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Music’s Positive Power Welcome to Tuesday Musical’s 2023-24 Akron Concert Series — our 136th season!

By being here tonight, you are helping Tuesday Musical enrich the cultural life of Greater Akron and Northeast Ohio by connecting today’s exceptional performers with audiences, students, and members in powerful ways and by advancing the positive power of music in our community.

These connections happen in the concert hall and beyond, through: ● distinctive, appealing, and accessible performances; ● dynamic collaborations with our community; ● meaningful education programs; ●a nd an engaged membership that pays tribute to our legacy as a grassroots organization created by and for music lovers (read more about membership opportunities on page 19).

Thanks for making great music with us!

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The King’s Singers — Tuesday, December 5: Their British charm and intricate a cappella vocals have captured audiences’ hearts the world over. An uplifting holiday treat to share with family and friends.

Pianist Aaron Diehl: Solo & Trio — Tuesday, February 13: Aaron Diehl has made an indelible mark on the jazz world.

Now the classically trained pianist/composer is drawing acclaim for tackling classical works with the New York Phil, Cleveland Orchestra, and more. The two-part performance includes his “Hidden Visionaries” program of works by Black American composers, followed by a performance by his own jazz trio.

Kyiv Virtuosi Symphony Orchestra — Tuesday, March 12: Ukraine’s finest plus two Steinways. Only touring the United States in March 2024, Ukraine’s foremost symphony orchestra comes to Akron with a powerful duo piano program. Conducting is Grammynominated cellist Dmitry Yablonksy, also conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

Wynton Marsalis with Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra — Saturday, April 20: Treat yourself to a Saturday evening out with this acclaimed ensemble at its pinnacle, led by a beloved jazz master. The sensational Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra features 15 of the finest soloists, ensemble players, and arrangers in jazz today. Trumpeter extraordinaire and 9-time Grammy Award-winner Wynton Marsalis is an iconic figure in the evolution of the art form and a tireless advocate for jazz as America’s classical music.

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Akron Concert Series at EJ Thomas Hall

EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall—The University of Akron Tuesday, October 24, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.

Mexico: A Musical Journey Cuarteto Latinoamericano Saúl Bitrán, violin Arón Bitrán, violin Álvaro Bitrán, cello Javier Montiel, viola Benjamin Juarez, narration Tonight we’ll explore historical intersections between painting and music in Mexico — along with thematic and ideological relationships between painters such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and composers past and present.

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Ignacio Jerusalem y Stella 1707-1769

Theme Varié from Trois Miniatures

Gustavo Campa 1863-1934

Estrellita and Gavota

Manuel M. Ponce 1882-1948 INTERMISSION

String Quartet No. 3 1. Allegro

Carlos Chávez 1899-1978

Música de Feria

Silvestre Revueltas 1899-1940

La Calaca

Gabriela Ortiz b. 1968

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

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enjamín Juárez’s career has been focused on the research and performance of Mexican and Hispanic music from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century. He is a professor emeritus at Boston University, where he served as dean of the College of Fine Arts.

He was principal guest conductor and assistant conductor of the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1981; associate conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra from 1983 to 1987; and music director of the Gran Festival de la Ciudad de Mexico in 1989-90. He has lectured and run workshops on music and the arts in Mexico and abroad, where in 1984, he was honored as the first Latin American to conduct an orchestra in China.

His recordings of works of Baroque Mexican masters such as Francisco Delgado, Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla, Ignacio Jerusalem y Stella, Manuel Arenzana, and Fabián Ximeno for the Urtext label won him a Latin Grammy nomination in 2001.

Benjamín Juárez was general director of México’s National Arts Center and continues to conduct regularly in Mexico, the United States, and Europe.

He is a corresponding member in the USA of México’s Academy of History. His keen interest in other artistic disciplines and popular culture has taken him from university lecture halls to being an adviser for Pixar’s beloved 2017 film Coco.

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Cuarteto Latinoamericano

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uarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s most renowned string quartets and, for 40+ years, the leading proponent of Latin American music for the genre.

The Cuarteto’s members are three Bitrán brothers: violinists Saúl and Arón and cellist Álvaro, with violist Javier Montiel.

Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively around the world and premiered 100+ works written for them. Winners of two Latin Grammy Awards for Best Classical Album, they have also been awarded the prestigious Diapason d’Or, been recognized with the Mexican Music Critics Association Award, and received three “Most Adventurous Programming” awards from Chamber Music America/ASCAP. They have recorded more than 100 CDs, including nearly the entire Latin American repertoire for string quartet.

Cuarteto Latinoamericano was, from 1987 until 2008, quartet-in-residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Under the auspices of the Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles of Venezuela, the Cuarteto created the Latin American Academy for String Quartets, based in Caracas, which was active between 2008 and 2014.

The Academy served as a training ground for five select young string quartets from the Sistema, groups which went on to active international careers.

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Akron Concert Series at EJ Thomas Hall

EJ Thomas Performing Arts Hall—The University of Akron Tuesday, November 7, 2023, at 7:30 p.m.

Akropolis Reed Quintet Tim Gocklin, oboe Kari Landry, clarinet Matt Landry, saxophone Ryan Reynolds, bassoon Andrew Koeppe, bass clarinet Splinter (2014) Scarlet Oak Sugar Maple Linden Black Ash Cherry River Birch Weeping Willow Red Pine

Marc Mellits b. 1966

Moods and Attitudes (2023) I. Blues shuffle kerfuffle II. Swan song, so long III. Bebop, won’t stop

Omar Thomas b. 1984

INTERMISSION Maktub (2013)

Willem Jeths b. 1959

An American in Paris (1928) arr. Raaf Hekkema

George Gershwin 1898-1937

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

Akropolis Reed Quintet

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elebrating their 15th year as “a sonically daring ensemble that specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine) and a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure” (The Wire), Akropolis has “taken the chamber music world by storm” (Fanfare).

As the first reed quintet to twice grace the Billboard Charts (2021, 2022), the five reed players and entrepreneurs are united by a shared passion: to make music that sparks joy and wonder.

Winner of seven national chamber music prizes including the 2014 Fischoff Gold Medal, Akropolis performs “works that brilliantly exploit their unique instrumentation” (Gramophone).

Remaining the same five members since their founding in 2009, Akropolis delivers 120 concerts and educational events worldwide each year and has premiered and

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commissioned more than 130 works by living artists and composers.

In November 2023, in addition to performing in Akron on the EJ Thomas Hall stage, Akropolis will become the first reed quintet to grace the luminary University Musical Society (UMS) stage. The ensemble has previously performed for Oneppo (Yale University), Chamber Music San Antonio, Phillips Collection (Washington, D.C.), Summerwinds Münster (Germany), Flagler Museum (Palm Beach), and many more.

Experimenters and creators at their core, “there’s nothing tentative in their approach, and that extends to their programming of multifariously challenging and imaginative new works” (The Wire). Akropolis has collaborated with poets, a metal fabricator, dancers, small business owners, string quartets, pop vocalists, and more.

Currently, Akropolis is collaborating with Grammy-nominated pianist/composer

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Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman on their sixth album and touring program drawing classical and jazz idioms together to reflect on American identity, titled Are We Dreaming the Same Dream?

pianist Pascal Le Boeuf and drummer Christian Euman; imaginative renditions of music by Ravel and Gershwin; and the release of their sixth full-length commercial album on the Bright Shiny Things label.

Akropolis’ chief collaborators are youth and their Detroit community. Having won the 2015 Fischoff Educator Award and being a nonprofit organization that has received seven consecutive grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Akropolis runs a summer festival in Detroit called Together We Sound and holds an annual, school-year long residency at Cass Tech, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Detroit School of Arts high schools.

Tim Gocklin, oboe

Akropolis believes anyone can compose great music and during the 2022-23 season premiered and recorded more than 30 works by young composers ages 12-22.

An engine perpetually generating new sounds and ideas, Akropolis’ 2023-24 season includes world premieres by Derrick Skye and Stephanie Ann Boyd; performances of Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? with two-time Grammy-nominated composer/

Known for his “remarkably beautiful oboe playing” (Fanfare Magazine), Tim Gocklin also is artist-in-residence in oboe and woodwind chamber music coordinator at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. Prior to his present position in Colorado, Tim lived in New Haven, CT and performed in a wide variety of settings with ensembles such as The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Le Train Bleu, New York Chamber Soloists, Mozart Orchestra of New York under the direction of Gerard Schwarz, the Argus String Quartet, and The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.

Tim is a two-time winner of the Yale School of Music’s Chamber Music Competition. In 2013, he performed works by Hindemith in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall as part of the Yale in New York

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The Artists series. He has performed at Chamber Music Northwest with David Shifrin and oboist Allan Vogel in a program of Dvořák’s Wind Serenade, Op. 44 and Mozart’s Gran Partita in B-flat, KV 361. He has appeared at the Caramoor Festival with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Cape Cod Music Festival, the Yellow Barn Music Festival, and the Colorado Music Festival under the direction of Peter Oundjian, and held fellowships at the Norfolk and Sarasota Chamber Music Festivals.

Tim can be heard on the NAXOS and Block M record labels, including two recordings with the University of Michigan Symphony Band. These works were taken on a tour to China where the band performed at Beijing’s National Centre for the Arts and Shanghai’s Grand Theatre.

In 2012, Tim received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude from the University of Michigan where he studied with Dr. Nancy Ambrose King. He subsequently completed his master of music degree and an Artist

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diploma at Yale University studying with Stephen Taylor.

Kari Landry, clarinet

Kari Landry is a Backun Artist as well as the marketing and development manager of Akropolis’ 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

She manages the organization’s branding, marketing, web design, advertising, social media, fundraising, and more. Since 2016, Kari has been an intermediate lecturer at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance where she teaches music entrepreneurship courses.

For six years, Kari served as the marketing and programs manager for the Ann Arbor Summer Festival, a month-long arts and music festival that presents more than 175 free concerts and events. While working in Ann Arbor, Kari received a Michigan Emmy for best historical documentary for her work on A Space for Music, A Seat for Everyone, showcasing 100 Years of University Musical Society Performances in Hill Auditorium.

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She has also been an intern at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.

entrepreneurship and fund raising and leads dozens of arts entrepreneurship workshops each year at universities nationwide.

Kari received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in clarinet performance from the University of Michigan, studying with Cleveland Orchestra clarinetist Dan Gilbert.

Committed to increasing arts access within communities, Kari earned an additional master’s degree in arts administration from Eastern Michigan University.

Matt has been featured on several concerts with the Michigan Philharmonic Orchestra, including Milhaud’s La Création du Monde, which he also performed in Portland, Oregon, with eminent chamber musicians including Jennifer Frautschi and Tara Helen O’Connor. He has also performed Bernstein’s On the Town with the Dearborn Symphony.

As well as Akropolis’ three studio albums, he can be heard on two CDs produced by the UM Symphony Band under the Equilibrium Records label: Raise the Roof and Classic Structures. He was also an adjudicator for the 2019 Chamber Music Yellow Springs National Chamber Music Competition.

Matt Landry, saxophone

Matt Landry is also the executive director of Akropolis’ 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

Matt was selected by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs as a 2018-19 Rising Leader among arts and cultural organizations in Michigan. He is a former middle school band director and worked as a community engagement specialist for the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce for four years. He teaches two courses for music majors at Michigan State University on

Matt received his bachelor’s degree summa cum laude in music education and saxophone from the University of Michigan, where he studied with Donald Sinta. He was a James B. Angell Scholar and commencement flag bearer.

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The Artists Ryan Reynolds, bassoon

Ryan Reynolds is also lecturer of bassoon at Eastern Michigan University. Prior to his current position, Dr. Reynolds taught bassoon at Miami University and was a graduate teaching assistant for the Florida State University bassoon studio, where he received his doctorate in bassoon. He has performed with the Dayton Philharmonic, Savannah Philharmonic, Traverse Symphony, Springfield Symphony, and Ann Arbor Symphony.

Ryan is also a frequent recitalist and contributor to the International Double Reed Society conferences. In 2018 at the Society’s conference in Granada, Spain, he premiered composer Ethan Wickman’s Cuatro Escanas del Cante Jondo for bassoon and piano, Per Bloland’s Asemic Patterns for oboe and bassoon, and Chiel Meijering’s the green reed which blows in the wind for 12 bassoons and string orchestra. At the Society’s 2019

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conference in Tampa, Florida, he performed a set of masterworks for reed quintet with the Akropolis Reed Quintet to a full house.

Ryan was a judge for the junior level at the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, and was Akropolis’ representative to judge the Barlow Endowment’s first prize for a reed quintet commission. He has taught at the Renova Music Festival, Bocal Majority, Operation Oboe Camps, and many master classes at top universities.

After attending the Interlochen Arts Academy from 2004-08, where he studied with Dr. Eric Stomberg, Ryan attended the University of Michigan for his bachelor and master’s degrees of music and Florida State University for his doctor of music degree.

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Andrew Koeppe, bass clarinet

A native of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Andrew Koeppe majored in clarinet at the University of Michigan and studied with Chad Burrow, Deborah Chodacki, and Monica Kaenzig.

Andrew can be heard on two University of Michigan Symphony Band albums, including interactions with acclaimed soloists Nancy Ambrose King and Adam Unsworth, as well as the premiere of William Bolcom’s Symphony for Band. He was the featured clarinet soloist in Bolcom’s band orchestration of “Graceful Ghost Rag” on the University of Michigan Symphony Band CD release, Artifacts. He has also performed with the Final Fantasy Symphony in Ann Arbor and with New Music Detroit, performing Annie Gosfield’s Detroit Industry at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Andrew also attended the Buffet-Crampon USA Clarinet Academy in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2009 where he studied with clarinetists Eugene Mondie, Dan Gilbert,

Andre Moisan, and Ixi Chen. In 2009 he played principal clarinet and bass clarinet in a small orchestral ensemble of select University of Michigan students in a weeklong multimedia workshop and final performance of Ask Your Mama with composer Laura Carpman, curator Jessye Norman, and conductor George Manahan. This new work later premiered at Carnegie Hall.

Andrew enjoys teaching a large and exuberant studio of clarinet and bass clarinet players in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Program Notes Splinter

Splinter is probably the most performed work of the reed quintet repertoire. Chicagobased composer Marc Mellits delivers a work suitable for introducing the reed quintet to ears which may never have heard it before.

Splinter is comprised of short “miniatures,” — each with its own personality. Combined, each expresses unique emotional qualities through hocketing rhythms and colorful orchestrations. Mellits often composes

for amplified acoustic instruments, including percussion, piano, and strings.

Rhythmic drive and development is a major component to his music, but does not overshadow his use of elongated phrases, subtle and effective harmonic motion, and beautiful textural creations.

Moods and Attitudes

Commissioned by the Akropolis Reed Quintet with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Moods and Attitudes contains three distinct movements that ask the quintet to perform acrobatic music of many styles from the mind of Omar Thomas, one of today’s leading jazz composers. The invitation from Akropolis for the composer’s first classical chamber work comes as the quintet continues its decadeplus journey combining classical and jazz music into unique, and often undefinable, new musical works. The first movement is a blues shuffle with some significant contemporary alterations. The second movement is a heavily-mournful early/mid 20th century jazz ballad in the style of one of the composer’s heroes, Billy Strayhorn. The closing movement appropriately chooses the bebop era for an exciting ending.

Maktub

The word “maktub” appears throughout The Alchemist, an international best-selling book by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho, and is the inspiration for Dutch composer Willem Jeths’ reed quintet composition.

“Maktub” is first used in The Alchemist by a crystal merchant, who, when giving advice

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Gershwin manages to create his most accessible yet simultaneously most complex piece of music. to the book’s main character, Santiago, introduces to Santiago the idea of his “personal legend” or Maktub. Maktub means “it is written,” and becomes the subject of Santiago’s journey throughout the book to discover his personal legend. Maktub is tonight’s most meditative composition.

Rather than specific images, Jeths paints a landscape in one, through-composed movement that allows the listener to fill in their own images and ideas, considering the meaning of “Maktub” and their own personal legend. The Alchemist asks this timeless and basic question: “Are we in control of the events in our lives, or are they written by fate?” In the novel, Santiago encounters circumstances that make it plain to him that the universe is conspiring so that he can achieve his personal legend, but he also makes key choices along the way.

An American in Paris

In An American in Paris, George Gershwin aimed to create one of his more serious works despite his natural affinity for frivolity. He consulted Ravel about this conundrum, who wisely instructed that if

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Gershwin was making more money than Ravel (which he was), he shouldn’t change how he writes his music. He sought advice from Nadia Boulanger, the great teacher of Aaron Copland and others. She also wisely suggested to Gershwin that he try to be no one but Gershwin. And so, using complex motivic development that is constantly modulating and changing form, Gershwin manages to create his most accessible yet simultaneously most complex piece of music. Among the challenges Dutch saxophonist Raaf Hekkema faced in arranging the work was how to convey these ideas with only five instruments. Hekkema brilliantly takes a smaller color palette and combines the instruments to create more textural possibilities than the listener could ever predict. While Gershwin’s orchestration maximizes the orchestra’s capabilities, the listener might find Gershwin’s ideas even easier to deduce in the chamber music format. The continually repeating and evolving motives make for a challenging but thrilling performance that Akropolis is delighted to bring to the stage in Akron.

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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 October 5, 2023.

Director $5,000+ Donald M. and Mary E. Jenkins Family Trust Cynthia Knight Martha Lanning Linda and Paul Liesem Natalie Miahky Kenneth Shafer Tim and Jenny Smucker Fred and Elizabeth Specht Darwin Steele James and Linda Venner

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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 Jim Harvey Barbara and Denis Feld

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In memory of Marcianne Herr Elaine Guregian In honor of George Pope Fred and Elizabeth Specht In honor of Karla Jenkins Cynthia Snider In memory of Patrick Reilly Bob and Beverley Fischer Marianne Miller

In memory of Martha Kelly Susan and Charlie Akers In memory of John Bertsch Frank Comunale Barbara Eaton Mike and Debi Coudriet Barbara and Denis Feld Cynthia Knight Dorothy Lepp Loman and Susan Lindeman In memory of Shirley DeLong Rosemary Lombardi Barbara and Denis Feld Stephen L. Meyer Louise Harvey Becky Michael Betty and Joel Siegfried In honor of Bobbie Eaton Linda S. Smith Austin and Amanda Ferguson Charlcie and Charlie Towne In memory of William Eaton In memory of Peter Lepp Doris St. Clair Bruce Hagelin In honor of Denis and In honor of Anita Meeker Barbara Feld Jerry and Judi Brenner Jerry and Judi Brenner In memory of Natalie Miahky In honor of Austin Ferguson Sally Childs Cynthia Snider Frank Comunale In memory of Joy Hagelin Barbara Eaton The Hagelin and Wolff Barbara and Denis Feld families DuWayne and Moneeb Iqbal Dorothy Hansen Anita Meeker Moneeb Iqbal Marianne Miller Mark and Karla Jenkins

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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 October 5, 2023. $25,000+ William Bingham Foundation 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 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.

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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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The Firestone students chose to paint portraits of the Mexican artists in black and white, while depicting some of their paintings adjacent in color.

Left panel, top to bottom: artists Francisco Toledo, María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera. Middle panel, top to bottom: artists David Alfaro Siqueiros, Olga Costa, José Clemente Orozco.

Right panel, top: artists Saturino Herrán, Leonora Carrington; bottom from left to right, artists RufIno Tamayo, Gabriel Orozco, Vicente Rojo.

Art meets music Are you in the audience for our October 24 concert by Cuarteto Latinoamericano?

If so, be sure to visit EJ’s Robertson Lobby. There you’ll see a wonderful three-panel mural inspired by Mexican artists and created by students from Akron Public Schools’ Firestone Community Learning Center.

This project continues a 10-year collaboration between Tuesday Musical and Akron Public Schools art teacher Patrick Dougherty. Each year, Tuesday Musical commissions the students and Patrick to create beautiful and thought-provoking artworks inspired by our Akron Concert Series. (Tuesday Musical always pays the individual students and purchases supplies for the project.)

“This was a particularly gratifying experience for my students as well as for me,” notes Patrick. “While I knew of the work of Rivera, Kahlo, and Leonara Carrington, I was not aware before of the diversity and beauty of so much of Mexican art.”

Primary student artists:

Assisting student artists:

Brianna Ellerson-Dyer

Brooke Bracey

Amaya Myles

Rylan Garden

De’Jonae Rivers

Saniah McCoy

Joshua Hernandez Rojas

Sarandi Riley

Estefany Alvarez Vazquez

Alaina Tennant

Interested in purchasing the three-panel mural? Please contact Tuesday Musical at info@tuesdaymusical.org or 330-761-3460. The full purchase amount will go to the art program at Firestone Community Learning Center.

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Tuesday Musical’s

Generous Wish Granters (thank you!): ● Anonymous: One street banner in

downtown Akron.

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

● Linda Bunyan: Fuel for performers

(concert meals and snacks). ● Judith Dimengo: Underwriting the cost

of five buses for school groups to attend concerts.

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!)

● Jim and Maureen Kovach: One season of

Wish List:

● Barbara and Mark MacGregor:

● 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 ● 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 ● Ticket scanners: $850 each

tuning and maintenance for our Three Graces Steinway D Grand Piano.

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. ● Bob and Beverley Fischer: Funds to

purchase a letter-folding machine, given in honor of Karla Jenkins’ service to Tuesday Musical.

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

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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

Cynthia Snider Karla Jenkins

Director of Artistic Operations and Educational Engagement Marketing Consultants

Austin Ferguson Brett Della Santina, Jim Sector

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