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A LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Dear Symphony Friends, Good evening and welcome to the final Masterworks of the 2022-2023 season, “Carmen in Gold.” Please join me in welcoming Van Cliburn Silver Medalist (2017) Kenny Broberg to Lubbock.

Broberg and the LSO’s own Will Strieder will enthrall you with Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Piano Concerto No. 1” (1933). After the intermission we will conclude the Masterworks season with Rodion Shchedrin’s “Carmen Suite” (1967), a oneact ballet based on the beloved “Carmen” (1875)

by French composer Georges Bizet.

The 2022-2023 season, the 76th world class season of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, is due, in part, to the talented and passionate LSO musicians, our conductor and Music Director, Maestro David Cho, our CEO Mr. Galen Wixson, his dedicated staff, the Lubbock Symphony Guild, the Debutantes and their parents, and our sponsors and corporate partners. We are honored to perform in the now globally recognized Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts and Sciences, and extend our gratitude to LEPAA, their staff and board. Finally, on behalf of the Board of Directors, we want to thank all of you, our patrons, for making seasons like this possible through your continued support and attendance. Thank you!

I hope you will join us in the fall for the start of the 2023-2024 season, “Best Of,” which will feature an all-star lineup of classics from Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, and more. Our 23-24 season will also include expanded chamber concert offerings, and a continuation of the LSO performing the live soundtrack to a screening of a blockbuster film.

It has been my honor and privilege to serve as Board Chair, and I again thank and applaud all of you for your love and patronage of Lubbock’s oldest and premiere arts organization.

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A LETTER FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Dear Friends of the Lubbock Symphony, This evening, it is with great joy that we present the 6th Masterworks program of the Lubbock Symphony’s 76th season.

Throughout the year, we have had the opportunity to feature our Symphony musicians. Those who performed under the limelight this season were Annie Chalex Boyle, Lisa Rogers, and Kevin Wass.

Tonight, Will Strieder, Lubbock Symphony’s Stacey and Robert Kollman Family Endowed Principal Trumpet Chair, will collaborate with 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition winner Kenny Broberg on Shostakovich’s dark-hued and sardonic “Piano Concerto No. 1.”

The evening will round out with Georges Bizet’s “Carmen Suite”. We are eager to present to you; a new set of percussion instruments that the Symphony was able to procure through generous grant funding from the Rea Charitable Trust. Bizet’s romantic and feisty character, Carmen, is captured by an orchestration of the Soviet composer Rodion Shchedrin. You will hear the original rendition with exciting colors from the strings and percussion.

With Shchedrin’s intent as a ballet score, the music will depict the lilting and yet heroic gypsy character, Carmen.

Thank you for your attendance tonight. Our 77th season, “Best Of,” awaits with yet another round of brilliant programs.

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Will Strieder, Trumpet Will Strieder is Retired Professor of Music at Texas Tech University. He studied at Northwestern University, where he received the Masters of Music degree in Trumpet Performance and was winner of the Northwestern Concerto Competition. He also studied at the University of Houston, where he received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education.

He is active as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Appearances have included those with such groups as the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Ballet and Santa Fe Opera. He has recorded Incantations for Trumpet and Piano, Rhapsody for solo trumpet and harp, and Trio Italiano by Mary Jeanne van Appledorn with the Opus One recording label. Also, Mr. Strieder recorded Fisher Tull’s Concerto for Trumpet with the Nurnberg Symphony Orchestra in Nurnberg, Germany on Albany Records.

Many of his former students are successful in their fields as public school teachers, college level teachers, and performers at the following institutions: University of Southern California, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University, Vanderbilt University, South Plains College, San Jacinto College, The President’s Own Marine Corp Band, Utah Symphony, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Lubbock Symphony Orchestra, and the Army Field Band.

Mr. Strieder is an active pilot and flight instructor and enjoys sharing the wonder of flying with others. Mr. Strieder enjoys the generous love and support of his wife, Robbi, and family of four children.

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Kenny Broberg, Piano During his auspicious career before winning the 2021 American Pianist Awards and Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship, Kenny Broberg captured the silver medal at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and a bronze medal at the 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition as well as prizes at the Hastings, Sydney, Seattle and New Orleans International Piano Competitions, becoming one of the most decorated and internationally renowned pianists of his generation. Broberg is lauded for his inventive, intelligent and intense performances.

“Broberg mastered everything he performed over the weekend, pulling a palette of moods from every register,” The Indianapolis Star writes of Broberg’s performance during the Finals for American Pianists Awards. “In the ‘Dante Sonata’ from Liszt’s Years of Pilgrimage, the pianist easily captured the drama in the journey, marrying all of the energy of those emotions in the epic ending.”

Crediting his first exposure to classical music to his Italian grandfather’s love of the Three Tenors, Broberg began piano lessons on his family’s upright piano at age 6. During his childhood in Minneapolis, he began studying piano with Dr. Joseph Zins at Crocus Hill Studios in Saint Paul.

Throughout high school, he balanced his musical lessons with playing baseball and hockey. He remains an avid fan for both the Minnesota Twins and Wild and checks their scores while on breaks during his practice.

Broberg earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 2016 at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, studying under Nancy Weems. He continued his studies at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, under the direction of Stanislav Ioudenitch, the gold medalist at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Starting in the 20222023 academic year, Broberg will join the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid as Deputy Professor of the Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair led by Ioudenitch.

Performing on stages and in concert halls across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, Broberg has worked with some of the world’s most respected conductors, including Ludovic Morlot, Kent Nagano, Leonard Slatkin, Vasily Petrenko, Nicholas Milton, John Storgårds, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Gerard Schwarz and Stilian Kirov. He has collaborated with the Royal Philharmonic and the Minnesota, 14

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As part of the American Pianist Awards, he will release his first studio album with the Steinway & Sons label in late 2022.

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The Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship also provides Broberg with a prize valued at $200,000 designed to assist him as he builds his musical career. It includes $50,000 in cash, two years of professional development and assistance and performance opportunities worldwide. Broberg will also work with students and host performances during his time on campus as the Artist-inResidence at the University of Indianapolis. Before embarking on his international concerts, Broberg performed in his adopted home of Kansas City, Missouri, for the concert “KC Celebrates Kenny Broberg” in September 2021.

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Piano Concerto No. 1 | Dmitri Shostakovich Originally conceived as a trumpet concerto, Shostakovich later added the piano part to make it a double concerto.

Breaking the norm for piano concertos, Shostakovich seated the trumpet next to the piano rather than in the trumpet section.

Shostakovich paid his way through Petrograd Conservatory by working as a pianist in movie theaters, providing live soundtracks for silent films.

In the concerto, Shostakovich references other works, including Haydn and Beethoven, and even bits of the composer’s own score to “Hamlet,” along with brief allusions to Russian and Austrian folk songs.

Carmen Suite | Georges Bizet/Rodion Shchedrin “Carmen” is one of the most popular operas, and the “Carmen Suite” is a one-act ballet version arranged by Shchedrin.

Carmen is known for her rebellious and independent nature, as well as her confidence and sensuality that defies the societal norms of 19thcentury Spain.

Carmen meets Don José when he is tasked with arresting her for getting into a fight at the cigarette factory where she works. She uses her charm and seduction to convince him to let her go, sparking their tumultuous relationship.

Escamillo, a famous bullfighter, becomes the object of Carmen’s affection as she becomes disillusioned with her possessive and jealous lover, Don José.

Don José, driven mad by jealousy and obsession, stabs Carmen to death in a fit of rage after she refuses to give up Escamillo.

At the premiere of the Carmen in Moscow, Shchedrin faced criticism for its overt sexuality. Shostakovich defended him, helping to salvage the ballet’s future and making it Shchedrin’s most famous work.

We hope you were able to participate in ClefNotes with Dr. Neil Kurtzman prior to the concert this evening!

Neil Kurtzman, MD, is a Grover E Murray Professor Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Texas Tech University HSC, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine and Chief of the Division of Nephrology. He is the past president of the National Kidney Foundation and editor emeritus of the American Journal of Kidney Disease. In addition to his medical work, he is the author of more than about 800 articles on music and opera. He has lectured on the subject in the US, Europe, and at sea. His website is Medicine-Opera.com.

Thank you for attending and reading ClefNotes this season. We are excited to continue ClefNotes in our 23-24 season, “Best Of”!

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Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35......Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) I. Allegro moderato II. Lento III. Moderato IV. Allegro con brio Kenny Broberg, piano Will Strieder, trumpet

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Carmen Suite.....................................................Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

arr. Rodion Shchedrin (1932-) I. Introduction II. Dance III. First Intermezzo IV. Changing of the Guard V. Carmen’s Entrance and Habanera VI. Scene VII. Second Intermezzo VIII. Bolero IX. Torero X. Torero and Carmen XI. Adagio XII. Fortune-Telling XIII. Finale

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PROGRAM NOTES Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 The career of Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) can be divided into two halves – before and after Stalin. Piano Concerto No. 1 belongs to the first half. This was the time when he was the boy wonder who produced music of boundless energy, when his world seemed limitless, and his creativity was unfettered.

Admitted to the Petrograd Conservatory when he was 13, Shostakovich was trained to be both a composer and a virtuoso pianist. When he was 19, his First Symphony, written as a graduation piece, was premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra to great acclaim. He was a force in Russian music from that point until the end of his life.

He hoped to be a piano composer like Rachmaninov and Prokoviev. He was selected to be one of the Soviet contestants in the inaugural Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1927. He advanced to the finals but did not win a medal. This disappointing result caused him to doubt his future as a performer.

Focusing on composition, he stopped concertizing after 1930, except for performing his own works. He began his First Piano Concerto in March of 1933.

He had already finished his opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, though it had yet to be performed. The opera triggered a near-lethal reaction from Stalin after he saw it in 1936, two years after its successful premiere.

The concerto started out as one for trumpet but gradually morphed into a piano concerto with a prominent but secondary part for trumpet. First performed in October 1933 with the composer as soloist, it was an immediate hit and revitalized Shostakovich’s performing career. He was repeatedly invited to perform it across Russia. It rapidly became part of the standard piano concerto repertory and has remained such to this day.

The concerto is a bundle of jokes, parodies, quotations, and dynamism.

Shostakovich was one of music’s great quoters. In this work, it’s hard to keep up with all the quotations. But they are so seamlessly integrated into the work that even if you miss them, the piece still works. Some are so disguised that they’re only revealed by repeated listening.

The concerto is a wild parody of the great romantic concertos of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov. Shostakovich’s models are the leading modernists of a century ago – Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Poulenc, Hindemith, and Ravel. The quotations derive from his love of Mahler – who was also addicted to musical quotations.

The musical references include Beethoven’s Appassionata Sonata, the composer’s incidental music for Hamlet, the Austrian folk song ‘O du lieber Augustin,’ Haydn’s Piano Sonata in D, the folk tune ‘Poor Mary,’ a wild sendup

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of Beethoven’s Rage Over a Lost Penny which includes the beginning of the famous Al Jolson song ‘California Here I Come.’ There are more. That Shostakovich could make a coherent whole out of this thematic hodge podge is a mark of his genius.

The concerto is in four movements rather than the usual three, though the third is very short and serves as an introduction to the finale. The second movement, marked lento, abandons zaniness for its duration. In ABA form, it is a dreamy waltz. The use of the trumpet when the initial theme returns is especially effective. It is an island of restrained beauty before the wackiness of the final movement takes over.

Shortly after the concerto’s premiere, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk was staged to great acclaim. For two years, it was widely performed throughout the Soviet Union, then in 1936, Stalin attended a performance and was offended by everything in the opera. Two days later, ‘Muddle Instead of Music’ was published in Pravda. Shostakovich’s life changed forever. Thereafter he kept a packed suitcase by his door to have handy when he was arrested. Though frequently denounced, he never was jailed. Henceforth, he was still a great composer but of a different temperament.

Georges Bizet/Rodion Shchedrin: Carmen Suite Rodion Shchedrin (b 1932) is a Russian composer and pianist with a large body of work in a variety of genres. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, he has divided his time between Munich and Moscow. His best-known work is an unusual adaptation of Bizet’s opera Carmen. The genesis and performance of this adaptation is connected to Shostakovich both before and after its composition.

Shchedrin’s wife was the great ballerina Maya Plisetskaya (1925-2015), the prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Theater. In 1964 she asked Shostakovich to compose a ballet for her based on Carmen. He refused, explaining that the opera was so good and so well-known that no matter what he produced, the public would be disappointed. He suggested that she approach the composer she was married to.

She went instead to Aram Khachaturian, the composer of the ballets Gayane and Spartacus, who also suggested that Shchedrin was the man for the job.

Before Shchedrin began composing the ballet, Plisetskaya had communicated with the Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso. He worked out a libretto and dance moves for the ballet.

Alonso went to Moscow to teach Plisetskaya the ballet. Shchedrin observed the process and realized that he needed more than a simple adaptation of Bizet’s music. He had to be more than an arranger.

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He came up with the bold idea of using only a string orchestra and an enlarged percussion section. He rearranged the order of the music from its appearance in the opera, mixed melodies from different numbers, and included some music from Bizet’s incidental music to L’Arlésienne and his opera, La Jolie Fille de Perthe.

The ballet ran into a lot of trouble with the Soviet Minister of Culture, but it was finally staged after Shostakovich intervened on its behalf. While the ballet is occasionally performed, Shchedrin’s score lives on in the concert hall, where it has proved to be a big hit. It has also been recorded many times.

Arranged for strings, timpani, and four percussionists, it consists of 13 sections that rearrange and expand on Bizet’s music. Themes are interwoven and combined. In the ninth part of the suite, the famous Toreador Song is layered with the fate motif that predicts the story’s grim conclusion. This effect adds new meaning to the great piece. The unexpected sudden hesitations are resolved when the section ends with a full-out playing of the great tune. The fate motif also appears in the third section – ‘The changing of the guard.’

The twists and turns of the score add piquancy to the familiar music.

Predictably, some critics were offended by Shchedrin’s reworking of a classic.

But the audience, the ultimate critic, has decreed the work a unique addition to Bizet’s masterpiece confirming Shchedrin’s declaration that his work was “A meeting of the minds” between him and Bizet. Shchedrin had achieved the rarest of artistic feats – a masterpiece based on a masterpiece.

The string orchestra and timpanist are joined by four percussionists who play the instruments below: Player 1: marimba, vibraphone, xylophone, castanets, three cowbells, four bongos, tubular bells, snare drum, guiro Player 2: vibraphone, marimba, snare drum, tambourine, two woodblocks, claves, triangle, guiro Player 3: glockenspiel, crotales, maracas, whip, snare drum, cabasa, guiro, three temple blocks, bass drum, tam-tam, tenor drum, triangle Player 4: cymbals, bass drum, tam-tam, hi-hat, triangle, tambourine, five tomtoms Program Notes by Neil Kurtzman

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MEMORIALS & HONORARIUMS The Lubbock Symphony Orchestra respectfully acknowledges donations received during the 2022-2023 season in honor of the following: Memorials: Milton Bagwell Blake Eddie Bingham Dr. Eugene Dabezies Lou Dunn Diekemper Mary Epps David and Beebe Fields John Charles Fox III Justin Andrew Fregia H.E. Prince Bira Kasemsri Shelley Furr Nelson Ricky Rasco Herb Tavenner

Honorariums: Kea Beasley Annie Chalex Boyle David Cho Reyhan and Richard Crider Joan and Frank DeCelie CJ Goodyear The Harrod Family Lynnita Hufstedler Larry Landusky Terry and Peggy McInturff Galen Wixson Toni Wallingford Kalitsa and George Zias

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 Griffith

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

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 Anderson Bros Jewelers Atmos Energy Ballet Lubbock Benchmark Betenbough Homes Bolinger, Segars, Gilbert & Moss, LLP Brandon Guitar Studio Bruckner Society of America Carillon Chicken Express 2022-2023 SEASON

City Bank Cleaning Services of Lubbock Community Foundation of West Texas Covenant Health CRI Diekemper Family Foundation D. Williams & Co. Drest by Scott Malouf Evelyn M. Davies Foundation Evensky & Katz Wealth Management Farnsworth Family Orthodontics First United Methodist Church Ghandour, Elias M.D., P.A. 51

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GRACO Real Estate Development, Inc. Happy State Bank HCHT Helen Jones Foundation Hill & Ioppolo Oral & Dental Implant Surgery of Lubbock JF Maddox Foundation KCBD Kingsgate Center (Graco Real Estate) KTTZ 89.1 FM Kuykendall Foundation La Posta Botique Lee Lewis Llano Estacado Winery Lone Star State Bank Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts Lubbock Abstract & Title Co 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 McPherson Cellars Merrill Lynch MS Doss Foundation MWM Architects, Inc. Officewise Commercial Interiors Orlando’s Italian Restaurant Otto’s Granary Overhead Door Co. Overton Hotel Parkhill, Smith & Cooper PayPal Pediatric Associates of Lubbock Pennington, Bass & Associates Phi Beta Kappa Assn. of West Texas & Eastern New Mexico Endowment to Benefit LSO Youth Outreach

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Pinkie’s Plains Capital Bank Prosperity Bank Rea Charitable Trust Robinson & Hamblen General Dentistry Sanders Funeral Home Service Title Sharon Mirll, Exit Realty Sherick Memorial Home South Plains College Southwest Snow Services Spec’s St. Clair & Massey Orthodontics Stewart Title Tarpley Music Texas Commission on the Arts Texas Tech Alumni Association Texas Tech Club Texas Tech School of Music 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 Talkington College of Visual and Performing Arts TTU Theatre and Dance United Supermarkets University Medical Center Yellow House Dental & Implant Center Youth Orchestras of Lubbock YWCA

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BEHIND THE MUSIC OFFICERS

Brian Willcutt Chair Toni E. Wallingford Chair Elect Katie Salter Treasurer Terri Byrne Secretary Heather Hocker Immediate Past Chair

DIRECTORS

Steve Balch Dolle Barker Dustin Baucom Gilbert Berdine Leen Borno David Cho Patty D’Alise Michael Epps Stephen Faulk Elias Ghandour Gurdev Gill Matt Grannan Brad Green Erin Gregg Amy Grisham Sandy Henry Bobbye Hrncirik Leslie Huckabee Alena Ilyushyna Tiva Kasemsri Neil Kurtzman Melissa Lewis Paula Loveless Barry McCool Amanda Mead Mallory Miller Brenda Parrish Judy Poffenbarger Melissa Pridmore Peter Reed Abi Rhoades Tim Sampson Phil Sizer Andrew Stetson

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Robin Talbert Davor Vugrin Pat Wheeler Lola Windisch Galen Wixson

ADMINISTRATION

Galen Wixson President & CEO David Cho Music Director Mason Webb Box Office & Education Coordinator Emily Gavaghan Director of Marketing Amelia Jamieson Graphic Designer Corey Dolter Operations Manager Gary Hudson Personnel Manager Leslie Breslin Director of Development Kea Beasley Director of Education Suzanne Rasco Director of Accounting Vaughan Hennen Librarian Callie Watson Graphic Design Intern Jordan Parks Marketing Intern Anterian Gee Marketing Intern Rachel Vickery Librarian Intern

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A WORD FROM THE LUBBOCK SYMPHONY GUILD PRESIDENT Welcome Patrons, Thank you for attending tonight’s performance! We appreciate your support of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. The 2022-2023 “Symphonic Scenes” season promises to be outstanding. We are so excited to experience the wonder of music with you.

Tonight’s performance, and every performance since 1952, has been made possible in part by the Lubbock Symphony Guild. For 70 years, the Guild members have donated their time and resources to keep symphonic music thriving in West Texas.

I hope you enjoy the incredible talent of our remarkable Orchestra and value the educational and cultural contributions they provide to our community. I invite you to consider becoming a member of our Lubbock Symphony Guild. For more information, please visit our website at www.

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Sincerely,

Amanda Mead, President Lubbock Symphony Guild

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Lubbock Symphony Guild Senior Debutantes

Front Row Left to Right - Madeline Matthews, Emily Keister, Tatum Brown, Payton Harrison, Katherine White 2nd Row Left to Right - Maggi Underwood, Portia Clary, Madison Bigham, Anna McClendon, Blakely Biggs, Abby Harris 3rd Row Left to Right - Sydney Cranfill, Ava Hounshell, Sydney Lowe, Halle Henthorn, Ashtyn Bartley, Kaitlyn Caswell Back Row Left to Right - Macy Hamel, Abigail St Clair, Emily Payne, Kathryn Kinnison, Chloe Conover, Elizabeth Kinnison, Natalie Caswell, Campbell Howe Not Pictured -Regan Andrews, Adisyn Elrod, Ellis Fox, MaeAlice White

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

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Lubbock Symphony Guild Sophomore Debutantes

Front Row Left to Right - ALondon Carlisle, Brentley Preston, Tierni Green, Ryann Grissom, Emory McCain, Ella Mendez, Emily Roark 2nd Row Left to Right - Ashlyn Simek, Kamryn Chandler, Claire Ancell, Maya Al-Hmoud, Sadie Callison, Camden McDougal, Jayci Lentz, Addison Kitten, Rylan Belle Raley, Olivia Elliott, Reece Watson, Taylor Harrison, Anne Edwards, Grace Gerwig, Aubrey White 3rd Row Left to Right - Bella Lampe, Brynlee Hogg, Madelyn Caswell, Teema Sharif, Reece Riddle, Haleigh McKee, Raegan Reed, Jencee Thompson, Maya Vermillion, Rylee Rose, Hope Hancock, Ella Murphree, Lauren Casey 4th Row Left to Right - Shiloh Roach, Elizabeth Johnson, Hannah Harvey, Sydney Smothers, Morgan Parker, Blair Belew, Remington King, Zimri Buckley, Olivia Mudd, Emily White, Bradie Smith, Lydia Pesterfield, Riley Newberry Back Row Left to Right - - Anastyn Greaser, Raegan Lee, Hannah Pharies, Cambelle Fannin, Viviana Ziegner, lndie Williams, Bryleigh Norman, Kristen Mitchell, Ella Grace Bennett, Cora Clifford, Camryn Howe, Mia Chacon, Gabrielle Scherpereel Not Pictured - Emma Claire Womble

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RHAPSODIES FRI. SEPT. 22, 2023

THE BUDDY HOLLY HALL

Peter Boyer-Rhapsody in Red, White, and Blue Gershwin-Rhapsody in Blue Beethoven-Symphony No. 5 Jeffrey Biegel, piano

ORATORIO FRI. OCT. 27, 2023 THE BUDDY HOLLY HALL Haydn-The Creation Michael Palmer, guest conductor

REALMS SAT. NOV. 04, 2023 THE BUDDY HOLLY HALL

Tchaikovsky-Francesca da Rimini Mozart-Violin Concerto No. 5 Stravinsky-Firebird Suite Chee-Yun, violin

BRAHMS SAT. JAN. 20, 2024 THE BUDDY HOLLY HALL Brahms-Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky-Symphony No. 3 Adam Golka, piano

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SAT. MAR. 23, 2024 THE BUDDY HOLLY HALL Selection of Verdi and Puccini Arias Limmie Pulliam, tenor

Renewal Deadline is May 12th.

New Season Tickets go on sale soon!