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Voice and the Violin

Joshua Bell, violin • Larisa Martinez, soprano • Peter Dugan, piano Felix Mendelssohn 1809-1847

“Ah, ritorna, età dell’oro” (Cavatina) from Infelice

Franz Schubert 1797-1828

Sonatina No. 1 in D Major, Op. 137

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An die Musik, D. 547

Louis-Ferdinand Hérold 1791-1833

“Jours de mon enfance” from Le pré aux clercs

Pablo de Sarasate 1844-1908

Introduction et Tarantelle, Op. 43

Gerónimo Giménez 1854-1923

Zapateado

Sergei Rachmninoff/Fritz Kreisler 1873-1943/1875-1962

“O, Cease Thy Singing, Maiden Fair,” Op. 4 No. 4

Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924

“O mio babbino caro” from Gianni Schicchi

Puccini

“Quando m’en vo” (Musetta’s Waltz) from La bohème

Narciso Figueroa 1906-2004

Mi Rancho

Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Suite 1918-1990 arr. Brohn/Czarnecki Peter Dugan performs this evening on Tuesday Musical’s Three Graces Steinway D Piano, purchased through the generosity of Lucinda Weiss and kept carefully tuned throughout the year by the generosity of James and Maureen Kovach.

Support for this performance and related education/community engagement activities comes from the Gertrude F. Orr Trust Advised Fund of Akron Community Foundation, as well as other generous foundations, individuals, and businesses.

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The Artists Joshua Bell, violin

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ith a career spanning almost four decades and three appearances on Tuesday Musical’s concert series, GRAMMY® Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated artists of his era.

Having performed with virtually every major orchestra in the world, Mr. Bell continues to maintain engagements as soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, conductor and Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

Mr. Bell’s highlights in the 2021-22 season include leading the Academy of St Martin in the Fields at the 2021 BBC Proms, throughout Europe, and the U.S. on tour; returning with the Philadelphia Orchestra for a play/conduct program, to the Verbier Festival, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic; and tours with the Israel Philharmonic and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra as soloist.

Born in Bloomington, Indiana, Mr. Bell began the violin at age 4, and at age 12 began studies with his mentor, Josef Gingold. At age 14, he debuted with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and made his Carnegie Hall debut at age 17 with the St. Louis Symphony. At age 18, he signed with his first label, London Decca, and received the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

In the years following, Mr. Bell has been named 2010 “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America, a 2007 “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum, nominated for six GRAMMY® awards, and received the 2007 Avery Fisher Prize. He has also received the 2003 Indiana Governor’s Arts Award and a Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 1991 from the Jacobs School of Music. In 2000, he was named an “Indiana Living Legend.”

Joshua Bell has performed for three American presidents and the sitting justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He participated in former president Barack Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ first cultural mission to Cuba, joining Cuban and American musicians on a 2017 Live from Lincoln Center Emmynominated PBS special, Joshua Bell: Seasons of Cuba, celebrating renewed cultural diplomacy between Cuba and the United States.

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Larisa Martinez, soprano

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nternationally acclaimed soprano Larisa Martínez made her Chicago Symphony debut at the 2021 Ravinia Festival and has recently been seen as Violetta in La Traviata conducted

by Eugene Kohn, as Sophie alongside tenor Piotr Beczala in Werther, and as Maria in West Side Story, conducted by Lawrence Foster alongside tenor Michael Fabiano.

In 2019, Ms. Martínez made her Kennedy 6

Center debut in recital and Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage debut, singing Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the Athens Philharmonic under the baton of Yiannis Hadjiloizou. In 2020, she appeared with the Grand Rapids Symphony, performing Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Floresta do Amazonas. In 2016, she created the role of Isaura in the world premiere of Mercadante’s Francesca da Rimini in Italy, conducted by Fabio Luisi and directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi.

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part of President Barack Obama’s artistic delegation to Cuba, in an effort to expand cultural collaboration between the two countries, culminating in the Emmy®-nominated PBS special, Live from Lincoln Center: Seasons of Cuba where she was showcased.

She won the 2016 Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Audition in Puerto Rico, the Angel Ramos Foundation Award, and the Audience Prize. She was also invited by the Metropolitan Opera Guild 2018 Annual Gala as a guest artist to honor Anna Netrebko. In 2018, EastWest Sounds Studios chose and sampled her voice for its new virtual instrument software “Voices of Opera.”

For the past three years, Ms. Martínez has toured with tenor Andrea Bocelli, debuting at Madison Square Garden, Hollywood Bowl, and throughout North America, South America, and Europe. She also has a long history of collaborations with violinist and husband Joshua Bell, including two PBS specials and this “Voice and the Violin” concert tour.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Ms. Martínez holds degrees in vocal performance from the Music Conservatory in San Juan, a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Puerto Rico, and a master’s degree in vocal performance from Mannes the New School of Music.

She is an artistic resident of Turnaround Arts, led by the Presidential Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.

ianist Peter Dugan’s debut performances with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony were described by the Los Angeles Times as “stunning” and by the San Francisco Chronicle as “fearlessly athletic.”

In 2020, he joined violinist Joshua Bell for “At Home With Music,” a national PBS broadcast and live album release on Sony Classical. He is heard across America as the host of NPR’s program From the Top. A sought-after multi-genre artist, Mr. Dugan has performed in duos and trios with artists ranging from Itzhak Perlman and Renée Fleming to Jesse Colin Young and Glenn Close. The Wall Street Journal described Mr. Dugan’s collaboration with violinist Charles Yang as a “classical-meets-rock star duo.” This season Yang and Dugan are Artists in Residence at New York’s Kaufman Music Center and the Cali School of Music at Montclair State University.

Mr. Dugan has been presented in chamber music recitals by Carnegie Hall, Chamber

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Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Music at Menlo, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and the Moab Music Festival. He has soloed with the San Francisco, Houston, Kansas City, and New World symphonies.

Mr. Dugan advocates the importance of music in the community and at all levels of society. As a founding creator of Operation Superpower, a superhero opera for children, he has traveled to dozens of schools in the greater New York area, performing for students and encouraging them to use their talents — their superpowers — for good. He is head of the Artist in Residence program at pianoSonoma and a founding faculty member of the Resonance and Soundboard institutes at Honeywell Arts Academy.

Mr. Dugan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied under Matti Raekallio. He resides in New York City with his wife, mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan, and serves on the piano faculty at The Juilliard School Extension. Mr. Dugan is a Yamaha Artist.

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Harlem Quartet

Ilmar Gavilán and Melissa White, violin Jaime Amador, viola Felix Umansky, cello with

Aldo López-Gavilán, composer and pianist Robert Schumann

Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44

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I. Allegro brillante

III. Scherzo: Molto vivace

II. In modo d’una marcia. Un poco largamente IV. Allegro ma non troppo

INTERMISSION Aldo López-Gavilán b. 1979

Viernes de Ciudad

Talking to the Universe

Eclipse

Aegean Dream

Pan con Timba

Aldo López-Gavilán performs this evening on Tuesday Musical’s Three Graces Steinway D Piano, purchased through the generosity of Lucinda Weiss and kept carefully tuned throughout the year by the generosity of James and Maureen Kovach.

Support for this performance and related education/community engagement activities comes from generous foundations, individuals, and businesses.

Among Tuesday Musical’s generous season supporters: Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation, Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, Betty V. and John M. Jacobson Foundation, KeyBank Trustee, Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust, Charles E. and Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation, Helen S. Robertson Fund of Akron Community Foundation, Sisler McFawn Foundation, Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Foundation, Welty Family Foundation

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Harlem Quartet

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arlem Quartet has been praised for its “panache” by The New York Times and hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.”

It has also won plaudits from such veteran musicians as Jazz at Lincoln Center woodwind virtuoso Ted Nash, who declared in a 2018 Playbill article, “Harlem Quartet is one of the greatest string quartets I have ever heard. They can play anything.”

Harlem Quartet was founded in 2006 by the Sphinx Organization, a national nonprofit dedicated to building diversity in classical music and providing access to music education in underserved communities.

Since its public debut at Carnegie Hall in 2006, the ensemble has thrilled audiences and students throughout the U.S. as well as in the U.K., France, Belgium, Brazil, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Japan, Ethiopia, and South Africa.

The quartet’s mission is to advance diversity in classical music, engaging young and new audiences through the discovery and presentation of varied repertoire that includes 12

works by composers of color. Passion for this work has made the quartet a leading ensemble in both educational and community engagement activities. It began a multi-year residency with London’s Royal College of Music in 2018. From 2015 to 2020 it led an annual workshop at Music Mountain in Falls Village, Connecticut. In 2021 it began two other institutional affiliations: as the inaugural Grissom Artist in Residence at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and as Quartet in Residence at Montclair State University in northeastern New Jersey.

In addition to tonight’s performance for Tuesday Musical’s audience, highlights of Harlem Quartet’s 2021-22 season include a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. with pianist Joseph Kalichstein; a collaboration with the Catalyst Quartet at the Chamber Music Society of Detroit; engagements with Carnegie Hall Citywide and the Morgan Library in New York City, as well as chamber music societies in Little Rock, Raleigh, Lewes (DE) and Syracuse; and a partnership with Cuban pianist-composer Aldo López-Gavilán in concerts at the Phoenix Chamber Music Society, the Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis, Nebraska’s Lincoln Friends of Chamber Music, and Virginia’s Shenandoah Conservatory. tuesdaymusical.org ■ 330.761.3460

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In 2012, Harlem Quartet and the Chicago Sinfonietta led by Music Director Mei-Ann Chen premiered Randall Craig Fleischer’s arrangement of West Side Story for string quartet and orchestra, and together they recorded that arrangement for Cedille Records along with works for string quartet and orchestra by Michael Abels and Benjamin Lees. The quartet collaborated with jazz pianist Chick Corea in a GRAMMY-winning Hot House album that included Corea’s “Mozart Goes Dancing,” which won a separate GRAMMY as Best Instrumental Composition. Harlem Quartet’s latest album, the July 2020 release Cross Pollination, features works by Debussy, William Bolcom, Dizzy Gillespie, and Guido López-Gavilán.

Violinist Ilmar Gavilán, a native of Havana, Cuba, has performed for Queen Sofia of Spain and, as a founding member and first violinist of Harlem Quartet, for President Barack Obama at the White House and in concerts and community engagement activities throughout the U.S. and abroad.

As a chamber musician Mr. Gavilán has participated in the Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Angel Fire music festivals, and as a soloist has played with the Atlanta, New Jersey, Baltimore, Detroit, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Hartford, Nashville, Phoenix, and Mexico City symphonies, among others.

His U.S. solo debut recording, Aires y Leyendas, and his album Por el mar de las Antilles anda un violin — which comprises music by his father, Guido López-Gavilán, including a violin concerto dedicated to him — are available on Amazon and iTunes.

Ilmar and his brother, Cuban pianist and composer Aldo López-Gavilán, are featured in the new documentary Los Hermanos / The Brothers, which tells the story of their shared childhood, their momentous first performances together, and their parallel lives as musicians. Los Hermanos is screening at film festivals worldwide and was nationally broadcast on PBS in fall 2021.

Mr. Gavilán is a first-place laureate in the Sphinx Competition and a prizewinner in the LipinskiWieniawski and Henryk Szeryng international violin competitions. He received his training at Havana’s Manuel Saumell Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, the Reina Sofia School of Music in Spain, Manhattan School of Music, New England Conservatory, and Rutgers

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The Artists University, where he earned a D.M.A. degree as a student of Arnold Steinhardt.

Violinist Melissa White is a founding member of Harlem Quartet. In March 2021 she made her debut with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Music Director Louis Langrée, and in April 2021 she debuted with the Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra as soloist in George Tsontakis’s Violin Concerto No. 2 led by Music Director David Alan Miller.

Her recent orchestral activity also includes debuts with the Richmond, Baton Rouge, Monroe, Pasadena, Knox-Galesburg and Johnson City symphony orchestras, and return engagements with the National Philharmonic, the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, and the Chicago Sinfonietta.

A first-prize laureate in the Detroit-based Sphinx Competition, Ms. White has performed with such leading U.S. ensembles as The Cleveland Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Louisville Orchestra, and the Atlanta, Baltimore, Colorado, Detroit, and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras.

In fall 2020 she joined the Music Artist Faculty at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development.

A native of Michigan, she holds performance degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory, where her teachers included Jaime Laredo, Ida Kavafian, Donald Weilerstein, and Miriam Fried. Her current instrument, “Matilda,” was commissioned as part of a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant in 2014 by the American violin maker Ryan Soltis.

Violist Jaime Amador has distinguished himself among the latest generation of musicians to emerge from Puerto Rico. He has been the violist of Harlem Quartet since 2012 and is also a member of the flute-viola-guitar ensemble Trio Virado, which he joined in 2021.

A native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mr. Amador has appeared in prestigious venues across the United States and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Kurhaus of Baden-Baden.

He has collaborated with such distinguished musicians as Chick Corea, Ida Kavafian, Fred Sherry, Emanuel Borok, and Misha Dichter.

Mr. Amador has performed and taught at numerous venues including the Royal College of Music (London), Accademia Musicale Chigiana

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(Siena, Italy), Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía (Madrid), FOSJA Youth Festival (San Juan), Meadowmount School of Music (Westport, New York), and the New Jersey Academy of Music.

In addition to leading masterclasses in Puerto Rico and across the U.S., he has made outreach programs a priority, bringing music to those with limited opportunities and to a society in need of healing through the arts.

Before joining Harlem Quartet, Mr. Amador was a member of the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, which also awarded him First Prize in its Solo Competition for his interpretation of Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto. Following studies at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music he continued his training at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and New England Conservatory.

His instrument is a Ryan Soltis 2010 viola.

Cellist Felix Umansky has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An avid supporter of contemporary music, he has performed and premiered works by such living composers as William Bolcom, John

Corigliano, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Vivian Fung, John Harbison, Chen Yi, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Chick Corea, among many others.

He is artist-in-residence at Montclair State University and London’s Royal College of Music and has been artist-in-residence at Yale University and Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and has performed and given masterclasses at the University of Idaho, University of Iowa, University of Wyoming, and Utah State University.

His festival appearances have included Aspen, La Jolla, Music Mountain, the Perlman Music Program, Music at Port Milford (Ontario), Highlands-Cashiers (NC), Madison (GA), and Amelia Island (FL).

A native of Carmel, Indiana, he holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music and an artist diploma from Yale University. Mr. Umansky currently resides in Westchester County, NY, with his wife, violinist Amy Schroeder. They perform regularly as the Schroeder Umansky Duo. Mr. Umansky performs on an 1850 J.B. Vuillaume cello, generously on loan to him.

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Program Notes Aldo López-Gavilán

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uban pianist and composer Aldo LópezGavilán was born in Havana to a family of internationally acclaimed classical musicians, his father a conductor and composer, his mother a concert pianist.

Praised for his “dazzling technique and rhythmic fire” in the Seattle Times, and dubbed a “formidable virtuoso” by The Times (London), Aldo excels in both the classical and jazz worlds as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber-music collaborator, recording artist, and performer of his own electrifying jazz compositions.

He has appeared in such prestigious U.S. concert halls as New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, and Miami’s Adrienne Arsht Center, as well as at Amadeo Roldán (Cuba), Teresa Carreño (Venezuela), Bellas Artes (Mexico), Royal Festival Hall (U.K.), Nybrokajen 11 (Sweden), The Hall of Music (Russia), Duc de Lombard et Petit Journal Montparnasse (France), and venues in Canada, Santo Domingo, Colombia, Spain, Greece, Hong

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López-Gavilán’s collaborators have included some of the greatest artists in the classical, popular music, and jazz fields. The late conductor Claudio Abbado invited him to perform with Venezuela’s Simón Bolivar Youth Orchestra in a special concert dedicated to the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, and Maestro Abbado subsequently invited him to perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in Caracas and Havana.

More recently, Mr. López-Gavilán joined with violinist Joshua Bell in organizing Seasons of Cuba, a PBS special that took place at Lincoln Center in December 2016, celebrating a new era of cultural diplomacy with a program ranging from Vivaldi to Piazzolla and beyond. Among the prestigious artists joining them were Dave Matthews, the Chamber Orchestra of Havana, singer-songwriter Carlos Varela, and soprano Larisa Martinez.

Aldo and his brother Ilmar Gavilán, first violinist of New York-based Harlem Quartet, are featured in the new documentary Los Hermanos / The Brothers, which tells the story of their shared childhood, their momentous first performances together, and their parallel lives as musicians; it includes a genre-bending score composed by Aldo, concert footage of him performing with Harlem Quartet, and guest appearances by such legendary musicians as Joshua Bell. A Patchwork Films production by Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider, Los Hermanos is screening at film festivals worldwide and was nationally broadcast on PBS in fall 2021.

His U.S. concert activity last season included a virtual recital sponsored by Detroit’s CameraMusic in which he performed his own works in partnership with his violinist brother Ilmar, and two virtual performances sponsored by the West Michigan Symphony: a solo recital at The Block, and a return engagement with the orchestra for a performance of his own piano concerto, Emporium.

Mr. López-Gavilán’s new trumpet concerto, commissioned by New York’s Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, was premiered by that orchestra and the renowned trumpet soloist Arturo Sandoval at Carnegie Hall on February 19, 2022.

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Aldo López-Gavilán’s compositions Talking to the Universe, also the title of one of Aldo’s earlier albums, originated as a solo piano work. It then evolved into a piece for piano and jazz band, then to one for piano, jazz band, and orchestra. It aims to convey the emotions of a person sending a “message in a bottle” out to the universe, and the ensuing vibrancy and wholeness that comes with feeling at one with the cosmos.

The quintet version captures these intimate and yearning qualities, employing complex and exhilarating counterpoint that gradually increases in energy as the piece progresses Eclipse, originally for violin and piano, is a very personal piece written for Aldo’s brother Ilmar.

It addresses vulnerability and the emotional toll taken by the two brothers’ involuntary separation due to outside political circumstances as Ilmar went to the United States while Aldo remained in Cuba.

Pan con Timba, whose title means “bread with unknown something,” is consistently joyful and

contagiously optimistic. It reflects the classic mood of post-revolutionary Cuba: the younger generation, faced with scarcity and economic hardship, refused to indulge in self-pity and instead embraced humor as a psychological lifting device. This form of humor has become an essential part of the current Cuban identity. Pan con Timba features such rhythmic characteristics as the quintessentially Cuban form of ostinato known as “tumbao,” and also intertwines elements of various dance styles popular in contemporary Cuba.

Viernes de Ciudad is meant to depict the course of a day from dawn to dusk in London, a metropolitan city with diverse cultures and neighborhoods. It starts in a Middle Eastern part of town in early morning, cruises through an Irish area, and ends at a late-night pub where people from different cultures are having a good time together, symbolizing our shared humanity.

It features an impassioned violin solo and employs a complex, exhilarating counterpoint that gradually increases in energy as the piece progresses.

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These generous donors have chosen to honor special people in meaningful ways.

List as of January 20, 2022.

In memory of Ron Allan Ann Allan In memory of Margaret Baxtresser Lee and Floy Barthel Judy and Eral Baxtresser Toshie Haga Linda Hohenfeld In honor of Judi and Jerry Brenner Anita Meeker In memory of Kathryn Carcione Joel and Betty Siegfried In honor of Bobbie Eaton Judi and Jerry Brenner In memory of David Fisher Barbara and Denis Feld Ted and Teresa Good Bruce and Joy Hagelin Cynthia Knight Martha Kaltenbach Mark and Barbara MacGregor In memory of Joy Hagelin Judi and Jerry Brenner Jane Delcamp Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bob and Bev Fischer Rosemarie George Judith and Charles Gerdes Sue Gillman Mary Ann Griebling Toshie Haga The Hagelin and Wolff families DuWayne and Dorothy Hansen Jarrod Hartzler Margaret Hunter The Hupsters (Andrea, BJ, Louise, Sheila, Jackie, Pixie, Cathy) Monica Jahn Mark and Karla Jenkins Cynthia Knight Peter and Dorothy Lepp Linda and Paul Liesem Barbara and Mark MacGregor Rebecca McLean Anita Meeker and Family Natalie Miahky

James Newgent Newgent Families George Pope Elizabeth Sandwick Bob and Katy Shroder Cynthia Snider James Tormey Gail E. Wild Bill and Penny Wolff Shirley Workman In memory of Ellen Herberich Barbara Herberich In memory of Marcianne Herr Bruce Hagelin Geraldine Kiefer Virginia Wojno In honor of Moneeb Iqbal Barbara and Denis Feld In memory of Jon Kelly Audio-Technica Dr. Jeff and Mary Kase Joel and Betty Siegfried In memory of George Edward Kettlewell Mary-Jane Stanchina In memory of Peter Lepp Robert and Beverley Fischer Jarrod Hartzler Dorothy Lepp Anita Meeker In memory of Marian Lott David Knapp Mark and Barbara MacGregor In memory of George Lyon Ann and Roger Edwards Vickie Pitrof Lydia A. Schlosser Lavonne Voelz James and Mary Waltermire

In memory of Rusty Miller Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Jarrod Hartzler In memory of Bob Neidert Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bruce and Joy Hagelin Jarrod Hartzler Patricia Jones-Neal Natalie Miahky Shirley Workman In memory of Donald Reid Bruce and Joy Hagelin In memory of Patrick Reilly Mark and Sandy Auburn Jane Berkner and Stewart Freedman Judi and Jerry Brenner Bobbie Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bob and Beverly Fischer Bruce and Joy Hagelin Jarrod Hartzler Cynthia Knight Barbara and Mark MacGregor Anita Meeker Natalie Miahky George Pope Gail E. Wild Shirley Workman In memory of Dr. Bruce and Lola Rothmann Soloman Cokes and Pamela Rothmann In memory of Lola Rothmann Elizabeth Rusnak In honor of Lola Rothmann’s birthday Becky Ryba

In memory of Eugene Mancini Toshie Haga In honor of Anita Meeker Elizabeth Sandwick

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Support: Foundations, Businesses, Government Through their vital support, these organizations help to sustain Tuesday Musical and the arts throughout our region. List as of January 20, 2022. $25,000+ CARES Act GAR Foundation John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Ohio Arts Council $10,000 to $24,999 Community Fund—Arts & Culture of the Akron Community Foundation Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust C. Colmery Gibson Polsky Fund of Akron Community Foundation Kulas Foundation John A. McAlonan Fund of Akron Community Foundation Gertrude F. Orr Trust Advised Fund of Akron Community Foundation Peg’s Foundation Charles E. and Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation

$5,000 to $9,999 The Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank, Trustee Betty V. and John M. Jacobson Foundation Helen S. Robertson Fund of Akron Community Foundation Sisler McFawn Foundation Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Foundation Welty Family Foundation $1,000 to $4,999 Howard Atwood Family Fund of Akron Community Foundation KeyBank Foundation Lehner Family Foundation Beatrice K. McDowell Family Fund W. Paul Mills and Thora J. Mills Memorial Foundation Laura R. and Lucian Q. Moffitt Foundation R. C. Musson and Katharine M. Musson Charitable Foundation Synthomer Foundation $200 to $999 KeyBank Foundation Community Leadership Fund Business Partners Tuesday Musical thanks these businesses for their financial support. As our partners, they are investing in the community where their customers, employees, and families live, learn and work.

The McCarron Group

Thank you, Akron Children’s Hospital!

Be outstanding.

School of Music

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We are delighted to welcome Akron Children’s Hospital as Tuesday Musical’s newest Business Partner.

Is your business interested in connecting with well-educated and sophisticated arts supporters and community leaders throughout Greater Akron and Northeast Ohio? To discuss options and opportunities, please contact Cynthia Snider, executive director of Tuesday Musical, at 330-761-3460 or csnider@tuesdaymusical.org. tuesdaymusical.org ■ 330.761.3460

Tuesday Musical’s 2021-22 Akron Concert Series

Tuesday Musical’s Donations enable Tuesday Musical to share the world’s best music and musicians throughout our community.

Are you — and perhaps a few of your friends — interested in funding a specific budget item?

Perhaps in honor of a friend or family member? (Unrestricted gifts for our general operating fund are always welcome, too!)

Wish List: ● Fuel for performers (concert snacks!): $55 per concert ● Street banners in downtown Akron: $125 each ● Paper stock for concert tickets: $225 for a case ● Facebook advertising: $250 per concert ● Underwrite the cost of one bus for a school group to attend a concert: $300 ● Concert promo postcard, printing and mailing: $400 per concert ● Concert Conversation in EJ’s Flying Balcony: $400 per concert ● Sponsor a post-concert reception with the guest artist(s): $1,500 ● Sponsor a concert: starting at $10,000 ● Endow and name a scholarship: starting at $13,000 Generous Wish Granters (thank you!): ● Judith Dimengo: Underwriting the cost of five buses ($300 each) for school groups to attend concerts. ● Jim

and Maureen Kovach: One season of tuning and maintenance for our Three Graces Steinway D Grand Piano: $2,000

● Anonymous:

One street banner in downtown Akron: $125

For more information, please contact Cynthia Snider at 330-761-3460 or csnider@tuesdaymusical.org. Or write to Tuesday Musical at 1041 W. Market St., Ste. 200, Akron, OH 44313 Tuesday Musical is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are fully deductible as provided by law.

Advertise in Tuesday Musical Programs Contact Ruth Krise • 330.714.2704 rkrise@livepub.com

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2021-2022 Board of Directors Executive Committee President

Linda Liesem

Vice President/President Elect

George Pope

Treasurer

Paul Mucha

Secretary

Marianne Miller

Governance Committee Chair

Bryan Meek

Committee Chairs Artistic Planning Brahms Allegro Development Finance Hospitality Membership Member Programs Scholarship Student Ticket Program

Cynthia Snider Jennifer Stenroos Louise Harvey Paul Mucha Bobbie Eaton Fred Specht Stanislav Golovin James Wilding Teresa Good

At-large Members Mark Greer, Cheryl Lyon, Landon Nyako, Claire Purdy, Shirley Workman Staff Executive Director Director of Finance and Audience Services Director of Artistic Operations and Educational Engagement Marketing Consultants

Cynthia Snider Karla Jenkins Austin Ferguson Brett Della Santina, Jim Sector

Program art direction by Live Publishing Co.

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Experience the intimacy of one of the nation’s finest academic art museums.

February 22–June 5, 2022 forms larger and bolder: eva hesse drawings

After shows in Wiesbaden, Vienna, and New York, the exhibition returns to the Allen. More than 70 works by the German-born artist illustrated the central role of drawing in Eva Hesse’s influential career.

Admission is always free.

Located on the campus of Oberlin College, about 60 minutes from downtown Akron, the Allen Memorial Art Museum presents art from virtually every culture and time period, plus a robust schedule of changing exhibitions.

For hours and information on a variety of free programs, please visit our website at amam.oberlin.edu. image: eva hesse (american, born in germany, 1936–1970), no title (1962). allen memorial art museum, gift of helen hesse charash, 1983.106.7