Modesto Symphony 2019-20: Beethoven & Dvořák Program

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MODESTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION David Lockington, Music Director

CLASSICS SERIES SYMPHONIC HEROES

BEETHOVEN & DVOŘÁK David Lockington / conductor

John Stafford Smith

(1750-1836)

The Star-Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key

(1779-1843) arr. by Daniel R. Afonso, Jr.

Johannes Brahms

(1833-1897) orc. by Albert Parlow

Hungarian Dances Nos. 5 & 6 SIDE-BY-SIDE PERFORMANCE WITH MSYO

Gabriel Martins / cello side-by-side performance with the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra

Antonín Dvořák

(1841-1904)

I. Allegro II. Adagio ma non troppo III. Finale. Allegro moderato

Friday, November 1, 2019, 7:30pm Saturday, November 2, 2019, 7:30pm Gallo Center for the Arts Mary Stuart Rogers Theater

Cello Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 104

Gabriel Martins, cello INTERMISSION Ludwig van Beethoven

(1770-1827)

Symphony No. 3, op. 55 I. Allegro con brio II. Marcia funebre. Adagio assai III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace - Trio IV. Finale. Allegro molto

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Dan Flanagan, Concertmaster Ilana Blumberg-Thomas, Associate Concertmaster Dagenais Smiley, Assistant Concertmaster Elizabeth Kidwell Kirstan Hilton Milka Kraleva-Castro Matthew Oshida George Hayes Jolán Friedhoff Randy Weiss Baker Peeples Peiyun Lee

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Patricia Whaley, Principal Cassandra Lynn Richburg, Assistant Principal James Een Valerie Tisdel Stephanie Railsback Daria D’Andrea Betsy London Alessandra Aquilanti

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Robert Howard, Principal Jonathan Flaksman, Assistant Principal Dina Weinshelbaum Daniel Davies Farley Pearce Leighton Fong Paul Hale Amy Brodo

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Haruya Maejima Douglas Shrader Marycella Zamora James Van Gorkom Gabrielli Camille Bunag

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Mike Chen Ethney Barajas Mariah Canton Jason Huynh Diego Ortiz Jeremy Kwon Maggie Juarez

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Gabriel Martins

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American cellist Gabriel Martins (b. 1998) is a prize-winner of the David Popper International Cello Competition, Orford Music Award, Prague Spring International Music Competition, Sphinx Competition, and International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians. His performances have brought him around the globe to venues such as Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In the words of esteemed cellist Ralph Kirshbaum, Martins has "revealed heart, passion, intellect, and a finely-nuanced palette of colors in a compelling manner worthy of a seasoned artist."

Martins has performed as soloist with the Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra, Fukuda Ensemble (São Paulo), Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, New Russia State Symphony Orchestra, Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, and USC Thornton Symphony, among others.

His recent recital performances include an appearance on the Dame Myra Hess series in Chicago. He has collaborated in chamber music with artists such as Miriam Fried, Edgar Meyer, and Csaba Onczay. During the 2018/19 season, he was invited by Miriam Fried on a tour with Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, consisting of concerts in Boston, Chicago, New York City, and elsewhere. Martins is also the newest member of the SAKURA Cello Quintet, which has been described as "brilliant" and "superb" by the Los Angeles Times.

"revealed heart, passion, intellect, and a finelynuanced palette of colors in a compelling manner worthy of a seasoned artist." / R A L P H K I R S H B AU M , C E L L I S T

Growing up in Bloomington Indiana, Martins began playing the cello when he was five, studying with Susan Moses at the Indiana University String Academy. He has since enjoyed fellowships at the Ravinia Stean's Music Institute, Orford Music Academy, Piatigorsky International Cello Festival, and Aspen Music Festival and School, where he won the Low Strings Concerto Competition. He went on to pursue his undergraduate studies with Ralph Kirshbaum at the USC Thornton School of Music (Class of 2019), where he won both the concerto competition and solo Bach competition in his freshman year.

Website: www.gabrielmartinscello.com / You can also follow him on YouTube & Facebook

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Program Notes Hungarian Dances

/ No. 5 in F-sharp minor & No. 6 in D-flat major Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

“It is hard to write down what one has been improvising wildly for a long time,” Brahms wrote to his publisher, Simrock. Brahms had become familiar with Hungarian and “Gypsy” (Roma) melodies in 1853, while on tour with the Hungarian violinist Eduard Remény.

He often played them at his concerts and sporadically wrote them down. His challenge now was to cast them in the formal language of classical music without destroying their freshness and spontaneity. Attuned to the great demand for music for home entertainment, he set these dances for piano four hands, but many composers and arrangers have made orchestral transcriptions of the dances.

Brahms compiled the dances in four books between 1869 and 1880. According to a list printed in Vienna’s Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1874, the melodies of the first 10 were by Hungarian composers of popular music—except for No. 7, which is a true folk melody. The rest are probably mostly by Brahms himself.

In naming these pieces “Hungarian Dances,” Brahms may have fallen for the common practice in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of supposedly “discovering” nationalistic or ethnic styles, which turned out to be the popular Roma (Gypsy) tunes played in the Coffee houses rather than true folk tunes. Four of the first ten dances, for example, are czárdáses, ostensibly a Hungarian peasant dance, but actually invented—name and all—by a nationalist aristocrat early in the nineteenth century. The peasants had never heard of it.

No. 5 is based on Czárdás Bartfai-Emlék (Reminiscences of Bartfai Czárdás), Op. 31 by Béla Kéler (1820-1882), a conductor and composer of dance music, especially known for his violin writing.

No. 6th melody comes from the song Rózsa Bokor (Rosebush) by Adolph Nittinger.

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

Antonín Dvořák’s sojourn in the United States from 1892 to 1895 came about through the efforts of Mrs. Jeanette B. Thurber. A dedicated and idealistic proponent of an American national musical style, she underwrote and administered the first American music conservatory, the National Conservatory of Music in New York. Because of Dvořák’s popularity throughout Europe, he was Thurber’s first choice as director. He, in turn, was probably lured to the big city so far from home by both a large salary and a passion

for musical nationalism that paralleled Mrs. Thurber’s own. He was eager to learn more of the Native-American and African-American music, which he believed should be the basis of the American national style of composition. He also shared with Mrs. Thurber the conviction that the National Conservatory should admit AfricanAmerican students.

Dvořák’s period in New York was quite productive in spite of his administrative and teaching duties. He composed string quartets, a string quintet, the Ten Biblical Songs, Symphony No. 9 and lastly, most of the Cello Concerto.

For a number of years, Dvořák’s friend, the cellist Hanus Wihan, had been asking for a cello concerto. But the ultimate impetus was a performance by Irish cellist, composer and conductor Victor Herbert of his Cello Concerto No. 2 at a New York Philharmonic concert. Dvořák thought the work splendid and a few months later sat down to write his own concerto. He finished it just before he left New York to return to his native Bohemia.

Dvořák resisted Wihan’s suggestions for a bravura piece, preferring to focus on the emotions rather than technical acrobatics.

Instead of pitting the soloist against the orchestra, he preferred a partnership. While writing the concerto he received news that his sister-in-law, Josefina Kaunitzová was critically ill. Dvořák had been in love with her and had wanted to marry her some 30 years earlier but had had to settle for her sister instead. As a tribute to Josefina, he included in the second movement of the concerto a reference to her favorite of his songs, “Leave me alone.” Shortly after his return to Prague, Josefina died. Dvořák changed the ending of the Concerto, adding the elegiac and exquisitely painful coda to the final movement, again briefly quoting the song in a duet between the cello and solo violin.

The clarinet opens the Concerto with one of the most emotionally evocative eight notes in the repertory, a theme that lends itself to a variety of harmonizations that Dvořák makes good use of in the course of the movement. While the Concerto is certainly not a bravura piece, the cello part in this movement is difficult both technically and emotionally. It requires a “private” and intense development of two themes, as well as rapid figurative accompaniments to the orchestra. There is no formal cadenza.

The Adagio is another dialogue for cello and woodwinds. It begins gently, with a choir of woodwinds quoting from the song, immediately echoed by the cello, which is joined by the winds for the next strain of the theme. The cello continues with a poignant sighing motive that increases the emotional tension in preparation for the only appearance of the full orchestra in the

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/ PROGRAM NOTES entire movement in a sudden anguished cry. But the movement quickly returns to the quiet but intense conversation between cello and winds.

harmonies baffled Beethoven’s friendly but conservative public, and the reception was anything but enthusiastic. It took a few years for the Viennese to warm to this innovative work.

A march opens the final movement, but soon the cello’s reflective personality takes over, periodically slowing the tempo. Throughout the Concerto, the cello frequently lapses into passionate reverie, and Dvořák “concludes” the Finale two thirds of the way through, replacing the customary cadenza with the moving coda in memory of Josefina, the muse of the entire Concerto.

Although it would take many pages of in-depth musical analysis to explain what was so different and disturbing about this Symphony, here are some highlights that we now take for granted after over 200 years of development and change in Western music:

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55, Eroica Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Few musical manuscripts have elicited so much musicological discussion as has Beethoven’s personal conductor’s copy of his Symphony No. 3. The story of its original dedication to Napoleon, the chief military defender of the French Revolution with its ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, and the subsequent violent erasure of the dedication when Napoleon crowned himself emperor, has been told time and again.

Reality, however, is often more complex than history books would have it. Beethoven was clearly disgusted at Napoleon’s coronation, exclaiming: “Is he then, too, nothing more than an ordinary human being? Now he, too, will trample on all the rights of man...become a tyrant.” But his disappointment with the Emperor was tinged in no small part by self-interest. Hoping at the time to establish a foothold in the musical life of Paris, the composer had planned to travel there with his mentor, Prince Lobkowitz, using the premiere of the Symphony as a passport to the French capital and lucrative commissions. Napoleon’s coup, and the resultant political upheavals, disrupted these plans.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the Symphony is how Beethoven—who had surprising difficulty coming up with melodies—was able to make so much out of so little. The opening theme is nothing more than an arpeggiated E-flat major chord; the Scherzo theme is a descending E-flat major scale; and the theme for the Finale is a brief simple bass pattern that he had used three times previously—in the Piano Variations, Op. 35, in one of his Contredanses (WoO. 14, no. 7) and in the grand finale of his ballet The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43— repeated beneath a set of spectacular variations. Only the second movement, the Funeral March, begins with a fully formed new theme.

It is hard for us today to appreciate the revolutionary impact of this symphony on Vienna’s audience. The constantly modulating keys, rhythmic shifts, large dynamic leaps and unfamiliar

To begin with, there is the sheer length and scope of the work.

The first movement alone is longer than anything that had been written up to this time. It follows a complex and, at times, astonishing, key structure, whose wanderings and surprises blur the distinctions between the basic components of sonata form (The coda, for example, is another mini-development in a distant key.)

The Andante, entitled “Funeral March for a Hero,” counters even the most poignant Mozartian second movement with a totally new depth of emotional intensity and grandeur. The Scherzo—an earlier Beethoven invention to replace the sometimes stately, sometimes thumping minuets of Mozart and Haydn – breaks with tradition in its Trio, scored as a section solo for the horns.

Instead of creating a sprightly and upbeat rondo, in the style of his predecessors, Beethoven gives a weight and importance to the Finale that would inspire both his own future symphonic writing (culminating in the Ninth Symphony) and that of his successors. The theme is nothing more than a skeleton, actually more a ground bass than a true melody. The variations that constitute this lengthy movement are also quite new in structure.

While variation forms tended to be somewhat static, adhering throughout to a single key and the standard phrase length of the original theme, Beethoven includes variations in different keys and of varying lengths; he even breaks away from the variations altogether for a while in the middle of the movement. Whereas most sets of variations progress steadily from the simple to the complex—or, at least, the more ornamented – Beethoven was less interested in bravura than in giving each variation its own mood, for which he also employed an innovative use of orchestral solos and ensembles.

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FRANK

MANCINI LEGACY SOCIETY Founding Music Director Frank Mancini was the driving force that created the Modesto Symphony Orchestra and organized its first performance in 1931. His dedication, passion for music, and commitment to the community is fondly remembered. In his honor, the Frank Mancini Legacy Society exists to recognize and thank those who include the Modesto Symphony Orchestra Association in their estate plans. By becoming a member of the Frank Mancini Legacy Society, you help ensure the future of the orchestra. For information regarding Frank Mancini Legacy Society or to make a bequest, please call Carole Richard, CFRE Director of Development, at (209) 523-4156 ext. 107.

The MSO is grateful to the Frank Mancini Legacy Society members, who have invested in the Symphony's future through a planned gift. The following included the Modesto Symphony Orchestra in their will and estate plans or named the MSO as the beneficiary of their retirement or life insurance policy.

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Estate of Ella Peer Estate of Howard & Rosemary Smith

M AT C H I N G G I F T S AT&T Bank of America E. & J. Gallo Winery

Albert Nodwell King Vivian F. Olsen Raymond & Carolyn Purdy Deni Royer Robert A. Saunders Ted & Corrine Shields Ruth Mary Smith Dr. Thomas & Elizabeth Ustach James & Jessie West Edith Wheeler Thelma Zingel

M O D E S T O S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A / 2019 - 2020 C L A S S I C S & P O P S S E R I E S

Sierra Health Foundation UnitedHealth Group

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MEMORIAL & TRIBUTE GIFTS

The MSO is grateful for the generosity of the following donors who made tributes to loved ones from October 2018 - October 2019.

Memorials WILLIAM AHLEM Carole Boyett Dianne Gagos Caroline Nickel & Tony Vlcek Robert & Suzanne Robinson DR. C. V. ALLEN Carole Boyett Toni Clark Sandra DeAlcuaz E. & J. Gallo Winery Lynne Fenderson Dr. Richard & Nancy Fisher Dianne Gagos Nancy Hornberger Diane Keller Dallas & Garrad Marsh Bill & Marlene Metge Modesto Antique Collectors Club Caroline Nickel & Tony Vlcek Hugh & Willie Rose Deni Royer Robert A. Saunders Dr. Paul & Judy Schunke Ray & Joan Simon Betty Ustach Tom & Grace Van Groningen Carole Whiteside CLARA AZEVEDO Lee & Sandra Bucknell Ross Campbell & Joyce Hosegood-Campbell Hal & Lucy Conkey DONALD BERG Deni Royer NICK BLOM Philip & Margaret Beck Carole Boyett Elizabeth Ustach Tom & Grace Van Groningen PHYLLIS CUSENZA Deni Royer MICHAEL DUFOUR Sue & Richard DuFour ALBERT GRANT DELMAS Kent & Ginger Johnson MARY GIVENTER H. Dieter & Hanna Renning BETT Y GRIFFITH Dianne Gagos

JERRY HAWKINS George & Marie Bariey Ron Baram & Pat Portwood Betty Beard Phillip & Margaret Beck Donald & Pam Berg J. Michael Boyd & Rayne Dessayer Carole Boyett Shelia Carroll Antoinette Clark Carl Collins & Donna Flanders Michael & Patricia Cousins David & Margaret Flanders Nancy Fontana Francesca Fovinci Friends of the Modesto Library Friends of the Symphony Dianne Gagos Douglas & Kathy Harms Joan & David Hendrick Richard & Victoria Higginbotham Jeffrey Horner Charles & Kathleen Holmberg Wilmar & Judith Jensen Jeanie Jones Kathryn Kensinger Michael & Rose King Terry McGrath & Patricia Glattke Beverly McKinney Janice Milliken Caroline Nickel & Tony Vlcek Denise Nordell Barbara Padmos Bill & Cathie Peck Carmen Pedrioli Jerald & Seena Rhine Carole Richard Deni Royer Richard & Deanna Salter Robert A. Saunders Teresa Temkin Elizabeth Ustach David & Julie Vander Wall John & Carol Whiteside Rho Yare NEIL HUDSON American Association of University Women Sharlene Aja Carol Neyfeldt Benak June Botto Central Valley Democratic Club Robert & Colleen Cordano Sharon Hawley-Crum William & Bonnie Fogarty

Bob & Marie Gallo Foundation Rob & Jan Gilbert Blaine & Jane Griffith Ruth Hendricks Clydora & Stuart Hippler Jerry & Diane Hougland Zoe Kilkenny Donald & Judith Kropp David Tucker & Linda Lagace Barbara Linthicum Jerry & Barbara Marquis Marlin & Cindy Moreno Barbara Padmos Nana Redell Lonnie & Alice Renfroe Carolyn Robinson Tillie Silva Windward Pacific Builders NANC Y JACKSON Dr. Phillip & Margaret Beck Dianne Gagos Family DR. EVERETT JOHNSON Dr. Phil & Margaret Beck Betty Brugger Sheila Carroll Dianne Gagos Maree Hawkins Mike & Judy Herrero Hillberg & Company Kent & Ginger Johnson Diane Keller John & Nellie Lazar Peter & Alexander Loew Scott MacDonald Caroline Nickel & Tony Vlcek Richard & Patty Norquist Helen Perry H. Dieter & Hanna Renning Daphne Ritchie Bob & Suzanne Robinson Rotary Club of Turlock Ray & Joan Simon Margaret Smurr Ray & Yvonne Taylor Betty Ustach Rebecca & John Yarnell RON KLINKENBORG Ken & Debra Newburg HONORABLE EDWARD LAC Y, JR. Dr. Phil & Margaret Beck MARY LACEY Phillip & Margaret Beck

CLASSICS SERIES I / BEETHOVEN & DVOŘÁK

GRACE LIEBERMAN Dianne Gagos Ralph & Ellen Moore Stanislaus Arts Council Tom & Grace Van Groningen TOM MILLER Toni Clark Howard Goldor & Rhonda Kluender Caroline Nickel & Tony Vlcek Robert & Suzanne Robinson Deni Royer Robert A. Saunders Elizabeth Ustach JOHN & SYLVIA MIRABELLA Robert & Suzanne Robinson ROSA MOZAFFARI Phillip & Margaret Beck MURIEL A. NAGLE Tony & Gail McBride Beth & Jack Nagle RONALD NAIL Mitchell & Leesa Gagos GARY NERLAND Tony Vlcek & Caroline Nickel Deni Royer Carole Richard BETT Y PICKEREL Phillip & Margaret Beck SALLY Q. REISS Phil Reiss DORIS SANDERS Dianne Gagos GEORGE SCHUMACHER Robert & Suzanne Robinson LYNNE SUTTON Betty Beard James & Hebe Beard Carole Boyett Toni Clark James & Sue Coleman Karen Ferrell Dianne Gagos Bob & Marie Gallo Loren Gonella & Andra Greenwald Darcy & Michael Krajewski Lia Lent Caroline Nickel & Tony Vlcek Barbara Padmos Carole Richard Robert & Suzanne Robinson Deni Royer

MEMORIAL & TRIBUTE GIFTS Robert A. Saunders Roldon & Pam Sutton Elizabeth Ustach DORIS WANT Y Robert & Suzanne Robinson MARY ANN WHALEY Baird Whaley JOHN WHITESIDE Suzanne Allen Tom & Heidi Arno Paul Baxter Phillip & Margaret Beck Kimberly Belshe George & Christine Betker George & Anne Britton B. B. & Andrea Blevins Lee & Sandra Bucknell California Emerging Technology Fund Ross Campbell & Joyce Hosegood-Campbell Sheila Carroll John & Suzanne Casazza Alan & Susan Cassidy Richard Cummings & Carrie Rasmussen Mark & Nadine Dunker E. & J. Gallo Winery Ron & Janice Emerzian Lynne Fenderson Richard & Nancy Fisher Tim & Judy Fisher John & Lorraine Freeland Dianne Gagos Mitchell & Leesa Gagos

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Mary Gallo Maree Hawkins Michael & Judith Herrero Victoria Higginbotham Ronald Hilfiker Ronald Hillberg Jim & D'Arcy Kirkland Sonja Knutsen Dallas & Garrad Marsh Casey O’Mara Candy Monarrez Ralph & Ellen Moore Caroline Nickel & Tony Vlcek Barbara Padmos Dr. Harvey Palitz Barbara Patrick Carole Richard Robert & Suzanne Robinson Hugh & Willie Rose Deni Royer Robert A. Saunders Paul & Judy Schunke Randy & Sue Siefkin Sierra Health Foundation Marie Silveira Ray & Joan Simon Bill, Kirk, & Ryon, Trinitas Partners Phil Trompetter & Dawn Cunningham Elizabeth Ustach David & Julie Vander Wall Tom & Grace Van Groningen Burt & Polly Vasche Ann Veneman Jan Whittlesey & Glen Enright Thomas & Shelly Zeff

MARY ALICE WILLEY Toni Clark Linda Kenyon Dianne Gagos Robert & Suzanne Robinson Dr. R.J. Moriconi & Anthony Alonzo SANDY ZEFF Robert & Suzanne Robinson

Past MSO Chorus Members GAIL BENGE TOBI CLARK RYAN CREE LUANA FIORINI GORDON HEADRICK KATHY KLEIN ROY LARSON GRACE LIEBERMAN BILL NICHOLS NANC Y RIDER ROBERT L. RIDER ELIZABETH SINCLAIR PENNY WHITE MSO Chorus

TRIBUTES IN HONOR OF DR. C.V. & SUZANNE ALLEN’S 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY The Allen Children Elizabeth Ustach

IN HONOR OF SARALEE MOORAD’S 90TH BIRTHDAY The Gagos Family IN HONOR OF DIANNE GAGOS Kimble Gagos Mitchell & Leesa Gagos Nancey Gagos IN HONOR OF VIOLA RICHARD Carlos & Janet Moreno IN HONOR OF CAROLE RICHARD Carlos & Janet Moreno IN HONOR OF RAY & JOAN SIMON'S 60TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Dianne Gagos Suzanne Allen IN HONOR OF BURT & POLLY VASCHE'S 40TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Karrick & Carole Collins Robert A. Saunders IN HONOR OF DR. BRIAN & DENNIZ WISTOW The Gagos Family IN HONOR OF ZOEY MOFFITT John Petty IN HONOR OF BRIAN & LAURA GINI Dianne Gagos

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kent Johnson BOARD CHAIR

Katherine Boyd Carole Boyett Sheila Carroll Richard Dewar, MD Dianne Gagos Maree Hawkins Mike Herrero Greg Helbig, MD Ron Hoffmann Richard Kendrick, MD

Phillip Beck, MD BOARD VICE CHAIR John Wallace TREASURER Deni Royer SECRETARY Robert Hawks PAST BOARD CHAIR

Dallas Marsh Avi Nijjar, MD Steve Pallios H. Dieter Renning Donna Riley Betty Ustach

REPRESENTATIVES

FOUNDERS

Toni Litke, MSYO Belinda Rolicheck, MSO Chorus

Frank “Proof” Mancini Malin Langstroth Leonard Fristrom

LEGAL COUNSEL

Katherine R. Boyd, Inc. Wilmar Jensen, Jensen & Jensen Attorneys James D. Mayol, Mayol & Barringer

M O D E S T O S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A / 2019 - 2020 C L A S S I C S & P O P S S E R I E S