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Still to Come In Season 2018-19 Wednesday, Jan. 30

Viennese Dreams, 1st Movement String Quartets by Haydn and Beethoven Harriet Himmel Theater 7 PM Saturday, Feb. 2

VIP Tent Party At Waterfront Concert Young Friends of Palm Beach Symphony Members-Only Social Event

Monday, Feb. 18

Monday, March 18

Royal Blue

Cool Winds

Young Friends of Palm Beach Symphony Annual Gala-Night Party

Masterworks Concert 4: Mozart | Haydn

The Breakers Palm Beach 7:30 PM

Society of the Four Arts 7:30 PM Monday, March 18

Friday, Feb. 22

Shades Of Greatness

Après Dinner Members-Only Social Event

Masterworks Concert 3: Brahms | Schubert

Café Boulud 9:30 PM

Rosarian Academy 7:30 PM

Wednesday, March 27

Friday, Feb. 22

Viennese Dreams, 3rd Movement

Après Dinner Members-Only Social Event

Early Diversions and Entertainments by Mozart and Schubert

The Colony Hotel 9:30 PM

Harriet Himmel Theater 7 PM

Meyer Amphitheatre 3 PM

Wednesday, March 27

Saturday, Feb. 2

Viennese Chamber Soirèe

Harmony: An Exhibition Of The Arts

Members-Only Social Event

Young Friends of Palm Beach Symphony

Free Community Concert WPB Waterfront Meyer Amphitheatre 4 PM

Wednesday, Feb. 27

Viennese Dreams, 2nd Movement Late Masterworks by Mozart and Brahms Harriet Himmel Theater 7 PM

Annual Sunset Dinner Cruise Monday, Feb. 18

Sapphire Dreams 17th Annual Black-Tie Gala The Breakers Palm Beach 7 PM

Members-Only Social Event North Palm Beach Marina 6:45 PM

Friday, April 12

Pre-Concert Dinner Members-Only Social Event Cohen Pavilion – The Kravis Center 5:30 PM Friday, April 12

Precious Gems Masterworks Concert 5: Mozart | Bruckner Featuring Leon Fleisher, piano The Kravis Center | 8 PM

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Thursday, March 7

Harriet Himmel Theater 7 PM

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Executive Director’s Welcome Welcome to our Sapphire 45 anniversary season!

This year is a celebration of orchestral music like no other in our history. Throughout the years, we’ve been called “the island’s cultural gem.” Though we’ve moved from Palm Beach to our new offices in the Arts and Entertainment District of West Palm Beach, we carry that distinction with us. Palm Beach will always be home, and we’ll continue to shine brightly as its cultural gem.

This season promises to dazzle like the 45th anniversary gem stone, the sapphire, which represents joy, peace, prosperity, and beauty. As a classical music lover, you’ll recognize each of these qualities in this year’s performances. But because you’ll bring your own history with you into the concert hall, you’ll experience each quality in your own unique way. It’s one of the things I love most about music. It moves us all, but it moves us differently.

To ensure your experience is uniquely tailored to your tastes, we hope you’ll take advantage of our Mix & Match Subscription package, a new offering that lets you create your own season of classical music. There are so many wonderful programs to choose from, including five spectacular masterworks concerts and three extraordinary guest artists – the incomparable Master Chorale of South Florida, the dazzling violin prodigy SooBeen Lee, and the legendary Leon Fleisher. We’re also bringing back our chamber music series, free community concert on the waterfront, a full schedule of community outreach performances, members-only social outings, children’s concerts, and Young Friends events.

Now in his tenth season with Palm Beach Symphony, Maestro Ramón Tebar will be conducting all five masterworks, and he’ll be joined by our new assistant conductor, Alexander Magalong, as well as a full roster of world-class musicians, including all your favorite principals.

It will be a season like no other, and it’s the perfect opportunity to introduce new friends to Palm Beach Symphony. Like a precious gem, each classical music experience is brilliant, multifaceted, and unique. And like all things precious, it’s best shared with those you love.

We hope you’ll enjoy our Sapphire Season. See you at the Symphony!

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Board of Directors Leslie Rose Chairman

Dale McNulty President

James Borynack Vice President

John D. Herrick Treasurer

Phil M. Reagan Secretary

Paul Goldner Director

Gary Lachman Director

Manley Thaler Director

Don Thompson Director

Elizabeth Bowden+

Arlette Gordon+

Karen Rogers

Sheryne Brekus

Carol S. Hays

Veronica Tebar*

Trudy Brekus

Ann Johnson*

Tricia Trimble

Nannette Cassidy

Helene Karp

Sieglinde Wikstrom+

Amy Collins

Marietta MuiĂąa McNulty+

Judy Woods

Margaret Donnelley

Dawn Galvin Meiners*

Heather McNulty

Linda Fellner Lachman

Kathleen Miller

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Lurana Figueroa+

Sharon Muscarelle

Virginia Gildea

Sally Ohrstrom+

Sandra Goldner+

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History & Mission The mission of Palm Beach Symphony is to engage, educate, and entertain the greater community of the Palm Beaches through live performances of inspiring orchestral music.

Palm Beach Symphony was founded in 1974 to address the need for a professional orchestra in Palm Beach County. In its earliest years, the orchestra performed only a few concerts a year with a part-time conductor and a volunteer staff. It was not until Mrs. Ethel S. Stone became the Symphony’s board chair, a position she held for 23 years, that the orchestra began establishing itself as a cultural force in the community.

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A visionary leader, Mrs. Stone inherited her love of music from her family and generously shared it with the community she loved. During her tenure, a number of well-known musical figures served in leadership roles, including Karl Karapetian, John Iuele, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Stewart Kershaw, David Gray, Ulf Bjorlin, and John Covelli.

When Mrs. Stone died on August 6, 1996, John and Joan Tighe stepped in to continue her legacy. They established a stable board of directors, a dedicated administrative staff, and a small endowment fund to ensure the Symphony’s continued growth. Musicians who led the orchestra during the Tighes’ tenure were Alan Kogosowski, Vladimir Ponkin, Sergiu Schwartz, Ray Robinson and Donald Oglesby.

Today, under the leadership of Dale McNulty and David McClymont, Palm Beach Symphony has grown into a world-class orchestra with a more focused mission that includes vital education and community outreach programs that bring live classical music programs and concerts into schools, community centers, and public venues in and around the Palm Beaches. McClymont oversees a robust season of members-only social engagements and special events, as well as masterworks and chamber music concerts that are directed by internationally renowned conductor Maestro Ramón Tebar.

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Planned Giving: Leave A Musical Legacy Palm Beach Symphony is deeply grateful to those who remember us through bequests or planned gifts. There are many ways to make a planned gift to the Symphony. Depending on your age, your income and assets, and your vision of giving, you may wish to consider: • Beneficiary Designations under • Retirement Plan Assets • [401(k), 403(b), IRA] • Bequests via Will or Living Trust • Cash

• Charitable Lead Trusts • Charitable Remainder Trusts • Gift Annuities • Life Insurance • Pledges

Your planned gift will help ensure the Symphony’s bright future: • Keep classical music thriving by supporting our world-class musicians • and critically acclaimed conductor.

• Allow thousands of local students to be instructed and inspired by our • concerts and education programs.

• Build a cultural community by helping us make classical music accessible • to all through free outreach events.

THE DORA BAK SOCIETY The Dora Bak Society recognizes the dedication and generosity of music patrons who choose to include Palm Beach Symphony in their bequests or other long-range charitable giving plans.

The Society offers a wonderful way to help sustain the Symphony’s mission for generations to come. Dora Bak society members are acknowledged in a variety of ways, including presence on all printed donor lists and other naming opportunities that will carry the donor’s name into perpetuity.

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CONTACT US To learn more about bequest opportunities that benefit the Palm Beach Symphony, please contact David McClymont at 561-655-2657. Or Join us Wednesday, March 13, 2019 for a Planned Giving Lunch & Learn.

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Palm Beach Symphony Staff

Brandon Norris Marketing & Communications Assistant Felix Rivera Patron Development Coordinator

David McClymont Executive Director

Hulya Selcuk Development & Special Events Coordinator

Ramรณn Tebar Artistic & Music Director

Lexi Thompson Education & Community Engagement

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Assistant Conductor Kathleen Topham Maryem Bendaoud

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Director of Education & Orchestra

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Paul & Sandra Goldner Conservatory of Music Palm Beach Symphony’s education and community outreach programs bring classical music appreciation and education into the classroom and into the community. We believe in the transformative power of music to help promote learning and growth.

The Symphony’s mission includes a robust education component, which blends music and mentorship to provide learning opportunities for children in the Palm Beach County school system. Programs include: COACHING SESSIONS Student musicians learn technique, tone, posture, and proper instrument position in small group settings with professional Symphony instrument instructors. During the last portion of the session, the students come together in a large group to work on ensemble balance rehearsing alongside our Symphony musicians. We also provide school residencies, which involve regularly scheduled and continuous coaching sessions throughout the academic year.

SIDE-BY-SIDE PERFORMANCES Advanced students get to perform next to Symphony musicians. The opportunity to play their instruments side-by-side with professional musicians provides students with an unforgettable performance experience and experiential learning they can later apply to their own professional growth.

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC TEACHER OF THE YEAR FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY Students, parents, colleagues and members of the community are invited to nominate local instrumental music teachers for the title of Palm Beach Symphony’s Instrumental Music Teacher of the Year. Teachers are nominated for their outstanding teaching techniques, ability to nurture musical talents, and their capacity for connecting with and inspiring their students. The winner receives classroom resources and performance opportunity for the students, as well as a basket of personal awards and indulgences.

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LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS Symphony musicians present lecture demonstrations by performing select pieces and speaking about the music, the instrument, the composer, and their own life as a musician. These unique opportunities help familiarize students with the instruments of the orchestra, the musicians, and the music they perform.

MASTERCLASSES These individual coaching sessions led by master musicians in front of an audience or class allow student musicians to perform a prepared piece and receive expert feedback. Masterclass students benefit from master musician critiques on areas for improvement, including musical technique, style, interpretative qualities, presentation, and overall musicality.

STEAM PBS collaborates with the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium in their STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) nights, implemented by the School District of Palm Beach County. By incorporating the musical arts, Palm Beach Symphony provides additional music activities, transforming STEM to STEAM (adding the A for Arts).

INSTRUMENT DONATION The Symphony accepts donations of professional or amateur quality orchestral instruments, such as violins, violas, cellos, double basses, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, flutes, French horns, trumpets, trombones, tubas, or pianos.

We ensure the instruments meet performance standards, then donate them to underserved children or school music programs in Palm Beach County. For the first time ever, the Symphony will be awarding 1-3 high school seniors, planning to pursue a music degree program, with an advanced level instrument. The B Major award offers the recipients an opportunity to work closely with PB Symphony to identify, test, and select their preferred instrument.

Invest in the arts, our community, and future generations of classical musicians.

Together with the Paul and Sandra Goldner Conservatory of Music $25,000 matching grant, your contribution will help enhance and increase arts education in Palm Beach County public schools. Help the Palm Beach Symphony share the gift of music. For more information about music education sponsorship and underwriting opportunities, please contact the Palm Beach Symphony office at (561) 655-2657 or visit www.palmbeachsymphony.org/education.

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Children’s Concert Series

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Oct. 20, 2018 3 PM Benjamin Hall (public performance) Oct. 22, 2018 10:30 AM Kravis Center (school performance) Oct. 25, 2018 10:30 AM Eissey Campus Theatre (school performance) Nov. 9, 2018 10:15 AM & 11:45 AM Society of the Four Arts (2 school performances)

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Peter and the Wolf Palm Beach Symphony treated thousands of local students to a spectacular live performance of one of the most internationally recognized pieces of music, Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.

This classic tale unfolded through vibrant dance and symphonic music.

To help instill an early appreciation for orchestral music, different instruments were used to “voice” each character – a boy named Peter (strings), a lovable duck (oboe), an impatient bird (flute), a fat cat (clarinet), a grumpy grandfather (bassoon), and a scary wolf (French horn).

Palm Beach Symphony’s new assistant conductor, Alexander Magalong, conducted the lively 22-piece orchestra as Ballet East dancers brought the fully costumed performance to life in a visually stunning performance. Children loved listening for the sounds of their favorite characters. What a wonderful way to start developing instrument recognition and a lifelong love of classical music!

This year, Palm Beach Symphony presented four free school performances of Peter and the Wolf, narrated by our very own Palm Beach Symphony Board President, Dale McNulty. Additionally, a public performance was presented for children and families with special guest narrator, Bruce Cameron, New York Times best-selling author of A Dog’s Purpose. Cameron appeared at the October 20 performance at Benjamin Hall, courtesy of the Symphony’s partnership with the Palm Beach Book Festival.

The first 200 lucky ticket buyers received copies of Cameron’s latest book, Max’s Story: A Dog’s Purpose Puppy Tale.

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Treasures from the Spanish Providencia For the first time this year, we presented a Chamber Chats performance of Treasures from the Spanish Providencia, a shortened repeat from one of last season’s chamber music programs. This string quartet performance weaves the music from Spanish composers with tales of Spanish sailors and a legendary shipwreck. The audience of middle and high school students were transported back to Old Florida and the Spanish influence that gave root to so much of the state’s history, through a unique video tour narrated by fifth generation Floridian and author, Harvey E. Oyer, III.

Oct. 12, 2018 10:30 AM Eissey Campus Theatre

The Palm Beach Symphony Children’s Concert Series is made possible thanks to the generous contributions of: PAUL & SANDRA GOLDNER + Paul DeJong and Burton Rocks

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Viennese Dreams

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1st Movement: Master and Pupil String Quartets by Haydn and Beethoven January 30, 2019 | 7 PM The Harriet Himmel Theater PROGRAM

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String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1 Allegro moderato Adagio Menuetto: Presto Finale: Presto

String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4 Allegro ma non tanto Scherzo Menuetto Allegro

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Evija Ozolins, violin Valentin Mansurov, violin Chauncey Patterson, viola Claudio Jaffé, cello GUEST NARRATOR

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1st Movement Master and Pupil Notes on the Program by Aaron Grad

When Haydn returned to Vienna in 1792 after his wildly successful first visit to London, the sixty-year-old composer was the most revered musician in the world. His young friend Mozart had been dead less than a year, and a new firebrand had arrived in Vienna who was eager to fill the void as the city’s ranking keyboard virtuoso. That young musician was Beethoven, who left his hometown of Bonn for Vienna at the age of 21 with this blessing from his patron: “May you receive Mozart’s spirit from the hands of Haydn.” Beethoven did take some lessons from Haydn, but their tutelage was short-lived; by the end of the decade, the relationship of master and pupil had morphed into outright competition, with Beethoven bringing the battle to Haydn’s home turf: the string quartet.

String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77, No. 1 FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN Born March 31, 1732 in Rohrau, Austria Died May 31, 1809 in Vienna, Austria Duration: Approximately 25 minutes Composed: 1799 Origins: Haydn was one of the first composers to write for a chamber ensemble of two violins, viola and cello, and his 68 compositions spanning about 40 years helped to establish the string quartet as a chamber music mainstay. By the time of his two final examples in 1799, the so-called “Father of the String Quartet” was facing the first real challenge to his supremacy in the genre, from none other than his former pupil, Beethoven. Haydn only completed two of the six quartets he had promised to Prince Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz, the same patron to whom Beethoven dedicated his first published set of quartets, Opus 18. At a time when Beethoven was testing out those quartets-in-progress around Vienna, Haydn would have been aware of his rival’s developments, and there are signs in

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the music that the stream of influence between the composers had begun to flow in both directions.

Notes to Notice: I. Allegro moderato. This first movement, in the typical sonata-allegro form, uses a strategy that Haydn had cultivated decades earlier, in which the same theme that announces the home key of G major (recognizable by its initial descending triad, like the first three notes of “The Star-Spangled Banner”) returns in the contrasting key of D major. We tend think of Beethoven as the king of maximizing each little musical gesture, but this quartet shows how Haydn paved the way.

II. Adagio. The slow movement’s first unison phrase ends with a descending arpeggio that echoes the related theme from the opening movement—another clever example of unity and interconnection. Haydn used the listener’s expectation of this theme’s return to roll out some particularly adventurous harmonies and interruptions in the exploratory central section.

III. Menuetto: Presto. Even though it is labeled as a minuet, the presto tempo of this movement makes it more of a Scherzo (Italian for “joke”) like those that Beethoven was cultivating in his early quartets. The biggest shock comes in the transition from the minuet to the contrasting trio section, which uses a deceptive cadence to leap from G major to E-flat major—the same key relationship, it so happens, that played out between the first two movements.

IV. Finale: Presto. Once again, Haydn crafted one small idea that he could manipulate endlessly, either in full phrases or broken down into slurred, two-note segments. Part of the quirky energy of this finale comes from the disorientation of having a main theme that hints at the “wrong” key (D major) before winding its way to the proper home key (G major).

String Quartet in C Minor, Op. 18, No. 4 LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN Born December, 1770 in Bonn, Germany Died March 26, 1827 in Vienna, Austria Duration: Approximately 24 minutes Composed: 1798-1800 Origins: While Beethoven established himself as a freelance pianist and composer in Vienna in the 1790s, he shied away from two genres—string quartets and

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symphonies—closely associated with Haydn. Beethoven finally tackled quartets with a set of six completed between 1798 and 1800, and he added a symphony in 1800 as well. Of those six initial quartets published as Opus 18, only No. 4 was placed in a minor key, continuing Beethoven’s fascination with the key of C minor that had already manifested in two recent piano sonatas and a string trio.

Notes to Notice: I. Allegro ma non tanto. This quartet chafed against the pleasant stereotypes of salon music, and it cemented a tradition wherein Beethoven channeled his most inflamed passions into music in the key of C minor—most famously in the Fifth Symphony that came a decade later. That turbulent mood is evident from the start of quartet’s first movement, especially when brutal fortissimo chords interrupt the first violin’s singing melody.

II. Scherzo. In place of a slow movement, rather quick and playful music arrives in a tempo marked Andante scherzoso quasi allegretto (At a walking pace, jokingly, almost a little fast).

III. Menuetto. The third movement also takes a lively approach, placing jolting accents on the weak third beat of the minuet’s three-beat pulse. The charming trio section counters with smooth triplet pulses.

IV. Allegro. The rondo finale incorporates the type of rustic, Hungarianinfluenced themes that Haydn so enjoyed. Instead of resolving the tension with a major-key ending as Haydn might have, Beethoven preserved the C-minor tonality all the way through a wild, accelerated ending. © 2018 Aaron Grad.

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2nd Movement: Further Developments Late Masterworks by Mozart and Brahms February 27, 2019 | 7 PM The Harriet Himmel Theater PROGRAM

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Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 Allegro Larghetto Menuetto Allegretto con variazioni

Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 Allegro Adagio Andantino Con Moto

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Anna Brumbaugh, clarinet Evija Ozolins, violin Valentin Mansurov, violin Chauncey Patterson, viola Claudio Jaffé, cello GUEST NARRATOR

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2nd Movement Further Developments Late Masterworks by Mozart and Brahms Notes on the Program by Aaron Grad

Mozart only spent the last decade of his life in Vienna, but his time there was miraculous. On top of all his piano concertos, operas and symphonies that reshaped those large-scale genres, his highly personal and intimate chamber music left an indelible imprint. By the mid-1800s, tastes had shifted away from the delicate, abstract art of chamber music, but one contrarian composer with a keen sense of history kept the flame alive. Just over a century separates the Clarinet Quintet by Brahms from the work that most inspired it, composed by Mozart for the same ensemble. These two autumnal masterpieces, both written out of friendship and respect for particular musicians, point to the enduring legacy of the Classical Style that took root in Mozart’s Vienna.

Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria Died December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria Duration: Approximately 32 minutes Composed: 1789 First Performance: January 1, 1879 in Leipzig, Germany Origins: The music that Mozart wrote for his friend and fellow freemason Anton Stadler played no small part in elevating the clarinet to the indispensible concert instrument it is today. Until the eighteenth century, the closest precursor was the cylindrical, single-reed woodwind known as the chalumeau that had open finger holes like a recorder and which only played in a compressed, lower register.

The advent of a register key opened access to the instrument’s upper range, which offered a bright tone not unlike a trumpet, or clarino in Italian—hence the

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diminutive clarinetto, rendered in English as clarinet. Through his friendship with Stadler, Mozart came to write a trio in 1786 for the novel combination of clarinet, viola and piano (the so-called “Kegelstatt” Trio). A quintet followed in 1789, scored for two violins, viola, cello and basset clarinet, an instrument designed by Stadler with an extended low range. The Clarinet Concerto that Mozart wrote just two months before he died in 1791 also featured Stadler and his basset clarinet.

Notes to Notice: I. Allegro. The clarinet’s fluidity and wide range is on display from the outset, when it enters with rising and falling arpeggios in response to a smooth string chorale. Despite Stadler’s advocacy, his basset clarinet design died out, and most performers today perform the Clarinet Quintet on a modern clarinet, adjusting a few low notes as needed.

II. Larghetto. The slow movement places a songlike meody in the clarinet’s sweet soprano register, offset by a few well-timed drops into the throaty chalumeau range. Muted strings provide a soft bed of sound, and the first violin rises to act as a melodic foil to the clarinet.

III. Menuetto. Based on the graceful three-beat dance from France, this minuet makes a game of handing off slurred, chromatic phrases. The clarinet waits out the first contrasting trio section cast in the parallel minor key, but it returns for a second trio in the home key.

IV. Allegretto con variazioni. The finale begins with a simple, bouncing theme that would not sound out of place on a children’s playground. This humble tune becomes a vehicle for flashy variations, showing off the clarinet’s wide leaps and virtuosic passagework. An Adagio variation provides a momentary lull, and then a short transition and a clarinet cadenza usher in the energized closing.

Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115 JOHANNES BRAHMS Born May 7, 1833 in Hamburg, Germany Died April 3, 1897 in Vienna, Austria Duration: Approximately 36 minutes Composed: 1891 Origins: In 1890, and again in 1894, Brahms announced his retirement from composition. Both times, he returned to create more music for one particular @pbsymphony

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performer: clarinetist Richard Mühlfeld, from the court orchestra in Meiningen, Germany. After hearing Mühlfeld play in 1891, Brahms wrote music for the first time in a year, crafting both the Clarinet Trio (Opus 114) and the Clarinet Quintet (Opus 115) during his summer holiday in an Austrian spa town. Mühlfeld premiered both works that winter, joined by the string quartet led by Brahms’ longtime friend Joseph Joachim.

Notes to Notice: I. Allegro. There is a bittersweet quality to the Allegro movement that begins the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, much of it generated by the continual pull of the listener’s expectations between major and minor tonalities. The movement begins with sweetness, as the violins twine together in thirds; at this point, the ear perceives the key as D major. Almost a minute passes before the harmony lands with any real force on the actual home key of B minor, and soon enough it leaves again for D major, the setting of the secondary theme. Those two keys are flip sides of the same coin, sharing all the same scale tones, and the movement continually flips that coin such that we bounce from the hopefulness of the major key to the heaviness of the minor.

II. Adagio. The slow movement again treads a delicate emotional line between joy and sadness. Partly the effect here comes from the tone color, with the strings muted, but the real pull at the heartstrings is the result of a musical technique known as modal mixture. In this movement the home key is B major, but some of the tones used are actually native to B minor. Each time those darker notes enter, starting with the very first measures, they create little pangs of disturbance. At the center of the movement, a contrasting passage sinks fully into B minor for music tinged with Gypsy flair.

III. Andantino. Instead of a boisterous scherzo, the Clarinet Quintet clears the air with a smooth third movement at a modest pace. The work’s recurring conflict appears here as well, with a mischievous interlude in B minor dominating the latter half of the movement until the initial D-major music returns for one last phrase.

IV. Con moto. The finale takes shape as a theme and variations, elaborating a folk-like melody in B m inor. Continuing the work’s ongoing pattern, one of the variations shifts to the major key, but ultimately the quintet is destined for a minor-key resolution. © 2018 Aaron Grad.

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String Trio in B-Flat Major, D. 471 Duo No. 1 in G Major, K. 423 Allegro Adagio Rondo: Allegro

Flute Quartet No. 4 in A Major, K 298 Andantino Menuetto Rondo

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Nadine Asin, flute Evija Ozolins, violin

Felicia Besan, viola Claudio Jaffé, cello

GUEST NARRATOR

Dr. Thomas L. McKinley @pbsymphony

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3rd Movement The Lighter Side Early Diversions and Entertainments

by Mozart and Schubert Notes on the Program by Aaron Grad

Mozart and Schubert would probably be shocked to see their chamber music played in our large concert halls filled with quiet, polite audiences. In their day, before radios, record players or Spotify streams, instrumental music existed to entertain, whether you were a participant playing a part or a feasting, gabbing spectator. Each of these composers was the life of the party in their respective social circles, and the pure joy they brought into their music still resonates today.

Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major, K. 285 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria Died December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria Duration: Approximately 15 minutes Composed: 1777 Origins: While in Mannheim in 1777 on a job-hunting expedition, the 21-year-old Mozart secured a commission to compose quartets and concertos for Ferdinand Dejean, an amateur flutist who worked for the Dutch East India Trading Company. With the first of those works, the Flute Quartet No. 1 in D Major (K. 285), Mozart did a superb job of framing the flute in ways that would be flattering to the work’s patron.

Notes to Notice: I. Allegro. Decorating its long, songlike phrases with judicious trills and quick scales, this opening movement lets the flute shine like an operatic soprano over lively support from the violin, viola and cello.

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II. Adagio. This distinctive slow movement in B minor unfolds as a tender song without words, accompanied by guitar-like plucks from the strings. It ends inconclusively, setting up a direct link to the third movement.

III. Rondo. While the flute continues in its prima donna role, the middle voices of violin and viola serve as the twin engines of this finale, driving the music forward with energetic sixteenth-notes and well-timed melodic commentaries.

String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 471 FRANZ SCHUBERT Born January 31, 1797 in Vienna, Austria Died November 19, 1828 in Vienna, Austria Duration: Approximately 10 minutes Composed: 1816 Origins: At the age of 17, Schubert began working as a teaching assistant at an elite Viennese school while also keeping up twice-weekly composition lessons with Salieri. Schubert’s accomplishments in the next two years must rank as the greatest growth spurt in musical history: He composed some 300 songs, plus four symphonies, three masses, five musical dramas, three string quartets, three violin sonatas and dozens of other works. During that period, Schubert started a String Trio in B-flat Major (D. 471), but he only got as far as a complete first movement and 39 measures of a slow movement before he moved on.

Notes to Notice: The trio’s single intact movement shows the young composer practicing the art of sonata-allegro construction with a streamlined texture of violin, viola and cello.

The primary theme, with its singing melody and flowing viola accompaniment, is cut from the same cloth as the many songs Schubert wrote in those years, with their ear-catching melodies and bubbling piano accompaniments. The secondary theme becomes more conversational in its back-and-forth phrases and spacious accompaniment, a mode that recalls Mozart and his operatic use of instruments.

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Duo No. 1 in G Major, K. 423 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria Died December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria Duration: Approximately 14 minutes Composed: 1783 Origins: Mozart and his new wife traveled in 1783 from Vienna to Salzburg to visit the composer’s hometown and to make peace with his father, who had refused to give his blessing for the wedding. While there, Mozart agreed to help out his old friend Michael Haydn (the younger brother of Joseph), a longtime court composer in Salzburg who had fallen ill before he could complete an assignment to compose six duos for violin and viola. The two works contributed by Mozart came from a time when he was studying counterpoint intensely and writing his most mature string quartets to date, pursuits that informed these uncommonly rich duos. Mozart himself liked the scores enough that he made sure to have his father send copies to Vienna, where they were eventually published posthumously in 1792. The first published edition for violin and cello followed in the next decade, and these works have been treasured ever since in both configurations.

Notes to Notice: I. Allegro. This opening movement makes a point of establishing equanimity between the two players; even when the cello is in an accompanying role, its line is satisfying in its own right, full of witty melodic comments, rich chords, and hearty double-stops.

II. Adagio. The slow movement takes a songlike approach to the melody, with long lines that bloom patiently during extended tones and smooth slurs. The instruments again swap roles at times, and with such exquisite harmonic patterns supporting the slow-moving phrases, it’s not always obvious which part is supposed to be the “lead” anyway.

III. Rondo: Allegro. The finale continues the pattern of even-handed melodic exchanges and crisp counterpoint. An extended minor-key episode heightens the drama, making the sneaky return to the main theme all the more thrilling.

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Flute Quartet No. 4 in A Major, K. 298 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg, Austria Died December 5, 1791 in Vienna, Austria Duration: Approximately 12 minutes Composed: 1786 Origins: Mozart wrote his final flute quartet around 1786 in Vienna, long after the Dejean commissions that generated the earlier quartets, but early scholars mistakenly dated it to 1778, which accounts for its low numbering in the sequence of the composer’s works. He probably wrote it in connection with the house concerts hosted by his friend Gottfried von Jacquin, and the music is full of inside jokes and parodies that would have appealed to that erudite crowd.

Notes to Notice: I. Andantino. The first movement begins with a theme that seems to imitate an inanely simple operatic style that was popular at the time. The variations go on to feature every member of the ensemble in turn, including the viola part that Mozart presumably played himself.

II. Menuetto. This miniature minuet has one surprising bout of chromatic dizziness, and apparently its contrasting trio section pokes fun at an old French folk song.

III. Rondo. Mozart saved his cheekiest humor for the heading of this finale. He jokingly misspelled the French rondeau as “Rondieaoux,” and wrote a facetious instruction that the tempo should be “slightly fast and graceful, but not too fast, nor too slow. So-so—with great elegance and expression.” The main theme is perhaps a bastardized version of music from a facile Italian opera that had recently appeared in Vienna. © 2018 Aaron Grad.

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Artistic & Music Director

RAMÓN TEBAR is widely praised as one of the rising stars of the conducting world. Known for his musical versatility, compelling interpretations, and diverse experience in both symphonic and operatic repertoire, this 39-year-old maestro regularly receives global acclaim in both the opera and orchestral arenas.

Now in his 8th season as Palm Beach Symphony’s artistic and music director, Maestro Tebar also serves as artistic director of Florida’s Opera Naples (since 2014), and he holds the distinction of being the first Spanish conductor to be appointed music director of an American opera company, the Florida Grand Opera (2011).

Tebar was recently named chief conductor of Orquesta de Valencia, the symphony orchestra of his hometown of Valencia, Spain. While in Valencia, Maestro Tebar also serves as music director at the Festival de Santo Domingo and principal guest conductor of the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía.

NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL CONDUCTING CREDITS: Philharmonia Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, St. Petersburg Symphony,

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• Henry C. Clark Conductor of the Year Award • • • • • • by Florida Grand Opera (2013 and 2010)

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• The 100 Españoles Award (Marca España)

Radio Symphony, Munich Radio

• Featured in Miami Herald’s Top 20 under 40 • (Miami Herald)

Moscow State Symphony, Malasyian

Symphony, Prague Philharmonia, Spanish National Orchestra, Spanish Radio Television Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Regio di Torino, Teatro Regio di Parma, Cincinnati Opera, Teatro Colón, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Kremlin Palace, Royal Festival Hall, Kölner Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, and Wiener Staatsoper

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• Featured in (Spanish journal) ABC’s Ten • International Spanish Conductors • Special Honor Awards in Piano and Chamber • Music Degrees • The Barenreiter Prize • Special Prize in the Musical Youth of Spain • • • • • • • Competition (Spain) • Medaille d´Honneur “Villa de Claira” (France) • Luigi Mancinelli International Conducting • • • • • • • • Competition (Italy)

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Guest Narrator DR. THOMAS L. MCKINLEY is a professor of music theory and composition at Lynn University where he serves as curriculum coordinator and undergraduate academic adviser for the Conservatory of Music.

A busy composer and instructor, McKinley’s teaching experience spans more than two decades and includes positions previously held at Tulane University, the College of the Holy Cross, Tufts University and the New England Conservatory’s Extension Division.

McKinley received his Ph.D. (1987) and A.M. (1984) degrees in composition from Harvard University and his M.M. (1980) and B.M. (1978) degrees, also in composition, from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. His teachers have included Norman Dinerstein, Ivan Tcherepnin, Peter Lieberson, Earl Kim, Leon Kirchner and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

McKinley has had compositions performed throughout the United States, as well as internationally in Madrid, Spain and Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet have been recorded on CD by the Georgia Woodwind Quintet. He was one of the founding members of the Boston-based performing group Extension Works. In October 1986 he was invited to have works played and be a guest performer (piano) at the 62nd State Convention of the Kentucky Federation of Music Clubs.

In addition to his work as a composer and teacher, McKinley has pursued research in music theory and analysis. His principal areas of interest are chromaticism in the common-practice period and tonality in 20th century music.

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Musicians NADINE ASIN is Palm Beach Symphony’s principal flutist.

She appears with some of the world’s finest ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, the Great Performers Series of Lincoln Center, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Da Camera Society of Houston. An active commercial recording artist, she can be heard on the soundtracks of Julie and Julia, True Grit, Tower Heist, Tintin, and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; on the world premiere of Enchanted Orbits, a concerto for flute and chamber orchestra written for her by Augusta Read Thomas; and on Pleasure is the Law’s debut album released through Boston Records. Asin debuted as a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony at age 16. She studied with Julius Baker at the Juilliard School, where she received both her Bachelor of Music and Master of music degrees. She is a faculty member of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, an adjunct faculty member at the Juilliard School, and she teaches masterclasses at the Peabody Institute, Rice University, and New World Symphony.

FELICIA BESAN viola, was born in Moldova to a family of musicians. Her passion for music and the arts was nurtured from a young age. Upon deciding to pursue a professional music career, she attended the George Enescu Music High School in Bucharest, Romania. A member of the Remember Enescu foundation, she has participated in and won numerous national and international competitions. Felicia was one of the 15 Young Artists studying and performing chamber music at the Manchester Music Festival in 2014 and 2015. While studying at Florida Atlantic University with Professor Diane Weisberg, Felicia performed two concerts as the featured soloist with the Florida Atlantic University Symphony Orchestra and was the winner of their 2008 Concerto Competition. A graduate of Lynn University class of 2011, Felicia also received her Professional Performance Certificate in 2013 and master’s degree in 2015 from Lynn University under the guidance of Professor Ralph Fielding. An avid chamber music player, Felicia’s string quartet was one of the winners of the Lynn Conservatory Chamber Music Competition and presented a full chamber music concert as part of the Mainly Mozart Festival in May 2015. Felicia is currently the Delray String Quartet violist and performs regularly with the Palm Beach Symphony and Florida Grand Opera.

ANNA BRUMBAUGH is principal clarinet of Palm Beach Symphony and Florida Grand Opera. She has performed professionally with American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, The New York Concerti Sinfonietta, and the Boca Symphonia, and she’s collaborated 38

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with the Eastman Wind Ensemble to record the Stravinsky Octet for their latest CD. Brumbaugh mentored students at Juilliard’s pre-college division and taught at two of their educational outreach programs. She is a music mentor at Plumosa School of the Arts in Delray Beach. She earned a Master of Music degree in clarinet performance from the Juilliard School, a Bachelor of Music with high distinction and the coveted Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. She is currently pursuing her Professional Performance Certificate at Lynn University. Brumbaugh’s teachers have included Jon Manasse, internationally acclaimed soloist, and Bil Jackson, former principal clarinet of the Colorado Symphony.

CLAUDIO JAFFÉ is principal cellist for both Palm Beach Symphony and Florida Grand Opera Orchestra as well as cellist for the Delray String Quartet. Hailed by The New York Times as “an elegant and accomplished artist” of “taste, technique, musicianship, and a contagious youthful enthusiasm,” Jaffé fascinates audiences with his colorful and passionate virtuosity. As a recitalist and chamber musician, he has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls around the world, including the Weill Recital Hall, Town Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall in New York City; the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires; Sala Cecilia Meireles in Rio de Janeiro; Sociedade Cultura Artistica in São Paulo; Wigmore Hall in London; Suntory Hall in Tokyo; and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The New London Day has described his performance as “eloquent with pathos and tenderness” and praised him for “superb intonation, robust sound, and overall musical command.” Jaffé has performed with international orchestras such as the Slovak Philharmonic, the Calgary Symphony, and the Brazilian orchestras of Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraíba, and Goiânia. He has performed throughout the United States with the Delaware, Lexington, Elgin, Greenville, Augusta, Rockford, Missouri, Olympia, Bridgeport, Pensacola, Jackson, Owensboro, Paducah, and Columbus symphony orchestras to name just a few. In addition to performing in over 40 U.S. states, Jaffé has been an active educator. He has conducted master classes around the world and has served on the faculty at several music festivals. He was a faculty member at Florida International University and Florida Atlantic University, and for four years served as Dean of the Conservatory of Music at Lynn University, where he created their Preparatory Division. He began the Strings program at Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, Florida and has been the Resident Conductor of the Florida Youth Orchestra for more than 18 years. Jaffé performs regularly at the Sunflower and Buzzards Bay Music Festivals and is currently teaching at Palm Beach Atlantic University. Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Jaffé began his cello studies at age 7 and made his orchestral debut at age 11, performing a concerto written for him by Brazilian composer, Radames Gnattali. At 15, he received an invitation by the distinguished Yale professor of cello Aldo Parisot

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to study in the United States. At 18, he made his first appearance as a soloist with a major symphony orchestra. Chosen to perform in the Select Debut Series, Jaffé made his New York City debut recital at Town Hall. He performed throughout his native country as the winner of the Young Artists of Brazil Competition. As a prizewinner of numerous competitions, Jaffé won first place in the Villa-Lobos International Cello Competition, the East and West Young Artists Competition that awarded him a solo recital at Carnegie Recital Hall, and several symphony orchestra competitions where he was invited to perform as soloist (New London, CT; Poughkeepsie, NY; Pasadena, CA).

He was a semi-finalist in major international competitions, including the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, Russia; the Gaspar Cassadó International Cello Competition in Florence, Italy; the Naumburg Competition in New York; the Maria Canals International Competition in Barcelona, Spain; and the Viña del Mar International Music Competition in Chile. Jaffé was also selected as Musical America’s Young Artists of 1987. Jaffé earned his undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees from Yale University under Aldo Parisot’s tutelage. He has studied in master classes and special workshops with great masters of the cello including Yo-Yo Ma, Lynn Harrell, Paul Tortelier, Tokyo String Quartet, Janos Starker, Nathaniel Rosen, and Ralph Kirshbaum.

VALENTIN MANSUROV is Palm Beach Symphony’s principal second violinist. An award-winning musician who has won multiple competitions in the former U.S.S.R, Canada, and the United States, Mansurov has performed in solo recitals and chamber music concerts throughout Europe, North America, and South America. Locally, he performs as a member of Florida Grand Opera and Atlantic Classical Orchestra in addition to his performances, both orchestral and chamber, with Palm Beach Symphony. In 2015, Mansurov became a member of the critically acclaimed Delray String Quartet, performing in concerts nationwide. He began studying violin at the age of seven at Uspenskiy’s School for Musically Gifted Children in Uzbekistan and has pursued further college degrees in Turkey, France, Canada, and the United States.

EVIJA OZOLINS is concertmaster for Palm Beach Symphony, assistant concertmaster for Florida Grand Opera, and a member of Bergonzi String Quartet. Born in Riga, Latvia, Ozolins is a third-generation musician in a family of professional musicians. She began playing piano at age four and violin at age five. She was educated in Riga at the Emils Darzins Academy of Music and, in 1991, was accepted as a scholarship student at the Mannes College of Music in New York City where she studied with renowned violinists Aaron Rosand and David Nadien. She has given solo recitals in many U.S. cities, including Carnegie’s Weill

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Recital Hall, as well as in Canada, the Caribbean, and Europe. She has recorded as a soloist with Maureen McGovern, Brian Lane Green, and others. Her name appears on many commercial recordings and movie soundtracks. She also performs in numerous Broadway shows, most recently Motown, The Little Mermaid and Phantom of the Opera in New York City. Ozolins currently plays on a 1782 Antonio Gragnani violin.

CHAUNCEY PATTERSON is principal violist for Palm Beach Symphony, solo violist for Florida Grand Opera, violist for the Bergonzi String Quartet at University of Miami, and member of the Nu Deco Ensemble. He has been principal violist of the Denver and Buffalo Symphonies and, for 15 years, was the violist with the Miami String Quartet, an internationally renowned and extensively recorded ensemble.

Patterson started playing the viola at age 7 in the public school system of Burlington, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Ann Woodward, Robert Vernon, Karen Tuttle, and Michael Tree respectively.

He began his professional career at age 23 as assistant principal viola of the Denver Symphony. He was eventually appointed principal viola by Music Director Philippe Entremont. His next post was principal viola of the Buffalo Philharmonic under the direction of Semyon Bychkov. During his stay in Buffalo, Patterson accepted the viola position in the award-winning Miami String Quartet. During his 15-year tenure, the MSQ garnered awards in the quartet competitions of London and Evian and became the first string quartet to win the Concert Artist Guild New York Competition. The quartet recorded a number of CD’s, most notably, The Ginastera Quartets, The Quartets of Pēteris Vasks, and The Saint-Saens and Faure String Quartets for the BMG Conifer label. The MSQ toured the U.S. extensively, playing at virtually every high-profile venue, including Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Hollywood Bowl.

International performances (both with and without the MSQ) have taken Patterson to Mexico, Canada, Puerto Rico, Barbados, Panama, Brazil, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, England, and the Netherlands. He has shared the chamber music stage with such distinguished artists as: Gil Shaham, Garrick Ohlsson, Cho-Liang Lin, Robert Chen, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Paul Neubauer, Aaron Rosand, Menahem Pressler, Peter Wiley, Andre-Michel Schub, Bill Preucil, Ida Kavafian, Lynn Harrell, Arto Noras, Mark Johnson, Eugene Druckman, and Robert Vernon. Following his tenure with the MSQ, Patterson served as interim violist of the world renowned Fine Arts Quartet. Education has been a major component of Patterson’s career. His faculty affiliations include: The Cleveland Institute of Music, Blossom School of Music, Kent State University, Hartt School of Music, Encore School for Strings, Eastern Music Festival, University of Charleston (W.V.), University of Denver, New World School of the Arts, Florida International University, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, and the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami.

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Marguerite Rosner

Marguerite Rosner was a Grand Benefactor and Palm Beach Symphony member for more than 40 years.

With her passion for classical music and dedication to the Ladies Guild, she devoted her time and support to Palm Beach Symphony’s mission. As an outstanding supporter and active member of the Ladies Guild, she never missed a meeting. Marguerite served as co-chair of Palm Beach Symphony’s Sunset Dinner Cruise for 10 years.

She was a much-loved member and an incredible friend to us and she will be greatly missed. Her passing is an incredible loss and Palm Beach Symphony deeply mourns.

Howard will be remembered for his many years as a friend and strong supporter of Palm Beach Symphony.

His memory will be held dear by those who knew him for his great integrity, his wry sense of humor and for his great stoicism. He never complained and continually put others’ needs ahead of his own. He was a true ambassador for the music and mission of his community orchestra.

He will be greatly missed.

Howard M. Lester January 21, 1927 – January 27, 2018

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Palm Beach Symphony is grateful to those who have made the commitment - through a planned gift or bequest - to help ensure the continuation of our world-class orchestra, music education, and outreach programs to enrich the community for generations to come.

Doris Hastings John Herrick Susan Mark Philip Reagan Marguerite Rosner

Ray Robinson Endowment

We are grateful to the Palm Beach Symphony’s Ladies Guild for their support in establishing the Ray Robinson Endowment Fund.

David Albenda David C. Bigelow Leslie Rogers Blum Trudy B. Brekus Margaret C. Donnelley Jose and Lurana Figueroa Paul and Sandra Goldner Carol and Joseph Andrew Hays JoAnne and Lowell Jaeger Helene Karp Leonard and Norma Klorfine Foundation Dale and Marietta McNulty Barbara Rentschler Ruth A Robinson Marguerite Rosner Robin B. Smith Don and Mary Thompson @pbsymphony

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PALM BEACH SYMPHONY FOURTH ANNUAL LUNCHEON

SAVE THE DATE TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2019

THE BEACH CLUB, PALM BEACH CHAIRS Virginia and John Gildea

VICE-CHAIRS Amy and John Collins

AUCTION CHAIR Marietta Muiña McNulty

This festive fundraising luncheon supports the Symphony’s education and instrument donation initiatives to benefit underserved music students in Palm Beach County.

Be sure to reserve your luncheon tickets early as this event sells out.

EVENT INFORMATION:

(561) 568-0265 hselcuk@palmbeachsymphony.org SPONSORSHIP AND UNDERWRITING OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE

At the 2018 Holly Jolly Symphony Fête, guests welcomed 19 music students who were given the gift of musical instruments through Palm Beach Symphony’s Instrument Donation program. As the students were ushered into the room with their newly donated instruments, luncheon guests, many of whom were instrument donors, erupted with generous applause, warm greetings, and supportive encouragement for the young musicians, a moment many guests called “a highlight of the celebration” and “our reason for being here.”

Emily Langerholc and students from Lantana Middle School show us their new instruments

3RD ANNUAL HOLLY JOLLY SYMPHONY FÊTE

OUTSTANDING STUDENT RECIPIENTS OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Congress Middle School: Fellisehia Joseph, violin Fedno Lormejuste, violin Akilis Martinez, violin Sebastian Salas, viola

Shadrac Leger, trombone Yoni Perez Lopez, flute Francisco Basilio Miguel, trumpet

Lakeshore Middle School: Sara Bienaime, baritone Byron Byfield, trombone Ezequiel Gonzalez, trumpet

Pahokee Middle School Nadia Diaz, flute Natalie Garcia, flute Vanessa Garcia, flute Kelvin Lowe, trumpet Noel Rosas, trumpet

Lantana Middle School Ivy Felix-Andres, clarinet Amira Lee-Smith, clarinet

Plumosa School of the Arts Nhaorwenzie Charles, violin Morvens Menardy , violin

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Individual Support Palm Beach Symphony gratefully recognizes the individuals listed here for their generous financial support, which makes our season of life-enriching programs for the community possible.

Received as of January 3, 2019

DIAMOND GRAND BENEFACTOR $1,000,000 AND MORE Dora Bak*

GRAND BENEFACTORS $100,000 AND MORE Leonard and Norma Klorfine Foundation Lynn and John Pohanka/ John J. Pohanka Family Foundation

BENEFACTORS GIFTS FROM $50,000 TO $99,999 James Borynack and Adolfo Zaralegui/Findlay Galleries, Inc. The Charles and Ann Johnson Family Foundation Dodie and Manley Thaler and the Thaler/Howell Foundation

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GIFTS FROM $20,000 TO $49,999 The Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation David and Eunice Bigelow Leslie Rogers Blum Mary B. Galvin Paul and Sandra Goldner John D. Herrick Addison Hines Charitable Trust The Lachman Family Foundation The McNulty Foundation Dawn Galvin Meiners The David Minkin Foundation Palm Beach Public Orchestral Strings Foundation Lois Pope Life Foundation, Inc. Provident Jewelry/Scott Diament Leslie Rose Marguerite M. Rosner David K. Schafer Silversea Cruises and Atlantis International Ltd. Inc Don and Mary Thompson West Palm Beach Downtown Development Authority

GIFTS FROM $10,000 TO $19,999 Jerome J. Claeys III Julie F & Peter D Cummings Fund of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties John W. and Virginia Gildea Carol S. and Joseph Andrew Hays Hilton West Palm Beach Hospital for Special Surgery Stephen LaForte Norman and Susan Oblon Palm Beach State College Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James Perrella/ Jim and Diane Perrella Foundation Steven and Katherine Pinard PNC Arts Alive Ari Rifkin Karen and Kenneth Rogers RPP Palm Beach Property LP Lesly Smith/The Fortin Foundation of Florida Robin B. Smith

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Kimberly V. Strauss Karen N. Tell Tricia and Tom Trimble Sieglinde Wikstrom James and Judy Woods

GIFTS FROM $4,000 TO $9,999 Donna D. Barnette Hans and Sigrid Baumann Arthur E. Benjamin The Benjamin School Jeffrey Blitz Dr. Elizabeth Bowden Trudy Brekus John A. Cammeyer and Marie Feldman CityPlace Retail LLC John and Amy Collins Paul DeJong Mary and Will Demory Scott Diament Anthony DiResta and Terrance Mason Margaret Donnelley Don Ephraim and Maxine Marks of the Don Ephraim Family Foundation Arlette Gordon Gucci America, Inc. Steven and Caroline Harless The Kirkwood Fund of the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Lowell and Joanne Jaeger Michele Kang Dorothy and Sidney Kohl Peter and Paula Lunder Lynn and Robert Francis Mackle Mary Bryant McCourt Dale and Marietta McNulty Charles and Kathy Miller HermÊ de Wyman Miro, Founder/President of The International Society of Palm Beach Drs. Thomas and Ling Patnaude Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Foundation Nancy and Ellis J. Parker, III Barbara and David Perlmutter Sarah Pietrafesa Philip M. Reagan Burton Rocks Lawrence and Marlene Rocks R.P. Simmons Family Foundation The Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation

Beverly Sommer Dr. Arthur and Jane Tiger Mary Lou Wagner

GIFTS FROM $2,000 TO $3,999 John Pierce Archer Dorian L. Baldwin Richard and Lon Behr Hans and Barbara Bergstrom Harry and Marie Bissell William B. Blundin Nannette Cassidy Ms. Maude Cook Todd and Julie Dahlstrom William DeBrule Kent and Pamela Fincham William G. Frick Betty Godfrey Charles Gradante Ann Grimm Harvey Capital Management Dr. Peter Heydon Alex and Cynthia Housten Dr. Robert and Ann Jaeder Joanna and Joseph Jiampietro Mrs. Stanley Karp Carol Katz Phyllis Katz Monica Kaufmann/Kaufmann deSuisse Mrs. James Kay Allan Kennedy Lisa Koeper Christa Kramer Lamborghini Palm Beach Patricia Lambrecht Stephanie Lefes Robert M. Lichten Julian and Sigrid Light Virginia Longo Dr. Howard R. and Joanne Lyboldt The Honorable Bonnie McElveen-Hunter Sarah MacNamee and Kevin McCaffrey David and Millie McCoy George J. and Pauline M. Michel Mrs. J. Brian Moran Kenneth and Sally Ohrstrom Kitty Omura Publix Super Markets Charities Denice D. Quinn Barbara Rentschler Ruby S. Rinker

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Individual Support

Rebecca Robinson Saks Fifth Avenue Gudrun Sawerthal Carol and Jerome Trautschold Dyanne Connelly Tosi Heather McNulty Wyser-Pratte

GIFTS FROM $1,000 TO $1,999 Julia M. Amadio Bascom Palmer Eye Institute Harold and Carol Baxter Thomas P. Boland PJ Callahan Foundation, Inc. Chafin Musicenter William and Katherine Devers Dr. Jose and Lurana Figueroa Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs Mrs. Robert Grace Audrey Halperin IBERIABANK Arefa Lambert Louis Lehr Jane P. Long Fund from the New York Community Trust Phyllis Pressman Joseph and Sharon Muscarelle/ Jos. L. Muscarelle Foundation Patrick Park Phyllis Pressman The Raymond F. Kravis Center Ruby Rinker Margret Rost Rustico Italiano Dr. Richard and Arlene Siudek of the Ayco Charitable Foundation South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, Inc. Michael S. Trent

GIFTS UP TO $999 Anonymous Roni and Tony Abbatiello Stanley J and Mary Beth Adelman in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Lois Abcug in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Madeline Anbinder Carol Anderson The Bachman family in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin

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Merris Badcock in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Sharon Bailin in memory of her husband Dr. Stuart Bailin Paul Bailin, Jennifer Wenzel & Eliana Bailin in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Randee Bank Todd Barron Nicole Basile Kirill Basov C. Gordon Beck III Brandy Billinghurst Timothy H. Birnbaum Connor Black Tom and Jody Block Bolay Ulle Boshko Sheryne Brekus Cindy Burke Sandi and Bab Canarick in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Lola Carson Sylvia B. Chilli Norma J. and Joseph Ciccone Dana Cilmi Guy W. Clark II Mark Colasurdo Maureen Conte Dr. Alexandra Cook Lauren Cuenant Lisa Currie Michael S. Daiell and Elaine C. Levy in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Thomas D’Agostino Jr Adam Davids Richie and Shelley Davidson in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Dgani family in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Jane E. Dillon Lori Dornbusch Susan Dyer Diego Echeverri Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Brian Fairweather Jr. Elicia Faitell in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Kyle Bartholemew Fant Ellen Feder in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Linda Fellner Gerard Ford Brad Fox

Individual Support

Harris S. Fried The Gardens Mall Elisa Gaudet Theresa M. Gaugler Robert Gebbia Colleen Gildea Ludmilla Goldberg Dan Goldwasser Juan Gomez Alan and Linda Gralitzer Brian and Michelle Grossberg in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Jeffrey Groves Nancy Grutschus Bill Hamilton Michael Hammond Cassandra Henderson Carol and Dick Heyman in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Gail and Robert Howell Lisa Hunt Sabra Ingeman Michelle James Juliana Johnson Arsine Kaloustian Louise K. Kaufman Kristin Kellogg Mark Khachaturian and Kate Blickle Shirley Knox Taniel Koushakjian Myriam Leibowitz David Leibowitz Dr. Henry Loeb Susan Lundin Dr. Robert Mackler Dana Madley Malvern Bank, NA Kristy McDaniel Cheryl Mckee Michael and Shari Meltzer Joseph S. Mendozza Lisa Menschel in memory of Dr. Stuart Balin The Glen and Carmel Mitchell Foundation Allison Mittleman in memory of her father Dr. Stuart Bailin Michelle, Jon, Alexa and Zac Mittleman in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Allan B. and Elaine C. Muchin Jennifer Nawrocki Loretta Neff Steffanie Ngo-Hatchie

Charles and Elizabeth Norton Ximena Pacheco-Veliz Anka K. Palitz Roby and Xiomi Penn Justin Platt Juan Pretel Peter Rains Linda and Lee Rascovar in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Jill Bailin Rembar in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Karen Restaino Patrick Rickel-Finnegan Nathan Rimpf Frank Rinaldi Mary Lynn Rogers Dr. Lawrence N. & Lana K. Rouff Denise Ruggiero Bonnie Rush-Kanter in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Marni and Stuart Sager in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Michele Schimmel Eric L. Schmidt Chia Schmitz Tina Segal in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Seminole Indian Casino Coconut Creek Isora and Steve Sherman Judy Sherman in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Helene and Irwin Shulman in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Taylor Smith Jack Sobel Susan N. Spencer in honor of Tricia and Tom Trimble Maria Spinak, M.D. Kate Stamm Ramsay Stevens Sharon Sweet Lynne Teich in memory of Dr. Stuart Bailin Debra Tomarin Cynthia Tsonas Krystian von Speidel Kate Waterhouse Alexandria Watkins Leslie Weaver Robin Wilder Nancy Wolf Beverly Wolosky

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Coming in April!

Leon Fleisher performs with the Palm Beach Symphony

Precious Gems A PROGRAM OF MOZART & BRUCKNER Friday, April 12 | 8PM The Kravis Center

LEON FLEISHER debuted with the New York Philharmonic in 1944 and in 1952 became the first American to win the prestigious Queen Elisabeth of Belgium competition, establishing him as one of the world’s premier classical pianists. At 36, while at the height of his success, he was suddenly struck with a neurological affliction that rendered two fingers on his right hand immobile. Rather than end his career, Fleisher focused on repertoire for the left hand only, conducting and teaching for years. After experimental treatments, he was able to return to playing with both hands in the mid-1990s.

Today at the age of 90, Fleisher continues performing. In the 2018-19 season, he is playing recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., San Francisco... and with the Palm Beach Symphony!

Leon Fleisher appears courtesy of Frank Salomon Associates, Inc.

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