording, photography, and videography are not allowed during performances at Severance Photographs can only be taken when the performance is not in progress .

In consideration of others , please reduce the volume on hearing aids and other health-assistive devices that may produce noise. For Infrared Assistive-Listening Devices , please see an usher. To request one in advance, email info@cleveland orchestra .com.

I N T H E E V E N T

O F A N E M E RG E N C Y

Contact an usher or a member of house staff if you require medical assistance. Emergency exits are clearly marked throughout the building Ushers and house staff will provide instructions in the event of an emergency A G E G U I D E L I N E S

Regardless of age, each person must have a ticket and be able to sit quietly in a seat throughout the

T H E C L E V E L A N D O R C H E S T R A A P P

Official Mobile App of TCO

Explore upcoming concerts , purchase and access your tickets , receive performance updates , and more .

For more information and direct links to download, visit clevelandorchestra .com/tcoapp or scan the code with your smartphone camera to download the app for iPhone or Android.

Available for iOS and Android on Google Play and at the Apple App Store

performance. Classical Season subscription concerts are not recommended for children under 8. However, there are several ageappropriate series designed specifically for children and youth, including Music Explorers (for 3 to 6 years old) and Family Concerts (for ages 7 and older)

F O O D & M E RC H A N D I S E

Beverages and snacks are available at bars throughout Severance Music Center Only bottled water is permitted in the hall For Cleveland Orchestra apparel, recordings , and gift items , visit the Welcome Desk in Lerner Lobby.

T E L L U S A B O U T YO U R

E X P E R I E N C E

We are so glad you joined us! Want to share about your time at Severance? Send your feedback to cx@clevelandorchestra .com. Hearing directly from you will help us create the best experience possible.

The Cleveland Orchestra is grateful to the following organizations for their ongoing generous support of The Cleveland Orchestra: the State of Ohio and Ohio Arts Council and to the residents of Cuyahoga County through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture

Cleveland Orchestra performances are broadcast as part of regular programming on ideastream/WCLV Classical 90.3 FM, Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 4 PM.

The Cleveland Orchestra is proud of its long-term partnership with Kent State University, made possible in part through generous funding from the State of Ohio

The Cleveland Orchestra is proud to have its home, Severance Music Center, located on the campus of Case Western Reserve University, with whom it has a long history of collaboration and partnership.

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