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Thursday, February 2, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.
OUR SONG, OUR STORY
Akron Concert Series
at EJ Thomas Hall
Damien Sneed, music director and piano, Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Justin Austin, baritone Griot String Quartet: Amyr Joyner, violin, Justus Ross, violin Edward Hardy, viola, Thapelo Masita, cello
OPENING
Evocation ............................................................................................ Hale Smith (1925-2009)
Damien Sneed, piano
SPIRITUAL SONGS
He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands
arr. Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano
Let Us Break Bread Together....................................................... arr. John Carter (1932-1981)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano
Great Is Thy Faithfulness .............................................................. arr. Damien Sneed (b.1979)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano
Oh Freedom arr. Shawn Okpebholo (b.1981)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano
OPERA
La Ci Darem La Mano from Don Giovani .................. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Ch’il bel sogno from Rigoletto ..................................................... Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano
Caro nome che il mio cor from Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Summertime from Porgy & Bess
George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
There was a Storm from Fire Shut Up In My Bones ..................... Terence Blanchard (b.1962)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
This is My Body .................................................................................... Damien Geter (b.1980)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
It Is Done from Treemonisha Damien Sneed (b.1979)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Duet from Fire Shut Up In My Bones............................................
Terence Blanchard (b.1962)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
STRING QUARTET
String Quartet, No. 1 “Calvary” – Allegro ................. Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) Griot String Quartet
LIEDER & ART SONGS
Die Allmacht, D.852
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Die meinach, Op. 43, No. 2 .....................................................Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Suleika, D.720 .............................................................................
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Herr, was trägt der boden hier from Spanisches Liederbuch: No. 9 Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Morgen, Op. 27, No. 4 ................................................................
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Little Horses from Old American Songs, Set 2 ............................
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
BLACK COMPOSERS
Till I Wake ..................................................................................
Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Minstrel Man from Three Dream Portraits...................................
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
The Earth Sings
Damien Sneed (b.1979)
Jacqueline Echols, soprano, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
I Dream A World ................................................................................
Damien Sneed (b.1979)
Justin Austin, baritone, Damien Sneed, piano, Griot String Quartet
Mr. Sneed performs this evening on Tuesday Musical’s Three Graces Steinway D Piano, made possible by 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 them:
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
Our Song, Our Story
Damien Sneed, Our Song, Our Story creator
As a multi-genre recording artist and instrumentalist, Damien LeChateau Sneed is a pianist, vocalist, organist, composer, conductor, arranger, producer, and arts educator whose work spans multiple genres.
He has worked with jazz, classical, pop, and R&B legends, including the late Aretha Franklin and Jessye Norman. He is featured on Ms. Norman’s final recording, Bound For The Promised Land, on Albany Records. He has also worked with Wynton Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Ashford & Simpson, J’Nai Bridges, Lawrence Brownlee, and many others. In addition, Mr. Sneed has served as music director for several Grammy Award-winning gospel artists and BET’s hit gospel competition Sunday Best –Season Four.
Mr. Sneed is a 2014 Sphinx Medal of Excellence recipient. He is a 2020 Dove Award winner and a 2021 NAACP Image Award winner for his work as a featured producer and writer on
the Clark Sisters’ newest project, The Return.
He is a faculty member of the Manhattan School of Music, Berklee College of Music, and Artist-in-Residence at Michigan State University. He is featured in the award-winning PBS documentary Everyone Has a Place, which stars Wynton Marsalis, capturing Mr. Sneed’s journey as the musical conductor of the historic tour performances of Marsalis’s Abyssinian Mass. The film features the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and Mr. Sneed’s own Chorale Le Chateau.
During the 2018 – 2019 season, Mr. Sneed served as Houston Grand Opera’s cover conductor, composer-in-residence, and music director. There he was commissioned to compose the new opera Marian’s Song about the life of Marian Anderson. In 2020, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater commissioned him to create an original score for Testament, a contemporary response to the 60th Anniversary of Revelations In 2021, he was commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis to compose The Tongue & The Lash, imagining a post-debate conversation between James Baldwin and William Buckley.
In 2022, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis commissioned Mr. Sneed to compose a reimagined adaptation of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha, which will premiere May 20, 2023. On June 17, 2022, Sneed conducted Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses at Cathedral of Saint John the Divine with a 50-piece orchestra and his 75-piece choral group, Chorale Le Chateau, to commemorate the Harlem Renaissance centennial.
This past September, he premiered with the LA Philharmonic as a vocal soloist in Wynton Marsalis’s All Rise symphony for the Hollywood Bowl’s Centennial Celebration. On October 1, 2022, he conducted the Flint Symphony Orchestra with Patti Austin in a tribute to Ella Fitzgerald.
He was recently signed to Apple Music & Platoon Records (London). His new single was released in June 2022 exclusively on Apple Music’s digital platforms of his original classical composition, Sequestered Thoughts, commissioned by the Library of Congress with Mr. Sneed on solo piano.
Justin Austin, baritone
Praised in Opera News as “a gentle actor and elegant musician” and in The Wall Street Journal for his “mellifluous baritone,” baritone Justin Austin has been performing professionally since the age of four. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, to professional opera singer parents, Mr. Austin began his singing career as a boy soprano performing at venues such as Teatro Real, Bregenzer Festspiele, Lincoln Center, and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. While working with directors such as Götz Friedrich and Tazewell Thompson, he was
able to realize early on his love for music and performance.
During the 2021-2022 season, Mr. Austin made his house debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Marcellus in the company premiere of Brett Dean’s Hamlet, while also covering the leading role of Charles Blow in Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones. He joined Lyric Opera of Chicago covering the role of Riolobo in Daniel Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas, starred as George Armstrong in Lynn Nottage and Ricky Ian Gordon’s
Intimate Apparel at Lincoln Center, and joined Des Moines Metro Opera as Thomas McKeller in Damien Geter and Lila Palmer’s American Apollo In addition, he returned to Carnegie Hall in the title role of Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Oratorio Society of New York, joined the New York Festival of Song for their debut concert at Little Island in New York City, joined the Cecilia Chorus at Carnegie Hall as the baritone soloist in Margaret Bonds’ Ballad of the Brown King, and presented a solo recital at the Park Avenue Armory with pianist Howard Watkins.
In the 2020-2021 season, Mr. Austin was featured in concert with the Metropolitan Opera, Mistral Music, Glimmerglass Festival, Opera Maine, Voices of Ascension, Moab Music Festival, and New York Festival of Song. He also starred as Captain Macheath in a film adaptation of Weill’s The Threepenny Opera produced by City Lyric Opera, made his debut at Washington National Opera as Thomas McKeller in the world premiere of American Apollo by Damien Geter and Lila Palmer, and debuted at the Bard SummerScape Festival as Mordred in Chausson’s Le roi Arthus.
Mr. Austin believes in utilizing his artistry to benefit music programs, new music projects, and community services around the world. In order to accomplish this, he works with organizations such as MEND (Meeting Emergency Needs with Dignity), QSAC (Quality Services for the Autism Community), Holt International, and St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital to construct and perform benefit concerts. The proceeds of these projects supply emergent living essentials to those in need.
Mr. Austin is a graduate of the Choir Academy of Harlem, LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, Heidelberg Lied Akademie, and the Manhattan School of Music, having earned Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees.
Jacqueline Echols, soprano
Lyric soprano Jacqueline Echols has been praised for her “dynamic range and vocal acrobatics” (Classical Voice) in theaters across the United States.
In summer 2022, Ms. Echols reprised her acclaimed portrayal of Clara in Porgy and Bess in her debut with Des Moines Metro Opera,
in addition to her debut with The Cleveland Orchestra for their annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Concert and her return to Cincinnati Opera for a special performance alongside Morris Robinson in Morris and Friends.
In the 2022-23 season, she returns to LA Opera as Julie in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Omar, debuts the role of Juliette in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Opera San Antonio, and makes her long-awaited return to the Kennedy Center reprising the role of Musetta in La bohème with Washington National Opera.
In the 2021-22 season Ms. Echols was featured at the Metropolitan Opera both as Clara in Porgy and Bess and as Noemie in the Met’s family adaptation of Massenet’s Cendrillon
Additional performances at the Metropolitan Opera include Pousette in Massenet’s Manon and Musetta in La bohème. She has been seen at the Kennedy Center under the auspices of Washington National Opera in the title role of Verdi’s La Traviata, as well as the roles of Sister Helen in Heggie’s Dead Man Walking, Micaëla in Carmen, the Unicorn in the world premiere of Jeanine Tesori’s The Lion, the Unicorn and Me, Clorinda in La Cenerentola, and Woglinde and Forest Bird in Wagner’s full Ring cycle conducted by Music Director Philippe Auguin.
Additional performances include Clara in Porgy and Bess with The Atlanta Opera as well as the title role in La traviata with Palm Beach Opera. A frequent performer of both standard and contemporary repertoire, Ms. Echols debuted the role of Helen in the world premiere performances of The Summer King at the Pittsburgh Opera in 2017 and reprised the role in her hometown of Detroit with Michigan Opera Theater in 2018. She has performed the role of Pip in Heggie’s Moby-
Dick with the Los Angeles, Dallas, and Pittsburgh operas.
On the concert stage, Ms. Echols has performed with the Ann Arbor Symphony for their 2017 season opening gala concert and returned to the symphony for her first performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. She made her debut with the Memphis Symphony in performances of Handel’s Messiah. She made her debut with the Tanglewood Festival reprising the role of Woglinde in Das Rheingold, conducted by Andris Nelsons.
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.
Martín García García, piano
Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert
Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5
Andante. Andante espressivo-Andante molto
Scherzo. Allegro energico avec trio
Intermezzo (Rückblick / Regard en arrière) Andante molto
Finale. Allegro moderato ma rubato
Generous support for this performance and related education/community engagement activities comes from Barbara and Mark MacGregor, as well as from donors to The Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert Endowment Fund (see list on page 10), and from additional individuals, foundations, and businesses.
Mr. García García performs this evening on Tuesday Musical’s Three Graces Steinway D Piano, made possible by 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 them: 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
Martín García García, piano
■ Reviewing the 2021 Cleveland International Piano Competition for the Plain Dealer, Zachary Lewis wrote: “Four finalists took home rare, hard-won awards, and one of them earned the contest’s top prize. At the peak of one of the world’s most elite musical fields emerged the youngest of the four finalists in 2021, Spanish pianist Martín García García.”
■ “The 24-year old gave a moving performance of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with The Cleveland Orchestra under conductor Jahja Ling,” praised International Piano (August 2021).
■ “García’s pedigree…is about as good as it could be,” was the verdict of Musical America, which named him “New Artist of the Month” in September 2021.
■ He was awarded with the 3rd Prize at Chopin International Piano Competition, in Warsaw, becoming one of the greatest young piano soloists in the world.
The outstanding young Spanish pianist Martín García García, lauded for his compelling interpretive skills, has recently been invited to tour as soloist with orchestras and in recital throughout Poland, Japan, Germany, and his native Spain.
In November 2021 he toured with Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2; a highlight was the performance with the Warsaw Philharmonic at EXPO 2020 in Dubai under the baton of Andrey Boreyko.
In February 2022 he was soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra in Poznań, Poland; the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in March with Sinfonia Varsovia at Teatr Wielki under the baton of Alexandr Markovic; Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in Japan at the Tokyo Metropolitan Theater with the 21st Century Orchestra conducted by Yukio Kitahara in June; and Mozart’s Piano Concerto KV488 in A major with Yomiuri Symphony Orchestra in June led by Sebastian Weigle at Suntory Hall.
This past summer, Mr. García García performed Chopin and Albeniz at the prestigious Martha Argerich Festival in Hamburg; Mozart and Chopin at the Societé Chopin Festival in the Orangerie of the Parc de Bagatelle, Paris; and Liszt, Mozart, and Chopin at the Ateneo de Madrid, in Madrid, Spain. He was presented on the Master Series by the International Keyboard Institute & Festival (IKIF) at Merkin Hall in New York City.
Reviewing the New York recital, noted critic Donald Isler wrote in the July 17, 2022 edition of New York Concert Review: “Mr. García is an excellent Mozart player!” Of his rendition of the Chopin sonata, Isler wrote “one heard a real understanding of the idiom” and concluded his critique with simply “this is a pianist I would like to hear again!”
In August he appeared in recital throughout Poland, notably at the Chopin and His Europe Festival in Warsaw, at the Valdemossa Festival in Mallorca, and the Festival d’Estiú Ciutadella in Minorca.
This season he made his debut with the Barcelona City Orchestra (OBC) performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 under the baton of Roderick Cox. November took him once again to Japan, where he played both the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 and Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto with the Tokyo Philharmonic, conducted by Shuntaro Sato. Also in November, he was invited — as one of the youngest pianists to date — to give a solo recital at Suntory Hall, Japan.
He made his solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall on October 12, 2022. From New York Classical Review: “An ambitious, stirring recital… an astonishing pianist of great musicality and indomitable technique.”
Mr. García García has won prizes in several additional competitions, including, most recently, Third Prize and Special Award for
Concordia at Sumner
Best Concerto at the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, Poland. He is the recipient of the 2022 Jeffrey Tate Prize from the Hamburg Symphony. In 2018, he won First Prize at the International Keyboard Institute & Festival Competition.
Mr. García García received his Master’s degree in Piano Performance under the tutelage of internationally acclaimed pianist Jerome Rose from the Mannes School of Music in New York. Mr. Rose called him “one of the greatest talents I’ve seen in my career.”
He is also a graduate of the esteemed Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid, where for 10 years he studied with Galina Eguiazarova, one of the major proponents of the Russian School of piano playing, and was awarded the highest honors, including the Best Student prize by Her Majesty the Queen Sofía of Spain.
Born in Gijón, Spain, Mr. García García began his musical studies at age five; his early teachers were Natalia Mazoun and Ilyà Goldfarb. He divides his time between Madrid and New York City.
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Program Notes
Robert Schumann: Symphonic Études, Op. 13
Robert Schumann was a curious child. The youngest in a family of five children, Schumann showed an early affinity for music and began composing as a child. His curiosity also expanded to the world of books and literature, an interest that would have a significant effect on his most stirring piano works.
Schumann’s father encouraged his son’s pursuit of music. After his father’s death in 1826, Schumann began to seriously study the piano, hoping to become a great concert pianist. His fascination with the technical workings of the fingers, combined with his own shortcomings as a pianist, led Schumann to construct a mechanism designed to strengthen the weaker fingers. Sadly, Schumann’s experiments caused permanent damage to his hands and fingers, effectively ending any chance of a career as a concert pianist. As a result, Schumann turned to composing.
It is easier to understand the rhapsodic emotion of the Symphonic Études within the context of Schumann’s obsessive fascination with pianistic transcendence. The composition of the Études — written between 1834 and 1837 — overlaps slightly with the composition of Carnaval, arguably Schumann’s most rousing piano cycles, though they do not share the same joyful exuberance.
The Études are a set of theme and variations, based on a somber opening theme. Each subsequent étude variation builds in intensity and liveliness until the finale which is marked Allegro brilliante (cheerful and sparkling). In composing the Symphonic Études, Schumann was inspired by Beethoven’s heroic symphonies, striving to recreate the fullness of the orchestral textures on the piano.
The work stands among Schumann’s most difficult for the piano, indicative of his deep dive into polyphonic and technical experimentation on the instrument. The grand scope of the
Symphonic Études inspired Johannes Brahms in the composition of his large-scale Paganini and Handel variations and continue to be a mainstay of Romantic piano literature.
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 5
Like Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms showed promise as a pianist in his youth. As a teenager, Brahms used his talents at the piano to earn money for his family, playing in the dockside inns of Hamburg while composing and giving recitals. On the cusp of turning 20, Brahms embarked on a concert tour accompanying the flashy Hungarian violinist Eduard Reményi.
While on tour, Brahms met another violinist, Joseph Joachim, whose more traditional musical sensibilities better matched Brahms’ own. Joachim was so taken with the young Brahms that he introduced him to Robert Schumann who at the time was the leading music writer and critic throughout Germany. Schumann took an immediate liking to Brahms, igniting a connection that would stretch throughout Schumann’s life.
It was during this musical blossoming that Brahms composed his Piano Sonata No. 3 in F Minor. It was widely felt that the piano sonata was an archaic classical form, not conducive to the expansive shift that musical structures were undergoing in the Romantic era. But Brahms pulls out all the stops for his third and final piano sonata, fusing classical architecture with romantic ideology, demonstrating that the sonata form could develop to include Romantic sensibilities.
The Sonata is composed of five movements, a significant expansion from the traditional three or four. Beethoven, who himself transformed the sonata form, once again provides inspiration with the appearance of the “fate motif” in several of the movements (more widely known as the opening of his Symphony No. 5).
The first movement of the sonata is characteristic of Brahms’ contrasting moods and rhythmic complexity. His use of keys and
harmonic development is mirrored in the second movement which is prefaced with a poetic quote referencing “two hearts that join in love,” a nod to the two musical themes that interplay throughout the movement.
The Scherzo juxtaposes flashes of cascading arpeggios with a stately trio. The fourth movement is a meditative intermezzo titled “Remembrance.” Here we have the additional movement not typically found in classical or
romantic sonatas: while it shares many elements with the other movements (listen again for Beethoven’s “fate motif”), it is unique in its use of harmonic sound and function.
The final movement is a rousing Rondo Brahms once again combines pianistic virtuosity with noble lyricism to create an appropriate finale to this musical journey.
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Steaks, Seafood, Pasta, Chicken, Lamb
The Olde Jaol facility was built in 1865, and was claimed to be the finest sheriff facility of its kind.
The Olde Jaol facility was built in 1865, and was claimed to be the finest sheriff facility of its kind.
Steaks, Seafood, Pasta, Chicken, Lamb Our History
Steaks, Seafood, Pasta, Chicken, Lamb
In 1977 the Wayne County Sheriff’s department was relocated across the street to a new facility. Subsequently, the old jail was registered as a historical landmark in 1980 and in 1995 The Olde Jaol Restaurant was given life. We have an excellent reputation for quality and service.
In 1977 the Wayne County Sheriff’s department was relocated across the street to a new facility. Subsequently, the old jail was registered as a historical landmark in 1980 and in 1995 The Olde Jaol Restaurant was given life. We have an excellent reputation for quality and service.
The Olde Jaol facility was built in 1865, and was claimed to be the finest sheriff facility of its kind. In 1977 the Wayne County Sheriff’s department was relocated across the street to a new facility. Subsequently, the old jail was registered as a historical landmark in 1980 and in 1995 The Olde Jaol Restaurant was given life. We have an excellent reputation for quality and service.
The Olde Jaol facility was built in 1865, and was claimed to be the finest sheriff facility of its In 1977 the Wayne County Sheriff’s department was relocated across the street to a new facility.
Subsequently, the old jail was registered as a historical landmark in 1980 and in 1995 The Olde
The Olde Jaol facility was built in 1865, and was claimed to be the finest sheriff facility of its kind. In 1977 the Wayne County Sheriff’s department was relocated across the street to a new facility. Subsequently, the old jail was registered as a historical landmark in 1980 and in 1995 The Olde Jaol Restaurant was given life. We have an excellent reputation for quality and service.
Support: Individuals
We gratefully acknowledge all donors this season. Thank you for helping Tuesday Musical continue to inspire current and future generations of music lovers. This list includes this season’s donors who have given at least $200 as of December 31, 2022.
Director $5,000+
Donald M. and Mary E. Jenkins Family Trust
Cynthia Knight
Linda and Paul Liesem
Barbara and Mark MacGregor
Kenneth Shafer
Tim and Jenny Smucker
Fred and Elizabeth Specht
Darwin Steele
James and Linda Venner
Benefactor $1,500 to $4,999
Howard Atwood Family Fund
Earl and Judy Baxtresser
Lee and Floy Barthel
Ann Amer Brennan
Sally Childs
Judith Dimengo
Bob and Beverley Fischer
Sue Gillman
Bruce Hagelin
The Hagelin and Wolff Familes
Dottie and DuWayne Hansen
David and Margaret Hunter
James and Maureen Kovach
Beatrice K. McDowell Family Fund
Natalie Miahky
Michael and Lori Mucha
Claire and Mark Purdy
Richard and Alita Rogers
Peter and Nanette Ryerson
Patricia Sargent
Ken and Martha Taylor
John Vander Kooi
Sustainer $700 to $1,499
Richard and Eleanor Aron
Barbara Eaton
Barbara and Denis Feld
Paul Filon
Sharon and Bob Gandee
Elaine Guregian
Dorothy Lepp
Marianne Miller
Charles and Elizabeth Nelson
George Pope
Roger and Sally Read
Pamela Rupert
Cynthia and Larry Snider
Carol Vandenberg
Patron $400 to $699
John and Kathleen Arther
Amielie and Phil Cajka
Robert Carlyon
JoAnn Collier
Constance Dubick
Cheryl Gerberich and Derek Gorman
Lloyd and Grace Goettler
Ted and Teresa Good
Ian Haberman
Louise Harvey
JoAnn Marcinkoski
Anita Meeker
Dianne and Herb Newman
Annette Nicoloff and Kristine Mikolajczk
Earla Patterson
Jean Schooley
Sandra Smith
Jennifer and Jeffrey Stenroos
Shirley Workman
Carol and Bob Zollars
Donor $200 to $399
Anonymous
Sandy and Mark Auburn
David and Carmen Beasley
Linda Bunyan
Alfred Cavaretta
Roberta DePompei
Michael Dunn
Roger and Ann Edwards
Rick Elliott
Rosemarie George
Stanislav Golovin
Mark Greer
Michael Hayes
John and Suzanne Hetrick
Betty Howell and Mike Smith
John Isham
Mary Ann Jackson
Karla and Mark Jenkins
Greer Kabb-Langkamp
Cheryl and Tom Lyon
Jim and Mary Messerly
Paul and Alicia Mucha
Judith Nicely
Paula Rabinowitz
Kathy Rose
John Schambach
Anna Marie Schellin
Don Schmid and Rosemary Reymann
Rachel Schneider
Richard and Susan Schrop
Betty and Joel Siegfried
James Simon
Betty Sloan
Sandra Smith
Mickey Stefanik
Elinore Stormer
Dina and Brooks Toliver
Jorene Whitney
Jamie Wilding and Caroline Oltmanns
Christopher Wilkins
Bruce Wilson
Terry and Susan Yingling
Support: Memorials & Tributes
These generous donors have chosen to honor special people in meaningful ways.
List as of December 31, 2022.
In honor of the Baxtresser and Barthel families
Anita Meeker
In memory of Margaret Baxtresser
Floy and Lee Barthel
Earl and Judy Baxtresser
Elaine Guregian
Barbara and Mark MacGregor
In memory of Shirley DeLong
Barbara and Denis Feld
Louise Harvey
In memory of William Eaton
Doris St. Clair
In honor of Austin Ferguson
Cynthia Snider
In memory of Joy Hagelin
The Hagelin and Wolff families
Marianne Miller
In memory of Jim Harvey
Barbara and Denis Feld
In memory of Marcianne Herr
Elaine Guregian
In honor of Karla Jenkins
Cynthia Snider
In memory of Peter Lepp
Bruce Hagelin
In honor of Anita Meeker
Jerry and Judi Brenner
In memory of Patrick Reilly
Marianne Miller
In memory of Bruce and Lola Rothmann
Pamela Rothmann and Solomon Cokes
In memory of Betty Sloan
Beverly Rose
In memory of Nancy Smyrski
Barbara and Denis Feld
Support: Foundations, Businesses, Government
Through their vital support, these organizations help to sustain Tuesday Musical and the arts throughout our region. List as of December 31, 2022.
$25,000+ CARES Act
GAR Foundation
Hillier Family Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Ohio Arts Council
$10,000 to $24,999
Akron Community Foundation
Howard Atwood Family Fund of Akron
Community Foundation
Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation
Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust
Kulas Foundation
Donald M. and Mary E. Jenkins Family Trust
Gertrude F. Orr Trust Advised Fund of Akron
Community Foundation
Peg’s Foundation
Charles E. and Mabel M. Ritchie Memorial Foundation
Lloyd L. and Louise K. Smith Foundation
$5,000 to $9,999
John A. McAlonan Fund of Akron Community Foundation
The Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation
Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank, Trustee
Betty V. and John M. Jacobson Foundation
Polsky Fund of Akron Community Foundation
Helen S. Robertson Fund of Akron Community Foundation
Sisler McFawn Foundation
Welty Family Foundation
$1,000 to $4,999
C. Colmery Gibson 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
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.
Thank you, Chad Immel and Edward Jones!
Welcome financial advisor Chad A Immel of Edward Jones in Fairlawn, Ohio, 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.
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 meals and snacks): starting at $55 per concert, depending on numbers and needs of musicians
● 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: $500 per concert
Generous Wish Granters (thank you!):
● Anonymous: One street banner in downtown Akron.
● Linda Bunyan: Fuel for performers (concert meals and snacks
● Judith Dimengo: Underwriting the cost of five buses for school groups to attend concerts.
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
● 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 $20,000
● Letter-folding machine: $900
● Jim and Maureen Kovach: One season of tuning and maintenance for our Three Graces Steinway D Grand Piano.
● Barbara and Mark MacGregor: Sponsorship of piano concert at EJ Thomas Hall.
● Cecilia and Nathan Speelman: Fuel for performers (concert meals and snacks).
● Fred and Elizabeth Specht: Underwriting performance fees for young musicians.
Tuesday Musical is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations are fully deductible as provided by law.
2022-2023 Board of Directors
Executive Committee
President George Pope
Vice President/President Elect Claire Purdy
Treasurer Paul Mucha
Secretary Marianne Miller
Governance Committee Chair Bryan Meek
Committee Chairs
Artistic Planning
Brahms Allegro
Cynthia Snider
Jennifer Stenroos
Development Louise Harvey
Finance
Hospitality
Paul Mucha
Bobbie Eaton
Membership Fred Specht
Member Programs
Stanislav Golovin
Scholarship James Wilding
Student Ticket Program
At-large Members
Teresa Good
Mark Greer, Linda Liesem, Cheryl Lyon, Landon Nyako, Shirley Workman
Staff
Executive Director
Director of Finance and Audience Services
Director of Artistic Operations and Educational Engagement
Marketing Consultants
Program art direction by Live Publishing Co.
Cynthia Snider
Karla Jenkins
Austin Ferguson
Brett Della Santina, Jim Sector