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A LETTER FROM THE LSO BOARD CHAIR Dear Symphony Friends, Happy New Year to you, and welcome to our fourth concert of the 2023-24 Best Of Masterworks concert series titled “Brahms and Tchaikovsky.” Johannes Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 opens this evening. Brahms’ first-performed orchestral work reflects his effort to combine the piano with the orchestra as equal partners in a symphonicscale structure. Our guest artist, pianist Adam Golka, has appeared with leading orchestras throughout the United States. Born and raised in Texas, Mr. Golka won first prize at the 2003 China Shanghai International Piano Competition and received the 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award. We are delighted to have him with us tonight. The program’s second half features Symphony No. 3 by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who we know as the first Russian composer whose music would make a significant impression internationally. Composed and orchestrated between June and August 1875, Symphony No. 3 premiered in Moscow on November 19, 1875. I also want to give special thanks to our friends at Peoples Bank and Bustos Law Firm for their generous sponsorship of tonight’s program. Without our sponsors, the Lubbock Symphony could not present the incredible performances we enjoy throughout the season. The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra’s vision statement includes providing music education experiences that appeal to diverse audiences. We offered the Listen Live educational concerts for 2,500 area fifth graders in November. This week, we hosted approximately 2,400 sixth through twelfth graders through our Teen Education Concerts. Selections from tonight’s program were conducted by Maestro Cho and performed by our talented LSO musicians here in The Buddy Holly Hall. This endeavor was made possible by United Supermarkets, Helen Jones Foundation, Inc., The CH Foundation, Civic Lubbock, Texas Commission on the Arts, and the Lubbock Symphony Guild. On behalf of our musicians, staff, and Board of Directors, thank you for your attendance this evening. Please enjoy this presentation by your Lubbock Symphony Orchestra! With regards,

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A LETTER FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Dear Friends of the Lubbock Symphony, Happy and prosperous New Year! The Lubbock Symphony is excited to kick off the brand new year with the Masterworks of Johannes Brahms’ and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. One of Lubbock’s favorite artists and pianists, Adam Golka, will render an exciting performance of Brahms D minor Piano Concerto. Brahms waited decades to write a complete symphonicscaled work. The shadows of Beethoven had always been over Brahms’ shoulders. After the brooding Brahms, comes a sunny Tchaikovsky Symphony. Although it begins with an overcast, it quickly develops into exuberant dance music. His Symphony No. 3 is titled “Polish”, because of the Polonaise-like dance and rhythms. It is the only Tchaikovsky Symphony in a happy key. Thank you, as always, for your attendance and love for your Lubbock Symphony. We have an excellent remainder of the 2023-24 season, and we look forward to a thrilling announcement of the 2024-25 season. Most sincerely,

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Adam Golka, piano Polish-American pianist Adam Golka (born 1987) first performed all of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas when he was 18 years-old, and in 2020-2021 Adam Golka performed the cycle of Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas at the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park (Florida) and at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (NYC), in socially-distanced and livestream formats. Adam’s performances of each Sonata were complemented by 32 short films he created, known as 32@32 (available on YouTube), documenting his preparation for climbing the Everest of piano literature and featuring an amalgam of distinguished guests, from an astrophysicist to Alfred Brendel. Adam Golka’s principal teachers have been José Feghali, with whom he studied at Texas Christian University, and Leon Fleisher, at the Peabody Conservatory. Since finishing his formal studies, Adam has continued to develop his artistry through mentorship from Alfred Brendel, Richard Goode, Murray Perahia, Mitsuko Uchida, Evelyne Crochet, Ferenc Rados, Rita Wagner, and Sir András Schiff, who invited Adam to give recitals at the Klavier-Festival Ruhr and Tonhalle Zürich, for the “Sir András Schiff Selects” concert series. Adam has also given solo recitals in Tokyo’s Musashino Hall, New York’s Alice Tully Hall (presented by the Musicians Emergency Fund), and Amsterdam’s Kleine Zaal in Het Concertgebouw. As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with dozens of orchestras, including the BBC Scottish Symphony, NACO (Ottawa), Warsaw Philharmonic, NFM Leopoldinum, Shanghai Philharmonic, as well as the San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, New Jersey, and San Diego symphonies in the US, among many others. Adam has enjoyed collaborations with conductors such as Joseph Swensen, Donald Runnicles, Pinchas Zukerman, Mark Wigglesworth, and his brother, conductor Tomasz Golka. Adam gave his Carnegie Stern Auditorium début in 2010 with the New York Youth Symphony. Chamber music is an integral part of Adam Golka’s life, and he has performed repeatedly at the Krzyżowa-Music “Music for Europe” festival, which has included tour performances at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the Beethoven Bonn festivals, as well as Konzerthaus Berlin. He also performed at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor chamber music festivals in the US. Adam collaborates regularly with the Manhattan Chamber Players and in recital with baritone John Moore, pianist Yannick Rafalimanana, cellist Jonathan Swensen and violinist Itamar Zorman, with whom he recently debuted at The Wigmore Hall in London. Adam’s professional life began when he was awarded the first prize and audience prize at the 2nd China Shanghai International Piano Competition. In 2009, he won the Max I. Allen Fellowship from American Pianists Association. As a pedagogue, he acted as Artist-inResidence for six school years at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Adam has recorded works by Beethoven, Schumann, and Brahms for London-based First Hand Records and he has premiered works composed for him by Richard Danielpour, Michael Brown, and Jarosław Gołębiowski.

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Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 First conceived as a sonata for two pianos, then a symphony, and finally a piano concerto. Completed when Brahms was living in the home of Robert and Clara Schumann. The slow movement is intended as a portrait of Clara, a lifelong friend and adviser. First performances were cooly received, but today it is a part of every pianist’s repertoire.

Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29 Written after a very trying semester of teaching at the Moscow Conservatory Composed largely at the private estate of a former student, Vladimir Shilovsky, and dedicated to him. The symphony is in five movements instead of the usual four. The symphony’s nickname, “Polish,” derives from the rhythms of the polonaise (a Polish folk dance) in the final movement.

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Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, op. 15

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Symphony No.3 in D major, op. 29 “Polish”

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PROGRAM NOTES Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15 “I’m having second thoughts” is not a phrase most of us look forward to hearing. If you’re engaged to be married, it might be the worst thing your fiancé could say to you. But for a composer, second thoughts are far from uncommon – a brief survey of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner and their multiple versions demonstrates the chaotic lengths to which a composer’s second indecision can be taken. But for other composers, the process of composition often needs a few extra grinds from their mental Cuisinart for a work to attain its final form. Johannes Brahms had taken his first steps towards writing for orchestra in 1854, when he began to recast a Sonata for Two Pianos into a Symphony in D minor. He showed parts of it to his friend Julius Otto Grimm, and to his friend and mentor, the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim, who expressed admiration for the opening movement. Brahms continued to work on the symphony, but at some point in 1856, he began to rework the fledgling symphony into his a piano concerto. Some of the reimagining of the symphony may have stemmed from a personal crisis: in February of 1854, Brahms’ friend and mentor, Robert Schumann, threw himself into the Rhine River in an attempted suicide. Upon his rescue, Schumann was declared mentally incompetent and confined to an asylum for the final two years of his life. While Schumann’s wife, Clara, was denied visiting rights, young Brahms (who had been living with the Schumann family since 1853) was permitted into the asylum to visit his suffering mentor. Combined with the rumored mutual attraction between Clara and the young composer, it is no surprise that Brahms’ emotional upheavals found expression in the concerto. Brahms’ repurposing of the work from symphony to concerto may have been triggered by Schumann’s death. In that context the work could be seen as a heartfelt offering to Clara, one of the greatest concert pianists of her time. As the concerto developed, Joachim served as a patient and thorough guide through the complexities of orchestration – he and Brahms exchanged over twenty letters about the work – which helped Brahms make rapid progress. When the concerto was complete, Joachim arranged both a reading and a first performance with his Hanover Court Orchestra. Initial performances did not increase the young composer’s self-esteem. While the Hanover audience responded politely, a subsequent performance in Leipzig was greeted with hissing from the audience and savage reviews from the critics. Most contemporary listeners were perplexed by the length and gravitas of the first movement (longer than all three movements of some Mozart concertos), and the unrelieved intensity of both the opening movement and the finale. Only through frequent performances by Clara Schumann and Hans van Bülow did the concerto gain a place in the standard repertoire. Even today the concerto presents considerable challenges to the soloist for both technique and sheer stamina. The opening of the first movement embodies a quote attributed to Beethoven: “I will seize Fate by the throat!” Instead of an elegant introduction as you might hear in a Mozart concerto, Brahms assaults his listeners’ ears with a thunderous timpani roll, reinforced by the throaty roar of horns in their lower register. The violins enter with a jagged melodic line, not a gentle invitation, but an emotional rapier thrust. This figure calls from all over the orchestra, fighting to be heard over the trills that buzz menacingly from both woodwinds and strings. There are moments of quiet and calm, such as the piano’s first entrance, but an unease seems to always lurk just below the surface. The dramatic textures in this sprawling movement change constantly – sometimes tragic, sometimes tender, sometimes heroic – but the movement’s overall tension remains unresolved at the close. 28

Brahms once told Clara Schumann that the concerto’s slow movement was an affectionate portrait of her. If further proof be needed, one of Brahms’ sketches for this Adagio movement is headed with the quotation Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini (Blessed be one who comes in the name of the Lord). Bassoons introduce a solemn chorale taken up by the string section. The pianist rhapsodizes, sometimes solemnly, sometimes dreamily, and sometimes dramatically. If it is a portrait, Brahms is not content with just a superficial sketch, but gives us a detailed musical canvas of deep and profound emotions. At its close, the movement regains the serenity with which it began. The pianist begins the rondo with a theme of muscular energy, relentless in its headlong passionate drive. While many have pointed out the similarities between this movement and the finale of Beethoven’s third piano concerto, what is even more striking is the influence of Bach, especially in the bustling figuration of the solo piano and the contrapuntal interplay between soloist and orchestra. Subsequent lyrical episodes provide welcome contrast, along with an unexpected orchestral fugato. A march-like episode turns the mood from dramatic to jubilant, and a brief cadenza leads to a final exultant surge to the final chords. Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 in D major, Op. 29 It’s one of those things we all know instinctively, but often have a hard time putting into practice: to get our best work done, we just need a little peace and quiet. While many composers thrive on the hustle and bustle of urban life – Leonard Bernstein and George Gershwin being notable examples – others found that inspiration flowed freely only when separated from the cares of daily life. Johannes Brahms produced some of his finest works on his summer visits to Pörtschach am Wörthersee in the Austrian province of Carinthia, and Mürzzuschlag in Styria. The Alpine vistas of Pörtschach inspired both his Second Symphony and his Violin Concerto, while the lakes and mountains near Mürzzuschlag stimulated the composition of his Fourth Symphony. Gustav Mahler had to limit his composing to only the summer season, with his autumn, winter and spring occupied with concerts and opera productions. He spent his summers among the mountains and lakes of Steinbach, Maiernigg, and Toblach, composing, hiking, and rejoicing that the musical squabbles and political intrigues of the Vienna Court Opera were miles away. To isolate himself from his fellow tourists (including his wife and family), he built a small hut on the edge of a lake so he could draw uninterrupted inspiration from the natural environment he loved. When Tchaikovsky was a professor at the Moscow Conservatory, he, too, felt the need to retreat from his post to write his best music. In his case, he left the city to take advantage of the solitude of the Usovo estate about 260 miles southsoutheast of Moscow. The estate was owned by one of Tchaikovsky’s former students, Vladimir Shilovsky. They had first met in 1866 when Shilovsky’s parents hired Tchaikovsky to give their son piano lessons. Shilovsky developed a huge crush on the composer (much to Tchaikovsky’s annoyance), and the wealthy young man’s erratic behavior was also a cause for concern, often endangering his safety and/or his health. Tchaikovsky, not wishing to offend his student’s wealthy parents, persevered in the young man’s instruction, even to the point of bringing Shilovsky home from a sanitorium when he fell seriously ill while traveling. By the 1870s, Shilovsky’s crush had softened into admiration and warm affection for the composer. He would often send Tchaikovsky occasional gifts of money to help him make ends meet. Shilovsky frequently invited Tchaikovsky to be his guest at Usovo, and the composer visited the estate whenever he could take a break from his teaching. Tchaikovsky wrote the bulk of his Symphony No. 2 there, as well as his symphonic poem The Tempest. He found the forests and 2023-2024 SEASON

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Program Notes, continued wide-open steppes helped to stimulate his creativity and spent many hours walking the woodland paths. The second term at the Moscow Conservatory in the spring of 1875 must have been particularly exhausting for Tchaikovsky. He left for Usovo as soon as exams finished, and immediately began sketching the Third Symphony. He wrote to a friend:

“I’m now composing a new symphony, and I’m doing a bit at a time. I don’t sit over it for hours on end, and I’m walking more….Nothing’s changed here. Even the dogs are the same, and they chase after me to have a walk.” Despite his assertion that he was “doing it a bit at a time,” Tchaikovsky must have tapped into some powerful inspiration at his friend’s estate; he finished the draft of the symphony in just three weeks. To orchestrate it, Tchaikovsky left Usovo and journeyed first to Nizy and then to Verbovka in the Ukraine, roughly 110 miles south of Kiev, where Tchaikovsky’s sister and her husband owned property. The orchestration was completed quickly; the printer’s copy of the full score bears the inscription “Begun 5 June 1875 at Usovo. Finished 1 August 1875 at Verbovka”. The score is dedicated to Vladimir Shilovsky, in appreciation of the kind hospitality that helped bring the new symphony to life. The premiere, with the orchestra of the Russian Musical Society conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein in Moscow in November of 1875, was favorably received by public and critics, but since then the Third has become the least performed of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, found more often on recordings than in the concert hall. You’d be most likely to hear the symphony while attending a ballet performance; the great choreographer George Balanchine used the last three movements in his ballet Jewels. Tchaikovsky’s Third is often called his “Polish” Symphony, a nickname derived from the rhythms of the polonaise (a Polish dance, best known from the music of Fréderic Chopin) found in the finale. Tchaikovsky even gives the movement the tempo marking “Allegro con fuoco: Tempo di polacca.” The nickname came into use after the first London performance in 1889 but was sanctioned neither by Tchaikovsky nor his publisher. While it is tempting to hear this Polish dance as a gesture of solidarity with the Polish people, in Tchaikovsky’s time, the polonaise was considered a symbol of the power and might of the Romanov dynasty, so contemporary listeners would have heard Tchaikovsky’s finale as support for the Russian Empire, not a revolt against it. The Third Symphony is the most unorthodox of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies, constructed in five movements rather than the typical four, and it is his only symphony in a major key. He may have patterned the work after another Third Symphony, the “Rhenish” Symphony of Robert Schumann, a composer Tchaikovsky greatly admired. It could also be compared to some of the serenades of Mozart, another of Tchaikovsky’s musical heroes, with the middle movements comprising a minuet, a slow movement, and a scherzo, bookended by the two longest and most complex movements. The opening movement begins with a spooky slow introduction, solemn strings haltingly stating a somber march, joined by distant horns and woodwinds. The tempo and the mood brighten suddenly, with the full orchestra surging into the bold Allegro brillante theme, the funeral march of the introduction transformed into a forceful charge. Woodwinds introduce a yearning, melancholy second theme, taken up by strings and then the rest of the orchestra. This movement dances as well as marches, with many passages reminiscent of the composer’s Swan Lake, which Tchaikovsky had begun to compose at about the time as the Third Symphony. The march returns triumphantly and the movement builds to 32

a brilliant coda, speeding forward to the exuberant final chords. The second movement, marked “A la Tedesca” (In the German manner), takes the form of a gentle waltz or perhaps a German Ländler, the provincial dance beloved of both Schubert and Mahler. In the central section, scurrying woodwinds and strings supply a nervous undercurrent to the serenity of the elegant dancing. The opening waltz returns, and the movement closes quietly with a bemused flourish from the solo bassoon. The third movement is one of Tchaikovsky’s great symphonic elegies, a predecessor of similar movements in his Serenade for Strings (third movement) and Sixth Symphony (final movement). At the opening, solo bassoon and horn meditate quietly over pizzicato strings. The string section interrupts with an expressive theme, temporarily lifting the mood, but the music soon retreats into quiet nostalgia. The woodwinds take up the strings’ yearning idea, joined by the full orchestra with increasing ardor, but again falling short of a cathartic climax. At the end the melancholy atmosphere returns, the solo bassoon singing a brief lament before the final hopeful woodwind chord. The fourth movement scherzo (Allegro vivo) opens nervously with mysterious swirls of woodwind and string figuration punctuated by staccato woodwinds. Here, too, the music evokes ballet, with light, airy textures dominating, reminiscent of the Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The central section features antiphonal dialogue between strings, winds and horns, imitating the sounds of hunting calls. A magical passage of string arpeggios heralds the return of the opening scherzo material. In the coda, the cascading flourishes of strings and woodwinds gradually grow softer and the movement suddenly evaporates like the delicate popping of a bubble. The finale launches in glorious splendor, the confident polonaise dancing exuberantly in the full orchestra. The distinct rhythm of the opening is heard fragmented in layers of energetic counterpoint. Woodwinds intone a majestic, chorale-like theme before the polonaise returns. Tchaikovsky then takes the initial notes of the polonaise and creates a virtuoso fugue, with voices entering one after another to create heroic musical energy, building to a return of the chorale, blazing in triumph in brass and woodwinds. The strings surge headlong into the coda, leading the orchestra’s final sprint to the majestic finish.

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SUSTAINER’S CIRCLE ($125 - $274) Alexis Anderson Ian and Shelley Barba Mr. Keith Bearden Edward Broome Matthew and Krista Bumstead Dana Butler Jeff Butterfield, MD Manon and Neill Carter Mr. Barry Cohen Mrs. Bobbe Crawford Charles Croessmann David and Claudia Dea Karl & Robin Dent Sara and Tim Dodd Sherri Field Sharon & Rick Graves Dr. Bess Haley Terry Hawkins and Doug Klepper Mary Iyer John Jones Randy Kinnison and Jane Rowley Wendell Leatherwood Wyatt and Claire Leavell Ben and Robin Lock Linda and George McMahan Laura and Monte Monroe Betsy Morton Jill Nelson Kathy Owens Peter Reed Karen Savage Lynn Schmidt Mrs. Sue St. Clair Stephanie Starkovich Steve Synck

Sustainer’s Circle, continued Ralph Tamper Sue Ann Thompson Jack Thompson Kathleen Turner Jenny and Edson Way Tim and Amanda Wooten Carolyn Wooten Debby and Dennis Zuehlke

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MEMORIALS & HONORARIUMS The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges donations received during the 2023-2024 Season in honor of the following: Honorariums: Amanda Mead In Honor Of David Cho Thivakorn Kasemsri In Honor Of RADM Stephen K. Chadwick Bess Haley In Honor Of Toni Wallingford Memorials: Gerry & Jamie Nystrom In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Treasure Greene In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Ray Dent In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Black, Mann & Graham LLP In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Mac Tatum In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Judith Johnston In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Kathy Owens In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Kim Johnson In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Betsy Morton In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Jeff Butterfield, MD In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Debor Cassen In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Sharon & Rick Graves In Memory Of Don Wade Ledbetter Jo Anne M. Smith In Memory Of Norton Baker Toni E. Wallingford In Memory Of Dickie and Fritz Epps Carolyn Wooten In Memory Of Ricky Rasco Mike Epps In Memory Of Eva and Walter Beets

If you would like to honor an individual or organization important to you, please send your tax-deductible donation to the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, 601 Avenue K; Lubbock, TX 79401.

LSO ENDOWMENTS The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra Endowment Trust The CH Foundation Conductor’s Podium Endowment Helen DeVitt Jones Endowment for Education LSO Endowment for Musician Fees and Education Shelley Hall Nelson Endowment for Musicians’ Salaries Lubbock Symphony Opera Fund Texas Tech University J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Music Performer Endowment Jones-Saathoff Family Concertmaster Endowment Diekemper Family Foundation Associate Concertmaster Endowment Justice Phil and Carla Johnson Principal Second Violin Endowment Mary M. Epps and Ralph E. Wallingford Principal Viola Endowment Mary Francis Carter Principal Cello Endowment Eugene and Covar Dabezies Principal Bass Endowment Drs. Audrey and Barry McCool Principal Flute Endowment, in memory of the Crew of Columbia, STS-107 Lubbock Symphony Guild Principal Oboe Endowment Janeen Drew Holmes English Horn Endowment Christine Polvado and John Stockdale Principal Clarinet Endowment Nancy and Tom Neal Principal Bassoon Endowment Anthony and Helen Brittin Principal Horn Endowment Stacey and Robert Kollman Family Principal Trumpet Endowment Larry and Lucy Landusky Principal Trombone Endowment Tim and Mary Jane Sampson Bass Trombone Endowment Diekemper Family Foundation Principal Tuba Endowment Lubbock Symphony Guild Timpani Endowment Lisa Rogers/Alan Shinn Principal Percussion Endowment Rachel Jean Armstrong Thomas Principal Harp Endowment Edward R. and Jo Anne M. Smith Principal Piano Endowment

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ADVISORY COUNCIL, PAST CHAIRS Jack M. Lewis

1946

Roger Key

1986

W.P. Clement

1947

Edwin E. Merriman

1987

Charles E. Maedgen, Jr.

1948

Owen McWhorter, Jr.

1988

Roy Bass

1949

Frank Newton

1989

Rex Webster

1950

Frank Anderson

1990-91

Marion Key

1951

Kay Sanford

1991

W.R. Sewell

1952

Paul Meyer

1991-92

J.C. Reynold

1953

Robert L. Stripling

1992-93

James L. Quicksall, Jr.

1954

Jim Ratliff

1993-94

Asher Thompson

1955-56

Coffee Conner

1995-96

Richard G. Richards

1957

Alan Henry

1996-97

Jack Kastman

1958

William D. Armstrong

1997-98

Joe J. Moise

1959

Susan Boling

1998-99

J. Harmon Jenkins

1960

Curtis Griff ith

1999-00

George C. Miller

1961

DeWayne Pierce

2000-01

Lonnie Langston

1962

Mike Cunningham

2001-02

John Witcomb

1963

Margaret Lutherer

2002-03

O.W. English

1964

Chris Barnette

2003-05

Asher Thompson

1965-68

Catherine S. Porter

2005-06

Troy Myers

1969

Ray Fargason

2006-08

Arthur E. Gamble

1970

Emily Ratcliff

2008-09

Charley Pope

1975-77

Brad Green

2009-11

C.B. Carter

1978

Peter G. Daia

2011-13

Robert E. Norris

1979

Kirk McLaughlin

2013-15

Dean James Allen

1980-81

Harry Zimmerman

2015-17

Robert L. Stripling

1982

Shannon Taliaferro

2017-19

Charley Pope

1983-84

Heather Hocker

2019-21

John R. Kreiger

1985

Brian Willcutt

2021-23

COMMUNITY PARTNERS LSO is grateful for the generous support of the following foundation, community, and public partners.

Affordable Storage Alan Henry Insurance ALLIANCE Credit Union All Saints Episcopal School Atmos Energy Ballet Lubbock Benchmark Betenbough Homes Bolinger, Segars, Gilbert & Moss, LLP Brandon Guitar Studio Bruckner Society of America Carillon Chicken Express City Bank 2023-2024 SEASON

Cleaning Services of Lubbock Community Foundation of West Texas Covenant Health CRI D. Williams & Co. Drake Design Photography Drest by Scott Malouf Evelyn M. Davies Foundation Evensky & Katz / Foldes Wealth Management Farnsworth Family Orthodontics First United Methodist Church Ghandour, Elias M.D., P.A.

Community Partners, cont. GRACO Real Estate Development, Inc. Happy State Bank HCHT Helen Jones Foundation Hill & Ioppolo Oral & Dental Implant Surgery of Lubbock KCBD KTTZ 89.1 FM Kuykendall Foundation Lee Lewis Construction, Inc. Llano Estacado Winery Lone Star State Bank Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts Lubbock Abstract & Title Company Lubbock Animal Care Clinic Lubbock Arts Alliance Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Lubbock Chorale Lubbock Community Theatre Lubbock Entertainment Performing Arts Association Lubbock Moonlight Musicals Lubbock Music Club Lubbock Music Teachers Association Lubbock National Bank Lubbock Youth Orchestras McPherson Cellars Merrill Lynch MS Doss Foundation MWM Architects, Inc. Off icewise Commercial Interiors Orlando’s Italian Restaurant Otto’s Granary Overhead Door Co. Overton Hotel & Conference Center Parkhill, Smith & Cooper PayPal Pediatric Associates of Lubbock Pennington, Bass & Associates Phi Beta Kappa Assn. of West Texas & Eastern New Mexico

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Endowment to Benef it LSO Youth Outreach Pinkie’s Plains Capital Bank Prosperity Bank Rea Charitable Trust Robinson & Malone General Dentistry Sanders Funeral Home Service Title Sharon Mirll, Exit Realty Sherick Memorial Home South Plains College Southwest Snow Services, LLC Spec’s St. Clair & Massey Orthodontics Stewart Title Tarpley Music Texas Commission on the Arts Texas Tech Alumni Association Texas Tech Club Texas Tech University Presidential Lecture & Performance Series Texas Women for the Arts The CH Foundation Tif Holmes Photography T L C E Charitable Fund TTU eLearning TTU School of Music TTU Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts TTU Theatre and Dance United Supermarkets University Medical Center Yellow House Dental & Implant Center YWCA

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BEHIND THE MUSIC OFFICERS

Board of Directors, cont.

Chair

Katie Salter Tim Sampson Phil Sizer Andrew Stetson Robin Talbert Davor Vugrin Darya White Joyce White Lola Windisch Galen Wixson

Toni Wallingford Jill Stangl

Chair Elect

Melissa Lewis

Treasurer

Terri Byrne

Secretary

Brian Willcutt

Immediate Past Chair

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Beth Ashmore Dolle Barker Dustin Baucom Gilbert Berdine Leen Borno Kasi Boutwell Maureen Chadwick David Cho Covar Dabezies Patty D’Alise Michael Epps Stephen L. Faulk Patty Freier Karen Gibson Gurdev Gill Brad Green Erin Gregg Amy Grisham Bobbye Hrncirik Leslie Huckabee Alena Ilyushyna Carla Johnson Tiva Kasemsri Amanda Kuhn Neil Kurtzman Grace Lin Paula Loveless Mallory Miller Mark Morton Brenda Parrish Judy Poffenbarger Melissa Pridmore Peter Reed Stephanie Rogers 2023-2024 SEASON

ADMINISTRATION Galen Wixson

President & CEO David Cho

Music Director Eric Allen

Lubbock Chamber Orchestra Artistic Director Kea Beasley

Director of Education Corey Dolter

Operations Manager Vaughan Hennen

Librarian

Gary Hudson

Personnel Manager Amelia Jamieson

Graphic Designer Ryellen Joaquim

Assistant Librarian Courtney Jordan

Director of Development Molly Ramirez

Marketing Coordinator Suzanne Rasco

Director of Accounting Jamie Shipp

Education Assistant Nia’ Threatt

Box Off ice Coordinator Callie Watson

Graphic Design Assistant

A WORD FROM THE LUBBOCK SYMPHONY GUILD PRESIDENT Dear Patrons, Thank you for attending tonight’s performance. We appreciate your support of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. The 2023-2024 “Best Of” season promises to be an outstanding year of symphonic music presented by Maestro David Cho and your Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. Tonight’s performance, and every performance since 1952, has been made possible in part because of the support provided by the Lubbock Symphony Guild. For 71 years, Guild members have donated their time, talent, and resources to keep symphonic music thriving in our community. If you appreciate the talent of our Orchestra and value the educational and cultural contributions provided to Lubbock and West Texas, I invite you to consider becoming a member of our Guild. For more information, please visit our website at www.LubbockSymphonyGuild.com. Sincerely,

Stephanie Rogers, President Lubbock Symphony Guild

Lubbock Symphony Guild Senior Debutantes

Front Row Left to Right - Christiana McCourt, Jewel Naegele, Avery Schilling, Olivia Needham, Annabelle Bennett, Anna Everett, Emme Hocker, Kathryn Kothmann 2nd Row Left to Right - Jessica Foley, Campbell Carper, Alayna Bayouth, Preslee Edwards, Hannah Feist, Emma Feist, Claudia Tepper 3rd Row Left to Right - Alexandra Dannemiller, Kendall Cathey, Kate Cardelli, Jillian Jones, Emeri Tran, Reghan Rose, Ava Campbell, Jeye Johnson Back Row Left to Right - Lydia Carter, Berkley Bird, Ella Scolaro, Madison White, Skylar Tidwell, Kennedy Venable, Ava Lansdell, Mia Capodagli, Olivia Phillips Not Pictured - Mya Ballou, Addison Burnett, Hannah Cooper

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Lubbock Symphony Guild Junior Debutantes

Seated Left to Right - Anne Edwards, Olivia Elliott, Rylee BeVa Rose, Tierni Green, Sadie Callison, Maya AI-Hmoud, Jayci Lentz, Camden McDougal, Raegan Reed, Reece Watson Front Row Left to Right - Hope Hancock, Hannah Harvey, Bella Lampe, Maya Vermillion, Remington King, Addison Kitten, Ashlyn Simek, Riley Newberry, Raegan Lee 2nd Row Left to Right - Gabrielle Scherpereel, Emily Roark, Emory McCain, Teema Sharif, Ella Murphree, Reece Riddle, Jencee Thompson, Grace Gerwig, Aubrey White, Susannah Smith, Lydia Pesterfield 3rd Row Left to Right - Brentley Preston, London Carlisle, Elizabeth Johnson, Lauren Casey, Kristen Mitchell, Kamryn Chandler, Madelyn Caswell, Blair Belew, Ashlee Jones, Zimri Buckley, Claire Ancell Back Row Left to Right - Ella Grace Bennett, lndie Williams, Viviana Ziegner, Ella Mendez, Camryn Howe, Rylan Belle Raley, Mia Chacon, Bryleigh Norman, Hannah Pharies, Anastyn Greaser, Sydney Smothers, Cora Clifford Not Pictured - Emily White, Haleigh McKee, Cambelle Fannin, Ryann Grissom, Morgan Parker, Taylor Harrison, Brynlee Hogg, Olivia Mudd

Lubbock Symphony Guild Sophomore Debutantes

Front Row Left to Right - Ashlyn Edwards, Emyrson Parrott, Blakeley Martin, Payton Reed, Reya Felton, McKanna Garcia, Lauren King, Brynlee Smith, Heidi Helderlein, Joleigh Reno, Chayce Johnson 2nd Row Left to Right - Chayce Welborn, Sarah Simpson, London Bird, Natalie Sweat, Erin Brodbeck, Angelia Liu, Kathleen St. Clair, Alice Everett, Talitha Dalton, Georgia Kitten, Baylee Fillingim, Cassidy McKinnon, Sadie Gillespie 3rd Row Left to Right - Meridith Bradley, Addison Stewart, Campbell Franklin, Elizabeth Nicholson, Kennedy Cowan, Ava Smith, Adelaide Underwood, Katelyn Glenn, Campbell Beeler, Katelyn Bollens, EllaMaria Webb, Ellie Underwood Back Row Left to Right - Sofia Martinez, Halley Reynolds, Finnley Forero, Landry Allen, Addison Neufeld, Danelle Mccourt, Joy Wischmeyer, Harper Burrell, Emma Lane, Madison Heider, Elly Norris, Emery Fox

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The Lubbock Chorale

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Special Guests: West Texas Children’s Chorus

St. John’s United Methodist Church Dec. 9, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

A N N U A L GA L A

Frazier Pavilion March 2, 2024 at 6:30 p.m.

St. John’s United Methodist Church April 20, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

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