BRAVO! Magazine - Issue One - 2014-15

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HAGERSTOWN COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION PRESENTS ITS 2014-15 PERFORMANCE SERIES

WILLIAM FLORIAN Featuring William Florian iconic folk music songwriter and former lead singer of “The New Christy Minstrels.”

Music of the ‘60s as well as stories of many names you remember like John Denver, Peter, Paul and Mary, the Kingston Trio and Woody Guthrie. This familiar repertoire and laid-back style continue to inspire his vast fan base.

Sunday, October 19, 2014 at 3:00 pm, The Maryland Theatre

PAUL MCDERMAND You have never heard the Steel Drum played like this before!

This in-demand percussionist steps into the spotlight for a tasteful variety of fun loving music. Steel Drum and Marimba settings of Caribbean, Jazz and Pop favorites. You will love this thrilling display of percussive skill coupled with playful musical interplay between the 5 band members.

Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 7:30 pm, The Maryland Theatre

ALEX DEPUE WITH MIGUEL DEHOYAS World-renowned violinist/fiddler leads duo through an array of styles-Classical, Bluegrass, Rock-with blazing virtuosity and emotion.

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MAINSTREET BRASS The Mainstreet Brass has proven itself on the concert stage as a dedicated ambassador to brass music, original or transcribed. Their experience in the field of concert performance and music education make this a very flexible form of chamber music, versatile in repertoire from Bach to Bernstein.

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CONTENTS

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Greetings from Music Director & Conductor Elizabeth Schulze

BEETHOVEN’S FIRST

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Letter from Board President James G. Pierné

22 Meet Michael Brown

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Letter from MSO Executive Director Michael Jonnes

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MSO Board of Directors

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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Meet Music Director & Conductor Elizabeth Schulze

29 Program 30

Meet Colleen Daly

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Orchestra Roster

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Robert Tudor

Michelle Naughton

18 Notes

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Program

MOZART AND MAHLER

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BEETHOVEN’S FIRST

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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24 Notes

11 Enjoy the Concert!

CELEBRATING OUR SPONSORS 32

Thanks to Our Supporters Photo: Jamie Beck

MAGICAL MUSIC OF DISNEY 13 Program

MOZART AND MAHLER 15 Program 16

Christina Naughton

*Artists and programs are subject to change without notice.

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LETTER FROM THE MUSIC DIRECTOR Welcome to another exciting season of concerts by the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. I’m extremely proud to be associated with the superb musicians of the MSO, our fine administrative staff and our dedicated, generous and hard working Board of Directors. Together, we’ve fashioned a season of programs to entertain, enlighten and inspire you .

as a soloist in Beethoven’s “First Piano Concerto,” a work which helped establish Beethoven as both an important composer and brilliant performer; and as collaborator in the orchestra, as the pianist in Shostakovich’s “First Symphony.” Written when the composer was only 19, this work caused a tremendous sensation at its premiere.

We begin with the sights and sounds of Disney. A Pops concert for all ages, with clips from some of the most iconic animated films, as well as more recent classics, the MSO will accompany unforgettable images with the music that made them famous.

The MSO’s exciting programs continue in the New Year and I’ll look forward to sharing the highlights with you in the next Bravo. Until then, enjoy the music!

Our “Home for the Holidays” is a reunion for the MSO and last year’s guests, Greg Shook and Hagerstown Choral Arts, Kyle Weary and the BISFA chorale and Colleen Daly. Because of last season’s cancellation due to weather, we wanted to make sure that all of our audiences had a chance to hear these outstanding musicians in a brand new program of seasonal favorites. Our good friend and colleague Dr. Rob Tudor joins us too, as we joyously ring in the holidays together.

Sincerely, We open our Masterworks series with Mozart and Mahler, two towering composers, each an innovator.

Mozart established the concerto form as high art with his works for piano and orchestra. His “Double Piano Concerto” was most likely written for the composer and his sister Maria Anna to play on their concert tours when they were celebrated young prodigies. It is fitting then, that we have two sisters, Christina and Michelle Naughton joining us as soloists. Their performances are known for their strong artistic vitality and a “remarkable unity of sensibility, musical style and technique.” Mahler’s “First Symphony” fills out the program - it’s opening portending a journey that mirrors life itself.

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Our Masterworks series continues in November with a “portrait of the artist as a young man.” The brilliant emerging virtuoso pianist and composer Michael Brown will join us in three roles: as composer, with a brand new work written expressly for this program; The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive.

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LETTER FROM THE MSO PRESIDENT After an exciting and successful 2014 season, the Maryland Symphony is opening its 2015 season with a fabulous fall lineup that includes the music of Disney’s great animated films, the power and sweep of Mahler’s romantic Symphony No 1 and the crystalline sound of Mozart, Beethoven’s graceful Piano Concerto No 1 and the beloved music of Christmas and the holidays.

James G. Pierné President, MSO Board of Directors

Elizabeth begins her 16th season as Music Director and the orchestra continues to grow and improve under her superb direction. The orchestra will work with a variety of other non-profit organizations in the community as it deepens its role, not just as a first rate arts and music organization, but as an educational organization, as an economic driver and as a good and responsible community citizen.

There is another MSO event of note, on November 1; my wife Georgia and I will be

hosting the Symphony Ball, Starry Night, at the Fountain Head Country Club. We invite you to attend and support the MSO through this, the major fundraising event of our season.

As Michael has noted in his letter, our Friends of the MSO volunteer organization that has stepped in as the MSO Guild’s successor, is seeking additional individuals to join us. With over 50 individuals involved already we are on our way, but we hope if you have 30 minutes or an hour or so to work on an MSO project, you might consider becoming a part of our world…

See you at the concerts!

James G. Pierné President, Board of Directors

LETTER FROM MSO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The anticipation is keen, the feel of autumn is in the air, the familiar sound of an orchestra warming up and tuning fills the auditorium, Elizabeth steps out onto the stage, and the season begins…!!!

Michael Jonnes MSO Executive Director

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As this, the 33rd season opens, I am happy to report that our orchestra, the Maryland Symphony, is doing well. Under the direction of Elizabeth Schulze, now in her 16th season as Music Director of the MSO, she and the musicians turn out one superb performance after another. Through the programming of key works of the classical repertoire or commissioned pieces or unusual and obscure works of the great composers, the MSO is stepping into a new world. The young soloists that we feature so often leave us delighted and amazed. It is an optimistic time for the orchestra.

building of the MSO Experiences, a new marketing ‘look’ and the development of ever more community related partnerships and projects. The MSO belongs to the people of greater Hagerstown, Washington County and western Maryland – held in trust by our directors, Elizabeth and our musicians, the staff and volunteers, the MSO is our gift to you and the community.

One last note: our Friends of the MSO, the volunteer organization that has stepped in as the MSO Guild’s successor, has already provided volunteers for our July Sparkle fundraiser and is involved in organizing the Symphony Ball on November 1. With over 50 members already, it is off and running, but we are actively seeking more members, so please consider filling in the form inserted in your program book and becoming a member.

Financially, the orchestra finished last season with a small surplus thanks to the generous support of hundreds of businesses, local and regional governments, foundations, the MSO Guild and individuals.

Thanks

This 2014-2015 season will see some new initiatives for the MSO, including a further

Michael Jonnes Executive Director

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MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jane Anderson Pieter Bickford The Honorable W. Kennedy Boone III Brendan D. Fitzsimmons Ryan M. Flurie Karen Hamilton Laurie Harrison Raychel Harvey-Jones Linda Hood Mary Lange Kalin David Kline Ira S. Lourie, M.D. Brian Lynch Melinda Marsden William McGovern Theresa T. Michel The Reverend Kevin S. Munroe Dori J. Nipps Bo Oh James G. Pierné Kim Reno Andrew A, Serafini, Jr. Clayton Wilcox, Ed. D.

EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS Elizabeth Schulze, Music Director Michael Jonnes, Executive Director Paul Hopkins, Player Representative EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE James G. Pierné, President Brendan D. Fitzsimmons, VP Linda Hood, Secretary Kim Reno, Treasurer William McGovern, Ass’t Treasurer

MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA BOARD COMMITTEES 2014-2015

Education /Community Engagement Mary Lange Kalin, Chair

Audit Melinda Marsden, Chair

Artistic Advisory Liaison Theresa T. Michel

Development Pieter Bickford, Co-Chair Clayton Wilcox, Ed. D., Co-Chair

Audience Development Brendan D. Fitzsimmons, Chair Orchestra Negotiations Liaison Brendan D. Fitzsimmons

Endowment Dori J. Nipps, Chair Finance Kim Reno, Treasurer William McGovern, Asst.

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Governance Ira S. Lourie, Chair

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ELIZABETH SCHULZE Schulze’s recent guest conducting in the States includes appearances with the New Jersey, Detroit, San Francisco, and Chautauqua symphony orchestras. Her past positions with U.S. orchestras include an appointment as associate conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, music director and conductor of the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, a seven-year position as music director and conductor of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra, cover conductor and conducting assistant for the New York Philharmonic, and assistant conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic, an appointment sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Since the beginning of her career, Schulze has been a spirited advocate for music education. Her far-ranging work includes her ongoing association with the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute (SMI). For 14 years Schulze has conducted, taught and mentored dozens of young musicians in the SMI at the Kennedy Center. She has also conducted the American Composer’s Orchestra in educational and family concerts in Carnegie Hall and throughout New York City. And for six years, Schulze joined her mentor Leonard Slatkin teaching at the NSO’s National Conducting Institute.

With passion, verve, and illuminating musicianship, Elizabeth Schulze has been conducting orchestras and opera companies, advocating for music education, and electrifying audiences in the United States and abroad for more than two and a half decades.

Recipient of the very first Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s Elizabeth Schulze Music Advocacy Award in 2014, and the 2013 Sorel Medallion in Conducting for her adventurous programming, Schulze is in her 16th season as the Music Director and Conductor of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and her 7th season as the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, she is Principal Guest Conductor of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic.

In 1996 she made her European debut, leading the Mainz Chamber Orchestra in the Atlantisches Festival in Kaiserslautern, Germany. She appeared in Paris as the assistant guest conductor for the Paris Opera and has also appeared in London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, and Vienna with the National Symphony during its 1997 European tour. Her most recent international work includes conducting the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. This fall takes her to Taiwan for appearances with Taipei’s Evergreen Symphony Orchestra.

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Her music education and mentoring work, spans from elementary to university students. She was an artist-inresidence at Northwestern University and has guest conducted the orchestras of The University of Maryland, the Manhattan School of Music and Catholic University of America and guest lectured at The Juilliard School.

Schulze’s own education includes training in Europe and in the United States. She graduated cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and as an honors student from Interlochen Arts Academy. She holds graduate degrees in orchestral and choral conducting from SUNY at Stony Brook. She was the first doctoral fellow in orchestral conducting at Northwestern University and was selected as a conducting fellow at L’École d’Arts Americaines in France. In 1991, she was the recipient of the first Aspen Music School Conducting Award. At Aspen, she has worked with Murry Sidlin, Lawrence Foster, and Sergiu Commissiona. As a Tanglewood fellow, she has worked with Seiji Ozawa, Gustav Meier, and Leonard Bernstein.

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MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, INC. 2014–2015 Season, Elizabeth Schulze, Conductor FIRST VIOLINS Robert Martin Concertmaster MSO Guild Chair Joanna Natalia Owen Associate Concertmaster Heather L. Austin-Stone Assistant Concertmaster Lysiane Gravel-Lacombe Thomas Marks Chair H. Lee Brewster Yen-Jung Chen Mauricio D. Couto Megan Gray Heather Haughn Catherine Nelson Petr Skopek Madeline Watson Hyun Hannah Yoo* SECOND VIOLINS Marissa Murphy Principal J. Emmet Burke Chair Ariadna Buonviri Associate Principal Julianna Chitwood Assistant Principal Karin Kelleher Ruth Erbe Teresa L. Gordon Melanie Kuperstein Swiatek Kuznik* Mary Katherine Whitesides Patricia Wnek VIOLAS Phyllis Freeman Principal Alan J. Noia Chair Magaly Rojas Seay Associate Principal Daphne Benichou Assistant Principal Sungah Min Rachel Holaday Stephanie Knutsen Sean Lyons* Alice Tung CELLOS Todd Thiel Principal J. Ramsay Farah Chair Open Associate Principal Andrew Hesse Assistant Principal Aneta Otreba Mauricio Betanzo Katlyn DeGraw Jessica Siegel Weaver

BASSES Adriane Benvenuti Irving Principal Stuart Knussen Chair Michael Rittling Associate Principal Ali Cook Lee Philip Vincent Trautwein FLUTES Kimberly Valerio Principal Marjorie M. Hobbs Chair Susan Mott Elena Yakovleva PICCOLO Elena Yakovleva OBOES Fatma Daglar Principal Joel L. Rosenthal Chair David M. James ENGLISH HORN David M. James

TROMBONES Wayne Wells Principal Richard T. Whisner Chair Jeffrey Gaylord Dana Landis

TIMPANI Joseph McIntyre Principal William J. Reuter Chair PERCUSSION Donald A. Spinelli Principal Donald R. Harsh, Jr. Chair Julie Angelis Boehler Robert Hayden Jenkins HARP Marian Rian Hays PIANO/KEYBOARD Open James G. Pierné Chair

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PERSONNEL MANAGER Magaly Rojas Seay

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MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR CONCERT EXPERIENCE. PARKING Street parking is free on weekends. There are also two parking decks in the downtown area for your convenience.

LATE ARRIVALS Ushers will gladly seat you during an appropriate break in the program.

DRESS CODE While audiences for our Saturday evening concerts often dress up, and Sunday matinee patrons tend to be more casual, please dress in a way that is comfortable for you.

In consideration of those seated near you, please use fragrances sparingly.

FOOD AND DRINK The Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s policy regarding food and drink in the Theatre during concerts and other special events produced by the MSO will remain the same as it always has been: All food and drink, with the exception of bottled water, must be consumed in the lobby.

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NOISE Please be considerate of others by minimizing noise that may be disruptive during the performance. Kindly turn off cell phone or set them on silent. We ask that you enjoy food, drink and conservation in the lobby. You may be asked to remove any disruptive children who accompany you.

It is appropriate to excuse yourself if you experience a prolonged bout of coughing or sneezing.

SMOKING Smoking is not permitted in the Theatre.

EMERGENCY EXIT Please take note of the nearest emegency exit. In the event of an emegency, walk calmly to the exit, do not run.

PHOTOGRAPHY Photography, videotaping and sound recording are prohibited in the Theatre.

STUDENTS AND CHILDREN Full-time students and children under the age of 12 receive 50% off of any MSO Masterworks/Pops performance. Younger patrons are also invited to join us for our family-friendly Holiday concerts.

TICKETS Due to fire code regulations, all patrons, including infants, are required to have a valid ticket when entering the Theatre.

Tickets are printed on thermal paper and should be kept out of direct sunlight and away from extreme heat to avoid turning black and becoming unreadable.

RUSH TICKETS Free Student Tickets for Masterworks are available for students in grades K – 12 with a valid student ID. In addition, $5 College Student Rush tickets are available for Masterworks one and one-half hour prior to curtain in The Maryland Theatre’s lobby with a valid student ID. Seat selection is at the discretion of the MSO box office personnel.

LOST TICKETS Please call the MSO office for replacement tickets.

RETURNS, EXCHANGES, AND REFUNDS Ticket holders may return their lost tickets to the MSO office for resale prior to the concert and receive verification of their tax-deductible contribution. Subscribers may exchange their tickets at no charge for the alternate performance of the same program after the renewal period has lapsed. Exchanges will not be honored one hour prior to curtain due to congestion in The Maryland Theatre lobby. All MSO concert sales are nonrefundable, unless a concert is cancelled.

CANCELLATIONS Concert cancellation information is available on local TV and radio stations, on our Web site at www.marylandsymphony.org or by calling the Box Office. Any cancellations will be announced no later than three hours prior to the scheduled start time of the performance.

GIFT CERTIFICATES A wonderful gift for any occasion, gift certificates may be purchased for any dollar amount and redeemed for tickets to any MSO performance.

PRELUDE Music Director Elizabeth Schulze shares information on featured composers and works during Prelude, a half-hour presentation that will enhance your enjoyment and appreciation of the concert to follow.

Prelude begins one hour prior to each Masterworks performance and is free to ticket holders.

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2014 7:00 P.M. MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Elizabeth Schulze, Music Director Raychel Harvey-Jones, Narrator Thirty-third Season, 2014-2015 ACT II

ACT I “Disney Classics Overture”

Arranged by Bruce Healey ©1993 Walt Disney Music Co (ASCAP) & Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)

Songs by Phil Collins Score by Mark Mancina Orchestrated by David Metzger ©1999 Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. Walt Disney Music Company and Wonderland Music Company, Inc.

“Disney’s Tarzan Orchestral Suite”

“Disney’s The Little Mermaid Orchestral Suite” Music by

Alan Menken Arranged by A. Menken, R. Merkin T. Pasatieri and T. Ricketts ©1988 Wonderland Music CO., Inc. (BMI)

“Disney’s Hercules Orchestral Suite” Music by Alan Menken

Arranged by Bruce Healey Orchestrated by Greg Prechel ©1997 Wonderland Music CO., Inc. (BMI) T. Pasatieri and T. Ricketts ©1988 Wonderland Music CO., Inc. (BMI)

“Disney’s Mary Poppins: A Symphonic Fantasy” Music by

Richard M. Sherman & Robert B. Sherman Arranged and Orchestrated by Irwin Kostal ©1994 Wonderland Music Co, Inc. (BMI)

“Disney’s The Rescuers Down Under Theme”

Music by Bruce Broughton Arranged by William Broughton Orchestrated by David Metzger ©1992 Walt Disney Music Co (ASCAP)

“Disney’s Aladdin Orchestral Suite” Music by Alan Menken

Arranged by Danny Troob ©1992 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)

“Suite from Disney’s Mulan”

Score by Jerry Goldsmith Songs by Matthew Wilder and David Zippel Orchestrated by Alexander Courage ©1998 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)

“Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Music by Alan Menken Dame Orchestral Suite” Arranged by Michael Starobin

©1996 Wonderland Music Co, Inc. (BMI)

“Disney’s The Lion King Orchestral Suite”

Music by Elton John Words by Tim Rice Score by Hans Zimmer Arranged by Brad Kelley ©1994 Wonderland Music Co., Inc. (BMI)

“Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Orchestral Suite” Music by Alan Menken

Arranged by Danny Troob

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Intermission The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is proud to be a resident ensemble of the historic Maryland Theatre. Photography, video and sound recording are not permitted in the concert hall. Please take note of the nearest emergency exit. In the event of an emergency walk calmly to the exit, do not run.

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Mozart and Mahler Concert & Artist Sponsors:

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MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Elizabeth Schulze, Music Director Thirty-third Season, 2014-2015

Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, No. 10, in E-flat Major, K. 365 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) I Allegro II Andante

III Rondo: Allegro CHRISTINA NAUGHTON and MICHELLE NAUGHTON, PIANOS Intermission Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

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BIOGRAPHY CHRISTINA & MICHELLE NAUGHTON

CHRISTINA & MICHELLE NAUGHTON Christina and Michelle Naughton have been hailed by the San Francisco Examiner for their “stellar musicianship, technical mastery, and awe-inspiring artistry.” The Naughtons made their European debut at Herkulesaal in Munich, where the Sueddeutsche Zeitung proclaimed them “an outstanding piano duo”. They made their Asian debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, where the Sing Tao Daily said of their performance “Joining two hearts and four hands at two grand pianos, the Naughton sisters created an electrifying and moving musical performance.” An appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra led the Philadelphia Inquirer to characterize their playing as “paired to perfection,”while the Saarbrücker Zeitung exclaimed “this double star could soon prove to be a supernova.”

Orchestral engagements include appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Houston, Milwaukee, New Jersey, North Carolina, Nashville, Virginia, Maryland, Toledo, Delaware, El Paso, Napa Valley, Wichita, Tulsa, Gulf Coast, and Madison Symphonies; the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Cleveland’s Red Orchestra, Chicago’s Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra, and Erie Philharmonic; as well as with ensembles such as the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Royal Flemish Philharmonic in Belgium, Solistes Europeens Luxembourg, Hamburg Chorus, Kiel Philharmonic, and Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock. Past and future seasons feature collaborations under the batons of conductors such as Stephene Deneve, Edo deWaart, Charles Dutoit, JoAnn Falletta, Giancarlo Guerrero, Emanuel Krivine, Cristian Macelaru, Andres Orozco-Estrada, and Michael Stern.

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Center’s Terrace Theater, New York City’s Historic Naumburg Bandshell (Central Park) and Le Poisson Rouge, the Schubert Club in St. Paul, Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Wharton Center, Houston’s Cullen Theater, South Orange Performing Arts Center, the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Ramsey Hall in Athens, and Rockefeller University; as well as on series such as the Fortas Chamber Music Festival, Detroit Chamber Music Series, Harriman Jewell Series, Steinway Society-The Bay Area, Artist Series of Sarasota, Charleston Concert Association, UAB Piano Series, Chamber Music San Francisco Series, Louisville’s Speed Museum Series, Kingston Chamber Music Festival. European recital highlights for the Naughtons include the Parc Du Chateau de Florans at France’s La Roque d’Antheron Festival, the Sociedad de Conciertos de Valencia in Spain, Zurich’s Tonhalle, Prague’s Strings of Autumn Festival, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Rheingau Musik Festival, Dresden’s Musikfestpiele, Kissinger Sommer, Berlin’s Kammermusiksaal, Munich’s Herkulesaal, Dusseldorf ’s Tonhalle, in Hannover’s Kleiner Sendesaal , Ingoldstadt’s Konzertverein, Reutlingen’s FreidrichList-Halle, Pullach’s Burgerhaus, Concert Series in Ludwigshafen, on the Homburg-

Saar series, and the Bremen Music Festival.

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The Naughtons recorded their first album in the Sendesaal in Bremen Germany; which was released worldwide in Fall 2012 by label ORFEO. The album has been praised by Der Spiegel Magazine for “stand(ing) out with unique harmony, and sing(ing) out with stylistic confidence’, and described by ClassicsToday as a “Dynamic Duo Debut”.

Their performances have been broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today, Sirius XM Satellite Radio, New York’s WQXR, Chicago’s WFMT, Philadelphia’s WHYY, Boston’s WQED, Atlanta’s WABE, Hong Kong’s RTHK, Latvia’s Latvijas Radio 3, Netherland’s Radio 4 Concerthuis; and Germany’s Bayerischen Rudfunks, NordwestRadioBremen, WDR and NDR Radio.

Born in Princeton, New Jersey to parents of European and Chinese descent; Christina and Michelle are graduates of Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music, where they were each awarded the Festorazzi Prize. They are Steinway Artists and currently reside in New York City.

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PROGRAM NOTES MOZART AND MAHLER Concerto for Two Pianos in E-flat major, K. 365 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Although the actual date of composition of this concerto is uncertain, it is one of the first known to have been completely composed by Mozart. His first piano concertos were transcriptions and arrangements of works by other composers, including C.P.E. Bach, J.C. Bach and others. It is also Mozart’s only concerto for two pianos and is clearly reminiscent of his childhood and adolescence when he and his sister Maria Anna (“Nannerl”) were carted all over Europe as performing Wunderkinder.

Although the siblings’ prodigy days were long over, they continued to perform together. In this capacity, they probably performed the E-flat Concerto in 1780 at court for one of Mozart’s final concerts in Salzburg, along with the Sonata for Piano Four Hands, K 381. A two-piano transcription of the Concerto No. 7 for Three Pianos also dates from this period, as does a group of piano sonatas for piano four-hands (a medium “invented” by the brother-sister team that continued much in favor by unrelated young players of the opposite sex).

That same year, Mozart left his hometown forever to pursue his dream of a prestigious court appointment. He traveled first to Munich, where he had been commissioned to compose the opera Idomeneo, and then on to Vienna. While never attaining his original goal, he made his mark in the capital as music history’s first true freelance composer.

In the Concerto for Two Pianos, the tasks are evenly divided. The soloists mostly play in dialogue, echoing or answering each other. In contrast to compositions for piano four hands, where per force one of the players takes the lower range and the other the higher, both soloists here cover the entire range of the piano, which at the time was limited to five octaves.

The Concerto anticipates the structure typical of the composer’s later great piano concertos. The first movement Allegro is in classic sonata form; the fanfare-like 18

opening theme, plus all the exposition material introduced by the orchestra, is then repeated and expanded by the pianos. Because this is a work for two solo instruments, Mozart sometimes has the first soloist present a motive with the second soloist repeating it in slightly varied form; at other times, one piano will begin a phrase, while the second completes it. Neither instrument is dominant.

The Andante prefigures Mozart’s later concerti, opening with a deceptively simple theme. But Mozart goes on to pile one beautiful melody onto another to create a poignant statement whose intensity is enhanced by the orchestra’s two oboes.

The ethereal spell is broken by the sprightly Rondeau: Allegro. The rondo theme alternates with episodes in which the two pianos chase each other all over the movement.

Originally scored for two oboes, two bassoons, two horns and strings, Mozart added two clarinets, two trumpets and timpani to the outer movements for two private performances in Vienna in November 1781 with his pupil and patron Josepha Barbara von Auernhammer as second pianist. That version, however, is lost.

Symphony No. 1 in D major 1860-1911 Gustav Mahler In the late 1880s Gustav Mahler was building a reputation as a symphonic and operatic conductor. As he moved from one conducting post to another, usually as an assistant conductor in opera houses, he had only limited time for composing.

It took him from 1883 to 1888 to finish the First Symphony for its premiere and another 11 years to have it ready for publication.

During that interval, Mahler made major changes. At its premiere in Budapest in 1889, Mahler had called it a ”Symphonic Poem in two parts” with an elaborate literary program that he later repudiated.

The origin of the Symphony’s subtitle

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“Titan” is uncertain; some scholars believe it derived from the title of a novel by Jean Paul, a popular literary figure during the heyday of the Romantic period. In its first version, the symphony had five movements, but Mahler immediately discarded the original second movement.

He also expanded the size of the orchestra and revised the orchestration drastically.

The discarded second movement, an Andante titled “Blumine,” resurfaced only in 1967 and is now occasionally performed with the symphony.

At the time he began the symphony, Mahler was also composing a cycle of four songs with orchestra, titled Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer).

The themes from two of these songs found their way into the symphony: The second song became the main theme of the first movement, while the fourth song became the middle section of the third movement.

In light of Mahler’s later symphonies, the First is relatively tame. Nevertheless, it was received with hostility and ridicule at the first performance, bewildering the audience and annoying the critics.

Its originality lies in the innovative orchestration and harmonies, as well as in the intensity of the emotions it conveys.

In 1941 before the resurgence of Mahler’s popularity, Aaron Copland perceived the value of the Mahler’s music: “Of all romantics, this arch-romantic has most to give to the music of the future,” The first movement begins with an eerie introduction, the first two notes of which later morph into a birdcall, as well as the first two notes of the main theme. It is punctuated by a distant fanfare and a wailing oboe cry. The Allegro section begins in the cellos with the second Wayfarer song, “Ging heut morgen Übers Feld,” (I Walked this Morning over the Field); the theme is the heart and soul of the symphony serving not only as the main theme of this movement, but also as the basis of the themes of the second and final movements. The music of the introduction recurs in the middle of the movement. Mahler’s genius was his ability to keep all his thematic balls in the air, a

feat brilliantly achieved in the coda.

The second movement Scherzo has the rhythm of the Ländler, an Austrian folk dance. Although it conforms to the classic minuet and trio form, Mahler spins out the first section far beyond the standard repeat structure. Both the opening three notes of the Scherzo and the Trio recall the birdcall theme from the first movement.

A macabre timpani ostinato accompanies a lonely double bass introducing the main theme of the third movement, a funeral march based on none other than the nursery rhyme “Frère Jacques” in the minor mode. The spooky parody is said to have been inspired by a popular picture by the French painter Jacques Callot of a dead hunter accompanied to his grave by forest animals. The middle section of the movement is based on the melody from the fourth Wayfarer song, “Die zwei blauen Augen von meinem Schatz,” (My Sweetheart’s Two Blue Eyes) hypnotic and calming. In a third episode, Mahler transforms the theme into a dance with more than a hint of Jewish Klezmer music, an aspect of Mahler’s heritage about which he manifested considerable ambivalence.

Although a convert to Catholicism, he suffered constant anti-Semitic slights, and after World War II, Leonard Bernstein had to bully the Vienna Philharmonic to revive his music.

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The movement leads directly to the stormy Finale, which in the original program notes was titled Dall’ Inferno al Paradiso (from hell to heaven). It opens with one of the most threatening passages in classical music and is subsequently taken up in the main body of the Allegro. In the Finale, Mahler ties together the themes from the earlier movements, even those from the discarded “Blumine” movement as a gentle, even comforting, second theme. The resolution occurs in a coda of heroic proportions, including a triumphant, full-voiced reprise of the distant fanfare from the opening of the Symphony.

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Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Michael Brown (1993-) Ludwig van Beethoven Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, No. 1, in C Major, Op. 15 (1770-1827) I Allegro con brio II Largo III Rondo. Allegro MICHAEL BROWN, PIANO Intermission Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 10

(1906-1975) I Allegretto – Allegro non troppo II Allegro – Meno mosso – Allegro – Meno mosso III Lento – Largo – Lento (attacca:) IV Allegro molto – Lento – Allegro molto – Meno mosso – Allegro molto – Molto meno mosso – Adagio

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BIOGRAPHY MICHAEL BROWN

MICHAEL BROWN Praised in The New York Times as a “young piano visionary” with “powerful technique and a vivid imagination,” pianist Michael Brown is a two-time winner of The Juilliard School’s Gina Bachauer Piano Competition; First Prize Winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition; and 2012 winner of Juilliard’s William Petschek Piano Recital Award. Mr. Brown is an equally dedicated composer whose unique artistry is reflected in a creative approach to programming, where he often interweaves the classics with contemporary works and his own compositions. He has appeared on four continents, in such major venues as Carnegie Hall, New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, and Wigmore Hall in London. His recent schedule has included a Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium debut with the New York Youth Symphony; recitals at Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Gilmore Festival’s Rising Stars Series; and performances at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor, Moab, Mostly Mozart, Music@Menlo, Beijing International, and Kyoto International music festivals.

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PROGRAM NOTES BEETHOVEN’S FIRST Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 15 Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 The Piano Concerto No. 1 is among the works the young Beethoven composed after he had moved in 1792 from his native Bonn to Vienna. Like Mozart when he left Salzburg, also for Vienna, Beethoven had outgrown the musical establishment of his patron in Bonn, the elector Maximilian Franz, but he traveled to the Imperial capital not so much as a master but rather to study composition with Franz Joseph Haydn. At the end of 1793 Haydn wrote to the elector on his student’s behalf for an advance in salary, enclosing five compositions “of my dear pupil Beethoven,” who he predicted would “in time fill the position of one of Europe’s greatest composers.” The parsimonious elector was unimpressed.

Nevertheless, Beethoven quickly acquired a glowing reputation as both a pianist and composer. He had come already provided with important aristocratic connections that greased the way into the highest social circles, where noblemen were in competition with each other for the best in-house musical establishment.

The period between 1792 and 1795 was probably the happiest in the composer’s life. Signs of his deafness had not yet appeared, and his passionate nature – even affability – signaled a young lion, rather than the irascible, slovenly and sickly misanthrope of his middle and later years.

“Beethoven did not write the rondo... till the afternoon of the day before the concert...Four copyists sat in the room outside, and he gave them the pages one by one as they were finished.”

composer’s hearing loss prevented him from performing in public, and he wrote three new cadenzas of differing lengths and difficulty for pianists of varying abilities.

By Beethoven’s own admission, the First Concerto still reflects the styles of Mozart and Haydn. It begins with a lengthy and formal orchestral opening, ceremonial in style, after which the soloist makes his entry with a new opening theme.

The interplay between the piano and orchestra is reminiscent of the Mozart concerti, where the orchestra provides quiet background accompaniment for the soloist when both play together. This lighter accompaniment was, of course, acoustically necessary since the pianos of the time lacked the power of those even in the first part of the nineteenth century.

In the years 1798 to 1809, the piano underwent a rapid evolution, not in small part as a result of Beethoven’s demands and specifications. While the concerto was written for a piano of five octaves, like Mozart’s, by the time Beethoven composed the cadenzas in 1809, he was writing for a piano of 5 1/2 octaves with commensurate power and sound to match. Consequently, the 1798 instrument, for which the concerto was written, would not be able to play the 1809 cadenzas Beethoven wrote for it.

A note about the cadenza to the first movement: Only incomplete fragments remain of the cadenza that Beethoven used at the premiere. By 1809, the

Originally composed in 1795, revised in 1798 and again before publication in 1800, this concerto is actually not the first Beethoven wrote, although it was the first to be published. What is known today as No. 2 preceded it by a year. In 1784, Beethoven had written a youthful concerto in E-Flat WoO (Work without opus number) 4, which was not published in its entirety until 1890.

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The slow movement, again, harks back to the Mozart model. If in the first movement soloist and orchestra are partners, in the second it is the piano that dominates and develops the themes, aided by the clarinet. The sparkling rondo finale

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Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10 Dmitry Shostakovich 1906-1975 Volumes have been written about Dmitry Shostakovich and his ambivalent relationship with the Soviet regime.

Much of this writing is based on afterthe-fact statements whose authenticity and veracity is often difficult to verify.

What is clear is that the composer was a true son of the Russian Revolution and, as teenager, a true believer. But in his late 20s, he became caught up in the Stalinist nightmare and apparently only survived the purges because Stalin liked the music he obediently churned out for propaganda films.

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age nine, he immediately displayed a level of innate talent, including perfect pitch, advanced sight-reading and, most important, a nearly “photographic” musical memory. At 13 in 1919, he entered the Leningrad Conservatory, unsure whether he wanted to become a pianist or a composer. However, conditions were so dire in the struggling new Soviet regime that the slight, nearsighted prodigy suffered from anemia and malnutrition, despite receiving the special food rations for talented students.

Shostakovich’s outstanding composition teacher, Maximilian Steinberg, encouraged him and contributed to his meteoric rise to fame. It was for the graduation project in Steinberg’s composition class in December 1925 that Shostakovich composed his First Symphony. He had been working on it for a year and a half, but his efforts were continually interrupted when

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the death of his father and economic necessity forced him to earn money by accompanying silent films on the piano.

Although the Symphony was technically a student work, it flew in the face of both the Russian academic tradition and the style established by the last generation of Russian masters, the “Mighty Five.”

The premiere in May 1926 by the Leningrad Philharmonic, conducted by Nikolai Malko, created a sensation; the Scherzo had to be encored. Conductor Bruno Walter shortly thereafter conducted the work in Berlin, and two years later Leopold Stokowski programmed it with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

With its combination of musical irony and intense pathos, the First Symphony foreshadows many of the composer’s subsequent works. Shostakovich himself called the music of the first two movements “Symphonie-grotesque,”

poking fun at academic tradition. Later in his career, the “grotesque” elements would come to represent the repressive forces of Soviet politics, particularly the figure of Joseph Stalin. Even if his “hidden” musical symbolism was not recognized, his musical acerbity and dissonant harmony periodically got him into trouble with the Soviet authorities. With the third movement, Lento, however, the mood turns somber, and in the last movement – threatening and tragic.

The question remains as to what it was about Shostakovich’s world at age 19 that contributed to the creation of such a personally prescient piece. Spurious reports of the ten-year-old Dmitry witnessing the brutal slaying of a child by a policeman at a workers’ demonstration made their way into the composer’s “official” biography. Yet, even if such a single incident cannot be verified, the boy certainly was witness – if even

indirectly – to the human carnage of the early years of the Revolution, where lists of “Enemies of the People” who had been executed were plastered on billboards throughout Petrograd (later Leningrad).

The melancholy oboe theme and trumpet fanfare in the third movement and, in the fourth, the mournful introduction with its bass drum “gunshots;” the solo violin and saxophone laments; the trumpet calls and the funereal timpani tattoo bear musical witness to a life of menace and deprivation.

On the other hand, the composer, who later in life described in detail his extramusical symbolism and coded language, never attributed any political significance for his First Symphony. Perhaps the dismal finale merely reflected the young composer’s state of mind at the moment.

He wrote in a letter:

The horrid town of Moscow doesn’t want to nurture me in its cradle. Its teeming masses make a terrible impression on me...but nevertheless, I want to go there with all my soul. So there. Sometimes I just want to shout. To cry out in terror.

Doubts and problems, all this darkness suffocate me. From sheer misery, I’ve started to compose the Finale of the Symphony – it’s turning out pretty gloomy…”

Whatever the extra-musical meaning embedded in the Symphony, it is clear that even at this early stage, Shostakovich’s musical language of despair was already well formed.

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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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Oh Holy Night Adolphe Adam (Arr. David Clydesdale) COLLEEN DALY & BARBARA INGRAM SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS CHOIR

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BIOGRAPHIES

COLLEEN DALY Colleen Daly is rapidly emerging as a “dramatically powerful” (The Washington Post) singer in today’s operatic arena. Miss Daly’s most recent performances include Musetta in La Bohème with Lyric Opera Baltimore and Des Moines Metro Opera; Violetta in Opera Delaware’s production of La traviata, which she also covered at New York City Opera; Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte with Intermountain Opera; Micaëla in Carmen with Baltimore Concert Opera; the Countess in Annapolis Opera’s production of Le nozze di Figaro; and the title role of Thaïs at Opera Company Middlebury. Next she can be heard as the soprano soloist in Brahms’ Requiem with the Columbus Symphony, in Maryland Symphony’s Home for the Holidays Concert, as Musetta in Annapolis Opera’s production of La Bohème, and as Micaëla in Syracuse Opera’s production of La Tragédie de Carmen.

Other recent performances include the Brahms Requiem with the Händel Society of Dartmouth College; Micaëla in La Tragédie de Carmen with Olney Theatre Center for the Arts; Madame Herz in Der Schauspieldirektor at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center; and Cunegonde in Candide at the Merle Reskin Theatre in Chicago. And with the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, Colleen performed and the title roles of Lucia di Lammermoor, La traviata, Kát’a Kabanová, and Manon.

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Ms. Daly’s work as a concert and recital soloist has been widely recognized in performing such works as the Mozart, Brahms, Fauré, and Rutter Requiem Masses, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Händel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation and Missa Solemnis, and Stravinsky’s Les Noces. Colleen has appeared with the Master Chorale of Washington in her Kennedy Center debut, Washington Concert Opera, the Washington Chorus, the Cathedral Choral Society in her National Cathedral debut, the Post-Classical Ensemble, the New Dominion Chorale, and the Maryland Philharmonic Orchestra, among others.

Colleen Daly has been the recipient of awards from the Gerda Lissner Foundation, the Liederkranz Foundation, The Washington International Competition, and Annapolis Opera.

Ms. Daly holds a bachelor’s degree from DePaul University, a Master’s degree from University of Maryland in College Park, and an Artist Diploma from AVA (Academy of Vocal Arts). She has participated in the Lyric Opera Studio of Weimar in Germany, the Opera Company of Philadelphia’s program in Treviso, Italy, been a Festival Artist for Opera New Jersey, a Young Artist at the Oberlin in Italy Scenes Program in Urbania, and a New Horizon Fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and School.

ROBERT TUDOR Baritone Robert Tudor enjoys a vibrant career in the genres of opera, early music, musical theater and cabaret, and as a concert soloist throughout the United States. His professional work with early music began with the celebrated Washington Bach Consort under the direction of J. Reilly Lewis where he was featured soloist in J. S. Bach’s cantatas Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Fiend and Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest, as well as John Taverner’s “God is with us.” Other national concert engagements have included Utrecht Jubilate and Dettingem Te Deum by G. F. Handel, the Requiems of Fauré and Duruflé, and Bach’s

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Since 2007, Robert has been featured annually as guest artist in the Montana Early Music Festival. Concert works as soloist included Franceso Cavalli’s Venetian Vespers, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli’s Venetian Coronation – 1595, Canticum Trium Puerorum by Michael Praetorius, Musikalisches Exequien by Heinrich Schütz, Handel’s Israel in Egypt, Scarlatti’s Stabat Mater, and JohannesPassion by J.S. Bach. He also returns to Montana each summer as an artist and instructor at the Helena Choral Festival, where he directs, teaches and appears as soloist in recitals and concerts.

Robert’s performance as bass soloist in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in 2011 with Pro Musica Colorado Chamber Orchestra garnered praise as a “solid and resonant” performer by the Boulder Daily Camera in a concert hailed as “Yet another world-class performance!” in OpusColorado. Other artist engagements have included soloist with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Robert is an active stage performer with credits in opera and music theater that range from La Boheme to The Titanic. His performance as the Second Elder in a staged version of Handel’s Susannah with the Maryland Handel Festival grabbed the attention of The Washington Post, where he was described as having a “powerful singing voice” and “notable acting skills”. In 2012, Robert was honored to appear a guest

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visit artist at The Art of Argento – a two-week celebration of the music of contemporary American composer Dominick Argento at the University of Maryland. During his residency at the festival, he performed Argento’s powerful solo work for baritone The Andree Expedition and the monodramatic opera A WaterBird Talk.

Robert received a Doctorate in Musical Arts in Voice Performance from the University of Maryland. He serves as Director of Vocal Activities and Chair of the Department of Music at Shepherd University. Awards include an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and Artist of the Year from Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia.

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Friends of the Symphony The following includes individuals, businesses, foundations and organizations that contributed to the Annual Fund Campaign or made other contributions during the MSO’s 32nd Annual Season (July 1, 2013 thru June 30, 2014).

Bolded listings indicate contributors who increased their contribution by 10% or more in comparison to the previous season.

INDIVIDUAL PLATINUM BATON ($7,500 & ABOVE) The Estate of Florence Hill Graff Dr. & Mrs. Robert K. Hobbs Jim & Georgia Pierné William G. Pitzer The Betsy Russell Fund for New Music Dr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Talton, In memory of Brooks M. Talton, Sr. INDIVIDUAL GOLD BATON ($5,000 TO $7,499) Sylvia A. Hunsberger &William B. Hunsberger Dr. & Mrs. George E. Manger Sam Reel Jim & Darlene Stojak INDIVIDUAL SILVER BATON ($3,000 TO $4,999) The Honorable & Mrs. W. Kennedy Boone, III Brendan & Katie Fitzsimmons The Howard Garrett Endowment Fund for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra Barbara & Tom Henderson Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Kerstein Jim & Mindy Marsden Mrs. Theron Rinehart, In memory of Theron Rinehart Dr. Roberta Rothen Drs. Tara A. Rumbarger & James A. Schiro Elizabeth Schulze Don & Paul Trumble Mike & Marlene Young & Family INDIVIDUAL CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($1,250 TO $2,999) Teresa & John Barr Deborah & Gary Bockrath Dr. & Mrs. J. Emmet Burke Dr. Katie Carr & Mr. Ned Taylor Janice & Robert Cirincione Dr. & Mrs. Allen Ditto April L. Dowler & John W. League Dr. & Mrs. Edward Drawbaugh James Ivan Dwyer Mrs. Patricia F. Enders Mr. & Mrs. John F. Erath

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Adna & Janet Fulton The Anne E. Garrett Endowment Fund for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra Francis E. Gift, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Dr. Catherine Gira Nancy & George Glen Jay & Roberta Greenberg H. Gerald & Jane S. Guyton Dr. & Mrs. Scott M. Hamilton Dr. Dona C. Hobart Stephen & Linda Hood Dr. & Mrs. John H. Hornbaker Jean Y. Inaba Drs. Nicholas & Jody Long Dr. & Mrs. Ira S. Lourie Brian A. Lynch William & Gaye McGovern Doug & Deena Moul John G. Newby, M.D. Dori & Jim Nipps Dr. & Mrs. Neil O’Malley Drs. Mary E. Money & Paul C. Waldman Dr. & Mrs. Andrew J. Oh R. Kathleen Perini, In memory of Dominick J. Perini Edward & Barbara Peters Dr. & Mrs. Gary W. Smith David & Suzanne Solberg John & Margaret Waltersdorf Family Endowment for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra Howard N. Weeks, M.D. Julie & Clayton Wilcox, Ed. D., Washington County Public Schools Mr. & Mrs. William P. Young INDIVIDUAL PATRONS ($500 TO $1,249) Dr. & Mrs. A.F. Abdullah Jack Anderson & Cheryl ParrottAnderson Anonymous Thomas J. Arenobine, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Jason Aufdem-Brinke Mr. & Mrs. William Breichner Jeff Cline

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Mary Dahbura In loving memory of Bud Dahbura Mr. & Mrs. Wayne L. Dennis Mrs. Lynn DuBois, In memory of McClellan A. DuBois Kenneth V. Duncan, In memory of Kaye Duncan Andrew C. Durham John & Lois Easton Mr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Erck, III Mrs. H. William Fiedler, Jr. John & Carol Ford Jonathan, Richele & Samantha Gift, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Mary Jane Hawbaker C. William Hetzer, Jr. Jim & Denise Houghton Susan Anne Ingerman & Arlene Siegelman, In honor of Elizabeth Schulze Willa Weller Kaal Mr. & Mrs. George Kalin George & Mary Kalin, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Mr. & Mrs. Richard L. Kipe Dave Kline Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Lough Mike & Sandy Martin Leslie Mills Ella C. Mose Paul & Harriet Muldowney George & Nancy Mulholland Varner “Pat” Paddack Jim & Georgia Pierné, In memory of Bud Dahbura Jim & Georgia Pierné, In memory of Dominick J. Perini Samuel G. Reel, Jr., In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Kim Reno Mrs. Theron Rinehart, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Joseph & Mary Beth Ross Erica & Patrick J. Saccoia, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Ronald F. Schultz Elizabeth Schulze, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Greg & Ruthann Snook Darlene & Jim Stojak, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Dr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Tarpley Bill & Phyl Thompson

John & Yvonne Thomson Waltersdorf Family Donor Advised Fund, by Grayson Oldfather and Margaret Waltersdorf Mr. & Mrs. Robert Wantz Tinker & Pat Williamson Susan Wert & Vicki Willman, In memory of our parents; Charles & Helen Wert and Glenn R. Willman INDIVIDUAL BENEFACTORS ($250 TO $499) William T. Alexander, II, Captain, USNR (Ret.) Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Alter Dr. & Mrs. Michael Anderson Anonymous, In honor of Linda Hood’s Volunteer Work for the MSO Dr. & Mrs. Michael Attardi Helen R. Beair Pieter & Stephanie Bickford Deborah & Gary Bockrath, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Mrs. Jo Ann H. Bousum Mr. & Mrs. Lester L. Burger, Jr. Constance Coss, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Frederic & Anne D’Alauro Anton Dahbura Mrs. Doris B. Dillon Dr. & Mrs. Gerald I. Falke Bob & Ginger Fennel Kathryn M. Gift, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Mike Gouker Mr. & Mrs. David W. Hamstead Tom & Gwen Hard Gary H. & Iris F. Heichel Klaus & Becky Hein Mary & Terry Hershey Richard & June Hess Margaret Hall Hornbaker Sara J. Hoyle Michael & Beth Johnston Susanne & Rick Kass Phil & Donna Kelly Clyde & Judy Kernek Mrs. Elizabeth D. Krell Mr. & Mrs. Edward J. Manuel, In honor of Mrs. Elisbeth Nothnagel

Peter Michael Michael & Rochelle Morrell Jason M. Nicholson Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley William O’Toole & Catherine Bodin Jon Pike & Diana Gaviria Harry & Patricia Reynolds John & Bobbi Schnebly Elizabeth Schwartz Charlotte Seibert Penelope & George Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Steinke Mr. & Mrs. James W. Stone Dr. & Mrs. Charles Supernavage Hugh & Marty Talton, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Ray Teel & Barbara Lawver Stanley & Freda Thawley Harry & Kathy Tierney Bill & Frances Young, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Sandy & Bob Wantz, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Joyce & Rich Weaver Terry F. Wills & Christine Parfitt INDIVIDUAL ASSOCIATES ($100 TO $249) Bill & Pat Abeles Margaret Abercrombie, In memory of David Abercrombie Sylvia G. Alimena In partial underwriting of the rental of the Symphony No. 5, op. 47, D Minor, by Dmitri Shostakovich Anonymous Anonymous Joan S. Applegate M. Dunbar Ashbury, Jr. Dr. Bibhas C. Bandy William K. Beard Nancy G. Berg, In support of free student tickets in memory of Marilyn “Lyn” Jonnes Victoria Beyer Mr. & Mrs. David Biser Adeline Bloomfield Mr. & Mrs. Roy F. Bomar Kennedy & Debby Boone, In memory of Abbud Dahbura Mr. & Mrs. Howard B. Bowen Scott & Kim Bowen Dr. & Mrs. Lucas H. Brennecke Mrs. Barbara Brewster Mr. & Mrs. William R. Brockway Dr. & Mrs. J. Emmet Burke, In memory of Marilyn Jonnes Barbara H. Burkhardt Bruce & Jami Bushong Keith & Kate Byers Martin & Barbara Czachor, In memory of Bud Dahbura Kitty & Steve Chamos Dr. & Mrs. Samuel Chan Charles W. Clark Emma Jane Cline

George & Patricia Cowperthwaite Art & Sondra Crumbacker Mimi Dickinson Richard & Kandyce Douglas Anne & Keith Dunham Nancy Dunn The Reverend Dr. D. Stuart Dunnan Betty Eakin-Smith, In memory of Marie McIntyre Darcé E. Easton Wm. & Eliz Edwards Dr. & Mrs. Ali El-Mohandes The Elliots, In memory of Adelia Marie McIntrye Bill & Mary Elsen Mrs. Patricia F. Enders, In loving memory of Wilda R. Gift Mr. James C. Failor Richard J. & Cynthia A. Gagliardi, In memory of Bud Dahbura Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. Garlitz Thomas H. Gast, In memory of John Edward Briggs Carl & Rose Marie Gearhart Rob Gonsalves Dr. Florence Grant Melvin Greenwald Dr. Peter Halmos Wanna Lee & James Haught Eunice Heistand Barbara & Tom Henderson, In memory of Bud Dahbura Roland & Leslie Hobbs Dr. & Mrs. Richard G. Holz Mr. & Mrs. James N. Holzapfel Stephen & Linda Hood, In memory of our neighbor and friend, Bud Dahbura George Horman Ed & Kathy Hose David House Anna & Doug Hutzell Nancie J. Irvin Jack L. Irwin JHU Department of Computer Science, In memory of Abbud S. Dahbura from colleagues of his son Anton Dahbura Mr. & Mrs. Stanley D. Johnson Michael Jonnes & Barbara Blackwood, In memory of Marilyn Jonnes Jane M. Keller Karol A. Kennedy Charles R. Kershner, In memory of K. Jane R. Kershner Ronald & Sue Kershner Mr. & Mrs. James R. King Laurence King Sandra King Andrew Kipe & Norman Morse Larry Klotz Mr. & Mrs. Jan Kochansky Barbara Kott Joe Krushinsky Douglas & Rebecca Lane Mr. & Mrs. Robert Larivee

Duane S. Lawson, In honor of the Walter Lawson Chair Judith & John Lilga George Limmer Tom & Ginny Lindsay Susan Livera Mr. & Mrs. Jan. A. Liwski Carol McIntyre, In memory of Marie McIntyre Henry & Mary McKinney Dr. & Mrs. Wayne A. McWilliams Regis & Rita Mahoney Mr. & Mrs. Frank Malejko Andrew & Shizumi Manale, In memory of Marie McIntyre Al & Claudia Martin Estelle M. Martin, In memory of Ira & Paul Martin Nancy Martin Tom & Carol Maschal Drs. Mauriello & Orfan John & Anne Maysak Vivian Michael C. David & Barbara L. Miller Carolyn Miller The Reverend Dr. & Mrs. Raymond T. Moreland Mr. & Mrs. Frank P. Morrisey Florence M. Murdock Edwin L. & Joyce K. Nigh Marie E. Nowakowski Kent N. Oliver Ingjerd Omdahl OneNet PPO colleagues of Chris McIntyre; Laurie, Scott, Aaron, Margaret, Sandi, Rama, Traci, Bernard, Loris, and Gavin, In memory of Marie McIntyre Dr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Pearlman Cherie Pedersen, In memory of Carl Pedersen Carole C. Perez, In memory of Marie McIntyre Fred A. Peters, In memory of Marie McIntyre Dr. & Mrs. William G. Plavcan Gary & Cheryl Pryor Alan Rapoport & Donna Jennings The Reverend Robert L. Regenold Gary & Marge Rohrer Dr. & Mrs. Joel L. Rosenthal Marilyn A. Ross Maurice & Marie Rumbarger Pauline & Charlie Ruthrauff Albert & Janet Salter Drs. Sanicola Judy & Val Sasmore Beverly Schaff Aileen Schulze, In memory of Earl J. Schulze Elizabeth Schulze, In memory of Marie McIntyre Jon & Sandy Scott William Seabrook & Gay Ludington Dale & Carolyn Seburn David Shorey, In memory of Adelia Marie McIntyre Wilber T. Soulis

Betty Earkin Stith, In memory of Marie McIntyre Michael & Jeanne Stoner Deborah & Holly Stotelmyer Dr. & Mrs. Robert S. Strauch Drs. Kelli & Al Strauss Robert & Sara Sweeney, In memory of Jean S. Zimmerman Martin Tashgy Eleanor Thomas Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Tischer George A. Tompkins, Jr. Ms. Amy Tozzi Dr. Ann Tramontana John & Joan Treadway Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Tucker James D. Vaughn Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Vidoni Mr. & Mrs. James Vinke Dr. David H. Wallace Susan Warrenfeltz Wayne Wells Mary L. Wetzel Mrs. Helen Wingert Phyllis A. Wisherd Carol Yost INDIVIDUAL FRIENDS ($50 TO $99) Mr. & Mrs. Louis Ahalt Mrs. Thomas Allan Virginia L. Altman Dominic Ambrosi & Dale Stein Anonymous Marian Auer Beth Batdorf Mr. & Mrs. Donovan Beachley, Jr. Richard & Susan Bell Edwina Bernat Mary M. Black Deidre Blackwood Gerard L. Blake W. Robert Bloyer Todd & Judy Bolton Mr. & Mrs. Anthony F. Britti Allen & Elizabeth Brown Mr. & Mrs. James Brown Susan & Wally Brubaker Carol Brunner Nancy Bryan Louise F. Bucco Mr. & Mrs. Tom Buckus Stanley & Janice Burkholder Mr. G. Richard Burns Mr. & Mrs. Wayne Byers Robert & Jane Chambers Emile & Jeannine Charest Arlene Clendenning Gerald & Lieba Cohen, In honor of Amy & Bob Kerstein Martha & Jose Coŕdova Linda Cottrill Mr. & Mrs. Philip P. Cox Mr. & Mrs. Roger T. Craig John Crawford Linda Danis Jeanne & Malcolm Davis Robert D. & Karla Davis Michael & Ginny Delaney

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FRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONY Mr. William Dosch, Jr. Brenda K. Duffy Andrew & Maria Durelli Judith Eardley Gerald C. Eckert, In memory of Abbud Dahbura Mary Edge Mary Lou Edwards, In memory of Marie McIntrye Sheila Edwards Andrea Ernest Ms. Ruth Ann Evans Jack Farrell & Nancy Colburn Joan Fell Mr. & Mrs. Michael E. Flurie The Honorable & Mrs. Ralph France Terri Freiheit Robert Frucella Dr. & Mrs. Carl J. Galligan Janice Gantz Drs. Elizabeth & Robert George Jean B. Goodnight, In memory of J. Carroll Goodnight Mr. & Mrs. Richard M. Greenwald Jean Hamilton Dave & Donna Hankinson David & Donna Hanlin Don & Kathryn Henry Todd & Katie Hershey Ken & Marsha Higley Barbara Irvine & Sylvia Andrae, In memory of their mother Ethel B. Irvine, a longtime active supporter of the MSO Elizabeth Johns & Don Evason Mr. Kenneth Johnson Maurice F. Johnston Karlen Keto Jay Koch Marty Koenig, In memory of Marie McIntyre George & June Kourpias, In memory of Marie McIntyre Lois E. Kuhn Liesel Kulick John & Cassandra Latimer Ed & Chris Lane Joseph Lovinsky, In memory of Adelia M. McIntyre Emory G. Lowe, Jr. Tina McCoy Peter McKinney, In honor of Henry & Mary McKinney Anne Macon Joseph Marschner Roberta J. Matonak Mr. Randy Mazzeo Lowell & Susan Michael Theresa Trail Michel, In honor of Vicki Willman & Susan Wert Michael & Susan Miller, In memory of Marie McIntyre Thomas W. Miller Don & Sue Munson, In memory of Frances Machen Mary & Amy Myers Mark & Keely Neubauer

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John & Gabriele Nimitz Rev. Martin S. Nocchi Mr. & Mrs. Earl F. Noel David Nold Jamie Paci Tamara Nuzzaci Park Edward R. Plews Ed & Marge Poling Joey & Ken Potter, In memory of Marie McIntyre with love Tina B. Prensky, In memory of William Prensky Timothy Rahn & Nancy Hughes Donna Rasmussen Ms. Barbara Reeder Connie Richards Ted & Willie Rissell Susan J. Rocco Betty H. Roney, In memory of William V. Roney Shirley L. Rotz Rolland Roup Suzanne & Fred Rutledge Christina Sandeen Florence & Bob Sanders, With fondest memory of Marie McIntyre Jon & Linda Shade Eloise Shaffer, In honor of Andrew T. Kipe, CEO, Louisville Orchestra Jackie & Lynn Shaw Michael & Linda Shelbert Win & Pam Sherman Judith A. Shipley Dwight & Linda Shook Wayne Skinner Mr. & Mrs. Donald Slifer Joyce A. Snurr Joseph & Elizabeth Sokol, Sr. Steve & Sheri Specht Jim Stemmle Mrs. Barbara Stine Lee & Patricia Stine Connie & W. Robert Strunk David M. Tyson Carolyn & John Van Dyck, In memory of Adelia Marie McIntyre Frank & Annette van Hilst Herman S. Wass Shirley Weisbecker Monika Wertman Eileen W. Wiggins Pearl Willman Bill & Molly Wilson Mr. & Mrs. Allan Windle John & Earleen Wiseman Sharon Wood Carolyn Zwior

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CORPORATE PLATINUM BATON ($7,500 & ABOVE) Antietam Cable Television Antietam National Battlefield The Mary K. Bowman Historical & Fine Arts Fund, A fund of the Community Foundation of Washington County, MD Citi City of Hagerstown FirstEnergy Foundation on behalf of Potomac Edison The Alice Virginia and David W. Fletcher Foundation, Inc. Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc. The Herald-Mail Company / Herald-Mail Media Jericho Productions, Inc. Martin Storage Co., Inc. / Allied Van Lines Maryland State Arts Council Maryland State Highway Administration Maryland Symphony Orchestra Guild The PNC Foundation Potomac Edison SpringHill Suites by Marriott Hagerstown Susquehanna Bank Youngblood Studios The Maryland Symphony Orchestra Waltersdorf Henson Endowment Fund Washington County Board of County Commissioners CORPORATE GOLD BATON ($5,000 TO $7,499) 18 Visions Design Michael G. Callas Charitable Trust Electromet Corporation Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Hagerstown Community College The Hamilton Family Foundation, Inc. The M&T Charitable Foundation, Inc. Meritus Health Premier Catering by Bagel-Lisious Volvo CORPORATE SILVER BATON ($3,000 TO $4,999) The Hershey-Fitzsimmons Group, RBC Wealth Management Mercedes-Benz of Hagerstown Albert E. & Naomi B. Sinnisen Foundation Washington County Gaming Commission Washington County Gives Matching Grant Washington County Sheriff ’s Department

CORPORATE CONDUCTOR’S CIRCLE ($1,250 TO $2,999) Amica Companies Foundation Associated Radiologists, P.A. and Diagnostic Imaging Services, LLC Bulls & Bears, Bowman Hospitality Paul Crampton Contractors, Inc. Delaplaine Foundation, Inc. Ellsworth Electric, Inc. Harry Browne’s Restaurant, Annapolis, MD Hill Country Leiters’ Fine Catering, Inc. Main Line Broadcasting Manitowoc Crane Marshfield Associates Maryland Symphony Orchestra Guild, In memory of Wilda R. Gift Mercersburg Printing Middletown Valley Bank Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Mr. Edward H. Lough Outdoor Express RV Rider Jet Center Ridgerunner Publishing The Rotary Club of Hagerstown Charitable Foundation, Inc. The Rotary Club of Long Meadows Foundation, Inc. Sharrett Auto Stores Tiger’s Eye Benefits Consulting, Ted & Sandy Reeder Washington County Arts Council WPS, Inc. CORPORATE PATRONS ($500 TO $1,249) American Legion Clopper-Michael Post No. 10 American Legion Auxiliary Unit # 10 Sons of the American Legion Squadron #10 Audiology Services, LLC The Blue Goose Fresh Market & Bakery DSL Sound, Inc. Ewing Oil Co., Inc. Exchange Club of Antietam Innovative Incorporated Maryland Symphony Orchestra Horn Section Plamondon Hospitality Partner The Rotary Club of Hagerstown Contributions Committee Rotary Club of Hagerstown Sunrise Foundation, Inc. Saul Ewing LLP Schmankerl Stube Bavarian Restaurant Sheetz, Inc. Sun Air International Video West WAI Global Wantz Distributors What’s NXT, LLC

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Thank You! The Maryland Symphony Orchestra wishes to thank the board and the staff of the Maryland Theatre for their partnership over the last 32 years. The MSO is looking forward to continuing to work together to bring the best of classical and popular symphonic music to the four-state area.

Theatre Staff: Jessica Green, Executive Director Hagerstown, Maryland 301-733-9330

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Player registration is available by calling the MSO office at 301.797.4000 or online at www.marylandsymphony.org

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FRIENDS OF THE SYMPHONY CORPORATE BENEFACTORS ($250 TO $499) AC&T Co., Inc. R. Bruce Carson Jewelers Divelbiss & Wilkinson First United Bank & Trust Hagerstown REACT C-22 Howard’s Art Supplies & Frames Hudson House Galleries, Inc. Keller Stonebraker Insurance, Inc. Music & Arts PNC Bank Road Runner Services, LLC The Westin, Annapolis, MD YNO Catering

CORPORATE ASSOCIATES ($100 TO $249) B.P. Lesky Distributing, Inc. County Commuter Divelbiss & Wilkinson, In memory of Bud Dahbura Done by Doug Handyman Services Hagerstown Furniture Outlet, Inc. The Home Depot Hagerstown M.S. Johnston Company Lowes of Hagerstown Maryland Bankers Association, Inc., In memory of Abbud S. Dahbura The Maryland Theatre Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort Snavely’s Garden Corner, Inc. Spichers Appliances, Electronics & Security

Weinberg Center for the Arts Wertman Photography CORPORATE FRIENDS ($50 TO $99) Café del Sol Ingram’s Men’s Shop Just For Dogs, Inc. Longmeadow Eyecare, Inc. Longmeadow Wine & Liquors, Inc. The Law Firm of Paley, Rothman, Goldstein, Rosenburg, Eig and Cooper, Chartered, In memory of Marie McIntyre The Potomac Bead Company Red Heifer Winery

Note: While we make every effort to be accurate and thorough, it is possible that we may have accidentally omitted or misspelled a name. Please contact us at 301.797.4000 with any additions or corrections. Only contributions of $50 or more are recognized.

THE MARYLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

ENDOWMENT FUND & HERITAGE ENDOWERS’ SOCIETY The MSO’s commitment to artistic excellence is well-known, but such a commitment depends on the generosity of community-minded individuals and organizations who gladly shoulder the responsibility of promoting, preserving and supporting the Symphony’s mission.

Many MSO patrons have demonstrated this kind of strong personal commitment to our artistic, educational and community-based initiatives through contributions to the MSO Endowment Fund.

However, the need for additional endowment support remains.

Continuing to build the MSO’s endowment ensures the Symphony’s continued quality and stability.

To recognize contributors of estate planning gifts such as bequests, trusts, charitable gift annuities or insurance policies, the Maryland Symphony Orchestra provides membership in the Heritage Endowers’ Society. Members of the Society are extraordinary contributors, demonstrating their devotion to symphonic music and the MSO thereby guaranteeing the future of both.

Estate planning is often put off until sometime “in the future.” Through careful planning today members of the Heritage Endowers’ Society have the satisfaction of knowing that their own interests and wishes have helped to shape the MSO’s future, and that tomorrow’s audiences will benefit from today’s generosity.

Contributions to the MSO Endowment Fund, as are all gifts to the MSO, are tax-deductible as allowed by federal law. We invite you to make a contribution to the MSO Endowment Fund or become a member of the Heritage Endowers’ Society by including a provision for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra in your estate plan. Please visit with your financial or legal advisors or call the MSO’s Director of Development Vicki Willman at 301-797-4000 for more information.

Invest in the future of your orchestra.

The returns are immeasurable!

Maryland Symphony Orchestra Endowment Fund For contributions through June 30, 2014.

DISTINGUISHED ENDOWERS ($100,000 and over) The Estate of Alberta G. Alcorn Mr. & Mrs. Bennett Rubin Doris H. Thompson The Estate of Jay L. Troxell The John M. Waltersdorf Family Washington County Board of County Commissioners PRINCIPAL ENDOWERS ($50,000 to $99,999) The State of Maryland USF & G Foundation, Inc.

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PRIME ENDOWERS ($25,000 to $49,999) First National Bank of Maryland The Estate of Florence Hill Graff Mr. & Mrs. Jerry E. Massey Mr. & Mrs. Dominick J. Perinia Mr. & Mrs. Charles L. Pitzer Mrs. Agnita M. Schreiber Susquehanna Bank (formerly Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust) MAJOR ENDOWERS ($10,000 TO $24,999) The Honorable & Mrs. W. Kennedy Boone, III

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C&P Telephone Company of Maryland Ewing Oil Company Hagerstown Trust Company C. William Hetzer, Inc. Harvey H. Heyser, Jr. The Marion I. & Henry J. Knott Foundation John H. Hornbaker, Jr., M.D. The Estate of Mr. & Mrs. John V. Jamison, III Maryland Metals, Inc. Maryland National Foundation, Inc. Maryland Symphony Orchestra Guild Mr. & Mrs. Spence W. Perry

Jim & Georgia Pierné Rust-Oleum Corporation James Schurz Mrs. Dorothy Slocum Webster Mr. & Mrs. William P. Young, Jr. SPECIAL ENDOWERS ($5,000 TO $9,999) Mr. & Mrs. John M. Baer Mr. & Mrs. Allen J. Clopper Conservit, Inc. Coopers & Lybrand The Samuel Freeman Charitable Trust Grove Worldwide Dr. & Mrs. Robert K. Hobbs

MSO ENDOWMENT FUND & HERITAGE ENDOWERS’ SOCIETY

PATRON ENDOWERS ($1,000 TO $4,999) Dr. & Mrs. A.F. Abdullah Mr. & Mrs. Jack B. Byers Hermione H. Brewer Michael G. Callas Dr. & Mrs. Jack Carey Mrs. David Cushwa, III Mary & Bud Dahbura Deloitte & Touche Dr. & Mrs. Breese Dickinson Mr. & Mrs. Merle Elliott Mrs. Patricia Enders Mr. & Mrs. Franklin P. Erck, III G.A. Stewart Enterprises, Inc.

Dr. & Mrs. Carl J. Galligan Mr. & Mrs. William H. Gelbach, Jr. Mrs. Lucinda S. Grunberg Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Harsh, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Hershey, Jr. IBM Corporation Mr. & Mrs. Howard S. Kaylor Renee & Fred Kramer Dr. & Mrs. Edward M. Macon Mr. & Mrs. James E. Marsden Mr. & Mrs. J. Alvin Massey Mrs. Victor D. Miller The Noxell Foundation, Inc. Packaging Services of Maryland, Inc. Mrs. Theron Rinehart In memory of Theron Rinehart Pearl & Odell H. Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Ralph L. Sharrett Statton Furniture Manufacturing Co. Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Z. Sulchek Mrs. Agnes Supernavage Mr. & Mrs. Barry Tuckwell Bruce Van Wyk Venice Inn Mr & Mrs. Robert A. Wantz Weinberg & Green

Angel Ticket Contributors MSO Angels have purchased gift tickets for members of community organizations who otherwise might not be able to attend concerts.

Helen R. Beair Mr. & Mrs. Anthony F. Britti Louise F. Bucco Charles W. Clark Janice Gantz Dr. Catherine Gira Dr. Florence Grant Karen & Scott Hamilton Barbara & Tom Henderson Elizabeth Johns & Don Evason Mr. & Mrs. George Kalin, In memory of Hermione H. Brewer Mr. & Mrs. James R. King Mr. & Mrs. Robert Larivee Judith & John Lilga Mr. & Mrs. Jan A. Liwski Mr. & Mrs. Edward H. Lough Ella C. Mose William O’Toole & Catherine Bodin Timothy Rahn & Nancy Hughes Kim Reno

Dr. & Mrs. Howard N. Weeks Captain J. Maury Werth Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Whisner ASSOCIATE ENDOWERS (under $1,000) Mrs. Jack Beachley Mrs. Sara Bock Dr. Edward W. Ditto, III Mr. & Mrs. Frank D. Carden, Jr. Toni & Lee Crawford Dr. Robert L. Josephs Morton & Sophia Macht Foundation, Inc. Maryland Symphony Orchestra Guild In memory of Rosemary G. Vocke

by Peter & Kathleen Clouthier Volvo (formerly Mack Trucks, Inc.) Paul C. & Margaret K. Massey Children (Curt, Jerry, Judy and Alvin) In memory of Ralph Sharrett Mr. & Mrs. Richard Meyer

HERITAGE ENDOWERS’ SOCIETY (For Donors who wish to make gifts or pledges through estate planning; such as insurance policies, wills or trusts) Mr. & Mrs. Edward L. Hose Mr. & Mrs. John V. Jamison, III Mr. & Mrs. James E. Marsden Mr. & Mrs. Alan J. Noia Dr. & Mrs. Carl D. Pedersen Mr. & Mrs. Spence W. Perry Mr. & Mrs. James G. Pierné Mrs. Theron Rinehart Dr. & Mrs. Hugh J. Talton Doris H. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Tischer

Through remembering the MSO in their estate plan Mindy & Jim have given the gift of music to future generations

Marilyn A. Ross The Rotary Club of Long Meadows Foundation, Inc. Penelope & George Smith Dr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Tarpley Ray Teel & Barbara Lawver Dr. David H. Wallace Tinker & Pat Williamson

In memory of Marilyn Jonnes, Susan Bennett, Danny Boyle, Virginia Christensen, Tom & Nancy Creed, Stewart & Carol Creelman, John & Janet Egelhofer, David & Roberta Gang, Shari Guyer, William & Marsha Harbison, Robert Hoyle, Carol Hutter, Lynn & Laura Klock, Karen LaRocque, Kathleen Lovell, Martha McAdams, Jim & Ardie McEathron, Dick Melikian, Richard Mickey, Eileen Murray, Sandra Nortier, Judie O’Donnell, Stephan & Linda Cardillo Platzer, Kevin & Jane Rhodes, James Rosenthal & Halina Wiczyk, MaryEllen Scott, Michael & Lynn Sussman, C. David & Jean Trader, Renato Wendel, and Masako Yanagita

Photo: Youngblood Studios

Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Kenney Mr. & Mrs. James E. Marsden Leslie W. Mills Dr. & Mrs. Robert Nitzell Samuel G. Reel, Jr. William J. & Selina A. Reuter Dr. & Mrs. Joel L. Rosenthal Sovran Bank / Nations Bank Mr. & Mrs. Joseph C. Tischer Mrs. Mary B. Welty

Jim & Mindy Marsden MSO Heritage Endowers’ Society Members

Planned gifts to the Maryland Symphony Orchestra allow donors the unique opportunity to significantly impact the orchestra they love; ensuring concerts performances and music education programs in our community for years to come – all while enjoying numerous tax advantages and other benefits.

Talk to your legal or financial advisor, or contact MSO Director of Development Vicki Willman, 301.797.4000

www.marylandsymphony.org

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Acknowledgements

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra’s Board of Directors, Staff and Musicians gratefully acknowledge the donation of services and assistance from the following individuals and organizations.

SALUTE TO INDEPENDENCE AC&T Co., Inc. Atlantic Coast Charters Antietam Cable Television, Inc. Antietam National Battlefield (ANB) Antietam National Battlefield Volunteers Bay Fireworks Pieter Bickford Board of County Commissioners Washington County, MD Stephen Bulla Ellsworth Electric, Inc. Exchange Club of Antietam Friends of the MSO Hagerstown REACT C-22 Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Inc. Herald-Mail Media Gunnery Sergeant Mark Jenkins Jericho Productions, Inc. Thomas Jones, Incident Commander/Acting Chief Ranger, ANB James Kessler Leiters’ Fine Catering, Inc. Lost Creek Motorsports MHA Audio, Inc. Manitowoc Cranes Martin Storage Co. Maryland Correctional Training Center Maryland National Guard Salute Battery Maryland State Highway Administration MSO Stage Crew: Dwayne Bovey, Ronald Scott & Steven Tyler Stephen Miles National Park Service Rangers, Staff & Volunteers Outdoor Express RV

Plamondon Enterprises, Inc. T/A Roy Rogers Restaurant PNC Potomac Edison Major Michelle A. Rakers Sharpsburg Area Emergency Medical Services (CO-19) Sharpsburg Volunteer Fire Company (CO-1) SpringHill Suites by Marriott, Hagerstown Ted’s Rent It Center Susan Trail, Superintendent, ANB Rob Tudor United Rentals, Frederick “The President’s Own,” The United States Marine Band Wantz Distributors, Inc. Washington County Board of Education Washington County Commuter Washington County Sheriff ’s Office Youngblood Studios MASTERWORKS & SPECIAL CONCERTS Beth Sholom Congregation, Frederick, MD Citi Eastcoast Hardwood Veneers, Inc. Patty Enders Frederick Community College Friends of the MSO MHA Audio, Inc. Maryland Theatre Maryland Theatre Ushers Omega Media Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Allegany Arts Council

Barbara Ingram School for the Arts Board of Education of Washington County Friends of the MSO Hagerstown Community College Rob Hovermale Shenandoah University Stephen Miles St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Smithsburg High School Smithsburg High School Jazz Band Smithsburg High School Orchestra South Hagerstown High School Washington County Free Library Patricia Wishard OFFICE SUPPORT Friends of the MSO Impact Innovative Incorporated MEDIA SPONSORS Antietam Cable Television The Herald-Mail Company / Herald-Mail Media Main Line Broadcasting MSO EVENTS Antietam National Battlefield Bulls & Bears DSL Sound, Inc. Ellsworth Electric, Inc. Friends of the MSO Fountain Head Country Club The Gourmet Goat Leiters’ Fine Catering, Inc. Maryland Theatre Mercedes-Benz of Hagerstown Mercersburg Printing Potomac Edison PNC Premier Catering by Bagel-Lisious

28 South Restaurant Washington County Free Library Williamsport Volunteer Fire & EMS Banquet Hall SEASON TICKETS SPONSORED BY Associated Radiologist, P.A. FREE STUDENT TICKETS SPONSORED BY Music Director Elizabeth Schulze and Susquehanna Bank PATRON TRANSPORTATION SPONSORED BY Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, Edward H. Lough MSO “OFFICIAL HOTEL” SpringHill Suites by Marriott of Hagerstown Courtyard by Marriott of Hagerstown MSO “OFFICIAL MOVER” Martin Storage Co., Inc. / Allied Van Lines MSO “OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER” Youngblood Studios

MSO Music Scholarship Fund The Rotary Club of Hagerstown Contributions Committee

Honorary Board Members Dr. J. Emmet Burke Dr. Anton Dahbura April L. Dowler Frederica Erath John F. Erath Patricia F. Enders Dr. J. Ramsay Farah Donald R. Harsh, Jr. Marjorie M. Hobbs Howard S. Kaylor Alan J. Noia Samuel G. Reel, Jr. William J. Reuter Dr. Joel L. Rosenthal

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Dr. Hugh J. Talton Marty Talton Cassandra Wantz Richard T. Whisner

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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29th Annual Salute to Independence EVENT PARTNERS FIREWORKS SPONSOR Antietam National Battlefield

LIBERTY SPONSORS The Alice Virginia & David W. Fletcher Foundation, Inc.

RED, WHITE & BLUE SPONSORS VICTORY SPONSORS

The Hamilton Family Foundation, Inc.

The Marlene & Mike Young Family

PATRIOTIC SPONSORS Unit #10, American Legion Auxiliary, ClopperMichael Post Clopper-Michael Post #10 American Legion

Post #10 Sons of the American Legion Paul Crampton Contractors, Inc. Delaplaine Foundation, Inc.

Schmankerl Stube Bavarian Restaurant Pat Paddack Jim & Georgia Pierné

Greg & Ruthann Snook

Photo: Youngblood Studios

FRIENDS OF THE SALUTE MEMBERS Pat & Bill Abeles Anonymous Teresa & John Barr Susan Bayer Helen R. Beair Richard & Susan Bell Adeline Bloomfield Deb & Gary Bockrath Todd & Judy Bolton Larry & Sheila Boyer Scott & Kim Bowen Emmet & Mary Anne Burke Barbara H. Burkhardt Bruce & Jamie Bushong Arlene Clendenning Anton Dahbura Bud & Mary Dahbura

Mimi Dickinson Dr. & Mrs. Allen Ditto April Dowler & John League William & Cheryl Drake Megan DuBois Anne & Keith Dunham Andrew & Maria Durelli Darcé E. Easton Eldon & Shirley Eichelberger Ms. Lou Ann Eichelberger Mandi Eichelberger Bill & Mary Elsen Brendan & Katie Fitzsimmons Karen Hamilton Dave & Donna Hankinson Klaus & Becky Hein Barbara & Tom Henderson

Todd & Katie Hershey Ken & Marsha Higley Dr. & Mrs. Robert K. Hobbs Sara J. Hoyle Barbara Irvine & Sylvia Andrae, In memory of their mother Ethel B. Irvine, a longtime active supporter of the MSO Mr. & Mrs. George Kalin Karlen Keto Andrew Kipe & Norman Morse Dave Kline Heidi Krupicka Wallace Lee, In honor of Vicki Willman Bill & Gaye McGovern Jim & Mindy Marsden

Joseph Marschner Al & Claudia Martin C. David & Barbara L. Miller Ella C. Mose Dori & Jim Nipps Marie E. Nowakowski William O’Toole & Catherine Bodin Tamara Nuzzaci Park Linda Paulson Kim Reno Maurice & Marie Rumbarger Judy & Val Sasmore Elizabeth Schulze David & Cande Seay Charlotte Seibert Judith A. Shipley Darlene & Jim Stojak

Deborah & Holly Stotelmyer Barbara E. Statton Drs. Kelli & Albert Strauss Ruth Thompson Sandy Wantz Cathy Ware Washington County Gives Matching Grant Sue Wert & Vicki Willman

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is funded by an operating grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive.

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra thanks our generous sponsors and contributors.

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M a r y l a n d

S y M p h o n y

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S e a S o n

elizabeth Schulze, Music director MAGICAL MUSIC OF DISNEY

BROTHERS ON THE BATTLEFIELD

MSO Pops!

September 20, 2014 – 7pm

Masterworks

RODNEY MACK & THE PHILADELPHIA BIG BRASS

A concert for the whole family featuring music from early classics to recent releases that includes The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, and Tarzan.

March 14, 2015 – 8pm March 15, 2015 – 3pm

RMPBB includes some of America’s top brass musicians. This program is a moving multimedia presentation featuring the music that influenced America from before the Civil War to just after the Civil Rights Movement.

MOZART & MAHLER

SHARON ISBIN

CHRISTINA & MICHELLE NAUGHTON, pianists

World preMIere!

Masterworks

Masterworks

PERFORMS CHRIS BRUBECK

october 11, 2014 – 8pm october 12, 2014 – 3pm MOZART Concerto for Two Pianos & Orchestra, No. 10 in E-flat Major MAHLER Symphony No. 1 in D Major

SHARON ISBIN, guitar

april 11, 2015 – 8pm april 12, 2015 – 3pm BRUBECK Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

BEETHOVEN’S FIRST

MOTOWN TONIGHT!

MICHAEL BROWN, pianist

SPECTRUM, vocalists

Masterworks

MSO Pops!

november 8, 2014 – 8pm november 9, 2014 – 3pm BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 1 in D Major BROWN Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

May 2, 2015 – 8pm

Four talented vocalists and the MSO join forces to pay tribute to Motown and R&B.

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

december 13, 2014 – 7pm december 14, 2014 – 3pm

The region’s most popular Christmas concert.

50% OFF

First-time subscribers 301.797.4000

MYTHS, LEGENDS & TALES Masterworks

KIM VALERIO, flute

February 14, 2015 – 8pm February 15, 2015 – 3pm MOZART Overture, The Magic Flute GRIEG Peer Gynt: Suite 1 CORIGLIANO Pied Piper Fantasy

PURCHASE YOUR SINGLE TICKETS Online, by phone, or in person:

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Artists and programs subject to change without notice. Unless otherwise noted, all programs are performed at the Maryland Theatre.

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