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Tosca in Concert

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Saturday, November 16, 2024, 6 p.m.

5 p.m. Pre-Concert Talk

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Roberto Minczuk Music Director Carmen Giannattasio Tosca Matthew White Cavaradossi Leonardo Neiva Scarpia Michael Colman Angelotti, Jalier, Sciarrone, and Sacristan Gabriel Deyarmond Spoletta Amanda Porter Shepherd Quintessence: A Community of Singers chorus Matthew Greer Quintessence director

Tosca

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924)

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Mozart’s Gran Partita

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First United Methodist Church

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Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, “Gran Partita,” K. 361/370a I. Largo. Molto allegro II. Menuetto III. Adagio. Andante IV. Menuetto. Allegretto V. Romance. Adagio VI. Tema con variazioni. Andante VII. Finale. Molto allegro

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

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Philharmonic Fanfare for Brass Choir

“Wachet Auf, ruft uns die Stimme,” BWV 645

Sinfonietta for Brass I. Maestoso II. Lento serioso III. Presto IV. Maestoso—Allegro ritmico

Joy to the World Fantasy

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Gina Gillie (b. 1981)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) arr. Miller

Howard Blake (b. 1938)

Anthony DiLorenzo (b. 1967)

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Home for the Holidays

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Roberto Minczuk Music Director Manzano Day School Chorus/Ally McCurley director Albuquerque Youth Symphony/Dan Whisler director Cantate: Bosque School Choir/Joanna Carlson Hart director V. Sue Cleveland High School Concert Choir/Jadira Flamm director Moriarty High School Choir/Audrianna Aragon director

A Christmas Festival

Leroy Anderson

“Carol of the Bells”

Mykola Leontovych arr. Wilhousky

A Winter Miracle

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Three Holiday Songs from Home Alone

“Sleigh Ride”

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The Nutcracker “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” “Waltz of the Flowers”

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“Star Carol”

The Best Christmas of All

“Angel’s Carol”

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Jerry Herman arr. Blank/Wendel Rutter

“Farandole” from L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2

Georges Bizet

The Many Moods of Christmas Suite No. 1

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Roberto Minczuk Music Director In 2017, GRAMMY® Award-winning conductor Roberto Minczuk was appointed Music Director of the New Mexico Philharmonic and of the Theatro Municipal Orchestra of São Paulo. He is also Music Director Laureate of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (Canada) and Conductor Emeritus of the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira (Rio de Janeiro). In Calgary, he recently completed a 10-year tenure as Music Director, becoming the longest-running Music Director in the orchestra’s history.

Highlights of Minczuk’s recent seasons include the complete Mahler Symphony Cycle with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra; Bach’s St. John Passion, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7, Beethoven’s Fidelio, Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Verdi’s La traviata, Bernstein’s Mass, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier with the Theatro Municipal Orchestra of São Paulo; debuts with the Cincinnati Opera (Mozart’s Don Giovanni), the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, and Daejeon Philharmonic in South Korea; and return engagements with the Orchestra National de Lille and the New York City Ballet. In the 2016/2017 season, he made return visits to the Israel Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Teatro Colón Philharmonic and Orchestra Estable of Buenos Aires.

A protégé and close colleague of the late Kurt Masur, Minczuk debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 1998, and by 2002 was Associate Conductor, having

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worked closely with both Kurt Masur and Lorin Maazel. He has since conducted more than 100 orchestras worldwide, including the New York, Los Angeles, Israel, London, Tokyo, Oslo, and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras; the London, San Francisco, Dallas, and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras; and the National Radio (France), Philadelphia, and Cleveland Orchestras, among many others. In March 2006, he led the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s U.S. tour, winning accolades for his leadership of the orchestra in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Until 2010, Minczuk held the post of Music Director and Artistic Director of the Opera and Orchestra of the Theatro Municipal Rio de Janeiro, and, until 2005, he served as Principal Guest Conductor of the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, where he previously held the position of Co-Artistic Director. Other previous posts include Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Ribeirão Preto Symphony, Principal Conductor of the Brasília University Symphony, and a six-year tenure as Artistic Director of the Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival.

Minczuk’s recording of the complete Bachianas Brasileiras of Hector VillaLobos with the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra (BIS label) won the Gramophone Award of Excellence in 2012 for best recording of this repertoire.

His other recordings include Danzas Brasileiras, which features rare works by Brazilian composers of the 20th century, and the Complete Symphonic Works of Antonio Carlos Jobim, which won a Latin GRAMMY in 2004 and was nominated for an American GRAMMY in 2006. His three recordings with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra include Rhapsody in Blue: The Best of George Gershwin and Beethoven Symphonies 1, 3, 5, and 8. Other recordings include works by Ravel, Piazzolla, Martin, and Tomasi with the London Philharmonic (released

by Naxos), and four recordings with the Academic Orchestra of the Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival, including works by Dvořák, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky. Other projects include

a 2010 DVD recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, featuring the premiere of Hope: An Oratorio, composed by Jonathan Leshnoff; a 2011 recording with the Odense Symphony of Poul Ruders’s Symphony No. 5, which was featured as a Gramophone Choice in March 2012; and a recording of Tchaikovsky’s Italian Capriccio with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, which accompanied the June 2010 edition of BBC Music Magazine. The Academic Orchestra of the Campos do Jordão Festival was the Carlos Gomes prizewinner for its recording from the 2005 Festival, which also garnered the TIM Award for best classical album.

Roberto Minczuk has received numerous awards, including a 2004 Emmy for the program New York City Ballet—Lincoln Center Celebrates Balanchine 100; a 2001 Martin E. Segal Award that recognizes Lincoln Center’s most promising young artists; and several honors in his native country of Brazil, including two best conductor awards from the São Paulo Association of Art Critics and the coveted title of Cultural Personality of the Year. In 2009, he was awarded the Medal Pedro Ernesto, the highest commendation of the City of Rio de Janeiro, and in 2010, he received the Order of the Ipiranga State Government of São Paulo. In 2017, Minczuk received the Medal of Commander of Arts and Culture from the Brazilian government.

A child prodigy, Minczuk was a professional musician by the age of 13. He was admitted into the prestigious Juilliard School at 14 and by the age of 16, he had joined the Orchestra Municipal de São Paulo as solo horn. During his Juilliard years, he appeared as soloist with the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concerts series. Upon his graduation in 1987, he became a member of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at the invitation of Kurt Masur. Returning to Brazil in 1989, he studied conducting with Eleazar de Carvalho and John Neschling.

He won several awards as a young horn player, including the Mill Santista Youth Award in 1991 and I Eldorado Music. ●

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Carmen Giannattasio soprano Soprano Carmen Giannattasio studied voice at the Avellino Conservatory, specializing later at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In 2002, she won the prestigious Operalia in Paris, making her debut as Desdemona (Otello) at the Los Angeles Opera. From there, she began a brilliant career that took her to many important stages, including the Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, Metropolitan Opera in New York, Bavarian State Opera, Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, and the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, as well as the opera houses of San Francisco, Vienna, Madrid, Berlin, Brussels, Turin, Venice, Naples, Amsterdam, Hamburg, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. She regularly collaborates with maestros such as Paolo Arrivabeni, Maurizio Benini, James Conlon, Myung-Whun Chung, Diego Matheuz, Zubin Mehta, Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniele Rustioni, Pinchas Steinberg, and Omer Meir Wellber.

Carmen Giannattasio was chosen by Opera Rara—a record label specializing in the publication of rarely performed operas—for important bel canto recordings such as Rossini’s La donna del lago, Donizetti’s Parisina, and Rossini’s Ermione, a performance that won her the praise of leading critics worldwide and the prestigious Gramophone Opera Award in 2011. Her recordings with the British label also include Bellini’s Il Pirata (2010) and Donizetti’s Caterina Cornaro (2011).

In the 2020/21 season, Carmen Giannattasio was a guest at the Teatro

Massimo in Palermo in “Il Crepuscolo dei Sogni”—“Traumdämmerung” (from an idea

by Johannes Erath), which was followed

by Tosca at the Sydney Opera and Alice Ford in a new production of Falstaff in Aixen-Provence. Highlights of the 2021/22 season included the opening of the Wiener Staatsoper’s season with Tosca, a role she also performed at the Sferisterio Opera Festival in Macerata and the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Falstaff at the Lyon Opera, and La Wally in Munich. Future engagements will take the artist again to the Deutsche Oper Berlin, where she has been invited to sing Giorgetta (Il tabarro) and the eponymous roles of Gioconda (La Gioconda) and Tosca. Other projects include Eugene Onegin at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Aida in Oviedo, and a series of concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City. After singing the role of Tosca at the Comunale in Bologna and on tour in Wiesbaden, she will sing it again in Rome (Caracalla), Albuquerque, and Naples in the coming seasons.

Carmen Giannattasio has been chosen as brand ambassador for the Bulgari brand and is dressed by designer Antonio Riva.

She is also an ambassador for perfume brand Carthusia and Swiss skincare brand La Prairie. In February 2017, Carmen Giannattasio was awarded the title of Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella della Repubblica Italiana. ● Amanda Porter soprano Amanda Porter is an American coloratura soprano based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is known for her dynamic agility and silvery coloratura, and for her intimate connection to text and character in opera, musical theatre, and art song.

Amanda is a soloist at Central United Methodist Church, appears regularly in comprimario roles and in the chorus with Opera Southwest, and in principal roles at the University of New Mexico. Her roles include Susanna in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, La Fée in Massenet’s Cendrillon, Königin der Nacht and Erste Dame in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and First Calavera in Rodríguez’s Frida. ●

Matthew White tenor The New York Classical Review described American tenor Matthew White as having a “distinctive tenor [with a] dark and powerful lyric sound.” In the 2022/2023 season, Mr. White performed Alfredo in La traviata with Houston Grand Opera, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Opéra de Montréal, Duca in Rigoletto with Utah Opera, and for his much-anticipated European debut, Don José in Carmen with Oper im Steinbruch in Austria.

On the concert stage, he sang the Shepherd in Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex with the Houston Symphony and Handel’s Messiah with the Nashville Symphony and the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. In the 2021/2022 season, Matthew White performed Don José in Carmen with Santa Fe Opera, Rodolfo in La bohème with Detroit Opera and Spoleto Festival USA, Don José with Arizona Opera, Lancelot in Chausson’s Le roi Arthus with Bard SummerScape, and the title role in Faust et Hélène with the Houston Symphony.

Engagements of the 2019/2020 season included role and house debuts including Rodolfo in La bohème with Opera Naples, and as the tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Florida Orchestra. Mr. White recently made critically acclaimed debuts as Roméo in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette with Cincinnati Opera, the Duca in Rigoletto with Edmonton Opera, and Pinkerton in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly with the Princeton Festival.

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Roberto in Puccini’s Le Villi, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor, Avito in Montemezzi’s L’amore dei tre re, and Faust in Lili Boulanger’s Faust et Hélène.

He made his debut with Opera Maine as Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi and has appeared with Palm Beach Opera and Vero Beach Opera. Concert credits include performances with the New Jersey Festival Orchestra, Ocean City Pops, and the Longfellow Chorus Festival.

A favorite of competitions, Mr. White was selected to compete in the 2019 Operalia Competition in Prague. He was awarded the Grand Prize of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition, 1st place in the Deborah Voigt International Vocal Competition, 2nd place in the Metropolitan Opera Mid-Atlantic region, the Grand Prize in the Mario Lanza Vocal Competition, an Encouragement Award from the George London Foundation, and is the recipient of the Alfonso Cavaliere Award. He has participated in the training programs of Bel Canto at Caramoor, PORTopera, and Seagle Music Colony.

A trained violinist, Mr. White is also an avid surfer and runs his own surfboard business, which currently has clients around the world. ● Gabriel Deyarmond tenor Michigander and tenor Gabriel Deyarmond has been described as having a “dramatic and evocative” voice as well as possessing a “fast as fire” coloratura.

He was most recently seen as Florestan in Beethoven’s Fidelio with the Opera Company of Middlebury in Middlebury, Vermont. Past seasons include roles in Tosca, Lohengrin, The Turn of the Screw, Alcina, Gianni Schicchi, and Bless Me, Ultima, among other operas. In addition to staged roles, Gabriel is an avid lover of oratorio and has sung Handel’s Messiah; Bach’s Cantatas 21, 57, 84, and 156, Christmas Oratorio, and St. Matthew’s Passion; Mendelssohn’s Elijah; Dubois’s The Seven Last Words of Christ; SaintSaëns’s Christmas Oratorio; and Mozart’s Solemn Vespers and Requiem.

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the University of New Mexico where he studied under Dr. Michael Hix, and a Bachelor of Music from Central Michigan University where he studied under Dr. Eric H. Tucker. In addition to his vocal studies, he also studied oboe under Dr. Lindabeth Binkley as well as piano under Dr. Adrienne Wiley during his undergraduate degree. Gabriel currently resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he teaches voice and piano for the New Mexico School of Music, as well as maintaining his own voice studio.

He also serves on the board of the New Mexico Opera on Tap chapter, as well as serving as tenor section leader at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. When not performing or teaching, he can most likely be found perusing operatic repertoire, bingeing Hulu, and making reeds for the occasional oboe gig. ●

Leonardo Neiva baritone Leonardo Neiva is a member of the Vienna State Opera ensemble, one of the world’s leading opera houses. He is an artist known for his stage presence and vocal versatility, and he has performed at major theaters throughout Latin America.

Since his professional debut at the age of 23, he has received acclaim from both audiences and critics. He won the Bidu Sayão international singing competition and has since been recognized as a versatile artist with excellent stage skills, capable of interpreting wide-ranging repertoire.

After starring in the musical Les Misérables in Brazil and Mexico, he

received the XII Carlos Gomes Award for Best Male Singer in 2009 for his performances in the operas Samson et Dalila (High Priest) and Dido and Aeneas (Aeneas), and the symphonic poem Kullervo by Jean Sibelius. In 2013, he achieved great success with Roger Waters’s rock musical Ça Ira. Some of his notable works include Falstaff (Ford) with OSESP; Les pêcheurs de perles (Zurga), Pagliacci (Silvio), and Thaïs (Athanael) at the Municipal Theater of Santiago, Chile; Il barbiere di Siviglia (Figaro) at the debut of the Brazilian Opera Company; Wozzeck and Carmina Burana for the Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon; Dialogues des Carmélites (Marquis de La Force), Tristan und Isolde (Kurwenal), and Hänsel und Gretel (Father) at the Amazonas Opera Festival; Ariadne auf Naxos (Music Teacher), Götterdämmerung (Gunther), and the title role in Don Giovanni for the Municipal Theater of São Paulo; La bohème at the Palácio das Artes in Belo Horizonte; and Roméo et Juliette (Mercutio) at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro.

In 2013, he participated in the Brazilian premiere of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, creating the role of Bottom with great success.

He recently made his debut in France in Wagner’s opera Rienzi at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse, directed by the veteran Jorge Lavelli. This production was internationally released on DVD by the OPUS ARTE label. He has also recorded Villa-Lobos’s Symphony No. 10, “Ameríndia,” with OSESP under the baton of Isaac Karabtchevsky.

Additionally, he is an expert in musical theater and in 2018, he starred in the musical The Phantom of the Opera in Brazil. ●

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Michael Colman bass Lyric bass Michael Colman, hailed by Opera News for “fielding a fine, dark bass-baritone,” has performed leading and supporting roles with many premier opera companies across the United States.

In the 2023 season, Michael returned to Chautauqua Opera as Judge Turpin (and Sweeney cover) in Sweeney Todd, made a role and house debut as Sparafucile in Rigoletto with Vashon Opera before returning to sing the title role in their production of Le nozze di Figaro, stepped in to sing Coach/Red in Laura Kaminsky’s February with Opera on the Avalon, and made a role and house debut as Vodnik in Rusalka with Opera Ithaca.

Upcoming in the 2024 season, Michael returns to Vashon Opera as Frère Laurent in Roméo et Juliette along with three more house debuts—Étienne Grandet in Naughty Marietta with Winter Opera St. Louis, Schaunard in La bohème with Fort Worth Opera, and Howard Bard (cover) in The Listeners with Opera Philadelphia.

He has become especially well-known for his interpretation of The Commentator in productions of Derrick Wang’s Scalia/ Ginsburg with Opera Carolina, Opera Grand Rapids, Chautauqua Opera, and Opera in the Rock. English opera role highlights include Bonobo/David in Second Nature with Opera Fayetteville, the Police Officer in Night Trip with Opera NexGen, Grandpa Moss in The Tender Land with Utah Festival Opera, Collatinus in The Rape of Lucretia with the University

of Kansas, and Balthazar in Amahl and the Night Visitors with Dayton Epiphany.

Other roles include Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Chautauqua and Virginia Operas, Guglielmo and Don Alfonso in Così fan tutte with Opera Grand Rapids and Charlottesville Opera, Schaunard in La bohème with Indianapolis Opera, Ceprano in Rigoletto with Toledo Opera, Dottore Grenvil in La traviata with Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Toledo Opera, and Opera on the James, Angelotti in Tosca with St. Petersburg Opera, King of Egypt in Aida with Tulsa Opera, Leporello in Don Giovanni with the Janiec Opera Company, Colline in La bohème with Indiana University, and Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro with the University of Kansas.

A growing list of operetta and music theater roles include the Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance with Dayton Opera and Pharaoh in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Utah Festival Opera. Michael covered the role of Emile de Becque in South Pacific with Indianapolis Opera, the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance with Dayton Opera, and Judge Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Utah Festival Opera.

Concert credits include Handel’s Messiah with the Dayton Philharmonic, Mozart’s Requiem with the Virginia Consort, covering Verdi’s Requiem with Utah Festival Opera, and recital collaborations with Warren Jones and Martin Katz.

A native of Grand Rapids, Michigan, Michael earned degrees from Baylor University, the University of Kansas, and Indiana University. Young artist programs include Virginia Opera, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Chautauqua Opera, Sarasota Opera, Toledo Opera, Dayton Opera, Indianapolis Opera, Charlottesville Opera, Utah Festival Opera, and the Janiec Opera Company at Brevard. ●

Quintessence: A Community of Singers Matthew Greer director For almost 40 years, Quintessence A Community of Singers has been a vibrant part of the Albuquerque musical community. The core of Quintessence’s roster is a select 32-voice chorus that includes both professional singers and highly committed volunteers who perform a four-concert season. Through our Summer Choral Festival and community singing events (Beer Choir, Park Sings), Quintessence also provides a space for singers of all ages and ability levels to create music together. We are proud to have partnered with the VOCES8 Foundation and St. John’s Music Ministries to create “Sing Together Albuquerque,” an initiative that puts our teaching artists into local schools to foster singing in classrooms.

Matthew Greer was appointed Artistic Director of Quintessence in 2009. He also serves as Director of Music and Worship Arts at St. John’s United Methodist Church, where he oversees a comprehensive music program. In recent years, he has served on the choral faculty of the University of New Mexico, and as a guest conductor for the New Mexico Philharmonic. In 2012, he was among the recipients of Creative Albuquerque’s Bravos! Awards, honoring artistic innovation, entrepreneurship, and community impact. His teachers have included Alice Parker, Jane Marshall, and continued on 12

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Ann Howard Jones. A native of Kansas City, he has degrees in music education and theology from Trinity University and Boston University. ●

Manzano Day School Chorus Ally McCurley director The Manzano Day School Chorus is a non-auditioned group comprised of the entire fourth and fifth grades of the school.

Chorus rehearsals are built into the six-day rotation as part of the music curriculum.

In addition to chorus, students also have general music classes, focused on singing, playing, moving, creating, and reading music. Music has long been valued as an integral part of education at this historic school, which is now in its eighty-sixth year.

The chorus performs in multiple concerts throughout the year and a full musical play each spring. The chorus was privileged to sing for many Holiday Pops concerts with the New Mexico Philharmonic. As service projects, they have sung for hospitals and senior centers.

Manzano Day School is an independent prekindergarten through fifth grade elementary school near Old Town in Albuquerque. Manzano moved to its present location in 1942, having previously held classes in the historic Huning Castle starting in 1938. Our La Glorieta, an adobe hacienda, was originally the home of early Spanish settler Don Diego Trujillo.

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curriculum in innovative ways in small classes. In addition, all students receive instruction in music, visual arts, physical education, Spanish, and technology.

Ally McCurley is in her fifth year of teaching elementary general music.

She has had a diverse performing career that includes singing in choruses and directing performance groups.

With a certification in Orff Schulwerk and training in Kodály and Gordon pedagogies, Ally strives to instill a love for music in all students, while building upon music literacy. Ally attended the University of New Mexico, graduating with her Bachelor’s in Music Education in 2020 and Master’s in Music Education in 2022. Throughout the many years as both a performing artist and an educator of all ages, she has prided herself on helping children embrace music through play-based curriculum, movement, drama, and creativity. ●

Albuquerque Youth Symphony Dan Whisler director The Youth Symphony is the Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program’s premier ensemble. It is comprised of 60–80 of the most talented and dedicated string, woodwind, brass, and percussion players from across the Albuquerque area. Youth Symphony students have the opportunity to hone their skills while performing a wide variety of advanced orchestral repertoire as well as works by contemporary composers.

Dan Whisler has conducted more than 600 works with more than 100

ensembles, including professional orchestras in the USA, England, Spain, Lithuania, Hungary, and Romania. His awards as a conductor include the Downbeat Award in 2011 for Best U.S. College Classical Ensemble (conducting Halffter’s Tiento del primer tono y batalla imperial), the Bel Canto Award for Excellence in Conducting, and winner of the 2015 American Prize in Conducting.

Mr. Whisler’s recent former positions include director of orchestras at the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky; conductor of the Indianapolis Youth Philharmonic Orchestra in Indianapolis, Indiana; director of orchestras at Center Grove Community School Corporation in Greenwood, Indiana; founding and principal conductor with Intimate Opera of Indianapolis; and faculty member of the String Quartet Program of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado.

An active supporter of new music, Mr. Whisler has premiered 35 works, both as a conductor and as a performer, including conducting the world premiere of the Celtic ballet Deirdre of the Sorrows. He is comfortable with opera and musical theatre literature as well, having been on the conducting staff of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, Puccini’s Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, numerous opera scenes concerts for the University of Northern Colorado Opera Theatre, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd for Theater Workshop of Owensboro (Kentucky), Holst’s Sāvitri and Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Intimate Opera of Indianapolis, and Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea with the YPAS music department.

An experienced musician (string bass and horn) and music educator, Mr. Whisler has worked with youth orchestras in Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, Indiana, and Kentucky. At Center Grove, he increased orchestra student enrollment by more than 37 percent and won 17 ISSMA Gold awards in just three years. Under his direction, the YPAS Philharmonia was selected to perform in the 2015 Music for All National Orchestra

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Festival, the 2016 and 2019 Kentucky Music Educators Association Conferences, The Midwest Clinic (2019), and Heritage Festivals in Chicago (2017) and New York City (2018), as well as international tours to Costa Rica, England, and Wales.

He graduated summa cum laude with a BME from Wichita State University (Kansas) and earned an M.M. in orchestral conducting from the University of Northern Colorado. His primary conducting teachers include Russell Guyver and Mark Laycock, with additional studies at 15 conducting institutes throughout the USA, Canada, South America, and Europe with internationally renowned mentors, including Jorma Panula, Craig Kirchhoff, Markand Thakar, Colin Metters, Victor Yampolsky, Larry Livingston, and Benjamin Zander. ●

Cantate: Bosque School Choir Joanna Carlson Hart director At Bosque, music plays a central role in the school’s culture. Cantate, the upper school choir, has traveled and performed as part of the Independent Schools Association of the Southwest Arts Festivals in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and Austin, Texas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico; in Savannah, Georgia; St. Mary’s Basilica in Phoenix, Arizona; on the worldfamous stage at Carnegie Hall in New York City; as part of the Disney Performing Arts series on stage at Disneyland; in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican; the Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, Italy; and

at the historic Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland.

Joanna Carlson Hart is a graduate of the Master’s program in vocal performance at the University of New Mexico and received her Bachelor’s degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, where she studied under the renowned conductor and composer René Clausen.

Ms. Hart has sung roles with the Santa Fe Opera, Opera Southwest, UNM Opera Theatre, and the International Opera Academy in Rome, and as a soloist with the Albuquerque Philharmonic, Concordia Choir, St. Joseph Symphony, UNM Orchestra, and the Concordia College Orchestra. In the fall of 2011, Ms. Hart performed the soprano solo under the direction of Dr. Clausen at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City for his piece Memorial. She is in her nineteenth year as director of choirs at Bosque School, an independent College Preparatory School, and has found another love in teaching. Under her direction, the choirs have grown from six students to seventy-five in the upper school, and doubled in size in the middle school. Ms. Hart is often invited to adjudicate solo and ensemble and choral festivals throughout New Mexico and loves to work with all choirs and singers. ●

V. Sue Cleveland High School Concert Choir Jadira Flamm director The V. Sue Cleveland High School Concert Choir includes 40 select ninth- through twelfth-grade students with a minimum of one year of choral experience. The CHS Choral Department was founded in 2009, the same year that the school opened its doors to the public. The department has grown to four choirs in the past five years, which now include Concert Choir, Bella

Voce (Advanced Women’s Choir), Mixed Choir, and Electric Blue Show Choir.

Choral members take pride in themselves in being well-rounded individuals. Its membership includes members of the National Junior Society and participants in The Athletic Department. They also take advantage of multiple enrollment of music classes. In addition, many students are involved in their community, local church music, and outreach ministries.

Named “New and Emerging Teacher” in 2011 and the “Music Educator of the Year” 11 years later as selected by the New Mexico Music Educators Association, Jadira Flamm is the choral director at Cleveland High School, where she’s been since the school opened its doors in the summer of 2009.

Jadira Flamm has always been a singer, mostly in church and is also a vocalist and piano player with a Christian group “The Matthew Project.” She obtained her undergraduate degree in music from New Mexico State, not far from her home in Sunland Park, and followed that with a Master’s degree in music education from the University of New Mexico. She hopes her love for music and singing extends to her students. ●

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Audrianna is the head choir director in the Moriarty-Edgewood School District, directing both Moriarty High School and Moriarty Middle School choirs. She is a two-time international barbershop quartet medalist with Harmony Incorporated—and received second place in both Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Providence, Rhode Island. She received her Bachelor’s in Music Education from the University of New Mexico and is currently in the last semester of her Master’s degree in Music Education as well. Ms. Aragon is actively involved in continuing music education outside of the classroom and advocating for the arts in her communities through extracurricular performances and teaching.

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Giacomo Puccini

Tosca (1900) Italian master Giacomo (Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini was born on December 22, 1858, in Lucca and died on November 29, 1924, in Brussels, Belgium. Cherished by opera lovers throughout the world for his numerous masterpieces, most notably La bohème, Tosca, Il trittico, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, Puccini also composed songs for voice and piano, sacred music, as well as instrumental works. Tosca, his opera in three acts set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, was premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900. The background for the opera, which is based on Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play, La Tosca, takes place in Rome in during June 17–18, 1800, as the Kingdom of Naples’s control of Rome is threatened by Napoleon’s invasion of Italy. Its plot, however, centers on the title character, the operatic diva, Floria Tosca, her love for the painter and revolutionary fugitive Mario Cavarodossi, and the lascivious designs of the evil chief of police Baron Scarpia.

Puccini’s highly melodramatic opera Tosca remains one of the most frequently performed and popular operas of all time.

Its composer’s style represents both a continuation and updating of the Italian grand operatic tradition, bringing to bear innovative developments in orchestration and harmonic vocabulary that augment the achievements of the early-nineteenthcentury bel canto ranging from Rossini to Verdi. The term “verismo” (realism) is often used to describe Puccini’s operas, and in a sense, Tosca may be viewed as a prime example of this trend. The specificity of place for each act of Tosca found realism brought to fruition in a 1992 television version of the opera that was filmed at the same locations prescribed by Puccini, at the precise times of day at which each act takes place, i.e., the interior of the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, Scarpia’s apartment in the Palazzo Farnese, and the Castel Sant’Angelo.

Throughout his career, Puccini was ever in search of musical and other details that would lend touches of authenticity to his operas, and would doubtlessly have approved of using the actual venues called for in Tosca. But regardless of such matters, the heart of the opera is a drama of love, deceit, lust, murder, and, ultimately, tragic betrayal.

The synopsis of the opera is as follows (metopera.org/discover/synopses/tosca): ACT I Rome, June 1800. The French revolutionary armies, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, are at war with the rest of Europe. Rome has briefly been a Republic under French protection but has now fallen to the Allied forces. Cesare Angelotti, former Republican Consul, has escaped from prison. He takes refuge in the Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, where his sister, the Marchesa Attavanti, has hidden a key to her husband’s family chapel, where he hides. The artist Mario Cavaradossi returns to the church, where he is working on a fresco that depicts Mary Magdalene. He tells the shocked sacristan that the face of the Magdalene is that of the mysterious woman who has been praying near the chapel—in fact, Angelotti’s sister. Angelotti emerges once the sacristan has gone.

He recognizes the painter and begs for his help. Cavaradossi’s lover, the singer Floria Tosca, calls from outside, and Angelotti hides again. The jealous Tosca suspects that Cavaradossi has been with another woman in the church, but he calms her fears. Turning to go, she spots his painting and immediately recognizes the Marchesa Attavanti. She accuses him of being unfaithful, but he again assures her of his love. When Tosca has left, a cannon signals that the police have discovered Angelotti’s escape, and he and Cavaradossi flee to the painter’s villa. The sacristan excitedly enters to tell the church choir that the Allies have won a great victory against the French at Marengo in northern Italy. As they celebrate, Baron Scarpia, chief of Rome’s secret police, arrives looking for Angelotti. His agents search the chapel, and he discovers the Marchesa Attavanti’s fan. Scarpia recognizes her in Cavaradossi’s portrait,

and when Tosca returns, he uses the fan to trick her into believing that Cavaradossi is unfaithful after all. She vows to have vengeance and leaves as the church fills with worshipers. Scarpia sends his men to follow her; he knows that she will lead them to Cavaradossi and Angelotti. While the congregation intones the “Te Deum,” Scarpia declares that he will bend Tosca to his will.

ACT II Dining that evening in his chambers at the Palazzo Farnese, Scarpia anticipates the pleasure of having Tosca in his power; the diva will be singing that night in the Palazzo at a royal gala to celebrate the Allied victory. The agent Spoletta has broken into Cavaradossi’s villa and found no trace of Angelotti, but he has arrested Cavaradossi and brought him to the Palazzo. Scarpia interrogates the defiant painter and sends for Tosca. When she arrives, Cavaradossi whispers an urgent plea for her to keep his secret before Scarpia’s agents lead him into another room. Scarpia begins to question Tosca. At first, she keeps her nerve, but when Scarpia tells her that Cavaradossi is being tortured in the next room, her courage fails her. Unable to bear Cavaradossi’s screams, Tosca reveals Angelotti’s hiding place. The agents bring in Cavaradossi, who is badly hurt and hardly conscious. Scarpia cruelly reveals her betrayal, and Cavaradossi angrily curses her. Suddenly, word arrives that the news from Marengo was false; Bonaparte has won the battle. Cavaradossi shouts out his defiance of tyranny, and Scarpia orders him to be executed. Once alone with Tosca, Scarpia calmly suggests that he would let Cavaradossi go free if she’d give herself to him. She refuses, but Scarpia becomes more insistent, trapping her with his power over Cavaradossi’s life. Despairing, she prays to God for help.

Spoletta bursts in; rather than be captured, Angelotti has killed himself. Tosca, now forced to give in or lose her lover, agrees to Scarpia’s proposition. Scarpia orders Spoletta to prepare for a mock execution of Cavaradossi, after which he is to be freed. Tosca demands that Scarpia write her a passage of safe conduct. Once done, he embraces Tosca, but she seizes a knife continued on 16

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from the dining table and stabs him. Before fleeing with the safe-conduct pass, she performs funeral rites over Scarpia’s body.

ACT III At dawn, Cavaradossi awaits execution on the platform of Castel Sant’Angelo.

He bribes the jailer to deliver a farewell letter to Tosca and then, overcome with emotion, gives in to his despair.

Tosca appears and explains what has happened. The two imagine their future in freedom. As the execution squad arrives, Tosca implores Cavaradossi to fake his death convincingly, then watches from a distance. The soldiers fire and depart.

When Cavaradossi doesn’t move, Tosca realizes that the execution was real and Scarpia has betrayed her. As Scarpia’s men rush in to arrest her, she cries out that she will meet Scarpia before God and leaps from the battlements.

As one would expect in Italian opera, Tosca is replete with beautiful arias. Most notable of these being Cavaradossi’s “Recondita armonia” and “Qual’occhio al mondo” from Act I, Tosca’s “Vissi d’arte” from Act II, and Cavaradossi’s “E lucevan le stelle” from Act III. But no less interesting are the intense dramatic musical strokes, such as the three fortissimo dramatic chords that open the opera and go on to serve as a leitmotiv representative of the villainous Baron Scarpia. Another highlight comes at the end of Act I, where Scarpia’s lust for Tosca—representing the world of the secular—is superimposed on the liturgical backdrop of the choral chanting of the “Te Deum” hymn. Those familiar with the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (2008), will recognize how the screen writers and director make effective use of a production of this scene (as well as other moments from the opera) that took place on the floating stage of the Opera House in Bregenz, Austria. In the film, Bond infiltrates a secret meeting of Quantum as they are furthering their sinister plot to seize Bolivia’s water supply. The parallels with the action of Tosca are clear to those familiar with the opera. ●

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“It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.” —Antonio Salieri, Amadeus

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, “Gran Partita,” K. 361/370a (c. 1781–1782) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg and died on December 5, 1791, in Vienna. The Serenade, popularly known as “Gran Partita,” was composed in 1781 or 1782, around the time of Mozart’s move from Salzburg to Vienna. The “K” number used for Mozart’s works refers to the name Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, who first issued the Chronological-Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart in 1862. The Köchel catalogue has been updated and revised many times to keep pace with musicological revelations. The Serenade No. 10 is scored for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 basset horns, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, and contrabass (sometimes replaced by contrabassoon).

Approximately 50 minutes.

Throughout his all-too-brief life, Mozart never considered it beneath his dignity to provide music for parties. The genre of composition known as the serenade, in fact, may be deemed among the earliest examples of background or “restaurant” music. This should be taken only in the sense that it was created to lend a festive atmosphere to an occasion, rather than to draw attention to itself as a piece intended for “serious” listening. As is the case with nearly everything he wrote, however, Mozart’s serenades make for rewarding and delightful attentive listening.

Mozart’s skill and fondness for composing for wind instruments manifested itself in many forms. Among these, we may count solo concertos for oboe, flute (two, plus a concerto for flute and harp), horn (four), and bassoon, clarinet, as well as a

sinfonia concertante for winds (although of doubtful authenticity). In each case, we know that Mozart composed these works for friends and colleagues, such as the hornist Joseph Leutgeb and clarinetist Anton Stadler. We also find in his oeuvre chamber music for winds, piano, and strings. Many of his other compositions also display skillful and delightful writing for wind instruments. His chamber works for winds alone were often titled “divertimento” or “serenade,” whose instrumentation falls under the category of “Harmoniemusik.” The Serenade No. 10 may have come into existence in various stages and was not published during the composer’s lifetime. The title “Gran Partitta [sic] del Sigr. Wolfgang Mozart” first appeared in a copy of the original manuscript and does not derive from Mozart himself. Comprising seven movements, it is the third movement (Adagio) that has made its way into popular culture, primarily through its appearance in Peter Shaffer’s stage play Amadeus (1979) and Milos Forman’s filmization (1984). It is this exquisite music, performed at a party in Vienna, that grabs the attention of Mozart’s contemporary, Antonio Salieri, who suddenly realizes that Mozart was a substantial and formidable rival, rather than a “performing monkey.”

As Salieri continues to describe the Adagio, “This was a music I’d never heard.

Filled with such longing, such unfulfillable longing. It seemed to me that I was hearing the voice of God.” The movement also made an appearance in episodes from two television shows: How I Met Your Mother and The West Wing. ●

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PRINCIPALS CIRCLE Donation of $125–$499 Robert & Nancy Agnew Leah Albers & Thomas Roberts Gerald Alldredge Anonymous Margaret Ann Augustine Barbara Baca Marguerite Baca Sally Bachofer John & Linda Barber, in memory of Robert Fosnaugh Harold & Patricia Baskin Susan Beard Hugh & Margaret Bell Michael Bencoe David & Judith Bennahum Barry Berkson Beso Jewels Dusty & Gay Blech Grace S. Brown Marie Brown-Wagner Terry Brownell & Alpha Russell Caliber’s Carol Callaway Ann Carson Camille Carstens Casa Verde Spa Rachael Cazzola Dan & Tina Chan Olinda Chavez Lance & Kathy Chilton Donna Collins Marcia Congdon Bob Crain Stephen & Stefani Czuchlewski Elizabeth Davis-Marra Raymond & Anne Doberneck Carl & Joanne Donsbach Deann Eaton Gary Echert & Nancy Stratton Michael & Laurel Edenburn Millie Elrick Enchanted Mesa Robert & Dolores Engstrom Jackie Ericksen David & Frankie Ewing Peggy Favour Helen Feinberg Mary Filosi Heidi Fleischmann & James Scott

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Mary Day Gauer Thomas & Linda Grace Cynthia Gray Alfred & Patricia Green Stanley & Sara Griffith Mina Jane Grothey Jim & Renee Grout Elene Gusch Gyros Mediterranean Lee & Thais Haines Bennett A. Hammer John & Diane Hawley Darren Hayden Stephen & Aida Ramos Heath Heidi Hilland, in memory of Carl & Nancy Hilland Heidi Hilland, in memory of Madeline Lindstrom Brittenham Pamelia Hilty (Snow Blossom Gift Fund) Toppin & Robert Hodge Hughes Homestead Designs Robert & Mary Julyan Margaret Keller Ann King Phil Krehbiel Jennifer C. Kruger Woody & Nandini Kuehn Hareendra & Sanjani Kulasinghe Karen Kupper Janice Langdale Jeffery & Jane Lawrence Honorable Idalia LechugaTena & Marco Gonzales Jae-Won & Juliane Lee LeRoy Lehr Thomas Lenzer William & Norma Lock Betty Logan Joan M. Lucas & David Meyerhofer Ruth Luckasson & Dr. Larry Davis Mary C. Lybrand Gloria Mallory Robert & Linda Malseed The Man’s Hat Shop Mariachi Spectacular de Albuquerque Jeffrey Marr Kathy & John Matter Sallie McCarthy David & Jane McGuire Edward McPherson Chena Mesling Richard & Melissa Meth John & Kathleen Mezoff Ross & Mary Miesem Jim Mills & Peggy Sanchez Mills Louis & Deborah Moench Robert & Phyllis Moore Jim & Penny Morris Shirley Morrison Cary & Eve Morrow Ted & Mary Morse Karen Mosier & Phillip Freeman

2024/25 Season / Volume 13 / No. 2

Melissa Nunez Rebecca Okun James O’Neill & Ellen Bayard Del Packwood & Barbara Reeback Bob & Bonnie Paine Lang Ha Pham & Hy Tran Judi Pitch Placitas Artists Series Popejoy Presents Portmeirion Group Dan & Billie Pyzel Therese Quinn Dr. Barry & Roberta Ramo Robert Reinke Reverb & Young the Giant Karl Ricker Cynthia Risner Sherrick Roanhorse Justin Robertson Catalin Roman Carole Ross Dick & Mary Ruddy Carey Salaz Sarafian’s Oriental Rugs Brigitte Schimek & Marc Scudamore John & Karen Schlue Kem & Louis Schmalzer Richard & Susan Seligman Rahul Sharma R.J. & Katherine Simonson R.J. & Katherine Simonson, in memory of Bill Bradley George & Vivian Skadron Lillian Snyder Steven & Keri Sobolik Jennifer Starr Joseph & Carol Stehling Dorothy Stermer & Stacy Sacco John & Patricia Stover Jonathan Sutin Betsey Swan Gary & Nina Thayer Maxine Thévenot & Edmund Connolly Laurence Titman Dr. Steven Tolber & Louise Campbell-Tolber Sally Trigg Arthur Vall-Spinosa & Sandra Louise Nunn Kevin & Laurel Welch Lawrence Wells Jeffrey West

FRIENDS OF THE PHILHARMONIC Donation of $25–$124 Harro & Nancy Ackermann David & Elizabeth Adams Jack Aderhold Natalie Adolphi & Andrew McDowell Dr. Fran A’Hern-Smith Albuquerque Auto Outlet, Paul Cervantes Albuquerque Little Theatre Jeffrey Allen

Jo Anne Altrichter & Robin Tawney Amazon Smile Judith Anderson Julie Atkinson David Baca Jackie Baca & Ken Genco Thomas J. & Helen K. Baca Maurizio & Jennie Baccante Charlene Baker Jan Bandrofchak & Cleveland Sharp Bark Box Graham Bartlett Edie Beck Laura Bemis Laura Bernay Suzanne Bernhardt Dorothy & Melbourne Bernstein Marianne Berwick Betty’s Bath & Day Spa Henry Botts David & Erin Bouquin J.M. Bowers & B.J. Fisher Douglas Brosveen Alfred Burgermeister Robert & Marylyn Burridge California Pizza Kitchen Dante & Judith Cantrill David & Laura Carlson Robert & Sharon Chamberlin Roscoe & Barbara Champion Cheesecake Factory Chile Traditions Barry Clark Lloyd Colson III Martha Corley Cara & Chad Curtiss The Daily Grind/Caruso’s Rosalie D’Angelo Hubert Davis Mary Ann & Michael Delleney Thomas & Elizabeth Dodson Sandy Donaldson Michael & Jana Druxman Jeff & Karen Duray D. Reed Eckhardt Martha Egan James Erdelyi, in memory of Robert Fosnaugh Sabrina Ezzell Rita Fabrizio Farm & Table Jane Farris & Mike Pierson Jane Farris & Mike Pierson, in honor of Brent & Maria Stevens J. Fenstermacher Jon & Laura Ferrier Patrick & Elizabeth Finley Carol Follingstad Greg & Jeanne FryeMason Eric & Cristi Furman

Allison Gentile & Joan Sapon Lawrence Jay Gibel, MD Great Harvest Bakery Charles & Kathleen Gregory Ginger Grossetete Marilyn Gruen & Douglas Majewski Kenneth Guthrie & Doni Lazar J. Michele Guttmann Leila Hall Michael Harrison Ursula Hill Fred Hindel Stephen Hoffman & James McKinnell Kristin Hogge Steven Homer Julia Huff Ralph & Gay Nell Huybrechts Jerry & Diane Janicke Gwenellen Janov Michael & Sandra Jerome Ruth Johnson Barbara Jones Ty Kattenhorn Stephanie & David Kauffman Julia Kavet Lynn Kearny Margaret Knapp Gerald Knorovsky Katherine Kraus Michael & Bethann Krawczyk Larry W. Langford Molly “Mary” Lannon Paul & Julie Laybourne Janice Leach Rita Leard Rebecca Lee & Daniel Rader Larry & Shirlee Londer, in memory of Bill Bradley Los Pinos Fly & Tackle Shop Suzanne Lubar & Marcos Gonzales Sam Lucero & Ron Lahti Frank Maher Elliot S. Marcus, MD Mark Pardo Salon & Spa April & Benny Martinez Carolyn Martinez Robert & Anne Martinez Janet Matwiyoff Peter & Lois McCatharn Marcia McCleary Mark Menicucci Moses Michelsohn George Mikkelsen Beth Miller, in memory of William Benz Kathleen Miller Martha Miller Mister Car Wash Ben Mitchell Bryant & Carole Mitchell Letitia Morris

THANK YOU .

Baker H. Morrow & Joann Strathman John & Patsy Mosman Sharon Moynahan Brian Mulrey Bette Myerson Jim & Beth Nance Ann & James Nelson, in memory of Louise Laval Ronald & Diane Nelson Ruth O’Keefe Peter Pabisch Eric Parker Howard Paul Oswaldo Pereira & Victoria Hatch Gwen Peterson, in memory of Robert Fosnaugh Barbara Pierce Ray Reeder Crystal Reiter Carol Renfro Kerry Renshaw Kay Richards Margaret Roberts Gwenn Robinson, MD, & Dwight Burney III, MD Susan Rogowski Glenn & Amy Rosenbaum Michael & Joan Rueckhaus Evelyn E. & Gerhard L. Salinger Anne Salopek Sandia Peak Tramway Peter & Susan Scala Ronnie Schelby Leslie Schumann Timothy Schuster Jane & Robert Scott Seasons 52 Robert & Joy Semrad Arthur & Colleen Sheinberg Joe Shepherd Rebecca Shores Beverly Simmons Norbert F. Siska Smith’s Community Rewards Amy Snow Allen & Jean Ann Spalt David & Laurel Srite Charlie & Alexandra Steen Theodore & Imogen Stein Brent & Maria Stevens Elizabeth Stevens & Michael Gallagher Stone Age Climbing Gym Sum - Caterpillar Marty & Deborah Surface Gary Swanson John Taylor Texas Roadhouse Valerie Tomberlin Top Golf Trader Joe’s John & Karen Trever Bryon & Jill Vice Mary Voelz, in memory of Robert Fosnaugh

John & Karin Waldrop Caren Waters Elaine Watson & David Conklin Dale A. Webster Weck’s V. Gregory Weirs Doug Weitzel & Luke Williams Leslie White Lisa & Stuart White Marybeth White Bill & Janislee Wiese Robert & Amy Wilkins Bronwyn Willis Daniel Worledge, in honor of David Worledge James & Katie Worledge, in honor of David Worledge Kenneth Wright Kari Young Michael & Anne Zwolinski 10/20/2024

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Thank You for Your Generous Support

Legacy Society

Volunteers, Expertise, Services, & Equipment

Your continued support makes this possible. The Legacy Society represents people who have provided long-lasting support to the New Mexico Philharmonic through wills, retirement plans, estates, and life income plans. If you included the NMPhil in your planned giving and your name is not listed, please contact (505) 323-4343 to let us know to include you.

The New Mexico Philharmonic would like to thank the following people for their support and in-kind donations of volunteer time, expertise, services, product, and equipment.

CITY & COUNTY APPRECIATION Mayor Tim Keller & the City of Albuquerque The Albuquerque City Council Aziza Chavez, City Council Special Projects Analyst The Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners Dr. Shelle Sanchez & the Albuquerque Cultural Services Department Amanda Colburn & the Bernalillo County Special Projects Councilor Dan Champine Councilor Tammy Fiebelkorn Councilor Renee Grout Councilor Dan Lewis

BUSINESS & ORGANIZATION APPRECIATION Aztec Mechanical The New Mexico Philharmonic Foundation The Albuquerque Community Foundation HOLMANS USA CORPORATION

INDIVIDUAL APPRECIATION Lee Blaugrund & Tanager Properties Management Ian McKinnon & The McKinnon Family Foundation Billy Brown Alexis Corbin Anne Eisfeller Chris Kershner Jackie McGehee Brad Richards Barbara Rivers Emily Steinbach Brent Stevens

VOLUNTEERS HOSTING VISITING MUSICIANS Don & Cheryl Barker Ron Bronitsky, MD, & Jim Porcher Tim Brown Isabel Bucher & Graham Bartlett Mike & Blanche Griffith Suzanne & Dan Kelly Ron & Mary Moya Steve & Michele Sandager 10/17/2024

Giving for the future

Jo Anne Altrichter & Robin Tawney Maureen & Stephen Baca Evelyn Patricia Barbier Edie Beck Nancy Berg Sally A. Berg Thomas C. Bird & Brooke E. Tully Edison & Ruth Bitsui Eugenia & Charles Eberle Bob & Jean Gough Peter Gregory Ruth B. Haas Howard A. Jenkins Joyce Kaser Walter & Allene Kleweno Louise Laval Julianne Louise Lockwood Dr. & Mrs. Larry Lubar Joann & Scott MacKenzie Margaret Macy Thomas J. Mahler Gerald McBride Shirley Morrison Betsy Nichols Cynthia Phillips & Thomas Martin George Richmond Eugene Rinchik Barbara Rivers Terrence Sloan, MD Jeanne & Sid Steinberg Charles Stillwell William Sullivan Dean Tooley Betty Vortman Maryann Wasiolek William A. Wiley Charles E. Wood Dot & Don Wortman 10/17/2024

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THANK YOU .

New Mexico Philharmonic Foundation DONORS & TRUSTEES The McKinnon Family Foundation Lee Blaugrund Charles, Trustee, & Eugenia Eberle Barbara Rivers, Trustee Robert & Frances Fosnaugh Thomas Martin, Trustee, & Cynthia Phillips Stephen, Trustee, & Maureen Baca Estate of Marian Ausherman Chavez Dr. Dean Yannias William E. Cates Mary Baca (aka Betty) Christine Kilroy Keith Gilbert Ann & Robert Boland Thomas & Edel Mayer Robert Milne David Northrop John & Karen Schlue Susan Spaven Tyler M. Mason Jerald Parker Richard VanDongen Roland Gerencer, MD Jonathan Hewes George Thomas Richard Zabell & Teresa Apple Scott Obenshain Sydney (Al) & Melissa Stotts Marian & Jennifer Tanau Charles & Judith Gibbon Alice J. Wolfsberg Scott & Carol Schaffer Joel & Sandra Baca Dorothy M. Barbo Henry & Jennifer Bohnhoff Clarke & Mary Cagle Kenneth Conwell II Bob & Greta Dean Howard & Debra Friedman Robert & Jean Gough Justin Griffin Mike & Blanche Griffin Mary Herring Elisa Kephart Alan Lebeck Sonnet & Ian McKinnon James O’Neill W. Pierce & Joyce Ostrander Clifford Richardson III Jacquelyn Robins Jay Rodman & Wendy Wilkins John Rogers Heinz & Barbara Schmitt Michael & Janet Sjulin Peter & Judy Weinreb Sue Johnson & Jim Zabilski Marlin E. Kipp Thomas & Greta Keleher Lawrence & Deborah Blank Susanne Brown

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Michael Dexter Thomas M. Domme Martha Egan David Espey John Homko Frances Koenig Letitia Morris Michael & Judy Muldawer Ken & Diane Reese Jeff Romero Nancy Scheer Neda Turner Michael Wallace Thomas & Ann Wood Anonymous Maria Stevens John & Julie Kallenbach Kay F. Richards Stan & Gay Betzer Kenneth & Jane Cole Leonard Duda Mary E. Lebeck Robert & Judy Lindeman Martha A. Miller Betsy Nichols Lee Reynis Warren & Rosemary Saur John & Patricia Stover Leonard & Stephanie Armstrong Robert Bower & Kathryn Fry Christopher Calder & Betsey Swan Judith & Thomas Christopher Fran DiMarco Dr. Lauro G. Guaderrama Lawrence & Anne Jones Karen Lanin Geri Newton Edward Rose, MD Christine Sauer James Sharp & Janice Bandrofchak Rae Lee Siporin Bruce Thompson & Phyllis Taylor Lawrence & Katherine Anderson Douglas & Dianne Bailey Edie Beck Jeffrey Bridges A.J. Carson Thomas & Elizabeth Dodson Harry & June Ettinger Helen Feinberg Carl Glenn Guist Fletcher & Laura Hahn Robert & Linda Malseed Robert & Rebecca Parker Elizabeth Perkett Shelley Roberts Thomas Roberts & Leah Albers Gruia-Catalin Roman Donald & Carol Tallman Peter & Mary Tannen Rosario Fiallos James & Ann Breeson Carl & Jeannette Keim Andrea Kilbury Linda McNiel Albert & Shanna Narath David & Cynthia Nartonis

2024/25 Season / Volume 13 / No. 2

Ray Reeder Charles & Ruth Snell Henry & Ettajane Conant Nancy Hill Daniel T. O’Shea Charles & Linda White Dal Jensen Charlotte McLeod David Peterson 505 Southwest Auto Ninon Adams David Baca Mark & Beth Berger Charleen Bishop John Bowers & B.J. Fisher Eric R. Brock & Mae S. Yee Camille Carstens Joseph Cella Robert Chamberlin Dennis Chavez Development Corp.

Olinda Chavez Helene Chenier Hugh & Kathleen Church James Cole Barbara L. Daniels Drina Denham Jerry & Susan Dickinson Vicky Estrada-Bustillo Alfred & Patricia Green Peter Gregory Karen Halderson Samuel & Laila Hall Herman Haase Jo Ellen Head Kiernan Holliday Michael & Sandra Jerome Robert H. & Mary D. Julyan Julia Kavet Henry Kelly Robert & Toni Kingsley Walter & Allene Kleweno, in memory of Pegg Macy Gerald Knorovsky L.D. & Karen Linford Betty Max Logan Douglas Madison Elizabeth Davis Marra Salvatore Martino Donald McQuarie Dr. William Moffatt James B. & Mary Ann Moreno Cary & Evelyn Morrow Karen Mosier David & Marilyn Novat Richard & Dolly O’Leary Maureen Oakes Eric P. Parker Michael Pierson & Jane Ferris Karla Puariea Russell & Elizabeth Raskob George & Sheila Richmond Margaret E. Roberts Matthew Roberts Judith Roderick Marian Schreyer Drs. M. Steven Shackley & Kathleen L. Butler Joseph Shepherd & Julie Dunleavy Lillian Snyder Julianne Stangel

Ronald T. Taylor Marta Terlecki Betty Tichich Marvin & Patricia Tillery Robert Tillotson Jorge Tristani (President, Dennis Chavez Development Corp.)

Harold & Darlene Van Winkle Lana Wagner Dale Webster Kevin & Laurel Welch Liza White Marc & Valerie Woodward Diana Zavitz Michael & Jeanine Zenge Linda R. Zipp, MD Jeffrey G. Allen Marilyn Bowman Stephen & Merilyn Fish Lorraine B. Gordon Hareendra & Sanjani Kulasinghe David C. McGuire Jr. William & Cynthia Warren John Vittal Margaret Lieberman Judith Anderson Marcia Congdon Genevieve Davidge Winnie Devore Karen Duray Jackie Ericksen John & Nancy Garth Allison Gentile Andrea Granger Fred & Joan Hart Edgarton (E.R.) Haskin Jr. Theresa Homisak Stephanie Kauffman Basil Korin Frederic & Joan March Cristina Pereyra Luana Ramsey J. Sapon & Allison Gentile Michael & Lisa Scherlacher John & Sherry Schwitz Beverly Simmons Alexandra Steen Kathleen Stratmoen Dean Tooley Kenneth Wright Kenneth & Barbara Zaslow Andrew & Lisa Zawadzki Peter & Ann Ziegler Mary J. Zimmerman Alvin Zuckert Dante & Judie Cantrill Lori Johnson Douglas Cheney Martha Corley Barbara Killian Gary Mazaroff Theodore & Sue BradiganTrujillo Christopher Behl Mary Compton Henry Daise Arthur Flicker Andrew McDowell & Natalie Adolphi Claude Morelli

Noel Pugach Bonnie Renfro Elizabeth Stevens Arthur Alpert Stanley & Helen Hordes Edward & Carol Ann Dzienis Bob Crain Denise Fligner & Terry Edwards Stephen Schoderbek Krys & Phil Custer Deborah Peacock & Nathan Korn Rita Leard Carol Diggelman Paul Isaacson Sarah Barlow Martin & Ursula Frick Robert & Phyllis Moore Gary & Nina Thayer Sharon Moynahan & Gerald Moore Jeffrey West Ina Miller Bruce Miller Julie Kaved Jeffery & Jane Lawrence Dolores Teubner Ronald & Sara Friederich Helen Feinberg Volti Subito Productions Melbourn & Dorothy Bernstein 10/17/2024

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THANK YOU .

Steinway Society Piano Fund Steinway Society members make dedicated donations for current and future purchases and maintenance of our Steinway & Sons Grand Piano Model D. Please consider joining the Steinway Society at the donor level that is best for you and be part of your New Mexico Philharmonic by helping us to produce excellence through our music. View benefits online at nmphil.org/steinway-society.

Donation of $6000–$19,999 David Gay Dal & Pat Jensen Michael & Roberta Lavin Diane & William Wiley Dr. Dean Yannias

Tyler M. Mason Thomas & Edel Mayer Jon McCorkell & Dianne Cress Bob & Susan McGuire David & Audrey Northrop James P. O’Neill & Ellen Bayard Gary & Carol Overturf Ruth Ronan Edward Rose, MD Marian & Howard Schreyer Bruce & Sandra Seligman Frederick & Susan Sherman David & Heather Spader Al & Melissa Stotts Charles & Marcia Wood

BLACK KEYS LEVEL

PIANO FRIENDS LEVEL

HOROWITZ LEVEL Donation of $20,000–$50,000 Cliff & Nancy Blaugrund Lee Blaugrund Charles & Eugenia Eberle Roland Gerencer, MD

WHITE KEYS LEVEL

Donation of $2000–$5999 Meg Aldridge Carl & Linda Alongi Joel & Sandra Baca Stephen & Maureen Baca William & Paula Bradley Clark & Mary Cagle Phillip & Christine Custer Art Gardenswartz & Sonya Priestly Robert & Jean Gough Helen Grevey Bill & Carolyn Hallett Stephen & Aida Heath Christine Kilroy Dwayne & Marj Longenbaugh Mary E. Mills Jan Elizabeth Mitchell Jacquelyn Robins Jay Rodman & Wendy Wilkins Albert Seargeant III, in memory of Ann Seargeant Terrence Sloan, MD

PEDAL LEVEL Donation of $500–$1999 Ron Bronitsky, MD Michael & Cheryl Bustamante, in memory of Cheryl B. Hall Daniel & Brigid Conklin, in memory of Marina Oborotova Richard & Peg Cronin Mr. & Mrs. Robert Duff Custer Leonard & Patricia Duda David Foster Peter Gould Elene & Robert Gusch Jonathan & Ellin Hewes Robert & Toni Kingsley Dr. Herb & Shelley Koffler Edward J. Kowalczyk

Donation of $50–$499 Wanda Adlesperger Fran A’Hern-Smith Joe Alcorn & Sylvia Wittels Dennis Alexander Anonymous Elizabeth Bayne Judy Bearden-Love Karen Bielinski-Richardson Sheila Bogost Robert Bower & Kathryn Fry Stephen & Heidi Brittenham Dante & Judie Cantrill Camille Carstens Olinda Chavez Beth L. Clark Henry & Ettajane Conant John & Katie Cunningham Marjorie Cypress & Philip Jameson Thomas & Martha Domme Martin J. Doviak Robert B. Engstrom Jackie Ericksen Elle J. Fenoglio David Fillmore Blake & Liz Forbes George & Karen Gibbs Ginger Grossetete Kerry L. Harmon Jo Ellen Head Heidi Hilland Glenn & Susan Hinchcliffe Bryan “Lance” & Debrah Hurt Nancy Joste Julia Kavet M.J. Kircher Ralph & Heather Kiuttu

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Larry W. Langford Susan Lentz Claire Lissance Morgan MacFadden James & Marilyn Mallinson Nicholle Maniaci & John Witiuk Tom & Constance Matteson Jane McGuigan Martha Ann Miller & Henry Pocock Robert & Phyllis Moore Cary & Evelyn Morrow Katarina Nagy Edward & Nancy Naimark Geri Newton Bob & Bonnie Paine James Porcher Dan & Billie Pyzel Mary Raje Ray A. Reeder Judith Roderick Dick & Mary Ruddy John Sale & Deborah Dobransky Katherine Saltzstein Peggy Schey Jane Nicholson Scott & Robert Scott Laurel Sharp & David Smukler Catherine Smith-Hartwig Cynthia Sontag Frances Steinbach Linda Trowbridge Kevin & Laurel Welch Jeffrey West Charles & Linda White Roland & Wendy Wiele Diane Zavitz, in memory of Pat & Ray Harwick Linda R. Zipp, MD 10/17/2024

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(505) 323-4343 DWAYNE & MARJORIE LONGENBAUGH Principal Viola Sponsorship: LAURA CHANG Principal Cello Sponsorship: AMY HUZJAK

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