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uesday Musical Association appreciates your continued support of The Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert Endowment Fund. This fund gives a lasting voice to Margaret’s objective of presenting the world’s greatest pianists in Akron. It also helps maintain the legacy that this extraordinary woman left for us to remember. Listed here are donors to the fund since its inception after Margaret’s passing in 2005. Barbara Ainsworth-Porter Ronald & Ann Allan Moshe Amitay & Judy Levin Tom & Nancy Anderson Anonymous Marion Goetz Aron Eleanor & Richard Aron Mark Auburn Sue & Christopher Bancroft Lee and Floy Barthel Earl & Judy Baxtresser Jeanne Baxtresser & David Carroll Robert Baxtresser Suzanne Baxtresser & Steven Wangh George Bellassai Jeanette & John Bertsch Jan Bird Ginny Black Sue & Pete Birgeles Mary & Dave Brown Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment/ Akron Community Foundation Alan & Sara Burky Elizabeth Butler Alfred S. Cavaretta Sarah Church Joyce Clark Cynthia Maglione Coleman Lydia Colopy Mr. & Mrs. Nicolas Constantinidis Carole Cordray-Syracuse George Curley Rita Czarnecki Jane Davenport Mary Davenport Jerry Davidson David & Katharine DeBolt David & Judith DeShon Mary Di Donato Marjorie Donahue & Robert Roach Dave & Susan Dudas Dennis & Karen Dunn Carolyn & Jerry Durway Hope Everhart David & Roberta Ewbank Denis & Barbara Feld Lois & Harvey Flanders Richard & Eleanor Freeman Thomas Friedman Marlene Mancini Frost Laura Lee Garfinkel Candace Gatewood Diana F. Gayer Stephen T. & Mary Ann Griebling 4
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EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall—The University of Akron Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Aaron Diehl, piano Aaron Kimmel, drums David Wong, bass Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert
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Aaron Diehl 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. Continuing Tuesday Musical’s commitment to arts education, Mr. Diehl shared his talents and inspirations with jazz students from The University of Akron and elsewhere this week. Generous support for this performance and related education/community engagement activities comes from donors to The Margaret Baxtresser Annual Piano Concert Endowment Fund and additional individuals, foundations, 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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“Diehl has built his reputation on an elegant pianism outside the contemporary mainstream…upholds a traditional framework while crisply demolishing the usual notions of conservatism” The New York Times
Aaron Diehl, piano
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uesday Musical’s Margaret Baxtresser Pianist this season, Aaron Diehl, has quietly re-defined the lines between jazz and classical and built a global career around his nuanced and understated approach to music making. Praised for his “melodic precision, harmonic erudition, and elegant restraint” (The New York Times), and his “traditional jazz sound with a sophisticated contemporary spin” (The Guardian), Mr. Diehl has performed with musical giants such as Wynton Marsalis, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tyshawn Sorey, and Philip Glass, and soloed with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, and The Cleveland Orchestra, working with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Marin Alsop, and Alan Gilbert. 6
In 2023, Mr. Diehl was named as the Artistic Director of 92NY’s Jazz in July festival, succeeding the legendary Bill Charlap. The Philadelphia Inquirer proclaimed that “there’s an entire world of jazz in Aaron Diehl’s playing…he makes the case that jazz is not one style or genre but many, gliding gorgeously among decades of artistic influences.” With an expansive, orchestral, lyrical approach to the piano that channels predecessors such as Ahmad Jamal, Erroll Garner, Art Tatum, and Jelly Roll Morton, Mr. Diehl has headlined the Monterey, Detroit, and Newport Jazz Festivals, and had residencies at Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Village Vanguard, SF Jazz, and many more. He counts among his mentors towering figures such as John Lewis, Kenny Barron, Fred Hersch, Marcus Roberts, and Eric Reed. tuesdaymusical.org ● 330.761.3460
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Mr. Diehl’s creative vision draws equally from the classical music tradition, with DownBeat magazine stating “Diehl gracefully melds two worlds, merging the improvisational spirit of jazz with the compositional intricacies of Western classical music.” Mr. Diehl has performed with top orchestras across the US, and at leading venues like Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Hollywood Bowl, the Elbphilharmonie, and Tanglewood. He has collaborated with classical stars ranging from Inon Barnatan to J’Nai Bridges to The Knights, and his compositions have been commissioned by the Monterey Jazz Festival, Glenmorangie Scotch, and others. In addition to tonight’s performance for Tuesday Musical’s 2023-24 Akron Concert Series, this season Aaron Diehl and his trio — featuring bassist David Wong and drummer Aaron Kimmel — opened the New Jersey Symphony’s season with a program that included William Grant Still’s Out of the Silence and Duke Ellington’s New World A-Comin’. The trio also made
its St. Louis Symphony Orchestra debut in January 2024 with a performance of Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite. Earlier this month, as the Orlando Philharmonic’s 2024 Resonate Festival artist-in-residence, Mr. Diehl explored the theme of musical intersections with works by John Lewis, Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor, conducted by Eric Jacobsen. This spring, Mr. Diehl will join the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the world premiere of Timo Andres’s new piano concerto, conducted by John Adams. During the 2022-23 season, Mr. Diehl was featured alongside Bill Charlap and Kenny Barron as part of 92NY’s “Three Generations at the Piano” program during Charlap’s penultimate season as the Jazz in July music director. Mr. Diehl would later go on to perform alongside fellow pianists Isaiah J. Thompson and Caelan Cardello as part of Charlap’s final season. As Kaufman Music Center’s
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The Artists 2022 artist-in-residence, he presented a recital program that included Sir Roland Hanna’s lesser known 24 Preludes. Following performances of Zodiac Suite with the Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras, he returned to Tanglewood to lead his trio in a program that included Roland Hanna’s 24 Preludes. In September 2023, Mr. Diehl released his Grammy-nominated recording of Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite with The Knights, the Brooklyn-based orchestral collective led by conductor Eric Jacobsen. As the firstever studio recording of Willams’s Zodiac Suite, it has been touted as “a joyous, enchanting creation… a triumph” (The Guardian) with Mr. Diehl lauded as “a contemporary champion” (The New York Times) and “a perfect choice to preside over this landmark recording” (The Wall Street Journal). The album features Mr. Diehl’s trio and guest artists saxophonist Nicole Glover, clarinetist Evan Christopher, trumpeter
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Brandon Lee, and soprano Mikaela Bennett. The critically acclaimed album is Mr. Diehl’s fourth recording on Mack Avenue Records, following 2020’s The Vagabond, 2015’s Space Time Continuum, and his 2013 label debut, The Bespoke Man’s Narrative. Aaron Diehl was born in Columbus, Ohio, where he grew up listening to his grandfather: pianist and trombonist Arthur Baskerville. His family nurtured Aaron’s undeniable musical talents from a young age and in 2002 the 16-year-old pianist competed in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington competition and placed as a finalist. It was there that he attracted the attention of Wynton Marsalis, who invited Aaron to join his septet for a European tour. After studying at Julliard under the direction of Kenny Barron, Eric Reed, and Oxana Yablonskaya, Mr. Diehl was awarded the 2011 American Pianists Association’s Cole Porter Fellowship.
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Mr. Diehl, who holds commercial single and multi-engine pilot certifications, inherited a lifelong love of flying from his father who was an avid pilot. He has been a Steinway Artist since 2016.
Aaron Kimmel, drums
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aron Kimmel is a native of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Kenny Washington and Billy Drummond. A freelance drummer living in New York City, he frequently appears at Smalls Jazz Club and Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, performing as a sideman with the Benny Green Trio and Aaron Diehl, among others. Mr. Kimmel has also played with such jazz luminaries as Harry Allen, Ken Peplowski, Eric Alexander, Joe Magnarelli, Grant Stewart, Terell Stafford, Ryan Kisor, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Brian Lynch, Ann Hampton Callaway, Mary Stallings, and Jon Faddis.
David Wong, bass
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assist David Wong was born and raised in New York City and is on faculty at Temple University, Purchase College, The New School, and The City College of New York. In 2004, he graduated from The Juilliard School with a degree in classical music. He has studied with Orin O’Brien (New York Philharmonic) and Ron Carter. In addition to his work with Aaron Diehl, Mr. Wong is a member of Roy Haynes’ “Fountain of Youth” band, the Charles McPherson Quintet, and The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. He was also the last bass player in the Heath Brothers Quartet led by Jimmy Heath and Albert “Tootie” Heath as well as Hank Jones’ “Great Jazz Trio” and is featured on the piano master’s last recording.
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EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall—The University of Akron Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 7:30 p.m.
Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra Dmitry Yablonsky, chief conductor and artistic director • Alon Kariv, piano MultiPiano Ensemble from Israel: Tomer Lev, Berenika Glixman, Nimrod Meiry-Haftel, Lior Lifshitz Melody
Myroslav Skoryk (1938-2020)
“Fantasie Brilliante & Variations” for 2 Pianos & Orchestra
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) and Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870)
MultiPiano Ensemble
“Les Contrastes” Grand Duo Op. 115 for 2 Pianos in 8 Hands & Orchestra
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Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor Molto allegro con fuoco in G minor Andante in E major Presto—Molto allegro e vivace in G major Alon Kariv, piano
Felix Mendelssohn
INTERMISSION Jacob’s Dream Cello Concerto Isaac’s Blessing Jacob’s Dream Cadenza (Prayer) Gate to Heaven
Baruch Berliner (b. 1942)
Dmitry Yablonsky, cello
Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93 Allegro vivace e con brio (F major) Allegretto Scherzando (B-flat major) Tempo di menuetto (F major) Allegro vivace (F major) Alon Kariv 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.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Continuing Tuesday Musical’s commitment to arts education, Maestro Yablonsky shared his talents and inspirations with Akron students earlier today.
Generous support for this performance and related education/community engagement activities comes from an array of individuals, foundations, 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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The Artists Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra
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he Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra represents the finest instrumental soloists and chamber musicians from Ukraine, many of whom are international competition winners and have appeared on the stages of the world’s most prestigious concert venues. Based in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, the orchestra has earned international recognition as Ukraine’s premier symphony orchestra. Recent tours have taken the orchestra to Switzerland, France, Spain, and Azerbaijan, among others. The orchestra is dedicated to popularizing the music of Western composers in Ukraine, as well as enjoying close collaborations with outstanding contemporary composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki, Valentin Silvestrov, Alexey Shor, and Myroslav Skoryk.
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Dmitry Yablonsky, chief conductor and artistic director
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mitry Yablonsky was born into a musical family. At age six, he was accepted into the Central Music School for gifted children, where cello became his instrument. His orchestra debut came at age nine, when he performed the Haydn C Major Cello Concerto with Gennady Provatorov conducting. tuesdaymusical.org ● 330.761.3460
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Mr. Yablonsky went on to study at the Juilliard School of Music with cello teachers Isaak Buravsky, Zara Nelsova, and David Soyer. He also participated in master classes with Mstislav Rostropovich, André Navarra, Maurice Gendron, and Janos Starker. During his graduate program at Yale University, Mr. Yablonsky took conducting lessons with Otto-Werner Muller, considered one of the most influential conducting teachers in the United States. His first professional recognition as a cellist came in 1979 when he performed at the well-known Marlboro Music Festival, where he was the youngest participant. Since then he has performed in such recognized concert halls as La Scala, Carnegie Hall, Taiwan National Concert Hall, Cadogan Hall, Cité de la Musique, and Madrid Auditorium, among others. Mr. Yablonsky’s professional engagements as a conductor began in Camerino, Italy, in 1989. Since then he has been invited to collaborate with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, Moscow Soloists, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, De Philharmonie, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Israeli Opera Orchestra Rishon LeZion, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Lamoureux Orchestra, Orchestra National d’ile de France, Belgian National Orchestra, OFUNAM Orchestra in Mexico, and others. His recent tours to the U.S. and Japan with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra as a Conductor Laureate were performed to sold-out concert halls. Mr. Yablonsky is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra’s future releases on the Naxos label will include Shostakovich Chamber Symphonies, Silvestrov, Pleyel, and Hofmann cello concertos, Italian Arias with Azer Rzazadeh, and Dvořák Cello Concertos.
Alon Kariv, piano
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orn in 1999, Alon Kariv began his piano studies at age five with Hanna Barzilay. In 2015 he began studying with Tomer Lev. Mr. Kariv later studied at the Juilliard school with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Julian Martin, and is now studying for his master’s degree at the BuchmannMehta School of Music in Tel Aviv with Arie Vardi and Tomer Lev. The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music is a joint institute of TelAviv University and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Mr. Kariv has performed as soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta as well as with all of the other major Israeli orchestras. Beyond Israel, he has collaborated with the English Chamber Orchestra, The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and more. In 2015 he won the third prize at the International Piano Competition in New York City’s Kaufman Music Center and in 2016 he was a top candidate at the inaugural Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Beijing. In 2022 he won the first prize at the Young Artist Competition in Jerusalem. Last year, Mr. Kariv recorded an album with the English Chamber Orchestra, featuring music by Frédéric Chopin and Carl Filtsch.
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Program Notes Melody by Myroslav Skoryk Myroslav Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer, teacher, and pianist. His music is contemporary in style and contains stylistic traits from Ukrainian folk music traditions. Ukraine’s government recognized him with two awards: “People’s Artist of Ukraine” and “Hero of Ukraine.” In 1996, Skoryk moved with his family to Australia, and obtained Australian citizenship, but in 1999 returned to live in Ukraine. In 2011, he was appointed as the artistic director of the Kyiv Opera, a position he held until 2016.
Piano Concerto No. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn
and premiered in Munich on October 17, 1831. The concerto was composed in Rome after Mendelssohn met the pianist Delphine von Schauroth in Munich, and the composer dedicated it to her. Mendelssohn performed the piece himself at the premiere, which also included his Symphony No. 1 and the Overture from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The three connected movements use several relatively new formal techniques in their brief span — for example, the piano enters very soon after the opening of the first movement, with little of an orchestral tutti to contrast with. The concerto quickly obtained popularity, and contains many sections of improvisation, one of Mendelssohn’s specialties
Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 was written in 1830-31, around the same time as his fourth symphony (“Italian”),
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Jacob’s Dream by Baruch Berliner Baruch Berliner was born in Tel Aviv in 1942 after his parents fled from the Nazi Regime in Germany in 1937. He finished school in Berlin and studied theoretical physics at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, earning a Ph.D. in mathematics. He was a senior actuary at the Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich, which is the world’s largest reinsurance company, and an invited lecturer at many universities. He published two scientific books and approximately 70 papers in actuarial studies and finance. His book The Limits of Insurability of Risks became a bestseller. In 1992 he met musician Nachum Slutzker in Israel and returned to intensive musical study. Jacob’s Dream is a cello concerto inspired by a famous biblical story. The
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Program Notes image of Jacob, who in a dream saw a stairway to heaven and the Lord himself, promising good things to him and his offspring, was initially embodied in the symphonic poem of the same name by Berliner and Slutzker. Then, on the advice of his friend, the cellist Mischa Maisky, the composer reworked the poem into a cello concerto. The concerto premiered in 2018 at the closing of the White Nights of Karelia Music International Festival in Petrozavodsk, where Sergey Antonov performed the solo part (the composition is dedicated to him). Following a request from Antonov, the author added a solo cello cadenza between part II and part III, and called it “The Prayer.”
Symphony No. 8 by Ludwig van Beethoven One of the greatest composers in the Western musical tradition, Ludwig van Beethoven revolutionized virtually every
form and genre of music in which he composed. His “Eroica” Symphony transformed that genre; his 32 piano sonatas enabled the development of piano music from the genial pieces of the late 18th century to the colossal masterworks of Liszt and Schumann; and his opera Fidelio embodied the virtues of liberty and equality that transformed Europe during his life. Tonight’s work is a symphony in four movements composed in 1812. Beethoven fondly referred to it as “my little Symphony in F,” distinguishing it from his Sixth Symphony, a longer work also in F. The Eighth Symphony is generally lighthearted, though not lightweight, and in many places loud, with many accented notes. Various passages in the symphony are heard by some listeners to be musical jokes. As with various other Beethoven works such as the Opus 27 piano sonatas
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and the later Ninth Symphony, the Eighth deviates from the classical tradition by making the last movement the weightiest of the four. Where the Seventh Symphony is an expansive giant with much in common with the “Eroica” Third Symphony, the Eighth is a tautly compressed work — almost “neoclassical” in aspect, if not its subversive attitudes. Beethoven sketched it roughly contemporaneously with the Seventh, which he finished first. The only one of Beethoven’s symphonies without a dedication, it had its premiere in February 1814, on another concert with the Seventh Symphony and Wellington’s Victory.
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The first obvious point of concision: no introduction, no chords, just a jump from the starting gate into a manic race. Which then stumbles, comically, in only the first of many musical jokes, the rude humor of which would have been much more apparent then than it is now, although many years later Gustav Mahler was disturbed by
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Program Notes it enough to reorchestrate the beginning of the recapitulation, “correcting” one of Beethoven’s pranks.
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Like the Seventh, the Eighth Symphony has no true slow movement. Instead there is a “scherzoish” Allegretto that ticks along like one of Maelzel’s metronomes. It has often been written that this movement — in tune and in ticking — is a parody or arrangement of a canon that Beethoven improvised in honor of Maelzel in 1812. Scholars now believe, however, that Anton Schindler, the composer’s friend and highly unreliable biographer, may have created both story and canon long after the fact. Haydn’s “Clock” Symphony and other works could have provided a model, were one needed; Maelzel did not produce his metronome until after the Eighth Symphony was completed and the business break with the composer occurred. Having given us a sort of pseudo-scherzo in place of a slow movement, Beethoven
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reverts to a minuet for the third movement, a type of movement that his scherzos had made obsolete. (His last previous minuet had been in a string quartet in 1806.) This one is thumpingly humorous in the main section, however, but seriously lyrical in its Trio, burnished by horn and clarinet duets. The finale is another mad dash, though begun softly, with silent hesitations. The loud, dissonant interruption plays an important role in the huge coda, one of the most over-the-top and outsize codas from the master of the outrageous coda. Tchaikovsky, not noted for his fun side, thought this movement one of Beethoven’s greatest symphonic masterpieces. The Eighth Symphony was not disliked by Beethoven’s contemporaries, but little favored either, particularly in comparison with the Seventh. When asked why by his piano student Carl Czerny, Beethoven replied: “Because the Eighth is so much better.”
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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 January 25, 2024. Director $5,000+ Jerry Davidson bequest Donald M. and Mary E. Jenkins Family Trust Cynthia Knight Martha Lanning Linda and Paul Liesem Kenneth Shafer Tim and Jenny Smucker Fred and Elizabeth Specht Darwin Steele James and Linda Venner
Donor $200 to $399 Ham and Beth Amer Guy and Debra Bordo Alfred Cavaretta Frank Comunale Robert and Susan Conrad Roberta DePompei Michael Dunn Roger and Ann Edwards Barbara and Denis Feld Benjamin Flaker Nicole and Alan Gaffney Rosemarie George Benefactor $1,500 to $4,999 Stanislav Golovin Lee and Floy Barthel Ian Haberman Earl and Judy Baxtresser Michael Hayes Sally Childs John and Suzanne Hetrick Judith Dimengo Betty Howell and Mike Smith Barbara Eaton Karla and Mark Jenkins Bob and Beverley Fischer William Jordan and Laurel Bruce Hagelin Winters Dottie and DuWayne Hansen Greer Kabb-Langkamp David and Margaret Hunter Gretchen Laatsch Beatrice K. McDowell Family and James Switzer Fund Patron $400 to $699 George Litman Marianne Miller John and Kathleen Arther Cheryl and Tom Lyon Michael and Lori Mucha Sandy and Mark Auburn Jim and Mary Messerly Claire and Mark Purdy Linda Bunyan Alan and Lori Mirkin Richard and Alita Rogers Amielie and Phil Cajka Paul and Alicia Mucha Peter and Nanette Ryerson Ted and Teresa Good Judith Nicely Patricia Sargent Anita Meeker Annette Nicoloff Cynthia and Larry Snider Charles and Elizabeth Nelson and Kristine Mikolajczk Michael and Elizabeth Taipale Jean Schooley Landon Nyako Ken and Martha Taylor Sandra Smith and Dallas Moore Jennifer and Jeffrey Stenroos Sustainer $700 to $1,499 Paula Rabinowitz Gail Wild Richard and Eleanor Aron Kathy Rose Bruce Wilson Robert Carlyon John Schambach Carol and Bob Zollars Mary Lynn and Tom Crowley Anna Marie Schellin Rachel Schneider Fred and Karen Schreckengost Betty and Joel Siegfried James Simon Inventors of ZarelonTM Unbreakable Bow Hair Joe Skubiak Never Need a Rehair! Mickey Stefanik Expert repair and service, Elinore Stormer by appointment. Jorene Whitney 440-461-1411 Jamie Wilding and Caroline zaret@roadrunner.com Oltmanns 5767 Mayfield Road Terry and Susan Yingling Mayfield Hts., OH 44124 www.zaretandsonsviolins.com Louis Elsaesser Kate Fiala Paul and Jennifer Filon Michael Frank Sharon and Bob Gandee Sue Gillman Lloyd and Grace Goettler Elaine Guregian Louise Harvey Dorothy Lepp Barbara and Mark MacGregor Arlene Nettling Dianne and Herb Newman George Pope Roger and Sally Read Pamela Rupert Richard Shirey Sandra Smith Nathan and Cecilia Speelman Carol Vandenberg John Vander Kooi Shirley Workman
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Memorials & Tributes These generous donors have chosen to honor special people in meaningful ways. List as of January 25, 2024. In memory of Margaret Baxtresser Floy and Lee Barthel Earl and Judy Baxtresser Elaine Guregian Barbara and Mark MacGregor
Rosemary Lombardi Stephen L. Meyer Becky Michael Betty and Joel Siegfried Linda S. Smith Charlcie and Charlie Towne
In memory of John Bertsch Barbara Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bruce Hagelin Dorothy Lepp
In memory of Natalie Miahky Sally Childs Frank Comunale Barbara Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bruce Hagelin In honor of Bobbie Eaton DuWayne and Austin and Amanda Ferguson Dorothy Hansen In memory of William Eaton Moneeb Iqbal Doris St. Clair Mark and Karla Jenkins Dorothy Lepp In honor of Denis and Cynthia Snider Barbara Feld Gail Wild Jerry and Judi Brenner Shirley Workman Shirley Workman In memory of Mary Ann Grieblin Barbara Eaton Bruce Hagelin Shirley Workman
In honor of George Pope Fred and Elizabeth Specht
In memory of Rosemary Reymann Barbara Eaton Barbara and Denis Feld Bruce Hagelin Cynthia Knight In memory of Robert Roach Marjorie Donahue In memory of Lola Rothmann Elizabeth Rusnak In memory of their parents Nathan and Cecilia Speelman In memory of Bob Whittum Barbara and Denis Feld Bille Whittum
SAVE 10% WINE In honor of ON Tuesday Musical’s staff BY THE CASE! Barbara Eaton In honor of Shirley Workman Anita Meeker
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In memory of Joy Hagelin The Hagelin and Wolff families Moneeb Iqbal Anita Meeker Marianne Miller In memory of Martha Kelly Susan and Charlie Akers Frank Comunale Mike and Debi Coudriet Cynthia Knight Loman and Susan Lindeman
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Renée Anne Louprette, Organist Sunday, April 28, 4 p.m.
Guitarist Nacho González Nappa and Flutist Sheila del Bosque Sunday, June 2, 4 p.m.
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Foundations, Businesses, Government Through their vital support, these organizations help to sustain Tuesday Musical and the arts throughout our region. List as of January 25, 2024. $25,000+ William Bingham Foundation 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 Donald M. and Mary E. Jenkins Family Trust Kulas Foundation 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 The Lisle M. Buckingham Endowment Fund of Akron Community Foundation Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust, KeyBank, Trustee Betty V. and John M. Jacobson Foundation John A. McAlonan Fund of Akron Community Foundation Polsky Fund of Akron Community Foundation Helen S. Robertson Fund of Akron Community Foundation Sisler McFawn Foundation Welty Family Foundation
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$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 Ohio Federation of Music Clubs 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.
The McCarron Group
The Schauer Group and Chad Immel at Edward Jones in Fairlawn are among Tuesday Musical’s Business Partners. 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 330-7613460 or csnider@tuesdaymusical.org.
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Tuesday Musical’s 2023-24 Akron Concert Series
2023-2024 Board of Directors Executive Committee President
George Pope
Vice President/President Elect
Claire Purdy
Treasurer
Paul Mucha
Secretary
Sally Childs
Governance Committee Chair
Linda Liesem
Committee Chairs Artistic Planning
Cynthia Snider
Brahms Allegro
Jennifer Stenroos
Development Finance
Louise Harvey Paul Mucha
Hospitality
Bobbie Eaton
Membership
Fred Specht
Member Programs Scholarship Student Ticket Program At-large Members
Stanislav Golovin James Wilding Teresa Good Theron Brown, Mark Greer, Cheryl Lyon,
Bryan Meek, Marianne Miller, Landon Nyako, Shirley Workman Staff Executive Director Director of Finance and Audience Services Director of Artistic Operations and Educational Engagement
Cynthia Snider Karla Jenkins Austin Ferguson
Marketing Consultants
Brett Della Santina, Jim Sector
Social Media Assistant
Amie Cajka
Program art direction by Live Publishing Co.
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