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John DeMain music director
In his 31st season as music director of the Madison Symphony Orchestra (MSO), Grammy and Tony Award-winning conductor John DeMain is noted for his dynamic performances on concert and opera stages throughout the world.
American composer Jake Heggie assessed the conductor’s broad appeal, saying,
“There’s no one like John DeMain. In my opinion, he’s one of the top conductors in the world.”
In January 2023 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Opera Association, the NOA’s highest award.
During more than three decades in Madison as the MSO music director, DeMain has consistently raised the quality of the orchestra by introducing blind auditions and continuously expanding the repertoire to encompass ever more challenging and virtuosic works, including the highlyacclaimed performances of the complete symphonies of Gustav Mahler. DeMain also oversaw the move into the world-class Overture Hall and expanded the subscription season to triple performances.
His active conducting schedule has taken him to the stages of the National Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the symphonies of Seattle, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Columbus, Houston, San Antonio, Long Beach, and Jacksonville, along with the Pacific Symphony, Boston Pops, Aspen Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Orchestra of Seville, the Leipzig MDR Sinfonieorchester, and Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional.
Prior engagements include visiting San Francisco Opera as guest conductor for General Director David Gockley’s farewell gala, Northwestern University to conduct Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah, and the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in D.C. to conduct Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars In 2019, he conducted the world premiere of Tazewell Thompson’s Blue at the Glimmerglass Festival to critical acclaim — he “drew a vibrant performance from an orchestra of nearly 50 players; the cast was superb.” (The New York Times) He was also planning to conduct the premiere of Blue at the Washington National Opera in March 2020.
DeMain also serves as artistic director for Madison Opera and in their 2024-2025 season conducts The Barber of Seville, Maria de Buenos Aires, and Don Giovanni. He has been a regular guest conductor with Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center and has made appearances at the Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, New York City Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, San Francisco Opera, Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Aspen Music Festival, Portland Opera, and Mexico’s National Opera.
During his distinguished 17-year tenure with Houston Grand Opera, DeMain led a history-making production of Porgy and Bess, winning a Grammy Award, Tony Award, and France’s Grand Prix du Disque for the RCA recording. In spring 2014, the San Francisco Opera released an HD DVD of their most recent production of Porgy and Bess, conducted by John DeMain.
DeMain began his career as a pianist and conductor in his native Youngstown, Ohio. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at The Juilliard School and made a highly acclaimed debut with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. DeMain was the second recipient of the Julius Rudel Award at New York City Opera and one of the first six conductors to receive the Exxon/National Endowment for the Arts Conductor Fellowship for his work with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
DeMain holds honorary degrees from the University of Nebraska and Edgewood College and he is a Fellow of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. He resides in Madison and his daughter, Jennifer, is a UW–Madison graduate.
VIOLIN I
Naha Greenholtz
Concertmaster
William and Joyce Wartmann Chair
Suzanne Beia
Co-Concertmaster
Steinhauer Charitable Trust Chair
Leanne Kelso
Associate Concertmaster
George and Candy Gialamas Chair
Huy Luu
Associate Concertmaster
Olga Pomolova
Assistant Concertmaster
Endowed by an Anonymous Friend
Maynie Bradley
Annetta H. Rosser Chair
Kina Ono
Neil Gopal
Tim Kamps
Jon Vriesacker
Katherine Floriano
Laura Burns
Paran Amirinazari
Alec Tonno
Naomi Schrank
Jerry Loughney
VIOLIN II
Xavier Pleindoux
Principal
Dr. Stanley and Shirley Inhorn Chair
Hillary Hempel
Assistant Principal
Elyn L. Williams Chair
Peter Miliczky
Holly Wagner
Rolf Wulfsberg
Olga Draguieva
Kathryn Taylor
Wendy Buehl
Geri Nolden
Robin Ryan
Matthew Dahm
Wes Luke
Laura Mericle
Madlen Breckbill
VIOLA
Christopher Dozoryst
Principal
James F. Crow Chair
Katrin Talbot
Assistant Principal
Dove Family Chair
Diedre Buckley
Renata Hornik
Elisabeth Deussen
Janse Vincent
Jennifer Paulson
Hanna Pederson
Melissa Snell
Marie Pauls
Molly O’Brien
Matthew Barwegen
CELLO
Karl Lavine
Principal
Reuhl Family Chair
Mark Bridges
Assistant Principal
Patricia Kokotailo & R. Lawrence
DeRoo Chair
Karen Cornelius
Knapp Family Chair
Jordan Allen
Margaret Townsend
Lisa Bressler
Derek Handley
Trace Johnson
Alex Chambers-Ozasky
Becky Pan
Madison Symphony Orchestra
Musician Roster
January 17-19, 2025
BASS
David Scholl
Principal
Robert Rickman
Assistant Principal
Carl Davick
Tom Mohs Chair
Zachary Betz
Jeff Takaki
August Jirovec
Gregory Heintz
Mike Hennessy
FLUTE
Stephanie Jutt
Principal
Terry Family Foundation Chair
Collin Stavinoha
OBOE
Izumi Amemiya
Principal
Jim and Cathie Burgess Chair
Andrea Gross Hixon
CLARINET
JJ Koh
Principal
Barbara and Norman Berven Chair
Nancy Mackenzie
BASSOON
Cynthia Cameron
Principal
Amanda Szczys
HORN
Emma Potter
Principal
Steve and Marianne Schlecht Chair
Dafydd Bevil
Michael Szczys
William Muir
Ingrid Mullane, Assistant
TRUMPET
John Aley
Principal
Marilynn G. Thompson Chair
John Wagner
TROMBONE
Joyce Messer
Principal
Fred and Mary Mohs Chair
Benjamin Skroch
BASS TROMBONE
Ben Zisook
TIMPANI
Gregory Beyer
Principal
Eugenie Mayer Bolz Foundation Chair
Orchestra Committee
Mark Bridges, Chair
Joshua Biere, Vice-Chair
Elspeth Stalter-Clouse,
Secretary
David Scholl, Treasurer
Lisa Bressler, Member-at-large
Librarian
Jennifer S. Goldberg
John and Carolyn Peterson Chair
Stage Manager
Benjamin Skroch
Personnel Manager
Alexis Carreon
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John DeMain | Music Director
99th Season | Overture Hall | Subscription Program No. 5 Fri., Jan 17, 7:30 pm | Sat., Jan 18 7:30 pm | Sun., Jan 19, 2:30 pm
John DeMain, Conductor
Gil Shaham, Violin
Orli Shaham, Piano
Sterling Elliott, Cello
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72b
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 56 (Triple Concerto)
Allegro
Largo Rondo alla polacca
Audrey Dybdahl, in memory of Philip Dybdahl
Sharon Stark, in loving memory of Peter Livingston
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The Hamburg Steinway piano is the gift of Peter Livingston and Sharon Stark in memory of Magdalena Friedman.
MR. SHAHAM
MS. SHAHAM
MR. ELLIOTT
INTERMISSION
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
Adagio molto— Allegro con brio
Larghetto
Scherzo: Allegro Allegro molto
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Gil Shaham Violin
Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time; his flawless technique combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit has solidified his renown as an American master. The Grammy Award-winner, also named Musical America’s “Instrumentalist of the Year,” is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors, and regularly gives recitals and appears with ensembles on the world’s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.
Highlights of recent years include the acclaimed recording and performances of J.S. Bach’s complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin. In the coming seasons in addition to championing these solo works he will join his long time duo partner pianist, Akira Eguchi in recitals throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
Appearances with orchestra regularly include the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Israel Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, and San Francisco Symphony as well as multi-year residencies with the Orchestras of Montreal, Stuttgart and Singapore. With orchestra, Mr. Shaham continues his exploration of “Violin Concertos of the 1930s,” including the works of Barber,
Bartok, Berg, Korngold, Prokofiev, among many others.
Mr. Shaham has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, earning multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d’Or, and Gramophone Editor’s Choice. Many of these recordings appear on Canary Classics, the label he founded in 2004. His CDs include 1930s Violin Concertos, Virtuoso Violin Works, Elgar’s Violin Concerto, Hebrew Melodies, The Butterfly Lovers and many more. His most recent recording in the series 1930s Violin Concertos Vol. 2, including Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto and Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2, was nominated for a Grammy Award. He will release a new recording of Beethoven and Brahms Concertos with The Knights in 2020.
Mr. Shaham was born in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, in 1971. He moved with his parents to Israel, where he began violin studies with Samuel Bernstein of the Rubin Academy of Music at the age of 7, receiving annual scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. In 1981, he made debuts with the Jerusalem Symphony and the Israel Philharmonic, and the following year, took the first prize in Israel’s Claremont Competition. He then became a scholarship student at Juilliard, and also studied at Columbia University.
Gil Shaham was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008 he received the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. In 2012, he was named “Instrumentalist of the Year” by Musical America. He plays the 1699 “Countess Polignac” Stradivarius and performs on an Antonio Stradivari violin, Cremona c1719, with the assistance of Rare Violins In Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative. He lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Adele Anthony, and their three children.
Orli Shaham Piano
A consummate musician recognized for her grace, subtlety and brilliance, Orli Shaham has established an impressive international reputation as one of today’s most gifted pianists, in demand for her prodigious skills and admired for her interpretations of both standard and modern repertoire. The New York Times called her a “brilliant pianist” and The Chicago Tribune referred to her as “a first-rate Mozartean.” She has performed with most of the major orchestras in the United States and with many ensembles across five continents, given recitals on stages from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House and appeared at music festivals around the world.
Ms. Shaham’s 2024-2025 concert season includes performances of concertos written for her by David Robertson with Utah Symphony and by Steven Mackey at Tanglewood and the Beethoven Triple Concerto with her brother, violinist Gil Shaham. Chamber recitals across the country include Dumbarton Oaks, Music at Menlo, La Jolla, and more.
Recent performance highlights include Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? by John Adams with the Finnish Radio Symphony; Beethoven’s “Triple” Concerto with Pacific Symphony; a German tour with Brandenburg State Orchestra and festival appearances at Sun Valley, Chautauqua, Bowdoin and Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival.
Ms. Shaham is the Artistic Director, host and featured performer for Pacific Symphony’s chamber series Café Ludwig in California, a position she has held since 2007, and was Artist in Residence at Vancouver Symphony (USA) in 2022-2024.
In 2024, she released the final volumes of the complete piano sonatas by Mozart. The entire sonata cycle, along with her recording of Mozart’s Piano Concertos K.453 and K.491 with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, received high critical acclaim.
Ms. Shaham’s discography includes her acclaimed solo album, Brahms Inspired and her performance of John Adams’ Grand Pianola Music with the pianist Marc-André Hamelin and the San Francisco Symphony, with the composer conducting. In 2014, she released American Grace, featuring Steven Mackey’s Stumble to Grace with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Her discography includes over a dozen titles on Deutsche Gramophone, Sony, Canary Classics and other labels.
Orli Shaham is on the piano and chamber music faculty at The Juilliard School and served on the juries of both the Cliburn and Honens International Piano Competitions. She is a major presence on public radio coast to coast as Co-Host and Creative for NPR’s From the Top and was host of America’s Music Festivals and Dial-a-Musician, a radio feature series she created. She is regularly featured on the popular music education platform Tonebase, including a 22-part series of performances and tutorials of music by Karen Tanaka. Her Tonebase presentations also include masterclasses on Mozart’s piano sonatas and a lectureperformance about Clara Schumann.
Shaham is Artistic Director of the interactive children’s concert series Bach Yard, which she founded in 2010, and she is chair of the Board of Trustees of Kaufman Music Center. In addition to her musical education at The Juilliard School, she holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia University and pursued a master’s degree in musicology from Columbia. She is winner of the Gilmore Young Artist Award and the Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Orli Shaham is a Steinway Artist.
Sterling Elliott Cello
Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist Sterling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. He has appeared with major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
In the 2024/2025 season Sterling Elliott debuts with the Atlanta Symphony, Reno Philharmonic, Columbus Symphony, Ann Arbor Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, and returns to the Wilmington Symphony. He joins the Madison Symphony for the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Gil and Orli Shaham and returns to Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by Louis Langree.
As the YCAT–Music Masters Robey Artist with the Londonbased Young Classical Artists Trust he will Tour New Zealand in addition to appearances at Wigmore Hall, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Konzerthaus Berlin, the
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and others. This season he also begins his tenure as a BBC New Generation Artist, and a three-year residency in the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center appearing with CMLSC at Alice Tully Hall and on tour throughout the U.S.
Sterling has a long history with the Sphinx Organization where he won the 2014 Junior Division Competition, becoming the first alumnus from the Sphinx Performance Academy to win the Sphinx Competition. Last season, Sterling received the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization.
Sterling is pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick and Clara Kim, following completion of his Master of Music and undergraduate degrees at Juilliard. He is an ambassador of the Young Strings of America, a string sponsorship operated by Shar Music. He performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan through the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program, in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.
program notes
Jan 17-18-19, 2025
program notes by J.
Michael Allsen
In this program, titled “Beethoven x3,” we present three of the master’s works, beginning with the dramatic Leonore Overture No.3. We then welcome a trio of soloists: violinist Gil Shaham, his sister, pianist Orli Shaham, and their colleague, cellist Sterling Elliot. Together, they play Beethoven’s all-too-infrequentlyperformed “Triple Concerto.” Rounding out the program is an early, but already groundbreaking work by Beethoven, his second symphony, an upbeat work written at the same time as one of the great crises in Beethoven’s life.
This work, one of several overtures that Beethoven wrote for his only opera, Fidelio, stands alongside his symphonies as a masterpiece of orchestral writing.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Born: December 17, 1770 (baptism date), Bonn, Germany. Died: March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria.
Leonore Overture No. 3, op. 72a Composed: 1806.
Premiere: March 29, 1806, in Vienna. Previous MSO Performance: The orchestra has played this work on ten previous occasions beginning in 1936, and most recently in 2015. Duration: 14:00.
Background
Beethoven championed the ideals of heroism and freedom, nowhere more clearly than in his only opera, Fidelio. Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio originally titled Leonore—reflects Beethoven’s heroic ideals: it is a rather tangled story of Florestan, a young man wrongly and secretly imprisoned by the evil prison warden Pizarro. Florestan’s wife Leonore spends most
of the opera in disguise as a young man, Fidelio, who works at the prison as the jailer’s assistant. In the end, as Pizarro is about to murder Florestan, Leonore—in hiding in Florestan’s dungeon—leaps between them, pistol in hand, to protect her husband. The standoff is ended by the sudden arrival of the King’s minister. Florestan is freed and reunited with Leonore, Pizarro is led away in chains, and the opera ends in rejoicing.
The opera and its overtures are also a case of Beethoven’s willingness to revise and re-revise his music. The overture now known as Leonore No. 2 was composed for the opera’s premiere in 1805. This first performance was a dismal failure, and Beethoven staged an equally unsuccessful performance of the opera in 1806. The most important revision in the 1806 version was Beethoven’s substitution of a new overture, Leonore No .3, a streamlined and dramatically remodeled version of Leonore No. 2. Beethoven wrote the overture known by the somewhat misleading title Leonore No. 1 in 1807, in anticipation of a performance of the opera in Prague, which never took place. (In the 1970s, Beethoven scholar Alan Tyson discovered that the composer made a few preliminary sketches for a fourth Leonore overture, yet another reworking of Leonore No. 2!) After the failures of 1805 and 1806, and his abortive attempt to produce Fidelio in Prague, Beethoven put the opera on the shelf until 1814, when it was successfully produced with substantial dramatic and musical revisions. This 1814 version—the version of Fidelio we know today—had an entirely new overture (the Fidelio Overture), which abandoned the “Leonore” music altogether.
What You’ll Hear
The music follows the dramatic arc of the opera, beginning with a prison lament; the body of the overture culminates in the grand rescue scene and ends in rejoicing.
Beethoven’s Leonore No. 3 is easily the best of the three earlier overtures, and it stands beside his symphonies as an orchestral masterpiece. At least one writer has suggested that the very strength of this overture contributed to the failure of the 1806 version of Fidelio—by completely overshadowing the first act of the opera! It is still, however, occasionally performed with the opera today: inserted as an interlude after the intensely dramatic rescue scene in Act II. Leonore No. 3 begins with a slow introduction: Florestan’s lament from Act II of the opera. Tension builds until the introduction of the first Allegro theme, a syncopated and energetic melody. The gentler theme that follows quickly gives way to a long section of development. A trumpet call and a hymn of thanksgiving refer to the opera’s climactic moment, when Fidelio is saved by the courage of his wife, and the fortunate arrival of the minister. The Allegro theme is reintroduced, hesitantly at first, and then triumphantly. The overture ends with a massive transformation of this main theme.
Double and triple concertos and Sinfonias concertante works featuring more than one soloist— were popular in early 19th-century Vienna, but Beethoven’s Triple Concerto seems to have been the first to employ the combination of violin, cello, and piano.
Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Orchestra in C Major, Op. 56 (Triple Concerto) Composed: 1804-07.
Premiere: The formal premiere was in Vienna on May 10, 1808, and featured violinist Ferdinand Seidler, cellist Anton Kraft, and pianist Marie Bigot. Previous MSO Performance: The three previous MSO performances of the work featured Thomas Moore, violin, Warren Downs, cello, and Howard Karp, piano (1976), Tyrone Greive, violin, with Downs and Karp (1994), and the Eroica Trio (2001) Duration: 37:00.
Background
The relatively difficult cello part Beethoven composed in this work seems to have been inspired by Anton Kraft, a Bohemian virtuoso who was then resident in Vienna.
In August 1804, Beethoven wrote to his publisher that he had composed “something new”—a “concertante” for violin, cello, and piano. Concertantes works for two or more soloists—were certainly nothing new in Vienna at the time: they were in fact extremely popular, and appeared often on concert programs. At least part of his boast was true, though. This seems to have been the first work that included this particular grouping of soloists. The Triple Concerto was composed at the same time as Beethoven’s Symphony No 3 (“Eroica”), and the early history of these works was closely interwoven: both were completed under the patronage of Prince Lobkowitz, one of Beethoven’s most generous benefactors, and when the Triple Concerto was finally published in 1807, it was dedicated to Lobkowitz.
The prince also made his private orchestra available for trial performances of both the Triple Concerto and the Eroica. The first trial performance of a preliminary version of the concerto probably took place at the Lobkowitz Palace sometime in the late spring or early summer of 1804, with Beethoven taking the piano part. There may have been additional performances of the complete work there in late 1804 and 1807. The first informal public performance seems to have taken place in Leipzig in April 1808, and the formal Vienna premiere took place in the Augarten a month later on May 10 of that year. The piano soloist for this Vienna concert was not— as long supposed—Beethoven’s piano student Archduke Rudolph, but was probably Marie Bigot, a well-known Viennese pianist. Rudolph did perform the concerto in public a year later, though. The phenomenally difficult cello part seems to have been inspired by the Bohemian cellist Anton Kraft, a
member of the Lobkowitz orchestra. Kraft (or possibly his son Nikolaus) probably took part in this Augarten performance as well. Kraft, who had previously served in the orchestra of Prince Esterházy, under the direction of Joseph Haydn, was also the inspiration for Haydn’s D Major cello concerto.
What You’ll Hear
The concerto is laid out in three movements:
• A large sonata-form Allegro.
• A lovely Largo movement that primarily features the cello.
• A relaxed rondo that features a polacca (a Polish dance) as its main theme.
The concerto is in three movements. The lengthy opening movement (Allegro) begins in a conventionally Classical way, with an extended orchestral introduction. There are successive solos by the cello,
violin, and piano, each stating the movement’s main theme. There is a marchlike transition, and the second theme is introduced in a similar fashion. The exposition closes with rather stormy music, dotted figures in the cello beneath a very florid violin line. Rather than developing themes and motives in his typical manner, Beethoven allows much of the development section to proceed as a good-natured three-way conversation among the soloists. Instead of the usual solo cadenza at the end of the recapitulation, Beethoven gives all three soloists some flashy lines in the coda to round off this opening movement. The slow movement (Largo) is devoted to a single flowing melody, which is carried principally by the cello. This leads without a pause into the closing movement, marked Rondo alla polacca, or “rondo in the manner of a polacca.” The polacca (which picked up the more dignified French name “polonaise” later in the 19th century) was a lively triple-meter
Polish folk dance that had become popular in Vienna. The main theme of this movement has this dancelike character, although with a distinctively aristocratic cast. Alternating with this polacca melody are several equally elegant themes.
This outwardly cheerful work was written while Beethoven was going through one of the great crises of his life: the realization that he was going deaf.
Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36
Composed: The Symphony No.2 was completed in Heiligenstadt in 1802. Premiere: April 5, 1803 in Vienna, Previous MSO Performance: 1926,1928, 1986, and 1999. Duration: 32:00.
Background
Most of the symphony was written while Beethoven was on retreat in the village of Heiligenstadt
For some time prior to the composition of his Symphony No.2, it had been apparent that Beethoven was going deaf. As early as 1796, he had complained of hearing difficulties, and by 1802 he had sought advice from several of the best doctors in Vienna. Finally, one Dr. Schmidt suggested that a retreat in the quiet countryside might be just the thing to cure his encroaching deafness. Beethoven moved to the small village of Heiligenstadt, just outside of Vienna, in April of 1802, and stayed there for nearly half a year. While he was taking the cure, Beethoven was enormously productive, completing the Symphony No. 2 and several smaller works by the early fall, but by October, he was in a deep depression. On October 8, he wrote a letter known to posterity as the Heiligenstadt Testament—a last will and testament addressed to his brothers. In this rambling, revealing document, alternating between self-pity, anguish, and resolve, Beethoven laments his
deafness and clings desperately to music as his salvation.
Several of Beethoven’s biographers have described the Heiligenstadt Testament as a kind of momentary catharsis. Within weeks after writing the letter, he was back at work in Vienna, and the next ten years—his “heroic decade”—was the most productive period of his life. There is certainly little in Beethoven’s Symphony No.2, completed a month or so before the Heiligenstadt Testament, to show that it was composed during a time of great emotional turmoil. Despite his condition, which he describes as “…an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than in others,” the work has an optimistic and generally happy tone throughout. It is Classical in style, resembling in many ways the late works of Haydn. However, it also hints at what is to come in the works of the next decade. In his excellent Beethoven biography, Maynard Solomon describes the Symphony No.2 as “the work of a mature master, who is settling accounts—or making peace—with the high-Classic symphonic tradition before embarking on an unprecedented musical voyage.”
What You’ll Hear
The symphony is in four movements:
• A broad sonata-form movement that begins with a long slow introduction.
• A lovely, songlike Larghetto.
• A lively Scherzo.
• A fast-paced, good-humored finale in rondo form.
The work begins in the manner of a Haydn symphony, with a lengthy slow introduction (Adagio molto), which has the breadth of a full movement—in the end however, it leads subtly into the body of the movement (Allegro con brio). The exposition lays out two main ideas, an agitated melody heard
in the lower strings, and a sprightly march played by the woodwinds and violins. The movement proceeds conventionally in sonata form, though Beethoven’s development section is longer and more intense than in earlier Viennese symphonies, making full use of both main themes.
The Larghetto is one of Beethoven’s longest and most lyrical slow movements—Berlioz later called it a “pure and forthright song.” Again, Beethoven uses sonata form to organize his material. The main theme is a long arching melody stated by the violins, and then embellished. The secondary theme, also stated by the strings and then amplified by the winds, is no more hurried than the first.
In the Symphony No.2, Beethoven breaks with long-standing Viennese tradition regarding third movements, and uses a Scherzo in place of the usual Minuet. (Or at least he breaks with the tradition of naming the third movement as a Minuet—the blazing “Minuet” of his Symphony No.1, completed two years earlier, was hardly a courtly dance!) The movement has a three-part form— two mock-furious outer panels, surrounding a trio that features a humorous oboe/bassoon duet.
The finale (Allegro molto) is perhaps the clearest foreshadowing of what would come in his later Romantic works. This a Rondo movement with all of the power and rough good humor that are so much a part of his later symphonies, particularly the seventh. The main theme, which returns many times in the course of the movement, begins with what one writer has aptly called a “musical somersault.” This cheerful character continues through several contrasting sections, and a brief, but high-spirited coda.
Complete program notes for the 2024-25 season are available at www.madisonsymphony.org.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2025, 7 PM, OVERTURE HALL
Atticus Coen
Van de Sype Cucu Lucy Wu Indre Raghavan
High school students from across the state compete, and the four finalists perform with the MSO in a free concert and competition in Overture Hall before a live audience. Wisconsin Public Radio and PBS Wisconsin broadcast “Wisconsin Young Artists Compete: The Final Forte” throughout the state.
The Semi-Final Round of the 2025 Bolz Young Artist Competition took place on January 9, 2025.
The finalists for the Final Forte are:
Atticus Coen, piano (Senior, Sun Prairie East High School)
Gershwin Piano Concerto in F, 1st movement
Indre Raghavan, violin (Junior, Middleton High School)
Sibelius Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47, 1st movement
Vivian Van de Sype Cucu, viola (Senior, University School of Milwaukee)
Walton Viola Concerto, 1st movement
Lucy Wu, cello (Junior, Whitefish Bay High School)
Dvořák Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, 3rd movement
Register to attend this FREE concert featuring the Madison Symphony Orchestra led by Music Director John DeMain, and the four outstanding finalists of our Bolz Young Artist Competition!
Discover more: madisonsymphony.org/finalforte
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Celebrating
20 Years of the MSO’s
Hamburg Steinway Piano
The Gift of Peter Livingston & Sharon Stark in memory of Magdalena Friedman
In anticipation of the opening of Overture Hall in 2004, first-time MSO donors Peter Livingston and Sharon Stark agreed to underwrite the cost of a new nine-foot Steinway grand, selected from the Steinway factory in Hamburg, Germany. Music Director John DeMain, his wife Barbara and the donors traveled to the Steinway factory in Hamburg in March 2004 to select the new piano. During the trip, renowned German pianist Matthias Kirschnereit assisted DeMain in selecting the perfect instrument. The donors gave this special gift to the MSO in memory of Peter’s mother, Magdalena Friedman.
Adapted from J. Michael Allsen’s “A Century of the Madison Symphony Orchestra”
We are ever grateful to Peter (d. 2023) and Sharon for this magnificent instrument that our audiences have heard played so beautifully in Overture Hall for the past 20 years.
Photo credit: Peter Rodgers
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Individual Donors
Madison Symphony Orchestra
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The Madison Symphony Orchestra and our affiliate organizations rely on generous donor support to fund the fulfillment of the Symphony’s mission each year. We gratefully acknowledge all individual donors for their gifts and sponsorships to the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison Symphony Orchestra League, and/or Friends of the Overture Concert Organ. Donors are listed according to the total amount of their monetary donations supporting the 2024-2025 Season* as of January 6, 2025.
*Total includes gifts supporting: MSO’s 2024-2025 Annual Campaign; MSOL 2024-2025 Events & General Support; 2024-2025 Organ Concerts; Friends of the Overture Concert Organ’s 2024-2025 Annual Campaign. MSOL and FOCO basic membership dues and fundraising event ticket purchases are not included. Giving thresholds listed here do not correspond to giving levels within specific campaigns included. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this list. If you believe an error has been made, please contact our development department at (608) 257-3734.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2025 • Burrows Park
Join us for an exciting summer benefit for the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s Education and Community Engagement Programs. A reception begins at 5:00 p.m. with passed hors d’oeuvres and cash bar, followed by a 50-minute “DEMAIN DOES HOLLYWOOD” concert at 6:00 p.m. by members of the Madison Symphony Orchestra led by Maestro John DeMain. The program features selections from beloved Hollywood music and a youth guest artist. An elegant plated dinner will follow the concert. Participate in a live auction and end the evening with a cocktail in hand as you enjoy a lovely sunset over the lake! Learn more: madisonsymphony.org/sunset
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE
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A heartfelt
thank you
...to all of our generous donors
The Musicians, Board and Administration of the Madison Symphony Orchestra would like to thank everyone who has made a financial contribution in support of the Symphony’s activities in concert halls, classrooms, and community venues this season. During our 2024-2025 Season, also John DeMain’s 31st Season as our Music Director, audiences of all ages have experienced remarkable music performed by the musicians of the Madison Symphony Orchestra and world-class guest artists in beautiful Overture Hall and around the community.
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we send our love and gratitude to our community of supporters. To all who have made gifts to our Annual Fund, Organ Fund, or Madison Symphony Orchestra League, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
We can’t wait to share more music with you this spring. Join us!
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Steven & Lennie Saffian
Sinikka Santala & Gregory Schmidt
Mae Saul
Dennis & Janice Schattschneider
Iva Hillegas Schatz
Jeffrey & Gail Schauer
John & Susan Schauf
Thomas & Lynn Schmidt
Phillip Schneider
Steven & Debra Schroeder
Andreas & Susanne Seeger
Vicki Semo Scharfman
Sandy Shepherd
Jackson Short
Lucy Sieber
Thomas & Myrt Sieger
Daniel & Cheryl Siehr
J.R. & Patricia Smart
Karen Smith
Eileen M. Smith
Terrell & Mary Smith
Tricia & Everett Smith
Steve Somerson & Helena Tsotsis
Kenneth Spielman
Gary & Jackie Splitter
Barbara & Dennis Spurlin
Robert & Barbara Stanley
Joanne Stark
Chuck Stathas
Gareth L. Steen
Pat & John Steffen
Franklin & Jennie Stein
Peter Steinhoff
Michael Stemper
Gary & Karen Stephens
Joe & Phyllis Stertz
Bruce & Carol Stoddard
Taylor Stofflet
John & Mary Storer
Eric Strauss
JoAnne & Ken Streit
Mary & Robert Stroud
David & Shirley Susan
Jerry & Georgie Suttin
Janet S. Swain
Ryan Maxwell Talvola
Cheri Teal
Howard & Elizabeth Teeter
David & Meg Tenenbaum
Gerald & Priscilla Thain
Glen Thio
Barbara J. Thomas
Gary & Louise Thompson
Linda Thompson & Allen May
Stephen Thompson
Tom & Dianne Totten
Andrew Trampf
Margaret Trepton
Judith Troia
Colleen & Tim Tucker
Doris J. Van Houten
John & Shelly Van Note
John & Bonnie Verberkmoes
Rebekah Verbeten
Ingrid Verhagen
Elena Vetrina & Wallace Sherlock
Angela Vitcenda & Jerry Norenberg
Liz Vowles
Dr. Grace Wahba & Dr. David Callan
Marty Wallace
Jeremy & Sarah Watt
Nancy Webster
Mary Webster
Jim Werlein & Jody Pringle
Karl & Ellen Westlund
William White
Dorothy Whiting
Wade W. Whitmus
Steven & Ellen Wickland
Nancy & Tripp Widder
Rebecca Wiegand
Joan Wiersma
Eve Wilkie
Bambi Wilson
Scott & Donna Wilson
Bill & Jackie Wineke
Rick Wirch
Scott & Jane Wismans
Brad Wolbert & Rebecca Karoff
Celeste Woodruff & Bruce Fritz
Marcia Wright
David Wuestenberg
Keith & Natalie Yelinek
John Young & Gail Snowden
Steven & Patty Zach
Camille Zanoni
Gretchen Zelle
Ronald Zerofsky
Joan N. Zingale
52 Anonymous Friends
We also thank 265 donors for their contributions of $1 to $49.
Kyle Knox, Conductor
WAUNAKEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
MSO On the Go brings the musicians of the Madison Symphony to performing arts centers in your community with music the whole family will enjoy! Under the baton of MSO Associate Conductor
Kyle Knox at 7:00 p.m. you’ll have the opportunity to experience your Symphony live, on Thursday, February 13 at Waunakee Community High School’s Performing Arts Center. Several students participated in a two-hour workshop led by Kyle Knox. The young conductor selected, Mac Earleywine-Fayas, will have the rare opportunity to lead the orchestra for Bizet’s Farandole Learn more: madisonsymphony.org/onthego
Brahms, Hungarian Dance No. 1 (Arr. Brahms)
Sibelius, Valse Triste
Copland, Hoedown
Bizet, Farandole
Beethoven, Symphony No. 7
FUNDING
Barbara and
Livable
Elaine
Jasper and Joanne Vaccaro
Waunakee Rotary Club
COMMUNITY DR., WAUNAKEE
Empire Brass Celebration
Marc Reese, trumpet; Derek Lockhart, trumpet; Gregory Miller, horn; Mark Hetzler, trombone; Kenneth Amis, tuba; Matt Endres, percussion; Greg Zelek, organ
RENAISSANCE/BAROQUE SET
Tielman Susato, Basse danse bergeret
Johann Sebastian Bach, My Spirit Be Joyful, Cantata 146
Giovanni Gabrieli, Canzon Duo Decimi Toni
EMPIRE SET
Sergei Prokofiev, Lt. Kije: Wedding and Troika Gustav Holst, Jupiter
EMPIRE COMPOSERS
Kenneth Amis, Bell Tone’s Ring
Mark Hetzler, “World-premiere in celebration of the 20th of the Overture Concert Organ”
AMERICAN MUSIC SET
Fats Waller, Ain’t Misbehavin’
George Gershwin, Summertime
Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story Suite (Something’s Comin’, Maria, America)
PRESENTING SPONSOR
William P. Steffenhagen
MAJOR SPONSORS
Janet and Scott Cabot
Martha and Charles Casey
Shirley Spade, in memory of Gerald Spade
Audrey Dybdahl, in memory of Philip Dybdahl
Kay Schwichtenberg and Herman Baumann
I was lucky enough to meet the Empire Brass as a high school student when they came to my hometown for a clinic and a concert back in 1984. Years later, I was even luckier when I was asked to join the group, becoming a member of the ensemble for 16 seasons, and getting to perform some of the finest brass music in the world’s greatest concert halls. I am so pleased to be part of this concert program that features highlights from the group’s famous recordings and ground-breaking repertoire for both brass and organ, including the world premiere of my newly-commissioned work to celebrate the 20th of the Overture Concert Organ. Please join us for An Empire Brass Celebration! – Mark Hetzler
MARK MATT KENNETH DEREK MARC GREGORY
Legacy
John DeMain, Conductor
Amanda Majeski, Soprano
Kirsten Lippart, Mezzo-Soprano
Martin Luther Clark, Tenor
Matt Boehler, Bass
Madison Symphony Chorus, Beverly Taylor, Director
Richard Strauss, Don Juan, Op. 20
Richard Strauss, Four Last Songs
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K. 626
PRESENTING SPONSOR
Rosemarie and Fred Blancke
MAJOR SPONSORS
The Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor’s Club
Martha and Charles Casey
Skofronick Family Charitable Trust
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Rodney Schreiner and Mark Blank von Briesen & Roper, s.c. Wisconsin Arts Board
The lasting impact of two composers, Richard Strauss and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is explored through their final works in this concert. After opening with one of Strauss’ great tone poems Don Juan, soprano Amanda Majeski takes the stage with the orchestra for what Strauss himself called his Four Last Songs. Majeski, mezzo-soprano Kirsten Lippart, tenor Martin Luther Clark, bass Matt Boehler, and the Madison Symphony Chorus come together for Mozart’s Requiem, the work he wrote from his death bed and left unfinished. When he passed, his associate Franz Xaver Süssmayr completed the composition. It lives on as one of the most profoundly beautiful works ever created.
BUSINESS, FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT DONORS
Madison Symphony Orchestra
Madison Symphony Orchestra League Friends of the Overture Concert Organ
The Madison Symphony Orchestra and our affiliate organizations rely on generous donor support to fund the fulfillment of our mission each year. We gratefully acknowledge all companies, foundations and government agencies for their grants, sponsorships, general contributions, and gifts-in-kind.
Organizations that have contributed to the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison Symphony Orchestra League, and/or Friends of the Overture Concert Organ are listed according to the total amount of their donations supporting the 2024-2025 Season* as of January 1, 2025.
$100,000 or more
Madison Symphony Orchestra Foundation
Madison Symphony Orchestra League
WMTV 15 News
$50,000–$99,999
Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation
$25,000–$49,999
American Printing
Irving and Dorothy Levy
Family Foundation, Inc.
The Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor’s Club
Madison Magazine
Madison Media Partners
$15,000–$24,999
An Anonymous Foundation
Capitol Lakes
The Evjue Foundation, Inc.
Fiore Companies, Inc.
National Endowment for the Arts
Nimick Forbesway Foundation
Walter A. and Dorothy Jones Frautschi Charitable Unitrust
Wisconsin Arts Board with additional funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts
$10,000–$14,999
BMO
Boardman Clark Law Firm
Lake Ridge Bank
Madison Gas & Electric Foundation, Inc.
Marriott Daughters Foundation
PBS Wisconsin
University Research Park
U.S. Bank Foundation
$5,000–$9,999
Dane County Arts, with additional funds from the Endres Mfg. Company Foundation, The Evjue Foundation, Inc., charitable arm of The Capital Times, the W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation, and the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation
The Burish Group at UBS
DeWitt LLP
Exact Sciences
Fields Auto Group
Hooper Corporation
Kenneth A. Lattman Foundation, Inc.
Livable Communities by Don Tierney
Qual Line Fence Corp.
Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c.
Richman & Richman LLC
Sub-Zero Group, Inc.
SupraNet Communications, Inc.
von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
West Bend Insurance Company
Wisconsin Public Radio
Woodman’s Food Markets
$2,500–$4,999
Alliant Energy Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.
Green Bay Packers Foundation
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin
J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.
Madison Arts Commission
Midwest Patrol & Investigative LLC
Stafford Rosenbaum LLP
UW Health & Unity Health Insurance
$1,000–$2,499
BRAVA Magazine
Capitol Bank
Farley’s House of Pianos
Festival Foods
Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation
Michael F. Simon Builders, Inc.
Robert W. Baird & Co.
Sold with Faith Real Estate, Restaino & Associates
The Suby Group
Waunakee Rotary Club
Up to $999
Badger Bus Bank of America
The Capital Times Kids Fund
Catalent Pharma Solutions LLC
Choles Floral
Costco Wholesale Corporation
Fuhrman & Dodge, S.C.
Hartmeyer Ice Arena
Heid Music and Heid Music
Family Charitable Fund
Promega Corporation
*Total includes donations that support 2024-2025 Madison Symphony Orchestra Concerts, 2024-2025 Organ Concerts, 2024-2025 Education and Community Engagement Programs; Madison Symphony Orchestra League’s 2024-2025 Events and Activities including Symphony at Sunset 2024; and Friends of the Overture Concert Organ’s 2024-2025 Annual Campaign. Fundraising event ticket purchases are not included. We have made every effort to ensure the accuracy of this list. If you believe an error has been made, please contact our development department at (608) 257-3734.
PLANNED GIVING: THE STRADIVARIUS SOCIETY
The individuals listed below have informed the MSO that they have included gifts for the Symphony in their estate plans. If you have remembered the Symphony in your will, living trust, or have made other arrangements for a future gift, we would love to know so we can thank you! We honor all requests for anonymity. Contact Casey Oelkers at (608) 260-8680 x228 for more information.
Fernando & Carla Alvarado
Emy Andrew
Dennis Appleton & Jennifer Buxton
Judy Ashford
Diane Ballweg
Margaret B. Barker
Chuck Bauer & Chuck Beckwith
Dr. Annette Beyer-Mears
Rosemarie & Fred Blancke
Shaila & Tom Bolger
Michael K. Bridgeman
Alexis Buchanan & James Baldwin
Scott & Janet Cabot
Clarence Cameron & Robert Lockhart
Martha & Charles Casey
Elizabeth A. Conklin
James Dahlberg & Elsebet Lund
Barbara & John DeMain
Robert Dinndorf
Audrey & Philip Dybdahl
Jim & Marilyn Ebben
Endo Family Trust
George Gay
Tyrone & Janet Greive
Terry Haller
Robert Horowitz & Susan B. King
Dr. Stanley & Shirley Inhorn
Richard & Meg LaBrie
Steven Landfried
David Lauth & Lindsey Thomas
Ann Lindsey & Charles Snowdon
Claudia Berry Miran
Elaine & Nicholas Mischler
Stephen D. Morton
Margaret Murphy
Reynold V. Peterson
David & Kato Perlman
Judith Pierotti
Michael Pritzkow
Gordon & Janet Renschler
Joy & David Rice
Joan & Kenneth Riggs
Harry & Karen Roth
Edwin & Ruth Sheldon
Dr. Beverly S. Simone
JoAnn Six
Mary Lang Sollinger
Sharon Stark & Peter D. Livingston
Gareth L. Steen
Jurate Stewart
John & Mary Storer
Richard Tatman & Ellen Seuferer
Marilynn Thompson
Ann Wallace
Richard & Barbara Weaver
Carolyn & Ron White
John Wiley & Andrea Teresa Arenas
Mary Alice Wimmer
Helen L. Wineke
Ten Anonymous Friends
ESTATE GIFTS RECEIVED
Elizabeth S. Anderes
Donald W. Anderson
Helen Barnick
Norman Bassett
Nancy Becknell
DeEtte Beilfuss-Eager
Theo F. Bird
Marian & Jack Bolz
Kenneth Bussan
Margaret Christy
Frances Z. Cumbee
Teddy Derse
Dr. Leroy Ecklund
Mary J. Ferguson
Linda I. Garrity
Maxine A. Goold
Beatrice B. Hagen
Martin R. Hamlin
Sybil A. Hanks
Elizabeth Harris
Julian E. Harris
Jane Hilsenhoff
Carl M. Hudig
Martha Jenny
Lois M. Jones
Shirley Jane Kaub
Helen B. Kayser
Patricia Koenecke
Teddy H. Kubly
Arno & Hazel Kurth
James V. Lathers
Renata Laxova
Stella I. Leverson
Lila Lightfoot
Jan Markwart
Geraldine F. Mayer
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick W. Miller
Janet Nelson
Sandra L. Osborn
Elmer B. Ott
Ethel Max Parker
Josephine Ratner
Mrs. J. Barkley Rosser
Harry D. Sage
Joel Skornicka
Chalma Smith
Marie Spec
Charlotte I. Spohn
Evelyn C. Steenbock
Harry Steenbock
Virginia Swingen
Gamber F. Tegtmeyer, Jr. & Audrey Tegtmeyer
Katherine Voight
William & Joyce Wartmann
Sally & Ben Washburn
Sybil Weinstein
Mr. & Mrs. J. Wesley Thompson
Glenn & Edna Wiechers
Elyn L. Williams
Margaret C. Winston
Jay Joseph Young
Two Anonymous Friends
A Legacy of Music
The Madison Symphony Orchestra is a grateful recipient and faithful steward of planned gifts from individuals who have remembered the Symphony in their estate plans. Through a planned gift, you can help preserve MSO’s legacy of great music for generations to come. All planned gifts qualify for Stradivarius Society recognition, and requests for anonymity will be honored.
Learn more madisonsymphony.org/stradivarius
“We have included the MSO in our wills because we want future generations to enjoy and benefit from it as we have.”
– Martha and Charles Casey, Stradivarius Society Members
Tributes
The Madison Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their contributions honoring family & friends.
In honor of Emy Andrew
Janet Renschler
In honor of Chuck and Elizabeth Barnhill
Lois H. McDonald
In honor of Barbara Berven
Barbara Peterman
In honor of Professor Ed Feige
The Dove Family
In honor of Olin Martis James
Charles James
In honor of Barb Karlen
Ann Kruger
In honor of Casey Oelkers
Doug and Norma Madsen
In honor of Elspeth Stalter-Clouse
Randall and Pamela Clouse
In honor of Lynn Stathas
Steve and Jan Alpert
In memory of Bert Adams
Diane Adams
In memory of Tom Anderson Anonymous
In memory of John Barker
Bela and Ruth Sandor
In memory of Jack and Marian Bolz
Joan Bolz Cleary and Jeff Cleary
In memory of Marian Bolz
Samuel C. Hutchison
In memory of Jim & Betty Bruce
Samuel C. Hutchison
In memory of Roman Bukolt
Susan Vergeront
In memory of Clarence Porter Cameron
Alfred Andreychuk and Allan Deptula
In memory of Deri Cattelino
Janet Renschler
In memory of Camryn Dahlke
Anonymous
In memory of Jean K. Druckenmiller
Sandra Levin
In memory of Jean and Stan Druckenmiller
Grace Homb
In memory of Clela Duemler
John C. Duemler
In memory of Mary Esser
Jane Esser
Jane Harberg
In memory of Janet Faulhaber
Lois M. Smith
In memory of Kyle Friedow
Elaine and Nicholas Mischler
In memory of Rev. Shirley Funk
Samuel C. Hutchison
In memory of Esther Hedfield
Wayne Blodgett
Shirley Hanson
Thomas & Cynthia Lerdahl
Carol Ruhly
In memory of Paul J. Heiser
Alfred Andreychuk and Allan Deptula
In memory of Tony Holt
Tyrone and Janet Greive
Ann Manser
Claudia Berry Miran
Jacklyn O’Brien
Phillip and Karen Paulson
Robert A. Reed
John N. Santeiu Jr.
In memory of Sam and Mary Hutchison
Samuel C. Hutchison
In memory of Sarah “Sally” Jamieson
Ronald and Janet Wanek
In memory of Howard Kidd
Roger and Berta Lerch
In memory of John Kjentvet
Barbara S. Hughes
In memory of Robert “Bob” Lockhart
Alfred Andreychuk and Allan Deptula
Valerie and Andreas Kazamias
Melissa Keyes and Ingrid Rothe
Laurel Kinosian
Andrew and Jolyon Maier
Robert A. Reed
Don and Barb Sanford
In memory of Connie Maxwell
Samuel C. Hutchison
Valerie and Andreas Kazamias
Elaine and Nicholas Mischler
In memory of Janet Nelson
Elaine and Nicholas Mischler
In memory of Sandra Osborn
Samuel C. Hutchison
In memory of Lillian Porcaro
Alexis M. Carreon
Valerie and Andreas Kazamias
In memory of Rev. Dr. Terry A. Purvis-Smith, PhD.
Samuel C. Hutchison
In memory of Tim Reilley
Elaine and Nicholas Mischler
In memory of Jean Reuhl
Valerie and Andreas Kazamias
In memory of Harley Richard
Catherine Richard
In memory of Robert J. Rodini
Gino and Terri Casagrande
In memory of Robert and Eleanor Rodini
Barbara S. Hughes
In memory of Jeanette Ross
John Ross
In memory of Jim Ruhly
Carol Ruhly
In memory of Dorothy Schroeder
Anonymous
In memory of Anne Stanke
Alexis M. Carreon
Daniel and Lavonne Dettmers
In memory of John Lloyd Straughn
Alexis M. Carreon
Andrea and Bill Hixon
John Wendt and Kathryn Kleckner
Rod and Jo MacDonald
Robert A. Reed
Mary Ellen Straughn
The Family of John Straughn
Two Anonymous Friends
In memory of Patricia D. Struck
Larry Bechler
In memory of William Allan Winkle
Sharol Hayner
In memory of Margaret C. Winston
John W. Erickson
The winter concert of our 22nd season celebrates the music of Bruch and Beethoven. Come hear the Bruch Septet (written when he was only 11!) and the magnificent Beethoven Septet, Op. 20. This is the perfect way to stay warm during the bleak midwinter!
Sat. February 8, 2025 7:30 PM
First Congregational Church
1609 University Avenue, Madison
Tickets at the door: $25/$20
A Gift of Music
Thank you for attending this Madison Symphony Orchestra concert!
Did you know that ticket sales cover less than half the costs of presenting our concert season? Contributions from dedicated MSO patrons help bridge this gap, allowing people from all walks of life to experience thrilling live orchestral performances in Overture Hall. Make a gift to the MSO Annual Fund today and take pride in knowing you have helped share these magnificent concerts with others in your community.
This concert is supported in part by: Dane Arts with additional funds from the Frautchi and Rowland Fondations, Diane Ballweg, and the Enders Mfg. Company Foundation.
Yearnings
Joseph Young, Guest Conductor
Time For Three:
Nicolas Kendall, Violin
Charles Yang, Violin
Ranaan Meyer, Double Bass
Samuel Barber, Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17
Kevin Puts, Contact*
Sergei Prokofiev, Selections from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
*MSO Premiere
MAJOR SPONSORS
WMTV 15 News
Madison Symphony Orchestra League
Nancy Mohs
University Research Park
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Robert Benjamin and John Fields
DeWitt LLP Wisconsin Arts Board
Guest conductor Joseph Young gives us an idea of what to anticipate in this exciting concert. “This program is an aural invitation into the ideals of peace, love, and connection that carries forward long after the final notes.” We begin with Samuel Barber’s concise and dramatic Second Essay for Orchestra. Next, the eclectic and genre-bending string trio Time for Three joins our Symphony performing Kevin Puts’ Contact, a Grammywinning piece written specifically for the group. Intended to premiere in the summer of 2020, Contact took on new meaning as an expression of yearning for human contact during the peak of the pandemic. Maestro Young’s selection of movements from one of the greatest ballet scores of the 20th century, Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet, will leave us longing for more.
JOSEPH YOUNG
Endowment Donors
The Madison Symphony Orchestra is deeply grateful to these generous donors who have contributed $1,000 or more to the Symphony’s endowment. These gifts are invested in perpetuity to ensure the MSO’s continuing fiscal stability and its legacy of great music for generations to come. Learn more at madisonsymphony.org/endowment.
Alliant Energy Foundation
Altria Group, Inc.
Carla & Fernando Alvarado
American Family Insurance
Dreams Foundation, Inc.
American Girl, Inc.
Anchor Bank
Mel Anderes
Brian & Rozan Anderson
Ron & Sharon Anderson
Estate of Donald W. Anderson
Emy Andrew
George Austin & Martha Vukelich-Austin
Jim & Sue Bakke
Helen Baldwin
Diane Endres Ballweg
Estate of Betty J. Bamforth
Estate of Helen Barnick
Jeffrey & Angela Bartell
Nancy Becknell
Chuck Bauer & Chuck Beckwith
DeEtte Beilfuss-Eager & Leonard Prentice Eager, Jr.
Barbara & Norman Berven
Ed & Lisa Binkley
Robert & Caryn Birkhauser
Tom & Shaila Bolger
Marian & Jack Bolz
Anne & Robert Bolz
Ernest & Louise Borden
Daniel & Stacey Bormann
Carl & Judy Bowser
Patricia Brady & Robert Smith
Nathan Brand
Jim & Cathie Burgess
Frank & Pat Burgess
Mary P. Burke
Mary Kay Burton
Capital Newspapers
Capitol Lakes
Thomas & Martha Carter
Tony & Deri Cattelino
Lau & Bea Christensen
Estate of Margaret Christy
Marc & Sheila Cohen
Mildred & Marv Conney
Pat & Dan Cornwell
James F. Crow
Culver’s VIP Foundation, Inc.
Frances Z. Cumbee Trust
CUNA Mutual Group
Corkey & Betty Custer
Teddy Derse
Dorothy Dittmer
Ruth & Frederick Dobbratz Estate
William & Alexandra Dove
Philip & Audrey Dybdahl
Dr. Leroy Ecklund
Jim & Marilyn Ebben
John & Michele Erikson
Richard & Frances Erney
Eugenie Mayer Bolz
Family Foundation
Ray & Mary Evert
The Evjue Foundation, Inc.
The Charitable Arm of
The Capital Times
David Falk & Joanne Robbins
Thomas A. Farrell
Janet Faulhaber
First Business Bank of Madison
First Weber Group
Flad & Associates
John & Colleen Flad
Rockne Flowers
Foley & Lardner
Jean & Werner Frank
W. Jerome Frautschi
Walter A. & Dorothy Jones Frautschi
Friends of the Overture
Concert Organ
Clayton & Belle Frink
Paul Fritsch & Jim Hartman
Linda I. Garrity
John & Christine Gauder
Candy & George Gialamas
The Gialamas Company, Inc.
Albert Goldstein, in memory of Sherry Goldstein
Dr. Robert & Linda Graebner
Anthony & Linda Granato
Fritz & Janice Grutzner
Terry Haller
Dorothy E. Halverson
Jane Hamblen & Robert Lemanske
Estate of Martin Hamlin
Julian & Elizabeth Harris
Curtis & Dawn Hastings
Ann & Roger Hauck
Peggy Hedberg
Roe-Merrill S. & Susan Heffner
Jerry M. Hiegel
William & Jane Hilsenhoff
Tom & Joyce Hirsch
Hooper Corp./General Heating & Air Conditioning, Inc.
Carl M. Hudig
J. Quincy & Carolyn Hunsicker
Samuel C. Hutchison
Dr. Stanley & Shirley Inhorn
J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.
Ralph & Marie Jackson
Allen Jacobson
Kris S. Jarantoski
Peter & Ellen Johnson
Marie & Hap Johnson
Stan & Nancy Johnson
Rosemary B. Johnson
Johnson Bank
Estate of Lois M. Jones
JPMorgan Chase
Darko & Judy Kalan
Carolyn Kau & Chris Hinrichs
Shirley Jane Kaub
Valerie & Andreas Kazamias
Terry & Mary Kelly
Kenneth R. Kimport
Charles & Patricia Kincaid
Joan Klaski & Stephen Malpezzi
James & Andrea Klauck
Robert & Judy Knapp
Patricia G. Koenecke
Patricia Kokotailo & R. Lawrence DeRoo
William Kraus & Toni Sikes
Estate of Theodora H. Kubly
Estate of Arno & Hazel Kurth
Michael G. Laskis
Estate of James Victor Lathers
Renata Laxova
Lee Foundation
Estate of Stella I. Leverson
Ronald L. & Jean L. Lewis
Gary E. Lewis
Robert Lightfoot
Laura Love Linden
Madison Gas & Electric Foundation, Inc.
Madison Investment Advisors, Inc.
Madison Symphony Orchestra League
Madison Symphony Orchestra New Year’s Eve Ball 2003
Douglas & Norma Madsen
Margaret Christy Revocable Trust
Estate of Jan Markwart
Marshall & Ilsley Foundation, Inc.
Connie Maxwell
Oscar G. & Geraldine Mayer
Hal & Christy Mayer
Clare & Michael McArdle
Richard & Mary McGary
Elizabeth McKenna
Michael & Cynthia McKenna
Richard & Jean McKenzie
Howard & Nancy Mead
Gary & Lynn Mecklenburg
Gale Meyer
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Susanne Michler
Claudia Berry & David E. Miran
Nicholas & Elaine Mischler
Dan & Ellyn Mohs
Fred & Mary Mohs
Tom & Nancy Mohs
Alfred P. Moore & Ann M. Moore
Katharine Morrison
Mortenson Family Foundation
Stephen D. Morton
Walter Morton Foundation
Jeanne Myers
Stephen & Barbara Napier
National Guardian Life Insurance Company
Janet Nelson
Vicki & Marv Nonn
Norman Bassett Trust
Daniel & Judith Nystrom
Casey & Eric Oelkers
Sandra L. Osborn
Peter & Leslie Overton
John & Carol Palmer
Park Bank
Estate of Ethel Max Parker & Cedric Parker
Catherine Peercy
John L. Peterson
Reynold V. Peterson
Larry & Jan Phelps
E. J. Plesko
Thomas & Janet Plumb
Potter Lawson Architects
Martin & Lynn Preizler
Marie B. Pulvermacher
Quarles & Brady LLP
Estate of Josephine Ratner
David Reinecke
Douglas & Katherine Reuhl
George & Jean Reuhl
Dr. Joy K. Rice
Thomas & Martha Romberg
Mrs. J. Barkley Rosser
Dan Rottier & Frankie Kirk Rottier
Rhonda & Bill Rushing
Patrick M. Ryan
Harry Sage
Douglas Schewe
Stephen & Marianne Schlecht
Richard and Barbara Schnell
Donald K. Schott
Margaret & Collin Schroeder
William & Pamela Schultz
Marti Sebree
Joe & Mary Ellyn Sensenbrenner
Millie & Irv Shain
Twila Sheskey
Terry & Sandra Shockley
Paul & Ellen Simenstad
JoAnn Six
Lise Skofronick
Joel Skornicka
Eileen Smith
Estate of Chalma Smith
Hans & Mary Lang Sollinger
Glenn & Cleo Sonnedecker
Marie Spec
Spohn Charitable Trust
Mike & Sandy Stamn
Karen & Jacob Stampen
Harriet Statz
Estate of Evelyn Carol Steenbock
Estate of Harry & Evelyn Steenbock
Steinhauer Charitable Trust
Joseph & Jamie Steuer
Peg Gunderson Stiles
John & Janet Streiff
Virginia Swingen
W. Stuart & Elizabeth Sykes
John & Leslie Taylor
Gamber & Audrey Tegtmeyer, Jr.
Terrance & Judith Paul
Advised Fund
Tom Terry
Marilynn Thompson
Estate of Mr. & Mrs. J.
Wesley Thompson
Jeff & Barbara Ticknor
Todd & Elizabeth Tiefenthaler
Harry & Marjorie Tobias
Nick & Judy Topitzes
John & Carol Toussaint
U.S. Bank Foundation
Jon & Susan Udell
Virchow, Krause & Co.
Katherine & Thomas Voight
W. Jerome Frautschi Foundation
Thomas & Rita Walker
Ann Wallace
Walter A. & Dorothy Jones
Frautschi Charitable Trust
William & Joyce Wartmann
Sally & Ben Washburn
Estate of Sybil Weinstein
Jeff & Cindy Welch
Edwenna Rosser Werner
Bob & Lu Westervelt
John & Joyce Weston
Jerry & Enid Weygandt
Carolyn & Ron White
Wiechers Survivor’s Trust
Thomas & Joyce Wildes
John Wiley & Andrea Teresa Arenas
Elyn L. Williams
Bill Williamson
Dave Willow
Margaret C. Winston
Wisconsin Energy Corporation Foundation
Kathleen Woit
Susan & Rolf Wulfsberg
Anders Yocom & Ann Yocom Engelman
Jay J. Young Five Anonymous Friends
We also thank the donors who have made endowment gifts up to $999.
Endowment Giving: The Century Society
We gratefully acknowledge our Century Society donors, who have made commitments of $100,000 or more to the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s endowment through outright or planned gifts, as of December 31, 2024. Their gifts create a solid financial foundation upon which the MSO can realize its vision to be a leader in classical music performance, education, community engagement, and artistic innovation for generations to come.
As the Madison Symphony Orchestra approaches its centennial in 2025-2026, we hope to welcome new Century Society donors who make endowment commitments of $100,000 or more through outright or planned gifts. Visit madisonsymphony.org/ endowment to learn more about endowment giving.
Carla and Fernando Alvarado
Dennis Appleton and Jennifer Buxton
Diane Ballweg
Chuck Bauer and Chuck Beckwith
Barbara and Norman Berven
Rosemarie and Fred Blancke
Eugenie Mayer Bolz Family Foundation
Jim and Cathie Burgess
Martha and Charles Casey
Margaret Christy
Pat and Dan Cornwell
James F. Crow
James Dahlberg & Elsebet Lund
William and Alexandra Dove
The Evjue Foundation, Inc.
Linda I. Garrity
George Gay
George and Candy Gialamas
Tyrone and Janet Greive
Terry Haller
Carl M. Hudig
Dr. Stanley and Shirley Inhorn
Patricia Kokotailo and R. Lawrence DeRoo
Arno and Hazel Kurth
Myrna Larson
James Victor Lathers
Peter Livingston and Sharon Stark
Madison Symphony Orchestra League
Claudia Berry and David E. Miran
Nicholas and Elaine Mischler
David and Kato Perlman
John L. Peterson
A Gift of Music
Sheila Read
The Reuhl Family
Pleasant T. Rowland
Harry D. Sage
JoAnn Six
Gareth L. Steen
Harry and Evelyn C. Steenbock
Steinhauer Charitable Trust
Thomas E. Terry
Marilynn Thompson
Katherine and Thomas Voight
William and Joyce Wartmann
Elyn L. Williams
Margaret C. Winston
Six Anonymous Friends
Did you know that the MSO presents a series of Young People’s Concerts specifically designed for students in grades K-12 and offered at a very low cost to participating schools? Annual contributions from dedicated MSO patrons help to support our Young People’s Concerts. Make a gift to the MSO Annual Fund today and take pride in knowing you have helped make it possible for children from all over south-central Wisconsin and beyond to experience the thrill of hearing orchestral music performed live.
Make Music Your Business!
Each season, Madison-area businesses help the MSO share live, classical music with over 60,000 people by providing generous financial support for our concerts, education programs and special events.
Are you a corporate leader who values high quality arts and culture in our community?
Visit madisonsymphony.org/corporategiving to learn more about how your business can partner with the MSO and show your support for the arts.
Endow a Chair
A gift to the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s endowment can provide permanent and lasting support for a position in the orchestra, helping to ensure the MSO will continue to attract and retain top quality artistic talent.
Available* Chair Naming Opportunities: Music Director
Principal Bassoon, Tuba, Bass
Associate Concertmaster
Assistant Principal Bass
Section Chair
Other opportunities and more information: madisonsymphony.org/endowment
For questions or to discuss a potential gift: Casey Oelkers, Director of Development, (608) 257-3734 *as of 9/9/24
George Gershwin/ Robert Russell Bennett, Porgy and Bess: A Concert of Songs
MAJOR SPONSORS
Madison Magazine
Diane Ballweg Boardman Clark Law Firm
Fred A. Wileman
Our 99th season finale opens with Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, pulsing with Caribbean rhythms from dance music he fell in love with on a vacation to Havana.
Beloved pianist Philippe Bianconi returns for his seventh appearance performing Gershwin’s masterpiece Concerto in F. Our maestro John DeMain has conducted more than 400 performances of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess throughout the world. He led a history-making production with the Houston Grand Opera, winning a Grammy Award, Tony Award, and France’s Grand Prix de Disque for the RCA recording. He brings Michelle Johnson, Eric Greene, and our Madison Symphony Chorus together to share his passion for this iconic work to close the season!
Carla and Fernando Alvarado
Dr. Thomas and Leslie France
Ann Lindsey, in memory of Chuck Snowdon
Mary Lang Sollinger Wisconsin Arts Board ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Overture Hall Information
RESTROOMS
Women’s and men’s restrooms are located on each level of Overture. Family assist/gender inclusive restrooms, available to persons of any gender identity and expression, are available in the following areas:
• Lower-Level Rotunda: to the right of the stairway.
• First floor lobby / Overture Hall: near coat check.
• Second floor: Gallery 2—second door to the left off the elevators.
Amenities at gender-inclusive restrooms include:
• Lockable door to provide privacy for individual users
• Ample room for an assistant/family member, if needed
• Accessible sink, stool and urinal (floor level)
• Changing stations
• Power-assist doors (Level 1 restrooms only)
ACCESSIBILITY
Overture Center is fully accessible to persons with mobility, hearing, and visual impairments. Ushers are available at each concert to assist you. Wheelchair or transfer seating is available; please notify the Overture Center Box Office when purchasing your ticket. If you require an assistive-listening device, please alert an usher at the concert. Braille programs are also available upon request. Please contact Heather at hrose@madisonsymphony.org at least three weeks prior to the concert you wish to attend.
GUEST CONSIDERATIONS
The musicians and your fellow audience members thank you!
• Please arrive early to ensure plenty of time to get through security and to be seated. If you arrive late, you will be seated during an appropriate break in the music at the discretion of the house staff. If you need to leave during the concert, please exit quietly and wait to be reseated by an usher at an appropriate break.
• Please feel free to take photos before and after the concert, and during intermission! Once the lights dim, please turn off all cell phones and electronic devices.
• Please do not wear perfumes, colognes or scented lotions as many people are allergic to these products.
• Smoking is not permitted anywhere in Overture Center for the Arts.
• The coat-check room is open when the weather dictates and closes 20 minutes after the performance ends.
• Food and beverages are available at bars and concession stands in the Overture Lobby. Beverages are allowed in Overture Hall, but please enjoy food in the lobby. Please unwrap cough drops and candies before the concert begins.
Please take note: We will adhere to all public health guidelines and cooperate with Overture Center for the Arts to ensure your safety. We invite you to visit madisonsymphony. org/health for more information on health and safety. Overture Center safety information can be found at overture.org/health
Boards & Administration
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2024-2025
OFFICERS
Michael Richman, Chair
Janet Cabot, Secretary
Doug Reuhl, Treasurer
Ellsworth Brown, Immediate Past Chair
José Madera, Member-at-large
Kay Schwichtenberg, Member-at-large
Derrick Smith, Member-at-large
Lynn Stathas, Member-at-large
DIRECTORS
Lynn Allen-Hoffmann
Brian Anderson
Ruben Anthony
Rosemarie Blancke
Ellsworth Brown
Janet Cabot
Martha Casey
Bryan Chan
Elton Crim
James Dahlberg
Bob Dinndorf
Audrey Dybdahl
Marc Fink
David Harding
Paul Hoffmann
Mark Huth
Mooyoung Kim
David Lauth
Rob Lemanske
Ann Lindsey
José Madera
Oscar Mireles
Rick Morgan
Jon Parker
Cyrena Pondrom
Margaret Pyle
Michael Richman
Carole Schaeffer
Monique Scher
Kay Schwichtenberg
John Sims
Derrick Smith
Tamera Stanley
Lynn Stathas
Todd Stuart
Anna Trull
Jasper Vaccaro
Eric Wilcots
Michael Zorich
ADVISORS
Elliott Abramson
Michael Allsen
Carla Alvarado
Jeffrey Bauer
Ted Bilich
Camille Carter
Laura Gallagher
Tyrone Greive
Jane Hamblen
Michael Hobbs
Stephanie Lee
Joseph Meara
Gary Mecklenburg
Larry Midtbo
Paul Norman
Kevin O’Connor
Abigail Ochberg
Greg Piefer
Jacqueline Rodman
Mary Lang Sollinger
Judith Topitzes
Ellis Waller
Carolyn White
Anders Yocom
Stephen Zanoni
LIFE DIRECTORS
Terry Haller
Stanley Inhorn
Valerie Kazamias
Elaine Mischler
Nicholas Mischler
Douglas Reuhl
HONORARY DIRECTORS
TBA, President Madison College
Kathy Evers, First Lady of the State of Wisconsin
TBA, Dane County Executive
DIRECTORS EMERITUS
Helen Bakke
Wallace Douma
Perry A. Henderson
Fred Mohs
Stephen Morton
Beverly Simone
John Wiley
EX OFFICIO DIRECTORS
Barbara Berven
Mark Bridges
Rose Heckenkamp-Busch
William Steffenhagen
EX OFFICIO ADVISORS
Josh Biere
Dan Cavanagh
Daniel Davidson
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION INC. BOARD, 2024–2025
OFFICERS
Douglas Reuhl
President
Nicholas Mischler
Vice President
Robert A. Reed
Secretary-Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Ellsworth Brown
Joanna Burish
Beth Dettman
Jill Friedow
Juan Gomez
Jane Hamblen
Jon Parker
Gregory Reed
Michael Richman
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2024–2025
Claire Ann and Michael Richman, Symphony at Sunset
Don Sanford, Parties of Note
Beth Rahko, MSOL Connect & Musicology Moments
Jan Cibula, VP Social Activities
Jessica Morrison & Mary Lou Tyne, Fall Luncheon
Pat Bernhardt, Holiday Party
Valerie Kazamias, Midwinter Luncheon
Rosemarie Blancke, Spring Luncheon & Annual Meeting
Marilyn Ebben, Ladies Bridge
Jim Patch, Men’s Bridge
ADVISORS
Pat Bernhardt
Rosemarie Blancke
Janet Cabot
Marilyn Ebben
Valerie Kazamias
Fern Lawrence
Ann Lindsey
Linda Lovejoy
Elaine Mischler
Beth Rahko
Judy Topitzes
Carolyn White
FRIENDS OF THE OVERTURE CONCERT ORGAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2023-2024
OFFICERS
William Steffenhagen President
David Willow
Secretary-Treasurer
Robert Lemanske Past-President
DIRECTORS
Beth Bauer
Herman Baumann
Janet Cabot
Quinn Christensen
Paula Doyle
Audrey Dybdahl
Mark Huth
Charles McLimans
Doug McNeel
Caleb Mitchell
David Parminter
Rhonda Rushing
Jennifer Younger
ADVISORS
Fernando Alvarado
Diane Ballweg
James Baxter
Ellsworth Brown
John Gauder
Terry Haller
Ellen Larson Latimer
Gary Lewis
Elaine Mischler
Vicki Nonn
Reynold Peterson
Teri Venker
Anders Yocom
EX OFFICIO
Greg Zelek, Principal Organist and Elaine & Nicholas Mischler Curator of the Overture Concert Organ
MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC.
ADMINISTRATION
Robert Reed, Executive Director
David Gordon, Executive Assistant & Board Liaison
Ann Bowen, General Manager
Alexis Carreon, Office & Personnel Manager
Jennifer Goldberg, Orchestra Librarian, John & Carolyn Petersen Chair
Lisa Kjentvet, Director of Education & Community Engagement
Katelyn Hanvey, Education & Community Engagement Manager
Casey Oelkers, Director of Development
Meranda Dooley, Manager of Individual Giving
Rachel Cherian, Manager of Grants & Sponsorships
Peter Rodgers, Director of Marketing
Heather Rose, Marketing Communications Manager
Isabella Clinton, Audience Experience Manager
Chris Fiol, Digital Marketing & Engagement Specialist
Sarah Bergmann, Bolz Marketing Associate
Greg Zelek, Principal Organist and Elaine & Nicholas Mischler Curator of the Overture Concert Organ
22-23
at the Movies
The second Madison Symphony Orchestra MSO at the Movies of the season presents Star Wars: A New Hope in Concert featuring the complete film with composer John Williams’ iconic Oscar®winning score performed live to the film. Since the release of this first Star Wars movie over 45 years ago, the Star Wars saga has had a seismic impact on both cinema and culture, inspiring audiences around the world with its mythic storytelling, captivating characters, groundbreaking special effects and iconic musical scores composed by Williams. Fans will experience the scope and grandeur of this beloved film in a live symphonic concert experience.
