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ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA 4 Kyle Knox Biography 6 Orchestra Personnel 48 Overture Hall Information 49 Boards and Administration

SYMPHONY

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BEETHOVEN’S PASTORAL SYMPHONY | OCT 16, 17, 18 10 Concert Sponsors and Program 11 Naha Greenholtz Biography 15 Program Notes SUPPORT 24 Individual Donors 36 Business, Foundation and Government Donors 38 Stradivarius Society Members 40 Tributes 44 Century Society

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KYLE KNOX RESIDENT CONDUCTOR

Kyle Knox is Music Director of the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras and Resident Conductor of the Madison Symphony Orchestra. With the Madison Symphony, he leads six programs each season, including subscription concerts, the orchestra’s education series, MSO at the Movies, community concerts, and a range of special projects and collaborations. As Music Director of WYSO, Kyle has grown the organization’s reputation as one of America’s premier youth orchestras. In addition to conducting the Youth Orchestra, he oversees its five orchestras, all instrumental ensembles, chamber program, WYSO Music Makers, and WYSO’s artistic faculty of over 50 conductors, coaches, and teachers. Before turning to conducting, Kyle served as Assistant Principal Clarinet with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Santa Fe Opera. He has participated in festivals domestically and abroad including Tanglewood, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, Santa Fe Chamber Music, Caroga Lakes, and Bowdoin among others. He holds degrees from Juilliard and UW–Madison. Kyle makes his home in Madison with his wife, violinist Naha Greenholtz, their three young kids and two cats.

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VIOLIN I Naha Greenholtz Concertmaster

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PROGRAM

101st Season | Overture Hall

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Kyle Knox, Resident Conductor Naha Greenholtz, Violin LILI BOULANGER (1893-1918) D’un matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning) ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741) Autumn from “The Four Seasons” (Violin Concerto in F Major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293) B allo e canto de villanelli (Dance and Song of the Peasants) Dormienti ubriachi (Sleeping Drunks) L a caccia (The Hunt) ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992) Spring from “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” (arr. Desyatnikov)

PAUL HINDEMITH (1895-1963) Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber Allegro “ Turandot.” Scherzo Andantino Marcia INTERMISSION

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, “Pastoral” A llegro non troppo A ndante molto moto Allegro A llegro Allegretto

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NAHA GREENHOLTZ Violin

Canadian violinist Naha Greenholtz was born in Kyoto, Japan, where she began her violin studies at age three. Since her solo debut at 14, concerto performances have included engagements with the San Francisco Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, and National Repertory Orchestras, as well as the Vancouver, Quad City, Burnaby, and Kelowna Symphonies. In the Madison area she makes regular solo appearances with the Madison Symphony and the Middleton Community Orchestra. Naha also maintains an active career as an orchestra musician. In addition to her duties as Concertmaster of both the Madison and Quad City Symphony Orchestras, past performance highlights include guest concertmaster appearances with the Oregon, Omaha, and Memphis Symphonies, the San Francisco Ballet, as well as the Calgary and Louisiana Philharmonics, among many others.

In 2019 she will appear as guest concertmaster with the Chicago Philharmonic (in collaboration with the English National Ballet) and will make her Australian debut in a concertmaster residency with the Australian Ballet in Melbourne. From 2011-2014 she maintained a partnership with the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto, performing and touring frequently with the company as guest concertmaster and soloist. Additionally she has performed often with the Cleveland Orchestra both domestically and abroad. She began her career in 2007-2008 with the Louisiana Philharmonic and later with the Milwaukee Symphony. Naha has participated in music festivals throughout the US and Europe including Kneisel Hall (Maine), Taos (New Mexico), Spoleto (Italy), Lucerne (Switzerland), Bach

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Dancing and Dynamite Society (Wisconsin), and the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. She is currently on artist faculty at Renova Music Festival (Newcastle, Pennsylvania) and since 2012 she has been Artistic Director of Davenport, Iowa’s Signature Series.

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PROGRAM NOTES

Subscription Program No. 1 | Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony October 16-17-18, 2026

MSO resident conductor Kyle Knox leads our October program, a sumptuous selection of five works, opening with a lovely little early 20th-century impressionist tone poem by Lili Boulanger. Then MSO concertmaster Naha Greenholtz plays the Autumn concerto of Vivaldi’s beloved Four Seasons. She follows this with a 20th-century Argentine take on the seasons: Spring from Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, a work inspired by Vivaldi… and by the sensuous rhythm of the Tango. (Kyle and Naha clearly work well together: they are married and are raising three small children!) The MSO brass, woodwind, and percussion sections get a chance to shine in Hindemith’s burly Symphonic Metamorphoses. Rounding out this program is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, a loving picture of the Austrian countryside, that served as inspiration for many programmatic works to follow. This colrful little orchestral piece was one of the final compositions of Lili Boulanger’s tragically short life.

LILI BOULANGER

program notes by J. Michael Allsen

LILI BOULANGER

Born: August 21, 1893, Paris, France. Died: March 15, 1918, Mézy-sur-Seine, France. D’un matin de printemps Composed: 1917-18. Premiere: March 13, 1921, by the Pasdeloup Orchestra, at the Paris Conservatory. Previous MSO Performances: This is our first performance of the work. Duration: 5:00. Boulanger was the first female composer to win the prestigious Prix de Rome. Background The Boulanger sisters, Nadia and Lili, were clearly destined for musical success. They grew up in a household where both their mother and father performed and composed. The girls,

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both of them phenomenally talented, were encouraged and nurtured in music at an early age. The elder sister, Nadia (1887-1979), composed early in her life, but would make her mark as one of the 20th century’s greatest music teachers, serving as a mentor to three generations of the most prominent European and American composers and musicians. Lili, however, was one of music history’s great “might-have-beens,” her career cut tragically short at age 24. She was recognized as a prodigy when she was only two years old and was initially taught by her parents. After a bout of pneumonia when she was a very young child, however, Lili would remain in frail health, eventually contracting intestinal tuberculosis, a chronic condition that would eventually take her life. Because of her health, she was unable to be a full-time student at the Paris Conservatory, and instead trained with private composition teachers. She eventually enrolled in the Conservatory as a parttime composition student in 1909, primarily to compete for the coveted Prix de Rome, the annual prize awarded to the Conservatory’s most gifted composition student. Nadia had taken second place in the competition in 1908, and their father, Ernest Boulanger, won the prize in 1835. In 1913, Lili became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome. The prize came with a yearlong stay in Rome for study and composition, but her stay in Italy was cut short by the outbreak

of World War I. In 1917, as Paris was being bombed by German zeppelins and airplanes, the Boulangers moved some 50 miles away, to the town of Mézy. Lili’s condition worsened, but she continued to compose until her death, dictating her last pieces to Nadia. She left behind a small number of compositions, though it is music that showed her tremendous potential: an unfinished opera, a dozen large choral works and several smaller vocal pieces, two orchestral tone poems, and a few piano pieces. While her music was not particularly groundbreaking, by the end of her short career, she was already developing an individual musical style. This is an impressionist jewel of a piece, freely developing and colorful throughout. What You’ll Hear The very last compositions Lili Boulanger was able to write in her own hand, and her only surviving orchestral pieces, were a pair of short tone poems she finished a few months before her death, D’un matin de printemps (Of a Spring Morning) and D’un soir triste (Of a Sad Evening). This pair might be heard as apt summary of her short life: one exuberant and hopeful and the other dark and mournful. D’un matin de printemps begins with lively, flitting music filled with short woodwind solos, which serves as a kind of main theme tying the work together. There is a more lyrical idea led by the strings,

which seems to have a bit of subtle humor. After a brief reminder of the opening, there is a more introspective episode for violin and celeste: marked “mysterious” in the score. The piece ends with a return of the bubbly opening music and a dramatic flourish from the harp.

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Vivaldi’s picturesque Four Seasons concertos are undisputably his “greatest hits” today…and they were also very popular in his own day.

ANTONIO VIVALDI

Born: March 4, 1678, Venice, Italy. Died: July 28, 1741, Vienna, Austria. Autumn from “The Four Seasons” (Violin Concerto in F Major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV 293) Composed: ca. 1710-15. Premiere: Unknown. Previous MSO Performances: the Autumn concerto was played in 2007 by Robert McDuffie, as part of a complete performance of The Four Seasons. Duration: 9:00.

The four concertos were published in 1725 but may have been written as much as 10 to 15 years earlier. Background Vivaldi’s solo violin concertos—over 230 of them!—were mostly written to feature Vivaldi himself, a virtuoso violinist with a high reputation among his contemporaries. Though his works were passed around Europe in handwritten copies, they were also well known in a series of printed collections, mostly published by his business partners in Amsterdam. Vivaldi’s Opus 8 collection of 1725 was given the fanciful title Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). The first four concertos of Il cimento are collectively known as The Four Seasons. Each is given a descriptive title: La Primavera (Spring), L’Estate (Summer), L’Autunno (Autumn), and L’Inverno (Winter). Programmatic titles like this were not unusual for Vivaldi, but here he goes a step further, publishing sonnets with each concerto that describe the action of each season. The concertos of The Four Seasons were internationally known even in Vivaldi’s lifetime. The concertos are an even bigger hit today—arguably the most familiar pieces of Baroque music. Since the first complete 78RPM records of the concertos in 1942, there have been—by conservative estimate—nearly 400 recordings.

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Aside from the striking musical imagery suggested by the sonnets, the music of the concertos is typical, matching the style of the many other solo violin concertos by Vivaldi—placing a solo violin part in contrast with a small string orchestra with harpsichord continuo, Typically, he sets the concertos in three movements, fast-slow-fast. The outer fast movements have the typical alteration of ritornellos—passages for the entire ensemble—and flashier solo sections. Slow movements are generally more vocal in conception, emulating the passionate vocal display of contemporary Italian opera. But it is of course the wonderfully programmatic aspects of the concertos of The Four Seasons that make them so attractive.

hunting horns and barking dogs to the terrified quarry—shows up clearly in the music. It all ends tragically—for the deer, anyway—and the hunters close with a last joyful ritornello.

What You’ll Hear Autumn is optimistic throughout, and the first movement is a rustic harvest party. There are quick and witty solo passages, perhaps representing the peasants who have had just a bit too much of “Bacchus’s liquor” and stumble around until they finally settle down to sleep—a quiet passage that sounds suspiciously like a lullaby. Their snooze is cut short by a final dancing ritornello. Vivaldi titled the slow movement “Sleeping Drunks”—a series of quiet and sometimes startlingly chromatic chords that allow the continuo part to create most of the melodic interest. In the third movement, Vivaldi once again exercises his full programmatic powers: virtually everything in his poem—from

Born: March 11, 1921, Mar de Plata, Argentina. Died: July 4, 1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA

One of Argentina’s greatest composers, Piazzolla was known for his innovative fusions of his native Tango with rock, jazz, and modernist classical music.

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA

Spring from “Four Seasons of Buenos Aires” Composed: Piazzolla composed his Four Seasons (Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas) in 1967-1969 as separate works. Leonid Desyatnikov created the version for solo violin and string orchestra heard here in 1999 for violinist Gidon Kremer. Premiere: Piazzolla and his quintet played the works together for the first time at the Teatro Regina in Buenos Aires, on May 19, 1970. Kremer recorded the version heard here in 2000.

Previous MSO Performances: Spring (Primavera Porteño) was played by Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg in 2009, as part of a performance of the complete set. Duration: 7:00. The four sections of his Four Seasons we originally performed as independent works. Arranger Leonid Desyatnikov later assembled the version for violin and string orchestra heard here. Background The Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla was a child prodigy on Argentina’s national instrument, the bandonéon—the large button accordion that is the lead instrument of the Tango. Beginning at age 16 he spent the next several years playing in dance bands, eventually leading his own successful orquesta típica, the standard ensemble of Tango. He studied classical music with composer Alberto Ginastera, but in 1954 won a scholarship to study in Paris with one of the 20th-century’s great composition teachers, Nadia Boulanger. It was Boulanger whom Piazzolla credited with helping to create his own style. Piazzolla returned to Argentina after a year in Paris, and began to forge a distinctive style, eventually known as “Nuevo Tango.” This “New Tango” proved to be controversial in his homeland: while Tango is among the world’s sexiest dances, the music is quite tradition-bound, played by a standard ensemble, the orquesta típica, of bandonéon, violins, piano, piano, and double bass. Piazzolla’s works

eventually included electric bass and guitar, synthesizer, and other distinctly “non-típica” instruments. He also channeled a wide range of musical ideas, from Jazz and Fusion to more avant garde idioms—but with the syncopated sensuousness of the Tango always present. By the end of his career Piazzolla was widely heard and commissioned around the world. And the creation of “new” Piazzolla works continued after he died in hundreds of arrangements and reinterpretations of his over 750 works. The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (Cuatro estaciones porteñas) heard here is just such a posthumous collaboration. Piazzolla wrote the four sections of this work for his quintet (bandoneón, piano, violin, electric guitar, and electric bass). In 1999, the Russian composer and arranger Leonid Desyatnikov, working with violinist Gidon Kremer, reworked Piazzolla’s originals into a set of four virtuoso movements for solo violin and string orchestra. This arrangement transforms Piazzolla’s originals into a set of virtuoso character pieces, very much in the spirit of Vivaldi. The work has a three-part form. The outer sections are based upon a strident Tango theme, and there is a long soulful middle section. What You’ll Hear Spring is a fierce, syncopated tangofugue, with its opening phrases

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punctuated by scratches and sighs. After the ferocious tango theme is picked up by the entire orchestra, there are a couple of witty references to the “thunderstorm” from Vivaldi’s Spring concerto. The movement has a languorous, sexy central section before returning to a frenetic version of the opening. At the very end, there is another brief tongue-in-cheek reference to Vivaldi.

PAUL HINDEMITH

Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses was written while he was a professor at Yale University, having fled Germany before the outbreak of World War II.

PAUL HINDEMITH Born: November 16, 1895, Hanau, Germany. Died: December 28, 1963, Frankfurt, Germany. Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber Composed: 1940-43. Premiere: January 20, 1944, with Artur Rodzinski conducting New York Philharmonic.

Previous MSO Performances: 1990, and 2001 Duration: 22:00. This virtuoso showpiece for the orchestra was initially sketched out as a ballet score. Background Like many German composers and musicians, Hindemith fled to the United States in the years before World War II to escape the increasingly tight cultural controls imposed by the Nazis. When he joined the faculty of Yale University in 1940, he was approached with several commissions for new works. Among these was a ballet based upon the music of Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826): a collaboration with choreographer Leonid Massine. In the early stages of the Weber project, it became obvious that Hindemith’s conception of the score was much more elaborate than what Massine had in mind. Though the proposed collaboration failed, Hindemith resurrected his ballet score a few years later, completing a version for large orchestra in August of 1943. The result, his Symphonic Metamorphoses, is a masterwork of orchestration, with heavy emphasis on the brass, woodwind, and percussion sections. Hindemith calls for expert technique from most of these players. The themes for this orchestral showpiece are drawn from Weber’s largely-forgotten music for piano, four hands, and from a rather obscure piece of stage music—Hindemith

himself noted that none of this music represented Weber at his best. However, this aspect of its background is part of the appeal of Symphonic Metamorphoses. “Metamorphosis” means a change, usually a change to a new state of being. In the hands of a lesser composer, this second-rate melodic material might have turned into a third-rate piece. However, Hindemith transcends the original material, sometimes building upon Weber’s original intentions (as in the lively Roma-style free-for-all in the opening movement) and sometimes re-working them in a more modern idiom (as in the jazzy fugue of the second movement). This work is set in four movements: • A wild Hungarian-style opener. • A scherzo based upon a pentatonic “oriental” theme. • A gentle show movement. • A brassy march. What You’ll Hear The first movement (Allegro) has a distinctly Hungarian flavor. Hungarian music, particularly the music of the Roma, held a great deal of fascination for Weber and his contemporaries, who composed hundreds of works that emulated Roma melodies. Hindemith chose one such piece as the basis for the first movement, the fourth of Weber’s Eight Pieces for Piano, Four Hands. Hindemith’s treatment retains the Hungarian zest in a vigorous march style, with punctuation by the brass and filigree by the woodwinds.

The movement includes a delightful oboe solo during its middle section. In 1809, Weber was commissioned to write incidental music to Schiller’s play Turandot. In keeping with the play’s Chinese setting, Weber adopted a “genuine” Chinese melody that he had found in Rousseau’s Dictionnaire. Although the authenticity of the melody is questionable, it was set in a pentatonic scale that undoubtedly sounded exotic and oriental to early 19th-century listeners. For the second movement (“Turandot.” Scherzo) Hindemith retained this melody but enhanced the Oriental character of the setting. The movement opens quietly with woodwinds and percussion and continues as a series of variations on Weber’s theme. The central fugue, played by the brasses, is a transformation of the “Chinese” tune with a hint of jazz flavoring. The third movement (Andantino) features a much lighter orchestration, focusing on the strings and solo woodwinds. The themes for the quiet and lyrical Andantino are drawn from Weber’s Six Easy Pieces for Piano, Four Hands. The first theme is presented by the solo clarinet and the second by the cellos. After combining the two for a moment, Hindemith brings back the clarinet theme, now in combination with a flute countermelody. For the final movement, Hindemith again draws music from Weber’s Eight Pieces, in this case a little Marcia.

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Premiere: December 22, 1808 in Vienna.

Beethoven himself labelled his sixth as the “Pastoral” Symphony, a tribute to his love of life in the country. This is a gentle, but also —for its time—a revolutionary work. Its five movements include rustic dances, exuberant birdsongs, and a remarkably realistic thunderstorm.

Background At some point in 1803, Beethoven sketched a brief musical passage of flowing triplets he titled “the murmuring of the brook”—what seems to have been the very earliest bit of what would become his pastoral symphony. While he collected additional ideas over the next few years, the bulk of the Symphony No. 6 was written in 1808, at roughly the same time as the Symphony No. 5. Both symphonies were performed for the first time at a benefit concert in Vienna in December, 1808. The program for this landmark event also included excerpts from his Mass in C and the concert aria Ah, perfido, together with premieres of two works with Beethoven himself at the piano, the Piano Concerto No. 4 and the hastily-composed Choral Fantasy.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

The movement opens with a brass fanfare and Weber’s Marcia set as a menacing minor-key march. This opening section contains echoes of Mahler (mixed with a few references to Berlioz). Hindemith then moves to a major key, with a horn-call version of the melody that recalls Weber’s opera Der Freischütz. Both melodies are presented again, in amplified form, and the movement closes with a major-key transformation of the march theme and the opening fanfare.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Born: December 17, 1770 (baptism date), Bonn, Germany. Died: March 26, 1827, Vienna, Austria. Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, “Pastoral” Composed: Between 1803 and 1808.

Previous MSO Performances: 1931, 1932, 1955, 1975, and 2005. Duration: 46:00. This is a work whose programmatic form had a profound influence on composers in the later 19th century. “No one can love the country as much as I do.” - Beethoven

Despite their pairing, the fifth and sixth symphonies are astonishingly different works. Later writers worked hard to hear a “program” (a “story line”

or other extra-musical idea) in the fifth, but it was probably conceived as an expression of purely musical ideas: particularly the intense, almost relentless development of musical themes. The sixth is clearly programmatic, however. Beethoven suggested in his own writings that this work should bring up associations of country life in the minds of its audience. The title “pastoral” is from Beethoven himself, though he was careful to make a distinction between the kind of subtle feelings he was trying express in the sixth symphony and the sensational programmatic pieces that were all the rage in France and Austria at the time. It was this programmatic aspect of the sixth that most excited Romantic musicians: it was clearly the inspiration for Berlioz’s Fantastic Symphony and Schumann’s “Spring” symphony to give just two early examples. It was successful in Beethoven’s own time as well: one review of the premiere called the “Thunderstorm” movement “unsurpassedly beautiful.” Another reviewer of an early performance remarked that: “The whole work is sure to meet with great approval everywhere, so long as one enters cheerfully and with good will into the spirit of the author’s intentions, without a preconceived opinion.” The “author’s intentions” in the sixth seem to be summed up best in an annotation to one of Beethoven’s sketches: “Pastoral Symphony—who

ever also treasures country life can discover for himself what the author intends.” Beethoven’s love of the country is well-known: he enjoyed long walks in the countryside, and much of the sixth was written in a country house in the small town of Heiligenstadt outside of Vienna. Beethoven used a unique five-movement form in this work: • A broad movement in sonata form but remarkably lacking in the drama of a typical Beethoven symphonic movement. • A placid slow movement, which ends with a set of woodwind birdcalls. • The final three movements are played without pause, beginning with a rustic dance-style scherzo. • A ferocious thunderstorm. • A gentle finale, based upon a hymnlike main theme. What You’ll Hear The sixth is formally innovative, abandoning the traditional fourmovement plan in favor of five movements in which the last three form a single unit. The opening movement (Allegro non troppo) is set in a generously-proportioned sonata form, but unlike most of Beethoven’s first movements, there is no furious intensity in his development, but a remarkable gentleness of tone throughout. In a violin part, Beethoven made brief notes at the beginning of each of the five movements that suggest specific associations, in this case, “Pleasant, cheerful

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feelings aroused on approaching the countryside.” Both main themes are quiet and happy, first a countrydance tune above what might be an unchanging bagpipe drone and then a more active second theme. There are only occasional hints of the minor in the long development section, and when the recapitulation arrives, there is no great drama preceding it, but just the quiet satisfaction of a good tune being restated by the full orchestra. The coda is also understated: a final rounding-off of the main idea surrounded by witty clarinet lines. This placid mood continues in the second movement (Andante molto moto – “Scene by the brook”). Here again he uses sonata form with none of the usual fire and fury. If he did indeed intend this as musical picture of a brook, the constantly undulating string accompaniment is the aquatic background to a series of lovely woodwind themes. Near the end there is a birdlike group cadenza for solo woodwinds. As if anyone could miss his intention, Beethoven labeled these passages in the score: “nightingale,” “quail,” and “cuckoo.” The final three movements are played without a pause. The third movement (Allegro – “Happy gathering of villagers”) is set as a scherzo, but the tempo is relaxed, as Beethoven launches into a set of rustic dances. Two triple-meter themes begin this set, a jolly bagpipe-style tune and a more

delicate idea passed among the flute, clarinet, and horn. The contrasting trio section is a rustic duple-meter dance for the full orchestra. All of these ideas are restated, and just when it seems that he is going to round off the movement, there is a quiet rumble, and the texture changes abruptly (Allegro), as wandering string lines gather intensity above bass tremolos. The “Thunderstorm” doesn’t take long to break, with a crashing fortissimo chord and a series of lightning strikes. Beethoven used a series of shockingly dissonant chords and surprising orchestral effects to paint his storm. The storm passes quickly however, leaving a calm, pastoral duet of clarinet and horn to introduce the finale (Allegretto – “Shepherd’s song. Grateful thanks to the Almighty after the storm”). The main idea is serene and hymnlike: Beethoven wrote the words Herr, wir danken dir (Lord, we thank you) in his score at this point. This melody appears in both varied and original forms throughout the movement. Once more, the mood is tranquil throughout, as the movement weaves its unhurried way to a quiet conclusion.

Suzanne Beia VIOLIN I

Co-Concertmaster Steinhauer Charitable Trust Chair

Suzanne Beia is Assistant Concertmaster of the Madison Symphony Orchestra, and a chamber music coach for the Mead Witter School of Music. She also serves as second violinist in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pro Arte Quartet.

concertmaster positions with the Reno Chamber Orchestra, Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic, Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and Chamber Symphony of San Francisco. She also held the Assistant Concertmaster position in the New World Symphony.

A native of Reno, Nevada, she began her musical studies on the viola at the age of ten. Three years later, she shifted her attention to the violin and made her solo debut at the age of fourteen with the North Lake Tahoe Symphony. Since that time, she has performed on numerous occasions as a soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and Germany. Before coming to Madison, Suzanne held the position of Principal Second Violin in the Wichita Symphony and has held

Her chamber music experience has been extensive, having been invited to perform in numerous festivals such as Chamber Music West, Telluride Chamber Music Festival, Token Creek, Festival de Prades, and Chamber Music at the Barn. Suzanne has served on the faculties of the Rocky Ridge Music Center and Florida International University. Her major teachers have included Theodore Madsen, Roy Malan, Jorja Fleezanis, and David Perry.

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INDIVIDUAL 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 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 2026-27 Season* as of September 16, 2026. $20,000 & ABOVE Lynn Allen-Hoffmann & Michael Hoffmann Diane Ballweg Joel & Kathryn Belaire Norm & Barbara Berven Rosemarie & Fred Blancke Lau & Bea Christensen W. Jerome Frautschi & Pleasant Rowland Susan S. Harris Myrna Larson Roma Lenehan Marvin J. Levy Elaine & Nicholas Mischler Stephen Morton Peter & Leslie Overton

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$10,000-$19,999 Fernando & Carla Alvarado Louise Borden Janet & Scott Cabot Martha Casey Philip Daub Joan Fudala & Richard Dike Jane Hamblen & Robert F. Lemanske Larry Hands & Karen Kendrick-Hands Kathleen Harker Gary & Lynn Mecklenburg Claudia Berry Miran Fred & Mary Mohs Nancy Mohs David & Kato Perlman Larry & Jan Phelps Cyrena & Lee Pondrom Peggy & Tom Pyle Richard & Pamela Reese Doug & Katie Reuhl Michael & Claire Ann Richman John & Twila Sheskey Charitable Fund Lise R. Skofronick Thomas Rae Smith & Jennifer A. Younger Bill Steffenhagen

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Paul Grossberg & Dean Ziemke Janice Grutzner Betty & Edward Hasselkus Jim & Kathy Herman Walter & Barbara Herrod Cynthia S. Hiteman Paul & Sharon Hoffmann Mark Huth & Meghan Walsh Charles James Bob & Louise Jeanne Maryl R. Johnson, M.D. Corinne Jones John Jorgensen & Olga Pomolova Darko & Judy Kalan Terry & Mary Kelly Catherine Kestle Mooyoung Kim & Anna Myeong James Klein & Mary Knapp Dr. & Mrs. Ivan Knezevic Mary Kratz James & Karen Laatsch Constance Lavine & Fred Holtzman Fern & Bill Lawrence Charles Leadholm & Jeanne Parus Richard Leffler Mike & Kathy Lipp Rod & Jo MacDonald Keith McDonald Patricia McQuiddy Joseph Meara & Karen Rebholz Barb Melchert Eugene Miliczky & Sarah Shippen Jon & Cookie Miller Mark & Nancy Moore Deane Mosher & Frances Fogerty Genevieve Murtaugh Bradley Niemcek & Sharon Murphy Paul & Maureen Norman Kevin & Cheryl O’Connor Kay & Pete Ogden Dr. Zorba Paster & Penny Paster

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Announcing the Second Century Stradivarius Society Challenge As the Madison Symphony Orchestra enters our second century together in music and welcomes Music Director Laura Jackson, we invite you to help ensure that the Symphony remains a vital artistic and community asset for generations to come. We’ve set a goal to welcome at least 20 new planned giving households into our legacy giving circle, the Stradivarius Society, by the end of the 2027-2028 season. For each new donor/household who confirms their planned giving intent with the Symphony—through December 31, 2027—an anonymous friend will contribute $1,000 to the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s endowment in their honor! Have you already included a gift for the Symphony in your estate plans? Just let the Symphony know, and the anonymous donor will make a $1,000 endowment gift in your honor. Have you been thinking about an estate gift but haven’t made your plans yet? We encourage you get started in the coming months and then let the Symphony know when your plans are finalized. The planned giving challenge is active until December 31, 2027. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” – Sergei Rachmaninoff Contact: Casey Oelkers, Director of Development coelkers@madisonsymphony.org 608-260-8680 x228

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Susan & Rolf Wulfsberg Sarah & Eric Yanke George & Sue Zagorski Four Anonymous Friends

$1,000–$1,999 Anne Altshuler David & Karen Benton Beth Binhammer & Ellen Hartenbach Randall Blumenstein & Marci Gittleman Nancy Braun Mike & Quinn Christensen Barbara & Ted Cochrane David & Wendy Coe Kara Conner & Shannon Patrick Conner Patricia Crowe Debra Dahlke & Robert Gake Richard & Susan Davidson Paula & Bob Dinndorf Charles & Bonnie Dykman Marilyn Ebben Jane Eisner Robert Factor Michael & Anne Faulhaber Marc & Marcia Fink David Flanders & Susan Ecroyd Donna B. Fox Richard & Patricia Friday Katharine Gansner Barbara Gessner Mark & Jane Greenberg George & Joan Hall Bobbie & Steve Jellinek Stan & Nancy Johnson Vance & Betty Kepley Charles & Susan Kernats Rolf Killingstad Robert & Lynne Krainer Glenn Krieg Roberta Kurtz & Margaret Schmidt Jack Kussmaul

David & Hilda Kuter Richard & Judy Kvalheim Anna Lee Bonnie McMullin-Lawton & Jack Lawton Sharifa Merchant Robin Moskowitz Jeanne Myers Mary & Michael Myers Thomas H. Nash III & Corinna Gries Vicki & Marv Nonn Dan & Judy Nystrom Zaia Parker & Peleus Parker Patricia Paska Gary & Mary Jo Peterson William E. Petig Judith Pierotti Lester Pines & Roberta Gassman Mary Pinkerton & Tino Balio Kathleen & Robert Poi SanDee Priser Stephen & Margie Rankin Ron Rosner & Ronnie Hess William & Rhonda Rushing Orange Schroeder Joe & Mary Ellyn Sensenbrenner Boone & Janelle Severson Charol Shakeshaft & Dale Mann Philip Shultz & Marsha Van Domelen John R. Sims Robert & Suzanne Smith Chris & Ronald Sorkness Laura Sparks Lynn Stathas Eileen & Michael Stenberg Ross Swaney Marcia E. Topel Jon & Susan Udell Angela Vitcenda & Jerry Norenberg Sally Wellman Jeffrey Williamson Judy Winkel

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$500–$999 Diane Adams Stuart & Bonnie Allbaugh Peggy Anderson Nancy Baillies & Kevin Gould Janneke Baske James & Diane Baxter Christine K. Beatty Jim & Eugenia Beecher Ronald Benavides Gail Bergman Michael Betlach Terry Bloom & Prudy Stewart Daniel & Stacey Bormann Catherine Briggs & Marthea Fox Joyce A. Bringe Wendy & Douglas Buehl Mike Byrne & Roberta Carrier Alexis M. Carreon Birgit Christensen & Paul Rabinowitz Wendy & Fred Coleman Jim Conway & Kathy Trace R. Christian & Kathy Davis Russ & Janis Dixon Marlene Duffield & Terry Walton-Callaghan John & Deidre Dunn Paul Dvorak Crystal Enslin Lorna Filippini & Clyde Paton Kathryn Forde John Gadow Robert & Janine Gage Rosalee Gander Alan & Kathy Garant John & Christine Gauder Fr. C. Lee & Edith M. Gilbertson

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Joel & Jacquie Greiner Susan Gruber Peter Guenther & Barbara Woodriff Wava Haney Paul Hauri Gregg Heatley & Julie James Rose Heckenkamp-Busch & Luke Busch Luis & Ellen Herrera Helen Horn & Ralph Petersen Evelyn Howell James & Cindy Hoyt Bill & Randi Huntsman Margaret & Paul Irwin Kris S. Jarantoski Rosemary & Lee Jones Jerome & Dee Dee Jones Maryanne &Bob Julian Richard Karwatka Charlene Kim Noël Marie & Steven Klapper Irwin Klibaner Larry M. Kneeland Catherine & Thierry Krier James Krikelas Polly & Jim Kuelbs Carol L. Ladwig Beverly Larson Ed & Julie Lehr Jane & Benny Leonard Richard & Jean Lottridge Richard & Judy Loveless John & Mary Madigan Garrick & Susan Maine Joan & Doug Maynard Robert McCalla & Laurie Beardsley Julie McGivern & Tom Smith Marta Meyers & Ian Davies Arthur Hans & Terry Ellen Moen Rick & Jo Morgan Katherine Morkri & Hoyt Halverson Casey & Eric Oelkers

Julie Ottum & David Runstrom Keith & Martha Poniewaz Faith & Russ Portier John & Rose Rasmus James Roeber Sophia Rogers Matthew & Linda Sanders Gary & Barbara Schultz Dale & Beverly Schultz Wayne Schwalen & Barbara Fleeman Magdolna Sebestyen Penelope Shackelford Curt & Jane Smith Lanny & Margaret Smith Daniel & Tina Spellman Andrew & Erika Stevens Jurate Stewart Millard & Barbara Susman Matthew Sykes & Elizabeth Niblack-Sykes Rayla Temin Mark & Daria Thomas Mark & Nan Thompson Ellen M. Twing James J. Uppena Janet M. Van Vleck Nancy Vedder-Shults & Mark Shults Karen Wallander John & Janine Wardale Scott Weber & Martha Barrett David L. Weimer & Melanie Manion Leonard & Paula Werner Ron Zerofsky Robert & Mary Ziino Three Anonymous Friends

$250–$499 Jason & Erin Adamany Julius & Hildegard Adler Lyle J. Anderson David Atkinson & Mia Gottlieb George Austin & Martha Vukelich-Austin

Karen Childs Baker & Preston Baker Dennis & Beverly Ball Howard & Linda Bellman Sharon M. Berkner Julia Bolz Daniel & Joyce Bromley Kevin & Tracey Buhr Charles & Joanne Bunge David & Sarah Canon Evonna Cheetham Ross & Julie Cowing Dawn Crim & Elton Crim Jr. Ruth N. Dahlke Geke De Vries & Herman Felstehausen Douglas DeBoer & Luke Zeka Laura & Erik Dent Rahel Desalegne & Girma Tefera Michael & Carla DiIorio Sue Dornfeld Paula K. Doyle Katrina Dwinell & Jane Oman Phyllis Ermer Douglas & Carol Fast Marshall & Linda Flowers Bobbi Foutch-Reynolds & Jim Reynolds Paul Fritsch & Jim Hartman Peter Gascoyne Dale & Linda Gutman Vicki & Alan Hamstra Margaret Harrigan & Richard Ross Paul Haskew & Nancy Kendrick John Hayward & Susan Roehlk John & Sarah Helgeson Michael Hobbs & Sherry Boozer-Hobbs Barbara S. Hughes Karen Icke Paul Kent Connie Kinsella & Marc Eisen Chris & Marge Kleinhenz Richard & Claire Kotenbeutel Kevin & Theresa Kovach

Mark Kremer Kathleen K. & Richard R. Kuhnen Roger & Sherry Lepage Peggy Lescrenier Gary Lewis & Ken Sosinski Dick & Cindy Lovell Dale Meyer & Mary Seay Thomas Miller Tabitha Moldenhauer Ann & David Moyer Ron & Jan Opelt David Parminter Zachary Picknell Gerald & Christine Popenhagen Sue Poullette Mark E. Puda & Carol S. Johnston Stephen Pudloski Marie Radunzel John & Peggy Rapp Kathleen Rasmussen Sherry Reames Richard & Donna Reinardy Linda Reivitz John K. Rinehart Lorraine & Gary Roberts Wilton Sanders Jeffrey & Gail Schauer Steven & Debra Schroeder Andreas & Susanne Seeger Robert Sharp & Axel Larsen Carolin Showers Jordan Siegler & Lukas Dietz Karen Smith Kathy Speck & Gabor Kemeny Carol Spiegel Michael Stemper Karen M. Stoebig Karla Stoebig David Stone Eric & Emily James Strauss Ulrika Swanson

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Ken Mericle & Mindy Taranto Gerald & Priscilla Thain John & Bonnie Verberkmoes Arnold & Ellen Wald Cleo & Judy Weibel Urban Wemmerlöv & Mary Beth Schmalz Steven Wendorff Dr. J. Andrew White Jon Woods Nancy Young Steven & Patty Zach Debra Zillmer & Daniel Leaver Eleven Anonymous Friends

$50–$249 Karen Aamotsbakken & Jonatan Du Chateau Adalia Abrego Jonathan Accola Rita Applebaum Livia Asher Brian & Tracy Bachhuber Leigh Barker Cheesebro Laurie & Lee Bartolini George & Donna Beestman Pat Behling & Ginger Anderle Ruth Benedict Bruce Bengtson Prentice & Doris Berge John Bloodgood & Julie Cornelius Yvonne A. Bowen Michael Bowman Virginia Boyd Chris & Gretchen Brace Steven Braithwait Allyn Bress Esther Briddell Waltraud Brinkmann Lou & Nancy Bruch Catherine Buege Lynn Burke Walter Burt & Deborah Cardinal

Julie Buss Heather & Mark Butler Ann Campbell Jeanne & Uriah Carpenter Janet Cibula Carol Clarke Leah Clementi Jeremy Cloud & Briana Burton Sam Coe Richard & Virginia Connor Barbara Constans Bonnie & Marc Conway The Corden Family Ed & Vicki Cothroll Sheila Coyle Kathy Cramer & John Hart Debbie Cravens Randall Crow & Patricia Kerr Nanette Dagnon Beverly Dahl Gary Davis & James Woods Sally Ann Davis Suzanne Davis Eve & Carl Degen Frances DeGraff Jeannine & Edouard Desautels Daniel & Lavonne Dettmers Dan & Carole Doeppers Meranda Dooley Rosemary M. Dorney Michael Hinden & Betsy Draine Richard & Doris Dubielzig Katy & Edward Dueppen Kenneth Edenhauser Stephanie Elkins Ann Ellingboe Dolores Emspak John & Joann Esser Elizabeth Fadell Barbara Fischer & Stanley Weldy Grace Fleming

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Andrew Nowlan Thomas & Barbara Oatman Richard & Marcia Olson Richard & Mary Ann Olson Elizabeth Palay James & Joan Parise Barbara Park Mitchell L. Patton John Pepple Ernest J. Peterson Luke & Linda Plamann Ann Pollock & James Coors Tom Popp Sarah Potts Paula Primm Thomas & Janet Pugh Kristie Pulvermacher & Robert Drape Nancy Radke Donald & Roz Rahn Drs. Joy & David Rice Mark & Zoe Rickenbach Sara Roberts John Rose & Brian Beaber Howard & Mirriam Rosen Fred & Mary Ross John Ross John & Rachel Rothschild Nancy Rottier & Gary Goyke Nathaniel Ruck Robert & Nancy Rudd Janet Ruszala-Coughlin & Tim Coughlin Dean Ryerson Steven & Lennie Saffian Don & Barb Sanford Nan & Bob Schaefer Dennis & Janice Schattschneider John & Susan Schauf Mary Ellen Schlough Greg Schmidt & Sinikka Santala Thomas & Lynn Schmidt Renae Schroeder

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26/27 CLASSICAL SERIES

ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 | 7:30 PM SHANNON HALL AT MEMORIAL UNION

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Salon Piano Series PRESENTS

ARIEL LANYI SEP. 26, 2026

MACKENZIE MELEMED OCT. 25, 2026

JOHN NOVACEK NOV. 15, 2026

KATE LIU

JAN. 23-24, 2027

CAROLINE STINSON & IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE FEB. 13, 2027

CLAYTON STEPHENSON MAY 1, 2027

At Salon Piano Series, you sit only feet away from rising stars, international artists, and Grammy nominees as they play restored heirloom pianos. You’ll also learn the history of each piano and meet the artists during post-concert receptions. Tickets at SalonPianoSeries.org All concerts are held at Farley’s House of Pianos

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MSOL CELEBRATES OUR

70 TH ANNIVERSARY!

What an extraordinary milestone—70 years! The Madison Symphony Orchestra League is proud of its dedicated support for the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the award-winning programs of its Education and Community Engagement that reach thousands of children across our community each year. These include: the Hunt Quartet’s nationally recognized Up Close & Musical program, which brings live music into elementary classrooms; the Topitzes Family Fall Youth Concerto Competition, Fall Youth Concerts; Bolz Young Artist Competition; The Final Forte; Spring Young People’s Concert, Symphony Soup, and Link Up, as well as the Rhapsodie Quartet and HeartStrings®, which bring meaningful musical experiences to senior living communities throughout the region. We are pleased to celebrate all that has come before and proudly continue our commitment, looking ahead to empowering the Madison Symphony Orchestra’s future for generations to come. You can be part of this legacy! Join the Madison Symphony Orchestra League and help us continue building a vibrant future for classical music in Madison and beyond. Cheers to our 70th Anniversary—and to the beginning of the next century of music with the 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 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 2026-2027 Season* as of September 30, 2026. $100,000 OR MORE Madison Symphony Orchestra Foundation

$50,000–$99,999 Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation Madison Symphony Orchestra League WMTV 15 News

$25,000–$49,999 American Printing Irving and Dorothy Levy Family Foundation, Inc.

The Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor’s Club (in-kind) Madison Magazine Madison Media Partners Nimick Forbesway Foundation

$15,000–$24,999 Capitol Lakes The Evjue Foundation, Inc. Fiore Companies, Inc. National Endowment for the Arts Richman & Richman LLC Wisconsin Arts Board

with additional funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts

$10,000–$14,999 Lake Ridge Bank Madison Gas & Electric Foundation, Inc. PBS Wisconsin SupraNet Communications, Inc. University Research Park U.S. Bank Foundation An Anonymous Foundation

$5,000–$9,999 Boardman Clark Law Firm DeWitt LLP The Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation J.H. Findorff & Son Inc. Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren s.c. The Steven P. Robinson Family Fund Wisconsin Public Radio

$2,500–$4,999

UP TO $999

BMO Dane County Arts,

American Family Insurance Heid Music and Heid Music Family Charitable Fund Promega Corporation

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

Google Hooper Corporation Madison Community Foundation

$1,000–$2,499 BRAVA Magazine The Capital Times Kids Fund Capitol Bank Festival Foods GE Healthcare Inventure Capital Madison Arts Commission UW Health & Unity Health Insurance

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* Total includes donations that support 2026-2027 Madison Symphony Orchestra Concerts, 202620267 Organ Concerts, 2026-2027 Education and Community Engagement Programs; Madison Symphony Orchestra League’s 2026-2027 Events and Activities including Cheers to Our Second Century and Symphony at Sunset 2027; and Friends of the Overture Concert Organ’s 20262027 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 Diane Ballweg Margaret B. Barker Chuck Bauer & Chuck Beckwith Barbara & Norman Berven 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 Patricia Crowe 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 Brandon S. Hayes Robert Horowitz & Susan B. King Richard & Meg LaBrie David Lauth & Lindsey Thomas Ann Lindsey & Charles Snowdon Gary & Lynn Mecklenburg Claudia Berry Miran Elaine & Nicholas Mischler Stephen D. Morton Margaret Murphy Reynold V. Peterson David & Kato Perlman Judith Pierotti Lester Pines & Roberta Gassman Michael Pritzkow John Rafoth Gordon & Janet Renschler Joy & David Rice Joan & Kenneth Riggs Harry & Karen Roth Kay Schwichtenberg & Herman Baumann Edwin & Ruth Sheldon Sandra Shepherd Twila Sheskey Dr. Beverly S. Simone JoAnn Six Mary Lang Sollinger

Sharon Stark & Peter D. Livingston Gareth L. Steen Jurate Stewart Richard Tatman & Ellen Seuferer Marilynn Thompson Ann Wallace Richard & Barbara Weaver Carolyn & Ron White John Wiley & Andrea Teresa Arenas Dave Willow Mary Alice Wimmer Helen L. Wineke Ten Anonymous Friends

ESTATE GIFTS RECEIVED Elizabeth S. Anderes Donald W. Anderson Judy Ashford 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 Dr. Stanley & Shirley Inhorn Martha Jenny

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Lois M. Jones Shirley Jane Kaub Helen B. Kayser Patricia Koenecke Teddy H. Kubly Arno & Hazel Kurth Steven Landfried 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 John & Mary Storer 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

TRIBUTES The Madison Symphony Orchestra gratefully acknowledges the following donors for their contributions honoring family & friends, as of September 16, 2026. Tributes are recognized for one year following the gift date. In honor of Janneke C. Baske Bruce and Barbara McRitchie In honor of Wendy Buehl Lea Culver In honor of Susan De Groot and Joe Boucher Dave Arnold In honor of Barbara DeMain Anonymous In honor of John DeMain Diane and Dominic DeMain Pamela Ploetz and John Henderson

In honor of Gale Meyer and Barbara Melchert Keith and Martha Poniewaz Nancy Radke Two Anonymous Friends In honor of Nick and Elaine Mischler Samuel C. Hutchison Donald and Susan Trudell In honor of Keith and Martha Poniewaz Gary Antoniewicz and Martha Taylor Two Anonymous Friends In honor of Elspeth Stalter-Clouse Randall and Pamela Clouse In honor of John Toussaint Reynold V. Peterson In honor of Laura White Anonymous

In honor of Tammy and Charles Hodulik Steven and Lynn Hodulik

In honor of Greg Zelek Samuel C. Hutchison Christine & Jeff Molzahn Todd & Kim Toussaint Margy Wilkoff

In honor of Helen Koel Carol M. Lorenz

In honor of Mark Zelek Suzy Wilkoff

In honor of the Madison Symphony Chorus John Heaton

In memory of John and Susan Aehl The Aehl Family In memory of Norman C. Anderson Peggy Anderson

In memory of Susan H. Axelrod Jon P. Axelrod In memory of Jack & Marian Bolz, Anne & Bob Bolz, and Adolph & Eugenie Bolz Julia Bolz Robert and Lynn Bolz Jeff and Joan Bolz Cleary Carolyn and Bob Glah Cathy and Eric Wilson Anonymous In memory of Marian Bolz Samuel C. Hutchison In memory of Barbara Ann Brown Kirk Brown and Lori DiPrete Brown Brian W. Heywood, M.D. In memory of Jim and Betty Bruce Samuel C. Hutchison In memory of Stephen Caldwell Judith Werner In memory of Robert Carwithen Samuel C. Hutchison In memory of Luke Cho Jewish Social Services of Madison In memory of Mary Ann Cook Polly and Jim Kuelbs In memory of W. Jerome Frautschi Samuel C. Hutchison In memory of Patricia Gadow John Gadow In memory of Kennedy W. Gilchrist Barbara S. Hughes In memory of Michael Goldberg Samuel C. Hutchison madisonsymphony.org

In memory of Anita Healey Valerie and Andreas Kazamias Christine and Robert Reed In memory of Chuck Howting Libby Howting In memory of Marika Fischer Hoyt Friends and Family of Marika Fischer Hoyt In memory of Stan and Shirley Inhorn Becky Dick Patricia Kokotailo and R. Lawrence DeRoo In memory of Andreas Kazamias Jesse and Nancy Ishikawa Christine and Robert Reed Teressa Smith Carolyn White In memory of Dr. Edith G. King Samuel C. Hutchison In memory of Helen Klibaner Irwin Klibaner In memory of John Komoroske The Armstrong Family Aurora BayCare Hospital X-Ray Team Jeanne Behrend and Dan Fields Jenna Behrman Deb and John Belken Karen Benson Susie Berberet Mark and Gayle Boerschinger Rita E. Bogosh Janet Brantmeier Barbara and James Brueckner Angela and Tom Breunig Ted and Judy Buenzli Valerie Cappozzo Richard and Sandy Carlson Colleen Cleary and David Anderson

Mary and Jack Davison Mary Detra Maureen and James Drunasky Henry and Carol Ebert Rhea Emmer Dave and Kathi Erickson Jeanie Farmer Robert and Linda Frautschy Candice Gehl Curt and Michelle Gehl David and Gloria Gehl Donna Gehl Jane Gehl and Todd Thiel The Joshua P. Gehl Family Luke Gehl Mark and Kathy Gehl Mike and Pam Gehl Janet and Marc Gehl Vincent Connie and Barry Golden Diana Grove Patricia Hable Zastrow Cleo Hall Craig and Gina Hallbauer Sharon and Joel Haroldson Cynthia Hawkinson Ann Henne The Hietpas Family Kent and Annette Hovie Mandy Huber The Johnson Family Robert and Barbara Justl Peter and Emily Klug Donald Kometz Barbara Komoroske Diana Konkle Alan and Toots Krueger The Lamers Family Angie and Scott Lawrence The Liebzeit Family Mary and Bill Lundstrom Sue and Ray Lux Jim and Toni Mastrangelo Christine and Russell Melland Cheryl Namyst and Steve Konkol

Marge and Carroll Pieper Roger and Judy Plamann Bernie and Jane Powers David and Jane Rahn Rosina Romano Jim and Kitty Rosenberger Mildred K. Ross Peggy Ross Paul and Pam Rush Beverly Sakofsky Sandy and Joe Schulz Ann and Dayton Sederquist Mark and Diane Selz Patti and Mike Sensenbrenner Christi and Pat Shortridge Mary St. Claire James Strother Steve and Lisa Sveum Michael and Sarah Swanson Mary and James Taylor The Veenendaal Family Peggy and James Weber Mary and Leo Wherley Ed and Bonnie Wilson Five Anonymous Friends In memory of Menno Kramer Joanna Kramer Fanney In memory of Barbara Landau Anonymous In memory of Joan Lippincott Samuel C. Hutchison In memory of Dr. C.B. Martin, Jr. Barbara C. Martin In memory of Dr. Donald McDonald Samuel C. Hutchison In memory of Sandra Osborn Samuel C. Hutchison

In memory of Lillian Porcaro Alexis M. Carreon

In memory of Kristina Cuthbert Stuart The Stuart Family

In memory of Grace Potts Sarah Potts

In memory of Harriette Ternipsede Valerie Kazamias

In memory of Walter Pridham Karen Pridham

In memory of Les Thimmig Patricia Crowe

In memory of Maurice and Arlene Reese Richard and Pamela Reese

In memory of Carol and John Toussaint Elaine and Nicholas Mischler

In memory of Will Risley Diane Risley

In memory of John Toussaint Samuel C. Hutchison Reynold V. Peterson

In memory of Dr. Pearl Sanders Valerie Shatavsky In memory of Jennie Biel Sheskey John and Twila Sheskey Charitable Fund In memory of Durwin Smith Valerie and Andreas Kazamias In memory of Chuck Snowdon Ann Lindsey In memory of Joan Kee Sparks Donna Hendrickson Christensen and Brian Christensen Judith Hughes Anonymous

In memory of Nicki L. Towner Zachary Goldberger and Erin Fouch In memory of Ann Wallace Samuel C. Hutchison Marcy and Tom Leland In memory of Margaret C. Winston Paul and Susan Erickson In memory of Ed Young Valerie and Andreas Kazamias Elaine and Nicholas Mischler

In memory of Jo and Bob Sparks Angie Sparks Laura Sparks In memory of John Steinhauer Marilyn Ebben In memory of Patricia D. Struck Larry Bechler

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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 September 2026. 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. New Century Society members are always welcome. Visit madisonsymphony.org/ endowment to learn more about endowment giving and view a full list of endowment donors. Carla and Fernando Alvarado Rozan and Brian Anderson Dennis Appleton and Jennifer Buxton Diane Ballweg Chuck Bauer and Chuck Beckwith Barbara and Norman Berven Dr. Annette Beyer-Mears 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 and 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 Gary and Lynn Mecklenburg Claudia Berry and David E. Miran Nicholas and Elaine Mischler David and Kato Perlman John L. Peterson 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 Judith and Nick Topitzes Katherine and Thomas Voight William and Joyce Wartmann Elyn L. Williams Margaret C. Winston Six Anonymous Friends

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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) COAT CHECK Coat Check will be available all day during Festival Weekend. You can check coats, hats, umbrellas or even bags if you are coming from the Farmer’s Market. Coat Check is located on the First Floor Lobby/ Overture Hall next to the Restrooms. 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 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. • Food and beverages are available at bars and concession stands in the Overture Lobby. 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, 2026-2027 OFFICERS Michael Richman, Chair Janet Cabot, Secretary Doug Reuhl, Treasurer Ellsworth Brown, Immediate Past Chair Barbara Berven, Member-at-large Oscar Mireles, Member-at-large Derrick Smith, Member-at-large Anna Trull, Member-at-large Jasper Vaccaro, Member-at-large DIRECTORS Rubin Anthony Barbara Berven Rosemarie Blancke Ellsworth Brown Janet Cabot Cecilia Carlsson Bryan Chan Elton Crim Marc Fink Jane Hamblen Rose Heckenkamp-Busch Luis Herrera Paul Hoffmann Mooyoung Kim Phillip La Susa Jennifer Sloan Lattis David Lauth Robert Lemanske Ann Lindsey José J. Madera Marta Meyers Oscar Mireles Richard Morgan Leslie Overton Jon Parker Lester Pines Michael Richman

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Sophia Rogers Carole Schaeffer Kay Schwichtenberg John Sims Derrick Smith Dan Spellman Lynn Stathas Todd Stuart Anna Trull Jasper Vaccaro Ellis Waller Eric Wilcots LIFE DIRECTORS Terry Haller Valerie Kazamias Elaine Mischler Nicholas Mischler Douglas Reuhl HONORARY DIRECTORS Jennifer Berne, President Madison College Kathy Evers, First Lady of the State of Wisconsin Melissa Agard, Dane County Executive ADVISORS Elliott Abramson Michael Allsen Carla Alvarado Ted Bilich Camille Carter Martha Casey James Dahlberg Bob Dinndorf Audrey Dybdahl Laura Gallagher Tyrone Greive Michael Hobbs Mark Huth Stephanie Lee Joseph Meara

Gary Mecklenburg Larry Midtbo Abigail Ochberg Greg Piefer Cyrena Pondrom Margaret Pyle Mary Lang Sollinger Bill Steffenhagen Judith Topitzes Carolyn White Anders Yocom Stephen Zanoni Ex Officio Directors Rozan Anderson Mark Bridges Charles McLimans Jim Wear Ex Offico Advisors Dan Cavanagh Daniel Davidson John Wagner Directors Emeritus Helen Bakke Wallace Douma Fred Mohs Stephen Morton Beverly Simone John Wiley MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION INC. BOARD, 2026-2027 OFFICERS Nicholas Mischler, President Jon Parker, Vice President Robert Reed, Secretary-Treasurer DIRECTORS Ellsworth Brown Joanna Burish Jill Friedow Juan Gomez Jane Hamblen

Nicholas Mischler Jon Parker Gregory Reed Robert Reed Douglas Reuhl Michael Richman MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2026–2027 OFFICERS Rozan Anderson, President Don Sanford, President-Elect Ledell Zellers, Recording Secretary Janet Renschler, Corresponding Secretary Leslie Overton, Treasurer Barbara Berven, Immediate Past President/Nominations Louise Jeanne, VP Administration Jackie Judd, AVP Administration Kathy Forde, VP Communications & Annual Report Jessica Yehle, AVP- Communication Lori Poulson, VP Education (and Youth Docent Programs) Jacqui Shanda, AVP Education Judy Kalan, Music Discovery Talks Susan Thomson, VP-Membership Recruitment & Retention Michael Bridgeman, VP Membership Records Lynn Stegner, VP Special Projects and Chair Cheers Joshua Bell Dinner Teressa Smith, AVP Special Projects Anna Trull, Chair Symphony at Sunset Don Sanford, Parties of Note 2026-2027 Jan Cibula, VP Social Activities Mary Lou Tyne, Fall/70th Anniversary Luncheon Rosemarie Blancke, Chair Holiday Party and Chair Spring Luncheon/Annual Meeting Valerie Kazamias, Mid-winter Luncheon Pat Bernhardt, Holiday Party Jim Patch, Men’s Bridge Marilyn Ebben, Women’s & Couples Bridge

ADVISORS Pat Bernhardt Deb Beduhn Rosemarie Blancke Janet Cabot Marilyn Ebben Valerie Kazamias Fern Lawrence Ann Lindsey Linda Lovejoy Elaine Mischler Beth Rahko Judith Topitzes Carolyn White Nancy Young FRIENDS OF THE OVERTURE CONCERT ORGAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 2026-2027 OFFICERS Charles McLimans, President William Steffenhagen, Past-President David Willow, Secretary-Treasurer Greg Zelek, Ex-Officio DIRECTORS Herman Baumann Quinn Christensen Paula Doyle Audrey Dybdahl Mark Huth Sage Kirkpatrick Douglas McNeel Mark Moore Mary Ann Nanassy Jennifer Younger ADVISORS Fernando Alvarado Diane Ballweg Jim Baxter Barbara Berven Ellsworth Brown Janet Cabot John Gauder Terry Haller madisonsymphony.org

Ellen Larson Latimer Robert Lemanske Gary Lewis Elaine Mischler Vicki Nonn David Parminter Reynold Peterson Rhonda Rushing 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 Simon Arno, Receptionist & Office Manager Alexis Carreon, Personnel Manager Jennifer Goldberg, Orchestra Librarian, John & Carolyn Petersen Chair Jaquie M. Rice, Director of Finance 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 Sponsorships & Institutional Giving Christopher Stager, Interim Marketing Director Heather Rose, Marketing Communications Manager Emma Potter, Digital Marketing Manager Greg Zelek, Principal Organist and Elaine & Nicholas Mischler Curator of the Overture Concert Organ